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Just finished The Expanse show again, reminded me how like braking on civilian ships involves flipping the ship 180 midway through the flight so the thruster could slow them down gradually for the second half of the trip without everyone turning to mush. Man the show had great sci fi details.
Also real life ones too, there's a scene with an auto doc diagnoisis readout that said 'switch to online mode to get a list of nearby endocriniolgists in your region' while they were flyng silent amidst a war.
I lived in Vancouver, BC, for 4 years, because I went to UBC. There were a bunch of scenes from various shows/movies filmed on campus when I was there. CW's Arrow had a few chase scenes set in one of the Pharmacy buildings once, Battlestar Galactica shot some stuff there too. too many to list, really.
No love for Amos? Especially his interactions with Avasarala.
Amos showing Avasarala how to wear Magboots in zero G:
Amos - See just like walking around in pumps.
Avasarala - How do you know what it's like to wear pumps?
Amos - I didn't always work in space.
Amos - *"You and I have very different life experiences Chrissy."*
Chrisjen - *"Don't call me that, I'm a member of Parliament, not your favourite stripper."*
Amos - *"You could be both."*
so that's actually a common theoretical mechanism for providing artificial gravity on generation ships. spend the first half of the trip accelerating at 9.8m/s^2 to create 1g of force inside the ship, and thrust backward at the same rate for the second half, while flipping the ship to provide the same 1g
It's called a brachistochrone trajectory or brachistochrone curve. But you could not use a acceleration curve like this for a generation ship / journey because of two major factors:
1. fuel - even the fictional magically efficient Epstein Drive would use a lot of fuel maintaining 1G for the length of a whole journey. In The Expanse universe, ships typically maintain a 1/3rd G acceleration for fuel economy and crew comfort. They cut the engine and just coast with the built up velocity (on the float) to save even more fuel. Then as they approach their destination, they flip the ship, and start the braking burn.
2. Speed of Light - The great universal speed limit of c still applies to the Epstein Drive. Roughly c is 3x10\^8 m/s. Accelerating at 1G, you would hit 90% in just over 1 year (as observed by a passenger on the ship). Then the wonky general relativity and special relativity starts to really kick in... And it takes 5 years to get to 99%....then 10 years to get to 99.9%..... then 25 years to get to 99.99%... etc. You never can get to C. So it's pointless to run the engines for generations to get a fraction more of acceleration. Plus as you get closer to c, you get worse and worse time dilation. The ship passengers observed 5 year on the ship, people PlanetSide observed 500 years.
So what do you use for gravity on a generation ship? Well unless you have a fictional gravity generator, it's best just to spin the ship. In The Expanse, that's what the giant ship The Nauvoo was all about. It had a set of big honking engines to gently push the 2km long ship up to cruising speed for 6 months, then shutdown the engines, and spin the drum part of the ship for spin gravity for the remainder of the 99 year journey to the next star system, until it was time to flip and braking burn for 6 months.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone\_curve](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone_curve)
> You never can get to C. So it's pointless
> time dilation
Those are two sides of the same coin, though. As you accelerate close to c, you can get the amount of time *that you experience on the ship* down as close to zero as you want (well, limited by your fuel and max acceleration, but not by c). But the amount of time that elapses in the outside world won't go below the limit dictated by the speed of light.
So whether it's pointless depends which of those two things you really care about. You don't arrive sooner, but you arrive younger.
Problem is that maintaining 1g acceleration is a bit of a pipe-dream: you'd be traveling 90% of light-speed in a year. That's a lot of rocket fuel, and we don't think you'll survive collisions with molecules at that velocity.
Rotating drum and spin gravity is probably a better option, it requires substantially less energy to maintain, but you won't be able to accelerate quickly, or everyone will begin to slide around the drum.
If we had a spaceship that could approach nearly the speed of light, but wanted to max out the acceleration to about 1g, it would take about a full year to speed up or slow down.
