>> ^ren:
seems stupidly dangerous to half submerge a chopper to doit tho.


Why ?
The working components are about a foot up from the bottom of the fusealage, and anything up to the air intakes is pretty much waterproofed to begin with (for this purpose).

Those babies can lift tanks, a little bit of water isnt going to hurt it.

this looks awesome!

It looks like something from a James Bond film. Shaped exactly like a dolphin, this boat is the latest toy for millionaire adrenaline junkies. The Seabreacher can jump 10 feet in the air and even perform acrobatic tricks.
Created by two water sport fanatics, New Zealander Rob Innes, 33, and Californian Dan Piazza, the Seabreacher is made of out of fibre glass, stainless steel and aluminium and uses the discarded canopies of US fighter jets.
The two-seater craft can submerge 2 ft underwater for around 20 seconds at a time creating the dolphin-like dive effect.

from: www.dailymail.co.uk

*long

"submerge your ego
stick with it
remain invested
lift me up
move forward
pull me across the finish line
work hard
there was just a good ...a good...
nobody thought we could do it
collective flash in the pan......you kids, y'know, I hope you understand your achievement....move in a new direction..... y'know....we have to win"

Like, y'know, you we're gonna win before it started, Chicago, no one "wins" who's not supposed to, so let's pretend we're all surprised, like we pretend at the polls, that it matters who votes for who......

Sorry? Would it be all better if the duct tape was renamed "Chemical Anti-Intrusory Sealant"?

As much as i hate to admit it, MarineGunrock is totally right. Think about any situation involving low pressure gas.

Want to commit suicide? Well, sit in your car in the garage, turn the engine on, but first make the car's interior air-tight using duct tape. You'll die because your body will use up all the breathable air, not because of car fumes. There won't be a single car-created toxin inside at all. Then you could take a deep breath, open the car and exit via the door. There's a reason people put a hose-pipe from the exhaust through the window. You could live off the oxygen in a car even if there was mustard gas outside in your garage.

You could climb inside a human balloon like a crazed german fetishist and live quite comfortably for as long as the oxygen in that balloon held out for you in a room full of nerve gas.

Submarines too, in fact. If you had the tape strong enough and sticky enough, you could TAPE two metal skips together and submerge yourself in safety.

What's this guy saying? The only negative thing about duct tape is that you're sealing yourself in an air tight container with a limited supply of air. But then you can conserve the air by doing things such as sleeping, and make the entire air supply in your house last you for a few days, and by that time maybe it'll be safe enough to go out, or you'll be rescued by people with portable air supplies.

Or, you know, don't make your house air tight, and die in a dissolving pool of your own lungs, bowels and feces.

(I don't find him funny anyway, but i hope people aren't upvoting for this (lack of) observation!)

Victoria falls is awesome. I never got the guts to go to the safe pool zone, because frankly am not mental, the Zambezi's river happens to be full of crocodiles who very often fall over the side of the falls. I did white water rafting right below and after the falls and it's one of the best experiences of my life.

Standing on the sides you get a gush of fine misty rain that forms countless rainbows, and is cool to the skin. The locals actually call it Mosi-A-Tunya, which means the cloud that thunders, as you can hear the falls way before you can see it. It is also the name of Zambia's beer, which is piss poor unfortunately

The coolest thing is being right below the falls, you can actually walk up to the edge and see the huge tornado like vortex of falling water that forms below, its astounding, a tour guide said that its possible to fall into it and remain submerged for nearly 2 years as water keeps falling.

totally awesome

I'd seen video of this before. This time it reminded me of Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' film, where the train tracks are sometimes submerged under water.

There is also an underwater slide in Duinrell, you hold your breath for 10-15 seconds while you're pushed through a fully submerged tube. Quite scary.

damn, please go read up on this movie and all the things they had to overcome to get it finished. absolutely amazing.
here is my favorite
An accident during filming caused the Orca to begin sinking. Steven Spielberg began screaming over a bullhorn for the nearby safety boats to rescue the actors. A sound technician, already up to his knees in water on the sinking Orca, held his tape recorder up over his head and screamed, "F**k the actors, save the sound crew!" Divers later recovered the camera and flew it, still submerged in sea water, to a Hollywood film lab where technicians were able to save the film.

seems stupidly dangerous to half submerge a chopper to doit tho.

Well. Fist of all I'm the owner of the video, and yes, I own the mercury and I have it here in my room.

As for mercury vapour, yes, inhalation of this is the most dangerous thing, ingestion is not quite as dangerous since body cannot digest it, and skin contact is the least of the dangers, because of its density mercury can't be absorbed by the skin.

As for the zippo coments, well, there's no problem since the surface tension and density is so high it wont go inside of the lighter itself (it would be different if it was submerged, since the high presure it generates will force it's way inside.

No, i'm not Portuguese, I'm from Mexico.

