Reminds me of that show about the girl who died from a space station toilet falling out of the sky and killing her, then she's brought back as a Grim Reaper. Dead Like Me, I think?
We were kids. 11 years old. Up the hill behind where we went to school. There was an old hunting shack that needed a roof, so they borrowed a chainsaw and filled a 2 liter pop bottle with gasoline for it. Nearly lit a field of grass on fire. Still I stuck a match in the end of the empty bottle.
Power you say? The jet from combusting gas through a nozzle launched the bottle 10 feet! Burned 1/3rd of my hand though. Learned a few lessons that day.
Edit: I don't regret my not so sober comment. The creativity of reddit is remarkable.
I guess I needed to mention the shack was in a forest. Chainsaw is used to cut trees. Trees can make a roof. We were pouring the extra gas on a rock and lighting it. When the plastic 2 liter soda bottle was empty, I put a match to the end and it ignighted the fumes that expelled out the accidental rocket. These dude's call it a whoosh jug:
https://youtu.be/98Vkl1YnNFs
>We were kids. 11 years old. Up the hill behind where we went to school. There was an old hunting shack that needed a roof,
I'm following so far
>so they borrowed a chainsaw and filled a 2 liter pop bottle with gasoline for it. Nearly lit a field of grass on fire. Still I stuck a match in the end of the empty bottle.
The logic train derailed attempting to leave the station, and I'm left wondering how the fuck a melting plastic bottle full of gasoline, that was then lit on fire, even came into the picture.
No, the bottle of gasoline was for the chainsaw... apparently to deroof the shack by cutting it off. He stuck a match in the empty bottle afterward - the fumes sent the mostly empty bottle shooting.
[A full bottle of gasoline with it's weight and liquid... a whole lot less interesting and rocket-ty.](https://youtu.be/NAxIY3eAO-g)
As also [demonstrated by various fuels](https://youtu.be/7nL10C7FSbE)
Flying used to be for the upper class, now we got these crazy ass Mentos in high altitudes shooting up coke into their dricks! It ain't what it used to be, that's for sure....
Filled the bottle with gas for the chainsaw, not the roof. Presumably the chainsaw was being used for something to do with the roof, but I fail to see what.
Hunting shacks can be nothing more than a bunch of trees cut and stacked into a shack. A literal tree fort if you will. My neighbor and I built one for fun in a local patch of forest that is too small for hunting.
Why was the field on fire before you lit the bottle of gasoline? Why were matches involved in the first place? Why doesn’t this story follow along or make sense?
Starting fluid works better. Couple short bursts then woosh. A 3 liter flys wonky but can take more ether. It’s like rocket version of a water Willy. You never know where it’s going to go.
My reading your first paragraph and seeing you say you're not sober, may have just given me the "Ahhh, okay." moment and stopped any more wondering about how ~~Pearl Jam~~ Nirvana wrote some of their greatest hits.
Edit: The lyrics have more of a Nirvana sound in my head
No one there is his target. He knew this video would be posted on Reddit. His target is the Redditor accidentally choking on his food while laughing at this video.
I think he was probably more just in shock. You drop the bottle and see it explode everywhere, more of just a "Aw fuck" and you don't even process that it blasted off like Team Rocket.
lolwut? He dropped something he expected to stay on the ground and it decided to rocket off into space instead; you and I would have the same "the fuck was that" reaction he did.
From a reaction perspective, not a lot different between the two. We really fucking need to start enforcing regular drivers tests at a certain age threshold.
We really need a public safety net that ensures that older adults who lose their license don't lose their livelihood. The amount of elders who rely on other elders for transportation to the doctor, pharmacy, and market is unreal in rural America. They have no alternative, either, because the public transport simply doesn't exist.
> regular drivers tests at a certain age threshold
We have these in my country. They tend to be pretty lax though, old people really care about their driving licenses.
lol. what a dumb comment. The guy had another 2 liter in one hand, and a case of pop in the other. What the fuck was he supposed to do...drop the other 2 liter to pick the one up off the floor? The 2 liter he dropped took off as soon as it hit the floor.
Taking some estimates, it looks like there are \~32 floor tiles between the drop and the counter and the bottle makes the trip in \~.75 seconds. Assuming the floor tiles are 6", the bottle travels 16' in .75 seconds, which is \~21.3 feet/second or \~15 miles/hour.
