BASE jumping from 400' w/o a rig

[ryoder 1,590]

What a brutal introduction to the world.

On the other hand, all 3 had damned good stability!

 

[pchapman 279]

Well, they do better than the walruses!

That's referring to the video in the recent "Our Planet" series, where walruses end up lumbering from a rocky beach up slopes. Then, being somewhat poor sighted and not being used to cliffs or backing down from anything they can't handle, try to take the shortest way down -- and fall off the cliffs.

NSFW: (Not Safe for Walruses)

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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/why-are-walruses-walking-off-cliffs/586510/

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The biologist J. B. S. Haldane once wrote a famous essay in which he described what large falls do to progressively larger animals. A mouse “gets a slight shock and walks away,” he wrote. “A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”

Good old square-cube laws for surface area and mass...

[headoverheels 333]

And then, there is waterfall surfing

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ua1GGUIlA

[ryoder 1,590]

3 hours ago, headoverheels said:

And then, there is waterfall surfing

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ua1GGUIlA

Sheesh!

I thought Canada Geese were dumb, but I didn't know they were that dumb!

[SethInMI 174]

19 hours ago, headoverheels said:

And then, there is waterfall surfing

The circle of life. is fucked up.

 

[oldwomanc6 52]

And then there is walrus BASE jumping.  

[porpoishead 8]

Turns out that the idiots there filming, weeping for the walruses, climate change and whatever horseshit, were the actual cause behind the walruses being alarmed stampeding and hammerfucking themselves off the cliffs.

Usually happens when you roll up on a herd of wild animals with boats and cameras crying and all that shit