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Here's a guy who jumped out of a plane with no parachute, no wingsuit, nothing.

He aimed for a large 100 foot by 100 foot net set up on the ground, succeeded in hitting it... and walked away with no injuries.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/natio...story.html

According to Wikipedia, the terminal velocity for a falling human at sea level is about 120 mph.

I thought they were gonna air that on TV tonight. I'm glad he made it. But he's a nut for doin it.

(Jul 31, 2016 03:08 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Here's a guy who jumped out of a plane with no parachute, no wingsuit, nothing.

He aimed for a large 100 foot by 100 foot net set up on the ground, succeeded in hitting it... and walked away with no injuries.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/natio...story.html

According to Wikipedia, the terminal velocity for a falling human at sea level is about 120 mph.

I had in mind that it was something like 10 foot by 10 foot.  100 by 100 would make much more sense to me.  National Public Radio did well by editing the story I saw on their Website since I had heard on air a seemingly crazy small figure of 100 square feet.