Questions tagged [parachutes]

While googling about Ben Goldacre, I came across the following reductio ad absurdum argument: Nerd, can you point me to the data that shows that wearing a parachute increases your life expectancy when jumping out of a plane? You see, someone…

Just saw in a movie, a guy jumped off a building using a lawn umbrella as a parachute. Would that work in reality?

In this video and this article skydiver attempts to jump without a parachute. I can see in the video that his front(stomach) is bigger and possibly hiding something. Did he have the parachute hidden in the front and planning to open only in case…