Jumping Jehosephat

[Van55]

Watch this brief video.

http://www.koreus.com/video/saut-toboggan-eau.html

Then come back and give your opinion of whether it's a genuine jump or some kind of photographic trick. Unbelievable!

[rckymtn22]

I would say fake. Too many variables on the placement of the tank. If the tank was bigger, maybe. I wouldn't be the guinea pig to try the stunt out.

[sepp]

Appears that there are no breaks in the video, real maybe! Cool? You betcha! Want to try it? No way!

[Froggy]

Fake IMO. First, the distance he traveled seems a little great to be real. Second, as rckwmtn22 said, the pool looks way too small to take such a huge risk: someone HAS TO BE totally crazy to attempt such a jump; the odds are MUCH greater to crash than to splash. Unbelievable, ergo impossible. But who knows?! Maybe that moron had the luckiest day of his life!

[android]

Fake

[Jesuscookies]

Like everything on the internetz....It's real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dizedean]

Fake..

The pool doesn't move an inch upon impact.

Looked like fun though.

DSS

[Chicago]

A good, entertaining, but ultimately fake flick. In addition to what the others have said, I think his momentum and speed would have carried him through the other side of that pool or he would explode upon impact with the wooden platform/bottom of the pool material.

[Tampa1257]

It is a Fake,

The guy going down the slide starts head first, then his head is toward the rear when he leaves the ramp. Turning around would slow his speed and not complete an acurate "jump".

[zuma]

A good, entertaining, but ultimately fake flick. In addition to what the others have said, I think his momentum and speed would have carried him through the other side of that pool or he would explode upon impact with the wooden platform/bottom of the pool material.

Agree completely... as it defies the laws of physics, it must be a manipulated video. (additionally, notice how the object slides down smoothly over the wavy sections of the tobogan... )

[cvm4]

But this is real, LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvN0PAdnwQU...feature=related

[thechenman]

This actually reminds me of my college fraternity days. One weekend during a particularly warm/hot spring we decided to build a water slide. However, unlike the kids in this picture, we decided to build it inside the house. We used wood, fiberglass and tarp to build a winding waterslide that started in the attic, went down two flights of winding stairs, out the front door, over the front porch and into a kiddie pool about 12 feet away. Some people overshot the pool and actually landed in the street. It was an amazingly good time - a great campus party with beer and a BBQ. However, it necessitated that we run a hose from the attic...ultimately we did about $10K in water damage to the frat house. Needless to say, the alumni housing committee was not pleased. Come to think of it...the college was not either.

[SamuraiJack]

Fake

[scinmyheart]

I call malarky

[Van55]

In addition to the other discrepancies, I think the trajectory of the flight is all wrong. It should be a parabolic arc, but it looks like the flying object is flying on a line down to the pool.

Still entertaining, eh?

[sandholm]

Fake

Person start head first, exit feet first

Trajectory is not following the laws of physic, he would have to hold a much higher speed for produce such of low arc and the impact would be extreme

But this one is real

[Froggy]

Fake

Person start head first, exit feet first

Trajectory is not following the laws of physic, he would have to hold a much higher speed for produce such of low arc and the impact would be extreme

But this one is real

Yeah.... right. LOL

[korryp]

It's a German ad for Microsoft Project. It's fake. Notice the blue dummy at the bottom of the take off ramp. Thereis also a rope visable when you look at it frame by frame.

[rckymtn22]

Confirmed ! Fake

Microsoft's Marketing Stunt Goes Viral

Turns out the official recipe for fun and the way to create an Internet sensation are the same: Start with a megacorporation, add in a group of Germans on a hillside, liberally take advantage of slick editing software and let the power of the Web do its thing.

If you spend any time online, have a TV or know anyone who does, you've probably heard about the latest craze blasting its way through cyberspace. In case you haven't, a recap: A guy in a neoprene suit goes barreling down a waterslide, flies off the end and through the air, traveling a great distance, and splashes down in a tiny pool. It's the MegaWoosh. See?

lease understand. This is a hoax. It didn't happen. Ultimately, it's an ad for Microsoft Germany. Still, it is awfully clever. Heck, some commentators out there on the Net are suggesting it could be one of the greatest fakes in the history of the World Wide Web.

One big question is whether this will help to reposition Microsoft as a force to be reckoned with in the collective mind of the world's tech-obsessed masses. For the better part of this decade to date, that's been pretty much dominated by Apple. You know, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, etc. What, you think those "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials just happened one day by accident?

How this excellent production came together can be boiled down to something like this -- a stuntman starts down the slide, but a rope keeps him from going too far, the thing that's airborne isn't a person, but is instead animation, and the principal character ended up in the pool by dropping off a small ramp. Piece it seamlessly together, and there you go.

According to NewTeeVee, a marketing firm that deals with viral ads was signed up to get the video on to a few dozen Web sites. The agency claimed it was planning for the spot to stay in Germany, but c'mon, this is the Internet we're talking about here. With social networking having effectively taken over the known universe and serving as our sole means of communication with other humans, there was no chance this thing was seriously going to remain confined to one nation in Western Europe. (Did they really want it to? Really?)

This story is only a few days old, and it's captivated millions of viewers. News outlets are spreading the word. Type the word "megawoosh" into Yahoo's search engine and you will get about 270,000 hits. Believers in the stunt are crying foul at those who would insist it's as phony as the moon landing. Wait, bad example. You know what I mean, though.