Do Explosions Actually Blow You Into The Air? DEBUNKED
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- Do explosions actually throw people into the air? If so, how powerful would it have to be and could our hero survive such a fiery boom?
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Do explosions actually throw people?
Can an explosion throw a person?
What happens to a human body in an explosion?
How big of an explosion can a human survive?
How explosions actually kill
How fast is an explosion?
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There is one thing I want to ask. The whole Zombie concept can you debunk it?
i had a workplace accident a automotive gas tank exploded in my face and the force blew me 20 feet across the shop i was on fire but still conscious i managed to extinguish the fire on me i had numerous facial injuries but no internal injuries. i now have ptsd and vertigo along with permanent hearing damage. im just happy to be alive to see my kids grow up
Wow, thank you for sharing your story. I wish you well đȘ
I'm wondering where a gas tank explosion would fit in these categories đ€ I guess it goes against all of those.
I might have to watch it again...
@@MrPinkfloydian gasoline is considered a low explosive as far as i know. im not exactly sure how it could've blown them 20 feet away though.
That's a deflagration, not a detonation. It's a slow push instead of a shock wave.
Sounds like you were very lucky it wasn't internal. And now you seem to have a great positive attitude about life. Wishing you more healing and medical advancements in the future.
my guess before watching: if a boom is big enough to let you fly, it is also big enough to turn your organs into mush
Pretty much, but some people do survive crazy injuries.
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I think that's why frag grenades are called that, the fragmented bits of metal cause the damage not the explosion. I might be wrong, but I think they are specifically designed to splinter apart in the most violent way possible.
@@himynameis3664 Originally, they were just a thick piece of glass, clay, or iron and they splinthered in a highly unpredictable fashion.
They needed to have pressure building up as they relied on black powder. Also, if the grenade breaks on impact, it would at best create a rather harmless fireball...
Then in WWI, they started to cut the hull in the hopes of getting a more even distribution of pieces. It still didn't yield the desired results, and they were better off wrapping nails or steel balls around the explosive. Only at the end of WWII the figured out how to cut the hull so that it splinters as desired (inside and not like the old pineapple). Still, adding steel balls has remained the best option.
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absolute genious.
These animations absolutely blew me away. They're so good đ
The bomb even...
Canât wait for the view count to explodeâŠ
Shoutout to Stick the stuntman. He puts it all on the line for us every episode. He has a family, Stickphanie and stickletts.
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Thoughts and prayers going out for old sticky.đđ»đđ»
if the percussion wave is stong enough it will remove skin frm bine, as they are at different densities and have a different impulse moment.
I heard his predecessor Rick "the stick" Stickman had to retire do to minor injuries on the job but he got a great retirement plan and should have a very cozy life. We wish Rick a wonderful retirement.
@@otepfan8562 Yes. Rick was a legend. A true stick man through and through
i've seen enough war footage to say with 100% certainty that explosions do throw people in to the air due to the supersonic pressure wave, the biggest difference with movies however is that there aren't any fireballs created really, it's more like a massive firecracker going off, unless if you're dealing with napalm, phosphorous or thermite, and that they turn you from a person into a lot of flying pieces
something else that often happens with things like airstikes in war is that often the body stays intact but the internal organs are turned to mush from the shockwaves while the external damages often are a result of flying debree and shrapnel
@@pauliusiv6169 I guess it's a solace that if you actually face an explosive point blank its a relatively quick death due to the extent of the brain hemorrhaging and internal bleeding.
I've watched enough Golden eye speed runs to know the same thing.
I remember my first war video. I was shocked to see a body cartwheeling through the air after the vehicle struck a mine.
and with a 100% certainty we can also conclude that a supersonic pressure wave strong enough to throw an adult human would also be strong enough to pulverize said person's internal organs, even if the body wasn't already turn into giblets yet
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The "it depends" really does matter. I was an underground, hardrock miner for a while, and setting off a charge in a heading with high explosives required that the heading be cleared. I was driving an open cab vehicle past a heading that had a charge going off, and was hit by the shockwave that originated some 200 meters away, around a curve, at the face of the heading. The blast knocked my hardhat off, and felt like a punch to my head, as that shockwave rushed out of the heading (the open area of the cave allowing the wave to travel some distance. So even though the rock that was blasted into many pieces never got near me, I certainly felt the shockwave. Since I was sitting, mostly protected by the body of the vehicle, it didn't affect my body, but I certainly felt that impressive blast on my hardhat and exposed shoulders.
