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BECAUSE I HAVE NO LIFE AND THIS IS REALLY BOTHERING ME…
The prevailing theory on Tumblr on how Sherlock survived the fall was that he managed to land in a laundry truck.
Benedict Cumberbatch is 1.84 meters tall and by using his body you can measure how far from the building he would have had to jump to make it into the truck. Roughly 7.32 meters.
Sherlock is standing on the Pathological Department of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Google Street View shows what appears to be Routemaster double-decker buses which are 4.38 meters tall. The building therefore is roughly 14.6 meters.
You can use Pythagoras’ theorem to calculate the distance which is 16.33 meters. FYI: The World Record for men’s long jump is 8.95 meters and that was done with a running start. Sherlock flopped over the edge with no horizontal directional speed. I don’t think it’s possible for the laundry truck theory.
EDIT: how much time he had to “steer” towards the truck while falling.
Time = √ 2(height)/gravity
Time = √ 2(14.6m)/9.8 m/s²
Time = √ 29.2m/9.8 m/s²
Time = √ 2.98 m/s²
Time = 1.73 secondsSherlock was falling for 1.73 seconds.
Question: Can you jump off a 14.6 meter building and land in a truck full of laundry 7.23 meters away in 1.73 seconds?
HOLY SHIT MATH AND PHYSICS
THIS IS LEGIT BECAUSE THEY USED MATHEMATICS
YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID
I am so bad at math but I appreciate it. This is QUALITY and jeez even visual aids YES THIS IS HOW I SHOULD HAVE LEARNED GEOMETRY
Sorry to burst everyone’s bubble but this is not quite right.
People don’t fall in straight lines, they fall in parabolas. So Pythagoras has nothing to do with this. What we need is projectile motion physics.
The dark red is the path he would actually take.
So using these figures it still takes 1.73 seconds to fall vertically 14.6m with an acceleration of 9.8 ms-1.
But travelling horizontally there is no acceleration or deceleration. To travel the 7.32m to the truck Sherlock would only have to take off from the roof at 4.23 ms-1. (Because of air resistance he may have fallen slower and taken a longer time therefore this number may be even lower). Average human walking speed is between 4 to 6 ms-1 (I couldn’t find an exact number) so for Sherlock to have reached the truck in that time he would only have to step off. By falling the way he did it looks like he didn’t push off but there is actually a lot more horizontal velocity than if he had just stepped so he could actually reach the truck.
Also this explains why Sherlock chose such a tall building. If the height wasn’t as large he couldn’t have made it that distance to the truck.
tl;dr: Sherlock could have made it to the truck without any particular effort. The truck theory is still viable.
I’m going to regret jumping on this, but the Parabola theory above is the correct one. You don’t fall in a straight line like what the original theory said.
That said, in order to make 7.32m of horizontal displacement, you need 4.23m/s of horizontal speed, which is NOT walking speed. According to Wikipedia (on Walking), average human walking speed is 3.1mph, or 1.4m/s. 4.23m/s amounts to about 9.5mph, which is a running speed. If you don’t believe me, get on a treadmill and set the “speed” to 9.5. I guarantee you’ll be running like hell.
Taking into account air resistance and all that shit, I’d imagine he’d be pretty lucky to be able to land on the truck. But even if he was that lucky, landing on the back of that truck will really break some shit. There has to be a more elegant solution to this, although it was really really suspicious that the truck just drove by after a person jumped off the building and landed next to it.
I’m more intrigued by this:
The truck went missing in one scene. Then it reappeared and drove away, but in the following cut, the truck was back to where it was when it first started.
Maybe it was just badly edited. But maybe…
Well this is a lot to think about…
the sherlock fandom doesn’t just speculate
they break out motherfucking physics
DAMMIT someone needs to get this to Moffat and have him SEE.
Use math to test if your Reichenbach theory is plausible. WOW.
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kyoy:
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WHAT!
They are different spellings!!!
God dammit English
I think my english is mostly american, but I use the word “dialogue”…weird though, I’ve used “catalog” and “analog”. :|a how do I english lol
Haha I’m American and I find myself using British spellings all the time.
I think I’m just a pretentious butthead though…the only one of these that always gets me is cheque/check; every time i’m in the states or read something american i’m like
check what
i use them all interchangeably ahahha
… i definitely have more of a british spelling than american spelling it seems
I guess I’m in the middle. But the removal of letter. And. Adding.And. Wat
My life is a mishmash of these two.
The problem with campaigns such as this are the “wait until xxx to buy you products” clauses. It’s the same deal with doing something for a day. Pretty soon, it will be over. If you want to make a change, don’t buy the media’s products. At all. Until these acts of censorship are defeated.Black March!
P.S: If you think this doesn’t concern you, Megaupload’s owners are from New Zealand, today (1.19.2012) they were deported to USE and will be prosecuted under a crime that DOESN’T EXIST IN THEIR COUNTRY, under a law that HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED YET.
That’s….really fucking awful.
It’s sad that this is now cliche:
>don’t download any song illegally
wut?
but I agree with the rest of this.
no clue why this has an Anonymous symbol since Anonymous didn’t actually start this. But they will likely co-opt this, so whatever.
Anonymous isn’t an organization. We don’t collectively decide to start things. Someone makes something, puts it out there, if it generates talk and action it becomes the collective work of Anonymous.
READ THE P.S.
go to a large, public place. like, say, Grand Central Station, or something of the like.
and, with your…
Maybe this isn’t a newsflash to anyone but me, but, um, the Moai “heads” on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are disproportionately large, many people (myself included) tend to think of them as just big heads. But the bodies (generally not including legs, though there is at least one kneeling statue) are there — in many cases, underground. What’s even more interesting — there are petroglyphs (rock markings) that have been preserved below the soil level, where they have been protected from erosion. This research report has been making the rounds; it discusses recent progress by The Easter Island Statue Project to uncover, study, and catalogue two statues. It includes (among the dry details of the research) a day-by-day journal of the work, as well as remarkable photographs showing the petroglyphs and team members excavating. Above is an image from a previous excavation (source unknown) that shows you the scale of the statues, and how deep they were buried. (Note: visitors are prohibited from climbing on the Moai; the expedition pictured above appears to predate the EISP and the current practice of conservation.)
For more on the Easter Island statues, read more about the EISP, read their extensive research reports, and check out the Wikipedia page on Moai (which also discusses the fairly well-known fact that many of the statuesused to have hats or possibly topknots, known as pukao). Also interesting is the back story of archaeology on Easter Island (also known as Rapa Nui); apparently the island has been the subject of archaeological research for 119 years.
(Via Jason Scott.)
Woah.
As if there are local shows worth pirating. Tsk.
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