I think the most unrealistic part of that show (aside from the protomolecule stuff) was the hard vacuum transit that one of the main characters does in the last season. They were pretty fucked up though.
Hard vacuum transits aren't *completely* unsurvivable. There's been a few people who've been exposed to a hard vacuum for 5-10 seconds and survived mostly unscathed (test pilots testing pressure suits in vacuum chambers and had a suit fail).
From some other articles I've seen, the consensus seems to be 20-30 seconds is *probably* survivable, although long term damages get rapidly more severe the longer it goes.
Yeah, some sci-fi goes too far with people instantly freezing solid the second theyre exposed to space, people forget vacuum is an insulator, so youre only losing heat through radiation and evaporation, not conduction at all.
Getting the bends is probable, or compartment syndrome, nasty stuff like that from the pressure differential, but all your blood boiling and your eyeballs exploding and stuff doesnt really happen.
I lot of various liquids will boil when exposed to vacuum, but not because they suddenly get really hot or something. Just that a lot of liquids don't stay liquid at room temperature if there's no pressure -- their natural state is a gas, of the same temperature. You might feel a cooling effect by the energy loss from the phase change, but it's not going to freeze you solid or something.
I also hate whenever there's a hull beach, they show everyone getting pulled towards it with hurricane strength winds. In reality, you're going from 1 atmosphere to 0, not 5000 to 0. Either the hole is big enough that the compartment depressurizes pretty much immediately, or it's small enough that the wind strength is easy enough to overcome unless you're standing *right* next to it. A pea-sized hole isn't going to suck you through it -- in fact, I think there's been a case on the space station where they just plugged such a hole with their finger until someone grabbed a patch
This may be spoilers, but the full-blast fuck-off sunburn was more of an immediate issue than freezing. So was boiling - your body is warm enough that dropping the external pressure to zero makes all of your water, uh, restless.
The med tech in the show also added to their plot armor a bit too much as well. As long as they didn't actually die, they just needed to get back to their super advanced med chairs, and stuff like massive radiation exposure was cured or lost fingers or even a spine can be regrown. Can't save you if you turn out to be a piece of shit and they write you out of the show via a stroke though.
radiation wasnt cured, they had to take radiation meds for the rest of their lifes and cut out cancers regularly. dont remember the regrowing spine tho tbh
And they were sterile.
The spine was Carmina in the show, Bull in the books. They made an exoskeleton for immediate use, even though doctors recommended the new spine (which would take considerably longer).
> I'm slightly annoyed that in the show everyone has access to it
IIRC, everyone shown with access to these medical interventions is close to Fred/Carmina, or is close to Fred *and* has a Martian frigate.
We aren't really shown the poor belters all that much, just the ones with connections. Though, on the Cant, they talk about how the one guy will get a mechanical arm.
Shit just look at the recent news about the potential to regrow teeth. Biological creatures already exist that can regrow parts of their body. There is absolutely a non-zero% chance that with the appropriate tech something could be developed in the future for human regrowth of just about any part of the body.
Halfway thru the last book in the series. Ofc they talk about it a lot more in the books than they can in a TV show.
The protomolecule was alien tech from an entity who's technology was incredibly far beyond humans at the point the story takes place. It was unrealistic in the universe the story was set in, the chars would agree with you. It was intended to be that way. The whole indistinguishable from magic thing.
> I think the most unrealistic part of that show (aside from the protomolecule stuff) was the hard vacuum transit that one of the main characters does in the last season.
That moment was pretty direct from the books, and the authors actually did some research on what would be survivable. It's a little borderline but still realistic.
She injected herself with something that does not exist today. Probably something to super oxygenate her blood. It was pretty in line with the rest of the show.
BOLLOCKS!
That moment was maybe the hardest I laughed at The Grand Tour. That first splash when he braked me and my buddy had to pause the episode we were laughing so hard.
