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SanLouBlues writes "Autoweek has this article about a group of guys in Arizona who will drop your car out of a cargo jet for $15k. Parachutes for the car are optional. Their ultimate goal is to drop a Greyhound with forty people inside. More pictures here and here)"
I'M going to pay THEM $15k to achieve THEIR goal?
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I swear I will return it in good condition :)
"There's no real science to it--it's hit or miss," says skydiver/skydriver Greg Gasson
I don't want to know what would happen if they hit, let alone if they miss. Hit what? Where?
(Although, I think this would make a neat little Junkyard Wars-esque competition.. or not)
Here I was all excited about getting dropped out of a jet and I see the plane has props.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Ker splat
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Can somebody recommend a good online PC seller that they've good experience with? I'm looking for a top-end athlon xp system, and would like to buy it online and be able to customize everything on it.
Thanks in advance, and please forgive the off-topic post, but /. is the one place i know where tons of people know the answer to my question.
It's a start... :-)
If you have an 802.11b-equipped laptop in the car on your way down, are you then warskydriving?
how do they expect to get out of the damn bus? oh well... thats what life insurance is for right?
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Parachutes for the car are optional. Their ultimate goal is to drop a Greyhound with forty people inside.
Think that would be enough to fit all the RIAA executives inside of? i'm not sure..
Seriously though why spend $15k to drop a car out of a plane when you can do the next best thing, throw wireless webcams off of tall buildings! It's fun for everyone!
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Oh my gosh that's just plain hardcore. =) Since I go to ASU, I can't help but think of combining this with an older tradition...the stuffing of as many college students as possible into a VW Beetle. A mass of limbs + clown car = newest fad? Now's the time that we poor college students seek sponsorship...
Of course, this is the perfect place to advertise these 40 open positions!!!!
:)
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Look! Two old jokes in one. But seriously, aren't they afraid they are gonna hit some poor hiker strolling thru the desert? I mean it's kind of hard to get out of the way of a 140MPH Honda Civic. And what if they do drop that bus...squish.
Why not fork?
If I hadn't read it on Slashdot, I never would have thought it possible to so willingly invite litigation upon oneself.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
And donate your car instead...please...
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
From the article:
"The Hondas and the giant wagon, however, went without chutes, gaining speeds of up to 140 mph depending upon angle of attack. "
140mph? Is that right? It seems awfully slow to me. I would have thought that the terminal velocity of a car would have been much higher than that.
and I'll push it off of a really tall bridge (as long as I'm free of any legal consequence and you sign a contract stating so).
Either way, you'll acheive the same desired effect -- a busted car. w00t.
A beowulf cluster of falling cars? Sounds kinda dangerous don't you think?
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For some reason, I see this as a chance for Hollywood to make a Speed 3 ... ::imagines Sandra Bullock fighting terrorists in a parachute at 30,000 feet::
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I've just booked me and my car in. It seems safer for the car that letting my girlfriend drive. Hey wait a minute... that yellow buzzbox pictured IS my car!!!
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I'm sure that any of the big 3 auto manufacturers would jump (excuse the pun) at the chance to put a paratrooping SUV into their adds. $15K/jump would be a pitttance to them. You might even have to raise your price just to get their attention.
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Talk about an air-bag...
"I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes! Hey, better try the emergency brake!"
-Jack Handy
recommend a list of people that should be on the bus?
I should have picked out the nickname Demosthenes!Tecumseh.
From the story: The hoods are duct-taped shut, since metal tearing off at terminal velocity could endanger the "drivers."
Boy, I wish I had a nickel for every time duct tape prevented someone's violent death at terminal velocity.
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1) charge people to let them use plane to push car out of
2) ????
3) Profit!
Look! My car can go from 0 to 60 in 2.75 seconds!
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I'd pay for that...but I have a lot more then 40 enemies.....
Oh, wait, the people have parachutes? *sigh* There goes that idea.
It's one way of distributing the $15K anyway.
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Take a look at this picture. Is it just me or is the thought of doing that even more scary than regular skydiving? Irrational, I know, but there's just something about the idea of falling while inside a car, which is normally a safe environment, that adds an extra psychological edge to it all.
did the car run on linux ?
Who is this Karma guy and why is he bad ??
well, maybe if they drop 15 of them, all of Congress could get on board.
That's what I get for posting before I read the article.
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$15,000 to destroy my car? I could do that for free! And I'd save the $15,000 (that I don't even have) for a NEW car.
