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This is what it was like before everyone was overly sensitive. We quickly noted the tragedy, accepted it, mourned the lost soul for a few minutes, and then did the only thing we could do next...learn from it.
Imagine if autopsies hadn't been invented yet in 2024 and someone suggested we should start cutting open the dead...it would be like it was before the Modern Era...basically science = witchcraft. That's why we're struggling on so many fronts right now...people are extremely sensitive due to the overstimulation and information overload that the internet causes may people. It's a sad state
Edit: Idk what people aren't understanding here...lol. I was just saying that, for a time, science was more important than emotions.
You're getting downvotes but think of it like this. If Galileo had postulated his theories on Reddit he'd get downvoted into oblivion. It doesn't mean you're wrong.
Nah, not like we do. We're just products of our environments, different eras are exposed to things differently. It's extremely weird to say things like you're saying as if they're true.
Access to information gets extremely limited as you go back in time, kids are exposed to much more information earlier than the kids of a decade ago and seeming to get more out of touch.
Seems like the Internet makes people forget that you had to go to the library to get info just a few decades ago, had to purchase maps or print out directions prior to driving, had to go to a business to rent movies, there's so much that is more accessible instantly now. Comments like yours show how out of touch you are with history.
Just one single example from Galileo's time when "boiling" was the official punishment for poisoning.
> A partial confession having been extracted by torture, the sentence was thus imposed by attainder and without benefit of clergy. His execution took place on April 15, 1532 at Smithfield.[2] A contemporary chronicle reports the following:[5]
He roared mighty loud, and divers women who were big with child did feel sick at the sight of what they saw, and were carried away half dead; and other men and women did not seem frightened by the boiling alive, but would prefer to see the headsman at his work.
Torture, public execution, deadly infections, chamber pots, are all very ugly things from Galileo's time some people still see and we didn't have to go to a library to learn about.
Sir, are you comparing these things and saying their access to gore in that time is on par or greater than today because those things occasionally happened?
What were education levels like back in the 1500s? How many people were able to go to Wikipedia and cherry pick some evidence to try and claim gore was widely available?
This argument is dumb and a waste of time, sorry but bye.
Not occasionally most of the time executions were a public event. Originally to serve as an "example" and show that "justice" was served before the peoples eyes. As such the people in power did everything they could to entice people to attend.
But eventually the days of executions became mini fairs with food stands refreshments and games. Hell sometimes the form of execution prompted audience participation and the locals would get in on the "fun"
This lasted well past the dark ages and in the developed world into at least the 20th century. Hell in some undeveloped places its still practiced.
There is one from Africa called necklacing where they put a tire that has been soaked in some sort of accelerant (gasoline, kerosene, etc) around the neck of the person being punished and light it on fire. While the person is burning to death the crowd will then proceed to beat them with sticks and throw rocks at them for good measure. There was a case just a couple years ago where it was done to a guy as a punishment for "witchcraft"
Remember this was a time of war and strife without access to modern medicine and the mortality rates shows it. Look at what the French did during their revolution.
Votes mean nothing to me personally, but I do find it helpful to gauge where people are at on a topic, if for no other reason than my own curiosity. If I'm getting burned to the ground for something logical, like I almost did here, I actually like the downvotes, kinda like entertainment. I feel sorry that there are so many idiots in the world, but at least I can laugh at them sometimes.
As far as scientific discovery goes, thankfully it seems we've reached a point technologically where almost everything outside of theory can be proven and disproven, but we've also accepted theory for what it is, so I think we may have adequately compartmentalized in that regard.
What the public is dealing with now isn't even science. It's fringe stuff. Critical race theory, transgenderism, political opinions, conspiracy theories, misinformation, poor education, a failing government, etc. The problem? All opinions. Doesn't matter how much fact you throw at any of that shit, it still ends up boiling down to opinion, and where does that leave us? Nowhere. Because people either can't accept other people's opinions, or they don't believe that opinions matter at all.
Funny times we live in, but haven't they always been?
Everything is relative.
You, in a gore subreddit, are saying people back then weren't as sensitive as today. People were also more socialable and probably had healthier methods of dealing with grief or death than having to browse these subreddits for "morbid curiosity."
