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Skydiver's 15,000-foot plunge to earth an amazing survival story
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Posted on 07/16/2011 5:25:17 PM PDT by nuconvert
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:25:23 PM PDT
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nuconvert
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:25:55 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
All skydivers plunge to earth. Their success seems dependent on their speed upon reaching the ground.
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:27:27 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: nuconvert
My wife packed my ‘chute......
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:28:45 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
To: Navy Patriot
I heard a gay guy say that once but I quit listening after that.
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:30:11 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: nuconvert
Reminds of the the story about a skydiver in a similar situation. As he fell to earth he encountered another guy flying up from the ground. He said: “Do you know anything about parachutes?”
The other fellow replied: “No. Do you know anything about gas grills?”
To: nuconvert
15000 feet is a feat worthy of praise just for the fact that he maintained his coherency unless of course he toted a portable oxygen bottle.
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:31:41 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: nuconvert
Aw, hell....I did the same thing......from TWENTYFIVEETHOUSAND feet, with a chute.....yeah....
that wasn’t even PARTIALLY OPEN,,,yeah, that’s the ticket.... signed, Tommy Flanagan .
Actually I;ve seen the trailers for this show on Nat Geo channel and was planning to watch it. Some of what they showed was so extreme it almost looked like computer graphics.
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:32:44 PM PDT
by
supremedoctrine
("uncurtaining the night,I'd let dark glass/hang all the furniture above the grass." -Nabokov)
To: nuconvert
Probably a line over partial malfunction resulting in uncontrollable spin. Betted than a streamer aka a screamer but still a hard stop. Blue skies from crghill B17580
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:35:47 PM PDT
by
crghill
(You can't put a condom on your soul.)
To: nuconvert
To: cripplecreek
It’s not the fall that kills you—it’s the sudden stop.
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:36:43 PM PDT
by
Keli Kilohana
(Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
To: nuconvert
Let me say this again; They don’t make an airplane big enough to hold all the people it would take to throw me out.
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:38:44 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: nuconvert
Just gave me an idea. I'll setup a camera near the Sunshine Skyway bridge, and film it for a week. Fifty percent of the people who jump survive.
Then sell it to National Geographic.
Just kidding...
5.56mm
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:39:10 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: nuconvert
Gonna have a bad case of the RiceKrispies every morning, dang
snap, crackle, pop
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posted on
07/16/2011 5:57:39 PM PDT
by
waterhill
(Little 'r' republican: taker of the Founder's 'Red Pill'...www.mikechurch.com)
To: He Rides A White Horse
didn’t have time to say much more.
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posted on
07/16/2011 6:02:22 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: EGPWS
Oxygen is required at 15000’ but not at 14999’...I’ve been to 17000 w/o oxygen with 40 others in a DC3. It was a slow forming location as everyone was a little logy for the first half minute of a 90 sec freefall.
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posted on
07/16/2011 6:07:24 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: nuconvert
Hell yea
What stones!!
Facing sure splat and he yells
BYE!!!!!
Instead of screaming like a weenie
I love this guy!!!!
Whoever he is...
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posted on
07/16/2011 6:09:04 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....I'm often on a DroidX..in bed late...hence my spelling..sorry)
To: nuconvert
I salute you Kiwi
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posted on
07/16/2011 6:12:29 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....I'm often on a DroidX..in bed late...hence my spelling..sorry)
To: nuconvert
Just enough time for one chorus of Blood on the Risers.
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posted on
07/16/2011 6:17:32 PM PDT
by
11Bush
To: crghill
I believe you are correct, sir. gorush D7166
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posted on
07/16/2011 6:19:28 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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