Ever Pulled in the Name of Science

http://www.cracked.com/article_16301_6-most-badass-stunts-ever-pulled-in-name-science.html

5/29/2008 9:33:03 AM

i thought it said "the 6 most badass sluts"

i was thinking i probably shouldn't click on it at work...

turned out it didn't matter

[Edited on May 29, 2008 at 9:35 AM. Reason : n't]

5/29/2008 9:35:34 AM

awesome... i like the rocket chair guy... he's my new hero

5/29/2008 9:40:49 AM

isn't that a pic of the girls on 2girls1cup on the second page?

5/29/2008 10:52:07 AM

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"Dr. Albert Hoffman developed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide-25 in 1938. Five years later he accidentally absorbed a tiny dose through his skin and had to stop working, experiencing intoxication, dizziness and two hours of mind-bending hallucinations. Clearly a man who knows how to party, his first response was "I gots to get me some more of that shit." He didn't mess around. Three days later he took 250 micrograms, now known to be over 10 times the threshold dose for humans. He later claimed that this was a miscalculation, but we're fairly sure when he said that he winked and added, "Right, guys?" He spent the rest of the day in a state scientifically categorized as "high off his tits." He was unable to speak clearly, he saw sounds, was afraid of witches, threatened by his furniture and watched the best fireworks display the world has ever seen go off inside his eyeballs. "

haha, awesome

5/29/2008 11:55:11 AM

Quote :

"Perhaps driven to insanity by his ridiculous name, trainee doctor [Stubbins] Ffirth attempted to prove that Yellow Fever isn't contagious (Note: it actually is)."

LMAO

Quote :

"Still, the odds of his not catching something are on par with playing Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun, but having it jam on a winning lottery ticket that just dropped out of the sky"

[Edited on May 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM. Reason : ahaha.. had to add that]

5/29/2008 12:48:53 PM

badass stunts got my attention

in the name of science lost it

5/29/2008 12:51:32 PM

yeah, i was all ready to bust in here and make sure that Zoe Bell on the hood of a Challenger got mentioned

but alas

5/29/2008 2:46:24 PM

hahah the badass presidents article is good too.

5/29/2008 2:47:16 PM

the very first thing I thought of before even opening the article was Dr. Stapp (#6). His eyeballs popped out of their sockets momentarily, restrained by the optic nerves!

5/29/2008 5:52:12 PM

one of the coolest things i've read in a while, 9/10

5/29/2008 5:53:49 PM

Quote :

"In 1954 he decelerated from 120 miles per hour to 0 in 1.4 seconds, and gained two huge black eyes from the force of his own slammed-forward eyeballs punching him on the inside of the face. "

and i knew it was cracked when i saw it was a list of some type. they have the best lists ever

5/29/2008 5:56:16 PM

Quote :

"(perhaps shouting "Dammit, it's too dangerous!")"

5/29/2008 5:58:36 PM

^^ hmm, i didn't read that carefully before. Stopping from 120 mph in 1.4 seconds isn't even CLOSE to correct. Shit, I bet I've done at least that level of deceleration in a carrier arrested landing. Dr. Stapp's rocket sled rides were far more violent than that.

5/29/2008 7:28:02 PM

Quote :

"In 1954 he rode the "Sonic Wind" at 632 miles per hour, to a dead stop in 1.4 seconds. Colonel Stapp was subjected to more than 40 times the pull of gravity (40 G's), proving that windblast and deceleration of ejection from aircraft at 1,800 miles an hour and 35,000-foot altitude could be survived. Time Magazine called him "the fastest man on earth and No. 1 hero of the Air Force" (Time, The Weekly Newsmagazine, September 12, 1955). "

-from http://www.stapp.org


yeah, that's a good bit more extreme than 120-0 in 1.4 seconds.

5/29/2008 7:35:02 PM

it mentioned 30something Gs of force. bad ass.

5/29/2008 7:59:14 PM

that dude trying to prove yellow fever wasn't contagious...

Quote :

"He jammed infected patient vomit, blood and urine into every orifice. This includes several holes he cut in his arm, dripping pus from dying men into his eyes, and he rounded off a nice day of horrific self-mutilation with a filling lunch of fried puke."

5/29/2008 9:42:20 PM