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Title: This is absolutely INSANE!
Post by: DmonSlyr on July 30, 2016, 10:35:27 PM
https://streamable.com/h6bd

Guy falls 25k feet with no parachute and lands into net.
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Post by: Meatwad on July 30, 2016, 10:46:13 PM
Wonder what G's a stunt like that pulls once he hits the net
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Post by: Bizman on July 31, 2016, 03:08:55 AM
What happened to the other guys who apparently missed the net?

Also, that net seemed to be much denser than those used by circus acrobats. Such a net would have cut the guy into nice cubes!

Hmm... Wondering when Mechanic will send a video about him doing the same.
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Post by: bozon on July 31, 2016, 07:23:03 AM
This is the quickest and cheapest way to return astronauts from the ISS. Who needs an expensive space shuttle, when I can simply jump down. Sell you space-x shares now!
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Post by: Copprhed on July 31, 2016, 09:24:13 AM
Un freaking real........ :salute
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Post by: guncrasher on July 31, 2016, 09:36:01 AM
it's been done before.  it's a fake.


semp
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Post by: HL117 on July 31, 2016, 09:37:39 AM
My heart rate was faster than his just by watching,......... wow impressive! noticed he didn't hit it dead nuts center either, yikes!
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Post by: GScholz on July 31, 2016, 09:43:27 AM
it's been done before.  it's a fake.


semp

Not fake.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/31/us/skydiver-no-parachute-successful-landing-trnd/
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Post by: FLOOB on July 31, 2016, 09:46:19 AM
CGI
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Post by: GScholz on July 31, 2016, 09:56:06 AM
Aliens...
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Post by: rabbidrabbit on July 31, 2016, 11:33:35 AM
Swamp gas!
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Post by: Meatwad on July 31, 2016, 11:39:01 AM
He secretly works for NASA and has an experimental reverse gravity generator hidden on himself, that is why he didnt go kersplat
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Post by: Bizman on July 31, 2016, 11:41:31 AM
I noticed the video being on our TV newsflash. It also has been embedded to the Finnish Broadcasting Company news site. Pretty cool for an American who's not running for president.
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Post by: zack1234 on July 31, 2016, 11:55:56 AM
What's the point? :old:
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Post by: Bizman on July 31, 2016, 12:10:15 PM
What's the point? :old:

Why do mountaineers do what they do? As the English mountaineer George Mallory answered why he wanted to risk his life (which he lost) in climbing Mount Everest: "Because it's there".
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Post by: pembquist on July 31, 2016, 01:16:39 PM
Well this ups the ante a bit. Now to make an impression, (on the crowd not the ground,) its gotta be no chute no cardboard box pile no net. Maybe a kiddie pool? Pair of Air Jordans?
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Post by: zack1234 on July 31, 2016, 02:50:01 PM
Why do mountaineers do what they do? As the English mountaineer George Mallory answered why he wanted to risk his life (which he lost) in climbing Mount Everest: "Because it's there".

They do it because they don't have to go to work and pay bills like the rest of us.

Let's keep it real they are clowns who contribute nothing to society.

Climbing Everest is the most useless thing to do.

They are like kids who climb trees, and don't want to grow up.

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Post by: FLOOB on July 31, 2016, 03:22:50 PM
Zach is on to something.

There's a reason why filthy rich rock stars and money traders go back to college. It has nothing to do with money. David Lee Roth was filthy rich when he was riding around in the back of ambulances doing his paramedic training. Because for some people, getting rich and not contributing to society in a real, tangible, practical way is just as empty as not contributing to society. Of course it helps being rich enough to afford a shrink to point out to them the reasons for their drug abuse and depression when one lacks the insitefullness to recognize the remedy themselves.

By the way I've been up for at least 24 hours and I'm drinking. So whatever. I may be drunk but at least I'm not 
I forget how the rest of that goes.
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Post by: zack1234 on August 01, 2016, 12:26:35 AM
Evil Kinevel though was awesome and enriched everyone's lives and created an awesome range of toys :old:
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Post by: Serenity on August 01, 2016, 10:42:43 AM
Let's keep it real they are clowns who contribute nothing to society.

The irony is overwhelming...
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Post by: zack1234 on August 01, 2016, 01:02:50 PM
what that's supposed to mean?
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Post by: dentin on August 01, 2016, 01:28:45 PM
what that's supposed to mean?

Short Answer :
a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character

Also note: Among the the many "things" that fall from the sky, the top of the list is held by FOOLS  :devil
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Post by: Greebo on August 01, 2016, 02:44:02 PM
A mere 18,000 ft but no net so I'd say this story (https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/he-fell-18000-from-a-lancaster-with-no-parachute-survived.html) is a little more impressive.....
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Post by: NatCigg on August 01, 2016, 03:21:33 PM


Let's keep it real. They are clowns who contribute nothing to society.



fixed.

+1 for use of forty year old urban slang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SMWJ9yj9cY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14p1m1AKgTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuiNwMvqIzc

Title: Re: This is absolutely INSANE!
Post by: zack1234 on August 01, 2016, 03:36:05 PM
A mere 18,000 ft but no net so I'd say this story (https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/he-fell-18000-from-a-lancaster-with-no-parachute-survived.html) is a little more impressive.....

I read this 30 years ago in Valiant comic :)
Title: Re: This is absolutely INSANE!
Post by: mechanic on August 01, 2016, 03:57:52 PM
Was pretty cool to watch the build up to this event and now the execution. Not that difficult to do but requires a lot of courage.

I heard on the grape vine that Redbull sponsor him for other things but refused for this idea because they thought it was stupid and he would die. Guess not.

This to me was a ballsy publicity stunt and only will achieve a brief moment of fame for the guy. Wingsuit proximity flying is still the holy grail of insane things to do with gravity as far as I am concerned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_744666387&feature=iv&src_vid=kTzwvyzzfjk&v=VxY527I862g
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Post by: icepac on August 01, 2016, 05:26:27 PM
Evel Knieval will always be the man.

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Post by: hgtonyvi on August 01, 2016, 05:28:17 PM
Yea this was sick  :salute
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Post by: 8thJinx on August 01, 2016, 05:44:07 PM
Wonder what G's a stunt like that pulls once he hits the net

Well, it was stated that he was travelling at 120 mph.  Looking at the video, his deceleration time was probably on the order of one second.  That works out to be a little over 5 g's.
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Post by: EagleDNY on August 01, 2016, 08:26:52 PM
It isn't the fall - it is the STOP that kills you.   There are people who have actually SURVIVED a fall from a plane without a parachute before - most times it is because they hit deep soft snow - check these out:

http://www.strangehistory.net/2013/12/14/the-gannet-club-parachuteless-in-ww2/ (http://www.strangehistory.net/2013/12/14/the-gannet-club-parachuteless-in-ww2/)
Title: Re: This is absolutely INSANE!
Post by: Traveler on August 05, 2016, 01:03:34 AM
I understand that the FAA is talking to the pilot of the aircraft used.  Seems there is a FAR requiring everyone in an aircraft used for skydiving or parachuting to wear a parachute.