guy flies 50 feet in the air using waterbottles

[Elazul Yagami]

Water Jetpack

 

kinda cool if i do say so myself.

[iganokage]

Hehe, that's pretty insane, showed it to a few people and most are just shocked at the distance lol... eat your heart out, Mr. Bond

[someboddy]

If only it wasn't fake...

[Inky]

the mythbusters tried to recreate this and couldn't get it to work.

[Wizard]

Mythbusters is the reason why I don't try myths myself anymore.

[garyoak99]

the mythbusters tried to recreate this and couldn't get it to work.

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Thanks, I was just wondering whether anyone else verified whether it was actually possible! I would think that a news channel or a paper would have mentioned it if it were possible...

 

Could you tell me which episode it was too?

Edited January 30, 2006 by garyoak99

[Elazul Yagami]

maybe the mythbusters just couldn't do it?

 

i mean seriously, look at the video, even if he didn't fly 50 feet, the guy DID launch off the ground.

[sf2_ryu]

hehe thats pretty cool.. but i dunno i think ne things cool

[garyoak99]

maybe the mythbusters just couldn't do it?

 

i mean seriously, look at the video, even if he didn't fly 50 feet, the guy DID launch off the ground.

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someboddy seems to think the video might be fake so if that is the case then whether or not he APPEARS to launch off the ground in the video is irrelevant.

Edited January 31, 2006 by garyoak99

[Ryuken]

i've never seen this one before anyway i saw this another video it was this guy sitting on a chair that's on a platform and under it there was a lot of water bottle and there were poles that guided the platform upward. but it still didn't launch up that far, anyway after the long story, my point is that it'll take a lot of power to launch someone that far

[NeuronMaster]

That's pretty awesome. I'd do it.

[iganokage]

Does anyone know what episode of mythbusters they tried that in? I wanna see that...

[garyoak99]

Does anyone know what episode of mythbusters they tried that in? I wanna see that...

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I've already tried asking that same exact question earlier. garageink seems to think they tested that in Mythbusters. Perhaps you could contact him about it?

[iganokage]

Yea I saw, I was just trying to reiterate the question in the hopes that someone might decide to help us out hehe...

[Ryuken]

Episode 42 — "Steel Toe-Cap Amputation, Bottle Rocket Blast-off"

 

    * Original airdate: Nov. 09, 2005

 

Myth statement  Status  Notes

Steel-toe boots are more dangerous to your toes than normal boots when a heavy weight is dropped on them. Whereas a normal boot would just crush your toes, a steel toe would curl and crumple in, cutting your toes off.  Busted  Using similar tests to those used to test steel toe boot certification, Adam and Jamie determine that your toes are much safer with steel toe boots than without. There was no toe-cutting curling of the steel toe, and even using a blade attachment didn't work, only glancing off the steel toe to cut right above where it ended.

According to a Japanese trivia game show, it's possible to use fifteen 3-gallon sized water bottle rockets to launch a human 40 meters.  Busted  While bottle rockets, on their own, can launch 1/15 of Kari's weight a fair distance, combining them into one super-rocket did not have enough thrust to give the simulaid the trajectory or distance stated by the television show, and was considered too dangerous by paramedics to feasibly be used to launch a human being. More bottle rockets proved to only add to the difficulty and complications, and water cooler jugs were surprisingly weaker than standard soda bottles, failing at around 60 psi less than the soda bottles (90 as opposed to 150).

 

The Water Bottle Jetpack from the Japanese Game Show. Despite the existance of this clip, the travel of the man strapped to the 'jetpack' looks unreal.

 

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