Indiana Jones could have survived a nuclear explosion in a fridge

The proof, this evening on W9.

Channel 9 is wrapping up its broadcast of the saga this evening Indiana Jones proposing The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, since its 5th part, The Dial of Destinywill only be visible on television in 2024 – and first in encrypted mode on Canal +.

The unloved episode of the franchise caused a lot of buzz upon its release, and was notably criticized for the implausible aspects of its storyline, starting with its fridge scene. At the beginning of the film, the hero finds himself in a ghost town which is about to be devastated by an atomic bomb. Understanding that everything will soon explode, he hides in a refrigerator and manages to survive the radiation, as well as the multiple shocks that follow the detonation, because the object flies into the air and is carried by the blast of the blast. In passing, the household appliance even manages to overtake a car driving at high speed…

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Would such a cascade be possible in reality? Could a person hiding in a fridge have survived? The web series Real Physics looked into the question in 2013, and the answer is yes.

In the video below, its two animators returned in detail to the sequence in question and, using archive images and mathematics, tried to prove that during such a shock, the fridge would indeed have flown away, and that it would have been a good protection for a man. They calculated in particular the weight of the hiding place, that ofHarrison Fordthe force of the explosion, the pressure it could exert on the device… They even made a model of the refrigerator!

“- Of course, it wouldn’t be a comfortable situation”
“But Indy would have survived?”
“Theoretically, yes.”
“- He would have been shaken?”
“- That’s for sure”.
“- And the fridge could have overtaken the car thanks to the blast of the explosion?”
“- For now, no.”

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This is the only point that does not seem credible, according to the research of the two bloggers. For them, even if the wind created by the explosion would have moved extremely fast (they calculate 620 miles per hour, or almost 1000 km/h), the mass of the fridge and the man hidden inside would have been too high to fly away in the way it is shown in the film. Are you convinced? The duo laughs at the fact that several other sequences from the film Steven Spielberg deserve such a scientific analysis, like the one where Shia Labeouf jumps from liana to liana, pursued by “digital monkeys” Or “the very heart of the plot, about the extra-terrestrials”.

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