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er, you try it.
Hoax. Pure and simple, and for a variety of reasons.
#3 You have to be kidding me right.
How freaking gullible are people these days!
bullshit
#4 I think you answered your own question.
http://thefastertimes.com/socialmedia/2011/02/18/google-and-social-50-year-old-in-a-miniskirt/
This article really annoyed me its some idiot already starting up the Facebook vs Google fanboy fights by being a total suck up.
With practice you will all achieve the point of this vid in no time!
Ice and an edit.
i got it on my first try, its not that hard. pulling the envelope at the right speed is key. it causes a vacuum effect to condense the molecules in the water for a short time. the spinning keeps its form up. it only lasted like 10 seconds though 🙁
Damn it — I’ve tried over 50 times and I still can’t get the hang of it!
Given the educational level or most Americans.. I bet there’s a lot of wet messy houses in America right now thanks to this video. lol.
Neat video effect at least.
Is the “trick” that this guy gets even one person to try this, or that he gets a thousand blogs and a million blog comments to recognize his few minutes of air-time?
They forgot to mention that there’s some cost involved…
some couple thousand dollars for the 3D package, and the motion tracking compositing system…
LOL
Works on the first try with cooking oil.
[Har! – ed.]
worked fine with play-dough
So, I learned the first part of this 40 years ago. I eventually convinced my dad that it would be fun to do it at a restaurant before we left…just leave the cup upside down and full of water. But that just pisses off the waitress or busboy, because they don’t know how to solve the problem, or don’t notice and just pick up the glass. lol
So we upped the ante by putting the tip in the glass before flipping it over.
Ahh, that was fun.
This “trick” brought to you by the Distilled Water Makers of America.
The only place they CAN do this, would be on the space station.
#14: You’re on the right track, only it doesn’t need all that. A good 3D graphics program to create the ‘water’ and then composite it into the video using something like Mocha using After Effects.
Amazing how a cup inside a cup will keep water inside it when the outside cup is removed….
#21
You can use OSSoftware like Blender.
These days you can do almost anything with free software and OSes… with a steeper learning curve though…
Actually, the secret is in the Pink Flamingos….they’re like magical Unicorns.
It’s an obvious hoax because water is a liquid! It can have surface tension, and the video seems to suggest that that’s what’s making hold the shape.
Surface tension can out-gun gravity only up to a point. Ever noticed that droplets on a surface only ever get so big. That’s the limit of surface tension in water.
Also notice that droplets always assume a spherical, pseudo-spherical or semi-spherical shape.
In space, you get bigger droplets. Much bigger, but they still form sphere-ish shapes.
I tried this and it did not work. What am I doing wrong? My water spilled all over the place, and went into my brand new iPad while it was turned on, and ruined it. Then I tried it again, and it went all over my Renoir etching which I had hanging next to the table. Then I tried it again and the water went all over my just acquired first edition of the Gutenberg Bible. What am I doing wrong?
You were SUPPOSED to use the iPad instead of cardboard dummy.
Only works if your a Republican
do i need a special brand of water? can i do it with beer,buurrp?!
i used salt water and it stayed up almost 4 minutes,but the table has to be perfectly level and smooth.
I tried it 4 times with tap water and it did not work. I got some distilled water like the video said and it worked after 3 attempts. It lasted about 15 seconds. Amazing!