I don't buy this one.....

Ricardo
Ricardo Posts: 10,636
edited September 2009 in The Clubhouse
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited September 2009
    had to watch it a couple times - no way thats real
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2009
    My dad sent that to me a while back. Supposedly it's a group of students who calculated all the variables.

    But I really don't see how it could be done. At least, not with such certainty that a live human being would be willing to give it a go.
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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,207
    edited September 2009
    I don't know,there's a lot of crazies out there......

    Very dubious though.
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,092
    edited September 2009
    That one is not real. I remember reading about it. They did a good job making it look real!
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,519
    edited September 2009
    You can instantly tell it's a fake. Just look at the length of ramp, and they only wet the very start with two small buckets of water. The guy would come to a screeching halt if he hit a dry patch anywhere on that.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited September 2009
    Ron-P wrote: »
    You can instantly tell it's a fake. Just look at the length of ramp, and they only wet the very start with two small buckets of water. The guy would come to a screeching halt if he hit a dry patch anywhere on that.

    thats what did it for me, both ends of the ramp are the same height. To gain that kind of momentum the take off side would have to be at least 3 times higher than the launch end
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
    edited September 2009
    I have wintessed stunts performed on movie sets that were far more complicated than this. I am not saying these guys actually pulled it off, but from a vantage point of one camera, there is reason to doubt.
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited September 2009
    What? You guys have never done this? C'mon.
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  • BeRad
    BeRad Posts: 736
    edited September 2009
    It doesn't look like the jump is nearly as high as the in-run. Bad camera angle, but it seems that he started a fair bit higher than the jump. It also looks to me (again, tough to be certain because of the angle) that the in-run is much steeper than the take off.

    Doubt it's real, but definitely plausible.
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,339
    edited September 2009
    It would be equivalent to a 200 ft. fall into a kiddie pool. No effn way!
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  • JohnLocke88
    JohnLocke88 Posts: 1,150
    edited September 2009
    schwarcw wrote: »
    It would be equivalent to a 200 ft. fall into a kiddie pool. No effn way!

    Yah I'm sorry, no way this is real; in order to stop in 3 feet of water you'd have to fan out big time, and he tucks into a ball; 3 ft of water isn't going to do ****; he'd still plow into the bottom with enough force to break bones
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  • BeRad
    BeRad Posts: 736
    edited September 2009
    Here is how and why it was done.

    edit:
    And here is how and why it is possible to pull off and not get hurt.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2009
    Haha, I love the p hysics nerd who figures it's "possible." While in an ideal world I suppose it might be "possible" by the numbers, no way would someone be able to stay on the slide in such a straight line (at the very least the slide should be a "chute" instead of just a flat thing), but even then, no way you're landing in a kiddie pool 100 feet away. Wayyyy too many variables with speed (friction, wind, angle, body position).
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  • JohnLocke88
    JohnLocke88 Posts: 1,150
    edited September 2009
    Lasareath wrote: »
    I think the same people made this video:


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    This is actually more believable i think.
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  • messiah
    messiah Posts: 1,790
    edited September 2009
    Lasareath wrote: »
    I think the same people made this video:


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    That's so cool!!
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  • nms
    nms Posts: 671
    edited September 2009
    Ron-P wrote: »
    You can instantly tell it's a fake. Just look at the length of ramp, and they only wet the very start with two small buckets of water. The guy would come to a screeching halt if he hit a dry patch anywhere on that.

    A lot of people bring this up, but judging from the reflectivity of the ramp before and after they throw the buckets of water on it, I think the ramp was pre-wetted and the buckets were simply a little more for good measure.

    The part that makes me think it's fake is the pool he lands in. It looks like it's maybe 2 feet, or 2.5 feet deep tops. Decelerating from something in excess of 60 mph to 0 mph in 2.5 feet is not plausible. He would sustain some injuries. Probably a broken tailbone, given how he went into the pool.

    Just think when you jump off the high dive in a pool. It can take you 5 or 6 feet to stop moving underwater, and that's with a much slower entry velocity than this guy had.
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited September 2009
    I cannot believe that there is any doubt whether this is real or not. :confused:

    Of course it was. And if you look closely, Bigfoot can be seen hiding behind one of the trees.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited September 2009
    This guy didn't make it.

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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,207
    edited September 2009
    I thought they used the super teflon spray that Clark Griswold used in "Christmas Vacation".;)
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited September 2009
    It's not real. It was made by the same guys who made this video:

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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited September 2009
    It could happen-NOT!
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  • nms
    nms Posts: 671
    edited September 2009
    Demiurge wrote: »
    It's not real. It was made by the same guys who made this video:

    Aww man, I loved that video. Why'd you have to go and ruin it for me?
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  • rayslifecycle
    rayslifecycle Posts: 511
    edited September 2009
    physics should really be a mandatory subject
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