It’s got thrills, surprising upsets, and dramatic footage. I speak of…TIRE SKI JUMPING.
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It’s got thrills, surprising upsets, and dramatic footage. I speak of…TIRE SKI JUMPING.
Entertainment factor: 6
Novelty: 10
Cost effective: 4
Think I’ll stick with monster trucks, implosions, Russian car wrecks, and blowing shit up.
Simple things amuse…
Already saw the movie.
(I actually sat through the whole thing. I wasn’t entirely pleased that I had.)
Aw dang. link
That was fun! Loved the lab coat and gloves, serious business. And I saw Rubber, thought it was grand. Excellent poking at the genre in that film.
Not bad, but what really made it fun for me were youtube’s autogenerated english subtitles. I have absolutely no idea what they were saying, but if the translation is to believed the US treasury secretary was mentioned, among other things. I’d like to request dhabecker revise his assesment in light of this.
To make it really interesting ,use only the big tyres and get /force, someone to get inside it .
Maybe some universities will have this sport! It makes as much sense as football, without the traumatic brain injury, and you get to roll tires uphill. They could time the “reload”/lap time and call the even “sisyphussing”
Who’d a thunk it, “the bigger they are, the farther they fall”.
The width of the airbag at the finish shows a lot of optimism…
@Caine, #4:
Honestly, that was my favorite part right up until the [SPOILER REMOVED] near the end. But when [SPOILER REMOVED] happened, I actually laughed out loud.
@komarov #5:
“Tire of weight bankruptcy not just the beginning to eleven kilometers diameter. 60-2.5 centimeters.”
’nuff said.
I was completely enthralled after the second tire. The last one was disappointing. If that hadn’t happened, the result would have been much different.
My favorite part was the biographical information on each athlete: height, weight, and mileage.
Whats marred my enjoyment of this video is the fact that they put the camera crew at end of the track in a deadly position. Even the very first one could have killed anyone hit by it.
I’ll have to remember to show this in physics when we cover moment of inertia.
Never change, Japan. Never change.
Turi1337 @13: The smaller tires lost a lot of momentum as they rolled down the end of the track. I’d say only the tractor tire retained enough to be a danger, and even that wasn’t moving fast enough to be unavoidable, as in fact the crew was moving out of potential danger as it hit the airbag. Don’t forget that they had the best position for determining if any of the tires were going to hit them.