Backroom Video Thread

[Fragony]

eureka... http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9773...e_is_slim.html

amazingly clever

ROFL http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9807...aan_prank.html

[Lemur]

I don't know a lot about scuba or diving, but shouldn't this sort of thing be, I dunno, physically impossible? More than six hundred feet down on a single breath? Isn't there a phenomenon called the bends? I thought once you got more than two hundred feet down you had to worry about nitrogen bubbles forming your blood and agonizing, crippling pain. Can someone explain to me how this guy does this and lives?

[Fragony]

wth??????? Nope I can't explain that but that was awesome.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Can someone explain to me how this guy does this and lives?

Guillaume Néry has learned his leet skillz at our secret Mediterranean underwater base off the coast of Nice, which was build in the 1960's by Jacques Cousteau. Here octosquids and French special ops have been exchanging techniques and genes, to breed an elite army to take over the world in 2012.


Meanwhile at the Atlantic coast, in our base near Nantes, we are developing high-tech equipment to further harness the power of the squid:

[Subotan]

Absolutely mental. You wouldn't know it was a Kipling poem when read like that, or uncredited like that. Also, why is the Statue of Liberty holding a rifle?

[InsaneApache]

[aimlesswanderer]

A Star Wars themed canned tuna commercial from 1978 Japan. Yes, Star Wars and canned tuna - and yes, wtf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q02...layer_embedded

[Gregoshi]

I don't know a lot about scuba or diving, but shouldn't this sort of thing be, I dunno, physically impossible? More than six hundred feet down on a single breath? Isn't there a phenomenon called the bends? I thought once you got more than two hundred feet down you had to worry about nitrogen bubbles forming your blood and agonizing, crippling pain. Can someone explain to me how this guy does this and lives?

Here is an article about the video.

[InsaneApache]

From memory you only get the bends if you inhale compressed gases. If you hold your breath then the lungs and the air in them get compressed but when you return to the surface the pressure equalizes. I might be wrong but that's what I understand.

[Hosakawa Tito]

I believe free divers are also suceptable to the bends. It depends on the speed of one's ascent and time at depth.

Becoming susceptible to the bends is a function of depth and time at depth. The deeper you go, the less time it takes for your blood to get 'saturated' with nitrogen (your blood has dissolved as much nitrogen as it can hold at that depth). Once your blood has achieved saturation, you must rise slowly, often stopping for periods of time at various depths (decompression stops) to allow that gas to come out of solution in a controlled manner through your lungs. If you fail to do so, the nitrogen can come out of solution IN your bloodstream which causes 'the bends'.

It's kinda like shaking a soda bottle. Take off the cap quickly and it bubbles over. Take off the cap slowly allows the bubbles to dissipate and not boil over.

[naut]

I don't know a lot about scuba or diving, but shouldn't this sort of thing be, I dunno, physically impossible? More than six hundred feet down on a single breath? Isn't there a phenomenon called the bends? I thought once you got more than two hundred feet down you had to worry about nitrogen bubbles forming your blood and agonizing, crippling pain. Can someone explain to me how this guy does this and lives?

Hmm. Dean's Blue Hole is 202 metres deep. That's an impossible distance. That video is fake, the fakeness is confirmed by the claims of the woman doing the filming that she too is holding her breath.... bollocks. This one though is of the current Free Immersion Apnea (descent using a rope) record of 120 metres held by Herbert Nitsch:


And the current Constant Weight Apnea Without Fins (no aids at all, without changing ballast) is held by William Trubridge at 95 metres (not this vid, this is his earlier record, but you get the idea):


And here is Trubridge going through the Arch at Dahab, Egypt. That's a dive that is insane, plenty of people die there every year trying to get through using scuba gear and running out of air or getting the bends because they underestimate the depth and the distance.

[Lemur]

Thanks for the clarification, Psychonaut. I guess the moral of the story is that if something appears to be physically impossible from every conceivable angle, it is.

Meanwhile, the best ever kangaroo-bomb of an interview.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Al Gore: Crazed Sex Poodle

The Taiwanese News CGI Animation Version.

WARNING: Features disturbing computer rendered Al Gore.


His greatest invention, turned against him.

CR

[Crazed Rabbit]

The American Politician:



The Icelandic Comedian who was elected mayor of Reykjavik:



CR

[Fragony]

Good interview with one of my heroes, all the more interesting because she is a non-rejected defence witness (3 out of 20 were allowed, Amsterdam court is more corrupt than bone-cancer) in the political trial against Wilders today

http://hetvrijevolk.com/index.php?pagina=11594

Brave woman