Date: 3/08/2026 12:55:41
From: SCIENCE
ID: 2416705
Subject: re: Spiny's thread of occasional interest
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
So that’s about 5g acceleration for the first half sec.
How do they transmit the required force to the ground without slipping?
So why not watch the video?
Yeah, could do that I suppose, but what? 20 minutes?
No-one got time for that.
But the transcript covers it from about 11 minutes.
I remember back at the old place we had a thread about whether you could drive up a vertical surface, relying purely on aerodynamic effects to hold you “down”.
Just need more aerodynamic surfaces.