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I have no idea what a huge waterslide jump has to do with Microsoft Office but I’d damn near buy anything a company was selling after that dude landed in that tiny pool.
 
lies its real if I believe its real! :D

Looking forward to Office 2010 64 bit! Getting close to my goal of all my apps being native 64.
 
Can someone explain to me how this is fake? It's one continuous camera shot... The only thing I can imagine is a switch when the slider goes off-camera. A dummy body would crumple in the air, but the flyer maintains body tension through the air. So, what's the explanation?
 
styx0r said:
Can someone explain to me how this is fake? It's one continuous camera shot... The only thing I can imagine is a switch when the slider goes off-camera. A dummy body would crumple in the air, but the flyer maintains body tension through the air. So, what's the explanation?
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Green screen?
Good video editing, camera kept moving but the person is just overlaid onto the screen. Only thing that makes it tough to tell it is fake is the water splash, not sure how that was done.
 
I think the splash gives it away. To travel that distance, he has to have some pretty good velocity. There just isn't enough splash.
 
styx0r said:
Can someone explain to me how this is fake? It's one continuous camera shot... The only thing I can imagine is a switch when the slider goes off-camera. A dummy body would crumple in the air, but the flyer maintains body tension through the air. So, what's the explanation?
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Body that slides and jumps is digital.

Real guy getting ready, camera zooms out, digitally insert dummy and remove real person, digital dude flies across the screen, large weight is dropped into the water (this is digitally removed from the shot as well) real dude stands up from the other side of the pool.
 
And why does it have to be fake?

A few mathmatical equations to figure out how fast he would need to be going, how far he would have to slide to get to that speed... factoring in the friction from the slide and suit, and the length and angle the ramp would have to be to put him at the correct trajectory to land in that spot.

Or is math not being taught in school now days?
 
Its fake because if he missed and maybe hit the side of the wood near the pool he would've died, or landed anywhere but the pool he would've been critically injured.

Secondly because the pool would've been destroyed by someone flying like that at one of those tiny ass pools, unless he hit it absolutely perfectly.
 
Yes it does look fun. There is actually a video of some kids doing something like this that I seen a few weeks ago. They made a ramp of the roof of a 2 story house. I think it was about 80feet long. They went down it and flew off into a small pool like that. It wasn't the same scale as that one, but the same logic would apply.

As cyclone3d stated, you could use math to figure out about where he would land. Do some test runs with a larger landing spot to figure out about where exaclty he would land given the real world test, and put the pool there for the final run.

Not 100% sure if it is fake or real. but i wouldn't be too surprised to find out that it was real as nothing there seemed impossible to me.
 
anthrex said:
lies its real if I believe its real! :D

Looking forward to Office 2010 64 bit! Getting close to my goal of all my apps being native 64.
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Been running the tech preview. Now I can't stop using it!!! No major stuff but like 7 lots of refinements and its so beautiful! Its very usuable but it seem to flake out my system a bit. I'll try it with 7 RTM and see how that goes,
 
Not sure how that could be real, with the amount of water that was put on the slide and unless the slide was angled so he only traveled in a specific path down it, there is no way he wouldn't swing off to the left or the right a little bit, but yeah that looks fun as hell,
 
The trajectory is easy enough to calculate using simple physics equations... that isn't the issue. Both the horizontal (x) and vertical (y) components of velocity of the slider are. With that high velocity and the relatively small, shallow pool, there is no way to make that landing unscathed. The slider should hit the water and go straight to the bottom and far side with a violent enough impact to break several bones.

There is no way you land that and get up that easily.
 
cyclone3d said:
And why does it have to be fake?

A few mathmatical equations to figure out how fast he would need to be going, how far he would have to slide to get to that speed... factoring in the friction from the slide and suit, and the length and angle the ramp would have to be to put him at the correct trajectory to land in that spot.

Or is math not being taught in school now days?
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Math is, but clearly skepticism and critical thought aren't.
 
cyclone3d said:
And why does it have to be fake?

A few mathmatical equations to figure out how fast he would need to be going, how far he would have to slide to get to that speed... factoring in the friction from the slide and suit, and the length and angle the ramp would have to be to put him at the correct trajectory to land in that spot.

Or is math not being taught in school now days?
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And would YOU bet your own continuing existence on getting the math right?

Thought not. :cool:
 
styx0r said:
Can someone explain to me how this is fake? It's one continuous camera shot... The only thing I can imagine is a switch when the slider goes off-camera. A dummy body would crumple in the air, but the flyer maintains body tension through the air. So, what's the explanation?
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Because it's too damn dangerous for any person to try. Even a professional stuntman.
 
cyclone3d said:
And why does it have to be fake?