Hey there, EOD here, so you did a pretty common mistake about the difference between high and low explosives (or a detonation and a deflegration).
The difference is, as you said, that a detonation is faster than the speed of sound, BUT it does not at all refer to the speed of sound in air which would be around 340m/s. There's lots of deflegrations that are happening way faster than 340m/s.
We are actually talking about the speed of sound in the explosives themselves, so about how fast vibrations travel through it which, since they are often solid and therefore much more dense, is way higher then 340m/s.
Also, thats only one of many differences. The whole chemical process and the way the reaction occurs and where the gases go etc is quite different and actually not even that well studied since its really hard to study something thats detonating. And a deflegration can almost any time become a detonation if you keep it pressurized in an enclosed space. Thats called the Van Neumann Spike.
I hope i could make myself clear since englisch is not my native language.
Edit: also, what you often see in Hollywood with big fireballs is in most cases not even a deflegration since a dwflegration would mean, the explosive has its own oxygen chemically bound to it. These big fireballs are just gasoline that regularly burns with the oxygen in the air and is at most propelled around through a small pyrotechnical deflegration.
Ironic how the only error you made is the spelling of "english"
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This should be top comment, and your English is fantastic!
@@spartan-1210 Agreed, this should be pinned.
Awe, poor lil stick people đą . I'm a devotee of warning sign stick people art and I must say, your stick people are pretty darn fun!
A few things to add: (including personal experience)
1) deflagrations are slower but can maintain the gas pressure for longer. This can be more damaging to people and buildings. Think of it like this: a HE may shatter things but the effect is highly localized to the point that it may turn your foot into red mist, but even your lower leg is mostly there, albeit very much chewed up and your torso is perfectly fine. Now, if you want to destroy a tank or bunker, you want a HE, but when you want to tear down a large building, youâd need to shell it over and over again with HE until you made enough holes in it to collapse. Meanwhile, a single thermobaric shell could pull down the entire building despite the explosion being a deflagration (similarly a single piece of butter is enough to cause a fat explosion that can completely destroy a cabin! Meanwhile throwing a hand grenade into the cabin would leave it standingâŠ). Itâs like an insane storm wind rather than a hit with a wrecking ball. If youâre in a bunker that gets hit by an HE shell it may destroy a part of it and you might be relatively safe around a corner, but a thermobaric explosion can cause symptoms similar to the divers disease even though the bunker wasnât damaged. In addition to this, you shouldnât underestimate the heat produced and the possibility that the oxygen gets used up, or youâre breathing in hot air that burns your lungsâŠ
2) As hinted above with the example of the mine, thereâs a transition between a pressure wave that shreds things and one that propels things. You can use high explosives to propel projectiles, even though they would normally destroy the barrel and the projectile. You simply would need to downscale the propellant and put it in the center of the chamber. This means that when it explodes it has room to expand before hitting the walls or the projectile. If you wonder if that system was ever used: yep! The most famous example is the under-barrel grenade launcher!
3) Most hand grenades kill by fragmentation. They used to have thick walls that provide the fragments and now have thousands of tiny steel balls instead. They may have up to 200g of explosive filler to propel the fragments forward. On the other hand, there are so-called offensive grenades that do not produce many lethal fragments. The most famous example is the Stiehlhandgranate. The thin metal cover pretty much gets atomized in the explosion and the wooden fragments donât fly that far and impact relatively lightly. Such grenades tend to have more explosives in them as they kill with their blast, but more importantly, they used to be the predecessor of the flashbang⊠Thereâs a third type worth mentioning: the Antitank grenade. It contain so much explosive that even without fragmentation they are a danger to whoever is throwing them, as he canât throw them far enough unless he throws them off a tall building⊠Most of them have shaped charges that can punch a whole through armor, but only in one direction. Still, the omnidirectional blast is a threat to humans as far as they can be thrown!
