The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Humor@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoSomeone double check the physics here.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1257arrow-down115
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minus-squareiAvicenna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·6 months agoIf the car is accelerating quite jerkly then this should be possible
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·6 months agoOr going fast enough that air friction would decelerate the guy this much.
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoHe would need to be gripping extremely hard with his feet and somehow keeping his body rigid in the first panel
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoI’m imagining him having taken a bit of a run-up and this is the moment when he’s momentarily at the same speed as the car. Obviously, it is still somewhat of a stretch…
If the car is accelerating quite jerkly then this should be possible
Or going fast enough that air friction would decelerate the guy this much.
He would need to be gripping extremely hard with his feet and somehow keeping his body rigid in the first panel
I’m imagining him having taken a bit of a run-up and this is the moment when he’s momentarily at the same speed as the car. Obviously, it is still somewhat of a stretch…