If at first you don't succeed, you don't get a second chance.

[shemp]

First-Time Skydiver Dies After Slipping From Harness (http://www.wmur.com/news/9285989/detail.html)

STERLING, Ohio -- A first-time skydiver slipped from her harness during a jump Saturday and fell to her death, authorities said.

The 44-year-old West Chester, Pa., woman was participating in an afternoon tandem jump, her first with the AerOhio skydiving school near Sterling, about 40 miles south of Cleveland, according to the Wayne County Sheriff's office.

[Hutch]

I like airplanes. I like flying in them.

I see no sane or logical reason for ever jumping out of one.

[CFLarsen]

I see no sane or logical reason for ever jumping out of one.

I read somewhere about the those testing the first parachutes.

That takes guts.

[Whoracle]

If at first you don't succeed try, try again...

[webfusion]

"The absence of complaints does not mean that all parachutes are perfect."

[geni]

"The absence of complaints does not mean that all parachutes are perfect."

People have survived their parachute failing to open.

[shemp]

More people have died falling out of trees than have died from parachute failures. This proves that trees are more dangerous than airplanes. BAN TREES NOW!!!

[TragicMonkey]

More people have died falling out of trees than have died from parachute failures. This proves that trees are more dangerous than airplanes. BAN TREES NOW!!!

Your logic is flawed. It really means that all trees should be fitted with parachutes, then thrown from planes. Tally up the number of people crushed by the falling trees, and then we'll have some real numbers we can use to tackle this whole tree/parachute enigma.

eta: Also, apparently fourteen people a year are killed by accidents involving prarie dogs. I would like to work that into the experiment somehow. Perhaps we could construct some sort of cannon that shoots trees and prarie dogs into the stratosphere. Half the sample should have parachutes, the other half should not. Then we can add up the number of people killed by the unparachuted half, and divide by the amount of time it took the parachuted half to land, minus those victims, and figure out what Julian date that is and if anything significant in the history of Christianity occured on that date. That's the only certain way to solve the Parachute Mystery, the Prarie Dog Enigma, the Tree Conumdrum, and the Clue In The Clock. I mean, the Da Vinci Code.

eta2: This science by statistics stuff seems pretty easy.

[President Bush]

More people have died falling out of trees than have died from parachute failures.
Can I get DB Cooper to rake the leaves in Crawford? Either that or Bonsai trees.

[Wheezebucket]

Hey Larsen, do you remember specifically what it is you read? Because that does sound nuts, I'd love to read about it myself! I can't imagine being the first to try out something that dangerous.

[shemp]

Another fact: More people die from bee stings than from parachute failures! We need a law requiring bees to wear parachutes!

[David Swidler]

Or we could just kill two birds with one stone and have the bees sting the parachutists (and their parachutes), thereby creating a unified statistic that has the net effect of reduced incidents.

[Chaos]

Hey Larsen, do you remember specifically what it is you read? Because that does sound nuts, I'd love to read about it myself! I can't imagine being the first to try out something that dangerous.

It´s quite simple. The developers offer the parachute to a WW1 fighter pilot (although it might have been observers in hot air baloons*), who has the choice of going to battle (or floating in the sky with a big "shoot me down, I´m an artillery spotter" sign) either with an untested new technology that *might* save his live, or without *any* kind of protective technology.

*I recall reading that said observer were the first to "regularly be equipped with parachute"; didn´t say who got to try them out first.

[CFLarsen]

Hey Larsen, do you remember specifically what it is you read? Because that does sound nuts, I'd love to read about it myself! I can't imagine being the first to try out something that dangerous.
It was years ago - just a faint memory....

[Beerina]

More people have died falling out of trees than have died from parachute failures. This proves that trees are more dangerous than airplanes. BAN TREES NOW!!!

Worse, just because your parachute doesn't open doesn't mean you're gonna die.

http://206.225.95.123/forumlive/customavatars/avatar760_1.gif does it all the time.

[Luke T.]

What, no backup chute? When I did my jump, I had a backup chute on my belly.

[Luke T.]

More people have died falling out of trees than have died from parachute failures. This proves that trees are more dangerous than airplanes. BAN TREES NOW!!!

My girlfriend who parachute jumped with me, landed in a tree.

[CFLarsen]

My girlfriend who parachute jumped with me, landed in a tree.
And felt at home?

Nyuk, nyuk....

[HarryKeogh]

What, no backup chute? When I did my jump, I had a backup chute on my belly.

She had a back-up chute but some prankster removed the chute and replaced it with an anvil.

[eowyn]

I cant remember all the details from whenI did a tandem skydive, but if she slipped out of the harness, then any emergency chute would still be attached to the harness.


Skydiving was awesome. I've jumped four times plus the tandem.

[Snide]

She had a back-up chute but some prankster removed the chute and replaced it with an anvil.Lemme guess...Acme brand?

[Ian Osborne]

She had a back-up chute but some prankster removed the chute and replaced it with an anvil.
Let me guess - she found the backup chute just before hitting the ground, and just after discarding the kitchen sink?

[Kiwiwriter]

In American paratrooper training, if that happened, when you hit the ground, you were told to report to your supply sergeant and get a new chute. :D

[kedo1981]

So in WWII Prairie Dogs Jumped out of hot air balloons into trees with parachutes that were trying to kill people

[Chaos]

So in WWII Prairie Dogs Jumped out of hot air balloons into trees with parachutes that were trying to kill people

World War 1. And they jumped into trenches.

[CFLarsen]

She had a back-up chute but some prankster removed the chute and replaced it with an anvil.
Yeah, but she was really Wile E. Coyote wearing a woman's suit, so as long as she doesn't look down, she won't fall....

[Cynric]

Your logic is flawed. It really means that all trees should be fitted with parachutes, then thrown from planes. Tally up the number of people crushed by the falling trees, and then we'll have some real numbers we can use to tackle this whole tree/parachute enigma.

eta: Also, apparently fourteen people a year are killed by accidents involving prarie dogs. I would like to work that into the experiment somehow. Perhaps we could construct some sort of cannon that shoots trees and prarie dogs into the stratosphere. Half the sample should have parachutes, the other half should not. Then we can add up the number of people killed by the unparachuted half, and divide by the amount of time it took the parachuted half to land, minus those victims, and figure out what Julian date that is and if anything significant in the history of Christianity occured on that date. That's the only certain way to solve the Parachute Mystery, the Prarie Dog Enigma, the Tree Conumdrum, and the Clue In The Clock. I mean, the Da Vinci Code.

eta2: This science by statistics stuff seems pretty easy.

Your submission to the local ethics committee should make entertaining reading.

[TragicMonkey]

Your submission to the local ethics committee should make entertaining reading.

I tried to bribe the ethics committee. They seemed taken aback by that. Guess I shouldn't have used obviously counterfeit bills.