Why whould i pay $15k to destroy my car? A big sledgehammer is a lot cheaper and a lot more fun.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Lets not forget the piano tossing trebuchets , inspiring crazy guys to throw big stuff since the middle ages.
Yawn.
Oh my God...
Okay so he's holding on to it but that's gotta get some respect.
Has the seen-it-in-the-movies jump ever been done, where someone jumps without a parachute and someone else catches up with them? I wonder which is worse, being the guy without the chute or the guy who has to catch him?
maybe it's not such a hot idea to chase a cargo plane from below and behind, while a car is falling out of its ass?
"Look bubba, *click* that car *click* just keeps getting bigger and bigSMASH
"Their ultimate goal is to drop a Greyhound with forty people inside."
This has the potential to be the first 40-way Darwin Award...
If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast.
Anyone else think that dropping a bus with 40 people is just asking for trouble?? Unless they're looking to rip the roof off of it, there's to many what if's to make this even remotely safe. Might just as well make parachutes for the people optional as well.
Is this like the semi-finals season for the darwin awards and I just wasn't looking?
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
...to wake up a drunk friend.
Fron the article:
The grand plan? "We want to drop a Greyhound bus from a C5A," says Gasson. "We'll fill the bus with 40 or so skydivers, and they'll climb out on the way down."
Can anyone else see this coming up on 'Worlds Worst/Funniest/Stupidist Disasters' or 'When Buses Attack' soon???
Burma?
How many times do the cars miss the ground?
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line for the bus forms to the right, first 40 get in...
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I don't think this is what they ment when they said we'd have flying cars in the future.
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There is a war going on for your mind.
if at first you don't suceed ... skyd(i)ving is not for you.
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that's so weird, befor today i've heard that expression once, in the comic boondocks, i didn't get it then, i heard it 3 times today, now i get it, jeez, how long ago was that ep of happy days on, and just now its becomign a common expression...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Their ultimate goal is to drop a Greyhound with forty people inside.
Something about that just sounds so illegal.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
But fast ROLLER COASTERS are the great, perilous danger from which we must protect the masses.
Riiiight.
Sometimes the funniest part of being American is comparing the things we can't do with the things that are perfectly legal.
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I've always wanted to skydive while inside my car. Oh, wait... if I wanted to do that I could always drive off a cliff, granted the results would be a little more permanant... =)
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They'll give me $15,000 to drop my uninspected '86 Plymoth from an airplane? Uh... ok, it's a deal!
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"[...] It is without a doubt, American decadence at its finest. [...]"
I can't stop trying to put things in perspectives theses days and realize how much the world is unfair. Some people will never get to use a car, and some are ditching one while skydiving. (I guess it doesn't work anymore, but still)
I am not saying it is not right to do so. It looks *really* cool!
But. Can't help and think about other human beings not even having access to drinkable water...
Some day we will have to face the fact that a more fair repartition is indeed needed. Are we happier today than 100 years ago because we can skydive in cars?
Go ahead, mod me down as redundant, libertarian bastard, suckers who speaks but does nothing, etc... I really just want to know if other feel the same way.
I would think having a several ton car fall on your head would hurt...
but maybe thats just me...
i'll drop their plane out of my car for $15.
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A greyhound with 40 people inside... I can already see the Darwin Award writeup for this one.
Look.
Do we get to pick them?
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Bill Gates
Hillery Rosen
Jack Valenti
Michael Eisner
Senator Hollings
Lance Bass
Britney Spears
N'sync
More suggestion, for this no parachute drop, please?
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Perhaps someone with a better knowledge of physics could enlighten me, but doesn't it seem that a 2000-lb. car in freefall would fall a little faster than the "passengers" inside (wind resistance and what not)? It doesn't look like they are strapped in or anything...
... and it still isn't April 1st ;)
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Very good point :)
If they think they can safely parachute land a bus full of people, why can't they put safety parachutes on airliners? I understand airliners are much bigger, but the technology must be there. Isn't the cost worth it?
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Hrm.... could donate a Xerox document station, or how about an old Tandy main frame computer. No parachute needed! Just toss em out, and I'll wash my hands of it all. Just don't tell my boss! ;)
/. trolls with no parachute... mabe throw a few parachues out seperate, but not as may as the trolls, and see how gets to the chutes and lives.
