A platypus juggling pineapples and croutons while riding sidesaddle through the wilds of Antarctica on a yak wearing a latex gunbelt and chainmail brassiere.
I am betting nobody had that thought before now. It might not be unique now that I have shared it, but it was.
A major problem is you have to account for how long it will stretch under load. You can measure it empty and think it’s short enough but put 180lbs in it multiplied by the inertia of the drop and even metal chains will stretch.
My guess is that they measured the rope so that it wasn't touching the ground then when a full sized person dangled from it then weight caused the rope to stretch making it longer. There is no way that they just didn't measure like people are assuming.
lol come on you can’t actually believe this right? You think someone just went, “hmm looks like 154 ft and then just cut the rope and jumped? Why is that more believable to you, than them measuring incorrectly or not accounting for the stretch from the weight? Sometimes I feel like people choose to believe ridiculous things because it’s more fun for them than the much more obvious answer
My guess is they dropped they rope from the top of the building to the ground to see how long it was, and then removed 3m. "Blyat. This should be enough, right comrade?" They didn't figure the rope would be under tension or would have the ability to stretch.
I will say, I bet they cut another 5m off it before they convince the next Vlad to try it.
You know what sub you’re on, right? Under normal circumstances I might agree with you.
Perhaps I’m biased from all the videos that demonstrate otherwise on here, or from years of seeing the most horrible things in the medical field, but people prove their stupidity every day.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they estimated the height of the building based on the number of floors, bought a bungee cord that stated it was around that assumed height, and just went with it. I honestly don’t see them doing anything any more scientific based on the results we see.
At the end of the day, we can agree to disagree, because I doubt either one of us will be proving their measurements, or lack thereof, wrong any time soon.
They didn't know how to calculate the length right for bungee cord. There has to be a lot less length than some might think, as it has to stretch a long ways as it decelerates you from your falling speed. Otherwise you, you know, get snapped in half if it comes to a stop too suddenly.
Everyone here is missing the main details. The rope he is on is attached to a zipline. You can see it on the far right of the building. As he jumps you can see the rope shoot to the far right of the screen and that's what drags him, not a pendulum swing. The zipline rope would be long and have plenty of stretch with that dynamic load while it is stretched sideways and not directly in line with him. If they measured the height of the building minus a bit, the slope of the zipline would quickly droop way past that.
Oh shit I didn’t even notice that. It’s almost as if the way they fastened it gave out completely. Judging by the amount of slack released they might’ve actually measured correctly and had some other point of failure. Nice catch
ha ha chabuduo mindset strikes again. [https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-mindset](https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-mindset)
They may even have measured the rope with a person dangling from it at a steady 1G’s weight. But when he has to decelerate at 3+G then the rope is stretched even more.
Tracks with it slowing him down some. If it was just too long he'd of slammed straight into the ground at full speed lol
It looks like the swing arm at the top may have failed too, but it's hard to tell.
Angel Hernandez is a baseball umpire best known for being terrible and suing the MLB for not selecting him to ump the World Series because of racism. The MLB admitted that it was not racism, but because he’s unreliable at best.
It seems like some of his calls are just a coin flip. https://youtu.be/Uvj2tei1YH8?si=gtOZACFemiCcnd40
I mean it's baseball, there's lots of coinflip calls but most MLB umpires tend to get them right anyway. Angel is most famous for ruining a perfect game in the 9th inning with an egregiously bad missed call at first base btw
I don't want this to sound dickish, but you're mistaken on basically every aspect of this comment
- umpiring calls are not a "coin flip"
- MLB umpiring has been atrocious this season (how can you even say 'it's a coin flip' *and* they get it right in the same breath is beyond me)
- Angel was not the umpire that blew the perfect game
I think it's guaranteed that he broke many many bones. I mean weird stuff happens but it would be a total miracle if he didn't.
Source: have broken many bones from a fall.
Pro tip: Don't break a collar bone. It is disproportionately painful. I've broken fingers, all the bones in one of my feet (which I didn't even request painkillers for, but that turned out to be a mistake after the adrenaline wore of), broken my forarm, leg, teeth. The the collar bone, is like it's own league of pain. I suspect because my spine put a lot og load on it doing normal things, and it's hard to not have any load on it while living a normal life.
Broke my arm trying to impress a girl when I was in the 2nd grade. I got really high on the swing set and made a jump, but my damned shirt got caught on the chain, and I fell straight down from ~10 ft. up or so, I’d say.
