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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/28/skydiver-luke-aikins-jump-without-parachute-live-tv
"He's made 18,000 parachute jumps, helped train some of the world's most elite skydivers, done some of the stunts for Ironman 3. But the plunge Luke Aikins knows he'll be remembered for is the one he's making without a parachute. Or a wingsuit.
Or anything, really, other than the clothes he'll be wearing when he jumps out of an airplane at 25,000 feet [7600 m] this weekend, attempting to become the first person to land safely on the ground in a net."
[...] "To me, I'm proving that we can do stuff that we don't think we can do if we approach it the right way," he answers.
"I've got 18,000 jumps with a parachute, so why not wear one this time?" he muses almost to himself. "But I'm trying to show that it can be done."
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday July 29 2016, @05:23PM
Those nets were all hanging in the air, although at very low altitude. Jumping into a net lying on the ground might be new. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday July 29 2016, @06:03PM
It says the net is 20 stories high, and then not to try this at home, which made me wonder about the Fox viewership.
I might potentially consider thinking about studying the possibility to form a committee to analyse the eventuality of trying something like that. On the quietest wind-free day in history. If the net was hanging over that new Chinese radiotelescope. And they filled under it with dark chocolate mousse. And I had a parachute to open in case the approach looked wrong.
With a net "a third of a football field", I'm pretty sure I'll have a terrible sore throat on jump day.
(Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Friday July 29 2016, @06:36PM
You're just now starting to wonder about Fox viewers? I think it's been rather obvious for the last couple of decades that they make up the most gullible people in the world.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 3, Touché) by edIII on Friday July 29 2016, @06:43PM
It would be an excellent addition to the Redneck Olympics.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Friday July 29 2016, @07:25PM
Redneck Olympics:
Any event in which a contestant says, "Hey! Summbuddy hol' my beer, and y'all watch THIS!"
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @09:20PM
Redneck Olympics is (or was) an actual event.
Of course, they had to change the name after - and this is true - being threatened by the US Olympic Committee [telegraph.co.uk].
But, judging from your name, I'm sure you already knew that :)