>> ^AeroMechanical:

The voting age should be lowered to six years-old, maybe put a ceiling at eleven years-old. Old enough to read, but young enough to still believe in sharing and being nice to people.


And Santa, Hogwarts, the Easter Bunny, the Great Pumpkin, and God. Gotta get to 'em before parents destroy some wonderful fantasies and instill/strengthen a horrible one. Churches would be made of giant candy canes and sugar cookies.

The voting age should be lowered to six years-old, maybe put a ceiling at eleven years-old. Old enough to read, but young enough to still believe in sharing and being nice to people.

Did one of these INSIDE the millennium dome - ie ceiling is coming at you at ARGGGHmph.

Didn't tell my wife I hated her 30 times - only worry was we realised we'd left our father in law watching with our 3 kids and if anything went wrong our 4 year old had the best chance of getting them the 20 miles home!

Dancin' on the ceiling, oh what a feelin'

Closet or ceiling? ... inquiring minds =o)

>> ^FishBulb:

Even if it can spin under it's own power (without fans or string, etc) try hooking it up to something else to extract work out of it. I think you'll find it slowing to a halt fairly quickly.


If it can work under it's own power then it's perpetual motion. You don't need to be able to extract power from it (although in a system like this power is being extracted all the time, heat from the axle, sound energy from the whole thing).

As for where the cheat is, if there's a ceiling fan in the room that would keep it going. To everyone trying to work out if it's fake, it is. There's no debate there. There's a hundred different ways this could be faked.

ETA: Just watch the lower hanging card strips when it's getting started.

"Instructions not clear enough. Got my dick caught in the ceiling fan."

I love youtube some times.

This is so cool-For my kitty in San Fran I lined the hallway floor to ceiling with burlap coffee bags and flipped playing cards down the hall for kitty to chase them on all surfaces but the ceiling....Kitty got extremely quick and climby really fast!

~All cats love box-world. "OhhhhhHH?!"

I'd plush-toy every wall in the house floor to ceiling, AND ceiling!

>> ^SFOGuy:

Sometimes I admit to wondering: do these people have parents? I mean, people who have the normal level of fear response to seeing someone they care about finding new and interesting ways to potentially hurt themselves? I wonder that about the Russian high tower/building videos too...
Not to say it isn't impressive and artful; just wonder.


There was a short series of programs here in the UK about Danny Macaskill, looking at how he deals with the fear/adrenaline of these type of stunts. They took him to meet other daredevil types and looked at his response to the risks. They also interviewed his parents. His dad is very risk averse, he doesn't like anything his son does, but his mother encouraged him to take risks from a very early age. The result is a mature person with a huge understanding of risk. He really knows his limits and what is and isn't possible.

If you bring up a child without exposing them to risk they never learn how to deal with or understand risk. When presented with a situation which is risky they don't know which decisions to make and that's when it all goes really badly wrong.

One of the other people they interviewed in the series was a specialist action sequence director. He works all the time with stunt men and women, people who do things that look really dangerous to normal people. He said they're the least likely of anyone to do anything dangerous. These things look dangerous to us because we don't know how we would deal with the situation. But to a trained stunt person, it's not that dangerous at all. He said they were the most likely people to back away from a danger. They don't look to do dangerous things, but rather they enjoy mastering the risks, so it's not dangerous.

They talked about a sequence where Danny rode down some steps in an underground station (I say rode down, what I mean is hurled himself and the bike down in unimaginably hectic ways!). They asked him what he was thinking when they were planing the shoot and he talked about all the potential risks he could see. Would his bike fit through the gap between the handrails if he did a twist in the jump? Would he hit his head on a step in the ceiling? Would he have enough space to slow down and so on. You'd think seeing the end shots that he went along looking for dangerous things to do where as he actually did the exact opposite.

As for the Russian crane climbers, I suspect there's a little more vodka involved than perhaps there should be...

Look at that dilapidated ceiling. Water damage? Cat peed on a tile, title weakened, then cat stepped on the weakened tile?

>> ^PHJF:

Looks like Professor Shrodinger's cat escaped from the lab again...


Looks like Professor Shrodinger's cat didn't escaped from the lab again...

Don't think it did. Just rolled over really fast once it hit.>> ^Deano:

And he lands on his feet! They are talented that way.

>> ^ant:

University of Peace. Yeah right, the cats are at war!


Issykitty's first attempt at ninja video warfare may look like a failure but she learns and will continue to watch..... The number one sift spot will be hers!