I've had this bottle of mercury for years now, and no, i don't leave it open (or just laying in the box as in the video) all the time. It had been years since I last opened the bottle to mess around and I decided to record it to avoid doing it again.

And I am aware that small droplets might be spilled around some places, but the quantity of vapour they might produce until they dissapear is extremely low.

Mostly, people that get poisoned by mercury get this because of chronical exposure, this means large quantities of mercury that produce large quantities of vapour and ppl are exposed to it for years. Sure it would be dangerous to spill the whole bottle in the floor, or in a piece of furniture, since it's a lot of mercury, but no, I repeat to you it is on a sealed bottle.

One cool thing about mercury is that if you blow your breath into it it will get misty, just as if you were doing it to a mirror, next time you have the chance to play with mercury (even a small drop) try it

Thanks for watching anyway!

You're all welcome to see this other video I made documenting surface vibrations of that same mercury being exposed to low frecuencies... kinda cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ZVz8rM8lY

I almost forgot, here's another demo showing frozen Mercury, (at least freezing it wont produce as much vapour) First a small dropp gets frozen, then a larger amount is frozen. Hope u like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-K5buIxuUY

SaNdMaN: Interesting parody, but a completely different scenario unfortunately - a head on collision between two objects of different densities at different speeds is completely different than the weakening/melting of steel with kerosene. It's like trying to compare driving your car into a block of ice with lighting a kerosene fire in the car.

Without another accelerant like Thermite/Thermate to raise the temperature of the fire, much of the metal components will survive, structurally. They won't look too nice, but the car's roof and frame will stay in place(assuming that you have an older steel-framed car, and not an aluminum or other alloy framed car[unless of course your car somehow has a Titanium alloy or Tungsten alloy frame or whatnot, which I don't know of any that do, but it's a nice thought]).

Of course, many cars have plastic based bodies, so the roof itself might not stay in place, but the frame shouldn't have too much of a problem.

Last I knew, the exterior of the WTC buildings were not made out of plastic, so there's really very little chance of a fire causing their destruction.

Actually, they caught on fire before, even, and didn't get destroyed(unless we somehow rebuilt them and I wasn't aware of it).

Of course, now I'm just ragging on you - sure, it's POSSIBLE(through such theoretical physics as Quantum Mechanics and whatnot) that kerosene could have caused the WTC buildings to collapse - making them the first, second, and third steel and concrete buildings to collapse in the recorded history of the planet, but the probability of it actually happening is about the same as the probability of you being able to push your hand through a solid steel plate without any resistance - sure, according to Quantum Mechanics, it COULD happen, but, well, how many times have you leaned up against a building only to find out that your elbow was half-submerged/half-merged with the brick and mortar?

To date, I know of only one person who can achieve this effect - a guy by the name of John Hutchison.

He uses something like 6 or 8 Tesla coils to do it, too, and if 6 or 8 Tesla Coils big enough to surround the WTC complex were around them that day, well then I probably wouldn't be arguing that the destruction of the WTC complex was not caused by just the planes alone...then again, it'd be way too obvious that the planes were not the only causes of their destruction that documentaries such as this one wouldn't be needed....not to mention the power requirement that'd take....lol

So yeah, get a solid steel plate and practice pushing your hand through it - let me know when you're able to, and I'll consider taking some of the things you say seriously. According to Quantum Mechanics, it's possible, and so long as you believe it's possible, well you should be able to prove it, huh?

Have fun!

I've seen about 2. The other is that the water pressure prevents you from opening the door or a submerged car until the car is completely filled with water.

Assuming that what she was clutching was a frog--the video's quality doesn't make it all that clear as to what she was clutching--, I have to ask, "What did the frog ever do to her to make her want to take it down with her? And how did that frog keep on croaking after it had become submerged beneath the quicksand?" Poor frog . . . and poor acting! And if it wasn't a frog she was latched on to, then have a good laugh on/at/with me!

no need to get all alarmist there, joe! co2 is actually being used in studies as a potential treatment for sleep apnea! co2 is virtually harmless ... as anyone knows, a pound of dry ice sublimates into 8.3 cubic feet of co2 ... those boys used no where near one pound of dry ice.

further more ... carbon dioxide pellets when submerged in ethanol-water solution undergo rapid sublimation, releasing gaseous mixture of aerosolized ethanol with the sublimated co2 acting as a submersion medium. Subsequent inhalation results in diffusion across vascular membrane and direct uptake of the ethanol.

oh no .... we better all stop drinking carbonated bevers such as soda and beer ... sparkling wine .... even pop rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An underwater gallery creates a whole new perspective on the world. Submerged objects are affected by different conditions both physical and emotional. Objects appear 25% larger and closer, colours are changed as light is absorbed differently by the water. The surface of the sea creates an ever-changing kaleidoscope of light, whilst its turbidity acts as a filter. The aquatic medium affords the viewer a multitude of angles and perspectives and thus transforms the traditional role of passive observer into an active process of discovery and engagement.

http://www.underwatersculpture.com