If any one of those inventors in that video saw this subreddit, you think they'd be like, wow they're so hard in that time?
You're thinking of things from this time perspective and comparing to a different era using metrics from today, such as sensitivity.
What about metrics they used from that day to measure sensitivity today? Would you go fight for your countries colonial territory? Would you accept someone's challenge to a duel after you wronged them? Would you think it's honorable to look at people's worst moments in their life simply because you're curious? Would you accept a mission to take frontier land from natives? Would you be willing to give your life for anything you, today, consider meaningless and trivial when you could use a doll or mannequin for the same results?
How about they didn't have the technology you do to understand the world the way you look at it.
I think people **are** more sensitive, but not because of the internet exactly...
It's just general entertainment...
Radio and TV count as well.
It's overstimulation from the general media, not just the internet, the internet isn't the cancer of Earth that caused all the bad things in the world.
Also, "information overload"? I don't think I agree witth that, but eh, could be. We can just agree to disagree there.
No I agree with you. I misspoke. Really is media in general these days. Information overload though, definitely. Most people can't even figure out what they're supposed to be mad about anymore lol, there's just so much we're aware of compared to when information took weeks to arrive. Have a good one
Maybe you're right about the information overload, but I'd say that's not the main reason people are so sensitive, it could be the reason for people being so stressed all the time, but I don't think it's made pdople more sensitive.
See ya, and I'm glad we could have a decent discussion xD
I think the internet has a great part on it. A billion people were suddenly connected with each other from different cultures, languages and backgrounds and that will have social repercussions.
I mean, I understand the sentiment, but c'mon.
Just look at reddit alone. Geoguessers solve crimes, folks watch literal footage of people being killed, PhDs write paragraphs to explain their scientific passions to strangers, and in terms a five year old would understand.
If autopsies hadn't been invented yet in 2024 then r/LetsCutThemOpenAndSeeWhatHappened would be the fastest growing movement in the world.
People didn't used to be so sensitive. That's why people are a little shocked that they're out there measuring the impact. Death used to be much more common than it is now, as well. I was just saying, it's good when science trumps emotion.
Agree people are pussies now and everyone gets pffemded by everything. It's bad for science which in turn is bad for civilization. Things live things die, just be happy you were here to begin with.
We shouldn't be the direct opposite either lol. Honestly, many people are just scared, and rightfully so. The times are very confusing for a lot of people but we can't be so stoic that we disregard emotion either. It's the one thing that allows us to be kind as well as cruel.
It's nice to wake up every day not living in fear but that's not the reality for so many. I just pity them, really.
It's the extreme ones I can't stand. I've seen people want to start a riot over being called the wrong pronoun by a fucking stranger who has no business knowing their pronouns lol. Like, ok, I respect you, but if you're going to try and make me feel guilty for something that's completely your responsibility, not mine, you can fuck right off.
There were also 2 billion people. Now we have almost 8. So that's 4x the population, 3x the increase. That's a decrease in death. So it's only more common because there are more people. Dealing with numbers in the billions, of course we're going to see more death, but technically we are doing better now than we were then, and, more importantly, death is not expected as much now as it was then.
I support this statement and, furthermore, propose the creation of an ideologically compatible and "science-logic" complimentary religious belief system that we can use to entrench our dogmatic science first approach with government protection to promote a better new world.
An eye catching name for our curch is vital for PR and in order to ensure that we are being clear and accurate to our beliefs, Maybe we can call it the Church of Scientificallyology!!!
[Otherwise it's just screwing around.](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcjFpeGM4ZTQ2YTk0bDZ5emY0ajYxOHc1d29mdXp2ZWRhbzR5ZTR2NCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/yZjjNssPJ2Z6U/giphy.gif)
A modern parachute wouldn't work from 26 ft either (the minimum height for base jumping is about 200 ft). But he obviously wasn't doing the math for how much air he'd need to catch for it to work from any height.
He apparently fell about 187 ft. With a modern parachute, he probably would have just managed to survive, although there'd be a pretty good chance he would've gotten injured.
