A2_3 Mission: Incruiseable

This paper considers the feasibility of Tom Cruise holding onto an airbus military A400m duringtake-off in a scene in the film Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Comparing the required forcefor Tom Cruise to remain holding onto the aeroplane to the force exerted by the deadlift Guinness World Record holder, Eddie Hall, shows that Tom Cruise would experience 3230 - 6370 N depending on his velocity and posture. Eddie Hall deadlifted 4910 N, making Tom Cruise's stunt a Mission: Impossible

A2_1 Disaster Area

This report explores the volume, crowd placement and energy requirements of the plutonium rock band Disaster Area featured in Douglas Adams' second novel. The band was found to produce a loudness of 304 dB 1 m away from the speaker. This gave an estimate of 2.64*10^20 kg of plutonium undergoing fission in order to allow the two hour concert to perform at this noise level

A2_4 Batman's Really Big Microwave

In the lm Batman Begins (2005) an evil organisation (the League of Shadows) successfully  attempt to retrieve an experimental microwave emitter from Wayne Enterprises. This emitter is said to be used to vapourise large bodies of water using only microwaves, and the League of Shadows plan on vapourising Gotham's water supply. Here we discuss the energy and power required vapourise Gotham's water supply; 1.18 petajoules and 13.7 gigawatts respectively, as well as the isotropic electric and magnetic elds produced; 3.96*10^9 NC^-1 and 13.1 T respectively

A2_6 Pokémon: Let's Analyse, Darmanitan!

In this paper, the feasibility of the statement made within the "Pokedex" about the Pokémon"Darmanitan" that it can "destroy a dump truck with one punch" is explored. It was found thatit would require ~47,200 Darmanitans to produce the 1.04*10^11 J of energy needed to vaporise the dump truck entirely, although the denition of the word "destroy" is still up for debate

High-speed, high-frequency ultrasound, \u3ci\u3ein utero\u3c/i\u3e vector-flow imaging of mouse embryos

Real-time imaging of the embryonic murine cardiovascular system is challenging due to the small size of the mouse embryo and rapid heart rate. High-frequency, linear-array ultrasound systems designed for small-animal imaging provide high-frame-rate and Doppler modes but are limited in regards to the field of view that can be imaged at fine-temporal and -spatial resolution. Here, a plane-wave imaging method was used to obtain high-speed image data from in utero mouse embryos and multi-angle, vector-flow algorithms were applied to the data to provide information on blood flow patterns in major organs. An 18-MHz linear array was used to acquire plane-wave data at absolute frame rates ≥10 kHz using a set of fixed transmission angles. After beamforming, vector-flow processing and image compounding, effective frame rates were on the order of 2 kHz. Data were acquired from the embryonic liver, heart and umbilical cord. Vector-flow results clearly revealed the complex nature of blood-flow patterns in the embryo with fine-temporal and -spatial resolution

On the assessment of angiogenesis: its time to change (go further) from an estimate to a measurement

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