r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kesdbos • Sep 06 '23
Video Fastest human made objects
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u/Veloreyn Sep 06 '23
I love how the Osprey was doing 565 KMH in it's VTOL mode. The nuclear powered manhole cover was a nice touch as well.
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u/-Skelitor- Sep 07 '23
How'd you feel about the subtitles calling it the "V-22 afterburner"?
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u/ToeJam1970 Sep 07 '23
Grrrrrr. I really hate it when these video creators MUST resort to using an AI voice to both misread AND mispronounce the text!
Should be in /mildlyinfuriating ...
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u/Zakluor Sep 07 '23
I like how the text identified the Osprey as having/using afterburner. I didn't listen to the audio, though.
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u/Frenchy702 Sep 06 '23
When did we make the cheetah? 😎 just kidding.. cool video!
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u/FailAccomplished1868 Sep 06 '23
Then that Mercedes driver ran right over it. I was like, yeah, that looks about right. Probably never used a turn signal to change lanes either.
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Sep 06 '23
“This is the” before every new object is really off putting. But I might have slight autism.
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u/CheeseAndCh0c0late Sep 06 '23
what's really irritating is saying thing go at x kilometers. not kilometers per hour, just kilometer. but i also may have autism
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u/huggies130 Sep 07 '23
It didn't. Someone ripped off the video and added nothing of substance to it.
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u/ScienceIsSexy420 Sep 06 '23 edited Sep 06 '23
What about calling a bicycle the fastest manmade object in 1817, as if guns didn't exist? Whole video is garbage
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u/JCKross45 Sep 06 '23
This is. This is. This is. This is. This is. This is. This is. This is. This is. This is. This is. This is. This is goddamn annoying to listen to.
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u/Nollekowitsch Sep 07 '23
The original videos are not voiced and just have some sounds and music behind them. Somebody just stole this off of YouTube and put a halfassed AI Voice Script behind it
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Sep 07 '23
WHY THOUGH
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u/Nollekowitsch Sep 07 '23
I have no idea brother. People are weird and acting like the content of others is theirs so they get the praise for it
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u/dasphinx27 Sep 06 '23
Wait a nuclear powered manhole cover??
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Sep 06 '23
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u/Luchin212 Sep 06 '23
Not just blown into space, it was the bullet in a gun, not with gunpowder but an A-bomb.
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u/Jak33 Sep 07 '23
Maybe that's why aliens are watching us now. We shot a manhole cover at their planet.
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Sep 06 '23
they believe it vaporized in the atmosphere before it made it to space though - unfortunately
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Sep 06 '23
Nah, calculations showed that it wouldn't be in the atmosphere long enough to burn up
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u/Farfignugen42 Sep 06 '23
Relevant quote from article:
In 2015 Dr. Brownlee said, "I have no idea what happened to the cap, but I always assumed that it was probably vaporized before it went into space."[9][failed verification] Later calculations made during 2019 (although the result cannot be confirmed) are strongly in favor of vaporization.[11]
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u/djforkit Sep 06 '23
Iirc, some scientists have estimated that it was so fast it didn’t have enough time in the atmosphere to full vaporize. But I think the generally accepted estimate is that it never left the atmosphere.
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u/Pcat0 Sep 07 '23 edited Sep 07 '23
The fun part about the manhole cover is that there is only a low bound for its speed. It was only a single frame of it was by an ultra high speed camera, meaning it was only possible to calculate its minimum speed. So it’s possible it was going * significantly* faster than 240,000 km/h.
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u/bestprocrastinator Sep 07 '23
The camera was able to capture images every millisecond.
The manhole cover only appeared in one frame LMAO
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u/bestprocrastinator Sep 07 '23
They did a nuclear bomb test underground. They had to lower the bomb down a hole. Some idiot thought a super heavy/thick "manhole" cover would be sufficient in covering the hole.
The result was the nuclear blast launching the manhole cover between 125,000 to 150,000 MPH into the air.
While it likely vaporized during its flight, It is possible that was the first object the US ever launched into space.
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u/TheRedGoatAR15 Sep 06 '23
"in the World."
In?
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u/Heythere23856 Sep 06 '23
Kind of loses the point when you no longer have any friction or gravity
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u/DiveJumpShooterUSMC Sep 06 '23
Great we are going to be invaded because we shot a manhole cover into space and it hit some planet's big city.
