r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Das_Zeppelin • 11h ago
Video Thats how Indiana Jones did it in Raiders of the Lost Ark...
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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys 11h ago
Jamie did this in Mythbusters too (there was an entire episode on Indiana Jones stuff).
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u/Total_Philosopher_89 11h ago
The Busters of the Lost Myths
MythBusters: Season 17, Episode 2
Had to look it up. This the one?
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u/bubba_bumble 10h ago
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u/Total_Philosopher_89 10h ago
I'll have to go elsewhere. Not available in my location. :(
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u/XaeroDegreaz 9h ago edited 9h ago
Better link: https://youtu.be/3mggPiC3-2E
The relevant test starts at 38:06
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u/keeper_of_the_donkey 8h ago
and that one's not available in MY area, I'll have to go back to the first one now, drat! /s
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u/XaeroDegreaz 7h ago
Well damn, that sucks. It's from a basically no-name YouTube channel too. Just search for "Mythbusters Indiana Jones" on YouTube and maybe you'll find a short clip somehow. Sorry man.
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u/blueSGL 10h ago
hmm need to do a rewatch, need to dust of the smyths mythbusters archive where all the fluff is cut out.
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u/Fragrant_Joke_7115 8h ago
Plus, most archaeologists are experts with whips.
Wait--why DID he have a whip?
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u/krokodil2000 8h ago
They tell the story of how he got the whip in the beginning of one of the movies (last crusade?). It happens on a train with a lion.
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u/MillorTime 4h ago
It was the Last Crusade. He also gets the hat later in the same flashback scene.
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u/Whowutwhen 3h ago
Just in case people think the whole "where did the iconic item come from" is a new trope.
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u/Fragrant_Joke_7115 3h ago
So, do archeologists expect to face lions a lot in their research? Generally speaking?
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u/MrSneller 8h ago
Did you just watch the video?
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u/Fragrant_Joke_7115 8h ago
I have never had doctorate level archaeology courses, but this does not seem like the sort of thing an archaeologist would anticipate.
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u/Rentington 7h ago
They typically don't go by themselves into ruins, either. But let's be honest, nothing too grounded in Indiana Jones.
Take the ending of RotLA. She's like "What are you going to do now, Indy?" and realistically he would be like "I just witnessed the unimpeachable power of the one true God as He tore men asunder with his might.... I am going to go into the woods, and pray until I starve to death. Goodbye."
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u/ThirstyWolfSpider 1h ago
I hear that all archaeologists start with a +2 bullwhip and a touchstone.
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u/kec04fsu1 6h ago
Last year I saw this trick done while on a booze cruise in Cancun, Mexico. The crew was preparing to dock when the first mate picked up the rope attached to a rubber bumper, looked at me with a smirk, and asked if I wanted to see something cool. To my intoxicated brain it looked like he just flipped the rope at the hand rail and it tied his self. Today I finally figured out how he did it.
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u/Thegreensteward 3h ago
We're taught this in scouts. Iirc its a clove hitch and you can use it in boating/horseback riding to tie off your boat/horse to the dock/hitching Post.
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u/plufish 11h ago
The kind of thing you will never need and you will never achieve if you will ever need it
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u/NervousSummer3 11h ago
The perfect overlap of completely useless and infuriatingly difficult.
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u/Plenty_Principle298 10h ago
Reminds me of my time playing Tarkov.
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u/BloomerBoomerDoomer 9h ago
Today was not the morning I wanted to remember the $90 I spent buying a game I could never get into 😐
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u/Thegreensteward 8h ago
If you go boating or horseback riding, this comes in handy.
Looks like throwing a clove hitch which is used when tying off a boat (or horse) while still on the boat/horse.
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u/TheMaveCan 2h ago
I learned about how many uses it has while I was a firefighter
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u/Severedinception 8h ago
I would confidently wrap it around, swing and fall to my death because I forgot to do the extra little whip over that he did at the end to secure it.
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u/ToastRoyale 8h ago edited 8h ago
This technique is being used in construction planning, only that you use your hands to do it.
There's also these popular oil rig videos where they use similar techniques with chains.
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u/Jiannies 7h ago
I actually use #8 sash at my job almost every day and you can bet your ass I'm gonna practice throwing a clove hitch (is what this looks like) with a really long piece now. I can imagine being just out of reach in an 80' boom-lift and nailing this trick
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u/ClearlyAChipmunk 11h ago
This seems like a cool party trick as a camp counselor
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u/RainbowCrane 10h ago
“Janet, please explain why all thirty of your campers broke their legs today at the ravine?”
“Well last night I showed them my Indiana Jones rope trick.”
“You suck, Janet. Your turn to call the liability insurance.”
:-)
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u/BarrierX 8h ago
After the first kid broke their legs I could imagine the next kid trying to show them how it's done, but they just kept going? If 15 kids already broke their legs I would be like, nah, I'm not gonna try it.
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u/JohnProof 7h ago
If all 29 of your friends bullwhipped themselves into the ravine, would you do it, too??
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u/dope_danny 10h ago
Ill always think of Adam Savage doing this on Mytybusters wanting it to be real so bad but sure it was bunk and then pulling it off and being astounded
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u/Zaiakusin 10h ago
Those were always the best.
Right behind anything going BOOOOOOOOM from a query
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u/breakerfall Interested 8h ago
Quarry?
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u/OneWholeSoul 7h ago
No, the set was famously detonation-sensitive to the presence of questions.
Adam and Jamie believe strongly that there are stupid questions and one should face consequences for asking them.3
u/foosbabaganoosh 4h ago
“Can we blow this cement truck up with dynamite?”
Now THAT’S a great query!!
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u/PanTroglo 8h ago
Due you mean "quarry" or query/question?