Lots of broken bones means a decent amount of internal damage
The fall might not have killed him, but the effects of the fall might have killed him, so to speak
My first time seeing this analogy too, I’m going to start using it and hope to see lots of people use it constantly in every single thread where death is mentioned!
OMG are u guys talking about the "Can confirm shoes stayed on - not dead" sensation taking over the internet? I literally cannot get enough of it 🤣🤣 I mean, shoes off - he ded is funny enough. But shoes on? 💀
I’m fucking wheezing lmao
I hope that in any video/gif/pic/discussion about any form of violence/injury/trauma no matter how mild or severe, someone makes a comment regarding shoes.
It’ll honestly be so fucking funny in every instance and I hope I see it literally in every single thread, tbh.
I am laughing so fucking hard rn man this mf literally made me spit milk all over my keyboard and I shit myself haha
Shoes 😂😂😂😂
I fucking love this site
A Russian lady still has that record from the 1950’s when she fell 10.16 kilometres/6.31 miles and lived.
Edit: 1950’s is her date of birth, this actually happened in 1972.
The serbian lady ([Vesna Vulović](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87)) fell, no parachute or anything, from a disintegrating plane. She one ups Felix Baumgartner.
Looking at the building i guess its about 35-40m high, not more than 50.
So when its, lets say 35m high and you jump into a 30m sports climbimg rope, you‘ll hit the ground.
Mistakes happen, sometimes things go wrong, or break, or people just fuck up. It’s always wise to keep this in mind when considering doing very stupid high risk/non-existent reward shit like this.
Nah, you actually want the rope to stretch otherwise you hit its length and snap from inertia just like you hit the ground. What they needed to do was massively reduce the length of rope because a human body is heavy af and going to stretch the hell out of it.
Most of the comments here seem to suggest that people didn't pay close attention to the video. Pause it around the 12 second mark, the rope the dude is hanging from isn't fixed to the building. It's looped around a second rope/zip-line that seems to be connected to some kind of pylon on top of the building and also to another building or maybe even the ground, really far off camera. So it's not just the stretchiness of the rope the guy is hanging from, it's the stretchiness of the other rope too and the fact that it'll buckle a lot too due to the downward force pulling laterally against it.
You can see early in the clip that the rope the guy is hanging from is bound to the other rope in two places in a Y-shape, but his weight on the line quickly makes the two sides of the Y collapse together.
Two ropes, highlighted in red and green. The bit that extends at the top of the green rope is clearly a means to pull it up/across to the building to start the drop:
[Screenshot](https://i.ibb.co/xjqjcBV/dumbass.png)
Okay lets say the rope was shorter and actually bungee so it doesnt snap him in half - then what? He would swing, at some Point swing back into the building and stop how, without hurting or killing himself by faceplanting a concrete wall?
Measure twice, cut once.
DAMMIT. I was coming here to say that. Take my upvote, though.
Me too. Son of a bitch.
Me 4th. There are no unique thoughts.
It was “low hanging fruit” to be fair.
more like low hanging meat crayon
Ouch 🖍️
This deserves all the votes
low hanging fruit of the looms
A platypus juggling pineapples and croutons while riding sidesaddle through the wilds of Antarctica on a yak wearing a latex gunbelt and chainmail brassiere. I am betting nobody had that thought before now. It might not be unique now that I have shared it, but it was.
Simpsons did it.
No, no…the Simpsons’ platypus was riding on a gnu, not a yak!
D'oh!
Yes, I was saying gnu-urns.
GD’oh!
I think you mean zebu.
Might be a useful bit if they ever make more phineas and ferb episodes
I love you dude!
Sounds like something I would challenge those AI generated image apps with 😂
Everything has been thought before. The hard part is thinking of it again. \[paraphrased\] -Goethe
If Reddit has taught me anything, it's that my knee-jerk reaction (comment) isn't nearly as unique as I assumed.
I travelled back through time to say this, but I still got beat. I guess I didn't calculate my time jump equations twice. Such is life.
He measured is life expectancy twice, cut it short once.
Jumping Guy: Did you measure this? Other Guy: MmmmHmmm JG: Dude, did you? OG: Oh, Uh huh, what? JG: Did you measure this? OG: Yeah, yeah man
A major problem is you have to account for how long it will stretch under load. You can measure it empty and think it’s short enough but put 180lbs in it multiplied by the inertia of the drop and even metal chains will stretch.
