He forgot to release the tow cable.

Not as sketchy with the parachute. I would have liked to see the video as he slid down the cable of the carabiner getting worn away. Idiot should have had a pulley that could roll.

If this is from Russia, I think they're tourists. Russians don't use parachutes. They'd climb down that vertical cable using their balls.

Also, I think this cable set up is for catching low-flying aircraft trying to sneak, nap-of-earth, during the cold war. Either that or it's the World's most epic rope swing.

That's part of the hoist, the 2x4's are forming the pully point for the cable to pull through. which is way too low to get that thing onto the roof. He must have intended it to break.

Same here. I recall this being the first video I saw the day we got cable and MTV plugged straight into our brains.

what is the expected lifespan? the water seems to be thugging a lot on that little cable - id love such device but long lifespan is very important

Of course this assumes that the cafe has never changed from the default password. It wouldn't work on my combo modem/router supplied by my cable internet provider. Each unit has its own unique default password based on its serial number.

I could see this being much safer (and therefore more viable) than the Hyperloop.

Although I'm curious how it could ever be more efficient than just using an electric train.

As far as non-standard trains climbing steep grades, "cog railways" have existed over 150 years. (these aren't cable-pulled funiculars)

My brother had a cat back in the days of landline house phones, she would knock the handset off when the phone rang and drag the cable with her teeth into another room. He was always coming home to find the handset on the other side of the apartment and no voice messages.

I assume (but don't know)---in the San Francisco sequence as he psychotically departs from the intersection of Hyde and Chestnut Street down the Hyde St cable car tracks towards the Ghiradelli Square/Aquatic Park area---that the black thing he is holding in his hand is some sort of control of for a disc brake on the rear wheels? The rotors and pads of which...would be glowing red hot and dripping bits of flaming debris as he comes to a stop before being mashed to by crossing traffic on Bay street at the bottom of the hill? Sort of like in those emergency runway brake tests they do for airliners?

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It's THE problem of content on the Internet and it hasn't been figured out yet. As you can rightly guess - VideoSift has a hand in this too - as advertising pays the server bills.

I don't know what the answer will be. Nobody likes ads really. The experience of watching TV commercial free, or Netflix spoils you for ever watching standard broadcast or cable TV.

I don't know what the answer is - I suspect it will be some kind of tightly integrated weaving of content and advertising, like product placement.

Should have use chain. Rope and cable store too much energy.

It's textbook in that the pilot wasn't in error in any way. He landed, the hook grabbed an arrestor cable, he set the throttles correctly, but then there was a mechanical breakage. The fact he got back into the air again and didn't have to ditch proves the "textbookedness" of the situation.

I thought they had about 4 cables to hit, and they try to hit the 2nd or 3rd?

So yeah, I just read the article linked above. I don't get it. They call it a "textbook landing", but then say the pilot hit the 4th and final cable.

That's why planes relying on the cable to stop them are supposed to increase speed as they land (so they can get airborne again if the cable doesn't stop them).