Daily Drop: Coconut

[Yankeedoodles]

Also, for the purposes of dropping for slow-motion destruction the coir would ruin everything. From personal experience I can tell you that 10 foot drops do nothing to it, and a crowbar would only turn it into a dangerous projectile.

Ugh, tell me about about! I had to drop a nonhusked coconut from a 3rd story balcony onto concrete before I even got a crack in the thing!

 

[Igen]

Things to drop

Potted plants - a nice fragile clay pot =D
An old computer tower (all the parts inside)
Toy truck
watermelon
A nice framed art piece with glass cover
A Roman candle (or several) lit and aimed at the target square
a deck of cards
old cell phone (crowbar please)
A plate of pasta (chicken alfedo?)

 

[WaderiAAA]

Dropping a husked coconut would produce a nifty sound but wouldn't break or do anything remotely fun.

I thought this video was pretty beautiful, especially with the music.

I think people were hoping for a video involving a crowbar. I know I was.

 

[monkey_man]

crowbar, and use an ENTIRE coconut next time.
not just a shell/outerlayer one
an ENTIRE one!

Also, for the purposes of dropping for slow-motion destruction the coir would ruin everything. From personal experience I can tell you that 10 foot drops do nothing to it, and a crowbar would only turn it into a dangerous projectile.

pheh. i used a hammer on a coconut once, and nothing happened, i got really dirty, but nothing happened.

 

[Koeryn]

Juicy! And awesome! I enjoyed this one.

 

[Graham_LRR]

There's more crowbar coming, but not every week. Gotta keep it special!

 

[Dragon-Byte]

that warranted CROWBAR!!!!

 

[Snowden's Secret]

Might as well submit this video, to substitute for any kind of discussion.

 

[GothmogII]

There's more crowbar coming, but not every week. Gotta keep it special!

You should also start putting googly eyes on things. Half the fun of watching the Coconut there was imagining it was making a pained expression as it spat out it's innards.

 

[kickyourass]

Wow, that coconut had WAY more liquid in it then I thought it would.

 

[Spudgun Man]

Awesome! Take that you nutty feind!

 

[Jamash]

Ugh...the end song is so familiar. Anybody know what this song is or what game it's from? It would be nice if Daily Drop would put this in the credits.

The artist is in the credits, it's Younnat and the song is The Day After Tomorrow, which can be downloaded right here on The Escapist.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/music

 

[Pikey Mikey]

I missed the crowbar in that one, also, could anyone tell me how I get that "theme song", the little music clip in the beginning, I find it rather catchy/amusing. =)

 

[Chasmodius]

That's very nice and all, but why don't you guys start dropping things from a height/at a speed which actually destroys them rather than making them bounce? This was just anti-climactic.

I imagine that, considering the difficulty they're having having things land in frame at this height, anything more would involve an excessive number of variables, and possibly damage to the (expensive) camera. Even with a laser plumb-bob, I bet it would be hard to get anything to hit a target that closely from three stories up.

 

[Chechosaurus]

You have freaky coconuts in Canada.... Somewhat anti-climactic over all. A guest appearance from Senior Crowbar or Madam Fireaxe would have been greatly welcomed.

 

[Mkvenner]

I think it would have been cool to Smash a coconut that had a lime inside of it!

(Are you sure thats a coconut?)

 

[CrystalShadow]

That's the oddest shaped coconut I've ever seen

Weird coconut, but it did look cool.

It looks like a 'peeled' coconut to me.

From what I remember travelling trough asia, coconuts are usually large green things with a huge amount of white stuff inside like what you see there.

While it could be a different type of coconut altogether, I seem to recall that the small brown furry coconut everyone is used to is actually the innermost part of the coconut.

If you take a green coconut and strip off the outside, and all the white stuff within, what you're left with is the more familiar looking brown coconut inside of it.

If you then break that open, you have coconut milk, and the inner lining of the coconut which is edible (and the filling in things like bounty bars)

At least, that's assuming it isn't just an entirely different type of coconut

Actually, doing a bit of research, there are 110 types of coconut, so it's probably some entirely different types of coconut.

Regardless, the one in the video has had it's outer shell already peeled off.

 

[RTR]

I agree. What a weird looking coconut

 

[ANeM]

pheh. i used a hammer on a coconut once, and nothing happened, i got really dirty, but nothing happened.

A hammer has a very different shape from a crowbar, the energy transfer is much different. For example, a hammer used on a watermelon would give you a perfect hole. A crowbar, as wielded in Salt/Pepper.. well, it would not be perfect, however it turns out. A hammer simply gives you more control over the colliding surfaces than a crowbar.

While perhaps I was being a bit dramatic with "dangerous projectile" you are still more likely to get a glancing blow than an actual destructive hit.

 

[Embz]

How did you manage to get the husk off that coconut? Must have taken some serious effort!