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Video of Skydiver's fall and survival plus interview.
Daily Mail ^
| 12th February 2007
| Stephen D'Antal
Posted on 02/13/2007 5:26:10 PM PST by amchugh
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:26:14 PM PST
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amchugh
To: amchugh
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:28:45 PM PST
by
Sundog
(What are we going to do tomorrow, Brain?)
To: amchugh
It's not the fall that gets you...it's the sudden stop at the end.
To: amchugh
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:30:45 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: cripplecreek
LOL.....you look like you just fell off a 1200 story building.
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:33:36 PM PST
by
Normal4me
To: cripplecreek
"You OK?
No."{
Very Pythonesque
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:35:06 PM PST
by
spanalot
To: amchugh
To: amchugh
2 Blondes at the top of the Empire State Building:
Blonde 1- If I jumped off this building how long do you think it would take to land?
Blonde 2- It would probably take 2 weeks.
Blonde 1- Do you think it would kill me?
Blonde 2- 2 Weeks with no food or no water! There's no way you could survive!
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:35:52 PM PST
by
word_warrior_bob
(You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
To: spanalot
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:37:55 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: cripplecreek
You OK?No.
Lol.
I was thinking....."How many fingers am I holding up?"
Never, ever.....jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:38:32 PM PST
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
To: amchugh
That'll make you cringe...
To: Sundog
Now THAT is one wild ride!!!!!!!! No thank you!!!
To: amchugh
If he was falling at 80 per hour the chutes were slowing him down. A free fall is over 2 hundred miles per hour.
To: Sundog
Thanks Sundog, that's a much better video, and I should have searched for it.
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:41:20 PM PST
by
amchugh
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:46:52 PM PST
by
spanalot
To: amchugh
I think one of the "Unlucky Skydivers" at your link was my late brother-in-law's roommate in the hospital. He landed in a pond and I think broke his legs. I'll have to ask my sister if she remembers his story.
To: amchugh
It shows him plummeting 12,000ft to earth after both his parachutes failed, saying goodbye to the world... and hitting the ground with a sickening thud at 80mph. But survived! God had mercy upon him!!!
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:53:08 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: amchugh
It is said that humans can survive free-falls from any height. The secret is to relax your body so that when you hit the ground, you have maximum "bounce ability."
If you tense up, your body will become rigid and will be more prone to breakage upon fall.
Consider an analogy to inanimate objects: Go to top of World Trade Center and drop a tube of glass. It will shatter on the streets below because it is a rigid object. Now drop a tube of rubber. It will land on the streets below fully intact because it is "relaxed."
So when you fall, be the rubber and not the glass.
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:54:05 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(I'm 40 days from outliving Steve Irwin)
To: amchugh
To: LasVegasMac
Are ya Dayed?
Are you hert?
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posted on
02/13/2007 5:57:07 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The Clintons: A Malignant Malfeasance of the Most Morbid)
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