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MEGAWOOSH!
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| Aug 13 @ 9:59 PM |
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that was great. Terrific video editing to pull that off.
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| Aug 14 @ 6:56 AM |
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I am not convinced that there was video editing.
First off there are several other videos all over the net showing his preparation for this jump.
In a couple of the videos you can see a crash test dummy that was most likely used to test the physics.
Another video shows him being filmed and interviewed by a female German news reporter.
I saw another video which showed what appears to be a materials and physics testing lab in his backyard with elaborate test equipment.
This guy appears to have spent a hell of a lot of money for a prank..... I don't believe that it was a fake.
DiamondRain explain how it is fake.
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| Aug 14 @ 7:00 AM |
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it was filmed as an ad for german microsoft or something. they admitted it was faked, but it's really cool anyway. 
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| Aug 14 @ 7:05 AM |
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Always_Striving
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Another Microsoft prank ...... that figures 
In June of this year they played a prank in Seattle by turning nighttime into daytime by announcing their introduction of "Bing"
http://www.matchdoctor.com/thread_6_35597_1/Look_what_Micro-soft_has_done_to_the_Seattle_sky.html
Rich college pranksters 
[Edited on 8/14/2009 7:14 AM]
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| Aug 14 @ 8:41 AM |
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DiamondRain
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How MEGAWOOSH was done...
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| Aug 14 @ 11:49 AM |
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Gallows_Humor
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Viral marketing
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The buzzwords viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet[1]. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, ebooks, brandable software, images, or even text messages. The basic form of viral marketing is not infinitely sustainable.
The goal of marketers interested in creating successful viral marketing programs is to identify individuals with high Social Networking Potential (SNP) and create Viral Messages that appeal to this segment of the population and have a high probability of being passed along.
The term "viral marketing" has also been used pejoratively to refer to stealth marketing campaigns—the unscrupulous use of astroturfing on-line combined with undermarket advertising in shopping centers to create the impression of spontaneous word of mouth enthusiasm.[2]
so...microsoft probably did not have anything to do with the start of this..
they probably just paid the creators... to include their (MS) logo on the video...
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| Aug 14 @ 3:14 PM |
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by the very slim chance that was really possible -- and it may be -- the guy probably would have been badly injured by the impact.
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| Aug 14 @ 3:26 PM |
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Gallows_Humor
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it's fake.. the "splice" is between 10 and 11..and also between 18 and 19....
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| Aug 14 @ 3:32 PM |
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I was disappointed!!
I guess I'm more into explosions and things that go BOOM!!!
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| Aug 14 @ 3:36 PM |
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Gallows_Humor
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.... 
oh well....
( as this thread...was put in the "general" forum..I will save it for another time...
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| Aug 14 @ 3:41 PM |
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| Aug 14 @ 3:44 PM |
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Always_Striving
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It could be still possible to do if the water slide was constantly being doused with K-Y jelly lube fed through a sprinkler line.
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| Aug 14 @ 3:59 PM |
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Gallows_Humor
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the jump is entirely possible under the right set of circumstances....
but remember that...
"it's not the fall that______ but the landing...."
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| Aug 14 @ 8:50 PM |
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DiamondRain
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you can see what looks like a crash dummy on the ground at the bottom of the ramp.
This vid is so cool... I think I watched it about 50 times.
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