Epic Darwin.

That's a case of a cameraman following his subjects a bit too closely while forgetting his surroundings.

About to close the door when he jumped. Sounds like the camera guy had a deathwish.

I wonder if the narrative sounded like the whale in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

//Hello Ground!

His body was found next to a house with a damaged roof

Coincidence?

Local news.



He messed up that house pretty good.

I think I'd rather hit ground than half hit a house like that.

His body was found on a big pile of feathers next to a house with a damaged roof, police said. - funnier.

He was "observing?" As in, "he hitched a ride so he could kill himself?"

Tuttle?

All in all this sounds like a suicide. Although, I wasn't there so I can't say for certain. For all we know the guy was complete dumbass and forgot his surroundings and actually jumped not noticing he didn't have a parachute. Either way, this deserves some Epic Fail/Your doing it wrong pics.

I think he just got caught up in the excitement of the whole thing. Like me when I'm at a strip club.

Did the camera make it okay?

/pics might be interesting....

He would have survived if he had been a marine I bet.


/my redlit headline mentioned that.

You hear stories of skydivers at boogies making multiple jumps per day and then on one flight forget that the don't have their chute.

But, then there are people that do it for attention.

It would of been bad-ass if he would of found one of the others in time, maneuvered to him, grabbed him for dear life and shared his chute.

driven to quit: All in all this sounds like a suicide. Although, I wasn't there so I can't say for certain. For all we know the guy was complete dumbass and forgot his surroundings and actually jumped not noticing he didn't have a parachute. Either way, this deserves some Epic Fail/Your doing it wrong pics.

Maybe he just saw Point Break too many times and thought one of his fellow jumpers was Bodie.

...or he just thought he was getting off a city bus.

buckeyebrain: Tuttle?

Yes, and I hear he left everything to Sister Theresa's orphanage...

Tr0mBoNe
Epic Darwin


Guy jumps out of a plane w/ no parachute is gonna die. I don't think Darwin had anything to do with it.

"blah blah...grabbed him for dear life and shared his chute."

dreadpir8roberts

Wow, That is uh, amazing. What a douche-nozzle looking guy though.

I think it's premature for us to speculate; we don't know what kind of camera it was.

GonzoNihilist: Tr0mBoNe
Epic Darwin


Guy jumps out of a plane w/ no parachute is gonna die. I don't think Darwin had anything to do with it.

Not necessarily....there was that recent one where someone survived a fall. Doubt this guy was banking on that though...

Tr0mBoNe: Epic Darwin.

Came in to say this.

/Great minds and such.

I, for one, would not want to be able to see my death coming a foot at a time for 10000 feet.

/would hope for a massive heart attack at 9900 feet.

Ok Fark Engineers/Physicists; let say he weighed 170lbs. What kind of force did he hit the house with? Any good comparisons?

I've always wondered... suppose you jump out of a plane without a parachute and land it a "sufficiently deep" body of water. I know that people say that water "acts like concrete" if you are going fast, but suppose you know how to fall and land? What's the chance you could survive?

from a related link on the saem story (sidebar):

this provides some insight to the deceased:

Rawlins noted the man listed "General Schwarzenegger" as his emergency contact.


/facepalm

FTFA: Rawlins noted the man listed "General Schwarzenegger" as his emergency contact.

Yeah, I'd say it was suicide.

queezyweezel: Ok Fark Engineers/Physicists; let say he weighed 170lbs. What kind of force did he hit the house with?

I'd say 170 lbs worth.

Egon Spengler: from a related link on the saem story (sidebar):

this provides some insight to the deceased:

Rawlins noted the man listed "General Schwarzenegger" as his emergency contact.


/facepalm

Damn you. Beat me to it.

evaned: I've always wondered... suppose you jump out of a plane without a parachute and land it a "sufficiently deep" body of water. I know that people say that water "acts like concrete" if you are going fast, but suppose you know how to fall and land? What's the chance you could survive?

0% over water. from that height you stand a better chance hitting soft dirt. I'd want to aim for a peat bog or maybe a pillow factory that just happened to have it's roof removed for repairs that day.

dhamack: Damn you. Beat me to it.

Simulpost, actually.

queezyweezel: 0% over water. from that height you stand a better chance hitting soft dirt. I'd want to aim for a peat bog or maybe a pillow factory that just happened to have it's roof removed for repairs that day.

That's too bad. I asked because a couple weeks ago I had a wikipedia reading binge about various airline accidents, including Aloha Airlines Flight 243, in which one of the cabin doors blew off, and took several rows of the roof with it. Remarkably the only casualty was a flight attendant who was blown out; the seatbelts were good enough for everyone else. I couldn't help but wonder if there was any way that she might have survived.

It didn't seem likely because I've never heard of stunt people doing it, but the fact that I know that people do cliff diving from heights that I guessed would have taken them a sizable portion of the way to terminal velocity gave me some hope.

evaned: ...in which one of the cabin doors blew off, and took several rows of the roof with it...
Actually I take that back... that isn't correct. Read the Wikipedia article for the cause.

dhamack: Damn you. Beat me to it.


Sweet, a simulpost. We are now blood brethren, till the end of days...


Or until General Schwarzenneger pushes the big red button.

evaned: It didn't seem likely because I've never heard of stunt people doing it, but the fact that I know that people do cliff diving from heights that I guessed would have taken them a sizable portion of the way to terminal velocity gave me some hope.

I'm only going on what I've heard form a few buddies that jump regularly. It may be possible, but I would think that if you managed to enter the water in a manner that kept you from splattering, you would go so deep that you would either drown, or die of the bends when you shot back up to the surface.

