http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_on_the_Risers

He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright
He checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight;
He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar,
"You ain't gonna jump no more!"

(CHORUS)
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
He ain't gonna jump no more!

"Is everybody happy?" cried the Sergeant looking up,
Our Hero feebly answered "Yes," and then they stood him up;
He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

(CHORUS)

He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock,
He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop,
The silk from his reserve spilled out and wrapped around his legs,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

(CHORUS)

The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome,
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones;
The canopy became his shroud; he hurtled to the ground.
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

(CHORUS)

The days he'd lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind,
He thought about the girl back home, the one he'd left behind;
He thought about the medics and wondered what they'd find,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

(CHORUS)

The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild,
The medics jumped and screamed with glee, rolled up their sleeves and smiled,
For it had been a week or more since last a 'chute had failed,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

(CHORUS)

He hit the ground, the sound was "Splat," his blood went spurting high,
His comrades then were heard to say: "A helluva way to die!"
He lay there rolling round in the welter of his gore,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.

(CHORUS)

(slowly, solemnly)
There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the chute,
Intestines were a'dangling from his Paratrooper suit,
He was a mess; they picked him up, and poured him from his boots,
And he ain't gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
He ain't gonna jump no more!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'CCTV, rental truck, uhaul, driver, canopy, destroy, hit and run, lithuania' to 'CCTV, rental truck, uhaul, driver, canopy, destroy, hit and run, tagging hypocrisy' - edited by MINK

Tags for this video have been changed from 'CCTV, rental truck, uhaul, driver, canopy, destroy, hit and run' to 'CCTV, rental truck, uhaul, driver, canopy, destroy, hit and run, stupid american' - edited by MINK

One of my all time favorite jazzy tracks. It was reminds me of early summer days in Montreal, the sun shining, the breeze coming down from Mont-Royal, smoking carefully rolled joints in the park under a canopy of blooming green trees, you can hear the drumming from Pan pan from a distance. Bliss.

*promote

this looks awesome!

It looks like something from a James Bond film. Shaped exactly like a dolphin, this boat is the latest toy for millionaire adrenaline junkies. The Seabreacher can jump 10 feet in the air and even perform acrobatic tricks.
Created by two water sport fanatics, New Zealander Rob Innes, 33, and Californian Dan Piazza, the Seabreacher is made of out of fibre glass, stainless steel and aluminium and uses the discarded canopies of US fighter jets.
The two-seater craft can submerge 2 ft underwater for around 20 seconds at a time creating the dolphin-like dive effect.

from: www.dailymail.co.uk

That gun is usually fired during a dive. from what I've heard, pilots like to acquire their targets inverted, looking out their canopies, roll and fir in a dive, "rudder stomping" to waggle the nose, spraying the target, so whatever action the recoil has on the airframe acts as a brake, so it's no big deal.

I know all this because I played the video game.

Poor guy, bet he never thought that that bulletproof canopy wasn't bulletproof. But hey what can you do when Christopher Walken ignores the laws of common sense and physics.

This brings back great memories for me. Growing up near an Army/Airforce base, on Sunday afternoons my Dad would take me over on base to the "drop zones". There they had bleachers where you could watch mass parachute drops from C-130s, heavy equipment drops, and a few times we got to watch the recovery system in this video.
Back in those days they had the regular old "parachute" canopy, without steering. Inevitably, with the mass drops, guys would float out into the surrounding pine forests. GIs in jeeps would take off thru the woods to try to find them and get them down from the trees. You could see the looks on these guys faces as they realized they were missing the drop zone, "Oh SHIT!"

Please add me. How would it work - a popup video when you click a word?

Those posters are awesome. (Though some phrases are obscure-triple canopy? ) That tall vertical format is impossible to print though..where is a dot matrix printer when you need it?

These ideas could be delivered in a digital picture frame..they are cheap and could have text+graphics in a slide show.

Related idea - timelines using DHTML and javascript showing direct quotes of the moving goalposts in Iraq:
http://jeffwinkler.net/2007/12/04/visualizing-the-lies-about-iraq-timelines/

Thank you. Very nice. Sure beats looking at a brick wall.

