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[mode_seven]

No.

I don't see NuB Island.

I considered including NuB, then realised lots of you spend half your time on WDG anyway and didn't bother.

[Leftism]

I considered including NuB, then realised lots of you spend half your time on WDG anyway and didn't bother.

Bawww... D:

[Officer Dibble]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/09/google-automated-cars/

I don't think piqued is a strong enough word for this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bJmVJZbmIk

You get a good idea of just how insane this guy is at about 3 mins. Or alternatively watch the bit right at the end for the same clip but without music over the top.

[Magathery]

HOLY CRAP!

[Junta]

I don't think piqued is a strong enough word for this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bJmVJZbmIk

You get a good idea of just how insane this guy is at about 3 mins. Or alternatively watch the bit right at the end for the same clip but without music over the top.

I'm just speechless.... fantastic vid... and wow... he's sooo close to the ground and other objects isn't he! :O

Real flying too... what a rush that must be.

+1 for the bearded one

[Brahms]

The guy who invented those suits must have had brass balls.

"Look, just jump off the mountain wearing this wing thing I made. It makes you look like a bat or something, see? It'll be fine."

"How do you land?"

"Uh..."

[Millicent Bystander]

Did anyone else see that program a few weeks back on TV about the couple of nutters who did that mad base jumping thing?

Edit: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-men-who-jump-off-buildings

[Hzza]

Did anyone else see that program a few weeks back on TV about the couple of nutters who did that mad base jumping thing?

Yeah, I did, was cool. There was that dude who was doing his first jump back after breaking his leg or something and he stacked one of his jumps and ended up in intesive care. I lol'd. Then there was another dude who'd just bought one of those wingsuits and was all like "Never done this before, LOL OFF THE EDGE OF THIS FUCKING MASSIVE MOUNTAIN I GO, WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" and survived. If I tried that I'd hit the first stick hanging out of the mountain and spend the next 8 minutes pinwheeling down the thing to my death.

Semi-related, my girlfriend thinks I'm being a miserable bastard because I won't go skydiving with her and 9 of her mates. In this instance, I'm happy to be a miserable bastard if it means I'm not throwing myself out of a plane with nothing but a hanky and a hippy strapped to my back.

[Zarf]

Did anyone else see that program a few weeks back on TV about the couple of nutters who did that mad base jumping thing?

Yeah, I did, was cool. There was that dude who was doing his first jump back after breaking his leg or something and he stacked one of his jumps and ended up in intesive care. I lol'd. Then there was another dude who'd just bought one of those wingsuits and was all like "Never done this before, LOL OFF THE EDGE OF THIS FUCKING MASSIVE MOUNTAIN I GO, WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" and survived. If I tried that I'd hit the first stick hanging out of the mountain and spend the next 8 minutes pinwheeling down the thing to my death.

Semi-related, my girlfriend thinks I'm being a miserable bastard because I won't go skydiving with her and 9 of her mates. In this instance, I'm happy to be a miserable bastard if it means I'm not throwing myself out of a plane with nothing but a hanky and a hippy strapped to my back.

Skydiving is overated. I did both Bungy and 14000Ft Skydive in Cairnes and the Bungy was a much bigger rush.
Skydive you just kinda get shoved out of the plane and then your ears hurt for a bit until the chute gets pulled. You don't really feel like you're falling that fast because you're so high up. You don't really have a sense of acceleration because of the way you transition from moving fast horizontally to moving fast vertically.

Bungy on the other hand is fucking awesome, you are in control of when you jump and it's scarier because you're falling so much closer to the ground.

It's kinda like an extreme version of how being in a low sports car feels faster than a 4x4 even if they travel the same speed.

[Junta]

Try 18000 feet Zarf, huge rush and
2mins freefall

[Leftism]

Link

Quite a nice story.

[Zarf]

Try 18000 feet Zarf, huge rush and
2mins freefall

Like I said, the freefall doesn't really "do it" for me, It's pretty boring because as strange as it sounds you're too high up which lessens the sense of danger. Don't really feel like your falling either, you know you're moving fast but it's no different to putting your head out of a sunroof in a moving car. I don't know how another 60s freefall would improve that.
Might be more fun doing a solo jump or stunts. Personally I found Hang gliding was more fun, challenging, comfortable and it lasts a lot longer so you can enjoy the scenery. Whilst Bungy was the bigger adrenaline rush.  

[Brahms]

I manage to get a pretty big rush from opening the door on a monday or going out after dark.

If either of those fail, there's always the sheer adrenaline pounding terror of "Talking to girls"

[claws]

Don't really feel like your falling either, you know you're moving fast but it's no different to putting your head out of a sunroof in a moving car.

I remember feeling really weird and dislocated and it was pretty disorientating (freefall, not putting my head out of a sunroof). Maybe I'm just a big baby

[Lister]

I saw the tv program on that Jeb Corliss guy. He's an absolute mentalist :S