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Full Throttle 07/24/17 12:36:13 AM #1: |
But people on twitter were left angered and disappointed when it was revealed that Phelps was going to race a SIMULATED GREAT WHITE SHARK instead on the highly anticipated television program that kicked off Discovery Channel's Shark Week.. Phelps raised the fake CGI shark and was beat by 2 seconds in the 100 metre race filmed off Mossel Bay, South Africa The computer simulated shark clocked in at 36.1 seconds and Phelps wearing a special suit clocked in at 38.1 Viewers understandably vented their anger on the false advertisement and called it a HUGE LETDOWN.. Scientists gathered data from actual sharks, including a hammerhead and a reef shark and then used the data to create SIMULATED SHARKS that Phelps ran against.. Phelps even went underwater in a cage to meet his opponent, or at least a shark like his opponent and then challenged the great white shark and he was even given a swimsuit made like the skin of a shark to help him cut through the water faster and a fin made similar to that of a shark.. After the race, Phelps said "They swim so fast, it's almost like a bullet. I don't like taking silver medals but i'll take one against a Great White" Did you expect him to race against a REAL Shark? let's see what people will vote. Michael vs Shark - http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/02/429FE13A00000578-0-image-a-11_1500861490092.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/02/429FE18600000578-0-image-a-12_1500861551459.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/02/429FE16600000578-0-image-a-14_1500861593710.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/02/429FE12200000578-0-image-a-4_1500860580408.jpg Twitter outrage - http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/02/429FEB8400000578-0-image-a-6_1500860598352.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/02/429FE81300000578-0-image-a-8_1500860618406.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/03/429FE83300000578-0-image-a-30_1500861741823.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/03/429FE83E00000578-0-image-a-28_1500861724408.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/03/429FE81800000578-0-image-a-23_1500861697772.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/24/03/429FE82300000578-0-image-a-25_1500861703152.jpg --- call me mrduckbear, sweater monkeys. Everytime a GFAQS User Steps On A Bug, I'll Stop Posting for 24 HOURS I'm an Asian Liberal. RESIST The Alt-Right ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MICHALCOLE 07/24/17 12:40:43 AM #2: |
Brb filing a class action lawsuit against shark week for false advertising
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J_Dawg983 07/24/17 12:58:07 AM #3: |
I was thinking a real shark just in a sepperated area, made me think of the classic days of man vs beast.
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PKMNsony 07/24/17 1:01:28 AM #4: |
I forgot all about this because of how stupid the whole thing was anyway.
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HellHole_ 07/24/17 1:07:41 AM #5: |
I don't want to meet someone who honestly believed he would have raced an actual shark
that's not even something you can get up, a shark isn't going to chase anything to even make it seem like a race. --- We all need heroes, don't we? But rest assured there's not a single person here who's worthy ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MICHALCOLE 07/24/17 1:11:59 AM #6: |
HellHole_ posted...
I don't want to meet someone who honestly believed he would have raced an actual shark What about a bleeding teenager? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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wwinterj25 07/24/17 1:12:11 AM #7: |
"Twitter outrage"
The media and people in general should stop paying attention to these people. --- One who knows nothing can understand nothing. http://psnprofiles.com/wwinterj - http://i.imgur.com/kDysIcd.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Foppe 07/24/17 1:31:29 AM #8: |
How do you race a shark?
Even if you drip blood and leave meat they wont go directly for it at full speed. --- GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site. -CJayC ... Copied to Clipboard!
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HorrorJudasGoat 07/24/17 2:01:38 AM #9: |
Proof that video games is a sport.
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dioxxys 07/24/17 2:22:18 AM #10: |
HellHole_ posted...
who honestly believed he would have raced an actual shark ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ZBug_ 07/24/17 2:36:59 AM #11: |
dioxxys posted...
