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So, assuming the flying tesla was real, which it is not, how much pressure would the compressed air tanks have to contain to be able to flip a 3,700 pound car in mid-air, and then arrest that rotation and lower it to the ground?
Cuz that's just a bomb. But I'm betting it would be a bomb big enough to destroy your neighbors houses, nevermind yours.
@kbm0 Well, that news cycle appears to have cost about 12 billion dollars
Not to mention, how loud would the suction fans have to be to hold a 3,700 pound car to a surface upside down?
Anyway, that video was almost certainly a fiberglass shell bolted to a high end drone or two. Which is probably why the stock dropped 3% after people saw it.
lmao
@jenniferplusplus the Murray when sitting in full fan mode is certainly very loud. Turbine levels of loud. This would also be. The Murray and its F1 predecessors have the problematic behaviour of throwing stones and other stuff that lays on the ground at anybody behind at hundreds of km/h. Imagine what damage a stone that got sucket into the exhaust of a Mach 3 thrusters would do...
@jenniferplusplus ok, i was gobsmacked at the power this would require when i saw that video, and wondered how the airflow was even possible, since, well, the car is not a pass through, (by the sides? where? how?) bit i didn't stop and try to put numbers on that, that's well outside of my expertise, but yeah, it's the likely that there was even more smoke and mirrors than my tendency to first assume honesty was allowing for.
But even if this technological feat, as presented, was possible, there is just no way it's going to be allowed to sell to people to drive any country that has smooth enough roads for this car to drive on.
Let alone in a city, this would kill so many people.
@jenniferplusplus I'm assuming it'll be the sort of stunt car they tour around at monster truck rallies and such, but never actually be in a garage or on the road.
@JessTheUnstill Bold of you to assume it's physically possible to build such thing. I assume it's straight up fraud, like the dancers in robot costumes
@jenniferplusplus @JessTheUnstill A car that sticks to a wall upside down is a thing you can buy, see the Murray. So that part is real. The pressure tanks are advertised as COPVs, and these are in every Falcon 9 and exist. So to me the question is not was that demo real (it could be), but as COPVs and cold Gas thrusters at Mach 3+ are probably ITAR restricted that thing would never be allowed to be sold to people, so why would they ever really produce it?
@jenniferplusplus @JessTheUnstill I'm assuming the video is real, in the sense that a car-like object did a flip.
I guess it depends on if you believe the smoke was essential or an additional effect
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@jenniferplusplus I can't see such a vehicle ever being approved for road use in the UK. But that's not the point, he's got his "flying car" onto the news.