A few mathmatical equations to figure out how fast he would need to be going, how far he would have to slide to get to that speed... factoring in the friction from the slide and suit, and the length and angle the ramp would have to be to put him at the correct trajectory to land in that spot.

Or is math not being taught in school now days?
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Because shit happens.. like

Air resistance
Small bumps on the slide
the ramp gives just slightly
wind gust
humidity
dry spot on the slide

ect ect ect that would all fuck up the jump and thusly fuck up the guy.
 
hitting that small, soft sided pool at that angle and speed and the pool doesnt move one bit when he lands, thats all i needed to think it was fake. If they had him landing in a larger body of water I'd believe he really did it.
 
I won't believe it till I see him do it with a helmet cam.
 
cyclone3d said:
And why does it have to be fake?

A few mathmatical equations to figure out how fast he would need to be going, how far he would have to slide to get to that speed... factoring in the friction from the slide and suit, and the length and angle the ramp would have to be to put him at the correct trajectory to land in that spot.

Or is math not being taught in school now days?
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Come on, that was not done under laboratory conditions. There are to many variables in the real world outside of a lab. If you were a mathematician, you would know that the real world deals in probabilities and not certainties. The jump could not be recreated with any degree of certainty to ensure safety that's why it was obviously a fake. I would only say it could have been real if they said something about 30 other people were maimed or killed trying to make the same jump.
 
Anyone seen Nitro Circus on MTV? They do stunts like this, but nowhere near as big. Travis Pastrana is out of his mind on that show, like skydiving with no parachute, but I think he would pass on this one. I call shenanigans, but it's awesome none the less.
 
styx0r said:
Can someone explain to me how this is fake? It's one continuous camera shot... The only thing I can imagine is a switch when the slider goes off-camera. A dummy body would crumple in the air, but the flyer maintains body tension through the air. So, what's the explanation?
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How was it done? I would say it was done in 3-4 shots.

1) The man coming down the slide is real.
2) He disappears briefly at the base of the slide. This is where his digital double comes into play. Use of a greenscreen or computer generated animated body flying across the sky.
3) Shot of the splash and man climbing out of the pool being the last shot.

Points that make it fake.

1) He would not have enough forward momentum to cover the distance after going up the ramp.
2) The arc of his movement thru the sky is wrong.
3) The splash in the pool was indicative of an object falling from directly on top of the pool, not from an object hurtling from hundreds of feet away.
 
The main reason I think its fake is that the pool doesnt move at all, and the guy just sort of plops into the water and stops moving. If it was real, he would've flipped over the pool and kept rolling up the hill for quite a piece. There is no way all that energy is stopped dead by an inflatable pool and 3' of water. And if the energy WAS absorbed that quickly, he would be dead.
 
cyclone3d said:
And why does it have to be fake?

A few mathmatical equations to figure out how fast he would need to be going, how far he would have to slide to get to that speed... factoring in the friction from the slide and suit, and the length and angle the ramp would have to be to put him at the correct trajectory to land in that spot.

Or is math not being taught in school now days?
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Math cant calculate any changes mother nature decides to throw in there, and if she does hes either dead or a vegtable for life lol

still looks like a ton of fun, something to do into say lake huron here where I cant miss, although id bet the water is as good as concrete at those speeds. :D
 
Yeah, he would have shot right through the side of that pool and wound up dead or wishing he was.
 
If you look at the way the splash goes, it splashes like something hitting the water straight down, not from an angle.
 
Of course this is fake. I don't see why there is a discussion about it. Look how he flies. It is obvious to me.
 
JUSTJOEL73 said:
How was it done? I would say it was done in 3-4 shots.

1) The man coming down the slide is real.
2) He disappears briefly at the base of the slide. This is where his digital double comes into play. Use of a greenscreen or computer generated animated body flying across the sky.
3) Shot of the splash and man climbing out of the pool being the last shot.

Points that make it fake.

1) He would not have enough forward momentum to cover the distance after going up the ramp.
2) The arc of his movement thru the sky is wrong.
3) The splash in the pool was indicative of an object falling from directly on top of the pool, not from an object hurtling from hundreds of feet away.
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also add that they zoomed out really far *before* he started moving...always a telltale sign of some kind of double.

My first thought was they made a switch when he vanishes below the hill. that would have been even easier than swapping to a digital while he was sitting on the slike

also as mentioned, the splash is completely wrong for that kind of velocity and angle.
 
Look - THIS IS OBVIOUSLY REAL!!!

Next you are going to try and tell me that Santa and the Tooth Fairy are fake too.

Gotta go and finish my letter to the Great Pumpkin, October is just around the corner.
 
Don't you get it? They used the power of Excel to do the calculations!
 
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