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The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science

cracked.com — Scientists have a PR problem. If TV is to be believed, doctorates are awarded in the form of fishbowl glasses and a tendency to stutter. Sometimes movies try to help out by portraying action scientists, like in The Core, but usually do more harm than good since it's generally restricted to truly terrible movies, like in The Core.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 29, 2008

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  • thestormcrow, on 05/29/2008, -1/+133Dugg with significantly improved posture.
  • inactive, on 05/29/2008, -0/+108Science is NOT for pussies.
  • gllopc, on 05/29/2008, -0/+108I think Joe Kittinger should be thrown in there - at least #3. He jumped out of a hot-air balloon at a height of 102,800 feet. He was so far up that he could see the blackness of space and the curvature of the Earth.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
  • NeoCortex, on 05/29/2008, -0/+103I bet this rocket sled didn't have any ***** CGI prairie dogs watching it.
  • Rainemaker, on 05/29/2008, -0/+100Respect. It's like reading about "Jackass III, The Nobel Prize Edition."
  • kidneyd08, on 05/29/2008, -1/+73More rockets = More science
  • HeDiggMe, on 05/29/2008, -1/+70Wile E. Coyotes attempted #6 a few times but not nearly as successfully.
  • Scape89, on 05/29/2008, -5/+71I didn't need the 2girls1cup screencap.
  • randomperson123, on 05/29/2008, -1/+45Wow. It's interesting to know that no matter what we do, we will never be as awesome as these men. For god sakes, John Stapp took the perceived human limit and roundhouse-kicked it to the face!
  • EclipseGSX, on 05/29/2008, -6/+49Goddamn hippies, getting LSD banned...
  • CalinSchue, on 05/29/2008, -2/+40Dugg for the self heart surgery entry.
  • dinobot, on 05/29/2008, -1/+38I just had my self-confidence destroyed by these feats made for science's sake - seriously, those guys have giant brass ones
  • inactive, on 05/29/2008, -1/+37I do believe the otherwise frowned upon term "epic" may be appropriate for a couple of those.
  • inactive, on 05/29/2008, -1/+23When you set an extreme sports record that's not broken by some dumbass in nearly 50 years, not even attempted, I think that does deserve some recognition.
  • Therl, on 05/29/2008, -2/+22What have you done in your life. ***** nothing compared to them. This proves that real science can only be done by men with nads the size of basketballs.
  • whirlingderv, on 05/29/2008, -0/+17"In 1954 he decelerated from 120 miles per hour to 0 in 1.4 seconds, and gained two huge black eyes from the force of his own slammed-forward eyeballs punching him on the inside of the face. The impact blinded him for two days..." What a baller. And people think scientists aren't cool...
  • Acglaphotis, on 05/29/2008, -0/+15Science. It works, bitches.
  • cerejota, on 05/29/2008, -0/+13She Blinded Me With Science!
  • gravityboard, on 05/29/2008, -0/+13This is the hardest I've ever laughed at a Cracked list, which is saying something!
  • steviesteveo, on 05/29/2008, -0/+12Seeing the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth is impressive, but he went high enough to miss that part of the earth's atmosphere which means you can feel yourself falling. Think how cool that is - just sitting there, not enough air resistance to feel, not really certain you're falling at all but travelling at over 600MPH
  • cerejota, on 05/29/2008, -0/+11FGJ! That guy did more for space exploration research than some of the Mercury guys who actually went to space!
  • inactive, on 05/29/2008, -4/+15But pussies do well in science...
    http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z168/thewordisb ...

    EDIT: SFW =)
  • MacEnvy, on 05/29/2008, -1/+12Yep, Project Excelsior. There's actual video of his jumps, too (not a RickRoll):
    http://sonicbomb.com/dmv.php?vid=2l62lOOSNh6l4hEff ...
  • ApokalypseNow, on 05/29/2008, -0/+10Fine line between the two, to be sure.
  • subliminalurge, on 05/29/2008, -0/+9Agreed. Simply figuring out a way to arrange all ten legs is an amazing achievement.
  • centran, on 05/29/2008, -1/+10no... but that is what happens when two filmmakers take LSD together and have a massive rendering farm to mess with.
  • gfxl, on 05/29/2008, -2/+11Religion might have Jesus... but Science has these guys!!
  • ElectroStep, on 05/29/2008, -1/+9Albert Hofmann RIP.
  • gllopc, on 05/30/2008, -0/+8You... just blew my mind.
  • minorthreat, on 05/29/2008, -1/+8scientist he is not. guinea pig? possibly
  • GTanaka, on 05/29/2008, -0/+7I swear to god, if there's ever a chance of me being able to do this, I'll do it. Everything about it sounds amazing.
  • azAZ09, on 05/29/2008, -0/+6More badass than any of those---Capt. Joe Kittenger.
  • yyymilitia, on 05/29/2008, -0/+6Reading that made my heart hurt
  • inactive, on 05/29/2008, -0/+6I laughed the hardest at 'ammonium perchlorate which is practically chemical-ese for "goddamn explosive."'
  • cerejota, on 05/29/2008, -0/+6Dugg fur kittehs!
  • stix213, on 05/29/2008, -0/+6John Paul Stapp should have been #1 on the list.

  • skoles, on 05/29/2008, -0/+6I love how these articles are written. Every word is spoken with the purposefulness of cutting you down as a person.
  • Oppslagsverk, on 05/29/2008, -0/+5Oh my god... Werner Fossman was as mandy as it is possible to get. Inserting a tube in an arterie to check if the heart would react when the tube reached it. That is so hard core.
  • caulkrocket, on 05/29/2008, -0/+5They all should be featured on Bud Light's Real Men of Genius ads.
  • AngryAngryBrian, on 05/29/2008, -0/+5No she blinded you for 2 days with a 120 to 0MPH stop in 1.4 seconds.
  • wesleyzero, on 05/29/2008, -2/+7No DVDA on this list?
  • MacEnvy, on 05/30/2008, -0/+5About the same as if you jumped out at 25,000 feet. Terminal velocity is terminal velocity.
  • gahal, on 05/29/2008, -0/+5His eyes gave him black eyes. I have a headache just after thinking about that.
    'Hmmm... lets see, my eyes were almost ripped out of my face from shear momentum... what next??? ***** it, lets go faster!!'
  • TheUngod, on 05/29/2008, -1/+6Huge balls and lack of sanity seem very very similar...
  • nakani, on 05/29/2008, -0/+4The gov't saves the good ***** for themselves
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
  • ExpendableYouth, on 05/29/2008, -0/+4"The wider scientific community believed the human body could not survive more than 18 Gs of deceleration--Stapp hit 35. Because he goddamn could."
    Win.

    LSD Guy is pretty cool too.
  • nepidae, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4Thanks, I had managed to forget about those for over a day.
  • rawg, on 05/29/2008, -0/+4He also holds the record for fastest traveling human without a vehicle at 614 MPH. Badass.
  • burketo, on 05/29/2008, -0/+4definately one of the better cracked lists. good to see they are back on their feet after that god-awful doctor's memes thing.
  • mjplayer4, on 05/30/2008, -0/+4dugg for "high off his *****."
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