4) Humans respond differently to damage. Someone can get knocked over by a blast and stand up and continue to fight only to later realize that heâs actually been hit by multiple shrapnel and one of them was lodged inside his brain (my grandfather was such a case and he lived another 70 years!). Others get stabbed by a tiny knife in the guts once and instantly drop and donât get up again until they bleed out and then, well theyâre dead⊠Personally, Iâve been exposed to a deflagration with another 100 people. It was merely a firework that exploded rather than producing a huge spark fountain. Despite the distance, I could feel the heat and air pressure. It temporarily blinded me and my ears were ringing. Once I could see again (I could still not hear properly), I noticed that it had pretty much incapacitated everyone around me, though NONE got injured any more than I did, and that included people closer to the explosion. I felt a bit groggy and tried to check myself for injuries and instinctively wanted to leave the place of the accident (even though I didnât require immediate medical attention nor expected any further threats), but I couldnât move because of the people around me. Others just kept sitting frozen in place and others were looking at each other and apparently expecting an explanation of what just had happened, or perhaps they were waiting for the show to continue? It was so out of place that they didnât know what to do.
good comment, but it's a bit long. I don't think many people are going to read it
@@vastabyss6496 Yeah, it got longer than expected... Thanks.
I thought it very helpful. Incredible real world experience. Thanks for your insights.
I read it and the end is the best part
The first two parts aren't interesting, I skipped to points 3 and 4, good read
What's the most extreme example of this you've seen in a movie / on TV?
One notable example is the film "The Dark Knight" (2008), where the character Harvey Dent, portrayed by Aaron Eckhart, is caught in an explosion that sends him flying through the air.
Another example is the movie "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (2011), where various characters are propelled into the air by explosions during intense action scenes involving massive battles between robots.
Jojos part 5, mista shooting the gas tank on the boat blowing him to saftey.
Saw a video of 2 Russian soldiers attempting to disarm an anti-tank mine rigged as a bobby trap in UA. One of them did actually get thrown through the air gruesomely(what remained of his body was partially disfigured). Was pretty hard to watch. So yes, military grade explosions can throw people.
Not on tv, but a game.
Tf2's "soldier" class is well known for "rocket jumping" aka propelling himself into the air with rpg explosives
The most dangerous explosion is well... Of course my wive explosion, it throw kitchenware with deadly effect
As a former mortarman, it actually feels good to hear the idea that most people I dropped hate on, and those of us who recieved it, probably died instantly. I really do think about that. The loss itself is the worst part, but the suffering adds so much. Thank you for this.
"Films vary in their adherence to realism". đ That was a nice euphemism.
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I never really paid much attention, but if you look at explosions in movies, only the characters are really thrown away.
Windows and other clearly fragile items are broken, but most furniture and similar is simply thrown about in almost random directions most of the time.
So yes, but the person is likely never gonna be able to tell us the experience đ
exactly. These gas tankers/lines blowing up in Johannesburg , Venezuela, etc. are flipping cars and crushing buildings. That means you will wind up in pieces too.
sometimes they do throw you. There are tons of videos from Iraq and Afghanistan of explosions throwing humans quite far at times. But those people were typically dead too. You don't have to ask the survivors. you can ask those of us who witnessed it, or view the video evidence we sometimes managed to record. Easy to get video when you call in an airstrike and are waiting for ordnance to impact the designated target. Sometimes we had cameras mounted on teh vehicles for other purposes too, and gun turret footage (from tanks and CROWS turrets and Gyro Cams).
Mithbusters: we conducted an experiment because we didn't have volunteersđ so we used something else
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I had an opportunity to attend a lecture focused on blast injuries/treatments of about a decade ago⊠It was a surprise to see that the majority of the damage to humans caused by explosions was due to over pressure and not from heat/shrapnel produced by said blast. The âflying through the airâ thing definitely is dependent upon a countless number of variables and is by no means the expected outcome of every explosion.
there are enough witness reports from veterans of both worldwars who talked and wrote about people geting thrown into the air from artillery shells. in WWI it happend quite often that people got "blown out off their clothes", with only shreds of their clothing remainin on the spot, and the formerly wearer of those high up in a tree or meters away (obviously also reduced to pulp and shreds).
Also there is a biographie from a WWII vet who got states he got "lifted from his feet and thrown against the churches Brickwall getting knocked out by the impact", he was rescued by medics and recovered in a hospital...
Anyone who has been watching certain drone videos in the last two years can confirm that explosions can indeed throw people into the air. In some cases quite impressively far even.
I thought characters used to jump so they could go far away from the explosion đ
I am pretty sure they are supposed to.
