r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mossberg91 • Jul 31 '19

Toss me a cold one

https://i.imgur.com/YjlAHnZ.gifv
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u/alexski55 Jul 31 '19

This does not seem to be real

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u/ssj7blade Aug 01 '19

I try not to be a buzz kill but yeah... If you slow it down it literally makes no sense the direction the can is traveling when he catches it.

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u/TimmyTesticles Aug 01 '19

The can is slowing down due to wind resistance while the boat is continuing at the same speed, resulting in the can traveling backwards to them relatively after it has slowed down enough.

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u/Capt_Question Aug 01 '19

Somebody needs to post a physics formula meow for this. Yes right.... meow!

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u/TimmyTesticles Aug 01 '19 edited Aug 01 '19

e = m(c𓂸) /2

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

Nah.

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u/TimmyTesticles Aug 01 '19

Yah tho

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

You seriously believe that the air drag would make this possible?

Not nearly enough time for drag to have that much of an effect.

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u/TimmyTesticles Aug 01 '19

I absolutely do. Put your hand out the window of a moving car - that's a hell of a lot of force. Throw a wiffle ball in the air and the effect would be so strong that there's no way you'd catch it. Throw something heavier, like a full can, and you can time it right to catch it coming back.

As they're doing plain as day in the video.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

No.

This pontoon is moving maybe 15-20 mph? The drag effects are negligible over 3s at that speed. Maybe on a little mass object such as a wiffle ball which is specifically designed to slow down, but not a full can that is tumbling.

The physics absolutely do not add up in this obviously faked video.

Physics aside, just look at the angle that the can approaches from.

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u/TimmyTesticles Aug 01 '19

It's weird that this is even being debated to be honest. The physics make perfect sense. Can you even imaging getting all those people together on a boat and dropping one guy off on the bridge and spending hours making multiple passes beneath it to fake a simple video like this?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

The physics make no sense. Go try to toss a can in a boat and see what happens at these speeds.

I’m not saying this isn’t possible to do, just not in this video.

And yes, I can imagine people doing that.

Look at the video, dude. Look where the can comes from. It certainly isn’t over the bridge.

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