xsynergist 0 #26 June 8, 2004 My thinking has been that a car airbag device straped to the skydiver wearing a wingsuit only might be survivable. The forces involved should be equivalent to a 30+ mph car crash into a solid wall. Fired off by a military proximity fuse perhaps? Someone with more balls than sense will try it one day I am sure. It is fun to speculate.------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #27 June 8, 2004 I have a similar problem with elevators. What if the cable snaps? People talk about "Can I jump up at the last moment?" You could only jump 15 inches or you would hit the roof. You would cover 15 inches, at 30fps in 1/30th of a second. You would have to accelerate from zero to 30 fps in just 1/30 sec. That is really fast. Your skeletal muscles would drive your body up, but you organs are attached to your bones by tendons. The organ inertia would cause the tendons to snap and all your organs would sink to your feet. You'd stand there looking like someone with leaking fishing waders and then die. The solution is too spread the impact like a stunt-jumpers airbag or a water balloon. Therefore, I only get on elevators with a large person. I can throw them to the floor at the last moment. Better that one person should sacrifice and save the other. I will remember to say something nice about them at their funeral. That's my best solution so far. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cajundude 0 #28 June 8, 2004 How bout this. You can invent a suit that inflates into a bunch of cells that fill up with air that totally encloses the body. Once the body is enclosed the inside area (between the cells and the body) fill up with foam and shaving cream. When you impact the Earth you bounce around like the Mars Rover. Yea, that's the ticket. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #29 June 8, 2004 QuoteWhen you impact the Earth you bounce around like the Mars Rover. Just make sure you use the same metrics for all your calculations. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beerlight 0 #30 June 8, 2004 You just keep on thinking, and don't ever worry about what someone thinks of your ideas. We need people in this world with imagination and the willingness to expand the envelope. I'm not a very "inventive" type person and I'm glad we have people on this earth that actually "think" versus just coming up with non-sense one liner bullshit, like "You should get out of this sport"...... Good one on you....! Buck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