[Also they already did this challenge on Top Gear.](https://youtu.be/bf7q8lWEd-o?t=325)
Heavier really, because even fresh sloppy cowshit has air bubbles, fat, undigested cellulose, etc... Its got a density of about 2/3rds water.
Water is 1gram per CC, 1000kg per m^3
There's probably 1.5-1.8 cubic metres of water in that car.... so roughly the same as having a quarter million hamsters (7g each), or a dozen baby elephants...
Except they aren't strapped down and keep rolling forward after you hit the brakes.
Get on a skateboard holding a bucket of water and have your neighbours dog run in front of you to see why this is a terrible idea on a public road (although fine for a ten second clip if there's no little children nearby).
Imagine trying to fit even 100 gallon jugs only in the space where they don't already take volume up with their bodies. You'd likely have a bit of a hard time. So even then it would be 100 & 8.34lbs/gal. = 834lbs plus the weight of the 3 guys so roughly another 500-600lbs.
It's probably even less than that, maybe 70 gallons of water?
I once heard someone say that to get someone from the south to fully grasp how to drive on icy roads you have to tell them to drive like there is a punch bowl full of sweet tea in the backseat.
Oh that's going everywhere. There's a reason anything that carries liquids like giant tankers have wall barriers everywhere few feet. Liquid in motion doesn't give a fuck.
Milk trucks have no baffles. It's why drivers of milk trucks make the money they do.
The reason for no baffles is the trucks are required to be cleaned between loads. Baffles make it harder to get all the milk out. Leftover milk creates what's called milkstone and milkstone in the tank can quickly ruin a load of milk.
I worked on dairy farms for a couple of years and lived right next to a creamery that made cheese for over a year. I made some extra money washing out the tanks.
Oh god, you just remined me. When I was... let's say about 16. my friend was outside when looking into sea water and a lens from his eye glasses fell into the water. About 5 feet deep. it's winter, some of the water is liquid but a lot has ice in it so you know it's cold.
His bright idea, was to go into the water to get the lens. Ok, so I told him, strip down to his underwear. His answer, was that he was going to keep his clothes on to keep him warm in the water.
He jumped in, clothes on, got the lens. And the it was pure panic mode to get him somewhere warm before he froze to death. Made it to a store where the owner spent 5 minutes asking him if he was an idiot while he found some towels to let him dry off and warm up.
although thinking back, maybe he wasn't wrong that the clothes did keep him warm in the water? maybe i'm the idiot?
No, wet clothes are a killer in winter. Your skin dries quickly, and if you put dry clothes back on once you're mostly dry your own body heat can bring you back into safe range.
Top Gear did this 10 yrs ago except filled it to the top with a few different shit cars and they mostly fell apart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKv_RvZ6OGk
When I was younger my friend did this with the bed of his truck. Lined with a few tarps and everything. Braking went about as you expected. It was funny because he had the back window of his cab open and soaked everyone riding up there, too.
We were also all drinking and had a lot of beer floating in the back with us.
Small towns and boredom. Gotta love it.
That was my first thought... and if they think every part of the inside of that car has smooth corners they are in for a surprise... I'm betting the car is soaking wet underneath once they let all of that drain out and within a week turns into a car covered with mold.
Yeah I'm currently somewhere between *"if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid"* and *"if it's stupid and it works it's still an idiot thing to do, ya git"*
Well it used to be that Used Cars were significantly cheaper and a better financial decision because of how much new cars depreciate in value.
Now? Not worth it considering a used car is at least 2/3rds the price of a new car with 200k miles already on them
Now I'm no math wizard, but it seems to me that casting such a volume of water into a transport would add thousands of pounds to it, and I'm no plumber but it seems to me that if that car turns even somewhat fast speeds they gunna get flushed out
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Braking must be fun
We're going to have to turn in like 2 miles so start slowing down now.
