Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/automotive-tires-sent-down-a-s.html
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Interesting. The tradeoffs are wind resistance and the amount of potential energy that goes into rotation, thus resulting in a slower takeoff and a shorter flight. Based on that, pretty much as expected. The F1 tyre is very light and you would expect wind resistance to have a big effect. The truck tyre is much heavier but with less wind resistance, so more energy goes into velocity.
When Galileo did his experiments with rolling balls down a slope, he didn’t know about rotational kinetic energy. Had he used it to get a value for g he would have ended up with the wrong answer.
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Bahaha 
Gotta love Japanese TV sometimes, they seem like they’re having so much fun 
On a similar vein: my favourite silly thing.
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Imy favorite part is that the guy sending the tires down the jump is wearing a lab coat.
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As someone who once inspected tires, upon seeing that last one I immediately thought ‘This is not going to end well’.
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This is a great combo of content and advertisement, though after six minutes it gets a bit tired.
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And this is odd because? For great Science!
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And the white gloves also helped.
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To whoever came up with this wonderful, loony idea…have a sake on me.
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That last tire was just the right size for riding down in! I don’t know how they were able to resist.
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Because SCIENCE!!!
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Bit like one of these? 
(might be a tad bumpy on the landing though 
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I would love to see this at night with LED’s on the tires.
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Well my money was on supaatsu-kaa taiya.
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I liked the torakku taiya best. I bet the last one would have gone tremendously further if the ramp had held.
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Who wrote the music? This is amazing!!!
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