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Using physics, explain the shark grabbing a jet out of the air


Now, the first thing to determine is what speed the million pound mega shark needed to clear the water fast enough to reach 30,000 feet in the air. Furthermore, what sort of senses would it need in order to see? sense? smell? something else? a jet traveling several hundred miles per hour. It would need to sense it far enough away to launch itself out of the ocean so that it travels exactly 30,000 feet vertically while the jet travels a certain distance based on speed horizontally. So what this means is that it would need to determine based on the distance the plane was from it's position, how long it would take to reach it's position and how long it will be in the air in order to intercept it going several hundred miles per hour. Now, this is not the only factor the mega shark would have to concern itself with. It is a property of physics that the shark, or any object traveling in a parabolic path, will have a moment of 0 miles per hour at its apex, which is how the shark timed the bite of the jet, meaning it perfectly understood the speed it needed to not only reach 30,000 feet in the air but to also reach it at the exact moment losing speed that the jet reached its position while maintaining a constant velocity. That is one mega smart mega shark.

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Remember just before the attack the pathetic guy announced he was getting married in 2 days. So you have to include the PGGM (Pathetic Guy Getting Married) constant while doing the equations for this physics assignment. Multiply the shark's total energy by the PGGM constant and you easily have enough to bring down the plane! :)

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This may have been the "greatest" low-budget moment ever!

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Since when did physics or anything realistic and an Aslyum movie go hand in hand?

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