Professor Splash on Time Warp
Time Warp is this Discovery channel show that makes slow motion videos of stuff. Not too bad of a show (although I already talked about the samurai guy and “waves of energy”).
Professor splash is this guy that jumps from really high positions and lands in 1 foot of water (and doesn’t die). He was on Time Warp last night. If you are interested in this, I did an explanation of how it works in a previous post.
I haven’t watched the whole show yet – but I did TiVo it. If there is any thing interesting to analyze, I will post that also. Unfortunately, I do have one comment. One of the time-warp guys was talking to splash guy about why he is in the “belly-flop” position when he hits the water. Here is essentially what he (time-warp guy) said:
“oh, so in that position the deceleration gets spread out.”
I would like to emphasize that I don’t have a problem with people misusing physics terms and explanations. I do have a problem with people giving poor explanations while trying to come off as a science explanations. The Time Warp show explicitly says that they are trying to explain the science of slow motion stuff. Maybe they should change the show to: cool stuff seen really slow by non-scientists.
Hello Rett,
Your link to the Professor’s jump is dead. I’d like to read it though.
Rob
@Rob,
thanks! I fixed it.
The “Time-Warp” hosts are real smart, and schooled to the max! When they talk, you should listen more, and not sound so frustrated with your agenda. Hey, what is your goal? Is it to annalize other peoples triumphs and try to bring them down to your level. Anyway you look at it makes you out as the odd one.
That’s analyze, my bad.
MythBusters exudes a joy that mildly entertaining Time Warp cannot grasp. Jaime shoots 12 ga 00 buck through a dozen loaded pizza carriers and the crowd holds it breath. Time Warp does machine guns and somehow misses the point. They’re lax on range safety, too.