The trailer alone made the whole world afraid of driving behind a log truck.
The physics on this just always really bugged me.
You weren’t afraid of them before?
Jaws permanently changed our dynamic with an entire species and the ocean in general, and with just two notes.
That’s a highly exaggerated opinion. Sure, on the one generation it came out during, it made many people afraid if that, but there were many others that did similar things. I know it’s a different generation, but as someone else mentioned; JAWS had a much bigger impact, even beyond the generation it was released during.
I guess you also just watched the Honest Trailers video.
You got me!
Staying closer to it would be safer probably. The logs need to overcome a lot of friction to go directly back. So they’ll never hit directly behind the truck. they just roll off the side
A litlle road bump and them logs could be airborn, where no friction is applied.
Ok but air friction isn’t going to move that log either. It’ll continue to travel the same speed as the truck. Even if there was thick air, that bump would need to be large enough to lift an entire tree for there to be no friction from the other logs. If you’re driving on a highway with bumps large enough to launch you out of your seat, then maybe you should rethink driving all together
Meh. This is the first I’ve heard of this in a very very long time.
I’d argue The Matrix Trilogy, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, and the Lord if the Rings Trilogy have had far greater cultural impacts. They’re referenced quite a lot, especially The Matrix.
I’d say LOTR is far more ingrained in society. The Matrix gets lots of references within our cohort, but Tolkien set the rules and visuals of a vast amount of fantasy and myth that we now assume to have always existed. I’d also throw in Star Wars above Matrix. But yes, I’d definitely agree any of these rank far higher than a morsel of paranoia that already existed on the road
wasn’t most of that fantasy pre-existing?
My understanding is that it solidified some rules and introduced rules and assumptions about interactions and capabilities.
