*The cameraman never dies* America's Unhinged Nuclear Testing - Operation Plumbob: Fat Electrician

[@peterbiltfan5]

This is part of a comment I had read about the manhole cover mystery a few weeks ago. Assuming it didn't burn up or hasn't hit anything, it has travelled 1/5th of the distance from Earth to Proxima Centauri

[@AmericansLearn]

EXCELLENT

[@man-from-2058]

Aliens watching helplessly as a manhole cover slams into their atmosphere at 66km/s:

[@darreny1375]

Some nitwit will inevitably show up to "akshuley so and so said it vaporized and like liqueded n stuffff" Mathematics informs us that the velocity of the disc likely put it outside of our atmosphere in ~ .023 seconds. Physics informs us that with the directed force from the nuclear (contained) blast, friction was virtually zero. Friction occurs when an object is acted upon by the surroundings- when acceleration occurs. Metallurgy informs us that steel is a CONDUCTIVE material that would likely transfer heat through itself... Concrete, an INSULATOR, vaporizes as it traps heat... But steel would more likely transfer heat to the other side of itself.

[@Rogue-7.62]

​@@man-from-2058the kinetic release would truly be a wonder to behold........from a great distance away.

[@lotuswraith]

Not to knock you, but it's not even close to that distance. Just doing some napkin math here, but 150,000 mph is about 14.1448 AU per year. Assuming it left Earth and headed straight out of the solar system, it's just over 1000 AU away at the moment; Proxima Centauri is over 280,000 AU away (63,000 AU per light year x 4.24 light years).

[@demonchild327]

I would like to point out that the cosmic rule of “The Cameraman Never Dies” doesn’t apply when you’re within line-of-sight of Alec Baldwin lol.

[@michaelmcdoesntexist8350]

Damn bro 😂 Brutal

[@DarthKilaj85]

The manhole cover was moving around 5 times or more what terminal velocity is which is required to leave the atmosphere.

[@DarthKilaj85]

@@gk5891 as he said it's being propelled by the gas so given that it would exit that atmosphere at such a quick amount of time friction might not even be able to effect it especially as I am sure mainly friction effects those things being slowed by entering the atmosphere easier compared to those things leaving it when we are talking about these speeds.

[@rmartinson19]

And remember, 150,000 mph is the MINIMUM speed it was travelling. They don't actually know how fast it was moving, just that it would have had to be going at LEAST 150,000 mph to leave the camera's field of view in a single frame. It could easily have been moving much, much faster than that.

[@gk5891]

@erikhopkins9548 I talked to a buddy at United Launch Alliance during lunch. The math says it would have fractured and vaporized from compression heating before it exited the atmosphere at an average speed of 50,000 meters per second (Roughly 110,000 mph). The faster it's traveling the closer to the surface this would have occured. He just made a rough guess on dimensions by scaling up a normal manhole cover. He said in layman's terms think Tunguska.

[@DarthKilaj85]

@@gk5891 idk all I find is that typically a rocket leaving the atmosphere reaches 2000 degrees and refined steel melts at 2500 degrees but Google can be wrong, and you have to take into account would friction be able to even effect it at the speed it's going by the time it could heat out it likely might be out of the atmosphere at that speed

[@gk5891]

@erikhopkins9548 it would be more akin to a reverse reentry going fastest where the atmospheric friction was highest. But not going at a shallow angle to give more time to radiate off the heat.

[@remo27]

21:43: Provided it didn't burn up somehow and did indeed make it to space, do not worry, it is still going . Absent any friction or force in space to slow it besides the gravity (which decreases rapidly by distance) of the Earth and Sun) the thing is almost certainly still out there, three or four times as far out as the Voyager probes.

[@pwbeagles]

unless it hit something...like a planet.

[@SgtAwesome97]

It absolutely made it to space. It literally wasn't in the atmosphere long enough for it to heat up much due to the sheer thermal mass of the manhole cover. It entered space in literally *A* second, not enough time for it to heat up much.

[@pwbeagles]

@@SgtAwesome97 well...guess i didn't explain what i was referring to, the it is still going part is what I meant to say that to.

[@PAT8888-is2pd]

Duck and cover was only to protect you from falling debris from a blast a few miles away. Ground zero, nothing protects.. After the duck and cover, you were supposed to go immediately to a fallout shelter. Duck and cover was only useless if you were at Ground zero.

[@rmartinson19]

In fairness to the "duck and cover" thing, it was never meant to protect anyone from the nuclear blast itself. Because anyone close enough to be killed by the blast would be dead before they even knew what was happening, but if you were far enough away that you had time to comprehend and react to the explosion at all, then the initial blast wasn't what you needed to worry about anyway. Ducking and covering was meant to protect you from flying glass and debris or collapsing roofs, in much the same way that you should take cover during a tornado or hurricane for those same reasons. For anyone not in the immediate kill-zone (which would be the vast majority of people, since those guaranteed-kill zones tend to be much smaller than people think), ducking and covering - even under a cheap wooden school desk - could legitimately could save your life in a nuclear attack.

