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Title: is this video real?
Post by: SkyRock on July 21, 2008, 04:24:26 PM
It is of a fella running up to a large piece of machinery and letting a large weight catapult him into the sky and him parachuting back to earth.  Any help would be appreciated:
http://www.break.com/index/extreme-catapulting.html
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Chalenge on July 21, 2008, 04:28:18 PM
Im going with fake on this one.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Baitman on July 21, 2008, 04:33:56 PM
Fake but funny all the same :rofl
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Wayout on July 21, 2008, 05:06:27 PM
Im going with fake on this one.

I'm afraid I have to disagree.  I mean, like, if it's not real it couldn't be on the internet.... Right?  (http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/jumping/jumping0044.gif)

Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Cthulhu on July 21, 2008, 05:10:03 PM
Bogus. The acceleration would have killed him. (and broken the board)
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Dinan on July 21, 2008, 05:11:51 PM
Yay!  Another break video from skyrock! 
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Yossarian on July 21, 2008, 05:30:07 PM
Hmmm...I'm going to say real.

A)  It's definitely retarded enough for someone to have done.

B)  It looks, and sounds real.

Also, that block would have fallen with the acceleration of gravity only, that it 10/m2.  I don't know how high that crane was, or how long it took the block to fall, so I can't calculate its speed at impact at all.

Assuming that the pivot was exactly mid-way along that board, surely the same amount of force would have been exerted on the man, as the block exerted on the board.....

which would seem to mean he should have been killed....

hmmmm...

I suppose it could be real...meh...

Widewinggggggggggggg I need your immense knowledge of physics here please......
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Masherbrum on July 21, 2008, 05:43:13 PM
You're looking at around 30-40G's and the board would most definitely be broken. 

It's 100% Fake.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: eskimo2 on July 21, 2008, 05:44:04 PM
Fake, but funny and well done.

Even if the board and fulcrum would have held together the acceleration would have killed him or busted up his lower half.  Imagine the top of the board is at 4 feet and the fulcrum is in the middle.  Imagine the weight hits the board at 100 mph - that means the guy would accelerate to about 100 mph in 4 feet.  That's about the same as a guy jumping off a vehicle at 100 mph in a horizontal position and hitting (feet first) a chunk of dense foam that compresses four feet.  His legs would buckle and break, but he may survive.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: RATTFINK on July 21, 2008, 05:45:33 PM
I have no idea.

I got this message when I clicked on the link


This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content Filter Service.

URL: http://www.break.com/index/extreme-catapulting.html

Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category "Adult/Mature Content"
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: eskimo2 on July 21, 2008, 05:48:55 PM
Another way to look at it, in four feet he will accelerate to the same speed that the weight acquired by falling maybe 100 feet.

If those two guestimate numbers are correct, that's 25 Gees.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Fulmar on July 21, 2008, 05:56:56 PM
Rattfink has his own porn filter on his computer :)
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: RATTFINK on July 21, 2008, 07:00:22 PM
That was my work computer :)

I can see it now :D
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: weazely on July 21, 2008, 07:07:58 PM
real!!! :noid
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Dichotomy on July 21, 2008, 07:11:31 PM
That was my work computer :)

I can see it now :D

You need to have a little talk with your IT guys.  I've found that a cattle prod helps :D
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Vulcan on July 21, 2008, 07:14:34 PM
I have no idea.

I got this message when I clicked on the link


This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content Filter Service.

URL: http://www.break.com/index/extreme-catapulting.html

Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category "Adult/Mature Content"


Muahahahahah thats the stuff I sell. Looks like your IT guys have a new Sonicwall firewall and are playing with the CFS service :)

Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Mustaine on July 21, 2008, 07:28:14 PM
here's the "real" thing, and many others similar out there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZnlQnUE-uA


freaking morons do anything.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: SkyRock on July 21, 2008, 08:21:46 PM
here's the "real" thing, and many others similar out there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZnlQnUE-uA


freaking morons do anything.
That video no longer available, heres one that is real......and the weight doesnt drop that far either, which makes me believe my first post vid is fake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3DHwaCCSI&feature=related
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: SPKmes on July 21, 2008, 08:32:34 PM
Fake
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg234/spkmes/fake.jpg)
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: SPKmes on July 21, 2008, 08:34:52 PM
That video no longer available, heres one that is real......and the weight doesnt drop that far either, which makes me believe my first post vid is fake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3DHwaCCSI&feature=related



This is a totally different set up also
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Mustaine on July 21, 2008, 08:45:42 PM
That video no longer available, heres one that is real......and the weight doesnt drop that far either, which makes me believe my first post vid is fake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3DHwaCCSI&feature=related

I just re-watched the one I posted (youtube is under maintenance, I bet you just didn't get through), the one you linked to is about the same, morons I tell you morons :lol
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: mietla on July 21, 2008, 09:13:37 PM
Muahahahahah thats the stuff I sell.

Nazi
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Vulcan on July 21, 2008, 10:26:06 PM
Nazi

Jah, and vee are sniffing your netvork traffik right now!
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: FiLtH on July 22, 2008, 12:28:58 AM
  I get most of my news from liveleak and break. That was a cool vid, saw it earlier tonight, but I was hoping the weight was gonna crush him. :)   Looked cool though.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Xasthur on July 22, 2008, 12:49:41 AM
To the original.... Did no one notice that the guy's legs don't buckle upon being catapulted? Even if it was an acceleration that wasn't beyond human limits his legs would have buckled in the blink of an eye.

here's the "real" thing, and many others similar out there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZnlQnUE-uA


freaking morons do anything.

That one is awesome, that would be great fun.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Winks on July 22, 2008, 09:12:25 AM
it would be better without the chute
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: SlapShot on July 22, 2008, 11:00:53 AM
That video no longer available, heres one that is real......and the weight doesnt drop that far either, which makes me believe my first post vid is fake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3DHwaCCSI&feature=related

Mark ... if that vid was real ... his legs would have been re-adjusted to his shoulder sockets and his head would have popped out his arse.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Cthulhu on July 22, 2008, 02:50:02 PM
Always amazed at the crap people are willing (eagar) to believe. :huh
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: SkyRock on July 22, 2008, 03:35:40 PM
Mark ... if that vid was real ... his legs would have been re-adjusted to his shoulder sockets and his head would have popped out his arse.
I thought so, but hell, I'm in the dark on what these yooung stupid people will do these days.  It used to be that some rednecks would hit each other with light bulbs, now I see some truly stupid $4it on the web and the bozo's think it's funny.
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Roundeye on July 22, 2008, 04:35:45 PM
If that were real, the only thing that would have been launched up in the air would be a quivering mound of flesh with a bright red trail of mist behind it. :)
Title: Re: is this video real?
Post by: Cthulhu on July 23, 2008, 09:03:24 AM
I thought so, but hell, I'm in the dark on what these yooung stupid people will do these days.  It used to be that some rednecks would hit each other with light bulbs, now I see some truly stupid $4it on the web and the bozo's think it's funny.
Actually, rednecks with fluorescent light bulbs would be funny. :aok