The physics of a crazy slackline walk
Monday, August 20, 2012 - 18:00
in Physics & Chemistry
In a video that has racked up 2 million views on YouTube in the past five days, world record-holding slackliner Faith Dickey walks across a rope strung between two semi-trucks as the vehicles barrel down a highway side-by-side at 80 miles per hour. Dickey makes it across the rope a split second before the trucks enter separate tunnels, snapping the rope on the brick divide between them.