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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4056428" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>That reminds me of a story in the back of <em>Backyard Ballistics</em> 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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4056428, member: 26737"] That reminds me of a story in the back of [I]Backyard Ballistics[/I] 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. [/QUOTE]
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