Wiginisio.
Are you actually Edward Snowden and posting from Russia?
His wife is fat.
We made him wear a chute actually
screensctorsguild wrote:
We made him wear a chute actually
No they rescinded that requirement
A chute wouldn't have added much extra safety. The crux was to hit the net.
A bit surprising that he was so far off the center of the net though.
I don't know. going 125 mph, hitting the middle of the target or not is not trivial, especially where every piece of your body is affecting your trajectory. I understand this guy has 18,000 jumps, but most any aiming they would be doing would be against someone else falling at the same speed as him and then under a parachute.
Yeah, I'm not saying it's trivial. I'm surprised because it shows that the net wasn't very big compared to the skills needed to hit it. Which again shows that the jump was a great "athletic" feat, not only a test of new material technology.
I watched this live on Fox last night. Very disappointing camera work.
I gots big balls this guys balls must be freaking huge
That's a REAL man with REAL balls.
How much was he paid to do this?
IgglesBeTheDeathofMe wrote:
How much did he have to pay to do this?
Fixed your post.
down to earth guy wrote:
Yeah, I'm not saying it's trivial. I'm surprised because it shows that the net wasn't very big compared to the skills needed to hit it. Which again shows that the jump was a great "athletic" feat, not only a test of new material technology.
I think he was pretty safe as long as his buddies with chutes were there for an escape route. He would have aborted if his aim was off, by the time they pulled their cords he was pretty close.
What I want to see now is someone jump off shit with a wingsuit and land in a net.
Bad Wigins wrote:
https://www.rt.com/usa/354048-skydiver-completes-jump-without-parachute/He is nuts!
Not impressed.
Vesna Vulović wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:https://www.rt.com/usa/354048-skydiver-completes-jump-without-parachute/He is nuts!
Not impressed.
Skydiver seems like a show me pony.
Look at me.....look at meeeeeeeeeeeee.
Isn't the net effectively a parachute? What's impressive about this? Seems like something any trust fund baby could do.
Landing on a gigantic foam rubber pad would have been more epic in my view.
TAA wrote:
Isn't the net effectively a parachute? What's impressive about this? Seems like something any trust fund baby could do.
How is the net a parachute? The guy was traveling about 120 miles per hour and didn't have the chute controls to direct his flight. The net was tiny. He had to direct his movement via movements from his body (torso, legs, arms - called tracking - I learned this thanks to Mr. Obvious). He ended up fairly close to the net's edge. Another 30 feet and he is toast.
What percent of the audience tuned it to see him make it and what percent tuned to see him fail?