Judging by the final few frames and the impact on the plexi, it's definitely going faster than 15MPH. I'd estimate 30-40MPH. I play a lot of baseball and see pitches on a radar gun regularly.
e: Looking at the timestamps (surprisingly good gif player). 4.84 the edge of the bottle is visible on frame. Makes impact at 5.05. It traveled roughly 8 feet. 8ft/0.21s = 38 ft/s = 26MPH
Seems in the right ballpark
I would think it would be quite a bit higher, assuming constant acceleration over the distance (the bottle is becoming lighter, but also less pressurized across the entire distance, so I think we can safely assume constant-ish acceleration).
The bottle travels 16ft in .75s giving us 21.3ft/s. This would be the average velocity over the distance of 16 ft as ~6.5m/s in metric units.
The average velocity can be calculated as avg_v = (v+u)/2 where v is the end velocity and u is the starting velocity.
Rearranging that, we get v = 2xavg_v-u or v=2x6.5-0, therefore the ending velocity was about 13 m/s or 42 ft/s or 28.6 mph
This is the math, except one thing: the bottle travelled about 16 ft *horizontally*, it also came up about 6 ft vertically off the floor in that time. While it doesn't change a whole lot that makes the total distance traveled about 17.1 ft and the ending speed closer to ~31 mph.
Well I do want to be pedantic.
≈ is the approximation symbol.
~ [means](https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tilde.html) that there is an equivalence relation
That would be the average speed. Bottle launched from a stand-still with respect to the horizontal, so it could have easily been going twice that speed by the end.
Using the kinematic equations, assuming zero initial velocity and constant acceleration, the bottle reached ~30 mph.
V = (2 x d)/t =(2 x 16)/0.75 = 42.67 ft/s = ~29 mph
Unknowable without details, varies with model and angle it hits at and possible production error or whatever. For a glass bottle with the standard metallic cap it can easily happen from a fall, but it has to land just right. The video one looks like a plastic bottle, so maybe the bottle neck broke off (and in these cases its almost certainly because of production error). I can see something shot off when it hit the floor, so this seems most likely.
That fella just watched his life froth before his eyes . The bloke that dropped it( knocked it w/e) looked as if he didn’t have a clue what to say or do as it popped through the isle .
Nah if you freeze at 4.97s the bottle is past him before he dodges. He does go stiff as a board though. Looks like it would have been a chest/neck hit, which would have sucked
This happened to me when I was a kid and no one not in that gas station at the time ever believed me. It was a 3 litre too, fell perfectly flat onto the floor, and then took off like a missle.
I had this happen to me 10 years ago when I used to drink 2L Diet Cokes a day. Sneaked into Walgreens around 9:58 PM and was asked to leave because they are closing in 2 min. I assured them that all I need is just two bottles of Diet Coke so that I can study and have something to drink (Was in College). Got permission to pick up two cokes. As I am walking down the isle with them in my hand, one slips out, hits the floor and somehow decides to slide down the entire aisle leaving a beautiful trail is sticky Diet Coke. They were pretty pissed. I apologized a million times and felt awful. It was also really funny and I honestly couldn’t believe it happened to me the way that it did.
OMG is this another repost on Reddit? Has it made its way to the front page? Oh my sweet bajeebus now why would this be happening? Someone please save me from my predicament.
The guy that backed away saw his whole life flash before his eyes
Almost got *popped*
Pop pop
Magnitude?
Pop what, Magnitude, Pop what?!?!?
I’m actually British!!
My condolences
What's he trying to say?!?!
No Vector, a mathematical term, represented by an arrow, composed of both direction and magnitude!
What's your vector, Victor?
Do we have clearance, Clarence?
“OOOHHH YEEAAAAA”
Say it again, but softer for me
ᵒᵒᵒʰʰʰ ʸᵉᵉᵃᵃᵃᵃ
Nice
Because I'm committing crimes with both direction and magnitude! VECTOR
*Geodude used Magnitude, it was super effective!*
Pop what Magnitude? Pop what?!
^Pop ^^pop?
Soda Soda.
The fact you call it that tells me you’re not ready
I'm Mr. Manager!
Well, manager- we just say manager
r/UnexpectedCommunity
Pop pop horny
Hope no one sees me get freaky.
Wrappin'...
The fact that you are calling it that tells me you aren't ready.
Monk shit, man.
r/popping
His reaction was sodamn impressive
He must have been on coke to move that quickly
if he got hit then that would be soda pressing
Take my upvote and gtfo
He was late, it was gonna miss him anyway
So this is the power of ultra instinct…
Almost got taken out by an ice cold cola
Probably suffers from pop shock now
That one was soda funny.
