Dropping A Car On A Trampoline
Engineer mark rober the guy behind the package that flings glitter on thieves teamed up with the guys from australia s how ridiculous to drop a variety of objects on a 2 ton trampoline on steroids including a holden hatchback and a boat.
Dropping a car on a trampoline. Obviously not just any car would do but rather an old piece of crap on its way to the crusher. This is a video of ex nasa engineer mark rober teaming up with the australians behind youtube channel how ridiculous to build a trampoline weighing two tons made out of kevlar and 144 garage door springs strong enough to bounce a car off of when dropped from 150 feet. This is like that but waaaaaaay bigger and heavier and more dangerous.
Remember the egg drop experiment you did in high school. Apparently someone out there was also curious about the answer to this question because a group of friends challenged themselves to find the answer and video it too. A surprisingly acrophobic rober stood at the top of the tower nervously tossing watermelons of the side and through a handy chute.
Getting the car to actually bounce however required all kinds of scientific number crunching. The real test of the trampoline s strength came from dropping a full sized automobile from that height. Anything new and nice like a right hand drive ford mustang was out of the.
The car was dropped and the trampoline held.