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  • more about #rocketsled
    Skiphex: I want a rocket dog sled, the only sled powered by ROCKET DOGS!! more »
    LastAndLeast: You must be 'this' tall to ride this ride. more »
    Pope John Peeps II: So are Mythbusters even pretending to investigate "real" myths anymore? Because two trucks colliding with a car at the speed of sound and fusing toget... more »
    mackensie: I wonder what would happen if, say, a 757 going 650 mph hit a building. I guess it would vaporize. Oh wait... more »
    The Lab: Anyone going to make the Indiana Jones rocket sled reference? Clearly I am not the only one dumb enough to see that movie. Aliens. Hmmph. more »
    FrankenPC: Energy is the square of mass * speed. That rocket sled must have been heavy. Imagine a heavy guided tungsten projectile released from the SR-71 at ma... more »
    shufflemoomin: It's amazing to see that rocket travel at that speed. It's more amazing to think of, as Adam says, a commercial airliner going only 30% slower than th... more »
    Curves: Wylie Coyote had this set up chasing the Road Runner and he got similarly creamed on the side of a cliff. Life imitates art, yet again. Go Acme. more »
    GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: I also wonder if Rocket Sled Rail Greaser is a job, or if whoever does the experiment they are testing has to provide someone. more »
    GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Well, as soon as I heard Adam say that, I knew he was wrong, as he has seen bullets being fired, and I'm pretty sure the rockets they have made probab... more »
    Cubic_Hour: [www.phdcomics.com] more »
    Gregg Symington: It was a great 2 hour episode! Surprised they started the season with it. more »
    GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: He's also made a rocket powered toilet, and a different kind of sled, which was still rocket powered: [www.the-rocketman.com] Video here: [www1.nrk.n... more »
    ripfire: For 2009, I think we should compile "10 Gadgets That Have No Business Using a Rocket Engine" more »
    scarbrtj: Rocketman... amazes me! High-flying bird. Whenever you're ready... return to Paradise. (I cry at night.) more »
    Bos'un's Mate: Now that's one way to climb back up the effin' hill. more »
    NotSoSiniSter: if your not as ambitious, you can just spray the bottom with no stick cooking spray. :D more »
    discounteggroll: how does one measure speed on a sled? wind resistance? or is it just one of those "fauxdometers" that has a sticker of an odometer slapped on it? more »
    Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Man, I've destroyed a few Flexible Flyers in my day, without having any rockets strapped to them. Pretty sure I'd have shared the same fate as Sonny B... more »
    Dr. H. F. Danger: Rocket man burning out his fuse up here... alone more »
  • #rockets

    9 Rocket Sled Tests

    Following hot on the heels of the Mythbusters' epic rocket sled meets car obliteration, OObject has put together a list of 9 sleds that also involve fire, speed and making things go boom. [OObject]
  • #clips

    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. More »
  • #rockets

    The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry

    Ky Michaelson, or The Rocketman as he's known in some circles, doesn't trudge through the frozen winter tundra like the rest of us.
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