If you see something about to blow up, your first response will likely be to throw yourself away from it.
But i don't think it really helps that much with avoiding the blast, let alone the burn.
You're not alone đ unless they were facing towards the explosion and blown back, I thought they were jumping đ
I thought Debunked would point out the extra-ridiculousness of that MI scene in the bridge where Tom Cruise is running away from a predictable incoming explosion (đ) and when it explodes at his back, the pseudo-blast wave propels him to his left, against a conveniently placed vehicle đ What a ridiculous scene!
This is exactly what I needed for my work break! â€â€
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you forgot about the inhalation of toxic gas in an explosion which can lead to respiratory faliuar and death
Damn, I just wanted to rocket jump.
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One of my favourite behind-the-scenes footage of explosions is the one from The Doctor Falls, where Cybermen actors used trampolines to simulate being flung into the air.
It's always fun to see though.. ESPECIALY in video games. It use to be the one thing I longed for in video games when I was small for some reason.
GTA gave me that fix along with Perfect Dark.
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i can attest you can be flung by an explosion. definitely a rare thing due to how close i was as well as not catching a lot of shrapnel. The groin protector for vests works well for shrapnel btw x)
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I was on a mission in Iraq when an entire house was blown up as we drove by. The blast was behind me and it threw me forward in my 5-point harness (it was a bit loose for comfort). The blast also knocked the wind out of me and stopped my heart for a moment. The "house borne IED" was estimated to be ~2000lb in size
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I've heard stories where somebody was thrown back by into a wall by a small explosion. He was able to pick himself up off the floor, look at the people around him, then fell over dead. At least, that's what I've been told...
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Considering the middle ages is completely riddled with misconceptions from Fantasy and whatnot, it should be easy to get some good ones in a vid.
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That Mission Impossible clip is hilarious cuz you can freaking SEE that that the explosion is nowhere near the correct angle to push the guy in that direction, unless there's an off screen explosion that for some reason we are not allowed to see, the forbidden explosion if you will.
I know, looks spectacular but makes no sense. I remember watching a 'making of' and that angle isn't a mistake, they knew it was incorrect but the framing worked better đ
There are videos you can research of the Beirut port explosions of people thrown off their feet while being at least 500 meters away from the initial blast. I was 1km away and suffered from glass shrapnels
depending on where the explosion occurs and where you stand will give different pressure.
if you are inside of a building close do the exit and a bombs goes off inside you probably will be thrown far away.
but in a open space you will need a much potent explosion and if that is the case which lift you from ground you are probably dead or will be soon.
See the condition change everything.
In a closed space there us only one way out , through the exit. So it is sure to build up lot of pressure to move the air in one direction making the flow powerful enough to make you fly without causing death. That means you are safely away from the explosion, but the condition on where that happen that safety distance is not that safe anymore as it would be completely safe if the explosion was in open space.
Like your videos. Again, a topic that interested me and that you discussed exhaustively.
We do our best to cover all aspect đwhilst still keeping it entertaining.
As someone whos been around a lot of explosions, no. you barely feel the thing pushing but you feel the smaller lighter things getting pushed through you and sometimes you feel the air in your lungs trying to escape
If the explosion is close enough and powerful enough to throw you you are dead before your body leaves the ground
They also donât throw flames normally
Edit: ok correction man made explosives,
Working on an old Tube TV with 3 humongous capacitors hidden under the front panel, that does Throw you up in the air and back.
0:32 I never quite understood how that explosion blew him sideways!
I survived being close enough to have things go flying. We had to immediately get up and get to our armor, because more things where probably going to be lobbed at us. It definitely causes permanent damage.
Deflagration is not exclusive to low explosives though, high explosives can also deflagrate and this is one of the ways bombs are defused. (I should probably say "dont try this at home" though)
Breaking bad El Paso explosion really shocked me because they really did the realism with the leg breaking off
a 13 minute video for "yes, it can, sometimes"
That Beirut explosion also created a lot of "knocked several meters from the window" reports. Guess it was that combination of quite much energy for a large radius, so that there was all that mass around the explosion was not enough for significant shrapnel, and a so big of zones, that you get a big enough zone of enough-energy-to-throw but not-enough-energy-to-instantly-die. But your guess is as good as mine.
my uncle had a ruptured intestine and blood in his lungs from an explosions shockwave. they had to remove a few inches of his intestines to repair the damage
I paused the video after an explosion, and heard a car alarm going off down the street.
