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I was just having an email exchange with a friend, about risks and rewards relative to flying in wing suits. This isn't much different. My conclusion is that I'd rather live to experience many smaller risks over a couple more decades than blow it all in a couple really adrenaline releasing events. I guess that's the relatively conservative approach.
**** We all do "somewhat" risky things, like ride a street motorcycle on the public roads, but there's an understood line and dude is WAY past it .... !Lannis
May have misread the piece ... on my phone's itty-bitty screen ... but thought this was on an airfield runway.Bill
And of course there's the thing about young people being willing to take more risk. Something about the brain not being fully developed until age 25, so a less than mature understanding of risk. I remember when I was in my late teens and early 20s, having an attitude about risk that I was somewhat lucky to live through.
209mph for more than a kilometer? Why not 305.5fps for more than 5 furlongs?**the point being any time you see the units like miles and kilometers mismatched be suspicious of the claim.
And the speed of light is .......... 1.80262 x 10^12 furlongs/fortnight. Useful piece of info to have.
Rothwell does this stuff for a living , kinda like the guys that erect 300' towers , all in a days work .
In Oklahoma we use "Furpiece" as a measurement . Eastern part of the state it might mean a couple of miles , Western part it usually equates to 40 miles or more . If a train leaves Tulsa traveling at 35 furpieces per hour headed for Guymon ... You can see the problem , as the measurement is going to change about 50 miles West of Tulsa , and not at a constant rate either Dusty
That might not be such a good analogy, Dusty. Tower work is quite safe if it's done properly, much like working on power lines. I've been up multi-hundred foot towers, but I'm connected to the tower with not only a lanyard, but by a fall protection harness too. In fact, if I weren't, my hands would probably be sweating so much I'd slip off.
In Alaska we measure furpieces and then we wear them.
OK then , compare it to being a game ranger , everyone you deal with is armed , and a fair few of them are drunk with an attitude Seriously , no matter how well connected to the tower one is , it would still scare the poo out of most folks. Dusty
I know that it's a rule that if I have an opinion different from yours, it's a requirement that you say something about it, and that's fine.But comparing climbing a transmission tower in safety gear and a lanyard, or being a Game Warden, from a safety and risk standpoint with doing a 209 mph wheelie on a 500 horsepower motorcycle .... I mean, that's just dumb. Really.But maybe it was just a joke, I can't tell sometimes. Lannis
[snippity] How many Alaskans wearing furpieces does it take to reach Chicago Dusty
We'll never know on account of why would we want to reach Chicago?
He tries to grab 7th gear that thing must've been just pulling like a freight train
Don't we all try for one more gear, just to make sure we're at the top?