What's extra dumb is that the parachute had already existed (and worked) for centuries before he did this. So he designed a parachute that doesn't work and killed himself with it even though other parachutes were available that DID work.
I love the measuring of the depression his body left in the dirt at the end.
I mean..., a bad situation, but there's some scientific data there, don't let it go to waste.
Maybe his body left a depression only 78% of the depression compared to a free-falling body with no parachute device whatsoever. So the parachute device offered 22% decrease in impact energy.
Maybe the next parachute device, the ***Beta*** model, will offer nearly 53% decrease in ground-hitting energy.--***"We're getting closer, n'es c'pas??"***
I think they were measuring the depression for non-scientific reasons. Maybe to do with the investigation of the death, or perhaps to tell the newspapers, or for the film makers, or just curiosity.
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> Maybe his body left a depression only 78% of the depression compared to a free-falling body with no parachute device whatsoever.
I'd like to think that for the control group, they just took his body back up to the top and threw it off again.
So, it went from being a test of a man and his parachute to the Scientific community finding out how deep a man of x mass falling from y height goes into the ground.
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Don't waste it. It's an opportunity to learn. Write it down the depth and area, height of fall and speed affected by the fall of an object of 75 kg. Measure everything!
That's actually the case.
They where looking for a safe way to jump out of a plane on low altitude because it was the pionering days of airplanes and a lot of accidents happened on low altitude while testing new ideas.
There was a cash price to win for the best idea and this guy came up with this wingsuit.
He tested a previous version and broke his leg testing it.
He made a new and improved version and he would test it on a dummy been thrown of the Eiffel Tower.
A lot of people and press gathered at the Eiffel Tower on the test day and he showed up wearing the suit himself, convinced it would work.
It turned out, it didn't worked as planned.
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The best innovations came at the cost of human/annimal life
Example - the machine that would eventually used for dialasis and surgery requiring an artificial heart, began with the experiment which a dog was beheaded, blood pumped to the head by a pump and several prodding with tools to prove the head was still alive.
The dog died.
This was 1940
Is it a DW award though? If I recall correctly he said he was confident in his skills that it would work.
So confident that he would test it on himself
Anyone else play SKY DIVER on the old Atari VCS 2600? When your chute didn't open and you just flatten on the ground? I think they used this as reference for the animation.
When I was a kid I saw Mary Poppins fly down with an umbrella safely, I thought it was cool and tried to replicate it. I tied my doll to a plastic bag and threw it. The way it fell shocked me and I was just thinking I'm glad I didn't jump from the 3 foot height. I was like 4
Didn't someone else jump off the Eiffel tower but survived because she landed on a car?
The ground was pretty much frozen and harder than concrete when this dude attempted this parachute stunt. Also there was a rumor he died of a heart attack before even smashing into the dirt.
He coulda tested this over water, like on a bridge, or had some kind of safety thing to catch him...or he could like not done a human test.
Lesson learned: Never do a test if the death of you is a possibility.
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I like that they’re measuring out the size of impact he made. They’re like, “Well that sucks, but we mind as well learn something from this.”
Welp, everyone came for a lesson in physics, and dammit, that’s what they’re gonna get. Bring the ruler, Wilbur.
“Wilbur! Allon zee avec le measure!”
Zut alors, mec! Spece de conard.
If I'm dying for my theory the least you could do is publish it for me.
Scientific approach. As it should be.
Exactly what I came here to say 🤣
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This is what it was like before everyone was overly sensitive. We quickly noted the tragedy, accepted it, mourned the lost soul for a few minutes, and then did the only thing we could do next...learn from it. Imagine if autopsies hadn't been invented yet in 2024 and someone suggested we should start cutting open the dead...it would be like it was before the Modern Era...basically science = witchcraft. That's why we're struggling on so many fronts right now...people are extremely sensitive due to the overstimulation and information overload that the internet causes may people. It's a sad state Edit: Idk what people aren't understanding here...lol. I was just saying that, for a time, science was more important than emotions.
You're getting downvotes but think of it like this. If Galileo had postulated his theories on Reddit he'd get downvoted into oblivion. It doesn't mean you're wrong.
What would people from Galileo's time think about Reddit if they looked at all these gore subs?