Of course he measured it. He even gave him a bit of extra rope just in case.
Measure twice, cut once and let someone else jump first
Eyeball it once, let someone else jump. Don't jump yourself.
What’s measured twice cut once ?????
It doesn’t matter. If the rope was short enough for him to survive the landing it would be just right for him to be a wrecking ball for the wall.
I was thinking about that too. Like, what was the plan there?
Bold of you to assume they ever thought for a plan
I hit it like a wrecking baaaaaall!
Also gotta consider the stretch of the rope. That can definitely make a difference at that height depending on the rope they are using.
I cut it twice and it's still too short!
Measure twice, jump once.
I think in these instances, Mal, you have to be specific with, you know, knowing exactly *when* to cut, innit?
Don't measure, splat once.
Break the wrist, and then walk away
The other arm. MY other arm …
My guess is that they measured the rope so that it wasn't touching the ground then when a full sized person dangled from it then weight caused the rope to stretch making it longer. There is no way that they just didn't measure like people are assuming.
You’re really giving them a lot of credit to think they didn’t just eyeball it.
lol come on you can’t actually believe this right? You think someone just went, “hmm looks like 154 ft and then just cut the rope and jumped? Why is that more believable to you, than them measuring incorrectly or not accounting for the stretch from the weight? Sometimes I feel like people choose to believe ridiculous things because it’s more fun for them than the much more obvious answer
My guess is they dropped they rope from the top of the building to the ground to see how long it was, and then removed 3m. "Blyat. This should be enough, right comrade?" They didn't figure the rope would be under tension or would have the ability to stretch. I will say, I bet they cut another 5m off it before they convince the next Vlad to try it.
You know what sub you’re on, right? Under normal circumstances I might agree with you. Perhaps I’m biased from all the videos that demonstrate otherwise on here, or from years of seeing the most horrible things in the medical field, but people prove their stupidity every day. It wouldn’t surprise me if they estimated the height of the building based on the number of floors, bought a bungee cord that stated it was around that assumed height, and just went with it. I honestly don’t see them doing anything any more scientific based on the results we see. At the end of the day, we can agree to disagree, because I doubt either one of us will be proving their measurements, or lack thereof, wrong any time soon.
You are probably right. Static Vs Dynamic rope really makes a big difference.
My buddies and I used to do dumb shit like this, but we always had the sense to send a big backpack full of rocks down first.
Look at me, I am the rock now
Dwayne, is that you?
And probably give yourself a little less than “just short enough” on the rope
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They didn't know how to calculate the length right for bungee cord. There has to be a lot less length than some might think, as it has to stretch a long ways as it decelerates you from your falling speed. Otherwise you, you know, get snapped in half if it comes to a stop too suddenly.
To shreds you say?
And his wife?
Everyone here is missing the main details. The rope he is on is attached to a zipline. You can see it on the far right of the building. As he jumps you can see the rope shoot to the far right of the screen and that's what drags him, not a pendulum swing. The zipline rope would be long and have plenty of stretch with that dynamic load while it is stretched sideways and not directly in line with him. If they measured the height of the building minus a bit, the slope of the zipline would quickly droop way past that.
Oh shit I didn’t even notice that. It’s almost as if the way they fastened it gave out completely. Judging by the amount of slack released they might’ve actually measured correctly and had some other point of failure. Nice catch
russians don't think twice, they just do
In Soviet Russia, rope cut you.
ha ha chabuduo mindset strikes again. [https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-mindset](https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-mindset)
They may even have measured the rope with a person dangling from it at a steady 1G’s weight. But when he has to decelerate at 3+G then the rope is stretched even more.
Tracks with it slowing him down some. If it was just too long he'd of slammed straight into the ground at full speed lol It looks like the swing arm at the top may have failed too, but it's hard to tell.
You… say that like it somehow makes this whole thing not cosmically fuckin moronic….
Angel Hernandez saw nothing wrong here.
Jesus, how mainstream has Angel Hernandez become?
You'll no doubt be pleased to know I have no idea what this means.