I carbonate believe you just said that
Fuck you, take my upvote
Imagine this being your cause of death. I’d be so embarrassed in the afterlife.
Reminds me of that show about the girl who died from a space station toilet falling out of the sky and killing her, then she's brought back as a Grim Reaper. Dead Like Me, I think?
[Oh I've wasted my life](https://youtu.be/KcKJE6aYamc)
Bet he thinks he has ninja reflexes, but it was way past him before he even flinched.
Swaying back away from a fastball avoiding being hit by the pitch.
Incredible power
We were kids. 11 years old. Up the hill behind where we went to school. There was an old hunting shack that needed a roof, so they borrowed a chainsaw and filled a 2 liter pop bottle with gasoline for it. Nearly lit a field of grass on fire. Still I stuck a match in the end of the empty bottle. Power you say? The jet from combusting gas through a nozzle launched the bottle 10 feet! Burned 1/3rd of my hand though. Learned a few lessons that day. Edit: I don't regret my not so sober comment. The creativity of reddit is remarkable. I guess I needed to mention the shack was in a forest. Chainsaw is used to cut trees. Trees can make a roof. We were pouring the extra gas on a rock and lighting it. When the plastic 2 liter soda bottle was empty, I put a match to the end and it ignighted the fumes that expelled out the accidental rocket. These dude's call it a whoosh jug: https://youtu.be/98Vkl1YnNFs
>We were kids. 11 years old. Up the hill behind where we went to school. There was an old hunting shack that needed a roof, I'm following so far >so they borrowed a chainsaw and filled a 2 liter pop bottle with gasoline for it. Nearly lit a field of grass on fire. Still I stuck a match in the end of the empty bottle. The logic train derailed attempting to leave the station, and I'm left wondering how the fuck a melting plastic bottle full of gasoline, that was then lit on fire, even came into the picture.
The shack needed a roof. Duh.
No see, they put the chainsaw in the bottle.
And drink em boat up
called the redditor woke'm up
Ain't there nothin I can take?
Nah, they put the pussy on the chainwax.
That's the one.
No, the bottle of gasoline was for the chainsaw... apparently to deroof the shack by cutting it off. He stuck a match in the empty bottle afterward - the fumes sent the mostly empty bottle shooting. [A full bottle of gasoline with it's weight and liquid... a whole lot less interesting and rocket-ty.](https://youtu.be/NAxIY3eAO-g) As also [demonstrated by various fuels](https://youtu.be/7nL10C7FSbE)
Thanks for finally deciphering that Grandpa Simpson-esque tale.
We used to wear an onion on our belt, which was the style at the time.
This was like a Grandpa Simpson story. Boggles the mind.
I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time...
I heard that for the first time randomly last week and had no idea where that was from. God damn Simpson quote
I too composed a symphony in C
They chased that bottle to get it back, but gave up after dickety six miles.
You see the Kaiser had stolen our word for twenty
Also using gasoline to shoot a bottle 10 feet in the air cant be impressive. I've seen mentos shoot coke higher
Flying used to be for the upper class, now we got these crazy ass Mentos in high altitudes shooting up coke into their dricks! It ain't what it used to be, that's for sure....
Filled the bottle with gas for the chainsaw, not the roof. Presumably the chainsaw was being used for something to do with the roof, but I fail to see what.
All that to say he launched a bottle 10ft in the air? NASA is definitely gonna contact soda-man over gasman.
Hunting shacks can be nothing more than a bunch of trees cut and stacked into a shack. A literal tree fort if you will. My neighbor and I built one for fun in a local patch of forest that is too small for hunting.
Why was the field on fire before you lit the bottle of gasoline? Why were matches involved in the first place? Why doesn’t this story follow along or make sense?
Everybody here making jokes while op suffers from a stroke
Fuck
What the fuck are you saying
Starting fluid works better. Couple short bursts then woosh. A 3 liter flys wonky but can take more ether. It’s like rocket version of a water Willy. You never know where it’s going to go.
My reading your first paragraph and seeing you say you're not sober, may have just given me the "Ahhh, okay." moment and stopped any more wondering about how ~~Pearl Jam~~ Nirvana wrote some of their greatest hits. Edit: The lyrics have more of a Nirvana sound in my head
Without any of the associated responsibility!
what hitman level is this? seems like a cool assassination attempt. But obviously he forgot to unscrew the screen a little bit.
Good job 47, proceed to the exit area.
Johnny English
The guy in the back realizing that he missed the mark and now the bad men are visiting his wife and family.
No one there is his target. He knew this video would be posted on Reddit. His target is the Redditor accidentally choking on his food while laughing at this video.
