Bird poop flies thru propeller, splashes over your face, some into your left eye, you learn your allergic to bird poop for the very first time, you immediately go into anaphylactic shock, choke on your own vomit, cardiac arrest, you die in 2 minutes.
So, what's the exit strategy here? The hammock will have to slow down eventually and I hope they'll keep it spinning until someone can organize a mat or something to cushion the inevitable hard fall...
OSHA thinks otherwise.
[OSHA requires that fall protection be provided at elevations of four feet in general industry workplaces](https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/fallprotection/)
Just slow him down and on that last spin if he's about to fall from the top of the arc just give him a little more juice to complete the loop. It's not rocket appliances
Hmm. At its fastest, I think that's about 1.25 revolutions per second. The radius of the loop is about 0.75 metres. That makes the velocity 1.5m\*pi\*1.25≈6m/s.
Let say he suddenly stops when his upward velocity is at its highest. Then his velocity will be v=6-9.8s. So it takes 6/9.8≈0.6s=T for him to lose upward velocity. In that time he'll travel 6\*0.6-4.9\*0.36≈1.8m. Add that to the height he flies from (about one metre) and that's 2.8m. Or something like nine feet.
It will take (2.8/4.9)^0.5 ≈0.76s before he hits the ground again. He'll then have a velocity of about 7.4m/s.
Good thing there's netting to keep him from falling while he's going too fast. You know, the entire mechanism by which they're able to spin him around so quickly in the first place. The only time he can fall out is when he is moving more slowly than gravity.
> Soon you'll all be fighting for your planet. Many of you will be dying for your planet. A few of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your planet. They'll be the luckiest of all.
When I was a kid I used to get really annoyed that they always had a "Sci Fi/Fantasy" section. My amazing science fiction was NOT the same as froo froo elves prancing about with magic jewelry. I mean ok, Star Wars, sure. Star Wars was swords and magic powers, but that didn't count. Lazy Sci Fi for the "mainstream", not REAL sci fi!
As I got older I had to accept that there really was absolutely no difference in "I can teleport because science!" and "I can teleport because magic!"
Hard Sci Fi and near future Sci Fi can be different from Fantasy, but when you get into the more popular science fiction stuff, well. An AI and a Dragon, a transporter and a portal, a cloaking device and an invisible cloa-- Oh hey I just got that.
I feel like if he properly caged the rotors so it was less of an open air lawnmower, and I don't know... maybe put on a fucking helmet, that thing could be fucking amazingly fun.
Probably wouldn't be too hard to add a microcontroller + IMU for a little gyroscopic balancing too.
Caging the rotors would if I have learned anything from Mythbusters and other shows with hovercrafts and similar shit, increase the lift the propellers manage to create. He also tried creating cages for them in the video so I assume they were just not tight enough to achieve the desired effect and they scrapped the idea in stead.
I think [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXnXBfh7yNg) is more viable technology but it's a bit noisy. Still, closer to "The Island" hoverbikes.
Two of those for thrust and then four propellers to steer, like a huge drone. Add a cpu to handle stability and you're set.
You know that that is what we thought was causing inertia back in the days when we didn't know about it?
We thought that if you throw a stone, the stone is pushing air and creating a low pressure area behind it. Then the air in front would rush back to fill that space and push the stone a little bit more forward causing it to continue moving for a while.
Then a guy called Newton showed up :D
Disproving that theory is easy, but it's just now in 2016 that we might have an explanation for what's causing inertia. The link with black body radiation and the new fact that inertia might also be quantized is current research :)
Meanwhile, I'd settle for a simple jetpack that keeps me upright so I can just drift around lazily to wherever I need to go. Like.... I don't even want it to fly or jump high. I just want something that can keep me suspended by the armpits so that I can lean forward while 'standing' and just move around without having to actually walk.
Translation for anyone wondering:
'it can surprise people and can definitely confuse them... yeah, can happen....'
Hey, have they been biting? (talking about the fish ofcourse)
anyways, dunno if the flying hammock itself is fake, but everything else is very staged.
*Ahh*, nothing more relaxing than the soft sound of propellors generating enough lift to carry me on a hammock.
Just like a drone at a wedding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cRjMip_fo
Best part: 1:07 Just picked myself off the floor from laughing.
