If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

I knew a guy that sky-dived, who said the rule in most emergencies was "One, two, fuck you"; you have 2 tries to fix something on your main and then you cut away and pull your reserve.

Why was someone who has seizures sky diving ?
dumb

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What's "not cool" about it? The plane is designed to fly in and out of remote airports with short unpaved runways. It's basically using the propeller as an air brake which allows for a near vertical descent without building up excessive airspeed. Sky diving operators use it because it can make it back to the airport before the sky divers hit the ground and be ready to go up again. Other planes would take several minutes to safely descend from high altitudes, using more fuel and time.

>> ^shinyblurry:

I don't believe the government should regulate our personal lives. It's a fine line. Take the heroin example. Heroin is so dangerous, and so deadly. Overdosing is not hard, at all..and I personally know a lot of people who would probably become heroin addicts rather quickly if it was easy as picking it up in the convenience store.
An incontrovertible fact is, if heroin is legalized, people are going to die from it who wouldn't have otherwise. Is it worth lives to make a dangerous and deadly drug available to masses under the pretense of liberty? Why can't we be rational, and reasonable instead..and say, well the cause of liberty should outweigh the harm..but we will collectively decide that some of these are just so dangerous that it is worth impringing on our liberty to keep them illegal.
The bible says that everything is permisable(besides what is explicitly forbidden) but not everything is beneficial. Likewise, though liberty is valuable it is not always beneficial to the whole. Remember, when liberty is taken to the extreme you have anarchy.


Know what else is dangerous? Sky diving, bungee jumping, base jumping, some parkour, motorcycle racing, f1, trick motorcycle jumps, you fucking name it, we do it.

In my own personal opinion, it is not the place of a government to act as my mummy, taking dangerous toys off me, reprimanding me for doing something hazardous to my health. Human kind has lived for many long long years without that kind of omnipresent babysitter.

It is not government's job to say what you can and can't do with or to your own body as long as you are not directly harming anyone else in the act of doing it. Part of being free is having the responsibility for the effects of your actions on yourself and on the people you love.

(inb4 drugs harm others) The only reason drugs harm others right now is because they are illegal.

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Whoops i forgot to add - ron paul continues to say things that make absolute perfect undeniable sense! Can he come over here and run a political party please? I want to see/know more.

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I used "they"

they are a they, you are a you.

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Hence my tag "Falling With Style", heh.

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Its just a reflection of the dip shits that control these events.

Sport itself is retarded in the first place to have preference over 1 sport and another is stupid.
If your going to have a big celebration of sporting and games , then it should include everything from tidily winks to sky diving.

I can understand dress code for some things... work, nice restaurants... but this is a fucking plane. Why should you put on a suit to be stuffed into a chair for a couple hours? First class might be less stuffed than coach, but it's still just a chair.

>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^rychan:
I thought that "jump suit" meant some type of skydiving outfit, which would indeed be awkward on a commercial flight.

Yeah. I believe his outfit was a track suit, not a jump suit.


I was curious so I just looked this up. 'Jumpsuit' originally referred to sky diving attire but later came to refer to any one-piece. It's pretty common to hear track suits referred to as jumpsuits, though.

I agree that the video is shit, when i heard the song for the first time i imagined a video of people sky diving and essentially vanishing into thin air. Even that simple idea is better then this.

did you read what i put ?

"compleaty irresponsible, moutine climbing ( ie Everest and tall mountains) is largely chance based" < did you red this part of what i said ?

I know people that do real world climbing and have read about it and its fairly clear that when people die on mointines its normally chance not skill /prperatoin based, ESPECIALLY when its the tall ones.

You can find technical mounties that are not that tall but are infinitely more skill full,/less chance based risk to climb than say Everest. alot of the deaths on the tall mountains are caused by the weather + altitude not climber inability. (altitude often affecting peoples abilities to think properly)

the point is there are Manny hills and mountines u can climb reasonably safely and have good fun + chalnge. there are some that are just a gamble.

its like the difference between sky diving and base jumping . alot of the people that get savierly hurt / die in sky diving is because of there own fault ( swooping to low , opening shoot late, colliding with people in formation dives) in base jumping its just a case of if the shoot opens and which way the wind blows both factors that r out of the control of the participant.


your argument is actually SHIT first of all you admit that you are not talking about evarist and the tall peaks which i am specifically referring to and then you justify your position by the emotive feelings of accomplishment.

that's like me playing Russian rullet and justifying it by the buzz i got from not getting killed. regardless of how i felt it would still be Rigged odds based and annyone of common sence who realy enjoyed stuff like that would do it when thay were older not when thay were 17 and would presumably have other things thay could exsperance before thay put themselfs in a 1-10 death situatoin.

Then rather than attack my argument you say i have no knowledge of climbing well who cares if i had knowledge or not my original point is ether correct or false.

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"The death rate has remained at one death for every 10 successful attempts to climb Everest for many years, the British Medical Journal report states.

Dr Sutherland says poor understanding of the effects of altitude is to blame. "

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"From being there, I saw there were a lot of people with considerable mountaineering experience, but who were fairly naive in some ways about the extreme altitudes they were going to face."

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