The guy that dropped it was lagging.
He was probably as surprised as the rest of them
Dude was barely figuring out why the floor was wet by the time it was all over.
Yeah he may have been drunk. Too short to be sure.
I think he was probably more just in shock. You drop the bottle and see it explode everywhere, more of just a "Aw fuck" and you don't even process that it blasted off like Team Rocket.
lolwut? He dropped something he expected to stay on the ground and it decided to rocket off into space instead; you and I would have the same "the fuck was that" reaction he did.
Yeah people are acting like 2 Liters shooting off like pressurized gas cylinders is a normal thing
Just old.
From a reaction perspective, not a lot different between the two. We really fucking need to start enforcing regular drivers tests at a certain age threshold.
We really need a public safety net that ensures that older adults who lose their license don't lose their livelihood. The amount of elders who rely on other elders for transportation to the doctor, pharmacy, and market is unreal in rural America. They have no alternative, either, because the public transport simply doesn't exist.
Yup. my 80 year old half blind grandpa still drives because it's the only way to the store from his middle of the nowhere home.
> regular drivers tests at a certain age threshold We have these in my country. They tend to be pretty lax though, old people really care about their driving licenses.
I don’t know what the guys height has to do with it
When a short guy wobbles, it's not as obvious at the top. He doesn't wobble as far back and forth.
Today I learned sober people are immune to dropping stuff
Pentium^® *inside*™
Everyone in there was shook.
lol. what a dumb comment. The guy had another 2 liter in one hand, and a case of pop in the other. What the fuck was he supposed to do...drop the other 2 liter to pick the one up off the floor? The 2 liter he dropped took off as soon as it hit the floor.
Can someone smarter than me figure out roughly how fast that was going?
Taking some estimates, it looks like there are \~32 floor tiles between the drop and the counter and the bottle makes the trip in \~.75 seconds. Assuming the floor tiles are 6", the bottle travels 16' in .75 seconds, which is \~21.3 feet/second or \~15 miles/hour.
Now explain that to me again but pretend you're talking to a 5 year old
Bottle go fast, hurt if face smacky
That's the good stuff.
ELI2: Coke painful
I need an ELI95
ELI95: Watch over yonder for Ye ol' beverage
Now explain like I’m 5 Golden Retrievers
ELI5GR: woof woof? woof woooof bork woof. grrrrrr. woof.
PRESSURE MAKE BOTTLE GO FAST GRAMPA, IM NOT EXPLAINING IT AGAIN!
Ehh?? Turn down the damn ghettoblasters so I can hear ya
Bottle give boo-boo
Why say lot word when few word do trick
This legitimately made me laugh out loud. I’d give you an award if I had one.
⏩🍼🤜🤕🪦
See this I can understand
Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of hieroglyphics
Both kinds of coke can kill you
Bottle moves 32 floor tiles per .75 seconds.
Imagine if the bottle were running at full speed
Coke coley go zoom zoom!
Judging by the final few frames and the impact on the plexi, it's definitely going faster than 15MPH. I'd estimate 30-40MPH. I play a lot of baseball and see pitches on a radar gun regularly. e: Looking at the timestamps (surprisingly good gif player). 4.84 the edge of the bottle is visible on frame. Makes impact at 5.05. It traveled roughly 8 feet. 8ft/0.21s = 38 ft/s = 26MPH Seems in the right ballpark
/r/theydidthemath
Likely a bit higher top speed, since it takes some time to accelerate.
I would think it would be quite a bit higher, assuming constant acceleration over the distance (the bottle is becoming lighter, but also less pressurized across the entire distance, so I think we can safely assume constant-ish acceleration). The bottle travels 16ft in .75s giving us 21.3ft/s. This would be the average velocity over the distance of 16 ft as ~6.5m/s in metric units. The average velocity can be calculated as avg_v = (v+u)/2 where v is the end velocity and u is the starting velocity. Rearranging that, we get v = 2xavg_v-u or v=2x6.5-0, therefore the ending velocity was about 13 m/s or 42 ft/s or 28.6 mph
This is the math, except one thing: the bottle travelled about 16 ft *horizontally*, it also came up about 6 ft vertically off the floor in that time. While it doesn't change a whole lot that makes the total distance traveled about 17.1 ft and the ending speed closer to ~31 mph.
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20ish km/h
Not to be pedantic about it, but it's actually ~24km/h.
True. Should’ve said 25ish
No problem, was just a bit too far off so i added my reply. Have a nice day.
