[ExI] Memes and ghods

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
Keith Henson
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 10:28 PM
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Subject: [ExI] Memes and ghods

I originated a few memes.

One I can't track.  It's the one that has been on Mythbusters several times,
the car with a jato bottle. ... Keith





Here ya go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHUsGFGhfmk

I am surprised Mythbusters didn't get some competent technical advisors when
they propose doing stuff like this.  Their shop is close by, so I
volunteered to come up there and look over their ideas.  On their JATO car,
I would have pointed out pretty much exactly why that would do what it did:
they didn't align their center of mass of the car with the center of thrust
of the rockets.  I could easily tell just by looking at it that the CM was
way lower than those five JATO bottles.  It was off by enough that a tight
nose-down spiral was easily foreseen.

In this case, it would be very easy to estimate where that CG is located.
In cars, particularly 60s muscle cars, it is surprisingly low.

Oh I miss that show.  Oh I miss Kari Byron.  Was she the cutest thing on two
feet or what?

spike