@BrocKakaBrok Despite the radiation-shield shades he wore during our interviews (mostly to guard against the New Mexico sun) Dr. Stapp's vision was largely unaffected by these experiments. The severe bruising and black eyes he repeatedly suffered would heal, though the 1954 run shown here left a small but permanent blind spot in one eye.
Do I have respect for this man for his "contribution to science"? NO! I don't respect idiots. He did all that because he didn't know one very important thing - PIGS have the same physiology as humans. He just wanted to be cool. And that's idiocy.
@Maloy7800 Dr. Stapp ran numerous animal studies. When it came down to it though this research was about saving pilot's lives. The human factor had to be part of the equation. If you asked Dr. Stapp (and I did) he'd laugh and tell you he took those rides to avoid court-martial for killing some volunteer Corporal, but the truth is he simply wouldn't ask anyone else to to assume such risk. Before you decide that he was just being 'cool', I advise you to learn more about your subject.
@Maloy7800 Yes it does. My earlier comment was posted in anger (never a good idea.) On sober second thought I decided that I'd been unfair and that you were entitled to your opinion, though it still needed to be addressed. (That said though, I'm not entirely sorry that you saw it.) Smiley back.
When they made Buckley an active duty base I thought it would have been a good idea to name the Base after him. Thanks to Col Kittinger for some AF verbal history.
@blackcr125 We thought long and hard about including some of those details in the Rocket Science episode "The Highest Step In The World" (from which this clip hails) but ultimately decided against doing so for a wide variety of reasons, none of which have changed. Dr. Stapp certainly wasn't afraid to discuss it, and I've disclosed some details during lecture Q&As, but given the nature of the debates that rage on this forum I don't think this is the best place to get into it. Sorry.
That's from Rocket Science the DVD's. You could watch it today since school is closed cause the rain has taxed it out. Sides all your teachers called in sick, to go out shopping.
Massive, ridiculous balls. All fighter pilots must bow down to him for doing the research to save their asses. And admit they have smaller balls. 0-630mph-0 in 200 feet. Balls.
It goes to show that even if a car is going 150 mph and hits another car head on, you wont die if car has a very sturdy steel structure and good seat belt.
@mageac Actually the rapid deceleration is not a side-effect but the main purpose of the experiment. Dr. Stapp was conducting research to determine a pilot's chances of survival after ejecting from a jet near the speed of sound, which involves decelerating into a solid wall of air once the charge fires. "The Highest Step In The World", our Discovery Channel film this scene hails from makes that point but I guess it didn't translate to the clip. Sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out.
@mageac There were, both before and after this series of experiments, at both Holloman and Edwards AFB. But they all utilized shorter tracks, slower speeds and far less acceleration/deceleration. John Stapp remains the only man to have ridden the Sonic Wind series of runs, in part (as he often explained) because he wasn't prepared to let anyone else do something he wouldn't. BTW the track still exists. Now 10 miles long, it's used to test ejection seats, missile impacts and hypersonic maglev.
@mageac Indeed it is. We actually covered some of the modern era tests in another of our films, "The Land of Space and Time". You'll find a bit of that in the Youtube clips "Holloman High-speed test track" and "Holloman High Speed Track - then and now", with more information and links available on our website (google Foolish Earthling Productions.)
@sciencehighway I saw these films 'live' as a 5 y.o. in the Saturday minors matinee on Wharncliffe Rd, London, Ontario,1957-58, as a brief emigree from Belfast, UK. They were beyond cool. I recall the hooha about Sputnik overhead. US nuclear surface tests just 1800 miles south west at Alamogordo, NM. There's a YouTube video of a US pilot who lost control and ejected over the sea during a Gulf of Mexico exercise. At an estimated 800mph his body was almost ripped apart . His buddy died. RIP.
The more you read on Dr. Stapp, the more amazing he becomes. I believe he might well have had the largest balls on earth. Imagine being strapped on a rocket sled, accelerated to 630 mph in less than 2000 feet and then decelerating from that speed in less than one second, sustaining a momentary force of 46 g's. Balls.
@tameirao Yes he was...to American missionary parents who moved back to Texas shortly thereafter. I knew Dr. Stapp towards the end of his life and interviewed him extensively for the Discovery Channel special the clip derives from. While he viewed his childhood years in Brazil to be formative, Dr. Stapp did not consider himself to be from Brazil.
Well, I am sure he was more North American than South American, because of his parents and his life/job in USA. But none of this things, change the fact that he was born in Brazil.
