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Honda commercial destined to become advertising legend
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 4/13/03
| Quentin Letts
Posted on 05/15/2003 9:14:35 AM PDT by tdadams
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This is really a feat and amazing to watch. See the
video.
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:14:35 AM PDT
by
tdadams
To: tdadams
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:20:29 AM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
(Can't debate? Play the fat card! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/911587/posts?page=259#259)
To: Sir Gawain
Thanks for the link. Maybe some people didn't see the original post.
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:21:23 AM PDT
by
tdadams
To: tdadams
Thanks. I was trying to find the original post last week.
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:24:49 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: tdadams
It's definitely amazing, but I think they wasted their time. In a world of Matrix-style effects, nobody is really floored by viewing this type of thing. It's a curiosity, to be sure, but they could have faked it and most people would have still thought it was "neat".
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:28:17 AM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
To: tdadams
I've got one little problem - with the tires. The first tire hits the second, smaller tire and that tire rolls forward (uphill) and hits another tire. Then the second, smaller tire rolls backward. As the camera pans to the right, you can see that the second tire rolls forward, uphill AGAIN. How did that happen? Shouldn't it have hit the third tire and rolled back down the ramp, instead of rolling uphill again?
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:31:47 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: tdadams
That's amazing! Rube Goldberg would be proud!
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:32:36 AM PDT
by
jimkress
To: Mr. Bird
Noting for later
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:32:59 AM PDT
by
Havoc
(If you can't be frank all the time are you lying the rest of the time?)
To: SJSAMPLE
There were weights inside the tires.
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:37:05 AM PDT
by
Andyman
To: SJSAMPLE
Click the link for the full article. It explains that the tires were weighted. I'm sure that's what causes this.
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:37:17 AM PDT
by
tdadams
To: SJSAMPLE
"I've got one little problem - with the tires. The first tire hits the second, smaller tire and that tire rolls forward (uphill) and hits another tire. Then the second, smaller tire rolls backward. As the camera pans to the right, you can see that the second tire rolls forward, uphill AGAIN. How did that happen? Shouldn't it have hit the third tire and rolled back down the ramp, instead of rolling uphill again?"
They put weights in the tires, with the weight part up. when the tire hits the next, the weight throws off the balance and rolls it "uphill" into the next tire, and so on.
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:41:02 AM PDT
by
RayBob
To: tdadams
I didn't see the original.....thanks for posting. :)
To: tdadams
Ping for later.
To: tdadams
It's interesting. Unfortunately, I think I must be too Old and too female to 'get it'. Somebody has way too much time on their hands. I wish they'd come to my house to cut the lawn.
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posted on
05/15/2003 9:55:54 AM PDT
by
Iowa Granny
(Some days you're the pidgeon,,, other days the statue)
To: tdadams
Now that is cool.
From the story:
and from the wacky engineering of Caractacus Potts's breakfast-making machine in the Sixties film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
My son always wanted to crack eggs like they do in that movie!
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posted on
05/15/2003 10:01:09 AM PDT
by
eyespysomething
(Breaking down the stereotypes of soccer moms everyday!)
To: SJSAMPLE
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posted on
05/15/2003 10:03:36 AM PDT
by
TenthAmendmentChampion
(Free! Read my historical romance novels online at http://Writing.Com/authors/vdavisson)
To: tdadams
This is really neat.
To: tdadams
bump
To: tdadams
A couple of things bother me about this video - 1) The lighting is perfect (almost too perfect). The small alcoves that hold the lights repeat going down the room, which would make an unusual room. 2) The separation in the boards on the floor seem to have a repeating pattern and a low probabilty of actually occurring.
At first I thought the video was real as described. Now I am not so sure.
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posted on
05/15/2003 10:19:37 AM PDT
by
PhilSC
To: tdadams
Bump for later viewing.
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posted on
05/15/2003 10:23:06 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
(Dieses sieht wie ein Job nach Nothosen aus!)
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