So it beat Sputnik in 1957 but we couldn't claim it because it was a secret test?That reminds me of a story in the back of Backyard Ballistics about an American underground nuke test back in the early '50s. They had a huge (on the order of tons, IIRC) steel plug covering the top of the hole and a high-speed camera watching it. After the test, they couldn't find the plug, so they checked the high-speed footage and discovered that it was in place in one frame and completely gone in the next. Based on the frame rate of the film and the camera's field of view, they calculated that it must've been moving in excess of escape velocity to be completely out of view in one frame--in short, the explosion launched it into outer space, making it the first man-made object to leave the Earth.
We had a guy and his 8 year old son lose their lives in Newkirk when putting a split rim back together and inflating it.We had a guy at a local tire shop get cut in half with one of the rings from a 2 piece rim back in the early 80's before the cages was required at all tire shops.
I don't think it's particularly comparable to Sputnik, as it was a dumb projectile, and, having exceeded escape velocity, it wouldn't have gone into orbit, at least not around the Earth.So it beat Sputnik in 1957 but we couldn't claim it because it was a secret test?
I found a website that talks about it but it wants my ad blocker off and that ain't gonna happen.
maybe he ran into this guyhttps://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hmt-forum/tire_sends_man_orbit.mp4
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These split rims are not to be taken lightly!! I saw a guy that had the whole top of his head cut off, by one, from his eye brows up, was gone!!https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hmt-forum/tire_sends_man_orbit.mp4
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