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Numerous upcoming movies debuted their fresh new trailers over Super Bowl LII weekend. Among them were Super Troopers 2, Jurassic World, Mission Impossible 6, Cloverfield Paradox, Dundee (oh, wait… scratch that one), and The Rock’s latest effort Skyscraper.
As for that last one, Skyscraper, which also debuted a new poster on Sunday, anyone who watched the trailer during the Super Bowl noticed there seems to be a slight problem with something known as “physics.”
Unless The Rock is secretly wearing those cool jet boots Star-Lord rocks in Guardians of the Galaxy there is no way he’s making this jump.
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Perhaps The Rock has been involved in one too many Fast and Furious movies.
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(Not that I am questioning The Rock about one of his movies because I really don’t want a verbal smackdown… just making an observation. Don’t hurt me, DJ.)
As is always the case with these sort of odd things that pop up on TV or online, the internet had thoughts. Very funny thoughts.
https://twitter.com/jpsmythe/status/959561969618620416
I’ve thought long and hard about this, applying everything I know about science to bring you the definitive answer: if he just catches the leg of the K, he can use his momentum and the velocity in which he is travelling to allyoop into the window. He might have to grab the ledge pic.twitter.com/yjpuPpV9I9
— Jamie (@bonus_mosher) February 2, 2018
Wouldn't it be easier to just land in the Y walk to D and then do a small jump from there then?
— Pia Winther 🌟 (@PiasenWinther) February 3, 2018
You’re overthinking it now, people.
https://twitter.com/AntonDeck/status/959566801330982913
Non-engineers tend to neglect wind effects, I put a blue line that clearly shows the updraft from the fire below which carries the Rock to safety. pic.twitter.com/3hiemMqDRq
— Galen Kehler (@GalenKehler) February 3, 2018
How easily you forgot about the Olympics. pic.twitter.com/PVR70YmwwJ
— McMike (@ItsMcMikeTime) February 3, 2018
Ah yes, the perfect tie-in. Synergy!
You’re assuming he’s jumping from right to left. Maybe he’s been blown out of the building by an explosion and is about to be impaled on some crane. pic.twitter.com/eN5RkqdlXS
— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) February 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/sachwarah/status/959581818600284160
Easily fixed: pic.twitter.com/mLdWObAChc
— Rapscallion (@Rapscallion128) February 4, 2018
If he follows the same trajectory as the bus from speed he’ll easily make it pic.twitter.com/qWYX4Ne7De
— 👨🏻💻 ⚡️ (@JustinList) February 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/cptfunnyfunkins/status/959897246551568384
So I did some science.
Assuming that there is no "jump-off" (which seems to be optimal here)
We can determine that the Rock would need to leave the platform at 12.7 meters per second (appr. 28.4 mph)
For comparison, Usain Bolt's fastest recorded speed is 27.4 mph. pic.twitter.com/GruWcbtEAN
— ✨New New Year New Christian✨ (@ChristianBedwel) February 3, 2018
So what you are saying is he would need to simultaneously break both the world long jump AND 100m records?
— Stephen Barton (@ComposerBarton) February 3, 2018
Well, there you go. Problem solved.