The Rocket Sled is still one of the coolest things ever 🚀🚙

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LoGo_86@reddit

The video with the slow motion: https://youtu.be/NDAFRCFu0Sk?si=UbbiEe_3OaXQrJJZ

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MonarchyMan@reddit

What was the myth they were testing? Also, it hurts seeing Grant alive and well, knowing what’s coming for him.

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LonelyAssignment1680@reddit

It was splitting car in two half's myth.

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Gatekeeper-Andy@reddit

To add; with a snowplow, which didnt work. :( but then this is their standard "we'll make it work" :)

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dmckimm@reddit

I cherish every episode, and video where he gets excited about something.

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If you join the astomech builders club and take a look around at robotics online you’ll find an entire life he left behind. He helped pioneer Star Wars droids he took the old actor piloted and simple electronic props and turned them into real self powered droids.

Although his light may have faded, there still remains a dim glow. Grant left this world of our’s just a little bit brighter than he found it.

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cajerunner@reddit

RIP Grant. Gone too soon. 😢

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teri_workshop@reddit

I’m glad that it’s not that video where it never hit the car an the video is a gif on loop :D

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m3atbag17@reddit

Anyone else check the run time to see how many gratuitous camera changes there would be?

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AlarmingNectarine552@reddit

It's too bad the technology that existed at that time was so limited that you could not have a slo mo guys level of filming.

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Moakmeister@reddit

Huh? They had great high speed cameras at this time. There was a high speed replay of this very thing. In fact the first rocket sled experiment is my favorite high speed shot ever.

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AlarmingNectarine552@reddit

Not as fast acting as the solomo cameras of the solomo guys.

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chirstopher0us@reddit

Slo Mo Guys recreate things that were filmed before/without effective slow motion should ABSOLUTELY be a series on their channel. Invite the people involved with each thing that didn't get to see it that well.

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JohnTheRaceFan@reddit

You can sit in the actual sled (or one of them) in Alamogordo, NM.

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Obryn@reddit

I worked with a team that used rocket sleds to test systems many years ago at Holloman AFB. It was pretty wild.

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dragonfett@reddit

I feel as though the slow motion shot of this experiment is by far even better.

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Alien_Cupcakes@reddit

No slow motion recap? Sir, how dare you?!!!

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dmckimm@reddit

The rocket sled was so Bad Ass that it made it into the series finale and was one of the very few things that rendered Adam completely speechless. 😶