Come on, this is about as fake a viral video as you can get. There is no way anything can fly that far with such a short hill, let alone wind resistance. As cool as it looks, it is way bogus.

Its fake, but still kinda cool

If only we could alter the laws of physics!

Yeah it's fake. The reason that it fakes you out is it's all one camera movement with no visable splicing.

He dissapears when he hits the bottom of the slide and there he stays. They then kept panning in one fluid camera movement. What we saw flying through the air was added afterwards.

The "landing" was just someone already in the pool in a similar outfit making a big splash on cue and stepping out.

It's an old studio trick where they have a stunt double do a dangerous jump, and then the actor is hust hiding offcamera and comes out to make it look like he's done it that's all.

I'm going to take the side of the video here and say that none of you have PROVEN this is fake. You're just givng us your opinion. Please explain how you can see his limbs flailing while he's in mid-air.

Sure seems real to me (and awesome!).

It is viral marketing for Office Project 2007.

filmdude is correct. And...

The one thing that really gives this away as being fake is the amount of water that is ejected from the pool when he lands is much too small. There should have been a bigger splash as most of the water gets thrown out.

The other thing is this guy was risking his life for a video? Just a slight shift to either side while on the slide would have made him miss the pool, not being deep enough to keep from hitting the bottom hard enough to kill him and just flying that far before hitting even water would be risking your life and possibly crippling yourself.
The human body cannot take that much stress, and so on.

It does look cool though. This should be the kind of rides at waterparks (if made safe of course).

Anyone who doubts this is fake is not thinking clearly. Besides the fact that the sound is ridiculous--sounds more like a roller coaster--the guy flies 100 feet through the air and lands in a 2-foot kiddie pool. And then he jumps up like everything is great. Not possible. FAKE.

Its fake There is no way a person can fly like that through the air and land in a 2 foot kiddie pool He would have certainly hit the bottom with the kind of momentum it shows him going through the air. Also watch as he goes down the slide its been altered in some way its too fluid or something but the movement is off. The science required to land that guy in the pool is crazy not just because of the angle and speed but also that the friction of the slide is impossible to read accurately. But I must hand it to these guys they did a good video.

says, "Fake. Fun. Fantabulous!"

It is really amazing looking, but meh.

Think about those speed slides at water parks- The one at Disneyworld, one of the fastest in the world, only gets 60 mph. That slide is 120 feet tall (approx) and has a very steep drop (something like 60-70 degrees).
This slide is nothing like that slide, especially the low angle of the ramp and the lack of height. There is no way this is 12 stories high, and the angle is much more shallow. That, along with the amount of speed lost at the bottom of the hill pretty much guarantees that he couldn't have achieved the approx 45 m/h needed to make this jump.
The speed can be figured out using given data and trajectory physics. If we figure the speed required to go this 35 meters (115 feet), by combining it with the approx height of the trajectory (using air time to figure this out, approx 3.5 seconds) of 15 m (56 feet), an an assumed angle of 30 degrees (yes, I cant prove that one), we get a velocity of approx 20 m/s or 45 m/h.

All of that nerdy stuff to say no way this is even possible. All this math coupled with the fact the splash is way too small for a cannonball, the splash doesn't have the directionality of the impact, the fact he still would have been hurt from hitting the water at that speed, none the less the bottom of that pool, AND most notably the time it takes the sound to get to the camera (it is instantaneous, despite the distance).

I don't believe this is possible, AND I really want a copy of Office.

If true, this would be an excellent demonstration for a physics class for the range formula.

This is definitely worthy of a Mythbuster's espisode, especially since something will get blown up at the end regardless.

Not saying it's real, but the sound doesn't have to be faked. A shotgun Mic mounted in parallel with the lens would Capture the sound wherever the lens was pointed. A parabolic mic would also do the trick.

Time to get the Mythbusters involved!!!

Ok I've convinced myself now that this is fake. Given the speed he was moving at, the only way he could've left the pool with no injuries is if he were to fall into the pool at a perfect enough angle that he is forced to circle around inside the pool until the friction of the water brings him to a stop. The pool itself is made out of a flexible material that should have wobbled with his impact and since it does not wobble even a little bit it cannot be true :(

I agree with filmdude and the rest. Video is definitely fake, but had they planned it just a tiny bit better it would have been impossible to notice.

First of all, the person would have slowed down slightly in the air as he hit the highest point in his travel to the pool. This is when air and gravity team up on you to slow you down. The opposite is seen in the video.

Secondly, the pool would have moved as the body hit the water's surface since the energy would transfer through the water via displacement pretty quickly. So, not only would the flash been bigger but the pool should have flopped a bit and he probably would have hit his butt on the wood beneath the pool as well.

FAKE FAKE FAKE
The energy alone from hitting the pool, he would have blown right through the side of it

http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/

If you don't speak german, it basically says "Is there really such a thing as a man without fear before grand ideas? Even if Bruno Kammerl remains an invention, the time is ripe for new heros. The best plans are still layed with Microsoft Office Project 2007" Or something like that.

the water comes out as if someone was dropped in dead vertically not from the side. wouldn't the water come the same way the dude was travelling?!
STILL AWESOME THOUGH... i don't even care if it's fake or not!!

the only thing that bothers me is the way the water is rushed out of the pull as he makes contact with the water - not to mention the amount of water used on the slide itself PROBABLY not enough to sufficiently reduce friction on the slide. but that might only bother me. not to mention the pool itself didnt move.

FAKE. You can clearly hear the splashing of the water when they wet the slide and when he lands, but when he sloshes out of the pool you can see water splashing everywhere but there is no sound.

