The amazing and cool video thread
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boiltheocean
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Still running around my old school! Some of my mates are in a couple of frames of that vid too.
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- bramturismo
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- astrosdude91
Very cool video! I want to try it!
I'd like to try this if I could ride a skateboard.
I'd like to try this if I could ride a skateboard.
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- Are u serious?
That first one has to be fake. Even if you run REALLY fast, you can't run on water! I'm sure it's physically impossible.
Exactly what I was thinking.... I tried this SSOOOOOO many times in our pool when I was young... but I never got further than 1.5 steps, at most... Maybe I needed to run faster...???
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- astrosdude91
No, It's real. I didn't believe it at first either, but I looked into it and it's real.
It's just physics. If you run fast enough, you'll be able to bounce off water.
It's just physics. If you run fast enough, you'll be able to bounce off water.
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- MP-Omnis
Nope. If you run in shallow-enough water like these guys are doing, you'll be able to get across it. But then you're just walking on ground under water.
The Youtube comments accuse the people in the video of having placed a sheet of clear acrylic a few inches below the surface, which is deep enough to remain hidden but shallow enough to give the impression of walking on water. I really don't know who is telling the truth and who is making stuff up. 
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- astrosdude91
Well, I suppose I'm a sucker.
But I still want to believe. Call me a dreamer.
The second video is real though. Anyone want to dispute that?
But I still want to believe. Call me a dreamer.
The second video is real though. Anyone want to dispute that?
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Hmmm, if it was possible to support the weight of a human using the force exerted by the ball of the foot travelling downwards the at the fastest speed you can force your leg down on to water... then there would be a lot of high divers with a face, an ass and two feet attached to their elbows!
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- LEGION138
Well, I suppose I'm a sucker.
But I still want to believe. Call me a dreamer.
The second video is real though. Anyone want to dispute that?
The first one, fake yes, the second....why would anyone dispute downhilling? It looked to me that they were stepping on something under the water because if you watch their feet they go under the water and stop, if they were skimming then their feet would barely go under, not go under as much as theirs do. Then when they get so far out they just drop into the water, because there is nothing there for them to run on anymore....yep. No one can walk on water, no one can run on water.
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We may not be able to walk on water but rednecks can still snow mobile on water.
This is a combination of tons of lakes, nothing to do and beer.
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And in Icelandic Formula Offroad they drive across it 
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- LEGION138
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- astrosdude91
This one is pretty cool. I think it's real. Decide for yourself.
If you haven't taken a physics course, it does look funny, but there's absolutely nothing special about that tube. A falling magnet will create a small electric current (an "eddy current") in any metal tube, which then creates its own magnetic field that opposes the magnet's motion.
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- MP-Omnis
The problem with this is that it doesn't demonstrate an overdrive ratio. The video doesn't actually disassemble the whole thing to see how it works, so I can't really wrap my head around how you'd get output speed faster than engine speed with that transmission.
Duh!
Duh!
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Thats really awesome. He needs to have a engine mock-up soon though. The electric motors don't give you enough of a perspective of what's going on. It really just feels like theres no actual transmission there. More as if theres an invisible solid shaft from the original electric motor and its driving the end shaft. Its an impressive system no doubt about that. But the prototype doesn't wow me as much as it should.
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- astrosdude91
that was crazy cool!!
But what's with the shot up fuselage?
But what's with the shot up fuselage?
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- GTP_daan
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- astrosdude91
I read the story, but it only told me why it was there. I'm guessing someone was just doing some target practice.
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Well what else do you need to know? It was used because it looks good in the foreground.
