Could that really happen? Phylm examines the bus jump from Speed

The Tabletop Explainer by David Colarusso

Mar 20, 200700:04:02Science & Medicine

In the movie Speed a bus is forced to jump an unfinished portion of highway to avoid setting off a bomb on the bus rigged to explode should it go below fifty miles an hour. Of course, they make it, but we want to know if...

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