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-4 1. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Amazing soccer juggling skills

You are incorrect USANumber1, as you will clearly see if you take the time to carefully study the details of my previous comment. But nevertheless, I applaud your valiant attempt to appear more intelligent than you actually are. Well done! I gave you a thumbs-up for that!
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+25 2. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Urban or rural?

Ringmaster is correct. Vocabulary size is not a reliable indicator of intelligence. Socio-economic factors come into play to determine the extent of a person's vocabulary. In this particular case, it is likely that the female has spent too much of her formative years on her back with a penis inside her, thus seriously limiting her ability to absorb and learn a wide variety of words. To her credit though, she probably has an excellent command of phrases such as:

"Yes, yes, give it to me big boy!"
"Faster, faster, FASTER!!!"

and

"Jesus fuckin' H. Christ! What the FUCK is that!!!???"
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-3 3. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Amazing soccer juggling skills

Not to be too pedantic here, but 'full contact' would imply that every part of one player's body would be in contact with every part of another player's body. This is clearly quite impossible, and therefore the sport should be more correctly described as 'part contact'.
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+19 4. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Another Water Experiment

Thank you for those words of caution from Maffis. Experiments such as this ought to be perfectly safe, but please remember to follow the instructions precisely. Any deviation might prove disasterous.

Do NOT use petrol instead of water!
Do NOT sprinkle on granules of gunpowder instead of pepper!
Do NOT insert a lighted match intead of your finger!

Remember. Safety first!
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-14 5. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Amazing soccer juggling skills

Juggling is realtively easy to do. It only requires practice. The world's most accomplished juggler was a man by the name of Hansel Witter, an Austrian who at the height of his career could keep twelve cast-iron drain covers in the air at the same time, while with his left foot, he painted a picture of a rabbit.
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-7 6. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Crazy Cube Illusion!

It was King Kong, not Godzilla. And only 90% of the 90% complete cube was destroyed. This left 81% remaining, which is still sufficient to view from the moon.
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-7 7. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Crazy Cube Illusion!

The Empire State Building can in fact be seen from the moon. A simple thought experiment will prove this easily. If you are standing on top of the building and looking skywards on a clear night, will you be able to see the moon? I suspect the answer to that question will be a resounding "yes". Therefore it is obvious that anyone standing on the surface of the moon would also be able to see the Empire State Building, albeit with a powerful enough telescope.
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-1 8. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Let's wait for the train to cross

I can now reveal the truth about this train. It is a long train, but not as long as you might think. The track is actually a circular track which curves behind the camera and joins back up on the right sand side of the viewpoint. The effect of an extremely long train is achieved therefore by simply joining the first carriage to the last.
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-3 9. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Crazy Cube Illusion!

Nooitaf is correct in suggesting this method of producing a Hempel Cube. His instructions would certainly produce a cube. However, please bear in mind that the great man himself never used any additional equipment whatsoever. All of his cubes were painted freehand. George Hempel died in 1983 after being struck by lightning while completing a cube on top of the Empire State Building. His body was laid to rest in Kommenhaff Cemetery in Berlin. The 90% completed cube was left as a memorial to the great man. It can only be viewed properly from the moon.
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-6 10. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Let's wait for the train to cross

I have carefully studied the above video and applied a cross-functional diametric frame scan analysis to it in order to determine any possibility of fraud. The results are very illuminating.
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-7 11. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Let's wait for the train to cross

#19 New York pollution often causes people to hallucinate. So what you thought was 2:00 minutes was in fact less than 10 seconds. But they were all double decked.
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+4 12. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Crazy Cube Illusion!

George Hempel began life as an illiterate farm worker, but soon discovered an extraordinary talent for painting cubes which did not actually exist. His most famous one can be found on the South face of the Eiffel tower in Paris, and can only be viewed properly from within an aircraft in level flight, travelling at a height of 120 feet.
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+24 13. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Crazy Cube Illusion!

This is a Hempel cube, so named after its inventor George Hempel.
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-2 14. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Box of wine + microwave

The explanation is simple. When the video skips forward to 4 minutes, the contents of the microwave are exchanged with something rather more volatile than a wine box. In this case, a similar looking box but containing 12 tons of nitroglycerine is substituted in the microwave. The resulting explosion is therefore no surprise.
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-7 15. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Let's wait for the train to cross

I can assure you that the comparison with atomic bombs is entirely valid. An atomic bomb produces a known quantity of energy. And a train of given mass will require a known level of energy to accelerate it to a specific velocity and to maintain it at that velocity. Also, consider this: if that train crashes into a stationary object, for example, a nuclear power station, then the resulting explosion would be very similar to the detonation of an atomic bomb.

Not many people know this, but during World War II, the USA originally considered crashing just such a train into Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Their plans were only thwarted when it was pointed out that there was no existing railway line linking the two countries.
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-2 16. TheProfessor commented 14 years ago on video Kitten Anti Virus

I like cats, but I couldn't eat a whole one.