IIRC it takes something like 5 seconds of free fall to achieve terminal velocity.

queezyweezel: Ok Fark Engineers/Physicists; let say he weighed 170lbs. What kind of force did he hit the house with?

I'd say 170 lbs worth.


LOL. Nice.

If he was spread out to slow the fall it was right around 100,000 ft/lbs, if he was tucked into a ball for speed he could have delivered in excess of 165,000 ft/lbs, which enters the realm of teeth and eyeballs everywhere.
Judging from the type of offset initial hit, he may well not have stayed in one piece.

puffy999:
I'd say 170 lbs worth.

If he'd decelerated at 1G, I think he'd be ok. Something tells me he slowed down a lot faster than that.

WebbMonkey: What a douche-nozzle looking guy though.

That's Travis Pastrana, best freestyle motocross rider ever. And yes he has a few screws loose. But by all accounts a really nice guy.

Here he is becoming the first, and so far only, rider to do a double backflip (pops)

55 metres per second near impact if you don't try to slow yourself down. Water is not concrete if the surface is broken.

Grab the poo from your pants (it will be there) and throw it ahead of you at about 200 metres.

Pin drop for the win!

Done it twice.

/not really

This guy's hamburger.

Even if he slowed himself up as much as possible, he still would have smacked that roof top at around a 100mph.

Think of it this way. Look at a the results of a deer being hit by a semi on the interstate. Now translate that to this guy eating rooftop at a 100mph. I don't think he'd be very recognizable after that.

evaned: It didn't seem likely because I've never heard of stunt people doing it, but the fact that I know that people do cliff diving from heights that I guessed would have taken them a sizable portion of the way to terminal velocity gave me some hope.

Here's an interesting thread/forum on the subject ^{(^)}

I'm only going on what I've heard form a few buddies that jump regularly. It may be possible, but I would think that if you managed to enter the water in a manner that kept you from splattering, you would go so deep that you would either drown, or die of the bends when you shot back up to the surface.

Actually, death almost invariably results from this, but not from what you would expect. Time/depth under water is not enough for either drowning or significant amounts nitrogen to accumulate in bloodstream (bends). Death is usually rapid, but from a combination of internal injuries involving displaced, lacerated, and/or ruptured internal organs, even when there is no obvious external trauma. In some cases the victims remain conscious and active for a time before they succumb. There is almost never time for a chance of useful medical intervention in these cases.

queezyweezel: evaned: It didn't seem likely because I've never heard of stunt people doing it, but the fact that I know that people do cliff diving from heights that I guessed would have taken them a sizable portion of the way to terminal velocity gave me some hope.

I'm only going on what I've heard form a few buddies that jump regularly. It may be possible, but I would think that if you managed to enter the water in a manner that kept you from splattering, you would go so deep that you would either drown, or die of the bends when you shot back up to the surface.

IIRC it takes something like 5 seconds of free fall to achieve terminal velocity.


There would be lesss than zero chance of getting the bends in that situation.

Not that it would matter because you would flatten like a pancape the second you hit that incompressable water.

Most g's survived by a person is about 82g's on a water-braked rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base. It lasted 0.04 secs. He spent three days in hospital afterwards. In the 50's .

CliChe Guevara: Actually, death almost invariably results from this, but not from what you would expect. Time/depth under water is not enough for either drowning or significant amounts nitrogen to accumulate in bloodstream (bends). Death is usually rapid, but from a combination of internal injuries involving displaced, lacerated, and/or ruptured internal organs, even when there is no obvious external trauma. In some cases the victims remain conscious and active for a time before they succumb. There is almost never time for a chance of useful medical intervention in these cases.

Is this impact based trauma, or are the injuries do to the high pressure enema that probably takes place?

CliChe Guevara: Actually, death almost invariably results from this, but not from what you would expect. Time/depth under water is not enough for either drowning or significant amounts nitrogen to accumulate in bloodstream (bends).

Agreed about the bends... but I do think drowning is a threat, but for different reasons. After you hit the water, I'm going to guess there is a very good chance that you're going to have broken legs, knees, etc., and perhaps be unconscious for a short time. Good luck treading water until rescue arrives in that situation. (Though falling from a plane, you might be able to ensure that your fall lands conveniently close to a boat or something.)

evaned: I've always wondered... suppose you jump out of a plane without a parachute and land it a "sufficiently deep" body of water. I know that people say that water "acts like concrete" if you are going fast, but suppose you know how to fall and land? What's the chance you could survive?

As has been said, pretty much no. As they said above, soft dirt, etc. is your best bet, and even better if you can hit it on an incline like a hill. Maybe farmland on a hillside would be good.

queezyweezel: or die of the bends when you shot back up to the surface.

No. You get bent from breathing air under pressure and then surfacing too quickly for the nitrogen dissolved in your blood to off-gas. You can't get bent from holding your breath at the surface, going down, and then coming back up.

What would be more likely to kill you if the impact doesn't would probably be from the crushing pressure of the water displaced by your body rushing back in to fill that space. Also, the pressure would more than likely force the air from your lungs, and, while you are going so deep, you don't have time to get back to the surface before you pass out and die.

However, water is like concrete at those speeds. The difference in density from air is just too great that you would pretty much splatter at those speeds.

Galileo needed this. (new window)

The mass entry makes no difference to the result :)

Egon Spengler: from a related link on the saem story (sidebar):

this provides some insight to the deceased:

Rawlins noted the man listed "General Schwarzenegger" as his emergency contact.


/facepalm

GET TO DA CHOPPA!