In reply to this comment by Thylan:
I couldn't find the documentary (if i remember it was an article spot during the BBC's week long coverage of the Chelsea flower show. either this years or the year before's. Not the kind of thing that gets put on the net However, he does have a fair bit of web presence, and i found this for you:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Vertical-garden-Bordeaux

In reply to this comment by persephone:
Thylan, any chance of finding/posting the documentary you saw? Love to see it.

In reply to this comment by Thylan:
Consider this installed on a roof, two rows, vertically aligned strips (so lots of strips). The rows are aligned E/W such that the sun traversal goes between them. This means they cast very small shadows, relative to being N/S aligned. The space between, you use for solar capture, either as electricity generation or heat capture for water heating/storage, or both in a hybrid.

Then use nets/clay on the walls, and plant greenery. Alolw rainwater to be recycled feeding it. Saw a documentary showing such buildings and they looked great and had a big positive impact on people, visually etc. Masked the building and looked like a jungle canopy. Almost completely self sustaining and low maintenance too.

We are going to be technically able to do lots of interesting engineering things in construction. But will we on mass? Thats a cultural question, and hard to predict, and is probably reliant on mass production techniques, and financial incentives to start the investments.

I couldn't find the documentary (if i remember it was an article spot during the BBC's week long coverage of the Chelsea flower show. either this years or the year before's. Not the kind of thing that gets put on the net However, he does have a fair bit of web presence, and i found this for you:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Vertical-garden-Bordeaux

In reply to this comment by persephone:
Thylan, any chance of finding/posting the documentary you saw? Love to see it.

In reply to this comment by Thylan:
Consider this installed on a roof, two rows, vertically aligned strips (so lots of strips). The rows are aligned E/W such that the sun traversal goes between them. This means they cast very small shadows, relative to being N/S aligned. The space between, you use for solar capture, either as electricity generation or heat capture for water heating/storage, or both in a hybrid.

Then use nets/clay on the walls, and plant greenery. Alolw rainwater to be recycled feeding it. Saw a documentary showing such buildings and they looked great and had a big positive impact on people, visually etc. Masked the building and looked like a jungle canopy. Almost completely self sustaining and low maintenance too.

We are going to be technically able to do lots of interesting engineering things in construction. But will we on mass? Thats a cultural question, and hard to predict, and is probably reliant on mass production techniques, and financial incentives to start the investments.

Thylan, any chance of finding/posting the documentary you saw? Love to see it.

In reply to this comment by Thylan:
Consider this installed on a roof, two rows, vertically aligned strips (so lots of strips). The rows are aligned E/W such that the sun traversal goes between them. This means they cast very small shadows, relative to being N/S aligned. The space between, you use for solar capture, either as electricity generation or heat capture for water heating/storage, or both in a hybrid.

Then use nets/clay on the walls, and plant greenery. Alolw rainwater to be recycled feeding it. Saw a documentary showing such buildings and they looked great and had a big positive impact on people, visually etc. Masked the building and looked like a jungle canopy. Almost completely self sustaining and low maintenance too.

We are going to be technically able to do lots of interesting engineering things in construction. But will we on mass? Thats a cultural question, and hard to predict, and is probably reliant on mass production techniques, and financial incentives to start the investments.

Consider this installed on a roof, two rows, vertically aligned strips (so lots of strips). The rows are aligned E/W such that the sun traversal goes between them. This means they cast very small shadows, relative to being N/S aligned. The space between, you use for solar capture, either as electricity generation or heat capture for water heating/storage, or both in a hybrid.

Then use nets/clay on the walls, and plant greenery. Alolw rainwater to be recycled feeding it. Saw a documentary showing such buildings and they looked great and had a big positive impact on people, visually etc. Masked the building and looked like a jungle canopy. Almost completely self sustaining and low maintenance too.

We are going to be technically able to do lots of interesting engineering things in construction. But will we on mass? Thats a cultural question, and hard to predict, and is probably reliant on mass production techniques, and financial incentives to start the investments.

[edit]
I was referring to this:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2006/gb20061004_381966.htm?chan=search

Have sifted a related vid.

Tags changed from "interesting car lifting canopy gullwing" to "title,tags,and,descr are the same- idiot" by gold star member karaidl.

LOL that is awesome, I flew these in 'Nam in 67. We'd wait under the rice paddies with just our canopies barely breaking the surface. I still remember the smell of the dank water and scrubbing the cooked kernels from our afterburners.