Comments on: Episode 113: End with a Bang

By: Uck

Uck — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:36:45 +0000

Better to end with a bang.

Cutting the truck in half would’ve been cool if it’d actually cut the truck in half. And the time lapse started to look pretty cool, but then it just petered out and died a quiet death.

The bang, on the other hand, was a spectacular surge of adrenaline. Seeing the dust pop out of the ground all around the moped was really cool, even if it was just a moped.

When are you going to publish the results?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:17:46 +0000

I agree… my grandfather and his brother use to hop trains in the depression and they had to exit before it stopped in town. Yes you had to hit the ground running to keep from having a nasty tumble.

By: John Jackson

John Jackson — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:02:35 +0000

Deffo better to end with a bang!!

By: cone

cone — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:29:22 +0000

not sure it has to do with how the drop is, rather being prepared when you do it. Basically, you aren’t doing it before you hit, then start immediately when you hit. I agree with Madelyn on this. The saying seems like it suggests that you are not doing the action, but immediately start when you hit. They were running in the air which seems silly in the first place, as the saying doesn’t even suggest that.

By: cone

cone — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:24:25 +0000

I think they are taking the saying “hit the ground running” a little off. The saying is about being prepared to immediately work after impact, not start ahead of time running. Basically if you jump out of a truck (please don’t do this) that is going slow enough speed and want to continue forward momentum, you don’t start to run until you hit the ground, but you do hit the ground running if you don’t want to tumble and stop the momentum. So it’s about being prepared, not running while in the air. That’s my take on it.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:57:58 +0000

Probably, but I think Jamie was on to something when he theorized that it needed to have a certain consistency. He deliberately chose the lion poop because it had the most dirt-like consistency, and domodango (the Japanese technique that they ended up using) was designed to make shiny balls from ordinary dirt.

Favorite line from this episode: “Waiter, there’s a hair in my poop!”

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:55:31 +0000

In real life? It would depend on his distance from Ground Zero.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:53:20 +0000

Not a myth. They use it to put out oil well fires.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:52:56 +0000

Actually, they DID revisit it. The first time they tried it, they weren’t allowed to use a real jet airliner. When they did it again (I think it was a 737 or 747, not sure), it did in fact flip the taxi.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:51:12 +0000

I don’t have an exact figure. The dorodango site doesn’t specify. However, I would guess many hours, or even days.