First week back at school and so far things are going well^^ I always enjoy the first little bit of a new semester, before things get messy and unbalanced...plus, a boy in one of my classes asked for my numberXD Unfortunately my retarded cell doesn't always send or receive text messages, so I never received the one he sent, and I sent one to see if he got it but I never got a reply so...who knows;P I still haven't given up on my other boy...but I don't see him very often, and none of my friends can give me any idea of whether there's a chance or not anymore. I have a Valentine's day plan for him, but other than that I'm not going to waste my time getting worked up over it^^
At any rate, I have the first 14 minutes of Odoroki Special 5!
[Announcer: Arashi puts their lives on the line to do a big investigation of dream experiments that scholars have wanted to try at
least once. Last time the newspaper balloon was a huge failure; this time they pile on the reforms and attempt to get revenge.]
Jun: Let's definitely fly this thing, seriously! (writing)
[Announcer: Will the balloon be able to rise up into the sky this time? And, finally, the last chapter: can you cross the sea in a
boat made of konbu (seaweed)? (writing)]
Sho: Wait for us Matsushima~!
[Announcer: This time their weight calculations are a big success, they're able to speed up and move forward steadily. However...in
the end, what will be the fate of the konbu boat? Can you actually make Yatterman's skull cloud? (writing) The scholars are surprised
as well. Furthermore, if you lined up all the musical notes from 'Ponyo on the cliff' and ran past them as they played would it sound like the
song? They all play at once and sound like this, but in the end...? Odoroki Arashi, Experiments of the Century that even Scholars
can't predict SP 5. (writing)...is beginning~!]
Sho: This is the fifth one!
Ogura: The fifth one. On top of which, it's a 2 hour and 45 minute special! (writing)
Sho: We, Arashi, put our lives on the line to investigate the experiments that these Japanese scholars sitting here have wanted to
try at least once since they were children. Those of you in Arashi, how was it this time? Though you look kind of unsatisfied...
(writing)
Ogura: They do look unsatisfied don't they!
Jun: We don't have to do this kind of stupid thing at the end of the year do we? (writing) This is just what I think, but this time
we really did put our lives on the line. (writing)
Ogura: Nino also survived quite a bit didn't he?
Nino: I probably got all the experiments that failed. (writing)
Aiba: I had a ton of fun. Conversely. I don't understand why everyone's complaining. I think experiments are an aesthetic. (writing)
Sho: Tokui-san, you do feel Eros in experiments do you?
Tokui: Because experiments are fundamentally Eros. (writing)
Jun: What does that mean?
Tokui: For example, in a situation where you're stimulated by something outside of you what kind of reaction will you get if you go
one step further? So, more than just thinking about your everyday evening, um, I'm going to reduce how much I talk a little bit.
(writing)
[Announcer: These are the university professors who suggested the experiments that cornered Arashi this time as well: physics, botany,
and others, experts have gathered from every field. We'll have them predict and explain the shocking experiments from various angles.
Professors, even if your predictions are off there are no excuses...]
Sho: To begin with, the first experiment that a scholar has always wanted to try once is this here: the 'which is which' experiment.
Toppling dominoes from largest to smallest, or toppling dominoes from smallest to largest, which is faster? (writing)
[Announcer: So, first is the magnificent domino experiment. The one who suggested it was Tsukuba University graduate school's Asai-
sensei, whose specialty is body movement.]
Asai: These are dominoes where the total number and distance are exactly the same. (writing)
[Announcer: The two domino sets are like this: if you toppled them from biggest to smallest and smallest to biggest, which one would
be the fastest? (writing) Rather, will their falling speed change to begin with, that's the experiment.]
Aiba: Isn't this super interesting? After all, won't the one starting with the smallest spin around? (writing) Like it can go right into
first gear.
Sho: Um, I don't see what you're saying at all.
Aiba: You get it right?
Fukuda: Like 1st gear, 2nd gear, 3rd gear, 4th gear, that sense of speeding up-
Aiba: That's right!
Fukuda: -the smaller one.
Aiba: But the largest one has gravity on its side, like this, so won't it be faster? (writing)
Chizuru: If you think about it normally the largest one would be fastest.
Nino: It's the largest one isn't it.
Chizuru: Yeah.
Yuuka: I think it's the bottom one. Starting from the smallest... Doesn't it seem like with the largest one it'll take a lot of time
at the start? Before they fall down.
Ogura: before they fall down right.
Ijuuin: I think it'll be exactly the same. Because it's exactly the same thing that's falling right.
Aiba: Ahhh, a tie?
Ogura: Hara-sensei, how about it?
Hara: I think it's a competition based on the very last domino. If the last small one will go 'plunk', or if the last large one will
go 'thud'. (writing)
[Announcer: The scholars' predictions are heavily weighted on the side that the largest to smallest will be the fastest to fall. Ogawa-
sensei thinks they'll fall at the same speed, and Hara-sensei doesn't know so he gives up. Will the scholars' predictions be right?
Toppling them from largest to smallest, or from smallest to largest, which will be faster? The domino experiment begins! The observers
of this experiment are these two. Favor us, okay?]
