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Who sings that song in the movie "Predator" when they are inside the Helicopter flying into the jungle?

I absolutely LOVE that song but I don't know who it's by.. It almost sounds like James Brown, but not 100% sure..

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Long Tall Sally by Little Richard

    "This smash hit is featured in the ever-popular sci-fi movie "Predator" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke and Jesse Ventura. Little Richard's music is blaring out of a boom box inside the helicopter where these elite commandos are being flown over the jungle on a clandestine assignment. In the scene, Blain (Ventura) expresses his machismo amongst the other soldiers, all whom are getting psyched up for the rescue mission. The song blasting from the tape player pumps so much testosterone that the viewer can't help but feel thrilled and exhilarated during the chopper ride in the classic action film, thanks to LR's LTS."

    Don't know if this is what your looking for or not...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    A helicopter generates lift by pushing air around with its propellor, beyond a certain height the atmosphere is too thin and it cannot generate lift. The same is true for other air-breathing engines like jets. This is PRECISELY the problem with trying to travel in space. Aircraft move through an unlimited supply of propellant (the air). Space, on the other hand, is a vacuum, so they have to carry their propellant with them. It would be as if a jet had to carry a huge tank of air to feed through its jet engines, instead of just using outside air. The closest possible thing to what you propose is a jet-rocket hybrid. This is a scheme whereby the spacecraft would use a high-performance airbreathing engine (like a scramjet) to build up most of the speed it needed inside the atmosphere, and then used a rocket for the final push into orbit. It would still have to carry a lot of fuel, but since it would also get a lot of "free" fuel from the air during its ascent the fuel savings could be impressive.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Jesse Ventura Predator

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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    Most of the "no" answers are correct in terms of the need for air for lift and fuel oxidation. However, I would add a distantly possible exception to those: You need a certain velocity to get onto space and/or orbit the earth from any given elevation. If your plane or helicopter can achieve that speed while in the atmosphere and use inertia to pop out of the atmosphere and into space/orbit, then it could theoretically make it. That is the basic idea behind a space plane, but practically speaking, it is harder to get to that escape velocity while still in the atmosphere due to atmospheric drag, so most space plane designs work like a normal plane up to near the top of the atmosphere, then switch to rockets to transition into space. So it may be theoretically possible to do without rockets, but unlikely using our technology and engineering constraints. But the basic idea is like asking whether a dolphin can swim out of the water. Simple answer is "no" because there's not enough viscosity in air for his flippers to push with. But he can swim underwater and use his inertia under water to "pop out" and jump into the air. But for a dolphin, there's a sharp change from water to air--the atmosphere to space is a very long transition and requires a huge velocity to "pop out". Don't expect it to happen. Edit: after more thought, there is a limit to the velocity a prop can reach, and it has to do with when the prop itself exceeds the speed of sound, thus a prop-propelled vehicle cannot exceed the speed of sound. A standard prop helicopter therefore has a maximum climb velocity, which is surely less than escape velocity from the atmosphere. I don't know yet that that's known to be true for planes--scramjet engines can reach very high velocities in the upper extents of the atmosphere--in theory--so a plane may be able to reach escape velocity from the atmosphere and pop out without a rocket. Note that I am using "escape velocity" loosely. Normally this refers to the velocity needed for a ballistic object to entirely escape the gravitation of a planet, which is about 7miles/second from the earth's surface (neglecting air friction), which is how fast you have to shoot a bullet for it to leave earth--If you could launch a plane or helicopter or dodo bird at this speed without friction, they would all get into space without any rockets! You think NASA is working on a big gun that can shoot payloads into space without any rockets? I bet they are, but that type of speed is pretty extreme and the impulse to get there would destroy most equipment or life on the payload.

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