Seriously though, if they can toss out a bus, they can toss anything. Why not a toss a bunch of
Oh wait, it probably not cool to throw people out of a plane, they probably have to sign papers, and tossing people out of a plane is probably consider to be not kool in some states, even if they are trolls. darn... silly technicalities. oh well.
It isn't a lie if you belive it.
You know, I'm getting sick of reading these types of posts. Seems like every other article in the last week has had someone griping "THIS is material worthy of Slashdot?"
If you're not interested, then move along--these aren't the stories you're looking for.
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Even with a parachute I don't think a car would survive that fall hitting the ground. I really can't imagine a parachute slowing down a 2-ton car enough to avoid damage. I mean, most SUVs' bumpers fall off at 5mph. Imagine the damage at, say, 20mph.
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"There's no real science to it--it's hit or miss," says skydiver/skydriver Greg Gasson.
I can see the headlines now:
Bus Accident Kills 40 in Arizona
It looks like a lot of fun. :)
A friend of Gasson's had just purchased a Short Brothers Skyvan cargo plane in 1996 and on a whim asked the parachutists, "Want to throw out a car?"
These guys have (your choice):
a) Too much time
b) Too much money
P.S. Am I the only one who feels bad for those poor Civics?
"When all else fails, there's always delusion." -Conan O'Brien
how about I make my bad dreams come true, drive off a bridge completely stoned and drunk, fall for fucking ever into the darkness, and end up waking up in a bed w/my girlfriend ;)
Perhaps they can tote along an 802.11 laptop and search for free access points on the way down.
..to have MY car dropped out of the sky, but I'm pretty sure I'd pay a buck or two to see what it looks like when somebody ELSE's car is dropped!
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Is this with or without the parachute? If it's without, there are a few people I'd like to see among the forty...
Wait until the terrorists hear about this one!
Gee Whiz!
Thanks Slashdot!
The hoods are duct-taped shut, since metal tearing off at terminal velocity could endanger the "drivers." ...is there anything it can't do?
I read that story and instantly thought of doing it to my Piece of Sh*t 1992 Chrysler Jeep Wrangler. Then I figured that it would probably break down on the way to the ground.
It would be worth gathering up all the pieces and taking them to the Chrysler dealer and asking if this is covered under warranty.
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If at first you do not succeed, then skydriving is not for you.
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
Did anyone else not see the (XXX of XXX Comments) by the (Read More...) link of this article on the /. front page? Here I was, hoping to get f1rs7 p0z7 and there are already a bunch of comment!
did slashdot just crap out for a while?
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Why back when I was a kid people were sneaky about their homicidal intent. Nowadays they just say "my goal in life is to cram 40 people into a bus, drop it from an airplane, and watch it smash to bits." Hmph.
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Work Harder. Millions on welfare depend on you!
considering that over 50% of the US budget is spent on military forces, your sig would be more accurate saying, "work harder, millions of foreign civilians anxiously await death dispatched from US planes!" or something...
pardon the assumption, but middle class americans don't know shit about the realities of welfare in this country. and don't expect to learn truth from tv.
a lot of homeless people know me -- i can't remember half of thier names but they don't mind because i talk to them. one of them, a vietnam veteran, recently gave me is VA card which entitles him to his welfare and health benefits. disabled, homeless, and not in communication with relatives. he sees no reason to live and gave me this card hoping someone would remember him.
good luck.
fear is the mind killer
Dropping a Greyhound bus with 40 people in it? How are the Darwin Award people going to award this one?
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
I don't disagree, but there are still millions of people that abuse our welfare system. I agree that good comes from welfare too, but there are many people who abuse it. I know a couple of them.
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I hope its not optional for that bus full of people.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin
given that the skill level involved in thusly launching a car without a parachute is essentially zero, fifteen thousand clams seems like a lot of money. whatever it is that they're throwing the car out of is a typical big skydiver hauler. total fuel to 13,000 feet is less than $100 or $200 worst case. Car clean up = $300 or so (let's just say). Pilot - $150, absolute max. Assorted handlers--let's say, a few hundred. $15k seems way out of line.
Of course, if your client is toyota or whoever it said in the article, you might as well charge $150k.
FWIF: (FAA) Federal Aviation Regulations state that it is legal to throw / drop things from an airplane as long as care is taken to insure no damage to persons or property on the surface.
Once again we are left with the age-old question: If a greyhound bus filled with 40 skydivers smashes into the ground at 160mph in the middle of the desert; does it make a sound?
