I think that another facet of the perceived difference between our (the Sift's) treatment of Islam vs Christianity is that most of us are from "Western" nations wherein Christianity is the religion most likely to influence us on a daily basis. I am far more worried about Christian fundamentalists and their anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-evolution stances and their ability to influence my government (and the governments of other Western nations).

It's not that I don't find Islam reprehensible garbage, I do, but it has less influence on me overall.

Maybe this is a shortsighted view. Islam may be more dangerous in the long run, but it is the cigarette smoking to Christianity's skydiving: both can kill, one is just going to take a lot longer to kill me.

Thanks, GDGD — more people definitely need to see that one!

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You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Skydive into Football Game. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

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I couldn't figure out what all the garbage was he kept messing with. I guess it was all those ornaments and smoke machines? I don't know a lot about skydiving

>> ^NordlichReiter:

I've never understood the appeal of churches, not when there's so much other stuff to be doing.
Here's some; sex, music, art, adrenaline, kites, beaches, family, and a whole host of other things.



Most churches offer all of those things (except sex, maybe) as a ready-to-go package. Think about it. If you join a church, you'll automatically and immediately get a large family to support and help you. Most of the world's greatest art pieces were inspired by or specifically about religious concepts. Many of the great classical composers wrote music for churches, although modern christian music is simply atrocious. Many churches like spending days out as "youth groups" or whatever. they go to beaches, fly kites, go to roller coaster parks, and some even do skydiving, as well as a host of other things...

I'm an atheist but there IS a reason that churches have such powerful draw on people.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Skydiving, door, eggs, stairs' to 'Skydiving, door, eggs, stairs, freddiew' - edited by lucky760

At 5:00 the sound changes because it starts to encounter friction from the Ionosphere or mesosphere not sure which there's no altitude indication.

The Astronaut who skydived from space talked about it. Free falling in complete silence, and then boom hitting the atmosphere.

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by blankfist.

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by blankfist.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Skydiving-instructor-shows-how-it-s-done-in-a-wind-tunnel

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by gwiz665. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Skydiving-instructor-shows-how-it-s-done-in-a-wind-tunnel

Dupe of: http://www.videosift.com/video/Skydiving-instructor-shows-how-it-s-done-in-a-wind-tunnel

Once you get to the point where normal skydiving just isn't enough of a rush, maybe you should just stop skydiving for a while.

Hey, bit late, but the plane-to-plane jump was a dupe

http://www.videosift.com/video/Airplane-to-Airplane-Skydive -> http://www.videosift.com/video/Plane-to-plane-skydive