Wing-suiters aren't messing around, it takes some fit musculature and control, and definite body-mind-type reflexes under free fall conditions already plugged-in through a lot of parachute work. These guys are fit and professional that do the wing suits, I dare say if the novice strapped one on and jumped-off a cliff they'd drop like a rock without the kind of above experience mentioned.

I suggest getting to know your local airport and start a new hobby-Jumping from planes every weekend for a year or two, maybe join a chute club-Research the craft and travel to an event once the love of free-fall is all up in yer brain. You may soon claim your new drug of choice adrenaline!

@dirkdeagler7

You keep saying I'm being fanatic, or aggressive. Nothing in that quote could be construed as such. It was a direct response to the following quote from your previous post:

"Explain to someone who has no insurance or has a problem with medical bills or has no job or has family members fighting abroad or is getting foreclosed on....that we need to spend money to better understand hermaphroditic snails and the intricacies of their mating rituals in order to better understand evolution and reproduction to maybe one day apply that technology to genetic research or fertility programs."

Presumably you would also argue that they would not be convinced by the need to study the intricacies of sea-slug gill withdrawal reflexes. Your posts seem to suggest that someone other than scientists (some vaguely defined "greater good") should be dictating which specific research aims should be funded. You suggest we should be "asking" these people if that money should be spent.

My contention is that scientists have spent their (already meager) funds with remarkable efficiency. My example was meant to illustrate that asking lay people what science should be funded is likely to have prevented some of the most critical research of the last century from ever having taken place. They don't understand the broader impacts of the research, and thus lack the expertise necessary to evaluate its merit. Sure, someone in pain will probably balk at those sorts of studies. However, if you ask them "are you glad someone did the necessary research to develop ____insert_medical_procedure here____," then I think you'll find they're happy their forefathers spent a few pennies studying snails. The fact is the reverse argument does not hold up. We all, scientists not withstanding, are experts in basic human needs and suffering. For many, scientists that's what drove us to the work. You act as though we can not evaluate the merit of research with respect to the larger picture. I think you're wrong. We do it all the time.

Also, I'm a bit insulted by your reference to people with medical bills, or family members fighting abroad as I fall into both categories. We all have our cross to bear. I don't think I'm alone in responding "I'll be fine, spend the money on the future."

*nsfw

Woah, I actually ducked for that!!!! At least my reflexes are working.

It's all in the reflexes.

According to http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Squirrel.html The word squirrel, first attested in 1327, comes via Anglo-Norman esquirel from the Old French escurel, the reflex of a Latin word sciurus. This Latin word was itself borrowed from Ancient Greek word σκίουρος, skiouros, which means shadow-tailed, referring to the bushy appendage possessed by many of its members.

Seems fine if correct.

And @chingalera you can one i from aluminium. As long as you stay away from silicon .

I wonder if it's enough to trigger the kitten go limp if grabbed by the scruff of the neck reflex? Maybe the cat finds it comforting?

That Mitsu driver actually had pretty good reflexes. Had that been dry pavement, his car would have been clear out of the way.

...empowered motivation from the encouraging consent of a trusted patron, and wielding recently acquired (limited) powers sparingly shortly after reinstatement of privileges, submitted for your approval, I concur reflexively, without having checked sources or peed for a while

*kill all your, cutesy cat-addicted reflex-voters!

99.9% of what was released in that wikileaks dump was mundane information. We've reached a point where we reflexively classify everything. In this circumstance, it's fair to release everything, including the mundane, because hiding information that shouldn't be classified in the the first place is a form of corruption.

" What a cool you-tube video this will make - it will get like a million views! ...OUCH"

there is only so much fail I can take before the giggling starts to fade into cringing reflexes, then into empathy and feeling bad for the many videotube guys busting their balls and smashing their braincells for some bizarre reason or incident that is...
that is...
...except for the dude who flew into the house... that was just fucking hilarious.

Happy NY Videosift btw.

I can understand how some parents miss MOST things. But a fucking eagle trying to take your kid in your peripheral vision? Dad either has tunnel vision or reflexes like a sloth. He's lucky the eagle lost it's grip!

Oh also we should BAN ALL EAGLES because they are a danger to our children!!!

Joe doesn't "get it". Like so many of his ilk he is only able to empathise when it is sufficiently close to home. That he has children of that age is what made him "get it". What he gets is that this could have affected him. This isn't morality. It's fear via self-interest.
Unless he is a moral particularist he has no principles with which to appeal, just reflexive emotions. What will it take for him to "get" that civilian causalities, let alone American troops losses, in the "war on terror" far far outweigh the initial act of terror? What principles guide him that do not rest on the end of his nose? None.

Man with the the most over-heightened reflexes!

I understand why they banned it but group B racing was the penultimate trial of skill and reflexes. The old clips are still some of the most exciting and breathtaking moments of racing history.