Post #270,862
10/19/06 8:21:59 PM
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Human Catapuly
[link|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52SxosFkA9Q|http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=52SxosFkA9Q]
SFW
But you really want to turn up the sound so you can hear the final moments.
Rewatch it a couple of times for the full effect to sink in.
DO NO HAVE ANY LIQUIDS IN YOUR MOUTH.
Solids either.
Trust me on this.
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Post #270,867
10/19/06 8:57:45 PM
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You know it's fake, right?
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Post #270,868
10/19/06 9:02:37 PM
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I know no such thing
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Post #270,881
10/19/06 11:49:36 PM
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Oh come on
Two guys with no mechanical aid pull back the bungees (or whatever they're using) hard enough to fling a guy that far?
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Post #270,883
10/19/06 11:52:13 PM
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Hey
It could happen.
Yes, I suspect it was a dummy flying.
But I'll grant the possibility it wasn't.
And laugh and laugh and laugh.
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Post #270,884
10/19/06 11:53:21 PM
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Nah, the trajectory looked wrong, too
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Post #270,914
10/20/06 8:34:28 AM
10/20/06 8:43:12 AM
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It's fake.
1) The chair and the "victim" started out with the same acceleration. They should have ended up in roughly the same place. But...
2) The victim must have weighed much more than the plastic chair, yet he went twice as far. That's impossible.
3) There's the F=ma and [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke%27s_Law|Hooke's Law] issues that Drew raised. The force to throw a person that distance is much larger than that produced by a few guys stretching a rubber band a few feet.
I suspect the "victim" was digitally added later (after the "camera giggling" part of the tape).
[edit:] Compare that tape with [link|http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2262706074586564619&q=human+slingshot&hl=en|this one] to see the way a human slingshot should really work.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #270,918
10/20/06 10:25:38 AM
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I don't think it was digital.
During the "shuffling", we lose sight of the guy in the chair. The next time we see him he's immediately launched. There was just a quick change with a dummy, especially given how the "person" flies through the air like a rag doll.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #270,926
10/20/06 11:38:53 AM
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The body should have gone farther than the chair . . .
. . the chair was very light plastic with extremely poor aerodynamics. The body shouldn't have gone anywhere near that much farther though. Even a lightweight dummy should not have gone that much further (light weight and poor aerodynamics again) so it's pretty certainly a poor quality digital fake.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #270,922
10/20/06 10:46:41 AM
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OK...
Can we do that to you at the next beep bash
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
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Post #270,968
10/21/06 11:01:43 AM
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I don't think that's really up to him, is it?
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