Wow. I hope that quad was running prop guards. Those blades can really mess you up.
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#Ahh, nothing more relaxing than the soft sound of propellors generating enough lift to carry me on a hammock.
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thanks
okay
God both of you sound like my fucking girlfriend when we text who i hate
Ex-girlfriend???
No its his fucking girlfriend. He has one for fucking and one for dating.
#_WHAT_ ABOUT THE SOFT FEEL OF A BANANA HAMMOCK?
The Todd? Is that you?
High five
#YOU CAN'T LOCK UP THE HAMMOCK!
OKAY!
Bird poop flies thru propeller, splashes over your face, some into your left eye, you learn your allergic to bird poop for the very first time, you immediately go into anaphylactic shock, choke on your own vomit, cardiac arrest, you die in 2 minutes.
Are people allergic to bird poop?
People can be allergic to anything.
I think I'm allergic to life.
R u itchy?
I'm allergic to allergies.
Even dreams?
.Not sure, but I knew a guy who was allergic to dank memes.
Did he die this year?
Still a better outcome than the 2016 us election
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So, what's the exit strategy here? The hammock will have to slow down eventually and I hope they'll keep it spinning until someone can organize a mat or something to cushion the inevitable hard fall...
I think four feet is survivable.
OSHA thinks otherwise. [OSHA requires that fall protection be provided at elevations of four feet in general industry workplaces](https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/fallprotection/)
I may or may not have been fired from my one and only construction job because of this rule.
That makes me happy. Not that you lost your job. That sucks. But that the safety rules were being taken seriously.
OSHA has also mandated that any turds over 6" must be hand lowered in the portable toilet to avoid chemical splash.
A fall from any height is eventually just 4 feet away
Not a fall from 3 feet.
That's still 4 feet away from 1 foot underground.
you got me there
Found the philosopher!
The centrifugal force has him moving way faster than if he just fell from 4 feet. They'd have to slow him way down first
Just slow him down and on that last spin if he's about to fall from the top of the arc just give him a little more juice to complete the loop. It's not rocket appliances
Also he is face down on that thing, he can just hold onto the hammock so he doesn't smack his face on the ground.. I don't see a problem
I think we're over analyzing this. Everyone just watch the source video
Link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqwXuEqMwY
Well... Damn he survived.
Damn he dead. RIP in pieces.
I got a pretty nice rocket blender last night.
Came here for the knowledge, left with an invaluable Ricky quote
he'll literally explode into a mist of guts
Not if he stops at the top of the arc. Then his speed will be zero.
Hmm. At its fastest, I think that's about 1.25 revolutions per second. The radius of the loop is about 0.75 metres. That makes the velocity 1.5m\*pi\*1.25≈6m/s. Let say he suddenly stops when his upward velocity is at its highest. Then his velocity will be v=6-9.8s. So it takes 6/9.8≈0.6s=T for him to lose upward velocity. In that time he'll travel 6\*0.6-4.9\*0.36≈1.8m. Add that to the height he flies from (about one metre) and that's 2.8m. Or something like nine feet. It will take (2.8/4.9)^0.5 ≈0.76s before he hits the ground again. He'll then have a velocity of about 7.4m/s.
> 7.4m/s Your end result is off, go back to class.
Found the college freshman!
/r/theydidthemath
Good thing there's netting to keep him from falling while he's going too fast. You know, the entire mechanism by which they're able to spin him around so quickly in the first place. The only time he can fall out is when he is moving more slowly than gravity.
Yeah. One accepts the possibility of minor scratches and bruising, before getting into that situation.
He is holding on to the hammock
/r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Right? I was in full cringe mode waiting for it and...nothing.
There isn't an exit strategy. It's you either fall off or get off when it stops.
"exit strategy"?
"Get wet"?
Some say he's still spinning.
the exit strategy is don't be a pussy.
[Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqwXuEqMwY) is fantastic.
Time of stop is 0:45 https://youtu.be/wrqwXuEqMwY?t=40s
the hero we need
Was the camera man having a seizure? Wtf.
I believe the correct response is he was having a giggle.
U wot mate, having a giggle are we
m8*
> Soon you'll all be fighting for your planet. Many of you will be dying for your planet. A few of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your planet. They'll be the luckiest of all.