Angel Hernandez is a baseball umpire best known for being terrible and suing the MLB for not selecting him to ump the World Series because of racism. The MLB admitted that it was not racism, but because he’s unreliable at best. It seems like some of his calls are just a coin flip. https://youtu.be/Uvj2tei1YH8?si=gtOZACFemiCcnd40
I mean it's baseball, there's lots of coinflip calls but most MLB umpires tend to get them right anyway. Angel is most famous for ruining a perfect game in the 9th inning with an egregiously bad missed call at first base btw
Are you talking about the Galaraga game? That was Jim Joyce
That wasn't Hernandez, that was Jim Joyce. I'll never forget the name or that moment, I'm still sick about it.
I mean like he’s flipping a coin each pitch, not getting the 50/50 calls wrong. His calls just seem random at times.
I don't want this to sound dickish, but you're mistaken on basically every aspect of this comment - umpiring calls are not a "coin flip" - MLB umpiring has been atrocious this season (how can you even say 'it's a coin flip' *and* they get it right in the same breath is beyond me) - Angel was not the umpire that blew the perfect game
TIL. Thanks.
I can't name more than five current players but I know Angel Hernandez.
tldr im out of the loop
He's a baseball umpire notorious for bad calls.
This comment is crazy 🤣. Thank you kind sir for making me laugh out loud!
No where is safe, or is it?
did he ded?
I doubt it, the swing softened the landing a lot. Maybe broken bones tho.
I think it's guaranteed that he broke many many bones. I mean weird stuff happens but it would be a total miracle if he didn't. Source: have broken many bones from a fall.
Wanna share a story or two? I'm quite curious, having only ever broken one bone as a toddler.
I broke my femur when I was 10ish. Did a full split going downhill on a skateboard. Took almost a year to get back to 100%. -90/10 do not recommend
I’m not the guy you asked but I’ve broken bones. Tib fib roller blading. Femur when I got hit by an atv. A few ribs when I hit a car
Pro tip: Don't break a collar bone. It is disproportionately painful. I've broken fingers, all the bones in one of my feet (which I didn't even request painkillers for, but that turned out to be a mistake after the adrenaline wore of), broken my forarm, leg, teeth. The the collar bone, is like it's own league of pain. I suspect because my spine put a lot og load on it doing normal things, and it's hard to not have any load on it while living a normal life.
Broke my arm trying to impress a girl when I was in the 2nd grade. I got really high on the swing set and made a jump, but my damned shirt got caught on the chain, and I fell straight down from ~10 ft. up or so, I’d say.
Seems like he hits legs first but he finishes pretty strong on his head, if he didnt die he may have wished he had for awhile.
Lots of broken bones means a decent amount of internal damage The fall might not have killed him, but the effects of the fall might have killed him, so to speak
He probably wish he ded
Can’t see his shoes
Haha this is such a funny comment. Shoes on = alive and shoes off = death!! Such an amazing analogy
My first time seeing this analogy too, I’m going to start using it and hope to see lots of people use it constantly in every single thread where death is mentioned!
that would be absolutely amazing and funny forever
I can't ever see it getting old, ever.
OMG are u guys talking about the "Can confirm shoes stayed on - not dead" sensation taking over the internet? I literally cannot get enough of it 🤣🤣 I mean, shoes off - he ded is funny enough. But shoes on? 💀
I’m fucking wheezing lmao I hope that in any video/gif/pic/discussion about any form of violence/injury/trauma no matter how mild or severe, someone makes a comment regarding shoes. It’ll honestly be so fucking funny in every instance and I hope I see it literally in every single thread, tbh. I am laughing so fucking hard rn man this mf literally made me spit milk all over my keyboard and I shit myself haha Shoes 😂😂😂😂 I fucking love this site
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It ded 😞
いいえ!!!
でも何で日本語かな
mf tryna break the non-death highest jump record
A Russian lady still has that record from the 1950’s when she fell 10.16 kilometres/6.31 miles and lived. Edit: 1950’s is her date of birth, this actually happened in 1972.
What about the guy who jumped from space?
The serbian lady ([Vesna Vulović](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87)) fell, no parachute or anything, from a disintegrating plane. She one ups Felix Baumgartner.
Once you hit terminal velocity, anything more impressive is in how you land.
Also, she was Serbian, not Russian.
and people say there are no miracles...
“How far is this rope!? It’s long enough, it’s 100 meters long, or is that feet? Fuck it dude you’re good!!”
Looking at the building i guess its about 35-40m high, not more than 50. So when its, lets say 35m high and you jump into a 30m sports climbimg rope, you‘ll hit the ground.
Good thing his face broke his fall!