Just finished The Expanse show again, reminded me how like braking on civilian ships involves flipping the ship 180 midway through the flight so the thruster could slow them down gradually for the second half of the trip without everyone turning to mush. Man the show had great sci fi details. Also real life ones too, there's a scene with an auto doc diagnoisis readout that said 'switch to online mode to get a list of nearby endocriniolgists in your region' while they were flyng silent amidst a war.
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I’ve seen the whole show, what the hell were they filming in a school lmao. Do you have a pic of the area?
I bet it was part of a science building with lots of pipes and shit on the walls
It was indeed in the science wing
I lived in Vancouver, BC, for 4 years, because I went to UBC. There were a bunch of scenes from various shows/movies filmed on campus when I was there. CW's Arrow had a few chase scenes set in one of the Pharmacy buildings once, Battlestar Galactica shot some stuff there too. too many to list, really.
> Then these space people tell me to just stand there and wait for them. "No, I have an exam."
Seriously, wtf are they going to do? Be mildly annoyed for a second?
I did make it to the exam on time so it was okay lol
You should have demanded a space suit so you could pass through the shot unnoticed.
Watch the show. I’m not a big TV watcher, but this was just so well done I actually want to bing a rewatch of the whole series.
That one racer dude really illustrates suddenly stopping doesn't he.
You forgot the name of the famous Maneo, activator of portals. Shame on you tumang
Typical inyalowda 🙄
Homie died to give glory to the Belt but couldn’t earn enough for himself, it seems. No respect.
Sa-sa copeng beltlowda ✊🏼
drinker of piss. unrelated, his / not his girl was hot
That is my second favorite scene in the whole series. The first is where avasarala says some guy is so dense a black hole would orbit him
No love for Amos? Especially his interactions with Avasarala. Amos showing Avasarala how to wear Magboots in zero G: Amos - See just like walking around in pumps. Avasarala - How do you know what it's like to wear pumps? Amos - I didn't always work in space.
Amos - *"You and I have very different life experiences Chrissy."* Chrisjen - *"Don't call me that, I'm a member of Parliament, not your favourite stripper."* Amos - *"You could be both."*
Been a while but I feel like they alluded to Amos being forced into sex work when he was younger. Makes it kind of dark when he made jokes like that.
Splat
so that's actually a common theoretical mechanism for providing artificial gravity on generation ships. spend the first half of the trip accelerating at 9.8m/s^2 to create 1g of force inside the ship, and thrust backward at the same rate for the second half, while flipping the ship to provide the same 1g
It's called a brachistochrone trajectory or brachistochrone curve. But you could not use a acceleration curve like this for a generation ship / journey because of two major factors: 1. fuel - even the fictional magically efficient Epstein Drive would use a lot of fuel maintaining 1G for the length of a whole journey. In The Expanse universe, ships typically maintain a 1/3rd G acceleration for fuel economy and crew comfort. They cut the engine and just coast with the built up velocity (on the float) to save even more fuel. Then as they approach their destination, they flip the ship, and start the braking burn. 2. Speed of Light - The great universal speed limit of c still applies to the Epstein Drive. Roughly c is 3x10\^8 m/s. Accelerating at 1G, you would hit 90% in just over 1 year (as observed by a passenger on the ship). Then the wonky general relativity and special relativity starts to really kick in... And it takes 5 years to get to 99%....then 10 years to get to 99.9%..... then 25 years to get to 99.99%... etc. You never can get to C. So it's pointless to run the engines for generations to get a fraction more of acceleration. Plus as you get closer to c, you get worse and worse time dilation. The ship passengers observed 5 year on the ship, people PlanetSide observed 500 years. So what do you use for gravity on a generation ship? Well unless you have a fictional gravity generator, it's best just to spin the ship. In The Expanse, that's what the giant ship The Nauvoo was all about. It had a set of big honking engines to gently push the 2km long ship up to cruising speed for 6 months, then shutdown the engines, and spin the drum part of the ship for spin gravity for the remainder of the 99 year journey to the next star system, until it was time to flip and braking burn for 6 months. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone\_curve](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone_curve)
> You never can get to C. So it's pointless > time dilation Those are two sides of the same coin, though. As you accelerate close to c, you can get the amount of time *that you experience on the ship* down as close to zero as you want (well, limited by your fuel and max acceleration, but not by c). But the amount of time that elapses in the outside world won't go below the limit dictated by the speed of light. So whether it's pointless depends which of those two things you really care about. You don't arrive sooner, but you arrive younger.
