Walk on water... fake?

[Babar]

I once floated in mid-air through sheer force of will (and leg muscles). I first lifted one leg up in the air, then the other.
Simple.

[InCreator]

Didn't mythbusters have an episode for water walking? As far as I remember, they ended up walking on corn syrup.

[NsMn]

Yes, I think a video of that is actually in the related videos section!

[TerranRich]

Guys. Seriously.

The average male has way too much surface pressure on both feet to be able to do this. Even on a non-Newtonian fluid, go slow enough and you'll sink.

No way in hell this is real. It's YouTube. And it's 2010. Come on now.

[InCreator]

sssh! don't ruin the mystery

[Snake]

You're such a kill-joy, Terran.

[Quintaros]

The average male has way too much surface pressure on both feet to be able to do this. Even on a non-Newtonian fluid, go slow enough and you'll sink.

Just saying "the average male"  implies that there are outliers who could perhaps achieve this. 

One of my engineering courses in university focused on surface tension and we calculated the ratio of an animal's foot area to its mass required to walk on water.  I don't remember the number but it was ridiculously large.   I think the Mythbuster's episode mentioned explored this and even with an appropriatedly sized pair of foot extensions they still couldn't achieve this because the foot would have to make contact with the water surface in a perfectly level manner.

The video posted is amusing though. Their pseudo-scientific explainations were delivered with an Owen Wilson-like deadpan that made me think they wanted to viewers to be in on the joke.