The web is bursting with amateur daredevils performing unbelievable, thrilling, funny or downright dangerous stunts - incredible feats of bravery, skill or plain old idiocy. Unruly engineer Tim Shaw wants to uncover the truth behind these clips. Partnering up with his daredevil friend and guinea pig Buddy Munro, the pair will travel the globe to remake some of the world’s most hair-raising virals and find out the science behind them (or not). By unpicking the footage frame by frame, Tim uses his engineering insights to uncover the elegant scientific principals behind each of these seemingly fluky stunts. The laws of science will be put to the test, but will Tim and Buddy’s adventures result in a triumphant win or an epic fail?
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Buddy and Tim take on one of the true viral legends of YouTube. In 2007 a young Norwegian Skier dared to ski down the longest escalator in the UK; a sixty metre drop into Angel Tube Station.
Take a leaf blower and an office swivel chair, what have you got? A leaf-blower-powered swivel chair! Clips of people spinning inefficiently while they cradle petrol powered garden equipment get Tim thinking.
Tim and Buddy head to the Caucasus Mountains – which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics – to try and set a shovel racing speed world record.
The team continue their investigations by abusing an actor in the name of science and conducting an experiment into the effects of alcohol on children. They also set out to discover who the Masai would rather marry - Jordan or Carol Smillie.
Tim makes a steerable hoverboard for Buddy to test on the dark waters of an abandoned quarry. Plus: ramps, jet-powered uphill skiing, and doing the splits across two moving forklift trucks.
What happens when you try to play tennis on the wings of a flying plane, drop 7000 mints into 1000 litres of cola or waterski on a barstool? And can you use a fire hose to fly?
The web is bursting with amateur daredevils performing unbelievable, thrilling, funny or downright dangerous stunts - incredible feats of bravery, skill or plain old idiocy. Unruly engineer Tim Shaw wants to uncover the truth behind these clips. Partnering up with his daredevil friend and guinea pig Buddy Munro, the pair will travel the globe to remake some of the world’s most hair-raising virals and find out the science behind them (or not). By unpicking the footage frame by frame, Tim uses his engineering insights to uncover the elegant scientific principals behind each of these seemingly fluky stunts. The laws of science will be put to the test, but will Tim and Buddy’s adventures result in a triumphant win or an epic fail?
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