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Michael Phelps vs the Shark live at 8 PM EST on Discovery Channel

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Yolo and all Phelps vs Jaws in like 10 mins.

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Cerium

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How are they going to make sure the shark is motivated? Are they dangling some fish in front of them or something?
 
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Strimei

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Expect to be disappointed, I figure. While not quite the same level, I get a feeling like the "Eaten Alive by a Snake" event Discovery had previously.
 
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criesofthepast

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Just so you guys know. Phelps and the shark will not be in the water at the same time. I swear I just saw an interview on TV with him and he said that. I guess they just record his speed and then record the great whites speed and put them side by side. Garbage. Don't expect much here.
 
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ryseing

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criesofthepast said:
Just so you guys know. Phelps and the shark will not be in the water at the same time. I swear I just saw an interview on TV with him and he said that. I guess they just record his speed and then record the great whites speed and put them side by side. Garbage. Don't expect much here.
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... Of course that's what they did.
 
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Strimei

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Strimei said:
Expect to be disappointed, I figure. While not quite the same level, I get a feeling like the "Eaten Alive by a Snake" event Discovery had previously.
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Case in point:

criesofthepast said:
Just so you guys know. Phelps and the shark will not be in the water at the same time. I swear I just saw an interview on TV with him and he said that. I guess they just record his speed and then record the great whites speed and put them side by side. Garbage. Don't expect much here.
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Its just another spectacle event that they're trying to hype people up because it'll be "dangerous" or something in the minds of people but in actuality its all smoke and mirrors and camerawork.
 
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Cerium

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criesofthepast said:
Just so you guys know. Phelps and the shark will not be in the water at the same time. I swear I just saw an interview on TV with him and he said that. I guess they just record his speed and then record the great whites speed and put them side by side. Garbage. Don't expect much here.
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Well that's lame.

Does the winner at least get to eat the loser?
 
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CrimzonSamurai

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criesofthepast said:
Just so you guys know. Phelps and the shark will not be in the water at the same time. I swear I just saw an interview on TV with him and he said that. I guess they just record his speed and then record the great whites speed and put them side by side. Garbage. Don't expect much here.
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ryseing said:
... Of course that's what they did.
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That's really lame, surely some scientist has already clocked the top speed of a Great White.

Pointless exercise.
 
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brianmcdoogle

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Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
 
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criesofthepast

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ryseing said:
... Of course that's what they did.
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You'd be surprised how many people actually think Phelps will be racing side by side with a great white shark in the middle of the ocean and they somehow motivated this shark to participate and co-operate in a race. 🙄
 
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Kevtones

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Anyone remember the fox special called Man vs. Beast? One of the events was like 30 dwarves competing against an elephant to see who could pull a plane faster.
 
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