Nice, the guy looks right at the dog while the doors close and doesn't even react until his hand starts getting pulled down to the floor.

did the camera guy open the door, close it, then climb out the window?

At first I was thinking "I don't get it - I don't speak French." then once it showed the car it all made sense.
Sort of reminds me of the Twilight scene where the tourists are all led into the Vampire's Chamber to be eaten and all you hear when the doors close are the screams.

>> ^Shepppard:

Calling BS on this one.
Not only was something very similar busted on Mythbusters, but you expect me to believe that you can force open the lock on the trunk of a car, and then it'll then not only close perfectly, but somehow open every door on the car?
Right.
Not to mention that there's no way in hell a plunger can be made flat against a car with that type of lock, you'd never be able to get any air-pressure from it.


omfg. Pay attention. He unlocks the rear door from over the seat through the trunk. He then opens the rear door to unlock the front door. He then opens the front door to sit in the driver's seat. You can even hear it click when he pulls the locks open from inside the car. How is that hard to understand?

And the trunk lid isn't damaged, it just pushes it outwardly, causing the latch to rotate into the open position (it's just a piece of metal with a deep notch in it that rotates around a metal bar to hold the door closed). I don't know how well that would work if the door were locked though...

I'll give you the plunger one though.

And when my house catches on fire, I will simply move the two chairs, open the house door, move my car a bit, open the car door, get inside, move the car a bit more as I close the car door, close my house door as I'm sliding backward through my tiny garage, and it's off to safety!

This happened to my brother on the London underground in peak hour when he was about 12. We were cramming in to get on the train, then as the doors closed my dad and I turned around to see my brother waving at us from outside the train. I flipped, but my dad was completely calm. we got off at the next station, and when the next train came, my brother calmly stepped off right in front of us. To this day I don't know how they both were so chilled about it.

OMG, THEY DIDN'T KEEP THE DOORS CLOSED!

^ "Leaked" in advertising terms means "Released to the web to maximize public exposure with minimal expense".

Calling it "Leaked" and "Banned" is like telling a kid "Mommy and Daddy are going to a restaurant. Be good, and whatever you do, DON'T WATCH THAT SECRET VIDEO WE HAVE ON OUR COMPUTER". As soon as the door closes, that's what he's going to be viewing.

He was doing fine until he let the door close — after that he was screwed no matter what.  A bit embarrassing, but he still seemed happy enough...

Ok toaster design....along the lines of a german cuckoo clock, little Samoan-lookin fellas comes out, carrys the toast to a brick-fire oven kinna motif, the doors close on that, and out the back, Hula women carry the toast to the plate...I'd pay $200 bucks for one a those-

The most interesting thing is that the banana actually is a demonstration of Schrödinger's quantum superposition problem, we can never know if the banana is either fresh or asploded until we open the door. The banana actually exists simultaneously in both states, and only be the act of observation does the banana assume one state or the other- in essence the quantum waveform function of the banana collapses only by the act of observation.

Proponents of the "Many Worlds" school go further, and hold that the quantum wave function does not in fact collapse and form a single outcome, but rather that every possible outcome does exist in a parallel universe somewhere. So even if you are in our world scraping asploded banana from the inside of your microwave, you can be secure in the knowledge that an alternate version of you in a parallel universe is enjoying a fresh, ripe, un-damaged piece of fruit.

In reply to this comment by plastiquemonkey:
the tough part is catching the residual microwaves. they bounce around inside the microwave oven even when it's not turned on, because the microwave's walls have a special reflective coating.

when you open the microwave door to put your groceries inside, you have to do it quickly, so as not to lose too many of them. if the door's open too long, the microwaves will bounce out the opening, and the benefit to the produce will be lost.

of course, if you do end up losing the residual microwaves, you can restore them by turning on the microwave (with the door closed) for 5 seconds on 'HIGH'.

i think it's amusing that still, to this day, most buildings taller than 12 stories don't have a 13th floor.

i dunno though. it sounds plausible. ( http://www.geek24.com/g/non-stop-express-elevator-ride-with-a-simple-elevator-hack )

The hack is rather simple, instead of pressing just the "floor" button, press the "door close" and the "floor" button together at the same time. It works on most Otis Elevators (All but the ones made In 1992), Dover (Model Numbers: EL546 And ELOD862) and most Desert Elevators(All, But Model Numbers ELD5433 And ELF3655).

engadget also has a piece on this too, though they also do a lot of quoting and repeating without checking it seems.
( http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/02/elevator-hacking/ )

it would seem that, if nothing else but to conserve manufacturing prices, if this was a non-functional button they would 'write it out' of the plans. that depends on whether it's a template, or robotic manufacturing. easier to leave a nonfunctioning button in if it's a template, no need to create a new template. easier to take out a nonfunctioning or obsolete button with robotics... reprogram, save a button, and that precious 0.03¢

the tough part is catching the residual microwaves. they bounce around inside the microwave oven even when it's not turned on, because the microwave's walls have a special reflective coating.

when you open the microwave door to put your groceries inside, you have to do it quickly, so as not to lose too many of them. if the door's open too long, the microwaves will bounce out the opening, and the benefit to the produce will be lost.

of course, if you do end up losing the residual microwaves, you can restore them by turning on the microwave (with the door closed) for 5 seconds on 'HIGH'.

*shakes head* Away with you.

Anyways, I was doing a search to confirm that this was in Hong Kong (it was, and additionally, she was the only one in on the joke) and I found this little story:

"A one-paragraph newspaper article describes a subway platform during the morning rush hour at Grand Central Terminal. A train pulls in; a well-dressed woman gets off. Before the doors close, the woman realizes that she is holding only one of her leather gloves. She looks back into the train and spots the matching one on the seat. It is obviously too late to dash back in to retrieve it, so with a cavalier shrug, she flings her arm out and, the doors about to close, tosses her glove onto the seat alongside its mate. The doors shut, and the train pulls away."

Not really on topic, but I thought it was too good to not share.