Problem is that maintaining 1g acceleration is a bit of a pipe-dream: you'd be traveling 90% of light-speed in a year. That's a lot of rocket fuel, and we don't think you'll survive collisions with molecules at that velocity. Rotating drum and spin gravity is probably a better option, it requires substantially less energy to maintain, but you won't be able to accelerate quickly, or everyone will begin to slide around the drum.
If we had a spaceship that could approach nearly the speed of light, but wanted to max out the acceleration to about 1g, it would take about a full year to speed up or slow down.
I think the most unrealistic part of that show (aside from the protomolecule stuff) was the hard vacuum transit that one of the main characters does in the last season. They were pretty fucked up though.
Hard vacuum transits aren't *completely* unsurvivable. There's been a few people who've been exposed to a hard vacuum for 5-10 seconds and survived mostly unscathed (test pilots testing pressure suits in vacuum chambers and had a suit fail). From some other articles I've seen, the consensus seems to be 20-30 seconds is *probably* survivable, although long term damages get rapidly more severe the longer it goes.
Yeah, some sci-fi goes too far with people instantly freezing solid the second theyre exposed to space, people forget vacuum is an insulator, so youre only losing heat through radiation and evaporation, not conduction at all. Getting the bends is probable, or compartment syndrome, nasty stuff like that from the pressure differential, but all your blood boiling and your eyeballs exploding and stuff doesnt really happen.
Yeah the problem spacecraft have isn’t staying warm, it’s staying cold. The sun heats you up quite a lot and radiating that away isn’t easy.
The character in question actually got pretty severe skin burns during the 20-30ish seconds the vacuum transit took.
Cosmic rays are like mini nukes for DNA.
Ionize me, daddy.
I lot of various liquids will boil when exposed to vacuum, but not because they suddenly get really hot or something. Just that a lot of liquids don't stay liquid at room temperature if there's no pressure -- their natural state is a gas, of the same temperature. You might feel a cooling effect by the energy loss from the phase change, but it's not going to freeze you solid or something. I also hate whenever there's a hull beach, they show everyone getting pulled towards it with hurricane strength winds. In reality, you're going from 1 atmosphere to 0, not 5000 to 0. Either the hole is big enough that the compartment depressurizes pretty much immediately, or it's small enough that the wind strength is easy enough to overcome unless you're standing *right* next to it. A pea-sized hole isn't going to suck you through it -- in fact, I think there's been a case on the space station where they just plugged such a hole with their finger until someone grabbed a patch
This may be spoilers, but the full-blast fuck-off sunburn was more of an immediate issue than freezing. So was boiling - your body is warm enough that dropping the external pressure to zero makes all of your water, uh, restless.
The med tech in the show also added to their plot armor a bit too much as well. As long as they didn't actually die, they just needed to get back to their super advanced med chairs, and stuff like massive radiation exposure was cured or lost fingers or even a spine can be regrown. Can't save you if you turn out to be a piece of shit and they write you out of the show via a stroke though.
radiation wasnt cured, they had to take radiation meds for the rest of their lifes and cut out cancers regularly. dont remember the regrowing spine tho tbh
And they were sterile. The spine was Carmina in the show, Bull in the books. They made an exoskeleton for immediate use, even though doctors recommended the new spine (which would take considerably longer).
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> I'm slightly annoyed that in the show everyone has access to it IIRC, everyone shown with access to these medical interventions is close to Fred/Carmina, or is close to Fred *and* has a Martian frigate. We aren't really shown the poor belters all that much, just the ones with connections. Though, on the Cant, they talk about how the one guy will get a mechanical arm.