For me, doesn't really matters this point. But it is important to know about the person in question.
I can quote so many famous persons that are in the same situation, but this is not the focus of the subject. The focus is information! Would be wrong too, if I say Hitler was german.
@sciencehighway man that is crazy. That's a real American right there.
BrocKakaBrok 1 week ago
His eyes looked fucked up. Did he actually go blind from doing that?
BrocKakaBrok 1 week ago
@BrocKakaBrok Despite the radiation-shield shades he wore during our interviews (mostly to guard against the New Mexico sun) Dr. Stapp's vision was largely unaffected by these experiments. The severe bruising and black eyes he repeatedly suffered would heal, though the 1954 run shown here left a small but permanent blind spot in one eye.
sciencehighway 1 week ago
It'd be funny if a goose hit him in the face!!!
sapher2020 2 months ago
Do I have respect for this man for his "contribution to science"? NO! I don't respect idiots. He did all that because he didn't know one very important thing - PIGS have the same physiology as humans. He just wanted to be cool. And that's idiocy.
Maloy7800 2 months ago
@Maloy7800 Dr. Stapp ran numerous animal studies. When it came down to it though this research was about saving pilot's lives. The human factor had to be part of the equation. If you asked Dr. Stapp (and I did) he'd laugh and tell you he took those rides to avoid court-martial for killing some volunteer Corporal, but the truth is he simply wouldn't ask anyone else to to assume such risk. Before you decide that he was just being 'cool', I advise you to learn more about your subject.
sciencehighway 2 months ago 6
@sciencehighway This differs from your previous comment. :-))))
Maloy7800 2 months ago
@Maloy7800 Yes it does. My earlier comment was posted in anger (never a good idea.) On sober second thought I decided that I'd been unfair and that you were entitled to your opinion, though it still needed to be addressed. (That said though, I'm not entirely sorry that you saw it.) Smiley back.
sciencehighway 2 months ago
@Maloy7800 Yeah, sure...whatever. - eyeroll -
pulsejet1 2 months ago
I do believe I've found someone more badass than Rainbow Dash.
gyro231995 2 months ago
Bless his heart
supermansamuel 2 months ago
У него что, глаза взорвались?
klimlimov 3 months ago
@klimlimov Минус 47g. Кровоизлияние в глазное яблоко.
Maloy7800 2 months ago
When they made Buckley an active duty base I thought it would have been a good idea to name the Base after him. Thanks to Col Kittinger for some AF verbal history.
davegt27 3 months ago
An American hero...
145Slap789 4 months ago
@145Slap789 More like an American moron.
Maloy7800 2 months ago
Never send a man to do a Chimp's job! Seriously, no chims available???
mr2v6sc 4 months ago 4
@mr2v6sc Actually Dr. Stapp answered that question without being asked during one of our interviews. Trust me, you don't want to know.
sciencehighway 4 months ago
@sciencehighway I really do want to know
blackcr125 1 week ago
@blackcr125 We thought long and hard about including some of those details in the Rocket Science episode "The Highest Step In The World" (from which this clip hails) but ultimately decided against doing so for a wide variety of reasons, none of which have changed. Dr. Stapp certainly wasn't afraid to discuss it, and I've disclosed some details during lecture Q&As, but given the nature of the debates that rage on this forum I don't think this is the best place to get into it. Sorry.
sciencehighway 1 week ago
@sciencehighway Would you mind shooting me a message about it?
blackcr125 1 week ago
@blackcr125 Can do. You can email me directly through our website. (Google Foolish Earthling Productions.)
sciencehighway 1 week ago
Oh come on, how could a such a sweet harmless old man make folks hate him? It wasn't the scientists?
hangemhigh2000 4 months ago
Dr Stapp also came up with the padded dashes in cars
RalphReagan 5 months ago
That's from Rocket Science the DVD's. You could watch it today since school is closed cause the rain has taxed it out. Sides all your teachers called in sick, to go out shopping.
hangemhigh2000 5 months ago
I'd do it!
antonisbob 6 months ago
I think it's pointless because there's no way you are conscious during the run because of the G's
TheKaos90 8 months ago
Ditto that. Balls of steel, balls of stone.
aaronvan9999 10 months ago
Massive, ridiculous balls. All fighter pilots must bow down to him for doing the research to save their asses. And admit they have smaller balls. 0-630mph-0 in 200 feet. Balls.
beeroosterm 10 months ago
@beeroosterm Excuse me, 2000 feet.
beeroosterm 10 months ago
It goes to show that even if a car is going 150 mph and hits another car head on, you wont die if car has a very sturdy steel structure and good seat belt.