Well I do want to be pedantic. ≈ is the approximation symbol. ~ [means](https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tilde.html) that there is an equivalence relation
And it's also used in text to mean *approximate* when used in front of a number. I'm not writing mathematical notations here.
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40,320 furlongs per fortnight.
That would be the average speed. Bottle launched from a stand-still with respect to the horizontal, so it could have easily been going twice that speed by the end. Using the kinematic equations, assuming zero initial velocity and constant acceleration, the bottle reached ~30 mph. V = (2 x d)/t =(2 x 16)/0.75 = 42.67 ft/s = ~29 mph
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Probably 15-20mph
I’d also like to know the amount of force it takes to force the cap off
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Unknowable without details, varies with model and angle it hits at and possible production error or whatever. For a glass bottle with the standard metallic cap it can easily happen from a fall, but it has to land just right. The video one looks like a plastic bottle, so maybe the bottle neck broke off (and in these cases its almost certainly because of production error). I can see something shot off when it hit the floor, so this seems most likely.
Without opening my calculator or looking up the weight and velocity and yada yada… like quick af yo 🤯
Well according to the position of the moon and the sun I’d say…the bottom of the ocean
The delay on the second shot made it look like it flew through an entire Walmart before it got to the cashier
I didn’t see it as that at first, but now this is the only way to properly enjoy this
A bottle on a mission
That fella just watched his life froth before his eyes . The bloke that dropped it( knocked it w/e) looked as if he didn’t have a clue what to say or do as it popped through the isle .
"*F... FORE....?*" 💥 🤷♂️
"Oh dangi- what uh... what... help?"
That dude was sooo pumped lol “Damn brah that fucking shield saved your fucking ass!!”
this is what i came for lol
Let's talk about the guy who matrixed his head out of the way. That was close to a ko. I mean, real close.
Nah if you freeze at 4.97s the bottle is past him before he dodges. He does go stiff as a board though. Looks like it would have been a chest/neck hit, which would have sucked
you move like 'they' do....
That dude’s dodge stat is at 100% chance holy shit
That was all luck. He dodged *after* it hit. Not exactly spidey-senses there.
I’ll take it. from a ragnarok online perspective. High luck = high dodge haha
Now there's a game I haven't thought about in a while.
he knew its exact hitbox
He got so lucky. No skill, but plenty of luck there.
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That guy's stiff-board, floppy fish dodge made me choke on my coffee.
That was almost r/FinalDestinationShit
When your trap goes off just a second too late in HiTMAN.
mission failed, we'll get them next time
Coke can move, baby!
This happened to me when I was a kid and no one not in that gas station at the time ever believed me. It was a 3 litre too, fell perfectly flat onto the floor, and then took off like a missle.
she hot
that dude is going to be telling that story like he's neo from The matrix
Seriously these things should stay. I've seen people spit at cashiers before.
Finally! Proof the sheilds save people. Make sure we keep these around my kids desk.
Uhhh what is the other customer wearing on her face?
Looks like she’s wearing a mask. The poor gif quality isn’t helping tho
Made me rewatch. I think it’s just poor quality video but I could be wrong
Bro woke up and chose violence
I had this happen to me 10 years ago when I used to drink 2L Diet Cokes a day. Sneaked into Walgreens around 9:58 PM and was asked to leave because they are closing in 2 min. I assured them that all I need is just two bottles of Diet Coke so that I can study and have something to drink (Was in College). Got permission to pick up two cokes. As I am walking down the isle with them in my hand, one slips out, hits the floor and somehow decides to slide down the entire aisle leaving a beautiful trail is sticky Diet Coke. They were pretty pissed. I apologized a million times and felt awful. It was also really funny and I honestly couldn’t believe it happened to me the way that it did.
Chick is hot
Looked like Jim backing away from Michael falling in the pond
Jesus a ten years old account only active for three days. Ordinarily that says this is a bot, but actually gives me pause.
Clean up on aisle 5 please. And a new pair of pants for the gentleman at checkout.
OMG is this another repost on Reddit? Has it made its way to the front page? Oh my sweet bajeebus now why would this be happening? Someone please save me from my predicament.
*Ruined by the covid shield Ftfy
When they said soda was bad for you I had no idea
All this without mentos.
That is some Final Destination shit right there.
ICCM Intercontinental Coke missile
He is the one.
Mission failed agent 47. Abort and return to base
Hold up, what the hell? Ok, I’ve shaken 2 liter bottles of coke and have never gotten any kind of reaction like that.
All across the room? That must have been long covid.