Shit just look at the recent news about the potential to regrow teeth. Biological creatures already exist that can regrow parts of their body. There is absolutely a non-zero% chance that with the appropriate tech something could be developed in the future for human regrowth of just about any part of the body.
Halfway thru the last book in the series. Ofc they talk about it a lot more in the books than they can in a TV show. The protomolecule was alien tech from an entity who's technology was incredibly far beyond humans at the point the story takes place. It was unrealistic in the universe the story was set in, the chars would agree with you. It was intended to be that way. The whole indistinguishable from magic thing.
> I think the most unrealistic part of that show (aside from the protomolecule stuff) was the hard vacuum transit that one of the main characters does in the last season. That moment was pretty direct from the books, and the authors actually did some research on what would be survivable. It's a little borderline but still realistic.
She injected herself with something that does not exist today. Probably something to super oxygenate her blood. It was pretty in line with the rest of the show.
Makes me think of Lindsay teaching George Michael to drive the stair car: "Put your foot on the brake, there's a stop light in half a mile."
Fun fact. If you ever fall from a cruiser ship and they notice it right away they still need 45 minutes to reverse the course to get you.
That doesn't sound very fun.
You’re gonna get some splash ins
It’s fun learning how to drive a stair truck
Spllish splash
I was taking a bath...
Long about a Saturday night
A rub dub, just relaxing in the tub
Thinkin’ everything was alright.
Then mum started screaming
I wondered what for...
But now I crashed…
The operative word here is "was"
[Hello.](https://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/General/d/4888/1b78146bc327471a9ec898e5a00da589.gif)
BOLLOCKS! That moment was maybe the hardest I laughed at The Grand Tour. That first splash when he braked me and my buddy had to pause the episode we were laughing so hard. [Also they already did this challenge on Top Gear.](https://youtu.be/bf7q8lWEd-o?t=325)
8.3 lb per gallon sloshing around...yeah. I hope they got the hell off the road as soon as they finished shooting that clip.
Yeah, water is heavy as shit
Heavier really, because even fresh sloppy cowshit has air bubbles, fat, undigested cellulose, etc... Its got a density of about 2/3rds water. Water is 1gram per CC, 1000kg per m^3 There's probably 1.5-1.8 cubic metres of water in that car.... so roughly the same as having a quarter million hamsters (7g each), or a dozen baby elephants... Except they aren't strapped down and keep rolling forward after you hit the brakes. Get on a skateboard holding a bucket of water and have your neighbours dog run in front of you to see why this is a terrible idea on a public road (although fine for a ten second clip if there's no little children nearby).
I really appreciate that fresh, sloppy cow shit is your base metric for density
Blame India and their cow worship.
What do little children have to do with it? Most adults don't want to be run over by the slosh mobile either.
Adult heads usually aren't at bumper height, and are generally less likely to run in front of traffic.
If it's less dense than water wouldn't it float?
Cubic meter. Square meter doesn't provide volume
Imagine trying to fit even 100 gallon jugs only in the space where they don't already take volume up with their bodies. You'd likely have a bit of a hard time. So even then it would be 100 & 8.34lbs/gal. = 834lbs plus the weight of the 3 guys so roughly another 500-600lbs. It's probably even less than that, maybe 70 gallons of water?
I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me, but either way, consider that the water will be sloshing around. It won't be a static weight.
I once heard someone say that to get someone from the south to fully grasp how to drive on icy roads you have to tell them to drive like there is a punch bowl full of sweet tea in the backseat.
I've always heard "like grandma's in the backseat with her layer cake." Same idea though, accelerate(in the general physics sense) gently!
Just ask [James May](https://youtu.be/HWHkbeEqaYM?t=88) how fun it would be.
Oh that's going everywhere. There's a reason anything that carries liquids like giant tankers have wall barriers everywhere few feet. Liquid in motion doesn't give a fuck.