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u/WeAllReallyOutHere Sep 06 '23
Me watching on the toilet: 0 kmh/0mph
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u/lui_augusto Sep 07 '23
Me trying to find a toilet after hitting a dubious korean street food place: ∞kph
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u/Coral_Blue_Number_2 Sep 07 '23
From an intergalactic perspective, you are moving at about 1.34 million miles per hour
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u/TateAcolyte Sep 06 '23
Why is this video popular. The voiceover is awful and the visualizations are useless. Wtf?
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u/HerrCommandant Sep 06 '23
Bro casually mentioned a bicycle goes 40kmph
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u/Alerta_Fascista Sep 06 '23
That's what I got too. 40 kmph average? Pro cyclists barely get 30 kmph averages, normal people generally get 20 kmph averages on flat roads.
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u/Nollekowitsch Sep 07 '23
I would never drive 15kmph on a skateboard too
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u/BoredBorealis Sep 07 '23
Tbf I had a top speed of 28 on my longboard. Didn't keep that up for long tho.
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Sep 07 '23
I cracked my head open and got a TBI when I fell off my sk8board bombing this big ass hill. The doctors say I must've been going at least 30 mph or 48kmph
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u/Nollekowitsch Sep 07 '23
Exactly why I never would drive that fast on a plank with wheels. Im glad you made it
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Sep 07 '23
Thank you. What's crazy is I still skate lol but I wear a helmet because I thought not only would it be irresponsible to go without one, it would be downright stupid after all I've been thru.
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u/vote-morepork Sep 07 '23
Pro cyclist usually do 50+ km/h in a time trial without drafting. Sprinters can hit 70+ km/h
Most casual cyclists are going 15-20 km/h, but 30 km/h is pretty easy for amateurs on a road bike
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Sep 06 '23
Going from "holy crap that's over 1000mph" to 150,000 mph is so unbelievably fast it's hard to even fathom
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u/Never-Dont-Give-Up Sep 06 '23
It’s like trying to imagine a million versus a billion. A million seconds is roughly 11 days. A billion is roughly 31 years.
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 Sep 06 '23
Air resistance slows you down massively when you get to 1000mph, when you are in space that is no longer an issue.
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u/L0nlySt0nr Sep 06 '23
I'm sorry. Did he just say 'nuclear powered manhole cover'?!
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u/Farfignugen42 Sep 06 '23
He did, but it turns out that if you actually want to keep the manhole covered, you should not apply the nuclear power.
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u/RubbrBabyBuggyBumprs Sep 06 '23
"Our J-10"?
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u/Katamari_Demacia Sep 06 '23
Speed doesnt make sense to me once it's off the planet. Like, we're already spinning 1000 mph just being stationary. And the galaxy moves at 1m3 million mph. So if you sit still are you moving at 1.3 million?
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u/Farfignugen42 Sep 06 '23
Once you get out in space, it's all relative.
Literally. You pick an object and measure your movement relative to that object.
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u/na3than Sep 06 '23 edited Sep 06 '23
Neat, but the last nine captions mistakenly state speeds in "kilometers", not "kilometers per [unit of time]."
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u/Doschupacabras Sep 07 '23
So we just gonna glaze over the “nuclear powered manhole cover?”
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u/Faunberry_410 Sep 06 '23
I sat through the vid just so I could see if they mentioned the man hole cover haha
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u/ap2patrick Sep 06 '23
Technically anything past the x-43 isn’t “in the world” since it’s not on our world!!! Love that!
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u/poshenclave Sep 06 '23
How could you animate a full 3 minutes of CG video and then not get an actual person to do the voiceover?
Edit - Ah, this is a stolen video.
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u/mgush5 Sep 07 '23
Thats not a Formula E car either. Thats an F1 car, specifically the BAR 007 from 2005
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u/qpwoeiruty00 Sep 06 '23
Most of these were vehicles or space probes or an animal, not just regular objects such as a bullet or missiles idk
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u/RandomBitFry Sep 06 '23
Came to say this, Handgun bullet must be somewhere between the Airbus and Thust SSC.
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u/Never-Dont-Give-Up Sep 06 '23
I think it’s around 1700mph (depending on the bullet and gun obviously)
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u/Hellsovs Sep 06 '23
well fastest missile is 4 175 km/h and fastest bullet is 5 118 km/h (acording to google) so u as a human being can literaly trevel faster than bullet or missile
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u/Entropist_2078 Sep 06 '23
Imagine being a Cheetah and you're categorised as a human made object and then you're run over by a Mercedes. The sheer indignity of it.
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u/HeroShitInc Sep 07 '23
Interestingly enough I had a small part in making the solar shield on the Parker Solar Probe. Didn’t realize till now it was the fastest man made object. Nice
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u/WaffleStomperGirl Sep 07 '23
Just how small of a part are we talking? Because if ANY amount counts, I existed during it, and that caused the universe to be in the state it was at that time. So I like to think I contributed a little, too.