Takeyama: Which one?
Jun: We prepared them (specially made dominoes). (writing) They're over here!
[Announcer: Lined up in a row, there are 56 specially-made dominoes. Their full length is 24m. This is the biggest domino. Unbelievably,
it has a height of 1.8m. Meanwhile, the height of this, the smallest domino, is just 4cm. Now, before proceeding, they see how toppling
the biggest domino goes.]
Sho: He fell back a bit.
takeyama: Well, it has quite an impact. More importantly, it hit me on the chin. In terms of speed the biggest one is slow. (writing)
Nishimura: Slow?
Takeyama: The more it falls the faster it gets. (writing) Well, that's how it feels to me, you know?
[Announcer: Next...]
Takeyama: Uwa, so tiny! Cute isn't it?
Nishimura: Cute~! This tiny?
Jun: So, this is the small- please be careful, okay?
[Announcer: And when they try toppling these dominoes in a row...]
Jun: Lining them up like this...
Ohno: It's unexpectedly fast isn't it. (writing)
Takeyama: It's fast isn't it. Wouldn't it be better to go from the smallest? The power would multiply more and more right? It's just
this one's small power, but adding in the power of all of them and toppling that huge 180cm one, isn't that a wonderful
way to live? So I prefer that the smallest one is faster! (writing)
Jun: Um, it's not about which you prefer to be faster...
[Announcer: To make sure that both the dominoes are pushed at the same time we readied this equipment. At the signal they simultaneously
release the balls from an angle of 90 degrees. (writing)]
Group: I see...
[Announcer: It's an arrangement so that this power will topple the first domino.]
Jun: First of all, we'd like to start with the largest to smallest order of dominoes.
[Announcer: Ohno is undertaking the position of starter. In the end, what time will they get?]
Jun: There it goes.
Takeyama: It's gone, it's gone.
Nishimura: It's gone. Ah, so fast!
Sho: Fast!
Chizuru: So interesting~!
Jun: It turned out magnificently didn't it.
Takeyama: Amazing~!
Jun: Let's go! The time is...
Takeyama: 8.48 seconds.
Jun: Yes.
Ohno: Isn't that fast? (writing)
Takeyama: That's fast, it's fast but there's nothing to compare it to you know. (writing)
Jun: That's right isn't it.
[Announcer: Well then, one more time.]
Jun: There it goes.
Takeyama: It's gone, it's gone.
Nishimura: It's gone. Ah, so fast!
[Announcer: It started out slowly, but it feels like the smaller they got the more the speed built up, doesn't it.]
Jun: So, this means that I'd like us all to fix it together. (writing)
Takeyama: Eh, you're kidding! Don't the talents rest in the waiting room at times like this? (writing)
Nishimura: Do your best~.
[Announcer: For the sake of the next experiment they all diligently fix the dominoes. (writing) And at that time...]
Takeyama: You bastard! What the heck are you doing?! (writing)
[Announcer: Assistant director Fujita makes his unfortunate tv debut.]
Ohno: Fujita, you scared me.
Jun: I thought I was going to get stuck in between the dominoes!
[Announcer: Once they finish lining up the dominoes again they will topple them from smallest to largest. In the end, will they get
a time lower than the 8.48 seconds they had just a short while ago?]
Jun: Well then Leader, if you please.
Ohno: Okay.
Jun: Ohh, there it goes.
Takeyama: Isn't that slow?
Chizuru: That's slow~.
Jun: It's slow isn't it.
Ijuuin: Completely different.
Yuuka: Slow.
Ogura: It's slow.
[Announcer: In the end...]
Jun: The time is...this here. 11.38 seconds.
Takeyama: Well, with the tiny ones they have to keep working hard and plunking away, so it can't be helped.
[Announcer: Why was it that it was faster toppling them from largest to smallest? That's because more inertia is generated when a large
domino topples a small one. That's why it steadily increases in speed. The scholars did a magnificent job of predicting this outcome.
But, there were some professors who were wrong too, weren't there?]
Sho: Asai-sensei?
Asai: The result was exactly as I'd predicted, but it's difficult to predict that kind of gap. (writing)
Sho: Yuuka-san, it turned out to be opposite from what you predicted, didn't it?
Yuuka: Yeah, but I think this is a really good experiment, I want to go to the location. (writing) Don't you want to so something like
that?
Nino: It's decided, our next guest. (writing)
Sho: We also did some other 'which is it?' experiments.
Ogura: Yes.
Sho: Between running in the rain and walking in the rain, which will make you less wet? Who thought of this? Have you ever thought
about it?
Nino: I have, it's definitely running!
Jun: It might be the opposite. Walking might get you less wet. (writing)
Aiba: Really??
Nino: Walking would get you more wet.
Aiba: Because you spend more time getting hit by the rain, right. (writing)
Ijuuin: But if you go slowly only this area gets wet right? But if you run at really high speed then your full front gets wet.
Ogura: Your full front gets wet doesn't it.
Ijuuin: So if you think about the areas you get wet...
Ootsuki: Actually, physicists have been interested in this subject for a long time. (writing)
Ogura: Ah, is that so?
