Are Rocket Jumps Possible?
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Hey Vsauce, I'm Jake, and if I wanted to get from here to there,I would obviously run, put a rocket launcher at my feet,jump in the air, fire a missile below me,and use the explosion to propel myself into the sky.That's what Team Fortress 2, Halo, Quake 3,and many other video games have led me to believe.Or who could forget Freddy Wong's awesome videoof a rocket jump in real life?Only thing is how possible would a rocket jump really bewithout special effects, or more importantly, dying.Well, let's take the most common carriable rocket launcher, the RPG-7,with over 9 million produced and it's most recognizable warhead,the PG-7VL.Now the deadly blast radius for this is four meterswith lethal fragments from the warhead flying as f...
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Hey Vsauce, I'm Jake, and if I wanted to get from here to there,I would obviously run, put a rocket launcher at my feet,jump in the air, fire a missile below me,and use the explosion to propel myself into the sky.That's what Team Fortress 2, Halo, Quake 3,and many other video games have led me to believe.Or who could forget Freddy Wong's awesome videoof a rocket jump in real life?Only thing is how possible would a rocket jump really bewithout special effects, or more importantly, dying.Well, let's take the most common carriable rocket launcher, the RPG-7,with over 9 million produced and it's most recognizable warhead,the PG-7VL.Now the deadly blast radius for this is four meterswith lethal fragments from the warhead flying as f...
