Liquid, Mountaineering

[Bodzilla]

you might be asking what the fuck is Liquid mountaineering.

well my friends.
This is.
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I have got to try this.

[annihilation]

Lol, so fake.
It's stil pretty cool.

[Hotrod]

3 words : Holy shit, awesome!

EDIT : It's fake :(

[Cortexian]

Definitely fake.

Some people might try and argue that if you move fast enough your feet could push down on the water faster than you would sink into it, but there just isn't enough surface area on the feet for that to work.

[ICEE]

It works if you mix in corn starch

[EX12693]

I could see this working if the shoes had a large enough surface area... but then you couldn't move fast enough.

[Con]

They're probably using a clear floating mat. I've used something similar; it was a long roll of thin rubber or plastic in a pool and if you ran fast enough you could stay up, but as soon as you stopped it would collapse.

[Cojafoji]

What I posted for this video on reddit...

They filled an entire lake with non-Newtonian liquid cornstarch...
No, they just put blocks in the water. There's not surface tension while they're running, and their feet always go down ~ four inches. That, and they always fall in, in the same place.

[Con]

I think it's a sheet, not blocks.
0:48 scene you can see it

[Syuusuke]

Sportin' Jesus

[sleepy1212]

the surface area required decreases as speed increases. run faster dammit.

PS: thanks for ruining that too. i was all excited...

[Kornman00]

We're all children of Jesus, who walked on water, so this obviously can't be fake :downs:

:ugh:

[EX12693]

the surface area required decreases as speed increases. run faster dammit.

PS: thanks for ruining that too. i was all excited...

Good point. Didn't the Mythbusters try something like this already?

[annihilation]

The average human wouldn't be able to run that fast.

[Cortexian]

I pretty much already said all this in my first post in this thread :)

[annihilation]

Sorry, didn't notice.

[ExAm]

Notice how they're all wearing the same brand stuff? It's a viral ad.

Also, plexiglas ramp in the water. Refractive index makes it match up with the water.

[Timo]

I pretty much already said all this in my first post in this thread :)

Congrats on posting first third.

[Aerowyn]

Notice how they're all wearing the same brand stuff? It's a viral ad.


"Yeah, we needed shoes, see, LOOK AT THESE COMPLETELY WATER-RESISTANT SHOES WE FOUND LET'S ZOOM IN ON THE BRAND OKAY :v:"

[ICEE]

Notice how they're all wearing the same brand stuff? It's a viral ad.

Also, plexiglas ramp in the water. Refractive index makes it match up with the water.

God damn it I didn't even notice it. But now that you say it its totally obvious

E: That pisses me off. Both the viral ad and that I fell for it.

[sleepy1212]

Good point. Didn't the Mythbusters try something like this already?

it was the ninjas episode. i think they tried foam shoes.

[Cojafoji]

they tried huge fuck off pieces of Styrofoam strapped to the feet, and the other used some retarded wood contraption.

[Siliconmaster]

That was brilliant. Watched the video, thought it was awesome, realized from the comments it was fake. That is a textbook viral ad, beautifully done. I have to hand it to the ad team.