What's the max acceleration one of these would reach? You could tell everyone that your old '89 dodge went 5 times faster than their max speed... just don't mention that it was downward acceleration due to gravity. :-)
Oh, you think THAT'S fast, well the fastest I ever got my old Dodge Colt was 1000mph (insert exact number to the left of mph).
You'd need somebody really honest to vouch for you. Maybe could you cheat the world records for fastest automobile speed, but that's probably detailed as land-speed
NOW we know how they got the VW on top of the schoolhouse - phorm
Now if only they could map access points for us as they freefall ...
Daimler Chrysler tested the integrity of the Mercedes E-Class by locking a cat inside -- it suffocated from lack of fresh air. They then tested an LHS by locking a cat inside. The cat vanished!
That this will be the first time in history that seatbelts DON'T save lives... Crash test dummies be damnned...
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They're just trying to draw out a superhero, like in Unbreakable! I mean, come on! Dropping a bus full of tourists from a plane at 15,000 feet? Why don't they also get a second plane, fill it full of young women that have relationships with teenage/20-something men, and drop them all at the same time?
Instant superhero's dilemma!
You're bound to get a Superman or Spiderman from that!
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Wasn't there this lame Charlie Sheen film where he drives a car out the back of a cargo plane in flight to get away from the Russian Mafia guys, and then in free fall he has to open the trunk to rescue "the girl" and then land the both of them safely with his parachute.
"What is the airspeed of an unladen Greyhound?"
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Just keep giving the valet parking attendants more ideas.
The surface area of a penny has enough resistance to keep it from accelerating to the point where it could be come lethal to anything other than a jellyfish or bowl of jello. To figure out what the terminal velocity of a penny would be do this.
Attach a penny to a piece of thread and hang it out the window of your car (at the time it was your mothers car). Now slowly accelerate until the Penny/threat combo is at a 45 degree angle from your hand. At this point see how fast the car is moving. This is the terminal velocity of a penny dropped from the empire state building. Oh and by the way it was 13mph. Not enough to kill someone. However, subistitue a bowling ball for the penny! Now were talking DEATH AND DESTRUCTION!
If 40 people are going to do this, wouldn't 4 short-busses be the way to make the divers feel comfortable? If you're going to get on a Greyhound at 30,000ft and fall out of a plain, odds are you rode the short bus.
you know, im always saying that if i ever have an extra $15k lying around, i'll pay to have my car dropped out of an airplane...
i mean, why would i want to spend my hard earned money on anything worthwhile? jeeze!
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Okay, so I'm gonna get modded down, flamed, and called a troll for this, but who cares, it's just Karma, right?
a lot of homeless people know me -- i can't remember half of thier names but they don't mind because i talk to them. one of them, a vietnam veteran, recently gave me is VA card which entitles him to his welfare and health benefits. disabled, homeless, and not in communication with relatives. he sees no reason to live and gave me this card hoping someone would remember him.
You just summed it all up there. First, you take the time to talk to (and help?) the folks in your communtiy, as it should be.
Second, you say this one guy is not in contact with his relatives. That is not my problem. Personally, I don't give a shit about that guy, but you do. Good! I do give a shit about people in my community, and try to help out where I can. However, I could help out a good bit more, and in a way that actually made a difference to the people in need if I wasn't paying so much extortion mon^H^H^H tax to fund a bunch of beureaucrats and middle managers. Which would you prefer?
Let me tell you something about the 'reality' of welfare in America: It is a system that robs me (as a taxpayer) to supposedly 'help' someone who can't/won't go down to WalMart and get $10.00/hr stocking shelves. Instead, it provides office jobs for a bunch of career yes-men (and yes-women) and allows the Government to point to the project as either a success in need of more funding to make the final push, or a failure due to lack of funding, whichever the lie du jour is.
The sole function of a beureaucracy is to maintain and expand that beureaucracy.
oh yeah sure the website looks great, the parts are cheap, AND THE HARDDRIVES DONT COME IN BOXES WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON JUMPERS, JUST ANTI-STAT BAGS AND THEY'RE FUCKING BROKEN. the motherboard? IT DOESNT FUCKING WORK. the ram? ECC, I DIDNT ASK FOR ECC.
sound card? same as harddrive, but at least it works.
fuck googlegear
I would LOVE to see footage of various PC's dropped from about 15,000 feet.
This sounds like a job for Hans Moleman.
15k/40 people in a bus = 375 per person...
On one hand I might we willing to spend $375 to be able to say that I jumped out bus that fell from a plane...
