>> ^JAPR:

That was about five times longer than necessary.


Yeah, I let it spool up and then started at 1:10 and that was about right.

>> ^Hybrid:

It's insane that the coiled loading process has not been mechanized.


Machines dont handle fibre spooling like that with enough finesse.

The cable shown in this video is of the unarmored variety. This is mainly laid in the deep segments of cable runs, where anchor drops are least likely to cause a cut. The cables that run from the shore out to depths that are unreachable by all but the largest seafaring vessels are armored even further with Kevlar sheaths covering quite a lot more steel wires wrapped around the thin inner core of the cable you see in this video.

Laying of the cable in the deep ocean requires a plow, the cable is literally sown several feet beneath the seabed with said plow to ensure that no anchor drops, or fishing nets can cause a cable cut.

Cables are laid in areas of ocean that are marked on sea charts as 'no-drop' zones. In most nations, dropping anchor in these areas carries a MONSTROUS fine, whether you cut the cable or not.

>> ^KnivesOut:
@10 seconds you can hear a faint high-pitched wine. It seems like the supporting crane on the right is starting to break down under the load. @21 seconds you can see the base of the right crane apparently explode (launching some debris into the air) and catch fire.
The right crane was the culprit, I'd wager.
I hope no one was injured.


Agreed. Here is my guess:
One of the wires on the crane on the right broke under the load. The weight of the falling crane pulled the remaining wire off the spool on the crane on the right. The speed at which this happened caused the brake mechanism to snap (debris flying in the air at 00:57) And then the heat from the friction blew it to pieces.

And: What therealblankman said

I like how the clip is actually cut saying that the frog is fake. If people are so dense that they couldn't see they were misled I'm now selling string on spools for the low-low price of $89.95.

Wasn't as spectacular and disastrous as I was hoping for.
I though the chain or the spool, or whatever it's called, to horrible fail and snap loose and rip some stuff to shreds

^Strike that, I found a China embed which seems to work well. It may take a moment to spool up, be patient.

"The superluminal speed of a hyperdrive was rated on a decreasing scale; the faster the hyperdrive, the lower the rating. These ratings were generally referred to as "Classes" and provided a quick, although often inconsistent or inaccurate, idea of a ship's hyperdrive speed. In 30 BBY, Class 3 drives were experimental, and by the end of the Clone Wars most military starships were using Class 3 or Class 2. During the Galactic Civil War, military capital ships and starfighters were generally equipped with Class 1 or Class 2, industrial freighters and haulers with Class 3 or Class 4, and civilian starships with Class 5 or above."

The X-wing had a class of 1, which is pretty good. The hyperspace drive is fed from the normal horizontal thruster, though some ships used anti-matter units if the power wasn't up to snuff. The power was channeled and converted, then hyperspace was accomplished. The size of the engine and ship, and distance plotted would all play a factor of the spool up time required. Also, all ships had a built in mechanism to disable hyperspace when to close to a gravity well, as hyperspace through massive objects was deadly. Some would use this to disable ships drives and prey on them.

Wow, it's been forever since I see a wood thread spools. I used use them like lego block when I was a kid.

Sorry, but you're the second one today that tried to sift this dupe. *discard- Check for tags "spool, cable, stairs"

Thx. Searched for that fer a while, but I was using wire and spool instead of cable. Hmm, still...I used roll, crash and stairs and got nothin. Ah well.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Follow your nose!

My dupe sniffer never fails. http://www.videosift.com/video/Cable-Roll-Mishap


*discard

Tags for this video have been changed from 'cable roll, stairs, rolling, crash, window, car' to 'cable, roll, stairs, rolling, crash, window, car, spool' - edited by MarineGunrock

What doogle said, but it still has a hint of that fake smell. Why are they rolling a huge spool of cable up the stairs in what looks like an office building?

it's a b18 swapped... probably turbo'd and maybe spraying. if you notice, they say the honda really gets going at around 100 mph... which would make sense for a vtec turbo. and no, whoever said that would take hundreds of thousands to make a crx perform like that doesn't know jack about honda tuning. i personally never messed with them, but consider the $1000-2000 cost of car, $1000 cost of good cond. b18c, $1000 of building a tranny, $3000-4000 for a big turbo kit and MAYBE $500-1000 for a nitrous kit... including labor of installs and tuning you're still looking at under $15k total, incl. cost of vehicle. on top of that what's probably gutted and under 2000 pounds the winner's obvious. now let's put them on a track and see which one holds up before the motor blows or can manage to power out of a turn without worrying about being in the powerband because the turbo doesn't spool fast enough.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

carbon nanotubes are the material of choice, and have the required tensile strength to support the cable, just fine.

The problem is in manufacturing a spool of the stuff hundreds of miles long, when they can currently only do a couple of inches.

I like that they look at the lamp posts popping out, and how they would have had to travel. I don't like that they fail to explore the complex physics of what the steel polls would do to the plane wings at that high rate of speed.

The generator unit being hit and spool unit not looks pretty solid.

I also like that they provide a convincing analysis of the one frame with the plane and smoking engine, but then they don't look a the other camera angle, or note what to expect from future camera angles that may be later released (which, matched up upon their release, would lend high credibility to this model).

Also, like in my very first post to the sift (narcissistic cross-link; http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=2812 ), this render shows how incredible the murderous pilot's luck/skill was to cause such a direct shot, through lamp posts and everything, striking the building perfectly at groundlevel and at incredible velocity.

(p.s. they could have layered in the actual satellite view from that day, as in my Purdue post, although that weird line in the lawn sure is distracting...)