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Reverse one and a half somersaults with three and a half twists, in the Free position. Very nice! 8.7

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>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

damn russia.. how the fuck can't you see people stopped in the middle of the highway like that?!?!


Stopping distance. Physics and cheap brakes are a bitch.

Why were they out and about anyways? Why were they going to their trunk? Don't tell me they are changing their spare. Worst place to stop on a highway. Even on the side is dangerous...

In the slow-mo replay, around the :20 mark, look carefully at the guy who gets hit. The image of him (and him only) appears to shift positions. Maybe it's just an optical illusion and I think too much.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^critical_d:
I dunno....something about this vid is tweaking my spidey sense. Fake?

If it was pointed at the scene in the first, unedited clip, I would agree, but it's obviously just another Russian-Cars-Now-Come-With-HD-Crash-Cams-Like-We-Have-Big-Subwoofers video.

>> ^critical_d:

I dunno....something about this vid is tweaking my spidey sense. Fake?


If it was pointed at the scene in the first, unedited clip, I would agree, but it's obviously just another Russian-Cars-Now-Come-With-HD-Crash-Cams-Like-We-Have-Big-Subwoofers video.

Getting out there is a much more worthy goal than maintaining the empire. If we (U.S.) don't get our shit together, the rest of the world will leave us here. And they should.

My favorite photo. I remember showing this to a friend. After I pointed out that the little spec on the left side, just above the rings, is Earth, he asked "that's a REAL picture?". It is disappointing to me that pictures such as this are not part of our collective conscience. Pictures like this should be on the front page of every newspaper, magazine, and blog when they are released.

Unfortunately, lacking a more expansive perspective or frame of reference, such pictures probably don't register with people nowadays like they may have 30-40 years ago. Maybe we've been so desensitized, in a way, by relatively routine Shuttle flights and countless videos of numerous, nameless somersaulting astronauts, by movies, video games, incredible CGI worlds and "artist's renderings" that it's difficult to grasp just how incredible these pictures and videos really are. I'm old enough to remember how awed I was while watching the moon landings on TV, and that feeling has never left me. It was an amazing, wonderful, historical event.

And now, here we are over forty years later, still spending trillions of dollars on war and empire while NASA has to pay Russia for rides to the ISS and beg congress for relatively miniscule amounts of money for telescopes and exploration. WTF happened?

We need to get to Mars. A Mars mission, I believe, would jolt this country back to reality about what is truly possible and worthwhile. A new perspective. We aren't doomed as a species, yet. But we can't stay here.

>> ^shuac:

I do that each time I casually exit my vehicle. The somersault too.


You should see the look on everyones face at the golf course.

I do that each time I casually exit my vehicle. The somersault too.

*isdupe>> ^arvana:

Sorry, it's a dupe.
dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Most-awesome-penalty-kick-EVER

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by geo321.

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by enoch. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Russian-Somersault-Car.

This is a dupe of http://videosift.com/video/Russian-Somersault-Car.

Don't feel bad, it has been duped before.

Great fun vid.