[@akarbit3r111]

The Interview is the movie the clips are from

[@AmericansLearn]

Thank you! I vaguely remember the premise of that movie now.

[@c4ns3r53]

My right ear loved this video

[@andrewhimes6058]

It's easier to train "ROUGHNECKS" to be Astronauts, then it would be to teach astronauts to drill a well

[@gk5891]

Nuclear Pigs in a Blanket... The predecessors to microwavable food.

[@Tar-Numendil]

These are the comments I left on TFE'S video: It was traveling at 41.67 miles per second. It would only take 1.49 seconds to reach space at that speed. Assuming it didn't hit anything or get pulled into a celestial object by gravity, then it just kept going in a straight line and has traveled roughly 88,098,300,000 miles in whatever direction it was going. This is how I calculated that; it's been almost exactly 67 years since it happened, there are 8,766 hours in a year, that's 587,322 hours for 67 years, multiply that by 150,000 miles per hour (the minimum speed it could be traveling at) and you get 88,098,300,000 miles. It would take light nearly 5.5 days to travel that distance, whereas it only takes light about 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun. For reference that's roughly 947 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. I saw somebody else say that it's traveled ~112 billion miles, but I don't know how they came up with that number.

[@gk5891]

@Tar-Numendil Assuming the 41.67 mps initial rate how much speed does it lose by the time it exits the atmosphere? What were the cover dimensions and where did you find them? Did you assume edge forward for frontal area? What did you use for Cd?

[@KeanueAnakoni-Aukai]

the planet killer that took out the dinosaurs wasnt the size of a manhole cover... lol, but i hope its out there also.

[@briandix4633]

That manhole cover most likely reached as far as the Voyager probes have now by the time they were launched in the 1970s, and by now is (without doing the math) 2 or 3 times farther out into interstellar space than those probes are, still traveling at around 62 miles per second. Plus, being actual forged steel(much stronger than the average rocky meteor) if it did happen to intersect with a planet's orbit you're talking about probably 500 to 750kg of material hitting the surface at several times the average velocity of an asteroid impact. The local area will be wiped out, if not the entire surface being rendered inhospitable to life

[@jonathansevier1988]

was it planned to release this vid on the anniversary date of the manhole launch

[@AmericansLearn]

;-)

[@captin3149]

Henson link is still working Also ducking under the wooden desks in the school worked better than most people think.

[@lotuswraith]

Assuming it survived, it would have entered a parabolic orbit around the sun and would have been ejected from the solar system. If we further assumed it never hit anything, it would have hit the heliopause in the mid 60s and would be around 1000 AU (astonomic units) away; about halfway to the Oort cloud where all the comets are from.

[@dalejohnson2047]

I worked with a man who was one of the soldiers they used as a Guinea pig they detonated a Nike on an island and the soldiers were on ships not sure how far out but the footage has been declassified for several years ,

[@gregmiller-qq5on]

My guess would be that manhole cover would be passing Jupiter at least by this time as the is only gravity in space to affect its speed or trajectory.

[@darreny1375]

More likely past any planet x and partway toward another solar system lad... This was BEFORE voyager AND FASTER than said craft- and voyager 1 AND 2 are theoretically exiting the solar system.

[@Nightreaper86]

one day aliens will show up and be angry ready to kill us cause a man hole cover slammed into their planet and destroyed it. lmfao

[@NatPat-yj2or]

I like that you let his sponsor ad play through. The product sounds pretty good to he honest haha I will try it

[@PAT8888-is2pd]

He always shows that Reagan clip out of context. Reagan prefaced that statement with "the 9 most terrifying words you can hear are".

[@pwbeagles]

Technically if it burns up in the atmosphere it is only a meteor (a meteoroid that enters the Earth's atmosphere at high speed and vaporizes), a meteorite is one that survives the trip through the atmosphere and lands on the Earth's surface.

[@kylemccullough3495]

Just think, if Aliens ever attack earth it's a more than 0% chance that it's because we hit them with a manhole cover

[@Plastikdoom]

Also air burst testing is the safest, long term for everyone, least amount of fallout and contamination, that is also the shortest lived radiation in all way, unground is the worst, in water, second worst, depending on what water and where. That can be worse. But depends on many other conditions to be true.

[@aden538]

According to the calculations, then this manhole cover would have reached as far as the moon in AT MINIMUM, an hour and a half.

