Recent content by mauricem

Just entered! Thanks for the heads up Dave.

Dave, I'm sorry I didn't list you in the acknowledgments before! I knew I forgot someone.

Thanks Dave! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Daric, of course the fun of watching these films is not asking questions and enjoy the film. When Lucas said he had scientific evidence it was possible I began to wonder if I was missing something. Thanks to the gracious help of this forum, the question was answered. While it's unlikely, it is...

Thanks for everyone's advice and help. I'll summarize what I need to change from the last post based on feedback. Indy is accelerated by the blast and then follow a projectile trajectory. For most of the flight he is weightless. (Thanks Mech Engineer) He's traveling at terminal speed of...

Missed some zeros. Thanks MechEngineer.

Prefect breakdown. Thats exactly what I was missing. I did think he was traveling the speed of sound, but thought that would mean he was going the same speed throughout. That would mean he was traveling at amazing rate of speed. Hitting a brick wall at 100mph would be pretty nasty. Assuming, of...

Rive, my man. I hadn't thought in terms of time. You just saved my post. What distance do you think the town was from the blast? I'm open to suggestions.

I guess not an analysis since that was done by overthinkingit.com. I just want to make sure some of my math holds up. I'll break that out of the synopsis for ease of viewing. A 20kT nuclear bomb (Based on the 1957 Operation Plumbomb testing) would emit 10 rem of high energy gamma radiation at...

Here's my final analysis. I hope someone can check my numbers. 1 Jones Gets in the fridge Indiana Jones is in a nuclear test town when he hears a siren. The Russians flee the town in a car. He spots the only commercial lead-lined fridge ever made, presumably for nuclear food safety tests. He...

My math was off. I forgot about the 200-300m from the bomb to the house. It's still not enough, but a little better.

Great numbers. I hadn't noticed the fire in that last scene. I'll have to watch it again. That means he was at least within 2-3km of the blast zone. I'll use a starting point of 2.6 miles.

Is there a good site to get that kind of infomation? I haven't found any.

Lucas says, "Will the new Star Wars be good?" Everyone says, "Yes, it's possible." LOL

So, I found a helpful article here http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/02/22/fridge-nuking-scientific-peer-review/?page=all that answered a lot of questions. But, I have a couple more. In one part the author says Indiana's speed was 38.32 m/s "Assuming the Soviets are attempting to escape the...