I'm game, who's coming with me?

http://www.pcplanets.com/videometaca....2474116.shtml

 

Darwin.

 

Stupidity. The stunt is actualy pretty cool but it looks like all those fools but one wasn't wearing a helmet and I bet those cars didn't have any roll cages in them.

 

I wonder several things when I see these guys............like.............

How fast do they need to go to stay up there? Doesn't seem like they're going more than 20 mph or so..... what gear are they in?

How do they keep the engines from starving for oil or fuel? Did they modify things or do they just run it a short time or till the oil light comes on?

What does it look like out the windshield? Like running into a wall?

What happens if the engine dies? Do they fall straight down the wall or do they have time to turn the wheel and head "downhill" again?

 

I couldn't get a good feel for how big across the "pit" is, but if it's about 20 meters across at the height where the vehicles are "orbiting", then they would have to go about 22 MPH to keep from falling. Interestingly, that number is the same both for the cars and the bikes, since vehicle mass drops out of the calculations.

If the engine dies and the vehicle starts to slow down, the rider/driver just has to move gradually down the wall so that the radius gets smaller and smaller as he slows down. The smaller radius requires less speed to stay "stuck" to the wall, so it's possible to gradually reach the ground over the course of several orbits, rather than just falling.

 

Reinforces my main theory: There are two kinds of people in the world, fools and damn fools.

And BTW, what is that at the bottom of the pit? Looks like a body to me.