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Peruvian Man Survives 5,000-Foot Fall and Doesn’t Even Break a Bone After Parachute Mishap
New York Daily News ^
| 5/8
| Joe Kemp
Posted on 05/08/2014 12:42:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: HerrBlucher
He shall from this moment on be known as El Gato.
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posted on
05/08/2014 1:45:21 PM PDT
by
wrench
To: nickcarraway; Slings and Arrows
Maybe he had a piece of buttered bread underneath him to break his fall.
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posted on
05/08/2014 1:47:33 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: Dead Corpse
Remember, it’s not the fall that kills you,
it’s the sudden deceleration at the end of it...
F = ma
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posted on
05/08/2014 1:48:39 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: The_Sword_of_Groo
Maybe this will become the next X-treme sport. Like bungy jumping without the cord.
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posted on
05/08/2014 1:51:01 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: Dead Corpse; JoeProBono
He’s going to get a ticket for breaking the law of gravity.
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posted on
05/08/2014 1:51:43 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: nickcarraway
For your AP physics test, assuming the man weighed 150 pounds, calculate the energy expended to decelerate him from terminal velocity to zero in 1 second.
Extra credit if you can explain how he didn’t end up with ankles around his ears.
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posted on
05/08/2014 1:52:21 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: IronJack
He had a partial chute deployment, possibly a streamer, but he was not at terminal velocity for a human body of 150 lbs.
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posted on
05/08/2014 1:59:23 PM PDT
by
wrench
To: nickcarraway
There was the teenage girl who survived a fall from a Lockeed Electra that broke up over the Peruvian jungle.
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posted on
05/08/2014 2:02:57 PM PDT
by
willk
(everyone)
To: nickcarraway
PPPPPP
PissPoorPerformance from PeruvianParachutePacker?
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posted on
05/08/2014 2:11:32 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(Take congress in 2014. Have a Constitutional Convention of the States. Save the Republic.)
To: Kenny Bunk
PissPoorPerformance from PeruvianParachutePacker ...permits pending plummet to planet. Police posit plunge portended by parting from proper packing procedure...
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/08/2014 2:33:01 PM PDT
by
spankalib
("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
To: P-Marlowe
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posted on
05/08/2014 2:54:28 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: nickcarraway
My cousin, a parachute instructor, had a double parachute failure and managed to walk (hobble) away from it. He somehow managed to hit some trees first which broke the fall somewhat.
I for one don't see any reason at all to jump out of a perfectly functioning airplane.
To: nickcarraway
This is a minor point, to be sure, but the ignorance of the American press on military matters shows up in this article. First, he writes of the “Peruvian air force officer” and a couple paragraphs later, he talks of “the sergeant.” Anyone who knows anything about the military knows that a sergeant is not an officer. He’s an NCO but that’s not the same, by any stretch.
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posted on
05/08/2014 3:21:44 PM PDT
by
OldPossum
("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
To: OldPossum
What’s the “O” stand for in “NCO”?!
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posted on
05/08/2014 3:28:18 PM PDT
by
Southack
(The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
To: Talisker
If God doesn’t get the Glory, then it ain’t a miracle.
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posted on
05/08/2014 3:34:50 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/08/2014 3:35:45 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: Track9
Hell probably get run over by a truck while sleeping in his bed.
Some poor blaster in Mission Viejo got killed a few months ago, by a drunk driver, while sleeping in his bed. Drunk (not injured, of course), went around a corner in a 30 m.p.h. zone doing about 75, lost control, and went right through the bedroom wall :(
To: nickcarraway
During WWII a guy who jumped out of a burning heavy bomber @ 18000 ft without a parachute (rather than burn to death)walked away from his landing with just some scratches. One of those 80 ft tall pine trees broke his fall. The upper branches broke away(decelerating him) and the lower heaver ones bounced him. The story was in “Into The Silk: The Story of the Caterpillar Club”.
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posted on
05/08/2014 5:22:21 PM PDT
by
TalBlack
(Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: Southack
The “O” is for officer. The term, as you likely know (since you addressed the question that way), is “non-commissioned officer.” But as you may also know, it has no reference to what is commonly understood to be “officer.” These are corporals and sergeants in the Army, Air Force and Marines (there are different titles in the Navy), and they are by no means “officers” in the sense that commissioned and warrant officers are.
They are enlisted men, pure and simple. Not officers.
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posted on
05/08/2014 6:39:54 PM PDT
by
OldPossum
("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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