Comments on: Car Bowling Fail

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By: Gusgus

Gusgus — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:47:47 +0000

You can see the ramp shifting as the ball hit it. As for the X velocity of the ball, it might have been higher than the velocity of the car, if you add the swing of the guy who threw it.

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By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:56:45 +0000

Uhh…or maybe if anyone bowled they’d realize it’s possible to put hook on the ball…making it…like…go left…

Lol physics nerds.

By: Me

Me — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:02:29 +0000

It was magic. Harry Potter did it.

By: Dax

Dax — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:58:27 +0000

This isn’t a high-school physics problem, this is the ‘real world’ where shit happens.

My guess, is when the ball hit the crappy homemade ramp, it shifted the board causing the ball to curve back into the car.

Or it could be wind, invisible cars, aliens, or something like that.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:05:41 +0000

That theory of physics doesnt work at all.
The ramp slopes upward, it doesnt point directly forward.

It would not be travelling forward at the same speed as the car because most of the power was forcing the ball upward, not forward.

In theory, the ball should have gone straight up, and to the right a little, being thrown toward the right, out the window.

By: atmest

atmest — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:16:03 +0000

yeah

By: Epic

Epic — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:33:06 +0000

Epic WIN!
Destroy your car. EPIC!

By: MyCelebrity

MyCelebrity — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:43:52 +0000

so cool!

By: komosky

komosky — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:10:46 +0000

it’s quite simple really, you you pay attention to the rest of the scene both before and after, the weather is shit, probably about to rain, normally with shitty weather comes high winds, now depending on the weight of the bowling ball, im guessing 14 lbs the wind could Easily catch the ball and push it to the left especially when the speed of wind is much stronger the higher you get off the ground

By: Andrew Ong

Andrew Ong — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:57:49 +0000

The car scored the strike from the bowling ball! Total carnage!
(‘Returning Cannonball’ on land, I’d say.)

By: Max

Max — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:55:12 +0000

Thanks for that Neal. Um, yea, how would you throw the ball so that after it hit the ramp it would head back towards the car, that is the question, it is very clear why the ball was able to keep up with the car, especially if it was thrown forward.

Perhaps there was another car going the same speed, maybe it was invisible, and they threw the ball from that car

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:01:40 +0000

Yeah… amid your swell of self-satisfaction you missed the point. Obviously what you wrote was true about the distance the ball traveled, your display of high school-level physics was just top notch.

The puzzling thing is how the ball was released from a point outside the car and curved to the left to hit the car. The ball’s trajectory seems to be directed leftward when it catches just the edge of the ramp.

By: Mr. Fist

Mr. Fist — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:36:05 +0000

Nice catch.

By: L

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:29:29 +0000

Looks like a future Olympic sport to me!

By: Neal

Neal — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:24:38 +0000

You’re an idiot and don’t understand physics. The velocity in X was decreased to yield a velocity in Y. Had they not hit the breaks the ball would not have hit them. Think about it. If the ramp had translated all of the horizontal velocity into vertical velocity (like a vert ramp) it would be very clear that the ball would not have hit them. PWND.

By: killerisation

killerisation — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:49:12 +0000

It was a 7:10 split
(was the answer i was looking for)

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:39:45 +0000

They launched the bowling ball FROM the car. The moment they let it go, the driver should have put on the brakes, but they kept driving at the exact same speed as the ball. Heh.

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:47:32 +0000

would have fallen… but the question still is, if they bowled the ball from the car, how did it come back down in the middle of the back window? must’ve had a hell of a spin on it

By: Piggy

Piggy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:58:27 +0000

OMG I didnt realized that the ball was casted from the car. Mea culpa

By: lightgiver

lightgiver — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:55:27 +0000

they were trying to throw the ball out the car window and have it go off the ramp and travel really high… Unfortunately they didnt take physics otherwise they would of known the ball and car were moving at the same speed and it would of fallen down on the car.

By: TerminatorT

TerminatorT — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:53:51 +0000

yeah, lol

By: James M

James M — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:52:53 +0000

I’m wondering that too. At first I thought the objective was to hit the car with the ball, which they did successfully. Were they trying to do something other than that, and if so, what?

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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:38:19 +0000

It knock the windsheild out of it.

By: Bob-H

Bob-H — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:59:58 +0000

I think the comment at the end of the video is, “Now you gotta go buy her a new ‘For Sale’ sticker, dude.”

By: killerisation

killerisation — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:45:20 +0000

apparently the ball cracked the glass at exactly ten past seven

By: Preston Cyrus

Preston Cyrus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:58:36 +0000

The ad at the end was annoying

By: Sage

Sage — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:36:14 +0000

what was supposed to happen?

they launched a bowling ball at a car and it got damaged, no suprises here for me.

