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[theweaselking]

Australians experiment to determine what type of car is most likely to survive being caught in the backwash of a 747's engines.

With videos!

Oh, and:

Rogersse! Missing the wedding ring, though.

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[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

Australians

Actually, that's a clip from the BBC's _Top Gear_.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The scream of "CRIKEY!" fooled me.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

(P.S. There's a difference?)

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

That Virgin Atlantic jet would be pretty far from home...

I'll just note that if you can find _Top Gear_ on TV or as download, it's invariably worth seeing.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

It's like entertainment, using the form of a car show, but without too much of the icky numbers. Especially not about regular cars.

[sedshe.livejournal.com]

And here I thought the Mythbusters guys did some wacky useless shit in the name of "debunking urban legends."

These guys don't even pretend to have a purpose behind the wanton destroying of stuff. It's the BBC version of "Hey y'all, watch this!"

What fun. :D

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Mythbusters actually did something remarkably similar, and I think they did it first, too. But *they* didn't manage to get the 7*3*7 they were aiming for, instead using a few tiny engines on lorries.

The difference is that Top Gear has umpty-teen-million viewers and I suspect that Virgin was willing to deal with a damaged or even the risk of a totaled jet (presumably, an older one from their fleet) for the amount of free advertising it'd generate.