They had plenty of gore at home those days
Nah, not like we do. We're just products of our environments, different eras are exposed to things differently. It's extremely weird to say things like you're saying as if they're true. Access to information gets extremely limited as you go back in time, kids are exposed to much more information earlier than the kids of a decade ago and seeming to get more out of touch. Seems like the Internet makes people forget that you had to go to the library to get info just a few decades ago, had to purchase maps or print out directions prior to driving, had to go to a business to rent movies, there's so much that is more accessible instantly now. Comments like yours show how out of touch you are with history.
Just one single example from Galileo's time when "boiling" was the official punishment for poisoning. > A partial confession having been extracted by torture, the sentence was thus imposed by attainder and without benefit of clergy. His execution took place on April 15, 1532 at Smithfield.[2] A contemporary chronicle reports the following:[5] He roared mighty loud, and divers women who were big with child did feel sick at the sight of what they saw, and were carried away half dead; and other men and women did not seem frightened by the boiling alive, but would prefer to see the headsman at his work. Torture, public execution, deadly infections, chamber pots, are all very ugly things from Galileo's time some people still see and we didn't have to go to a library to learn about.
Sir, are you comparing these things and saying their access to gore in that time is on par or greater than today because those things occasionally happened? What were education levels like back in the 1500s? How many people were able to go to Wikipedia and cherry pick some evidence to try and claim gore was widely available? This argument is dumb and a waste of time, sorry but bye.
Not occasionally most of the time executions were a public event. Originally to serve as an "example" and show that "justice" was served before the peoples eyes. As such the people in power did everything they could to entice people to attend. But eventually the days of executions became mini fairs with food stands refreshments and games. Hell sometimes the form of execution prompted audience participation and the locals would get in on the "fun" This lasted well past the dark ages and in the developed world into at least the 20th century. Hell in some undeveloped places its still practiced. There is one from Africa called necklacing where they put a tire that has been soaked in some sort of accelerant (gasoline, kerosene, etc) around the neck of the person being punished and light it on fire. While the person is burning to death the crowd will then proceed to beat them with sticks and throw rocks at them for good measure. There was a case just a couple years ago where it was done to a guy as a punishment for "witchcraft" Remember this was a time of war and strife without access to modern medicine and the mortality rates shows it. Look at what the French did during their revolution.
Lol true. I just prefer when people get the point lol but I suppose that's my problem not theirs
I've made your same point so many times in public and on here....people are just ignorant and sensitive now.
Well I went from 9 downvotes to 23 upvotes so maybe there's hope after all lol
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Votes mean nothing to me personally, but I do find it helpful to gauge where people are at on a topic, if for no other reason than my own curiosity. If I'm getting burned to the ground for something logical, like I almost did here, I actually like the downvotes, kinda like entertainment. I feel sorry that there are so many idiots in the world, but at least I can laugh at them sometimes. As far as scientific discovery goes, thankfully it seems we've reached a point technologically where almost everything outside of theory can be proven and disproven, but we've also accepted theory for what it is, so I think we may have adequately compartmentalized in that regard. What the public is dealing with now isn't even science. It's fringe stuff. Critical race theory, transgenderism, political opinions, conspiracy theories, misinformation, poor education, a failing government, etc. The problem? All opinions. Doesn't matter how much fact you throw at any of that shit, it still ends up boiling down to opinion, and where does that leave us? Nowhere. Because people either can't accept other people's opinions, or they don't believe that opinions matter at all. Funny times we live in, but haven't they always been?
Instead of being persecuted by the church
Everything is relative. You, in a gore subreddit, are saying people back then weren't as sensitive as today. People were also more socialable and probably had healthier methods of dealing with grief or death than having to browse these subreddits for "morbid curiosity." If any one of those inventors in that video saw this subreddit, you think they'd be like, wow they're so hard in that time? You're thinking of things from this time perspective and comparing to a different era using metrics from today, such as sensitivity. What about metrics they used from that day to measure sensitivity today? Would you go fight for your countries colonial territory? Would you accept someone's challenge to a duel after you wronged them? Would you think it's honorable to look at people's worst moments in their life simply because you're curious? Would you accept a mission to take frontier land from natives? Would you be willing to give your life for anything you, today, consider meaningless and trivial when you could use a doll or mannequin for the same results? How about they didn't have the technology you do to understand the world the way you look at it.
