Apples - oranges.
The ratio of of risk vs return when flying to space is quite different(although everybody fixed on the top of a rocket will piss in his diaper and there's no way to avoid it ;))
If fact I know an astronaut still waiting for an ISS assignment. This guy is boring as hell. Another guy working ESA, training astronauts, on the other hand is one of the most interesting and funniest persons I've ever met.


Makes me wonder how anyone can be happy facing death. :confused:

There's a reason I dont ride motorcycles - the problem is not hitting a tree at 150mph, although likely - but ending up in wheelchair, or even worse as a tetraplegic.
Hm -maybe I'll get one anyway, at least before I turn 40, lol.


edit: Just found:

http://vimeo.com/29017795

I didn't expect people to be so up tight about what this guy does. I don't fly a wingsuit, but when I see the guys that do (succesfully!!), I feel nothing but awe and envy for what they do on a daily basis.

Braindead? No. A good brain is a requirement I'd say. They plan their routes, don't just fling themselves of cliffs. Not just that, but the level of concentration required to constantly adjust your flightpath travelling at such high speed and proximity to solid rock is huge.

It can't be about wanting to die, or hating life. Otherwise, they'd jump without the parachute.

S!

Everyone gets their rush out of something so why condemn these wingsuit guys. Professionally done it looks great but if someone fails..well..you know what happens and public opinion goes berserk. I sticked to parachuting...was enough thrill for me :-) Now with age..well..less dangerous hobbies :-)

big balls? i call that an old sissy man

evry 6 days out of sevne a guy comes and tell him not to fly cause he is gonna die or get maimed

that guy is just a very old man so death inside that not even with this he gets 80 pulsation

im a kid and i get 80 just writing this and playing up to 130

in fact i stimate my medium age is like 7 or something and actually my most pleasurable high was in a dream as i was a samurai and facing two guys one of them killed me

my meories are carved in the stars

I found the prototype wingsuit today - jump and all...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3x...layer_embedded

This man had great faith in his own invention. Strangely his testicals were normal. Pretty strange you would do this from a static "low" object considering the parachute is available. It reminds me of Hans-Ulrich Rudel's book STUKA pilot, he jumps as a kid out of an upstairs window with an umbrella - breaking both legs.

Here's Jokke Sommer's new film for those that are interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmlAW...ature=youtu.be

Jeb talks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8yPxQGTSRA

It's really no different to what motivates these guys ...

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=29433

Yeah I apologized about what I said of him being an old sissy man, I was influenced by madness

I wished I had the braveness to do that

Those that have truly lived can happily face death.

--Outlaw.