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re: Very bizarre and random thought regarding working in a very tall building post 9/11
Posted on 9/12/19 at 7:29 am to Billy McBride
Posted on 9/12/19 at 7:29 am to Billy McBride
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Well shite jim why don’t we put parachutes on commercial airlinersquote:
Buildings aren't 33,000 feet high???
Good thing, too. They'd be a lot more likely to get hit by planes if they were.
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Posted on 9/12/19 at 7:48 am to yurintroubl
The average person would be much better off with 1,000ft of static rope and a harness/carabiner/figure 8.
BASE jump rigs are not cheap, $4k for a canopy and container.
BASE jumping from buildings in a city poses all sorts of problems for an experienced BASE jumper. Probably 99.99% of people just using it to jump out of a burning building would die most never getting their canopy inflated.
I have over 40 static line jumps, over 300 sport canopy jumps an 11 BASE jumps and unless I could get to the roof, and it had a place to get a running jump from the edge (they don't) I would die another way.
BASE jump rigs are not cheap, $4k for a canopy and container.
BASE jumping from buildings in a city poses all sorts of problems for an experienced BASE jumper. Probably 99.99% of people just using it to jump out of a burning building would die most never getting their canopy inflated.
I have over 40 static line jumps, over 300 sport canopy jumps an 11 BASE jumps and unless I could get to the roof, and it had a place to get a running jump from the edge (they don't) I would die another way.
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