New emergency inflatable device to save lives if a building caught on fire

Yeah, I don't see a single issue arising with 500 of those coming out of a building at the same time.

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It’s a good idea and would have saved a lot of lives on 9/11.

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and I can see almost everyone inflating that thing inside the building and not be able to get out, I see the incredibly dumb flying public way too often

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1)breaks window to get out
2)pushes big inflatable through shards of broken window
3)????
4) profit

I’ve thought for awhile it’s a real shame some random guy above the impact zone in either WTC building didn’t have a BASE jump parachute.

That's pretty fricking awesome. Not sure how well it would work en masse, but still neat.

I wonder how much the updraft caused by the fire would effect the fall.

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I wonder how much the updraft caused by the fire would effect the fall.

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aerodynamically it looks wrong, guy in second half of that video didn't jump from very high, I think that thing would attain a high terminal velocity from a higher drop

ETA: shuttlecocks come down pretty fast, and that's the same airfoil

I might cause a fire just to try it out

I'd say it has a good chance of working on any structure at 20 stories or less.

Above that, the winds will probably flip that thing over. But maybe it still falls fairly slowly, so a broken bone or two instead of building death.