HellHole_ posted...who honestly believed he would have raced an actual shark Dumbasses. --- "I've never in my life wanted to punch a girl like I want to right now" - Light Yagami NNID: LLBCrook - PSN: ZBugCrook ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Sahuagin 07/24/17 4:33:36 AM #12: |
never heard of this before
HellHole_ posted... a shark isn't going to chase anything to even make it seem like a race. yeah that's what I was thinking. at least a fake shark will "race". --- The truth basks in scrutiny. http://i.imgur.com/GMouTGs.jpg http://projecteuler.net/profile/Sahuagin.png ... Copied to Clipboard!
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J_Dawg983 07/24/17 4:45:07 AM #13: |
Bunch of haters! Have you guys ever watched man vs beast? Gave us great clips like man races zebra and midgets try and drag a truck faster than an elephant! Boy do I miss the days of freak shows.
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Krow_Incarnate 07/24/17 4:53:08 AM #14: |
I don't get why they can't put them in separate tanks. Make the shark fast for a bit(3 days, a week? How often do they eat?) and then put a bloody dead rabbit at the other end of the shark tank.
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TheCyborgNinja 07/24/17 5:09:10 AM #15: |
I thought it would be real, though unable to touch him.
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J_Dawg983 07/24/17 5:31:53 AM #16: |
Krow_Incarnate posted...
I don't get why they can't put them in separate tanks. Make the shark fast for a bit(3 days, a week? How often do they eat?) and then put a bloody dead rabbit at the other end of the shark tank. Damn straight! Sounds like something fox would've done in the early 2000s --- RSN: Pridefc PSN: Jaosin ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Blaqthourne 07/24/17 5:49:05 AM #17: |
This could have been our generation's Getting Eaten by a Crocodile event.
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AllstarSniper32 07/24/17 5:55:11 AM #18: |
TheCyborgNinja posted...
I thought it would be real, though unable to touch him. You thought Phelps could outswim a shark? --- If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking systems, there would be a revolution before morning - Andrew Jackson ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TheCyborgNinja 07/24/17 6:39:30 AM #19: |
AllstarSniper32 posted...
TheCyborgNinja posted...I thought it would be real, though unable to touch him. No, not if it was trying. I expected him to swim and the shark to give no fucks and just hang out. --- "message parlor" ? do you mean the post office ? - SlayerX888 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Blaqthourne 07/24/17 6:51:49 AM #20: |
Full Throttle posted...
The computer simulated shark clocked in at 36.1 seconds and Phelps wearing a special suit clocked in at 38.1 I don't understand how they got a simulated 36.1 seconds for the shark. From my extensive 5 min of research, a great white shark tops out at about 40km/hr. This would mean that it could do 100m in about 9 seconds at top speed. Phelps topped out at about 14km/hr. --- Montreal Expos (1969-2004) http://www.backloggery.com/Blaqthourne Now playing: Final Fantasy VIII (PS1) -- started 7/9/2017 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ChunLiXiaoyuFan 07/24/17 6:59:15 AM #21: |
This is more proof that TV sucks nowadays. False advertising at its worst. =P
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vega2505 07/24/17 7:00:03 AM #22: |
This is the same channel that had a special about mermaids being real and the US military being at war with them and they had actual footage of the mermaids and it was all done like it was 100% srs bzns...so if you expected anything on Shark Week to be real, you deserve what you get.
They also had a special about a giant shark that sank a cruise ship which was also entirely fake with "real footage" of a CG shark. --- I used to be a Street Fighter like you...then I took a Spiral Arrow to the Tiger Knee. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Duck-I-Says 07/24/17 7:06:50 AM #23: |
That is hilarious
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JOExHIGASHI 07/24/17 7:30:56 AM #24: |
vega2505 posted...
and they had actual footage of the mermaids and it was all done like it was 100% srs bzns...so if you expected anything on Shark Week to be real, you deserve what you get. The mermaid thing was for April Fools --- YEA! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Foppe 07/24/17 7:38:16 AM #25: |
It is not Discoverys fault that people failed at reading the disclaimers saying that the mermaid thing was a mockumentary.
