This video is mindblowing!
And sadly, totally fake.
Rebecca Watson over at Skepchick does a great job of explaining why this is a nothing more than a superbly-produced shoe ad, and points out some clues that the video may not be on the up-and-up:
- All men are wearing the same brand (Hi-Tec) head to toe. Why?
- There’s a close-up of the Hi-Tec running shoe with a description of its waterproof abilities. Since when does being waterproof=flotation?
- They are all mega-hot. Why?
- The filming is beautiful and uses licensed music. Who paid for this?
- THEY ARE FULL-GROWN MEN WALKING ON FRESH WATER; THIS IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE
- At one point, they use jet skis to increase their land speed before hitting the water. This makes no sense. Would holding onto a truck’s back bumper make you run faster?
- NO SERIOUSLY THEY ARE MEN WALKING ON WATER
She devotes the majority of her article to edu-ma-cating people on how to use google skeptically. Googling “liquid mountaineering” only brings up videos of the water-walking. ”Liquid mountaineering fake” or “true” or “hoax” bring up many hits explaining the awesome, but fake, nature of this advertainment.
I was totally looking forward to violating some laws of physics today, but it appears it is not (yet) meant to be.
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Thank you, WordPress!
Thank you, WordPress, for posting me yesterday on Freshly Pressed, the front page of wordpress.com I had a heck of a lot of fun watching my stats page freaking explode all day long. Flatlining usually isn’t a good thing, but I went from an average 15-20 views to over 1350 views yesterday. That makes my day-to-day graph look like this:
I could have sworn there was more up-and-down on that thing yesterday… See that little bump on May 7th? That was previously the most exciting, traffic-filled day of my blog’s history at a whopping 86 views. Wow. I had 44 comments, replies and trackbacks on “Happy Nerd/Geek Day and Towel Day” compared to my usual 0-3 per entry. Again, all very exciting. Thank you to everyone who visited, and to WordPress for the visibility.
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Erin B.
May 26, 2010 at 17:42 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yay go sister! Do you have a way of knowing how many people might follow you on Google reader or Bloglines?
jana
May 27, 2010 at 07:54 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
thank for sharing – and being the first one to make me laugh this morning!
i’ll be one of those 3-4 clicks on your graph for the next while, if you don’t mind. ’cause i kind of like these pages
jana
May 27, 2010 at 07:56 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
ugh! it’s too early: it should have read: “i’ll be responsible for 3-4 clicks…”
biodork
May 27, 2010 at 08:57 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for stopping by, and I’m happy to have you be responsible for 3-4 clicks
I stopped over at your blog too, and I can’t wait to read more!
cafewitteveen
May 28, 2010 at 12:11 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Great work, Biodork! Compensation for blogging — at least for me — is when I get that spike from a bigger blog bump. It feels so good, and then a little deflating when numbers return to normal.
I subscribe to your blog by email (you’re one of only about 3), so oftentimes I don’t click over to actually read your posts on your blog … which might account for missing a few hits a day.
Thanks, too, for your excellent response to that antivax mom. I wanted to give an immediate, “Hell, yeah! Bravo!” but I was waiting first for her to respond.
Cheers and congrats again!
biodork
May 30, 2010 at 23:43 (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thank you for your comment. I was grinning like an idiot when I read it! Thanks for subscribing also – I love that. As for antivax mom – I’m sort of sad that she had absolutely no…zero…zilch to say to any of my responses to her outbursts. I guess she must agree with everything I said!