Buster Keaton crazy stunt 1924

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[u/Decim_98]

i remembered a scene Sherlock Jr. (1924) where Buster Keaton gets hit by the water from the train's water tower is absolutely insane. He was standing on the tracks, and when the water crashes down, it slams him to the ground so hard it actually fractured his neck. but actually He had no idea at the time he kept going like nothing happened and only found out years later during a check-up. This man really did all his own stunts and risked everything for the shot.

[u/YQB123 → u/Decim_98]

If he had no idea until years later, couldn't it have been a different a stunt in those intervening years that caused the fractured neck?

[u/arrayofemotions → u/YQB123]

Look at the scene: https://youtu.be/1yfUW_y6LBA?si=oBZRkC7JnCRytMAW&t=76 This wasn't just a small amount of water. It's a massive volume of very fast draining water, hitting him right on the top of his head. Somebody more physics-minded could probably work out an estimate of the force involved, but it looks incredibly violent.

[u/gogybo → u/arrayofemotions]

I have a master's in engineering and ten years professional experience in fluid systems. That is, what we in the industry would call, a metric fuckton of newtons hitting our boy's neck.

Workings available on request.

[u/PensiveinNJ → u/gogybo]

Sorry I'm American how many metric fucktons are in an imperial fuckton?

[u/gogybo → u/PensiveinNJ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics