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When YouTube arrived at the beginning of this millennium , viral videos were not so different from what had long entertained us on America ’s Funniest Home Videos : lovely favorite , funny kids , and painful accidents . And so we have faceplant gifs and faceplant supercuts and now , a scientificjournal article based on a faceplant videoon YouTube .
Maggie Koerth - Baker at Boing Boing has taken the article from theJournal of Craniofacial Surgeryand spun a intriguing account of thescience of faceplanting . You may remember thisparticular video : a unseasoned human being on bike attempt to launch off a incline on a bobtail . He misses , smashing face into dock . Massive facial fractures and YouTube humiliation aside , he turned out to be hunky-dory .
But have we learned anything , other than the endangerment of showing off on television camera ? As Koerth - Baker find out when speaking to other experts about the recent report , the video is far too jankey and the frame rate too dense to prove any utile physics . But better TV can be to study injury biomechanics — like footage of NFL role player tackling each other at full speed .
We ca n’t , after all , subject people to faceplant trauma for the sake of science . But we can , perhaps a bit dispiritingly , do so for the interest of amusement . In any case , do determine out the full piece at Boing Boing . [ Boing Boing ]
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