Soooo... "Near miss" = a hit? Cause the camera man got hit.

not much 'avoiding' going on....Better title for yas, oh princess of human tragedy...

Near Miss: Faces of Death Ruskie-Style

Quick research reveals some stuff about wingsuit flying over snow.

Those wingsuit skydivers are probably traveling about 60-100 mph. During that near miss, when the one skydiver flairs his suit, he probably dropped down to as little as 40 mph.

Ski racers can travel around 50-100 mph. We see crashes at those speeds all the time in snow and the skiier is generally uninjured.

The fastest skiiers, in the aerodynamic suits, are travelling 120-150 mph. Those crashes are obivously survivable, although catastrophic injury happens.

So, it stands to reason that a serious accident involving a wingsuit flyer over snow is very survivable. With some time to flare, there's no reason they couldn't walk away with little more than bruises. In fact, I suspect it's only a matter of time before we finally see a wingsuit pilot land without a parachute. Maybe over snow first, eventually over water and ultimately...why shouldn't we see someone with the skill to land on solid ground. With appropriate advances in equipment.

Actually, that was some pretty deep powder on a 45 degree slope with no major oncoming obstacles. If you're going to hit something at Mach 6 and survive, it would be powder snow.

Several videos out there of people skydiving and surviving hitting the ground at terminal velocity with only a drag chute deployed. Granted, they are major puckered units, but that is a situation more akin to "almost died".

I guess what I mean is, I don't classify near misses as "almost dying". It's like saying she's "almost pregnant" after pulling away before coitus.

Aircraft Near Miss and Unusual Incident Compliation has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

Much less Perhaps 10%-30% are near misses, the rest are the other kind (not always snuff, but not misses).

So these near misses make up what percentage Russian truck videos? More or less than the snuff version of this compilation?

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I'd say that he certainly flinched, I just think it was well after the piece of shrapnel with his name scribed upon it had already passed.

Would love to see the outtake where he blows off the adrenaline accumulated by such a near miss (or given the comment about the women who chase him, mebbe I don't want to see it... (or mebbe I do...=)).

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Yeah, this is just too much human misery for me. I had hopes for the first 1 minute or so, because it looked like a near miss collection, but I don't need to see bodies flying through the air.

She better be careful with that spiked bracelet. I counted six near misses in the first minute and silicone is a bitch to get out of fabric.

Life is a series of near hits, not near misses.

Near misses ARE hits.

The pastor says "Jesus said these were some of the signs of the end of the age". He must be referring to the age of planetary bombardment... He should have seen this place a few billion years ago.

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Just for fun: http://www.baja.tv/watch/video/2RKg-TkiA-s/may-29-
2012-near-miss-asteroid-2012-kt42-whaaaat/
I can't bring myself to post this.... (idiot)

Just for fun: http://www.baja.tv/watch/video/2RKg-TkiA-s/may-29-2012-near-miss-asteroid-2012-kt42-whaaaat/

I can't bring myself to post this.... (idiot)