When I was talking about cat shots.
Vid here (right click, save as – my WP2.1 upgrade has broken my video plugin)
Thanks to Guy, who helpfully points out that luck and brains do not necessarily go together.
Update: Link fixed! (I think)
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That’s not what I meantBy lex, on February 8th, 2007
February 8th, 2007 | Category: Gratuitous slap
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L,
Vid not working for me…is this one of those GOTCH pop-ups?
Not for me neither.
Ditto.
I know…..I know………they all come out of the woodwork when something is broke, right?
Try this:
http://neptunuslex.com/downloads/bungee.wmv
Snuck around and found it from the office.
VR-
-SJBill
Cool!
I have always thought of something like this revolutionizing skydiving, but…I was hoping for the Star Trek transporter technology to be more “kind” to the body parts, while providing greater altitudes.
You know…set it for 15,000 feet, with 10 recycles to 3000, then on the last “round” you could either take the parachute ride, or teleport back to Mother Earth….
Think of the number of “points” you could get in about 15 minutes of freefall!
Damn…that is beyond dumb. I’ll stick to a run-off in a C-2, thank you, that’s a hell of a lot safer
Desperate times call for desperate measures?
Fortunately, I’m not quite that desperate. Yet.
Wow……just wow. My idea of a scary, wet-your-pants type ride–the two I took at Darien Lake (Six Flags) one a slingshot where you stayed safely in, and bounced between rubber bands….the other, cranked up to 200 ft. in a sling and let go to swing out over the park again and again….
I know, I’m a weenie…..but that’s enough for me!
There, see what happens when you “jump” out of a perfectly good lawn chair?
webbing burns….ouch
I was expecting to see a cat, not a human. That would have been a cool cat-shot. But then, imagine how hard it would be to get a cat into a parachute harness. But then, they always land on their feet, right?
Hunh???….Did I say that? Could there be another Guy,that I’m not aware of?
Looks like a finalist for the Darwin award for 07.
I was just thinking the same thing…how many guys are there on here??
But on the video itself: Any guesses how many G’s that shootee was pulling?
Yeah Buddy! For some reason the “Wearing the parachute” part seemed the smartest thing about this.
Similar in nature to this one… But whoa! Think of the positive and Neg’s in this one!
http://johncarmichaels.typepad.com/carmichaels_position/2007/01/alright_have_fu_1.html
Didja ever think you’d see an ATV serve as a Holdback bar?
Man, how long was that static line?
I mean, he did use a static line, right? Only an idiot would do free fall (or is that free up?)
Translation of the dialog at the end:
“That ain’t nuthin – watch this…”
That last one……..with the ATV – that one was kinda cool, you know. I’ve never had any desire to bugee jump. And what I really want to do is parachute (but not like in Lex’s vid). Still if all else failed, well…..I wouldn’t want to foreclose all my options
Guy and guy,
More than you’d think.
“Zoro”
Right Lex?
That’s why I was thinking “static line” too. Guy could pass out under that kind of g, and if he didn’t wake up in time to pull his o-ring, well then I guess he wouldn’t wake up.
Which, when you think about it, is sort of tautological, but there you are.
IN them here modern days, on rigs not used for military service, there isn’t an “O” ring. “Ripcord” or “D Ring” (for the handle’s shape) are now terms of old. Even students no longer jump “Ripcord activated, spring loaded pilot chute assisted” rigs….
Not that I was there, but it didn’t look like a static line was employed. Woulda had to have been attached to the catapult thingy…most likely it was an audition for “Jackass III.”
An “AAD” would not have time enough to arm….One more “dodged bullet” for the participant…
Oh, in case you’re still reading, skydivers now hand deploy the pilot chute into the wind stream, nothing to drop and cause the dropper to have to purchase said case of beer, let alone foot the bill for an other ripcord. Also less “stuff” to tangle with main opening sequence, in case you’re doing the 3 axes instability during at deployment altitude.
Gotta be hand deployed. A static line would have multiplied the risk considerably with a good chance of having it misrouted or fouled in the launching tackle.
Hand deployed, automatic, what-EVER – that was stoopid.
I was thinking…if you don’t have the carbon credits to fly your jump plane anymore (because Nancy “Pelosi Galore” used them in your stead, at least there is a viable method in place to get your adrenaline rush…
You know, kinda like the German scientist in the late 1800′s who invented a way to make “artificial” nitrates so they wouldn’t have to haul bird guano from the south Atlantic for fertilizer…but it was expensive….so it was shelved…until the Whacky Germans need more nitrates to make explosives for WWI, because they had no access to bird guano easily any more..