His horizontal velocity was very high. If this is real, he would have been stopped very hard by the far wall of the pool. 20 miles/hour? This could be fake.
The way I see it, the guy going down the slide died instantly when he hit the kiddie pool. They stopped the camera and another guy took his place to make it look good. Germans really hate failure.
At the beginning you can see a dummy laying on the ground. They probably used it to adjust the distance to the pool by trial and error before sending the living dummy down the ramp.
I'm starting to think the video could be real. The guy may just have put up with the hard thump at the pool. And, as you point out, it's easy to swap in a live guy for the dead stuntman if needed.
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His horizontal velocity was very high. If this is real, he would have been stopped very hard by the far wall of the pool. 20 miles/hour? This could be fake.
The way I see it, the guy going down the slide died instantly when he hit the kiddie pool. They stopped the camera and another guy took his place to make it look good. Germans really hate failure.
Here is a different edit of the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXXC2etJeZQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F
At the beginning you can see a dummy laying on the ground. They probably used it to adjust the distance to the pool by trial and error before sending the living dummy down the ramp.
I'm starting to think the video could be real. The guy may just have put up with the hard thump at the pool. And, as you point out, it's easy to swap in a live guy for the dead stuntman if needed.
Did you notice the incredible range of the zoom lens? I see that some video cameras have an optical zoom range of 60X!
Herb likes this so much he wants it to use in his calculus class as a demonstration of some math thing for his students to figure out.
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