By: Spiralsoflight

Spiralsoflight — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:42:52 +0000

What happen?

By: The Moomin

The Moomin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:54:30 +0000

Not really, the car didn’t fall over.

By: KuBi4K

KuBi4K — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:51:02 +0000

But … But but but but but ….

What the F*** were they trying to do ?

(Ô_o)

By: Abbyyy

Abbyyy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:23:37 +0000

Well, if the car was the pin then it was a win.

By: Instant Noodels

Instant Noodels — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:45:13 +0000

What was their general aim in that fail? =.=

By: Nobody Important

Nobody Important — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:06:05 +0000

Heh. Wish I could go to bed, I got stuck working a second shift to support our folks doing physical inventory. At least I have the place to myself…

I still maintain that the only way this was possible in this example is because the folks rode their brakes after releasing the ball, but I think we’ve gotten about as far as we can with what data we have to work with.

Have a good one.

By: Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague.

Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:01:59 +0000

Yup, it seems plausible, if we had the real numbers we would likely come up with the actual scenario’s outcome. We know its possible because of the fact that we witnessed this video. It is the replication that we need to figure out. Cheers Nobody, we agree and now I must bid you goodnight. It is 2 am and I have school at 9.

By: Nobody Important

Nobody Important — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:51:37 +0000

Ok I had to go look up the equation, it’s been so long. Turns out the only things that matter are the time of flight and the speed of the car. For a vertical trajectory:

y = (v0)*t – (1/2)*g*(t^2)

I estimate the total time of flight to be about 2 seconds (slightly less, I think). We can then find the initial *vertical* velocity of the ball by plugging in y=1.5m (estimate of height of impact). I get 10.6m/s. If we take your estimate of the car’s speed (which seems high to me), that’s about 25.6m/s. Combine the two and you have an actual launch velocity of 27.7m/s, meaning they must have imparted at least 2.1 m/s or around 5 mph to the ball *in addition to* what they needed to overcome any losses to friction, rotational speed, wind, etc.

Theoretically possible? *Maybe* under ideal conditions. Doubtful in the real world.

By: Aja

Aja — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:48:18 +0000

What, you don’t eat fleas?

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ZOMFGWTFWCHUCKNORRISD? — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:36:22 +0000

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By: Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague.

Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:30:22 +0000

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By: Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague.

Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:24:08 +0000

Distance of ramp to impact is a bit hard to judge because of the angle of the shot.

Max height I estimate to 15 meters maximum.

Speed I hazard around 92km/h. Don’t know the conversion.

By: Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague.

Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:20:22 +0000

I don’t know, I am simply postulating. I can almost assure that they did not have their seat-belts on.

I do not mean the outside of the elbow but the bottom portion, the part that never gets tanned.

I assume that a regular person hanging half out the window could have done this.

Any person can do this so no superior athlete and any car will do.

I actually have an awkward swing when it comes to bowling. I throw the ball with the same hand orientation as shaking hands.

By: Nobody Important

Nobody Important — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:17:19 +0000

I want to throw some numbers at this. What would you estimate to be:
1. The speed of the car at release.
2. The maximum height of the ball.
3. The distance from the ramp to the point of impact.

By: Nobody Important

Nobody Important — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:11:27 +0000

Ok, I get it, but I’m not sure you could still get your elbow into the wind like that.

Now we’re crossing into anatomy, which I’m not nearly as well versed in, but I’d say it unlikely the muscles involved in that sort of swing can impart as much energy as in a standard forward roll (especially with such extreme supination, if I’m understanding you correctly).

Plus, that implies that the thrower is sticking his entire torso out the window. Do you really think that’s likely in this case?

By: Avis

Avis — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:09:27 +0000

Ummm… Emp? What land-yacht (I swear that word looks wrong) do plan on using and what method of holding the individual in the optimum position? Also which olympian do you propose to do the throwing, as it looks like this is going to take quite a bit of skill.

By: Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague.

Emperor, Tetragrammatron Cleric, Captain Teague. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:02:59 +0000

Arms out.
Turn the palm upwards.
Now bring your right arm to your left side all the while having the arm still facing up.
Now !magine your body was laying horizontally. The same motion can drive the bowling ball.

By: Avis

Avis — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:01:11 +0000

Dear God! Adam and Jamie would have a field day with this whole thread!!
Oh and Nobody Important? I’d like to second Emp’s suggestion that you stick around. You seem like you could be fun!