Comments on: Episode 78: Walking on Water

By: Poetry

Poetry — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:02:31 +0000

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By: Enrico Martinez

Enrico Martinez — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:41:43 +0000

Yep!
The Butterfly Technique!
It’s not the movement of the sword that make’s it like a butterfly; but rather the movement of the swordsman is likened to the butterfly.
Knowing how the Butterfly/Swordsman move, thus knowing where the sword will be, thus catching the sword in mid-air with bare hands.
But it would be more practical just to catch the hands that yields the sword; its bigger, softer, and slower than the sword’s metal part you want to catch.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:33:03 +0000

You’re missing the point with the sword, I think. The point was to catch it with your bare hands, using your palms. THAT is what they tested for, and that is what they busted.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:30:29 +0000

No, sorry, Sandra. No human can run that fast. I’ll try to explain why.

To avoid sinking, you need to generate thrust equal to your weight by pushing water down and backwards with each step. If you had a size 9 shoe, you can’t push more than around 3.5 liters (0.92 US gallons) of water at a time or you would sink too far and friction with the water would slow you down too much. So you have to push that much water FAST enough to offset your weight.

If you weigh 75 kilograms (about 165 pounds), you’d need to push the water back at about 11 meters per second (or a little over 24 miles per hour). Since the water pushes back, you actually need to go at least twice as that, or you would stand still.

That means you’d have to run about 80 kilometers per hour (almost 50 miles per hour), which is impossible even in my simplified explanation which ignores things like fluid drag.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:20:09 +0000

A myth-understanding (pun intended) of the Mizo Gumo by Adam and/or the research team?

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:18:26 +0000

What they missed is that ANYONE can walk on water, and the only equipment you need is… water, and a solid floor.

Fill a glass with water. Pour it on a tile floor. Now start walking. Congratulations… you’re walking on water! ;-)

By: Akef

Akef — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:42:43 +0000

Everybody knows that ninjas arent human, but superheroes. So, check your source, losers :)

By: Your wrong

Your wrong — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:17:52 +0000

It’s called movie work

they change it to make it look like they cought it!!

By: Mythbusters are dumb

Mythbusters are dumb — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:39:14 +0000

You can walk on water with buckets tied to your feet or foam. Ninjas easily could have used buckets. You can catch arrows if you close your hand before the arrows is fired. Swords can be stopped easily with iron gauntlets. Mythbusters suck.

By: Annie Reh

Annie Reh — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:10:04 +0000

In the 1960′s my husband walked across pools, ponds and lakes using a commercial product called Water Shoes. They were large fiberglass covered foam with plastic flaps on the bottom. We still have them and he still uses them.