XamberB Wrote:My personal favorite is when the hero runs along the top of a boxcar without falling off or getting creamed by a tunnel.
That's a good one!
If there is no actual wind, and the train's traveling at fifty miles an hour, whoever's running on top of it is either running against a fifty mile per hour head wind, or has a fifty mile per hour wind at his back. And if there's an actual wind, you can add its velocity to -- or subtract it from -- the wind caused by the speed of the train.
If the wind is coming from either side, then the component cross wind -- combined with the buffeting turbulence of it hitting the side of the train -- would make it almost impossible to even stand upright, much less run.
And if you're running with the wind at your back -- even without any natural wind -- you'd be bounding along like a Gazelle.
Quote:Then, when they jump off a train doing 50 mph, they just roll over a few times and get up. In real life I think you'd be looking at major trauma.
Of course, that depends on what you land
on, but I imagine that jumping from a moving vehicle at a height of twelve feet or more -- even if you land on soft ground -- you'd at the very least get some serious sprains. And if you hit, or rolled onto a rock, bush, gravel or cactus . . .
YIKES!
Ken V.