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  1. dhabecker says

    Entertainment factor: 6
    Novelty: 10
    Cost effective: 4

    Think I’ll stick with monster trucks, implosions, Russian car wrecks, and blowing shit up.
    Simple things amuse…

  2. says

    That was fun! Loved the lab coat and gloves, serious business. And I saw Rubber, thought it was grand. Excellent poking at the genre in that film.

  3. komarov says

    Not bad, but what really made it fun for me were youtube’s autogenerated english subtitles. I have absolutely no idea what they were saying, but if the translation is to believed the US treasury secretary was mentioned, among other things. I’d like to request dhabecker revise his assesment in light of this.

  4. davidc1 says

    To make it really interesting ,use only the big tyres and get /force, someone to get inside it .

  5. says

    Maybe some universities will have this sport! It makes as much sense as football, without the traumatic brain injury, and you get to roll tires uphill. They could time the “reload”/lap time and call the even “sisyphussing”

  6. Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says

    @Caine, #4:

    Loved the lab coat and gloves, serious business.

    Honestly, that was my favorite part right up until the [SPOILER REMOVED] near the end. But when [SPOILER REMOVED] happened, I actually laughed out loud.

    @komarov #5:

    Not bad, but what really made it fun for me were youtube’s autogenerated english subtitles. I have absolutely no idea what they were saying, but if the translation is to believed the US treasury secretary was mentioned,

    “Tire of weight bankruptcy not just the beginning to eleven kilometers diameter. 60-2.5 centimeters.”

    ’nuff said.

  7. methuseus says

    I was completely enthralled after the second tire. The last one was disappointing. If that hadn’t happened, the result would have been much different.

  8. joehoffman says

    My favorite part was the biographical information on each athlete: height, weight, and mileage.

  9. says

    Whats marred my enjoyment of this video is the fact that they put the camera crew at end of the track in a deadly position. Even the very first one could have killed anyone hit by it.

  10. sunsangnim says

    I’ll have to remember to show this in physics when we cover moment of inertia.

  11. says

    Turi1337 @13: The smaller tires lost a lot of momentum as they rolled down the end of the track. I’d say only the tractor tire retained enough to be a danger, and even that wasn’t moving fast enough to be unavoidable, as in fact the crew was moving out of potential danger as it hit the airbag. Don’t forget that they had the best position for determining if any of the tires were going to hit them.