I want one

Peter, is this a visualizing exercise? I can't see anything.

(not a negative or critical statement - college professor in one of my more specialized mathematics courses only "drew" the things he was talking about on the wall with his fingertip. His intention was for us to have to concentrate on what he was doing, but most of the students said "Dr. Shapiro...why can't you write on a board or a projector like everyone else? we can't tell what you're writing on the wall with your fingers". 

I learned to follow what he was writing out without writing anything out - worked great for me as he intended)

I'll bet that guy added the heat shield on the second version after learning from the first. I can almost feel the radiant heat through the screen. 

still can't see the embedded stuff, but maybe it's me. I have a blocker for a lot of automatic ad, sponsor, data stuff that goes on in the background. But I didn't think it was doing much as I don't have it set very tight.

DavidW wrote:

I'll bet that guy added the heat shield on the second version after learning from the first. I can almost feel the radiant heat through the screen. 

Really! How fast do you think he got up to? Judging by the lines on the road, I'd say 40 MPH. Nothing like skateboarding down the highway at 40 MPH with a red-hot rocket between your legs!

I seem to recall reading about him, perhaps he has a webpage? It's fueled with propane if I'm not mistaken.

He appears to be about my age, which makes me think I need to get my act together! Where the heck are my skinny jeans? 

I can't tell by the sound, but the flame out of the back makes it look like a pulse jet. I'm guessing a pulse jet will work on propane or kero or all kinds of stuff it it's made right. 

As far as that type of machine goes, it looked to be a little slow, but relatively safe. I'm guessing 25 miles an hour or so. 

Checked YT to see if I could find something similar, and this guy shows up - always wondered why they don't melt, though I haven't seen them get to what looks like forging heat (not just radiant heat, but UV light - enough to damage eyes and give sunburn with some exposure length). 

Crazy Rocketman: ENGINE MELT DOWN! never stops running!

turns out, our boy here managed to get his engines soft enough for them to collapse!

Who's ready to make one? They just be ungodly loud.

How hard would it be to fake it all. If you're trying to convince me he's straddling a red hot 1,000 degree plus engine, I ain't buying it.

Why such tiny wheels? One piece of gravel and it's epic road-rash. Heck, my grocery cart comes to a slam-stop if a piece of kibble is in its path.

Dale Stansbery wrote:

How hard would it be to fake it all. If you're trying to convince me he's straddling a red hot 1,000 degree plus engine, I ain't buying it.

If you notice, there’s a heat shield there.  Those make a huge difference.  If you look at the motorcycle in my profile picture, those chrome “exhaust pipes” next to my leg are actually heat shields.  While that exhaust is not as hot, I can easily hold my bare hand within a half inch of the chrome, while the pipe underneath is probably 500-600ºF.  His heat shield is a little further from the pipe underneath (mine’s about 1/8”).  Heat shields are very effective, especially if they have good airflow under them.

Jason

Dale Stansbery wrote:

How hard would it be to fake it all. If you're trying to convince me he's straddling a red hot 1,000 degree plus engine, I ain't buying it.

We're on the cusp of it being easier to fake, I guess, but it's probably easier for this guy when he figured out how to make home made pulse jet engines, to just do it. 

I saw an ad the other day with a big fake story and the woman looked super real, everything did. I don't know if the mannerisms were scalped from a real person in another video- probably not - but as she was telling her scary story about constipation or not taking the right secret supplement or whatever stupid idiotic stuff is often on YT videos, I noticed her mouth was only the slightest bit strange in movement and like too simplified.

At the speed AI is improving itself I doubt it'll be 6 months before we can't tell that advertisement is fake. the story is fake, the person is fake, and so on. A chaotic sort of pulse jet riding video could probably be faked at that point, too. 

There are other videos of people riding microturbines, but nobody is going to be making them in a garage with sheet steel, a couple of valves and a welder. First saw one of those around 1997 at a model airplane field. Smaller than a lunch box, loud and annoying as anything I've ever heard regardless of size. Some other guy named Furze or something made a series about making a pulse jet bike and then rode it in dress clothes and got probably hundreds of millions of views on platforms. as soon as he did, you can bet 10 youtube content makers are going to copy it and here were are with a bunch of people making and testing pulse jets.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHz7wOjb9w

38 million views just for one video on one platform. Probably half a million dollars in ad revenue alone from one video.

yes on that. I'd figure for small channels, the cpm or whatever they call it was 1-4, depending on the audience.

I had half a million or more views on my channel before pulling videos - but I never turned on ad sense and figured it'd be worth a couple of hundred bucks, a thousand maybe at most if it was considered targeting. Waste of time. 

I would imagine someone like furze may have an agreement directly for youtube with better terms, though, or at least something in return. 

Furze would be in the category of people who get higher CPM if they still do varying CPM. he lives in a western country and gets gobs of views. 

you or I would get stuck with those ads that talk about putting ice in a coffee cup to cure constipation. 

We thought ads were stupid on TV when I was a kid, but they are nothing compared to what's on youtube now. I haven't viewed YT with ads in quite some time, and if they prevent me from using ABP or brave, I'll just subscribe to a low cost platform. When they did their first round of telling people to buy premium or view ads, I subscribed to the history channel archive. It was a nice break to see content that isn't 95% mark fishing.

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furze has 13.2 million subscribers. Safe to say, he's not getting a low CPM contract. I'm sure he has staff and probably direct access to humans at google unlike the rest of us. 

he did a good enough job with the original pulse jet bike for me to remember who he was without having seen him since then. 

oh my, the pulse jet content is 11 years old. I am losing track of time!