Re:MIT (Score 1)

You miss my point. Even though these guys are engineering students, I don't think they did it so much as a feat of engineering, but as a prank involving a mechanical equipment for purposes of theme. I'm sure they agree that it's not a huge feat to calculate the weight of the car, how far it will fall when they suspend it, and how strong the cable will have to be to support the jerk at the bottom. So that's where I arrive at the conculsion that it's not meant to impress the engineering buffs.