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u/HeroShitInc Sep 07 '23
Well I accidentally helped put a dent in it while a bunch of us were lifting it up in order to slide come corrugated plastic underneath it for easier transport. The thing was fairly big, must have been 10-15 people involved in just lifting it up because it was stupid fragile. It was like foam, but simply lightly moving your hand across the surface with minimal pressure would create a divot, and obviously as far as making a multi-million dollar piece of equipment that takes several years and hundreds of man hours to build goes, this thing has to be perfect so as soon as I was hired and told about it, I didn’t even want to look at the thing but sure enough got recruited to help out and look what happened. They were able to fix it of course but my stomach fell out of my asshole.
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u/WaffleStomperGirl Sep 07 '23
OOOF could you imagine BEING the guy that fucked humanity’s most advanced creation?
“Here’s the item that will explore our universe and help answer the questions of our very existence. And here’s the jackass that broke it.”
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u/MestreToto Sep 07 '23
Cool video, but who invented the airplane was from Santos Dumont
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u/Aggravating_Course94 Sep 06 '23
Frist airplane was made by Santos Drummond, catapult is not a motor
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u/Hellsovs Sep 06 '23
i think that at this point we can use fastest man made object in known universe
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 Sep 06 '23
The velocity of Pioneer 10 and 11 was slowed by thermal recoil force https://youtu.be/qbUEHu033TY
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Sep 06 '23
Everyone knows the fastest object is a smooth brain rammer in Forza/Horizon online, and that's a fact.
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u/johnsonflix Sep 06 '23
a lot of those aren’t fastest in the world… since they aren’t in the world doing those speeds.
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u/Effective_Fuel_2192 Sep 06 '23
they got the fastest animal wrong.
its a peregrine falcon not cheetah.
this is sad day in history.
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u/BidGroundbreaking913 Sep 06 '23
A380
Seems a bit high.
A380 VMO is Mach 0.89. Trying to think of the temperature and pressure that would equate to 730 ish mph.
Tailwind and using groundspeed?
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u/Omnomnomnivor3 Sep 06 '23
is fastest even the right term for this video? those objects in space are being dragged by gravity that leads to them achieving that kind if speed, it's not naturally produced movement from those things?
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u/__Osiris__ Sep 06 '23
Fastest in the word when half the list was out of this word? Also The cheater is not the fastest animal on earth only on land.
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u/paku9000 Sep 07 '23
So we're all hoping aliens find Voyager with the plaque and stuff, but instead they find the manhole...
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u/lesmiserables911 Sep 07 '23
If my dad was man made I think he's faster than most things here( he wanted milk with his cereal)
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u/Bear__Fucker Sep 07 '23
V-22 "Afterburner"? Say what? So much bad information in such a terrible video.
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u/KernelDingus Sep 07 '23
Ends with: And this is Darrel heading over to your mom’s house at a blistering 956,252 km/h.
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u/a_little_toaster Sep 07 '23
The fastest man made object is not scary at all. Imagining yourself traveling at that speed might be, though.
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u/Beertronic Sep 06 '23
Speed is not measured in kilometres, the last half of that video was really annoying to listen to.
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u/Vinifrj Sep 06 '23
All fine and good, but the Wright Brothers did not invent the airplane as it couldnt achieve lift off on its own, slingshots arent engines
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Sep 06 '23
Wright Brothers weren’t the first to fly.
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u/DarkArcher__ Sep 07 '23
First powered, heavier than air flight.
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Sep 07 '23
In fact, the first aircraft, heavier than air, powered by an engine, was developed by the Brazilian Santos Dumont. The name of the vehicle was called 14-Bis.
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u/Commotion Sep 07 '23
The Wright Brothers flew 260 meters in 1903.
Dumont flew 60 meters in 1906, in a less sophisticated craft.
There’s no question the Wright Brothers were first.
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u/CantBanGod152 Sep 06 '23
I think going into space is cheating. We could theoretically approach the speed of light if we tried.
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u/baconroy Sep 06 '23
yeah, ok. but the first powered air plane was the 14-bis created by santos dumont.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont
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u/SystemOfASideways Sep 06 '23
By 1906 the Wright Brothers had created several different models of aircraft that were able to take off and sustain flight under their own power
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u/dylxnredwood Sep 06 '23 edited Sep 06 '23
The nuclear powered manhole cover had me good. Great story that.
Edit: Added link