• By Mark Wilson
    Apr 13, 2009 8:57 AM 39,676
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    Rocket Sled Attempts to Pancake a Car, Fails Gloriously

    In what must be the most incendiary Mythbusters test to date, the show's crew tried to flatten a car...using a 700mph, two-stage rocket sled.

    Spoiler: The car doesn't quite flatten. It fragments all over the desert.

    Spoiler 2: Rockets move very quickly. Or as Adam Savage so aptly puts it, "When that second stage kicked in I was thinking ‘I've never seen anything go that fast', and then I realized, actually that's correct: I have never seen anything go that fast." [via GadgetLab]


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