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@jesse8: I guess Stroud appeals to my inner boyscout and a lot of what he does takes me back to my Scouting days where, although we packed in our own food, we did lash together and sleep in our own leen-tos. On the other hand, Grylls appeals to my inner base-jumper and lives out what my fantasy of the

@jesse8: Part cinematographer and survival expert, I think Stroud is pretty effective at depicting how vast a landscape can be and exactly how alone he really is. There's nothing fake about documenting your solitary survival in an interesting way. Grylls may paramotor over Mount Everest, drink his own urine, and eat

multiple distraction boost

genius

It's simple, he either removes the plate after parking or has a plate in the back window that he flips down to avoid being stalked by creepy fans or prying bloggers...sadly it doesn't always work.

@theCanuck: ...unless of course he was on a 12,238 mile journey to evade the IRS.

If he really had read and understood Ayn Rand, he would have spent his time and resources doing something that was actually productive. Ayn Rand Fail!

duh!

@straight6: ugh...forgive my ignorance of neo-nazi culture.

The Goggomobil is the product of mad genius...seeing the creator drive by while wearing cold war-era space helmet is priceless.

Octopussy...

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Senna and Ratzenberger, same race weekend. However, Gilles Villeneuve's crash (Belgium, 1982) is one of the most unnerving, seeing him flung from his car as the wreckage flips through the air. If we compare these crashes to Kubica's crash in Canada in 2007, where he withstood average deceleration forces of 28 g and

...and they turn left *and* right.

Video 2 is awesome, clever bunch of kids. Kudos.

@EnemaBagJones: You're all a bunch of Canadian loonies!...if you're willing to pay $1000 for a keyboard. Why not just make the whole thing a big touch-sensitive multi-functional screen, you know, in a portable tablet-like package, like an iDoesit or whatever that new fangled Macintosh device is...it costs almost half

Ontario Provincial Police...simple but effective.