Not saying it's real, but the sound doesn't have to be faked. A shotgun Mic mounted in parallel with the lens would Capture the sound wherever the lens was pointed. A parabolic mic would also do the trick.

İt is possible to be a fake video

u guys are forgetting that water exibits different properties at different impact speeds; striking a body of water at sufficient speed will make it seem much more dense. ever seen the mythbusters when they fire different guns into the water, and the high power rifle penetrated the least, and the tiny handgun the most?

as far as the hill not being big enough, that's a very big hill. see how small the stuntman is as he slides down at first? judging the height by that, it is many times his body length, and the projectile path seems pretty accurate. also consider the contours of the land, all we have is the one perspective from the camera, but the projectile distance can vary depending on the level of the pool vs the ramp.

as for the water down the slide, you should only need a small amount of water to slide on a water slide like that. ever ride a water slide like that? the kind they sell for the backyard?

it's fake because the pool didn't move, and it's a 2 ft kiddie pool. ok, first of all, i know this type of pool, they're quite big; not sure if the pool in the video is the same size, but this one's 15ft wide by 42" high http://www.backyardcitypools.com/images/RIN/InflatablePool2003large.jpg i usually see them about 10 ft, and again judging by the size of the ppl when they approach the stuntman, you see that all of them could get in the pool together. also, with that much water in it, do you know how heavy they are? water is really heavy, and that pool isn't going to budge. the volume of water in the pool is many times that of the man's body.

while i'm not saying for sure it's either real or fake, it's plausible. if it's real, i'm sure they either tested repeatedly with a weighted dummy to determine where exactly it would land, then placed the pool there, then tested again, or maybe they're just good at math and could figure it out without any of that. nasa scientists and engineers figure much more complicated calculations than that for shuttle re-entries and launching of satellites into orbit, unmanned space missions, etc. just by doing the math. it's like the pendulum trick where you put a sharp knife on a string and release it from your eye and it swings away from you and you can be sure that when it returns it wont stab your eye out. the weight of the man and the height of the hill, and gravity and the speed of acceleration are all constant, only the wind could have had an effect, but then it would have to be pretty strong, in which case you call off the stung unless the wind condition's right.

i say it's possible it is a legit video.

YOU SHOULD SHOW VIDEO IN DIFFERENT ANGLES BECAUSE IT'S SEEMS A FRAUD, IF IT'S A ANIMATION CONGRATULATIONS FOR GIVE US A GREAT EMOTION.

Oh come on people just think of it in terms of simple physics the rate of acceleration of gravity alone is not enough to produce the speed required for a jump of that distance in that short of a lead up, and given the fact that there is friction and an angle so that only a portion of the gravitational force can exert itself, the speed could never be achived. and the required speed for that jump is somewhere between 50 mph and 80.

I'm going with Teklife on this one, it's quite possible that it's real.
My main gripe with the popular theory of the ole switcheroo here is that man A is still going down that slope with considerable speed. If he's to stop at the bottom, how exactly does he manage that going feet first? Even with some padding that's going to hurt a lot.
Also, if man B is making a simulated splash, why is so much water displaced directly afterward? Think about it: if you make a splash, the water lands back in, maybe a bit goes over the side. But here, there's a splash, then a fair amount spills over the side, an effect more consistent with the stunt shown than some kind of gimmick.
To those saying there's not enough water on the slide, I highly doubt those two tiny buckets thrown on just before the jump were the only water on the slide. That would just be silly. The whole slide would already be wet, they just have to add a bit extra to the top of the slide before the jump because gravity won't let water sit idly there.

There are two other small things that make me reluctant to call it a fake. One is the ramp looks professional and sturdy, why waste time making such a top notch piece of equipment for a fake video?
The second is the hill looks at least twice as long as the slide. If I was making a fake video, heck I'd go all out and use the whole hill, it'd look more impressive.

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to me, it's all in the hill. if you slid down a wet piece of plastic draped over a raw hillside like that - you would be bounced all over hell on the way down. you would not be on the plastic at the bottom... much less eject yourself from the middle of the wooden shute.

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Sorry folks, it's fake. The real indication is the way the water is splashed from the pool. The guy has serious forward hortizontal speed yet NO water splashes out in the direction of travel. The water just splashes a little upward.

How could this be?! Tis too good to be true.

I love the conversations that follow these clips, usually more interesting than the video.

if you look at the web address that pops up at the end, it says (in german)
"Make it feasible - with Microsoft Office Project 2007 The man without fear of large ideas - is there really it? Even if Bruno Kammerl remains an invention. The time is ripe for new heroes. The best plans are only still forged: With Microsoft Office Project 2007."

So some sort of viral marketing.

anyone who actually believes this video must also believe this one then..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJwx_5LxhW0

:p just saying don't believe everything you see just because it's edited well

@Jim
I'm not following the logic of you and many others here.
You're trying to say that because it's a viral marketing video, it must be fake? i.e. we must assume that all viral marketing videos are created with some level of trickery involved?
If anything it bolsters quite the opposite argument, if it's a viral marketing campaign, they would have the budget to do this for real.

Although I hope you all realise it makes no sense to be viral marketing for an obsolete product. Its successors viral marketing has just been launched (Office 2010). Unless you're telling me this was the biggest marketing failure ever because it took so long to surface

In the English version of the site, you can sorta get the idea that the stunt's fiction (which is easier than translatin' from German)...
http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/english/index.php5

The site in my previous comment links to okifilms:
http://www.okifilms.com/microsoft-project-viral-teil/
And you can translate the Kammerl site listed in the youtube vid - the url is Project Office Kammerl...

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seriously? its fake. the G's of going that fast and coming to a stop that fast would literally rupture organs, and to get that fast in that little time...