Thanks for a well reasoned and cogent response, Mark. Sounds like you have the
experience such that you know of what you speak.
There was an incredible image in the Toronto Star yesterday showing at least 4
or 5 poor souls plummetting to their deaths at the same time. All were falling
head-first. It was sickening. I'm sure that many on this list saw it.
I guess that it's just so heartbreakingly frustrating to see such images, that
one has to think that there must be some solution or other...
regards,
frank
"Mark D." wrote:
>
>
> Hate to break it you fellas, but jumping with parachutes is a bad idea. As a
> former skydiver, I can tell you that it takes great skill to jump from a
> building. Even with almost 200 logged skydives, I barely have the skill to
> leap with the proper body attitude to clear the building, manage the
> turbulence, and have sufficient altitude to deploy. Then there's managing a
> safe landing with the parachute. Furthermore, the parachutes would most
> likely not deploy on time given the low altitude and complete lack of
> experience of the building employees. What you would likely see are people
> jumping and not deploying their parachutes on time, people deploying too
> early and smashing right back into the building (off-heading openings is a
> common way BASE jumpers die), and many canopy collisions/entanglements which
> cause parachutes to collapse.
> This is simply not one of the solutions : (
>
--
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true." -J. Robert
Oppenheimer
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