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Gettin mighty high ...
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line6man said:Can a parachute deploy at that altitude?
Cagey said:line6man said:Can a parachute deploy at that altitude?
Base jumpers will go from as low as 100 feet, but that's nearly suicidal. Military jumpers want at least 250 feet for a low-altitude drop. Recreational jumpers typically jump from between 5,000 and 10,000 feet.
JaySwear said:that is without a doubt the craziest thing i've seen in a long long time. forget fisherman and ice road truckers, i'd actually watch this if it were on a channel.
GoDrex said:forget those jobs - this shite in nuts:
Cagey said:High heights like that don't bother me, mainly because you wouldn't live through a fall. You'll either make it ok or die, so no worries. It's the lower heights that make my ass hole tighten up, like ladders and roofs and such, where if you fall you're going to get hurt, probably bad, and maybe permanently. That kind of thing can really cramp your style. I'd much rather be dead than conscious and paralyzed.
BigBeard said:My question is at that height would you actually be alive till you hit the ground. What is that 1500 feet or so? My quick math says about 46 seconds worth of flight assuming 9.8 meters per second. That is what frightens me....... the fall and the sudden stop at the bottom.
BigBeard said:in all seriousness...... I should have known better, I'm pretty terrified of heights like that, I shouldn't have watched that cause now I'm all nervous and sick in the stomach........ those kind of heights scare me like the boogie man scares a two year old.
Cagey said:BigBeard said:My question is at that height would you actually be alive till you hit the ground. What is that 1500 feet or so? My quick math says about 46 seconds worth of flight assuming 9.8 meters per second. That is what frightens me....... the fall and the sudden stop at the bottom.
Well, there's nothing physically traumatic about the fall itself, assuming you weren't bouncing off of things along the way, and even if you couldn't breathe 46 seconds isn't long enough to even knock you out, let alone kill you, so I guess you'd spend that whole time conscious and terrified, then you'd die real, real fast. Thankfully, at that point, all your troubles are over <grin>
BigBeard said:My question is at that height would you actually be alive till you hit the ground. What is that 1500 feet or so? My quick math says about 46 seconds worth of flight assuming 9.8 meters per second. That is what frightens me....... the fall and the sudden stop at the bottom.