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  • Climactic cliffhanger from <i>The Italian Job</i> solved with science

    Filed under: Etc. , UK , Celebrities , Humor Spoiler Alert: If you want to be surprised by the ending of The Italian Job , stop reading now. We had a theory that humanity was officially bored when the carpet rake was invented. Once people didn't have to subdue woolly mammoths for dinner, they could focus on how to subdue the shag. That theory has been bolstered by news that the cliffhanger ending of The Italian Job has been attacked - and solved - by a host of amateur minds responding to a contest held by the Royal Society of Chemists (RSC). The end of The Italian Job sees the gang in the front of a bus teetering over a cliff, looking at all the gold at the back end of the bus and knowing they can't get to it without plunging to gold-plated deaths. The question posed by the RSC was simple: How could the gang get the gold out of the bus and remain alive to spend it? Ironically, the answer was all about physics, not chemistry. The winning entry, submitted by John Godwin, describes...

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