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jumps 25000 feet without parachute!
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I would not do that.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Sometimes the understatement says it all.
There is absolutely no reason to deliberately jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Me next! Me next!!!
I can't help but wonder what flat Earthers would say to the well rounded look of the horizon?
I can't help but wonder what flat Earthers would say to the well rounded look of the horizon?
True. The impressive part is hitting the net from that height, a bonafide HALO jump altitude.As far as I know after you reach terminal velocity it doesn't really matter how far you fall so... *Shrugs* not super impressive just physics
Sapiens
Polymathematician
I am not sure reason enters into it.There is absolutely no reason to deliberately jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
They're adrenaline junkies.
I'm more of a safety junky.
eh. After 1880ft or 573 Meters, you reach terminal velocity. As in, you're not going to fall any faster no matter how much further up you decide to fall.
Impressive, but again, adding that extra distance doesn't actually do much of anything but make it more difficult to start.
Impressive, but again, adding that extra distance doesn't actually do much of anything but make it more difficult to start.
Well, really there is.There is absolutely no reason to deliberately jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
Once you've jumped out from above the clouds and fallen through them you never see clouds the same way again.
It's impossible to explain, but it is real. Clouds stop being a backdrop to reality and reality expands to include the sky.
Tom
It looks like they calculated the position and size of the net just right, I wonder how much room there was leftover.
I'm too much of a self-preservationist. The bigger the balls, the harder.. well nevermind.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
It also gave him nearly a minute and a half to fall. More impressive for his own amusement than anything, because it's all in knowing exactly where to land, no matter the distance, and I'm sure he was up so high that the challenge level just stopped increasing thousands of feet below his jump point.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Years ago I did a hang-gliding course which was great fun, but I never got the landings right, always seemed to end up upside down.
Never got up the nerve to do a parachute jump though....and as for jumping into a giant hair-net, well, I don't think so!
Never got up the nerve to do a parachute jump though....and as for jumping into a giant hair-net, well, I don't think so!
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Yeah, stay on the couch!
Demonslayer
Well-Known Member
Years ago I did a hang-gliding course which was great fun, but I never got the landings right, always seemed to end up upside down.
Never got up the nerve to do a parachute jump though.
I think hang gliding is actually more dangerous. I have gone sky diving twice but never gliding.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Could well be. Hang-gliding is weird because they have a low flying speed, so in a strong wind you can be going backwards in relation to the ground. One poor guy just could't take off at all ( you run down a hill ), his legs kept giving way - I think his body was quite sensibly saying "No way, you are not getting me up there!"