Comments on: But When They Saw Him Driving Upon The Sea, They Supposed It Had Been A Spirit...

But When They Saw Him Driving Upon The Sea, They Supposed It Had Been A Spirit...

Effigy2000 — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:48:35 -0800

If Jesus were alive today, what sort of jeep would he drive? Why that's simple, of course. He'd drive the jeep that can drive on water!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:55:56 -0800

What is up with the crazy-ass vignetting in Top Gear?

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:57:25 -0800

I want one

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:02:44 -0800

Isn't that exactly the sort of Jeep that Jesus WOULDN'T need?

By: TedW

TedW — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:03:10 -0800

Don't thousands of ice fishermen in Minnesota drive their Jeeps across water every winter?

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:09:16 -0800

I can't believe that works. Cool.

By: lemonfridge

lemonfridge — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:17:21 -0800

Richard Hammond in his element

By: ericb

ericb — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:23:43 -0800

In related news -- Aquatic car drives with 'oooomph'.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:25:13 -0800

Could someone explain the physics here?

By: c13

c13 — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:38:22 -0800

Could someone explain the physics here? You know how stones can skip over water if thrown correctly? Same thing, only a much larger stone and a much more powerful throw.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:17:29 -0800

Best of the ~~web~~ last month's TV.

By: evilelvis

evilelvis — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:24:33 -0800

Awesome!!!!!!!!

By: micketymoc

micketymoc — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:56:25 -0800

Amazing. I was holding my breath as they made their first run across the lake.

By: quin

quin — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:18:49 -0800

Too funny, I read the FPP and thought hey, I know what this is about, and look: only 12 comments, I bet no one linked to the Top Gear youtube yet. That will make a great contribution. Then I clicked on the link. Suck. Though the bit with the snowmobile does give me dark thoughts about some of the calmer lakes in my neck of the woods. Bad thoughts. Thoughts that should not be spoken of here. Thoughts that could get me or someone else seriously injured. And possibly jailed for stealing a snowmobile and trying to ride it across a friggin' lake. One that isn't frozen even!

By: quin

quin — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:24:38 -0800

On a tangentally related note, Richard Hammond is recovering remarkably well. Which is good, because I've been jonesing for new Top Gear episodes and I ain't gonna get them till he gets better.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:27:52 -0800

I live in Wisconsin Snowmobilers have long known that as long as they keep moving they can make it across open water. The trouble is that most snowmobilers who find themselves on open water are drunk ... or just young and stupid. It happens often enough that at least Maine has a state law against it. "Watercross racing" photos. Anyway, having read Jared Diamond's Collapse about the unbelievably fragile environment of Iceland and its crippling erosion problem, I was a little discomfitted by the four-wheeling.

By: davy

davy — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:42:24 -0800

I watched it with the sound off, and it looks to me like a very shallow stream. Ankle deep. I'm not impressed.

By: davy

davy — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:44:30 -0800

And I'd rather have an MGB. With a roll bar.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:44:54 -0800

planetkyoto: Mind you, Jesus is a busy guy, and you can't just walk everywhere. Plus, have you ever tried carrying groceries for 14 people? Fish sandwiches only go so far...

By: kaemaril

kaemaril — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:13:24 -0800

davy : try it with the sound on. Then you'll hear the commentator say (iirc, I saw this on digg weeks ago...) something along the lines of 'if it goes wrong we'll sink like a stone' so I'm guessing it's a bit deeper than that ...even though this is The Hamster we're talking about :)

By: fungible

fungible — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:03:24 -0800

Nice to see that Icelanders, who have some of the most beautiful terrain on the planet, can't help looking at it and saying, "Man I can't wait to fuck that up with my ATV!"

By: Occams Hammer

Occams Hammer — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:17:36 -0800

I read the article on Richard Hammond's remarkable recovery in quin's link and I am wondering what "...driving like a t**t" could possibly mean. Any help?

By: Muirwylde

Muirwylde — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:24:27 -0800

Yes, I expect they are cheating and driving through shallows. Those are sand bars they are in the vicinity of. I've seen big American SUVs try this over deep water (someone post a link) Its an evolution of mud bogging but Americans dont cheat and the SUVs sink. (At least most of the ones on the video I saw a few years ago on ESPN2 did. One or two made it though, and that was truly impressive.)

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:24:39 -0800

No doubt the censored word is "twat", British slang for a clitoris.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:51:38 -0800

I weep to know that there are children growing up in the world that DON'T know this is an option, or that have never seen this. I remember seeing the local yobs on their skidoos crossing lakes and dugouts in the middle of summer as a child...

By: MLIS

MLIS — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:06:25 -0800

If Jesus were alive today, what sort of jeep would he drive? He would drive a Land Cruiser. Remember, friends don't let friends drive Jeeps.

By: quin

quin — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:10:58 -0800

dhartung : I live in Wisconsin I feel a deep sadness for you. You live in one of the worst states in America. Seriously, weather wise, that is some Arctic/ sub-tropical shit you people have going on up there. The only people in the states that have it worse are those fuckers in Minnesota. They live in the land of the damned as far as I'm concerned. That said, I have the unfortunate admission that I also live in Wisconsin, so I feel your pain. So... wanna steal a snowmobile and try to cross a lake with me? Come on, it'll be fun. ;)

By: flaterik

flaterik — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:20:35 -0800

Quin, you're forgetting North Dakota.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:26:49 -0800

No mention of those sad canadians...

By: kaemaril

kaemaril — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:28:07 -0800

Effigy2000 : Not quite.

By: pax digita

pax digita — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:01:20 -0800

Dad had to drive one of these once. And the Wehrmacht found these pretty useful at times.

By: benjh

benjh — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:14:54 -0800

But it isn't a Jeep, right? I mean, Jeep is a product of the Daimler Chrysler AG, but this has a chevy engine in it. So it ceases to be a Jeep, doesn't it? It's more of a vehicle with a Jeep-styled body, but it isn't a Jeep. Is that a good thing, that it isn't a Jeep? Probably so, maybe it gets better fuel mileage. But then someone put a GM engine in it.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:44:04 -0800

benjh: while Jeep might be a product of DC AG, many many many folks use "jeep" as a generic term describing all SUV-type vehicles on this side of the pond (in Ireland, at any rate). And yes, this is a damn fine Top Gear bit... not as cool as the remote control full-sized cars, but still pretty fun. And I'm pretty sure they weren't cheating, either (I like to think that the Top Gear boys have a bit more integrity than all that... when they go extreme, they go extreme for REALZ, no need to fake it all up).

By: econous

econous — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:41:31 -0800

"...Americans dont cheat..." Citation?

By: dhartung

dhartung — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:44:02 -0800

quin: Ah, I love a reasonable bit of winter (and they're notably milder on average than in my chldhood, thanks to you-know-what). I can't stand humidity, it turns me into a quivering mass governed by a lizard brain. Plus, we have da U.P., Minnesota, and the Dakotas to envy us. Anyway, you can pretty much tell the change of seasons by the first reports of snowmobilers in a lake.