Coincidence?
Probably, but I'd like to think not.
iâve watched a bit of combat footage myself, and been surprised by the sheer airtime achieved by bodies
Ive never been standing up, or in the open, when ive been near explosions, but I can tell you that close explosions can still be felt through the ground and that shock through the ground can lift your entire body off the ground, although ive never measured how high. Maybe a centimetre or two. And by the way, the shock from a close grenade explosion will lift you off the ground if you happen to be laying close enough. I can confirm that from personal experience.
The closest analogy i can make is if you were a small object on the skin of a drum and something bangs the skin of the drum close to you. The vibration (dont know the technicalities, sorry) will bounce you off the surface of the drumskin. Thats what it feels like. Of course, if that were an actual explosive and you were standing up out in the open it would just shred you, but if youre trying to hug the ground in cover - which is generally recommended - youâll feel that weird âbouncingâ through the ground.
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There was a case where fireman were responding to a burning building then it exploded sending the firemen way into the air some of them survived with severe injuries and a couple of them died.
Air fuel explosions as in gas leak explosions are very slow deflagrations, the over pressures are quite survivable, the vast majority of injury and death come from being propelled by the blast against something and getting hit by debris, collapsing building or fire.
My uncle survived a direct hit of a nade. About 12 debris penetrated his legs, he got lucky enough to safe them (legs ofc). And, after all, he can easily walk and even run sometimes.
My uncle drove a box truck with forklift. The forklift was not properly secured and when he applied the brakes suddenly the propane tank was pierced causing an explosion. My uncle had no burns or outside damage but his inside were mush, his passenger survived because he wasn't wearing his seatbelt and got ejected out of the truck. Crazy!
I like the smooth animation of this stick dude, the smile the look the eyes, wonderful
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In my opinion, you could give a summary in the beginning, because some people don't want to watch the 10 minutes video for that.
A low explosive will push, whie a high explosive with cut. A low explosive (an dthey can vary a lot) may throw a person with some injuries. A high explosive that can actually throw you will likely kill you.
More often than not, an explosion (that doesn't kill them) would push a person off balance, rather than throw them.
Then there is the blown through glass window/door thing in movies. I once visited a friend in hospital after they suffered some injury and the next bed neighbour went onto a glass door (not because of an explosion) which shattered on the impact allowing the person to go through. They suffered a large number of cuts and lost so much blood that survival was uncertain for a few days. In movies, such glass would be made of sugar not real glass. It's possible to engineer large panels of what's essentially transparent candy which easily shatter without causing injuries.
When i was a kid along with an adult we Lit a loas of branches and other greens with gasoline (pretty common in 80s rural brasil).. even if we backed up before lighting It we found ourselves pushed back several meters.. probably too much gasoline and the heat dispersed the fumes faster provoking a good blast..
That's basically what I expected, though I thought MAYBE it would be even less probable for them to survive if they were thrown into the air, or else that they might definitely become deaf.
I got soft tissue damage! I need an MRI đ
Finally, now I know what war thunder means by overpressure.
The amount of red and black in Hollywood explosions just isn't so apart from thermobaric explosions like the MOAB rely on the chemical explosion to eat up all the air, nasty,
We have all seen explosions in the desert where they are mostly lifted sand
Very interesting video
Now then, the shock wave lifts us up, or the shrapnel that hits us?
The shockwave is like a burst of tornadow like wind, if that can lift you up then it will. Otherwise the object/shrapnel that hits you will.
You should do a video about lasers in media vs real life
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it depends on explosions too, sometimes youll get vaporized by the shrapnel
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There was a case where a police officer was doing a wellness check on a house when it blew up sending the police officer flying through the air luckily he got up with minor injuries.
3 days after moving into a quiet town in the middle of the woods, a house at the end of the street exploded. Complete obliteration of the house. The only person inside was an old lady on pure oxygen,who also was a smoker.... It is unknown what else was in the house that could cause such a boom but setting off the oxygen tanks was probably the start of it.
This is unlikely in small explosive weapons because they are designed to kill via sharpnel not shockwave. ie grenades will not throw you unless you prone on it with armor.
This can happen in a big blast afar like chemical plant accident.
I once lit a bonfire, not knowing it had been doused in gas. Blast definitely tossed me. Also lost some hair and right arm was lightly burned.