[@CodyHwnt]

Those clips are from the movie "The Interview" set in North Korea

[@vampiro4236]

Considering their ranks, I'm betting they'd all probably already had children... but sh*t happens, so who knows? lol

[@Pterodactylus548]

Cross dressing did you say??🤣 Greetings to Kit, LOL! One day some alien is gonna come ahd sue US ofA! ""That f..king piece of metal made a dent in my spaceship!"" ""$50,000 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $120,329.00"" and ""$75,000 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $180,493.50 today"" Triple hooray... The inflation rate in 1990 was 5.40%. The current inflation rate compared to the end of last year is now 2.89% (US)

[@Tar-Numendil]

The Interview with James Franco and Seth Rogen is hilarious.

[@ATippePodcast]

I wish you and ( I forget his name) would react at the same time as a team. I think it would be really cool.

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

The one thing that I ask the most is where can I find that one frame of pic as that cover got yeeted up

[@Rogue-7.62]

There was at some point, if I am not mistaken, a study done on that man whole cover and its current location. Needless to say, space is a vacuum, and there is nothing to slow this thing down, short of it colliding with another object of indeterminate size. The projected kinetic energy release of the cover at say 1000 lbs or so if it only kept half its mass as it traveled out of our atmosphere was nearly off the charts. Hopefully, whatever it hits out there, in say 100, 500, 1000+ years from now or more, is unoccupied at the time, if it's a planet or anything similar. Im not saying it would destroy a planet, but it would most likely have a serious effect on its ecosystem. Just think, a massive railgun projectile, only worse, as it would be at multitudes higher velocity. In the far far, far-off chance that it was a populated planet, they more than likely will never see it coming and want be happy about it.

[@michaelmorales2628]

Funny that i was drinking too lol well time to sleep 😆

[@iKvetch558]

I wonder if she will spot the minor mistake that FE makes in this one when he says that manhole was the first manmade object into space...the Germans put the first manmade object in space with the launch of a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 176 kilometers on June 20, 1944. So no matter what happened to the manhole cover, it was definitely never going to be the first manmade object in space. It is also possible that he is just thinking that the manhole cover would have gone into orbit, which it would not have...but it just proves he is still human and can make mistakes. LOL

[@danbrit9848]

This rule was right ...till Biden got a drone and game ended 4 camera men ...but no one seems to talk about that...

[@scotthill1600]

Wowwwwww, not willing to watch the interview says a lot

[@game.master69]

It maybe close to FTL Did we commit xenoside

[@remo27]

12:25 : 12:30 You are so cute when you are exasperated like that.

[@game.master69]

Hello nerd 😂😂😂

[@Plastikdoom]

Oh it’s not cause Astronaughts are elite, they are officers. I absolutely could regular people to dk my job, now, or former job of being a world class avionicsman, faster and easier than I could teach any officer, they don’t listen, they don’t learn, from us, at least in most cases, it’s rare occasion where they actually listen and learn and fully grasp me teaching them something, applies to my current job, I have to deal with millionaires almost everyday, in my industry, they are our customers, they don’t shit if what I’m talking about, they pretend to know, or act like they do, 99.9% don’t, or actually care, they think they are above who actually keeps the systems running. Yeah no, you’re just another meet bag. Bleed and die like everyone else can. Not special. Some of our owners are like that. Think they shit gold, owners of the company, don’t want to listen, or get it, and act like it. That’s what officers are like, they don’t care about that type of deal. As long as it works, or worse they pretend to know and care. And only make things worse…no, go do your spreadsheets and paper work and leave the real work to those who know, we each got our part to play, and yours isn’t this, or the rare gem that actually knows and cares, learns, tries to learn, and is a treasure and makes lifer better and easier for all involved.

[@murderousbutterfly]

Boring fact: The escape velocity from the sun leaving the solar system is 288,000mph, 133,000mph low for this test, and by the mid 1960s, provided it didn't have any collisions, would have returned to the inner solar system.

[@Rogue-7.62]

Wrong, even Voyger 1 and 2 are moving slower than this thing was. There speed is only around 70,000 mph. Look it up. They are leaving our solar system. Not sure who tought you astrophysics, but you need a refund buddy. To leave the solar system, an object needs to reach the local escape velocity. This is the minimum initial velocity required to escape the surface of a planet or large body like a moon and never return. It's the speed at any position such that the total energy is zero. Escape Velocity from Earth's Orbit The escape velocity from the Sun is about 42 kilometers per second (or 0.014 percent of the speed of light in a vacuum). This is nearly four times the escape speed from Earth's surface. To reach this speed, it is highly advantageous to also use the orbital speed of the Earth around the Sun, which is 29.78 km/s. Escape Velocity from the Last Planet it Received a Gravity Assist From For an interplanetary spacecraft, its escape velocity from the solar system is the escape velocity at the last planet it received a gravity assist from. For example, Voyager 1 would need to be beyond roughly 5.7AU from the Sun to escape with its maximum speed of 125000km/h. 150,000mph is around 241,000km/h. Keep in mind, 241k kph or 150k mph was the MINIMUM estimated speed of the device.