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Your answers are not scientific, even as pat as they may be. Cars don't "blow up" though they may catch fire. Images of cars exploding on Google? Adamantium?

Your answers are not scientific, even as pat as they may be. Cars don't "blow up" though they may catch fire. Images of cars exploding on Google? Adamantium? Whatever, just keep repeating this sort of stuff and maybe some more people will believe you.

jlgreco 13y ago
> Adamantium? Sophomore year high school physics time, back of the envelope edition: Car mass: ~1500kg Car velocity: lower bound, 80mph? lets call it 35 m/s Ek = 1/2 mv^2 Wolfram Alpha cheat: .5 * 1500 kg * (35 m/s)^2 = .91 megajoules Stopping that car with a tree dumps damn near a megajoule of energy somewhere (and that is before you consider the potential energy in the gas!). You can bet your ass a significant portion of that energy is going to be spent rapidly "disassembling" that car.
- wavefunction 13y ago
  This is a more compelling argument since it presents actual substance, but it doesn't change what I was saying about the post I was replying to, nor does it change what was posted. Congrats on your sophmore year high school physics, not real big on passive aggressiveness but I am big on logic and well-reasoned arguments. :P
  - mmcnickle 13y ago
    >>> Congrats on your sophmore year high school physics, not real big on passive aggressiveness The irony.
    - wavefunction 13y ago
      That's ... just like your opinion man. I am enjoying the mod-bombing though. :D
Steko 13y ago
"Cars don't "blow up" though they may catch fire." Gasoline fuel tanks can explode. Google it. "Images of cars exploding on Google?" Google it. It's a thing. "Adamantium?" This is called making a point through absurdity. Fuel tanks are made of steel or plastic. Neither of those is unbreakable. "Whatever, just keep repeating this sort of stuff and maybe some more people will believe you." Maybe. I do have the full backing of the Conspiracy of Lizard Peop--- <lifeless head falls on reply button>
- JshWright 13y ago
  > Gasoline fuel tanks can explode. Google it. They do, but it's extremely rare (thanks to modern inventions like pressure relief valves). When a fuel tank explodes, it's not because the fuel inside detonates, it's because the fuel inside is being vaporized by the heat of the external fire, and that vapor takes up a whole lot more space, resulting in a huge pressure increase, resulting in a BLEVE. If a pressure release valve can vent the pressure before that happens, no explosion... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_... That being said... I doubt there was actually an explosion. The car simply caught fire. There were certainly pops and bangs as various compressed gas cylinders (for things like air bags, doors, bumpers, seatbelts, etc) BELEVE'd, but I seriously doubt there was any major explosion. The 'bomb' sounds were simply the crash itself.
  - lostlogin 13y ago
    As a young child I vividly recall my parents car catching fire and burning out. I think it was a Morris Marina. Fuel line perished and by design genius, it crossed the exhaust something like seven times we were later told. Anyway, the fire caught and was though the dash before the car came to a halt. We bundled out, and moments later the fire brigade turned up, as the station was just around the corner. They were very relieved that the fuel tank was full, and this significantly decreased the risk of explosion. It seems logical too, as a lack of vapour makes it harder to ignite.
    - JshWright 13y ago
wavefunction 13y ago
Steko, all I'm saying is your post and the followup you made are not very useful because: Strawmen up the wazoo, arguing from hyperbole (Adamantium, Lizard People reference?), of course Google is a thing (this part of your post is a non sequitur). People like you are just as bad as the conspiracy nuts mate. All I'm asking is less noise and more signal bud.
- rdouble 13y ago
  The conspiracy nuts are worse.
mgkimsal 13y ago
> Adamantium? Don't drink it. Don't smoke it. What do you do with it?

jlgreco 13y ago

> Adamantium? Sophomore year high school physics time, back of the envelope edition: Car mass: ~1500kg Car velocity: lower bound, 80mph? lets call it 35 m/s Ek = 1/2 mv^2 Wolfram Alpha cheat: .5 * 1500 kg * (35 m/s)^2 = .91 megajoules Stopping that car with a tree dumps damn near a megajoule of energy somewhere (and that is before you consider the potential energy in the gas!). You can bet your ass a significant portion of that energy is going to be spent rapidly "disassembling" that car.

wavefunction 13y ago
This is a more compelling argument since it presents actual substance, but it doesn't change what I was saying about the post I was replying to, nor does it change what was posted. Congrats on your sophmore year high school physics, not real big on passive aggressiveness but I am big on logic and well-reasoned arguments. :P
- mmcnickle 13y ago
  >>> Congrats on your sophmore year high school physics, not real big on passive aggressiveness The irony.
  - wavefunction 13y ago
    That's ... just like your opinion man. I am enjoying the mod-bombing though. :D

Steko 13y ago

"Cars don't "blow up" though they may catch fire." Gasoline fuel tanks can explode. Google it. "Images of cars exploding on Google?" Google it. It's a thing. "Adamantium?" This is called making a point through absurdity. Fuel tanks are made of steel or plastic. Neither of those is unbreakable. "Whatever, just keep repeating this sort of stuff and maybe some more people will believe you." Maybe. I do have the full backing of the Conspiracy of Lizard Peop--- <lifeless head falls on reply button>

JshWright 13y ago
> Gasoline fuel tanks can explode. Google it. They do, but it's extremely rare (thanks to modern inventions like pressure relief valves). When a fuel tank explodes, it's not because the fuel inside detonates, it's because the fuel inside is being vaporized by the heat of the external fire, and that vapor takes up a whole lot more space, resulting in a huge pressure increase, resulting in a BLEVE. If a pressure release valve can vent the pressure before that happens, no explosion... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_... That being said... I doubt there was actually an explosion. The car simply caught fire. There were certainly pops and bangs as various compressed gas cylinders (for things like air bags, doors, bumpers, seatbelts, etc) BELEVE'd, but I seriously doubt there was any major explosion. The 'bomb' sounds were simply the crash itself.
- lostlogin 13y ago
  As a young child I vividly recall my parents car catching fire and burning out. I think it was a Morris Marina. Fuel line perished and by design genius, it crossed the exhaust something like seven times we were later told. Anyway, the fire caught and was though the dash before the car came to a halt. We bundled out, and moments later the fire brigade turned up, as the station was just around the corner. They were very relieved that the fuel tank was full, and this significantly decreased the risk of explosion. It seems logical too, as a lack of vapour makes it harder to ignite.
  - JshWright 13y ago

wavefunction 13y ago

Steko, all I'm saying is your post and the followup you made are not very useful because: Strawmen up the wazoo, arguing from hyperbole (Adamantium, Lizard People reference?), of course Google is a thing (this part of your post is a non sequitur). People like you are just as bad as the conspiracy nuts mate. All I'm asking is less noise and more signal bud.

rdouble 13y ago
The conspiracy nuts are worse.

mgkimsal 13y ago

> Adamantium? Don't drink it. Don't smoke it. What do you do with it?