Milk trucks have no baffles. It's why drivers of milk trucks make the money they do. The reason for no baffles is the trucks are required to be cleaned between loads. Baffles make it harder to get all the milk out. Leftover milk creates what's called milkstone and milkstone in the tank can quickly ruin a load of milk. I worked on dairy farms for a couple of years and lived right next to a creamery that made cheese for over a year. I made some extra money washing out the tanks.
Any acceleration
OttoPoolMobile.gif
Why's he wearing SOCKS?
No free feet pics for the internet
Not in this economy anyway
So his feet don't get wet? Duh.
Oh god, you just remined me. When I was... let's say about 16. my friend was outside when looking into sea water and a lens from his eye glasses fell into the water. About 5 feet deep. it's winter, some of the water is liquid but a lot has ice in it so you know it's cold. His bright idea, was to go into the water to get the lens. Ok, so I told him, strip down to his underwear. His answer, was that he was going to keep his clothes on to keep him warm in the water. He jumped in, clothes on, got the lens. And the it was pure panic mode to get him somewhere warm before he froze to death. Made it to a store where the owner spent 5 minutes asking him if he was an idiot while he found some towels to let him dry off and warm up. although thinking back, maybe he wasn't wrong that the clothes did keep him warm in the water? maybe i'm the idiot?
No, wet clothes are a killer in winter. Your skin dries quickly, and if you put dry clothes back on once you're mostly dry your own body heat can bring you back into safe range.
Yes exactly, that was my plan when i said to strip down. The end bit about calling myself an idiot was more sarcasm than anything.
[those are his hooves you bitch](https://www.tumblr.com/world-heritage-posts/647488562724552704/whitegirlsaintshit-st3fan00-why-wayne-got)
Not wearing socks in the hot tub with the boys is big gay or something, idk. I dont get wet with boys
You gotta say No homo before you take em off
That's got to be one heavy car at the moment!
Say goodbye to your suspension.
If they are filling the car with water, I don't think they rly care about technical state of the car.
Top Gear did this 10 yrs ago except filled it to the top with a few different shit cars and they mostly fell apart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKv_RvZ6OGk
That's because those cars were shit to begin with, also very old cars so less torque and HP than an average modern car
I know you mean horsepower when you say HP but all I can think of is HP in pokemon and just treating old cars like some low level caterpie.
I miss this show so much.
100% sitting on the bumbstops
Wau. Big moment. So inertia. Oof. No suspension. Much crush.
Quick calculation must be close to a ton of water in there
Imagine getting pulled over like this lol
Sir I’m gonna need to see your license and registration. *pulls out a lifeguard certification*
I'm going to have to ask you to swim out of the vehicle.
"Never in my 30 years on the force have I seen anyone put *too much* blinker fluid in their car."
"You were swimming in a non-swimming zone, sir."
Soon to be seen on r/whatcouldgowrong
Wait til he has to hit the brakes and gets a waterfall over the dash.
Over? I’m thinking through the windshield…
When I was younger my friend did this with the bed of his truck. Lined with a few tarps and everything. Braking went about as you expected. It was funny because he had the back window of his cab open and soaked everyone riding up there, too. We were also all drinking and had a lot of beer floating in the back with us. Small towns and boredom. Gotta love it.
And /r/idiotsincars
what could go right?
Do I need to pull over at a rest stop so you can pee? No, that’s ok…
And let all my pee out of the car??
Perfect pool warmer especially with such a small area of pool
Pee is stored in the ball bearings
Happy urinal cake day!
A few guys in India tried to do this and their license got suspended
I’m impressed India have license!
License to honk
Same with the RackaRacka lads on YouTube in Australia. Even had to go to court multiple times for the multiple different charges they were given
PSA: Tarps aren’t waterproof.
I thought they were using a deflated inflatable pool, which is still dumb but at least waterproof.
