Wednesday, June 2, 2010

How Many Miles Per Liter Does That Thing Get?

Miles per liter of Coke Zero, that is...

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11 comments:

OrbsCorbs said...

I'm glad to see he wore a crash helmet just in case.

June 2, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Huck Finn said...

Extra points if you can identify that Hanger, what it was used for and where it is located.

June 2, 2010 at 6:26 PM
hale-bopp said...

When I was teaching in Florida, we did a physics day for the lower school. One group of high school students wanted to make a car powered by a fire extinguisher. After discussing it with them, they built a cart where you could mount a scuba tank instead. We learned two things.

1. Scuba tanks are frakkin' loud when you open that valve!

2. Scuba tanks can really scoot a small cart across the parking lot pretty good.

June 2, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Why Not? said...

quite expensive mileage I would imagine.. 221 ft with all of that coke and mentos.. should count up what it would cost of a mile..

June 3, 2010 at 2:49 AM
kkdither said...

That was one cool video. I love science. Too bad it left such a Coke slick behind. Isn't that Moffett Field?

June 3, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Anonymous said...

Say isn't that one of those new GM hybrids?

June 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM
OrbsCorbs said...

Another alternative method of propulsion: http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn6/orbscorbs/heinzbakedbeans.jpg

June 3, 2010 at 4:21 PM
Huck Finn said...

KKD How in the heck did you guess that???? I worked there for over three years while in the Navy. That was either Hanger 2 or Hanger 3. Each one is capable of housing the Good Year blimp with room to spare. Hanger 1 is HUGE and can house a dirigible.

The doors can NOT be opened or closed in winds over 8mph. Signs warn not to. So what did a Captain do one day as a storm was approaching? He tried to shut the doors. One came off it's track and missed crushing a P3 Orion Sub chaser by just three feet. It'd have ruined several Airmen's day as they were working on it.

The door was so heavy, our largest fork trucks with double wide truck tires up front couldn't lift it to move it. It had to be disassembled and built back up sitting on the track.

It's saddening to see just how bad the place is deteriorating since they closed that base.

Will always remember my first day there. I got asked how long I had left to serve. The response I got when I said a bit over three years was, "Man, if I had that long to go, I'd walk into a prop!" (Aircraft were always running up their engines somewhere on the flight line.)

Cool sights were the F4s lining up two abreast on the runway to take off. From behind it looked like they had harnessed the sun for power when they hit the after burners. The BEST sight was when NASA AMES would send up it's U2 research plane. It looked like a sail plane with a rocket motor. After a short take off run, it'd stand on it's tail and go nearly straight up at a 85* angle. Long after it vanished from sight you could still hear the crackle of the motor.

yeah, odd how these are good memories, but I HATED every minute of it while I was in.

June 3, 2010 at 5:12 PM
fungi said...

I couldn't resist trying to figure out a totally trivial and frivolous problem any longer. Using approximations for price of coke and mentos, I came up with about $3700.00 a mile and .00037 miles per liter. This does not include the clean up costs or fines for littering.

June 3, 2010 at 8:15 PM
kkdither said...

Huck, I've driven past it many times while visiting Sunnyvale and Frisco. Not hard to miss, it is HUGE!

June 3, 2010 at 9:48 PM
Anonymous said...

The hangar has also been a site that the Mythbusters go to every once in a while.

June 4, 2010 at 4:33 PM

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