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@@DebunkedOfficial I just thought it was funny, itâs all good!! Great video
You made a few minor mistakes but explosives is also a very nuanced topic. Deflagration isn't what defines a low explosive but it can be use in combination with a low explosive as dispersal mechanism. Also while yes we moved onto high explosives for most things the main reason we did it is safety. Generally speaking high explosives are incredibly stable. I am not an expert but Americans and British have slightly different definitions of high explosive. It wont matter to experts who can pull up the data sheets but for common people who don't have easy access to that info high explosive and low explosive is all you need to know. I love chemistry and explosions but it's one of those thing where it's hard to give a simple answer.
The deflagrating WW2 "bomb" in the first seconds of the latest Indian Jones movie had me nope right out. I'm so sick of gasoline fireballs in Hollywood.
How you notice you are still a physics nerd: When you are enraged that at 8:12 the shock wave is drawn as a transversal wave, but they are actually longitudinal waves. (But I appreciate that the first ones are easier to convey in a drawing and is what common folk associate with the concept of a wave)
Most of the time the shock wave wont kill you, even the fire, but shrapnel is the most dangerous thing. For example a standard US "MK 2" hand grenade doesnt really have a big shockwave, but it has powerful metal fragments going in all directions.
Nope, but they hit you like a wall and if itâs hard enough to toss you, itâs probably hitting you hard enough to seriously injure you like rupturing your organs.
Depends on the explosive, the yield, and how close you are. High explosives produce a much more pronounced pressure wave because they detonate beyond the speed of sound, the pressure front builds along a single surface of moving gas. That high pressure alone will kill you by rupturing organs without necessarily moving you. An explosion caused by a low explosive, conversely, produces more of a flow of gas at high pressure - you can literally be BLOWN away by it.
Like mentioned in the video, that high overpressure is brisant, tearing even molecular bonds apart. Low explosives if not sufficiently confined will not produce such a high pressure wave. They can literally âblow you upâ, and you could possibly survive. Usually though, itâs just getting knocked off oneâs feet and losing balance, like being tackled by air.
The hollywood acrobatic flippy explosions that people walk away from are definitely not realistic lol. Those people are dead too.
I was on a mission in Iraq when an entire house was blown up as we drove by. The blast was behind me and it threw me forward in my 5-point harness (it was a bit loose for comfort). The blast also knocked the wind out of me and stopped my heart for a moment. The "house borne IED" was estimated to be ~2000lb in size
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The fact that this is even a question anybody has to ask is just silly. Like what the hell do people THINK an explosion is going to do, hit them with a gentle spring breeze?
Movies like The Hurt Locker depict explosions the best.
It would have to be a powerful shock wave that would rip things apart. Things that are light/strong enough will fly. You aren't either of those. Also if you did stay intact and went flying. Would you break yourself when you smash into something.
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There was an interesting interview with a volunteer who had come back from Ukraine that had been caught-up in an explosion from a cruise missile. He said he felt he had been lifted-up & thrown several feet. I think he only suffered from a few bruises as he landed. Edit: it was on the 'Lindybeige' channel
They can, but they usually don't.
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Guys great video but I think I'll go back to the Coyote and the Road runner show..
Everywhere the explosion is a boom there it's a more pleasant "beep beep".
A high velocity explosive = your liquid
Low velocity MAY = big push
Yup. xD
As a general rule, if the explosion has enough force to throw you up the air... it's your body going up - you are already dead, as Kenshiro would say. General rule meaning, yes, there are real life exceptions to that - just don't count on it.
Extremely satisfying
Fun fact: It only takes 30 pounds of explosive force to kill a person.
not sure why ive always been a stickler for realism but i always found it disapointing when watching a movie and a simple frag grenade goes off like napalm and throws people like ragdolls. anywhoot great video, here have a like
Dang, 1:50 was brutal. đ
So literally, you are not likely to survive an explosion if you aren't in the quaternary range.
I just watched a YT video of a Russian orc trying to move an anti-tank mine. He did, in fact, get blown into the air. Way way into the air.
He probably also won a Darwin award..
Link?
But what would happen if the explosive were some sort of high concentrated gas in a type of container that would break on impact with a surface. What possible damage would occur then?
(Lets say that this gas is non-explosive, rather creates a shockwave)