ShawnSamLeahUsername 10 months ago
i never really got this... couldnt they just make the track longer and slow the sled down over a longer distance...
mageac 11 months ago 3
@mageac Actually the rapid deceleration is not a side-effect but the main purpose of the experiment. Dr. Stapp was conducting research to determine a pilot's chances of survival after ejecting from a jet near the speed of sound, which involves decelerating into a solid wall of air once the charge fires. "The Highest Step In The World", our Discovery Channel film this scene hails from makes that point but I guess it didn't translate to the clip. Sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out.
sciencehighway 11 months ago 4
@sciencehighway yeah i thought of that right after i posted it
i could have sworn their was other sled tests that they were just seeing what effect that speed had on a human, not the g forces, just the raw speed.
mageac 11 months ago
@mageac There were, both before and after this series of experiments, at both Holloman and Edwards AFB. But they all utilized shorter tracks, slower speeds and far less acceleration/deceleration. John Stapp remains the only man to have ridden the Sonic Wind series of runs, in part (as he often explained) because he wasn't prepared to let anyone else do something he wouldn't. BTW the track still exists. Now 10 miles long, it's used to test ejection seats, missile impacts and hypersonic maglev.
sciencehighway 11 months ago
@sciencehighway yeah ive seen a few modern rocket tests, looked to be the same area
mageac 11 months ago
@mageac Indeed it is. We actually covered some of the modern era tests in another of our films, "The Land of Space and Time". You'll find a bit of that in the Youtube clips "Holloman High-speed test track" and "Holloman High Speed Track - then and now", with more information and links available on our website (google Foolish Earthling Productions.)
sciencehighway 11 months ago
@sciencehighway I saw these films 'live' as a 5 y.o. in the Saturday minors matinee on Wharncliffe Rd, London, Ontario,1957-58, as a brief emigree from Belfast, UK. They were beyond cool. I recall the hooha about Sputnik overhead. US nuclear surface tests just 1800 miles south west at Alamogordo, NM. There's a YouTube video of a US pilot who lost control and ejected over the sea during a Gulf of Mexico exercise. At an estimated 800mph his body was almost ripped apart . His buddy died. RIP.
hmscollingwood 11 months ago
@mageac its because they need to test g deceleration on human body.
anshulkamboj 5 months ago
this is some very nice footage, i would like to see it restored.
chikotube 1 year ago
dude needs to carry his balls around in a pickup truck
lvgordo 1 year ago 27
thumbs up if you believe that the man with the hat @0:05 looks like adam savage from mythbusters ;)
shaunwhite0 1 year ago
This is probably better than Stealth...
felixg38 1 year ago
The more you read on Dr. Stapp, the more amazing he becomes. I believe he might well have had the largest balls on earth. Imagine being strapped on a rocket sled, accelerated to 630 mph in less than 2000 feet and then decelerating from that speed in less than one second, sustaining a momentary force of 46 g's. Balls.
beeroosterm 1 year ago 2
He is from Brazil!!
Nice!
tameirao 1 year ago
@tameirao Actually Dr. Stapp was American, though as a child he lived in Brazil with his missionary parents.
sciencehighway 1 year ago 4
@sciencehighway
John Paul Stapp was born in Bahia, Brazil
tameirao 1 year ago
@tameirao Yes he was...to American missionary parents who moved back to Texas shortly thereafter. I knew Dr. Stapp towards the end of his life and interviewed him extensively for the Discovery Channel special the clip derives from. While he viewed his childhood years in Brazil to be formative, Dr. Stapp did not consider himself to be from Brazil.
sciencehighway 1 year ago
@sciencehighway
Well, I am sure he was more North American than South American, because of his parents and his life/job in USA. But none of this things, change the fact that he was born in Brazil.
For me, doesn't really matters this point. But it is important to know about the person in question.
I can quote so many famous persons that are in the same situation, but this is not the focus of the subject. The focus is information! Would be wrong too, if I say Hitler was german.
tameirao 1 year ago
@tameirao hes portuguese
bladehea 11 months ago
WOW
LoyalTwoTheGame 1 year ago
46.2 neg g's.....lol
Antag0nistiC 1 year ago
cOoL
fredomeireles 1 year ago
FIRST
sohlis122 1 year ago