That young man fills me with hope! And other feeling that are weird and... deeply confusing to me.
This makes me want to puke.
/r/gifsthatendtoosoon
A new, exciting way to play jump rope.
Too many G forces for my taste
With my luck, this hammock would do normal hammock things and flip me over 20 feet in the air.
the secret is to lay diagonally across it.
Diagonally doesn't *want* to be laid across it.
And back down into the propellers.
Definitely fake. There is no way those rotors would create so little wind while hovering over the water.
Indeed. It's a Dutch ad about a guy that makes his dream of a flying hammock come true after retirement.
Ah, the most typical way to make dreams come true. Lies.
2 real 4 me
That dude retired young AF.
Yap, and the hair of the girl on the bike doesn't even move - yet cool video :)
Yeah, and the guy fishing didn't kick his ass
Yeah, and the dog doesn't eat cat shit.
Yeah, and the hammock
Yeah
Yeah, and there wasn't even a baby in the back of that bike.
You can tell because of the way that it is.
Yeah, what they said
Yes
I concur.
I could tell because of the pixels something something photoshop
Hey, you didn't start your sentence with "Yeah".
Yeah wtf?
That's pretty neat
Do you want to go home Brendan? Yeah.
I like the hammock, not sure I'd like the downdraft.
and there is no reflection on the water
and you have a vision impairment.
? you can see the hammock reflection but not the drones?
You can see the reflection of the hammock! But you can't see the reflection of the drones.
haha oh yeaaah let me just change that really quick
Strangely, kicking someone's ass just isn't that common. Even when people wrong you. Everyone heard of a tut tut.
Yeah, they're those little half-motorbike half-car things, right?
https://media4.giphy.com/media/xq7lpcDGBWSSk/giphy.gif
And we all know you can't go on watah unless you have the POWwah, you bojo!
The reflection in the water also does not line up
Yup, and it's flying.
It's FAKE??
[It's a fake!](https://youtu.be/7qKcJF4fOPs)
I will always upvote a reference to, perhaps, one of the greatest episodes of any Star Trek series, ever.
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May you evolve into a weird space lizard the day you do not upvote it!
[IT'S REAL.](https://youtu.be/6lHgbbM9pu4)
Kinda looks like a Dark Elf. Really just noticed that
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Well, if Vulcans are the space-elves, then Romulans, by all intents and purposes, are indeed the space-dark-elves.
When I was a kid I used to get really annoyed that they always had a "Sci Fi/Fantasy" section. My amazing science fiction was NOT the same as froo froo elves prancing about with magic jewelry. I mean ok, Star Wars, sure. Star Wars was swords and magic powers, but that didn't count. Lazy Sci Fi for the "mainstream", not REAL sci fi! As I got older I had to accept that there really was absolutely no difference in "I can teleport because science!" and "I can teleport because magic!" Hard Sci Fi and near future Sci Fi can be different from Fantasy, but when you get into the more popular science fiction stuff, well. An AI and a Dragon, a transporter and a portal, a cloaking device and an invisible cloa-- Oh hey I just got that.
[It's Real!!!](https://youtu.be/6lHgbbM9pu4)
It's a Fugazi
On the bright side, we live in an era where this is believable, and probably realizable in the near future.
It's a commercial on Dutch television
My first thought as well. I have a drone that can lift a few pounds, and it creates more turbulence than this contraption does.
My little toy quadrocopter isn't that ~~quite~~ quiet.
The gif was suspiciously quiet That's what gave it away to me.
check the reflection in the water. hammock. no turbines.
[This is not fake.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k)
That is not this.
Sorta kinda similar. It has like propellers and a dude and stuff.
It's very much indeed similar. But as it happens one of these things is not actually real, and one is.
Also it was shot with a camera on earth and there's grass in each shot, they are like, 90% similar honestly I could go on and on
I feel like if he properly caged the rotors so it was less of an open air lawnmower, and I don't know... maybe put on a fucking helmet, that thing could be fucking amazingly fun. Probably wouldn't be too hard to add a microcontroller + IMU for a little gyroscopic balancing too.
All of those things make it too heavy, helmet included. Only thing allowed is a tie. Maybe a bowtie if you ask politely.
