Ig Nobel Awards Sets World Record: NOBEL Prize Winners WHIP SWORD from Sword Swallower!

Watch a World Record get set as Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician and founder of fractal geometry, and 8 Nobel Prize winners whip a sword from Sword Swallower Dan Meyer at the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater on October 1, 2009.

Watch as a 22-inch solid steel sword is removed from Ig Nobel laureate sword swallower Dan Meyer's throat by Nobel Prize winners Dr. Martin Chalfie and Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle. Watch as that record is broken minutes later as an even longer 30-inch sword is removed by renowned mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, and 8 Nobel Prize winning scientists using a whip to remove the sword!

The feat was certified a World Record by the URDB Universal Records Database of World Records.

Participants:
Sword Swallower Dan Meyer,
President Sword Swallowers Assoc Int'l (SSAI)
Winner 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine

Sword Removers:
Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle, Nobel Prize Physics 2001
Dr. Martin Chalfie, Nobel Prize Chemistry 2008
Dr. William Lipscomb, Nobel Prize Chemistry 1976
Dr. Dudley Herschbach, Nobel Prize Chemistry 1986
Dr. Rich Roberts, Nobel Prize Physiology/Medicine 1993
Dr. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize Physics 2004
Dr. Roy Glauber, Nobel Prize Physics 2005
Dr. Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Economics 2008
Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot, Father of Fractal Geometry

This feat was awarded a URDB World Record:
http://urdb.org/Content/RecordDetail.aspx?id=1206&attempt=2329#

Watch Dan's UNUSUAL acceptance speech as he received the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine Oct 4, 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA3Re1PYIFM

Watch Dan on the America's Got Talent Atlanta auditions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Aw7EkIsYK0

Click here to see Dan take sword swallowing to the next level on Americas Got Talent Semi-Finals Las Vegas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLwxq3ESSaQ#t=2m06s

Watch Dan swallow swords UNDERWATER in a tank of SHARKS for Ripley's Believe It or Not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6B75dceSUE

Watch Dan swallow a sword heated to 1500 degrees RED-HOT on Stan Lee's Superhumans for the History Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuglEi19vqg

Watch Dan swallow a 100-year old SAW and 15 SWORDS AT ONCE for AOL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2SOoyn5g80

Still don't believe sword swallowing is real? Want scientific PROOF?
Check out X-ray fluoroscopes taken at Vanderbilt Medical Center for Stan Lee's Superhumans proving the sword swallowing is real:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv7Gkfrno4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44psv4RzgOg

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[adelle0001]

nice naman!

[bonnie43uk]

a little tiny part of me was hoping it would all go wrong and the emergency services rapidly called to save a dying man with a slashed windpipe.

But I'm glad it went ok.

[hauschxbAUWJHYB1]

That was beautiful