What Amazed You Today?

[Zag]

Grats to you Seattle Seahawks fans! After being the first team ever to enter the playoffs with a losing record, they defeat the reigning champions, New Orleans Saints! Well done!!

[The Ragin' South Asian]

What matters is that they're 1-0 right now.

There are a few things in Seattle sports that are always electrifying. In the order of the most relevant being last:

1. The Ich-I-Ro chant when he comes to the plate trailing (but not out of it) or tied late in a game with men on base.

2. Felix dealing.

3. False starts at Qwest.

[Samadhi]

HOLY SHIT the Seahawks won! They didn't play the damned game here. They NEVER play the Seahawks. Anyone have a link I could watch?
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

Here's a clip of Beast Mode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0WYsKYy0ag

[Thok*]

[Samadhi]

Fair enough. In my defense I was sick yesterday and am still recovering. I slept until 7pm (about 20 hours) so I would have missed it anyway.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Thok*]

OK. In any case, ESPN.com claims that Seahawks-Bears is Sunday January 16th, at 10 am Pacific Time (1 pm Eastern) on FOX.

I assume that you are capable of figuring out what channel FOX is.

[Samadhi]

Unless I'm sick. Maybe I should be. They seem to lose every game I *do* watch.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Quailman]

At 6 AM this morning the outside temperature at my home near Houston was 69 F. At 8:15 AM it was 36 F. Brrrrr!

[Pablo]

[Quailman]

I know you have it a lot colder, but that quick change amazed me. Tomorrow morning at 6 AM it will probably be about 20 F. That's a 50 degree change in 24 hours.

[Pablo]

[Chuck]

Google doesn't have a Groundhog's day logo.

[Zag]

OMFG, It's Groundhog's day. No groundhogs around here are going to show up unless they can burrow threw the four f'ing feet of snow.

[jesternl]

Actually, I'm more surprised no Pennsylvanian has shot Phil live on TV yet, given how many hunters there are here

[wordcross]

Skin Cell Spray Gun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI
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[Chaz]

Man. That doctor is owning the messy look.
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[Death Mage]

I love science, and creative people. That device is amazing. Completely amazing.
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[Pablo]

What makes anyone think this is for real?
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[wordcross]

I generally expect National Geographic to have standards of reporting. Granted, I haven't seen much of it since it became NatGeo, but still, what makes you think it's *not* for real?
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[Pablo]

[Poisonium]

Googling gave me this article on Popular Science. It seems fairly reliable to me.
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[Chaz]

If you google the doctor's name, stuff comes up (including his page at the university he works at.)

If you google the patient's name with the word "burn" a bunch of stuff comes up.
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[Death Mage]

Medical miracles don't get a whole lot of positive press coverage. It goes against the media's "drug companies are out to KILL YOU FOR MONEY" line. Now for the real question: How tongue-in-cheek is that comment, really?
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[The Ragin' South Asian]

[Samadhi]

[The Ragin' South Asian]

Yeah, but you've always been much more interested in Pablo's "skin gun" than me.

[AcidFast]

...well-played.....
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[Quailman]

I never could throw a football to save my life, but this is amazing.

[Jedo the Jedi]

Wow, Quail. I kept trying to see how that could be faked, but there seemed to be very few opportunities for that.
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[The Ragin' South Asian]

That's really cool. I don't think it's fake - I've heard about other QBs doing similar feats, although to a lesser degree. Like Tim Couch was touted for his ability to accurately drop a football into a garbage can like this guy, or Kyle Boller being able to gun a football through the uprights from 60 yards out on his knees.

[MatthewV]

There is the potential that a few misses were edited out. I would be most impressed by a water bottle being knocked off someone's shoulders. The target would really have to trust his aim for that!

[wordcross]

I doubt it's fake, and the guy's obviously got a lot of talent, but you have to wonder how many takes it took for some of them.
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[Zag]

The fact that it was a hand-held camera (with all the shaking) makes it a lot harder to have faked. On the other hand, there's nothing (other than a lack of bruises all over the guy's face) to say that it wasn't 50 takes for each one they showed. If he could sink those baskets that accurately from far away, why hasn't the basketball team already recruited him. Someone who could consistently bury 3-pointers from the center line would be a starter on any college team in the country.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

I think the basketball ones and the door ones probably would have required a few takes, since in addition to putting the ball the in the right place, there's also a bounce, which is tough to control with a football.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

[Zag]

If you can throw that precisely, you can throw that precisely. Learning to do it with a slightly different motion is not going to be the challenge.

I saw Larry Bird once demonstrate this for a Boston Globe reporter. Larry was playing with two fingers taped together, and the reporter asked him if he could still shoot accurately. Larry then bet the man (who had been a successful college player) that he could completely tape up both hands, all four fingers together, and still beat him in a free-throw competition. With his hands completely taped (covering the finger tips) Larry threw 4/10 in the first set, then 8/10, 10/10, 9/10, to win their best of 5 competition.

[Chaz]

[The Ragin' South Asian]

[Chaz]

Plus, aren't footballs like aerodynamically designed to fly further, whereas basketballs are designed to arc predictably?
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