Take a scientist, a guy with a high speed camera, everything from the mundane to the extraordinary, and you end up taking an hour of my life away sitting in front of the TV in amazement. The show: Discovery Channel’s Time Warp.
I’m sure you have all seen documentaries that use a high-speed camera shot at one point or another. In Time Warp, however, the high-speed is the star of the show. Each week scientist Jeff Lieberman and cameraman Matt Kearney (the narrator’s name isn’t on the site–typical) take their high-speed camera and show us the world in a way we’ve never seen it before. It’s amazing how things work at slow-motion.
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It’s not just the slow-mo. It’s what you end up seeing. Something you never think about turns out to involve more than you think. We never see what a jackhammer’s effect on the human body is, the actual steps of a balloon’s destruction, or what a baseball actually does to a baseball bat.
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They go out and find people from all walks, from freerunners, to yo-yo and bullwhip exerpts, to pole vaulters, to cheerleaders, to you name it. They film them with the high-speed camera, and show the subject just what happens to them in ways the naked eye misses. It makes you wonder just how complex the world really is. Here, let me show you the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
Or I would, but this video, too
Science meets art. And I’m not even showing you things blowing up in slow motion. Why not? Because I want you to watch the show. As I write this, there are new episodes every Wednesday night on the Discovery Channel. Watch this show! It is quite possibly the coolest thing on TV right now, if not ever! And I don’t say things like that often.
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(top video from Discovery’s page at You Tube. Other videos posted by grimor2000,until they were removed)
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