YouTubers test \u2018world\u2019s strongest trampoline\u2019 against cars, boats & more How Ridiculous, Mark Rober – YouTubeYouTube group \u2018How Ridiculous\u2019 and creator Mark Rober came together to test what exactly happens when you throw some ridiculously heavy objects on the world\u2019s strongest trampoline, to outrageous results. Sometimes, human curiosity cannot be satiated \u2014 and that\u2019s where YouTube comes in. Australian YouTube group \u2018How Ridiculous\u2019 teamed up with former NASA engineer Mark Rober to test the mettle of a trampoline specifically designed to withstand the likes of twenty bowling balls, a van, and even a boat from a 45-meter height. To support the ridiculous objects being tossed on top of it, the trampoline weighed a whopping two tons, made of Kevlar mats held together by 144 garage door springs that Rober designed with the help of How Ridiculous\u2019s squad. After working through the night to assemble the monstrosity, their trampoline was finally ready to undergo testing \u2014 and the objects they chose pushed the structure to its limits. To begin, How Ridiculous threw a bowling ball from a 45 meter tall tower, which made for an interesting \u2014 if a bit tame \u2014 experiment. The group decided to turn things up a notch by multiplying that bowling ball by twenty. Their slow-motion cameras caught the chaos in high definition, with a good number of the balls actually breaking apart on impact and speeding outside the \u201cblast radius.\u201d Of course, that wasn\u2019t the most ridiculous object the YouTubers chose: the Aussies finished their experiment by using a small boat, which actually got a solid bounce off of the Kevlar mat (although it did take some external damage). Rober himself decided to conclude his test of the trampoline with a four-door sedan, which scored a huge bounce off of the structure, successfully bending the car\u2019s outer frame irreparably in the process. In fact, the only real damage the trampoline took was to a few of its springs and a section of the metal framing, leaving the invention mostly intact after a series of intense tests. The YouTubers\u2019 outrageous videos were so curiosity-inducing they soared to the top of YouTube\u2019s trending page shortly after being uploaded, proving there\u2019s no shortage of wonderment when it comes to combining science with the ever burning question \u2013 what if?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTubers test \u2018world\u2019s strongest trampoline\u2019 against cars, boats & more How Ridiculous, Mark Rober – YouTubeYouTube group \u2018How Ridiculous\u2019 and creator Mark Rober came together to test what exactly happens when you throw some ridiculously heavy objects on the world\u2019s strongest trampoline, to outrageous results. Sometimes, human curiosity cannot be satiated \u2014 and that\u2019s where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}