Comments on: Base jumping, anyone? http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/13/base-jumping-anyone/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:04:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/13/base-jumping-anyone/#comment-30886 Erich Vieth Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:37:53 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2848#comment-30886 Here's another one of those spell-binding base-jumping videos. Note the guy who flies just over the road toward the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttz5oPpF1Js Here’s another one of those spell-binding base-jumping videos. Note the guy who flies just over the road toward the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttz5oPpF1Js

]]> By: Planeten Paultje http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/13/base-jumping-anyone/#comment-21679 Planeten Paultje Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:11:11 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2848#comment-21679 At Google Video you can watch Jeremy Clarkson's <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?rls=en-us&q=jeremy+clarkson,+speed&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#" rel="nofollow">Speed</a>. Episode 1 goes into the biological and evolutionary stuff. Very interesting. Episode 3 seems to have fallen off somewhere along the road, but there is enough interesting stuff there. At Google Video you can watch Jeremy Clarkson’s Speed. Episode 1 goes into the biological and evolutionary stuff. Very interesting. Episode 3 seems to have fallen off somewhere along the road, but there is enough interesting stuff there.

]]> By: Tim hogan http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/13/base-jumping-anyone/#comment-21352 Tim hogan Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:03:26 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2848#comment-21352 Barnacle goslings aren't fed by their parents. The chicks just walk off the edge of the nests and fall, sometimes 300 feet to the ground where the survivors forage for food. One in two chicks survive their first attempts at feeding. I saw the video the other night on Animal Planet's "Most Extreme" where the barnacle geese were rated No. 1. The program interlaced film of falling chicks with base jumpers but, didn't show any casualties. The narrator said as many as 16 people die yearly while base jumping. Barnacle goslings aren’t fed by their parents. The chicks just walk off the edge of the nests and fall, sometimes 300 feet to the ground where the survivors forage for food.

One in two chicks survive their first attempts at feeding. I saw the video the other night on Animal Planet’s “Most Extreme” where the barnacle geese were rated No. 1. The program interlaced film of falling chicks with base jumpers but, didn’t show any casualties. The narrator said as many as 16 people die yearly while base jumping.

]]> By: Planeten Paultje http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/07/13/base-jumping-anyone/#comment-21273 Planeten Paultje Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:53:08 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2848#comment-21273 I think it's as dangerous as Formula One. Both require long hours of training (and supportive physical training) plus meticulous preparations. Everything happens at the edge of the possible. But with all that extra training and experience, I expect a formula one driver to have a much larger margin of control on the normal road than me, and posing less of a risk. For an insurance company I'd draw the line between what's legal and what not. Obviously, people who expressly go into the illegal to get their kicks, also venture into the uninsured. Anyway, anyone can have an unexpected heart failure, at which point all bets are off. I've seen that happen at a dive site. Two very experienced buddies go for a dive and one of them dies under water of a heart attack. He had passed his last physical check without a problem. For all I know he could have been at the wheel of a car on the road or sky diving or on the couch watching telly. I think it’s as dangerous as Formula One. Both require long hours of training (and supportive physical training) plus meticulous preparations. Everything happens at the edge of the possible. But with all that extra training and experience, I expect a formula one driver to have a much larger margin of control on the normal road than me, and posing less of a risk.

For an insurance company I’d draw the line between what’s legal and what not. Obviously, people who expressly go into the illegal to get their kicks, also venture into the uninsured.

Anyway, anyone can have an unexpected heart failure, at which point all bets are off. I’ve seen that happen at a dive site. Two very experienced buddies go for a dive and one of them dies under water of a heart attack. He had passed his last physical check without a problem. For all I know he could have been at the wheel of a car on the road or sky diving or on the couch watching telly.

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