They profiled the following people:
Alain Robert, a real life Spiderman that climbs high rises without any safety equipment and can hang from his ceiling for 20 minutes at a time!
Jeff Corliss, a man who jumps off the sides of mountains and out of planes in a synthetic wing suit at speeds up to 300 miles per hour!
Anna Frasier, a woman (dressed in a mermaid tail) who can free dive 50 feet below the sea and return to the surface with only one breath of air!
Lyndon Whalberg, another 'mermaid' that can hold her breath underwater for up to five minutes and can dive 91 feet below the surface or the water and back with only one breath of air!
Daniel Tammet (Brain Man), an autistic savant who looked at pi to 22,500 digits ONE TIME, and then recited it to a panel of experts from memory.... They showed him learn the Icelandic language in one week!
Wim Hof (Ice Man), a man who can submerse himself in snow for an hour and twelve minutes.... He runs in sub-zero temperatures wearing only shorts.... No shirt! No shoes! No socks! Just shorts!
Dean Karnazes (UltraMarathon Man), a man who has run 50 marathons in 50 days.... He's known to run 30 miles to a marathon, then run the marathon.... He decided to run 30 miles on his 30th birthday, and fell in love with running....
You can see the entire episode by clicking on the sign below!
WOW! I will be watching that episode. Thanks for the heads up. It's amazing what we can do when we put our minds to it. If we can teach kids the same thing (all of them), can you imagine how much they could do?
ReplyDeleteA body can run 30 miles in one day??? Wow, I thought something like that would take days;)
ReplyDeleteI woke up with pains from just watching those people. I never will be warm again. And I am always afraid that diving that deep or staying under for that long will rupture something in my head, or I would hang out on the bottom of the pool more often.
ReplyDeleteYou mean I'm not special? Dang it.
ReplyDeleteThat is pretty cool all the amazing stuff they can do. But now I feel super ordinary.
ReplyDeleteI've seen some of these folks on a cable show a while back. AMAZING...
ReplyDeleteHow do you run more than a marathon, just to get to one, and then run in it! the one that most amazes me the most is the climber.
Yeah well...I can roll my tongue. So there's that.
ReplyDeleteStuff like this fascinates me and makes me feel very unspecial all at the same time. I must Hulu it.
Have not seen it! I'm on it like stink on skunk.
ReplyDeleteI can't even hold my breath for 20 seconds. What the hell?
ReplyDeleteI didn't see that, and I'm not a thrill seeker, so I just can't relate to their crazy ways!
ReplyDeleteThat is INSANE!
ReplyDeleteThat is just plain old awesomeness.
ReplyDeleteI watched a special on I think History channel last year that was doing the same sort of thing. Did 20/20 show the guy that metal sticks to?
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome!!Oh my GOD!!The guy ran to the marathon and then just did the marathon?!?That's crazy insane!
ReplyDeleteI have the superhuman power to take really satisfying mid-day naps. I can also eat, like, 20 burritos in a day.
ReplyDeleteNo I did not hear about this, but YES does it sound awesome! Thanks for the link because I'm going to watch it right now.
ReplyDeletei didn't see this but wow. very cool!
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I actually did see the "Human Spider Man" on the travel channel and the memory guy on a Yahoo news story. They're both pretty amazing!
ReplyDeleteAs for whether or not it's worth it to write for Associated Content, ask me again in a couple of weeks or so. My guess is that it's probably not. However, I'm having fun at it; and it does give me an excuse to write fun articles and double post them to my blog. Also, I'm trying to "test the water" so to speak with some of these sites for my brother, who has aspirations to be a freelance writer.
My guess is that my interest in it will fizzle before too long, but who knows?
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ReplyDeletei wish we had tv shows like that here!
that's insane!! I want to be superhuman. I love this kind of stuff.
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