It could be a lot of fun...
I also wonder if the people who thought this up rode the "little bus" to school.
As for me I drove the little bus to school...
I'm a skydiver, I've got over 400 jumps to my name.
Joe Jennings and crew have been tossing stuff out of airplanes in Arizona for quite a few years now. Joe does it because he's a profesional cinematographer, he's the guy that filmed the skydiving scenes in most of the recent James Bond films, plus recently Charlie's Angels and XXX. If there's an ad that features skydiving, Joe shot it.
Joe films these, and puts them on DVD - his most recent one is called "Good Stuff" - and you can buy it from www.joejennings.com. Buy it. It's worth it. Lots of incredible (and funny!) work.
Geeks will appreciate this. One of the funnier scenes, Joe throws a living room out of the back of the Skyvan. (note the skyvan is a turbo-prop, not a "jet".) I said they threw a living room out. They did it twice, they rigged up sofa's and loveseats, table lamps, telephones, tv sets, bolted it togeather on a platform, stuck two skydivers in the loveseat, the rolled the whole contraption out the back of the tailgate. What made is so cool is the tablelamps actually WORKED, and the TV was turned on. The tv worked all the way to impact.
I chuckled to myself when I read in the article "There have been no close calls, near misses or injuries in any of the jumps." On one of the "living room drops", the living room landed 20 feet from the ground film crew. Overheard on the video is "fuck that was close..."
Anyways I hate to make a post that's largely a sales pitch for a DVD, but for gods sake check this out. It's called "Good Stuff", and you can get it on www.joejennings.com
Its got full video of all of the car drops, both living room drops, the "chuteless" jumps, and whole lotta other REALLY cool shit.
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if you're complaining about the tax in america, you obviously haven't lived in singapore yet. a honda civic here can buy you 4 in america. people here pay tax to use the roads, along with tax for almost everything else. so quit complaining. to the rest of the world, americans complaining about a high cost of living is like the rich snotty bratty kid claiming he "roughed it out" by staying in a 4 star hotel instead of a 5 star.
Drop it out of a plane.
Would that be a new Idea for those Case Mod people?
Drop your case from really high up?
"Oh shit, I fell asleep and missed my stop! Can you let me off at the next... uh oh."
This learning process taught Gasson and jump partner Joe Jennings enough to drop a Ford F-150 pickup truck attached to a parachute in 1999, something Ford's advertising agency paid them to do for a television commercial. Yeah cuz it's one of the few times a F-150 can be involved in a high speed accident and it dosen't have anything to do with tires coming apart.
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Looks like Darwin was right.
There was an advertisement back in the 70's where a MGB was thrown from a plane (with a parachute) and then driven off. So the idea's not entirely new.
Well at least a Mustang won't need a new engine after a quarter mile run.
But then again, you can always race a Saleen.
Oh why should I bother? We both have small penises.
Did David Copperfield have anything to do with this? Cause he also made the funny in your joke disappear.
Its a little known fact though, that was the second car they tried that with. The chute didn't open for the first one, which litterally pancaked. I think it was a National Geographic article.
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Damn, I miss Interstate 76. The only game I've ever played where you can rig a schoolbus with guns.
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This is because inertia increases with mass, *not* because of air resistance. Air resistance is totally separate from the mass/resistance argument, it is merely friction! Like the other guy said, you drop an apple and a car at the same time with no air resistance (like in space, on the moon, etc) they will fall at the same velocity, and hit the ground at the same time.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Their ultimate goal is to drop a Greyhound with forty people inside.
Hmm... Assuming all 40 ppl are in the bus when it falls and considering the difficulty you would have getting out of a falling bus, they would have to fly realllly high up just to make sure they all get out before its too late. Maybe 20000 or 30000 feet... Or atleast high enough to require oxygen masks... Gonna cost alot to do all that for sure....
"Their ultimate goal is to drop a Greyhound with forty people inside."
Isn't that called "Southwest Airlines"?
... everybody out. Will there still be the little old lady with ten bags of shopping struggling down the aisle?