Ootsuki: Thinking 'if you go slowly surely just your head and shoulders will get wet, but if you run the surface the rain hits is
much larger so you'll catch more of it. Therefore, which would it be? (writing)
Ogura: Hara-sensei?
Hara: It's better to run. Only, you have to do it more on an angle like that picture. You have to run at just the
right angle so that it only hits your head and shoulders.
Sho: Is that so??
Ogura: Hara-sensei, the only thing is, if you're running forward at the right angle wouldn't the amount hitting your back increase?
(writing)
Nino: Sensei! (writing)
Chizuru: Sensei! (writing)
[Annoucer: These are the predictions of the professors: there are an unbelievable 4 professors who say that walking will get you less
wet. In the end...walking in the rain or running in the rain, which gets you less wet? The studio is in an uproar over the extremely
unexpected result. Furthermore, revenge on the newspaper balloon. The terrified Sakurai finally rises up into the sky.]
Jun: Well then, this is the experiment, tada! Walking in the rain or running in the rain, which will get you less wet? (writing)
Takeyama: Walking will get you less wet. (writing)
Nishimura: Eh, why??
Jun: What's the basis of that?
Takeyama: If you run you get extra wet. (writing) Because you get wet like this right? If you run the rain comes at you like this.
Ohno: Meaning that this part gets soaked, right?
Nishimura: But, if you run this part gets soaked, but I think your back won't get wet at all. Since only half of you will get wet
I get the feeling that running will get you less wet. (writing)
Jun: I think running will get you less wet.
Takeyama: Why?
Jun: When you walk this gets wet, doesn't it? So I think that from there it'll drip down more and more. (writing)
Ohno: I think that walking will get you less wet.
Takeyama: Why?
Ohno: When you run you do it like this right?
Takeyama: Yes.
Ohno: Everything will get wet, like this area. (writing)
Takeyama: Ah, the area-
[Announcer: And the place they're going to hold the experiment is this man-made rainfall installation inside a warehouse, where you
can make it rain at will. From a light mist to typhoon level, you can make it rain at different strengths. This is 200mm rain.]
Takeyama: Amazing!
Jun: Seriously??
Takeyama: I'm getting wet, I'm getting wet! Don't make me into a shield! Not my glasses! This is getting me ridiculously wet! (writing)
[Announcer: The rain is perfect. And to measure just how wet your body gets they prepared these: special experiment clothing made
from 100% cotton that abosrbs water well and covers you from head to feet. First they'll weigh the person while wearing the outfit.
Then the person will either walk or run along the course set out in the rain. Once they're done they'll be weighed again so that
they'll know the amount of rain they were hit by. And the one getting wet in the rain is...]
Takeyama: Look, there they are.
[writing: Finished putting on the outfits.]
Takeyama: Isn't that nice!
Nishimura: It kind of suits them doesn't it?
Takeyama: It's the city's famous hot mechanics huh. (writing)
[Announcer: Or rather, they only look like Doraemon to me. First they measure their weight.]
Takeyama: 62.76 kilos. (Jun)
[Announcer: Meanwhile, Ohno is...]
Takeyama: 57.08 kilos.
Jun: The other day you said you were 53kg, but you;re 57kg aren't you? (writing)
Ohno: Right? I was surprised.
[Announcer: Ohno is in charge of walking, since he said walking will get you less wet. And Jun will be in charge of running, since he
said running will get you less wet. So, who will get less wet? (writing) On a side note, from the scholars' predictions there were
4 professors who said that walking will get you less wet. Watch for the unexpected experiment result.]
Jun: First, I'd like to start with 100mm of rain. If you please.
[Announcer: This is the amount of rain when a typhoon is passing through.]
Takeyama: This is heavy rain, isn't it.
Jun: It's amazing.
Takeyama: This is pretty amazing. If you were walking around in this with just an umbrella you'd be soaked up to here.
[Announcer: The course is to walk around the cones 3 times, about 50m. First we'll have Matsumoto, who is following the line of thought
that running will get you less wet, get wet.]
Ohno: Let's go! Ready~!
Nishimura: Do your best!
Ohno: Start!
Takeyama: So, run! It's 3 laps.
Chizuru: He's kind of cute.
Nishimura: He looks like a mouse-man! (writing)
Takeyama: My, he's not getting that wet is he?
Aiba: Constantly running will definitelyu get you less wet.
Takeyama: It's already over! Welcome back~. Go get weighed, go get weighed.
[Announcer: In the end, how much has Matsumoto's weight increased from before the experiment, after running the rain?]
Takeyama: 63.16kg. So that means the amount of rain that fully hit him was 400g.
[Announcer: The amount that Matsumoto got wet after running through 100mm of rain for 22 seconds is about 2 glasses worth, 400g
Well, I was really surprised, I thought the dominoes would all fall at the same rateO_o But Yuuka was right, it was an interesting experiment...and I'm really curious to see all the ones that Nino is so bitter aboutXD Yay, I love Odoroki:3 Sorry to leave you on a cliffhanger, but there'll be more soon^^
Well, keep warm, take care, and keep your dreams close by:) Have a great week!
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