{"id":8443,"date":"2013-08-31T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T23:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2013-10-25T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:12:18","slug":"2013-08-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=8443","title":{"rendered":"2013-08-31 Massive Boulder Almost Crushes Car In Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

OMG, I was watching the news this evening and they showed<\/strong><\/a> a boulder falling onto the road, and nearly crushing a car in Taiwan (If the link doesn’t work search for boulder taiwan).\u00a0 It’s incredible!\u00a0 It looked like the boulder threw some other debris onto the road before it hit, and the debris pushed the car away from where it was, and then the boulder hit the road about where the car was.\u00a0 They were just lucky that the car wasn’t crushed by the boulder.<\/p>\n

I did some rough calculations on how heavy the boulder might be.\u00a0 I assumed that the boulder was 4 meters high and about 6 meters on a side. for a total of 144 cubic meters.\u00a0 A cubic meter holds a million cubic centimeters, each weighing about 2.8 grams for rock.\u00a0 This comes to about 400 thousand kilograms, or close to 900 thousand pounds.\u00a0 My size guesstimate could have been low, and the boulder could have easily weighed a million pounds.<\/p>\n

A million pound boulder would have squished the car like a bug underfoot.\u00a0 The boulder is right in the middle of the road, and it blocks most of the road.\u00a0 They are going to have to blast it into pieces for it to be moved.<\/p>\n

Update Oct 25 ’13 – A commenter said that local news reports gave the size as 800 cubic meters or more than 2000 long tons.\u00a0 That’s more than four million pounds.\u00a0 My guesstimate was too conservative.\u00a0 But the result would bee the same: the car would have been flattened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OMG, I was watching the news this evening and they showed a boulder falling onto the road, and nearly crushing a car in Taiwan (If the link doesn’t work search for boulder taiwan).\u00a0 It’s incredible!\u00a0 It looked like the boulder threw some other debris onto the road before it hit, and the debris pushed the <\/p>\n

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