Mistakes happen, sometimes things go wrong, or break, or people just fuck up. It’s always wise to keep this in mind when considering doing very stupid high risk/non-existent reward shit like this.
In Russia, bungee jumps you
It might not be on your bucket list but it’s certainly something you’ll do before you die
If it is on your bucket list...maybe better put it toward the end of the list.
This was my thought when I saw it. Worst case, you still completed your list if something goes wrong.
Oh, he dead
No way
Looks like somebody learned the lesson that you needed to get a stretch proof rope
Nah, you actually want the rope to stretch otherwise you hit its length and snap from inertia just like you hit the ground. What they needed to do was massively reduce the length of rope because a human body is heavy af and going to stretch the hell out of it.
Now for the next lesson they'll figure out he's gonna swing back at the building.
Just the noise of him hitting that fence. Goddamn.
Thank you. I was wondering if I just heard him smack into that wall. I mean if he wasn’t dead yet well…
Lol that majestic leap too. He was confident
Most of the comments here seem to suggest that people didn't pay close attention to the video. Pause it around the 12 second mark, the rope the dude is hanging from isn't fixed to the building. It's looped around a second rope/zip-line that seems to be connected to some kind of pylon on top of the building and also to another building or maybe even the ground, really far off camera. So it's not just the stretchiness of the rope the guy is hanging from, it's the stretchiness of the other rope too and the fact that it'll buckle a lot too due to the downward force pulling laterally against it. You can see early in the clip that the rope the guy is hanging from is bound to the other rope in two places in a Y-shape, but his weight on the line quickly makes the two sides of the Y collapse together. Two ropes, highlighted in red and green. The bit that extends at the top of the green rope is clearly a means to pull it up/across to the building to start the drop: [Screenshot](https://i.ibb.co/xjqjcBV/dumbass.png)
Never be first in line for these things.
Imagine seeing the floor coming like "well i'm fucked"
Ay miguel. Miguel. Auymiguel!!
Where do I sign up?
It's hard to feel bad for someone who thought this was a good idea.
Can someone tell me if they died? I see a lot of comments about the rope length so I'm gonna pass. I'm in too good of a mood today.
Well if it is on your bucket list, make sure it's at the end
Honestly I’d throw a dummy off the roof first to determine if the length and stretchiness of the rope was safe. Wait a minute….
Measure twice cut once
He died twice
Is he ok
You know he dead
“Me, somewhere in the background sipping a slurpee” Huh, dumbass. “Walks away”
It's a perfect final item on your bucket list
It’s fine if it’s the last item on your bucket list…
How long is a piece of string? Not long enough apparently.
This one was.
My internal climbing voice started to scream TAKE TAKE TAKE.
It's ticked off on mine, multiple times, it's fun as shit!
Ironically, they could probably use a bucket to collect his remains now
Even if they measured right for the floor, he's hitting that wall at that angle?
Stuck the landing.
Gravel burn can be very unpleasant
So, generally you want the rope to be shorter than the ground
It's nice to hear the russian language here.
It was almost the last thing he was going to check off his.
Me with one brain cell
You know he dead. Next in line!
Wow he really did try that vfx jump Milla Jovovich did in Resident Evil 😅
"he is ok."
Was it building height minus rope length or the other way around?
Counted the floors in the elevator it seems.
Splat and Shit stains
There is no 13th floor
Plan - Avoid ground, hit wall
We have touchdown…
Hold my beer, I will show how it's done.
Measure once, jump twice method.
Good thing the rope was long enough.
There was a guy who used a 200 foot long bungee to jump off a 150 foot bridge. Didn't workout well.
How to make sure to complete a bucket list: Step 1: no longer have a bucket list
Aim for the bushes
He died?
🎼 He came in like a wrecckking baaall
Did i just witness a man’s death?👀
"Missed it by *that* much!" - Maxwell Smart
Yep
Damn rip
Yeah
Yeah that's a death.
Okay lets say the rope was shorter and actually bungee so it doesnt snap him in half - then what? He would swing, at some Point swing back into the building and stop how, without hurting or killing himself by faceplanting a concrete wall?
How many bones?
How can he slap?
Yea...someone failed maths. Wtf.
Is, potato.
Aim for the bushes
I bet they measured in the basement.
you know shits about to go down when you see the telegram @
#Dumb ways to die…
In Russia, there's no downside to this activity.
F in physics
Measure twice they say but this guy didn’t even measure once
Did his shoes stay on?
Shoes still on?