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AllstarSniper32 07/24/17 7:38:18 AM #26: |
TheCyborgNinja posted...
AllstarSniper32 posted...TheCyborgNinja posted...I thought it would be real, though unable to touch him. Gotcha. I saw the commercial for this and was a bit curious to see how they were going to have him race against a shark. I thought they would have a set distance, then find a way that would get a shark to swim at it's top speed from point A to point B then see how fast Phelps could swim that same distance. I never thought Phelps had anything resembling a chance to swim faster than a shark though...and I also never thought they were going to plop him next to a real shark lol. --- If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking systems, there would be a revolution before morning - Andrew Jackson ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Kanaya413 07/24/17 7:38:51 AM #27: |
HorrorJudasGoat posted...
Proof that video games is a sport. LOL --- Official Secretary of Kyogre's Cascade!!! FC: 5086-1980-2580 IGN: Vivi TSV 4077 Silent Chexmix: "Toxapex is Trump's wall in pixel form." ... Copied to Clipboard!
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123pizza2 07/24/17 10:05:12 AM #28: |
I don't know how people expected him to actually race a shark. How do you teach a shark to race? Even if they did "race" each other, it would have to be with some big divider or something out of safety concerns.
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_AdjI_ 07/24/17 10:07:13 AM #29: |
ZBug_ posted...
dioxxys posted...HellHole_ posted...who honestly believed he would have raced an actual shark Doesn't matter how credible the advertising claim was or that viewers should have known better, the burden of truth is on the advertisers. Even if people should have been able to figure out it wouldn't be a real shark, if they said it was going to be a real shark (or even heavily implied it) and it wasn't, they falsely advertised the event. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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fettster777 07/24/17 10:09:14 AM #30: |
Just like when some guy was gonna get eaten alive by an anaconda and all it did was bite on his helmet a little?
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PKMNsony 07/24/17 12:07:02 PM #31: |
Blaqthourne posted...
Full Throttle posted...The computer simulated shark clocked in at 36.1 seconds and Phelps wearing a special suit clocked in at 38.1 The "scientists" most likely got their simulated results from only using numbers that would make this race close. Basically completely ignoring its top speeds altogether. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Monopoman 07/24/17 2:17:32 PM #32: |
I assume they used a simulated shark because it is probably pretty hard to get a shark to go top speed in a race, unless you really work to make the shark very motivated to get to the other end of whatever area he is in.
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ninjabay 07/24/17 2:36:22 PM #33: |
Jesus! Are people stupid or what?
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Foppe 07/26/17 1:33:47 AM #34: |
If you have to ask, the answer is yes.
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SKARDAVNELNATE 07/26/17 1:40:07 AM #35: |
They should have used a simulated Michael Phelps to make it fair.
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vega2505 07/26/17 10:41:59 PM #36: |
Foppe posted...
It is not Discoverys fault that people failed at reading the disclaimers saying that the mermaid thing was a mockumentary. I watched it randomly when I saw it on TV at like 3am when I was bored and there was no disclaimer then. --- I used to be a Street Fighter like you...then I took a Spiral Arrow to the Tiger Knee. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Foppe 07/27/17 1:27:27 AM #37: |
vega2505 posted...
Foppe posted...It is not Discoverys fault that people failed at reading the disclaimers saying that the mermaid thing was a mockumentary. It had a disclaimer. And you missed it. The point with mockumentaries is to act like it is real and not showing a disclaimer after every commercial break. --- GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site. -CJayC ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MetaSeraphim 07/27/17 3:33:13 AM #38: |
How long will it be until another Olympian wins more gold medals in a single event? Last time it was a 36 year wait, will it be 36 years before someone wins 9 gold medals?
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Yellow 07/27/17 3:48:47 AM #39: |
What kind of shark can even come close to being outswum by a human anyway?
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