Lucidity
UFO Pilot
Stephen Colbert says and does a lot of outlandish things, but when he introduced the “Banana Bunker” on his June 11 show, I was agog. The whole concept seemed so utterly absurd, and was made all the more so by the company's own marketing video – which showed a bunkered banana being dropped from a fifth-floor fire escape, and surviving in edible condition.
Having been tele-witnesses to this spectacle, it was clear that there was only one thing we could do: purchase a Banana Bunker for ourselves and use the drop mechanism on RQCX-3 “Raven” to release it from 400 feet. So, that's what we did. Here's the video:
As you can see for yourself, an early morning raid on a local cinema yielded a necessary prerequisite for our experiment: a deserted parking lot – a vast expanse of pavement utterly devoid of people and property that might be damaged by falling fruit.
Kudos to Kenny the Intern, who turned out on short notice to capture the whole thing on video – allowing Techinstein and myself to devote our full attention to other important aspects of this project, like flubbing our lines and dropping fruit.
I'd also like to note that, having visited the Banana Bunker website, I came away with a new appreciation for the utility of this product. As Colbert amply demonstrated during his segment, the high-fall threats that the company demonstrated in its own marketing video are ridiculous.
However, a photo on its website show a bunkered banana safely tucked away inside a satchel, not being bruised or crushed by notebooks, newspapers, books and so forth. If you eat a lot of bananas and your purse or your man-bag is packed full of hardware, that might be a reason to spend $15.
Now that this video has been released out into the wild, I'm curious to see if we will get the “Colbert Bump.” Stay tuned.
Having been tele-witnesses to this spectacle, it was clear that there was only one thing we could do: purchase a Banana Bunker for ourselves and use the drop mechanism on RQCX-3 “Raven” to release it from 400 feet. So, that's what we did. Here's the video:
As you can see for yourself, an early morning raid on a local cinema yielded a necessary prerequisite for our experiment: a deserted parking lot – a vast expanse of pavement utterly devoid of people and property that might be damaged by falling fruit.
Kudos to Kenny the Intern, who turned out on short notice to capture the whole thing on video – allowing Techinstein and myself to devote our full attention to other important aspects of this project, like flubbing our lines and dropping fruit.
I'd also like to note that, having visited the Banana Bunker website, I came away with a new appreciation for the utility of this product. As Colbert amply demonstrated during his segment, the high-fall threats that the company demonstrated in its own marketing video are ridiculous.
However, a photo on its website show a bunkered banana safely tucked away inside a satchel, not being bruised or crushed by notebooks, newspapers, books and so forth. If you eat a lot of bananas and your purse or your man-bag is packed full of hardware, that might be a reason to spend $15.
Now that this video has been released out into the wild, I'm curious to see if we will get the “Colbert Bump.” Stay tuned.
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