feuergnom 28 #1 June 30, 2014 In many of the safety related discussions one poster turns up stating that a skyhook may have prevented/influenced the outcome - without knowing what the thing really does or how works at all. so I think it's time to come up with the skydivers version of "godwins law": anytime someone posts "skyhook" the discussion is overThe universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unkulunkulu 0 #2 June 30, 2014 Booths law #3? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #3 June 30, 2014 what is this skyhook you're talking about ?scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #4 June 30, 2014 Must you be a conversation Nazi? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pchapman 279 #5 June 30, 2014 piisfish what is this skyhook you're talking about ? The Skyhook is Rigging Innovations reserve pilot chute, and has been for decades. I think some other company later started calling some other product a Skyhook too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
feuergnom 28 #6 June 30, 2014 Andy9o8 Must you be a conversation Nazi? sure. it's fun. The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joellercoaster 6 #7 June 30, 2014 Seriously, this is a brilliant idea. Should we restrict it to Skyhooks, or should it also include some branches of the AAD discussion tree? I would vote for "but what price is your life worth?"-- "I'll tell you how all skydivers are judged, . They are judged by the laws of physics." - kkeenan "You jump out, pull the string and either live or die. What's there to be good at? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #8 June 30, 2014 JoellercoasterSeriously, this is a brilliant idea. Should we restrict it to Skyhooks, or should it also include some branches of the AAD discussion tree? I would vote for "but what price is your life worth?" that or "you dont know what you dont know"!“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
feuergnom 28 #9 June 30, 2014 Joellercoaster or should it also include some branches of the AAD discussion tree? give me an example so I can think about it. or someone more clever than me can sum up these two lines of thought in one clever sentenceThe universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arvoitus 1 #10 June 30, 2014 pchapman ***what is this skyhook you're talking about ? The Skyhook is Rigging Innovations reserve pilot chute, and has been for decades. I think some other company later started calling some other product a Skyhook too. No, its a CIA contraption from the 50's.Your rights end where my feelings begin. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dudeman17 340 #11 June 30, 2014 Arvoitus No, its a CIA contraption from the 50's. Hey, John Wayne took a ride on one of those, so you KNOW it's badass! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alexg3265 0 #12 June 30, 2014 Now correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Godwin's law something to do with if you continue a forum thread, or any conversation long enough, someone will use a nazi reference or analogy? My last name is Godwin, so when I heard of this "law" I naturally wanted to see what it was. I seem to remember many forums with some mention of nazis... Care to explain booths law #3? And what a skyhook has to do with nazi's. I'm just confused by this thread. My wife has one and is predominately German. Oh shit that must be it. My wife's a nazi. Would explain why she wants to put "heavier doors" on the shower. Yeah that must be it.I was that kid jumping out if his tree house with a bed sheet. My dad wouldn't let me use the ladder to try the roof... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 643 #13 June 30, 2014 pchapman ***what is this skyhook you're talking about ? The Skyhook is Rigging Innovations reserve pilot chute, and has been for decades. I think some other company later started calling some other product a Skyhook too. ......................................................................... Naw! "Skyhook" was a helicopter built by Cessna during the 1960s. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pchapman 279 #14 June 30, 2014 ... and the Skyhook is a whole bunch of other things too... proposed space transportation, gadget in a sci-fi game, rock climbing tool, imaginary device used to fool people, and probably a bunch more things, perhaps more than we need to list. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grue 1 #15 June 30, 2014 pchapman... and the Skyhook is a whole bunch of other things too... proposed space transportation, gadget in a sci-fi game, rock climbing tool, imaginary device used to fool people, and probably a bunch more things, perhaps more than we need to list. Isn't that also the name of the system wherein a person can be extracted from an area by floating a special balloon attached to a harness and a plane snags the balloon and yanks 'em off the ground?cavete terrae. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arvoitus 1 #16 July 1, 2014 Alexg3265Now correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Godwin's law something to do with if you continue a forum thread, or any conversation long enough, someone will use a nazi reference or analogy? My last name is Godwin, so when I heard of this "law" I naturally wanted to see what it was. I seem to remember many forums with some mention of nazis... Care to explain booths law #3? And what a skyhook has to do with nazi's. I'm just confused by this thread. My wife has one and is predominately German. Oh shit that must be it. My wife's a nazi. Would explain why she wants to put "heavier doors" on the shower. Yeah that must be it. Probably meant #2.Your rights end where my feelings begin. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unkulunkulu 0 #17 July 1, 2014 It was kind of a joke, there are only two known rules and he invented skyhook, so, you know, he might as well invent a rule about it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 8 #18 July 1, 2014 pchapman... and the Skyhook is a whole bunch of other things too... proposed space transportation, gadget in a sci-fi game, rock climbing tool, imaginary device used to fool people, and probably a bunch more things, perhaps more than we need to list. That's just not true. We had them when I was a space ship door gunner in the Army."I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tristansdad 0 #19 July 1, 2014 This thread should be destroyed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #20 July 1, 2014 tristansdadThis thread should be destroyed.with a skyhookscissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #21 July 1, 2014 piisfish***This thread should be destroyed.with a skyhook By Nazis. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christelsabine 1 #22 July 1, 2014 Andy9o8******This thread should be destroyed.with a skyhook By Nazis. Says who? dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick 67 #23 July 1, 2014 christelsabine*********This thread should be destroyed.with a skyhook By Nazis. Says who? Bill Booth?You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #24 July 1, 2014 Rick************This thread should be destroyed.with a skyhook By Nazis. Says who? Bill Booth?Bill who ?scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chemist 0 #25 July 1, 2014 Alexg3265 Care to explain booths law #3? And what a skyhook has to do with nazi's. I'm just confused by this thread. My wife has one and is predominately German. Oh shit that must be it. My wife's a nazi. Would explain why she wants to put "heavier doors" on the shower. Yeah that must be it. I think what he is getting at is that in any discussion regarding a particular skydiving incident eventually someone will claim that a skyhook would have prevented the injury or fatality, in the same fashion that in a heated political debate eventually someone will call their opponent a Nazi. With that said I have yet to hear of a fatality caused by a skyhook. But many fatalities could have been prevented with the use of a skyhook. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
