Not gettin' me on that thing. Could've been the vaxx. Nope, still not goin'.
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To: Libloather
A free falling human body quickly reaches a max speed of about 120 mph.
4,000 feet of free fall?
Maybe 25 seconds until permanent lights out?
Any thoughts about final thoughts?
40 posted on
06/17/2023 5:30:20 AM PDT by
zeestephen
(Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
To: Libloather
There are a lot of things I’ve seen in person that were less impressive than their pictures; The Grand Canyon was not one of them. In fact, a picture can’t really convey the scale - several
miles across and a mile down. Definitely going back.
Yes, there were some Darwin Award contestants posing at the very edge of the cliffs.
To: Libloather
I’ve never been there, but I really doubt that there’s an uninterrupted vertical drop of 4,000 feet below the Skywalk. It says that the Colorado River is some 4,000 feet lower in elevation than the Skywalk, which extends horizontally 70 feet out from the rim of the canyon. I doubt if the river below is only 70 feet laterally from the rim. If I’m wrong about this, I’m sure someone will let me know.
The guy might have struck a few hundred feet down, then bounced a very long way down after that, but I don’t think he did a 4,000-foot free fall. I also don’t think the S & R team would have tried to rope down 4,000 feet, either.
Another piece of Daily Mail journalism.
To: Libloather
Search and rescue teams from the Mohave County Sheriff's Office used ropes and a helicopter to try and help the fallen man. If he fell 4,000 feet, I'm pretty sure there was no "helping" him. It's a recovery operation -- or more accurately, a wash-down.
48 posted on
06/17/2023 5:52:18 AM PDT by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: Libloather
Guess he won the Darwin Award; what’d he do? Climb over the rail or something? Is there no fence? People can just walk off that thing?
57 posted on
06/17/2023 6:38:35 AM PDT by
SkyDancer
(My Talents Are So Hidden That Even I Can't Find Them ...)
To: Libloather
I’m afraid of heights. No way I would ever walk out on that thing.
58 posted on
06/17/2023 6:38:58 AM PDT by
ducttape45
(Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
To: Libloather
Crews pronounced the man dead at the scene . . .
A 4,000 foot fall tends to leave no survivors, eh?
59 posted on
06/17/2023 6:39:20 AM PDT by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Libloather
60 posted on
06/17/2023 6:42:36 AM PDT by
Clutch Martin
("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
To: Libloather
Just do like Clark Griswold...
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61 posted on
06/17/2023 6:44:40 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Libloather
There was a dcoumentary on how this skywalk was built. Very fascinating engineering. Obviously, this guy committed suicide.
62 posted on
06/17/2023 6:52:01 AM PDT by
bort
To: Libloather
He fell 4,000 feet.
Question: Is that straight down or does one bounce off of canyon walls a few times?
Either way....
BTW. Google says it takes 27 seconds to fall 4,000 feet.
The worst and longest 27 seconds of that man’s life.
To: Libloather
77 posted on
06/17/2023 9:01:41 AM PDT by
dragonblustar
(They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)
To: Libloather
I remember when 128 people were killed there in one day.
June 30, 1956. Two aircraft collided and crashed in the canyon.
Fifty years ago I read the book “The Man Who Walked Through Time”: The book by Colin Fletcher. He said the wrecked aircraft are still there.
80 posted on
06/17/2023 9:15:55 AM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
To: Libloather
I should have been a clue when he asked someone to hold his beer.
100 posted on
06/17/2023 2:01:55 PM PDT by
IAGeezer912
(One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
To: Libloather
I stayed far away from that when I visited. 😬
101 posted on
06/17/2023 2:19:40 PM PDT by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Libloather
4,000 feet and then splat. What was left of him?
104 posted on
06/18/2023 1:42:53 AM PDT by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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