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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 02:53 PM
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Talk about extreme sports...
I think i had a minor heart attack just WATCHING this!!!

:wow:


http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 02:56 PM
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1. Awesome
I want one.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 02:57 PM
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2. Maybe if you ask Santa REEEEEEALLY nicely
:D
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 03:00 PM
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3. Not just no, but HELL NO!!
I watched cartoons as a kid. I know what happens.

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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 03:03 PM
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6. It always ends in a small puff of dust
at the bottom of the cliff

:rofl:
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 03:11 PM
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7. Yes. Yes, it does.
And I don't want to be a small puff of dust at the bottom of a cliff.

Or anywhere else for that matter.

:rofl:
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 03:16 PM
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9. You will be hard-pressed to find a cliff like that
here in Ohio. So sleep easy, sweets. :D
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 03:20 PM
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10. You mean we aren't a mountainous state?
I should have checked the map. :P

Seriously, if I would have seen the guy buzzing the road, I would have died on the spot.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 04:05 PM
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11. No kidding!!
I can't imagine what the drivers of those cars were thinking...

Probably something along the lines of "oh, great, now i need to change my pants." :rofl:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 06:42 PM
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24. Simple solution: Don't buy from Acme. :)
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 04:58 PM
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13. LOL
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 03:01 PM
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4. Ho
lee
shiiiiiit...
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 03:02 PM
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5. Dammmmmm!
Edited on Thu Dec-13-07 03:03 PM by Drum
Talk about edgy, yikes! Must be some wild ride.

Reminded me a little of this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1kGmOhzWQ&eurl=
(Ski-Gliding the Eiger)


Enjoy! And thanks :hi:
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 03:12 PM
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8. Coming soon to a James Bond film near you...
Holy shit!


I think I'll stick with powered flight, thank you very much!

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IzaSparrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 04:57 PM
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12. I'm speechless...that is insane!! n/t
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otherlander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:06 PM
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14. Want.
Now.

:wow:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:11 PM
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15. That looks *way* too fun
I wouldn't even care about landing the thing, ya know? After that, what's left to live for? :D
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:28 PM
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19. LOL - my friend who sent it to me prefaced it with
"I want to be a flying squirrel when i grow up!"

:rofl:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:54 PM
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22. I'm just waiting for the first casualty
due to getting too close to an eagle nest or something. :P
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:16 PM
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16. Thanks.
Now how do you clean puke off a keyboard again?
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:29 PM
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21. LOL
Hope you don't have a laptop! :rofl:
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:20 PM
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17. Crazy Nuts !!!
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:26 PM
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18. Wild!
:wow:
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 05:28 PM
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20. I always have two questions when I see stuff like that:
Who was the first person to do it?

and

What happened to them?
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 06:54 PM
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25. if you really wanna know...
Edited on Thu Dec-13-07 07:05 PM by idgiehkt
the guy talking lived, his partner who I think was named Dwayne Johnson, died...I think they were some of the first guys to mess with these flying suits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcXowfeztYo

edit: it's Jeb Corliss, this is another video of his jumps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-hBElsiqE

there is some amazing footage of Dwayne's fatal jump in here with them flying next to the plane.
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 06:37 PM
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23. It looked like he had a parachute
when he was landing at the very end...last 3 or 4 seconds.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:34 PM
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26. They do.
The suits enable the users to glide and maneuver, but they don't provide enough drag to permit a safe landing. A parachute is necessary for that. Without one, every flight would be a fatality.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:38 PM
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27. If I was in the car that one guy flys by...
I would have wrecked it.
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 05:10 PM
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28. That is sick! I would Love, Love, Love to do something like that!
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