Meh. “Of course you can’t tell the lie, because even our truths are full of lies!” Makes me even less interested. It’s not pick the lie from the truths, it’s pick which lie is the lie we mean. :rolleyes:
When they were explaining the clues around the lie, they didn’t even cover the most obvious one - they said they needed a local anesthesia and then injected it into an IV.
Makes me wonder if they even knew it was wrong.
It occurs to me that one of the big problems with the show is that spotting the lie is all too often based on knowledge rather than reasoning. I’m supposed to know what a defibrillator paddle looks like outside of context.
The echolocation story also really didn’t seem right–when they say he can “mountain bike,” to me that means going at relatively high speed on uneven trails with ruts, small rocks and such. What we saw was the blind guy slowly avoiding huge garbage cans on a flat residential road. Not unimpressive, but not what they seemed to be claiming.
I guess I’m a regular now. Just watching for the little bits (especially the Teller goofy things) and zipping thru a lot of the filler footage.
The tea/airplane guy was an idiot. They said he was a pilot (but in the back seat in this segment). I would hate to be in a plane piloted by that guy.
They botched the explanation of a barrel roll and how that kept the tea “upright”. It’s not just rotation on the axis, that doesn’t produce enough g force. You have to do a sideways looping turn at the same time.
I was wondering about the liquid N and safe thing. What really makes frozen metals easy to smash is rapid freezing, not just the end temperature. I thought maybe the mass of the safe would mean it would take too long to cool and then not be so brittle. So they would “disprove” that liquid N makes metal brittle. But Apparently they had enough liquid N for the job.
But the segment on tattoo removal just screamed fake from start to finish. Why would a cream applied for 2 weeks have any affect on the tattoo (and just the tattoo)? And I at least recognize defib paddles when I see them.
For the record, they did show the blind biker on trails many, many times. The road hazard stuff was just for demonstration purposes.
They make so many mistakes (or unintended lies?) in the other segments that it makes it challenging sometimes to figure out the real lie.
It’s like the old joke: How do you know Penn Jillette is lying? His lips move.
You must have missed the parts where they showed him riding around on mountain trails, with ruts and rocks and stuff. He had a guy in front and a guy behind, but he was on his own bike going down the trail. Of course he nearly bounced off at one point when he hit the rut, but he was mostly riding. I had seen a NOVA show on the guy who first learned echolocation, so I knew he was real. When they made the statement that the claim was human echolocation, and not that a blind man can ride a mountain bike using echolocation, that one had to be true.
He was quite a goofy doofus.
Yes. So they botch the explanation of barrel roll. Great, so is that a clue, or is it merely a mistake on their part? Knowing what a barrel roll is and how it works, I had to judge true based upon what I saw and my own knowledge, independent of Penn being a doofus.
I was curious about the safe one, too, because they were having us guess before they showed the end of that bit. The last time they did that was the forest fire and jet engine one, so I was second-guessing my previous pick simply because they hadn’t actually broken the safe yet, so the conclusion wasn’t in.
What I saw was a guy riding very slowly for short distances (or at least cut so we only see short distances) that one could reasonably be accomplished by an experienced biker with his eyes closed.
The question isn’t how does it compare to a sighted moutain biker with his eyes closed, the question is how does it compare to every other blind mountain biker. What, you mean there aren’t any other blind mountain bikers?