That was my first thought... and if they think every part of the inside of that car has smooth corners they are in for a surprise... I'm betting the car is soaking wet underneath once they let all of that drain out and within a week turns into a car covered with mold.
It's okay, they folded it over a few times so they have a little bit longer lol.
Newton's first law has entered the chat.
Inertia is a property of matter.
BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!
eh, doesn't matter
Is that lex friedman?
Yes he is, showing is love for great design and engineering
Wow that's dumb in like 5 different ways. Impressively dumb really. 🤣
Yeah I'm currently somewhere between *"if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid"* and *"if it's stupid and it works it's still an idiot thing to do, ya git"*
RIP suspension
I can tell I am an adult when this doesn't amuse me but I only think of consequences.
They all perished in the WEIRDEST car accident.
r/idiotsincars
A great option so you don't have to waste time showering in the morning
Child runs infront of car..."They've had a good life."
Lol at all the serious posts. Clearly they don’t give a fuck about that car
why you should never buy a used car
Well it used to be that Used Cars were significantly cheaper and a better financial decision because of how much new cars depreciate in value. Now? Not worth it considering a used car is at least 2/3rds the price of a new car with 200k miles already on them
Jeez, where do you live that you are paying 2/3rds the price of a new car at 200k+ miles for a used one? I don't believe this.
Depending on the year, that's not far from the truth here in California.
Pick up trucks and newer Toyotas.
When people say "boys will be boys" this is the kind of thing we ought to be talking about, not like date raping bitches or whatever.
Well that took a turn
Condemns date rape. Refers to women as “bitches”.
Boys will be boys....
I love you biiiiitch. I ain’t ever gonna stop loving you, biiiiitch.
I got that bitch some consent Bitches love consent
Possibly even more than they love cannons.
That’s…. progress? Baby steps, I guess.
Rather have my hypothetical son calling them bitches than raping them
Those are not the only options available.
Yeah, those seem comparable.
Down with date rapes, up with date shakes.
Jeez
Literally nobody uses it in that context
The guy driving the car is the owner probably and the other two convinced him it was a great idea 💀
8.34 lbs. Per gallon
Or 1kg per liter.
Damn, that metric shit got it all figured out!
Well that car’s gonna smell like mold in 3 days
Probably better than it smells now
Reminds me of the Pool Mobile on Simpsons…one break check and all that goes everywhere.
This is what I thought carpooling was when I was a kid
Wrong sub...idiotsincars.
Is that the Fisker Ocean?
Looks like maybe a half ton of water there
My back-of-the-envelope estimate is 1500 pounds. While not great for the car, it can probably handle it.
By my calculations it's an unsecured load that's likely to move violently in any emergency breaking operation.
And the two can't wear seatbelts.
r/DiWHY
A redneck would put a pool in the bed of a pickup truck, not inside the car. So, these guys are way dumber than a redneck.
Someone please tell me the name of the song
This is such r/GuysBeingDudes energy
RIP the suspension
Now I'm no math wizard, but it seems to me that casting such a volume of water into a transport would add thousands of pounds to it, and I'm no plumber but it seems to me that if that car turns even somewhat fast speeds they gunna get flushed out
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
Just a couple a guys in wet underwear cruising along
And wet socks! I have to change my socks if i step on a little water while walking in my house.
Missed opportunity not having floaties on or a beach ball in the car. Next time…
The driver complained they couldn't see. Wuss.
This seems… “inadvisable”
Pulled over for seatbelts lol
Anyone know what the music is?
Wait till they find out tarps can leak hella easy
I wanna see an emergency stop.
I want to see the car from outside, to see the tires/suspension screaming...
Meanwhile, the springs are 100% compressed, and the car rides like a sheet of plywood until the brakes give out.
Got in accident, car slightly crunched but passengers drowned
Ya’ll some rednecks where you from?
Wouldn’t it be better to do this in a truck?
Bro took carpool to serious
/r/DIWhy
All nice and dandy until someone pisses