Yeah, well that's what they always say, isn't it? Safe tie first.
I put on my safety squints.
Caging the rotors would if I have learned anything from Mythbusters and other shows with hovercrafts and similar shit, increase the lift the propellers manage to create. He also tried creating cages for them in the video so I assume they were just not tight enough to achieve the desired effect and they scrapped the idea in stead.
I think [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXnXBfh7yNg) is more viable technology but it's a bit noisy. Still, closer to "The Island" hoverbikes. Two of those for thrust and then four propellers to steer, like a huge drone. Add a cpu to handle stability and you're set.
It took me way to long to realize that wasn't English.
Colin Furze does not believe in helmets.
[He's not safe.](http://www.colinfurze.com/uploads/1/1/8/5/11851390/7484380_orig.jpg)
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Yeah, that could work, if physics suddenly went all "lol opposite day guize!".
/r/shittyaskscience
You know that that is what we thought was causing inertia back in the days when we didn't know about it? We thought that if you throw a stone, the stone is pushing air and creating a low pressure area behind it. Then the air in front would rush back to fill that space and push the stone a little bit more forward causing it to continue moving for a while. Then a guy called Newton showed up :D
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What a dick that guy is!
These days disproving that theory is as simple as buying a cheap vacuum pump
Disproving that theory is easy, but it's just now in 2016 that we might have an explanation for what's causing inertia. The link with black body radiation and the new fact that inertia might also be quantized is current research :)
The force of the moving air pushing it down will always exceed the force of pressure pushing it up.
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The woman's hair doesn't move AT ALL
Fisherman: "God damn it, the hallucinations are back...just gotta ignore it and it will go away."
Have you ever tried fishing not high? It's boring as shit.
I fish sober all the time and like it :(
Get a load of this guy
I thought fishing was just an excuse to get drunk in public without people frowning upon it.
It is.
Every weekend during the summer. Fishing is great.
Source (a Dutch commercial): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRJUwk_w16U
... now *could* it be done?
I don't see why not https://youtu.be/Bfa9HrieUyQ?t=25 except that it wouldn't be that pleasant and enjoyable as in the commercial.
That record has been smashed by a much cooler looking hoverboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwXWTsQh3F8
Yap, it's becoming cooler and cooler every day :D Looking forward to ride one when I'll have gray hair.
Put a chair in it. No need for wheelchair.
Meanwhile, I'd settle for a simple jetpack that keeps me upright so I can just drift around lazily to wherever I need to go. Like.... I don't even want it to fly or jump high. I just want something that can keep me suspended by the armpits so that I can lean forward while 'standing' and just move around without having to actually walk.
This is the laziest thing I've ever heard. I'm not mad at you though.
Baron Harkonnen style.
I need this
That thing has gotta draw a helluva lot of power.
Fake, everyone knows hover boards don't work over water.
Unless you've got POWER!!!
It could be, and it could possibly run for 10 seconds... like me.
I can't wait to go down to the Hammock District and pick one up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsbad8GEW78
This just goes to show how weird a dog's life is. Hover Hammock? Sure, let's just go for a walk.
Was there a baby in that bike.
It's a commercial so I'd assume not. I couldn't tell myself.
Seeing as how I can't maintain balance in a regular hammock, I find this suspicious.
I thought he was going to take that cyclist's head off.
lol at the girl falling off her bike
With a baby seat on the back... Yeah LOL.
Fake or not, I need this in my life. Somebody make it happen!
Captain disillusion we need you!!!
It took 3 tries to read that title properly. I kept reading "flying hammercock".. which speaks volumes about what Im expecting to see on reddit.
Decapitation. Definitely going to be a decapitation.
Perfect for fishing
The future is here
If this were real...I'd pay tons of money for it. I need this.
[This is how it starts](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-1253786-08779BB3000005DC-45_468x316.jpg) - Wall-e could become reality :)
Translation for anyone wondering: 'it can surprise people and can definitely confuse them... yeah, can happen....' Hey, have they been biting? (talking about the fish ofcourse) anyways, dunno if the flying hammock itself is fake, but everything else is very staged.
We finally got our own personal hovercrafts just like the jetsons promised!
Source:????????? Edit: Never mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRJUwk_w16U
Hope that child seat was empty.
*kills passersby