Of course, in America, no one pays a tax to use the roads, nope, there are no Highway Taxes or Tollbooths in America. Americans don't pay Cigarette and Cigarette Use Tax, Dry-cleaning solvent taxes and license fees, Electricity Distribution Tax and Invested Capital Taxes, Electricity Invested Capital Tax, Gas Revenue Invested Capital Tax, Water Company Invested Capital Tax, Electricity Excise Tax, Energy Assistance Charges (electricity and natural gas distributors), Gas Revenue Tax, Liquor Taxes, Oil and Gas Production Assessment, Telecommunications Excise Tax, Telecommunications Infrastructure Maintenance Fees, Tobacco Product Tax, Gaming taxes, Bingo Tax and License Fees, Charitable Games Tax and License Fees, Coin-Operated Amusement Device and Redemption Machine Tax, Pull Tabs and Jar Games Tax and License Fees, Racing Privilege Tax, Riverboat Gambling Tax, Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax, Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax, Sports Facilities Authority Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax, Motor Fuel Taxes, Environmental Impact Fee and Underground Storage Taxes, Motor Fuel Use Tax, Income Tax -- Individuals, Personal Property Replacement Tax, Income Tax --Business (including corporations, estates, trusts, exempt organizations, partnerships and S corporations), Employers Withholding Income Tax, Personal Property Replacement Tax, Sales Tax, Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Taxes, Local Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Taxes, Manufacturer's Purchase Credit, Replacement Vehicle Taxes, County Replacement Vehicle Tax, Municipal Replacement Vehicle Tax, Retailers' Occupation Tax, Service Occupation Tax, Service Use Tax, Use Tax, Home Rule County Taxes, Home Rule Municipal Taxes, Mass Transit District Taxes, Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax for Public Safety, Tire User Fee, Vehicle Use Tax, Coin-Operated Amusement Device and Redemption Machine Tax, Property Tax, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Assessor Training Stipends, Assessor Performance Stipends, Chief County Assessment Officer Salary Reimbursements, County Treasurer Stipends, Real Estate Transfer Tax, Hotel taxes, etc...
To Americans, people from other countries whining about how easy Americans have it and how we should shut up is just thinly veiled jealousy.
I could never see the point of jumping out of a perfectly servicable aircraft.
But driving out of one?!
Guess this brings a whole new meaning to "Hit the road....."
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
What I want to see is an empty bus dropped, have 40 skydivers get on the bus *exact change only* then jump out of the bus before its lase 'stop'.
I'd sit through horrd FOX programming to see that.
I'd like to donate my (Boss's) car. It's the shiny Green Toyota Tundra, 4200 wake forest road, raleigh, nc.
pick it up anytime.
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So, can I bring my laptop and wireless NIC?
Better get some air brakes installed then.
Star Pirates
What's the max acceleration one of these would reach?
About 9.81m/s2.
Why don't they rent the largest cargo plane in the world, the Antolev An-124? Instead of putting a car in the hold, there is room for a couple of buses.
Ok, $15k to sit in a car dropped from a cargo jet with you in it. What if you die or something, does the 15k pay for a funeral as well?
Seriously! This is right up his alley, considering all the stuff he's gotten to throw off the tops of buildings on past shows.
I can see it now: A Greyhound bus stuffed to the gills with watermelons, cantaloupes, honeydew, casaba, pumpkins, etc., plummeting to earth from multiples of 10K feet...
If nothing else, it would add new meaning to the term 'Fruit shake.'
Keep the peace(es).
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
I'll be impressed if instead of dropping the bus out of a plane, they base jump with it :-)
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Now that would be a thrill ride
TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken
Once you've seen a tank parachute out of the sky, hit the ground, then drive off, everything else is eh.
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The Freefall Research pages have information on people who have survived various mishaps while skydiving (intentionally or otherwise.)
This includes the pilot of a WWII bomber without a chute who caught a crewmate with a parachute, as well as a pilot of a biplane chasing down and rescuing (by means of crashing him into a wing) a freefaller with no parachute.
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M1 Abrams tanks can be thrown out the back of a plane. Since they weigh dozens of tons I'm sure a Greyhound is under the wait limit.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
This is incredible. Anyone have a URL that lists every US tax? Even better, has anyone actually broken down the percentages for how much the average person ends up paying in taxes every year?
Thanks, good info. Someone mod this up please?
Damn! I have a hard enough time catching a fly ball.
-Dan.
I just moved to Hawaii, and I need a way to move my car. How accurate can they be?
140mph? Is that right? It seems awfully slow to me.
That's only because you've never hit the ground doing 140mph. If you had, you'd realize just how fast that is.
Well, no, actually you wouldn't.
My first thought was that the 40 people should be spammers.
Lets not give Osama any ideas, now, huh?
my sig was dubm so i took it out.