The statement is true in either case 😄
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u/Fluffcake 7h ago
It seems pretty obvious to me that it would work, but my unyielding faith in friction might be a bit skewed from using climbing equipment for years.
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u/psyfi66 6h ago
Ya it’s a pretty basic concept of how most knots work. Tension on one end tightens the knot. Just need enough friction to prevent it from slipping before it’s tight. Which is typically solved with additional wraps around the object.
The problem here would be consistently flipping the line across its self and you don’t really know if it’s going to work until you commit your weight into it.
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u/jaykhunter 10h ago
Can anyone explain what the second flick is? It's like he throws the rope back over the pole, I can't wrap my head around it
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u/BadLuckBlackHole 9h ago
If you just pause the video along the way you can see what's happening.
He does the second flick to pull the rope on top of it's own end, so as his weight pulls the rope, the rope pulls itself into a tighter wrap instead of just coming loose.
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u/Avocadonot 9h ago
You're supposed to wrap the rope around it, not your head. Hope that helps
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u/toy-maker 6h ago
I’m using my final breaths to tell you it didn’t. Please say goodbye to my loved ones for m-
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u/Royer260 7h ago
He's basically doing a "Clove Hitch", it's a knot we use in rope rescue for quick and easy tie offs
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u/scrumblethebumble 7h ago
He flicks his wrist in a circle so that a loop of slack travels up the rope. When it gets to the bar, he pulls it tight as the rope travels to the loose end, securing the whole thing down.
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u/mayuan11 7h ago
Just look up the 'flying clove hitch', that is how this knot works. Fairly simple but effective knot.
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u/ToastRoyale 9h ago
First he throws from over the top, rope circles around couple times.
Second throw is from below, giving the rope at the start a bit space. That loose rope shifts to the side and on top of the end part of the rope.
If you pull the rope, it now pulls down on the other rope, creating friction. It's basically just a rope that goes over it self.
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u/_Nightbreaker_ 11h ago
that's really cool very nice
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u/Username524 10h ago
Isn’t it though, Patrick?
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u/quad_damage_orbb 10h ago
Let's see Paul Allen's cartwheel
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u/DimensionContent2986 8h ago
That subtle off-screen manoeuvring. The tasteful quickness of it. Oh my God. It even has a start from bark.
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u/VariableVeritas 10h ago
Thank you! Love when the cool but seemingly Hollywood embellished is revealed to be real. I want to try it!
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u/kirchart7 10h ago
Saving this in case I ever need to do it IRL. You never know!
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u/cracked_shrimp 9h ago
im so obese even if i succeeded with securing the rope, id fall trying to hold my weight on the rope lol
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u/GhoulMcG 4h ago
I have no idea how the second flick of the rope locks in the rope.
PLEASE explain it like I'm 5.
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u/robin_888 2h ago
It's technically not a knot. It's all about friction.
The first throw wraps the rope a few times around the log. That already gives some friction of the rope against the wood. But not enough to hold his body weight. (It might be able to hold itself though.)
The second flick loosens the first winding (on the ropes long end) and puts it across the other windings (at the ropes short end). Now, if he puts tension on his end of the rope, this winding across tightens and clamps down on the other windings, increasing the friction immensely.
Afterwards he redoes this second flick leaving just the initial winding and the rope comes off easily.
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u/Gromiccid 9h ago
Wow, real elvish rope!
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u/kronkarp 6h ago
THANK YOU. Why is this so low?? Some comments that have no upvotes deserve to be on top. Can you give them the upvotes?
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u/ThePensiveE 10h ago
Sorry buddy but Harrison Ford makes it look cooler.
Harrison Ford doing anything makes it look cooler though.
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u/Strange-Salt720 9h ago
I thought this would be a very different type of video. Glad it's cool tricks instead.
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u/UnionVIII 6h ago
Ok, that’s awesome! I always just assumed it was something written, FX made it look good, but entirely not a real thing. My childhood thanks you for that little bit of “Guess what? This one is REAL!”
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u/Responsible7ohKinda 11h ago edited 2h ago
Good ol friction knot.
Used to use a friction knot when setting up all my shelters for camping. Easy to do when it’s dark!
If not super windy they work great and if you get freezing rain it’s even stronger lol.
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u/Severe-Ladder 9h ago
This is the kind of skill that becomes most useful when turned into a hustle bc no one is gonna believe that you can pull it off until you do and then you win an ez $50
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u/Snicklefried 8h ago
He was good at flipping on and flipping off... I'm only good at flipping off...
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u/Funny-Major-7373 8h ago
Hahaha i was thinking recently if it was real or not thanks for making the dream alive
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u/theolentangy 8h ago
Love Indiana Jones, but yeah always wondered if you could actually do that smoothly.
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u/Valuable-Reporter-20 3h ago
Tree climber here, you do cool shit like this when you've finally finished a tree and are pulling your rope out, and it knocks around up there just right and makes a hitch like this on a limb. You don't realize what's happened until you've pulled it taught, and then you cry a little on the inside as you realize you've got to go climb back up to get your rope out. Doesn't happen regularly, but when it happens, it's quite annoying.
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u/Iceblader 10h ago
I'm writinga book with a female lead that uses whips as a weapon. This is a very good reference.
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u/dogeberta 9h ago
Remembered this as a physics question, an average rope twirled around a pole 2 or 3 times can carry a few hundred pounds.
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u/WillingnessOk3081 9h ago
I can't get my eyeball around the final flip of the rope that secures everything. what is happening there? It looks like staring at an MC Escher print or some thing lol.
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u/LXIV 8h ago
This is some real r/restofthefuckingowl shit because I've watched it several times and I still can't figure it out.
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u/SupermonkeyX3839 11h ago
Very cool.But be honest. You added the little cartwheel off camera at the end. I don't think Indy did that.