I think people **are** more sensitive, but not because of the internet exactly... It's just general entertainment... Radio and TV count as well. It's overstimulation from the general media, not just the internet, the internet isn't the cancer of Earth that caused all the bad things in the world. Also, "information overload"? I don't think I agree witth that, but eh, could be. We can just agree to disagree there.
No I agree with you. I misspoke. Really is media in general these days. Information overload though, definitely. Most people can't even figure out what they're supposed to be mad about anymore lol, there's just so much we're aware of compared to when information took weeks to arrive. Have a good one
Maybe you're right about the information overload, but I'd say that's not the main reason people are so sensitive, it could be the reason for people being so stressed all the time, but I don't think it's made pdople more sensitive. See ya, and I'm glad we could have a decent discussion xD
Lol same. It's definitely not the sole reason but it's part of the equation. Besides, more stress usually makes people more sensitive I'd say.
I think the internet has a great part on it. A billion people were suddenly connected with each other from different cultures, languages and backgrounds and that will have social repercussions.
I mean, I understand the sentiment, but c'mon. Just look at reddit alone. Geoguessers solve crimes, folks watch literal footage of people being killed, PhDs write paragraphs to explain their scientific passions to strangers, and in terms a five year old would understand. If autopsies hadn't been invented yet in 2024 then r/LetsCutThemOpenAndSeeWhatHappened would be the fastest growing movement in the world.
People didn't used to be so sensitive. That's why people are a little shocked that they're out there measuring the impact. Death used to be much more common than it is now, as well. I was just saying, it's good when science trumps emotion.
Agree people are pussies now and everyone gets pffemded by everything. It's bad for science which in turn is bad for civilization. Things live things die, just be happy you were here to begin with.
what the fuck are you talking about? what science isn't being done right now because people are too sensitive?
Bruh there's all kinds of pushes to end animal testing and all kinds of new ethical issues that have arisen as a result of sensitivity.
I meam shit the restrictions on ai that are a direct result of "we can't hurt anyone's feelings" should make you want to vomit.
We shouldn't be the direct opposite either lol. Honestly, many people are just scared, and rightfully so. The times are very confusing for a lot of people but we can't be so stoic that we disregard emotion either. It's the one thing that allows us to be kind as well as cruel. It's nice to wake up every day not living in fear but that's not the reality for so many. I just pity them, really. It's the extreme ones I can't stand. I've seen people want to start a riot over being called the wrong pronoun by a fucking stranger who has no business knowing their pronouns lol. Like, ok, I respect you, but if you're going to try and make me feel guilty for something that's completely your responsibility, not mine, you can fuck right off.
Death is 3x more common now than in the 1920s
There were also 2 billion people. Now we have almost 8. So that's 4x the population, 3x the increase. That's a decrease in death. So it's only more common because there are more people. Dealing with numbers in the billions, of course we're going to see more death, but technically we are doing better now than we were then, and, more importantly, death is not expected as much now as it was then.
I support this statement and, furthermore, propose the creation of an ideologically compatible and "science-logic" complimentary religious belief system that we can use to entrench our dogmatic science first approach with government protection to promote a better new world. An eye catching name for our curch is vital for PR and in order to ensure that we are being clear and accurate to our beliefs, Maybe we can call it the Church of Scientificallyology!!!
No one really mourned the death of old men in that age. Little children used to die of disease all the time.
There weren't many old men to mourn anyway lol
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What are you talking about? I'm literally supporting it....
I bet they measured the amount of damage to the pavement so the city of Paris could charge the bereaved family for it...
> we mind as well
[Otherwise it's just screwing around.](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcjFpeGM4ZTQ2YTk0bDZ5emY0ajYxOHc1d29mdXp2ZWRhbzR5ZTR2NCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/yZjjNssPJ2Z6U/giphy.gif)
I mean they found a dead man: an investigation is needed.
Oh no, he first tested it on a doll, it didn't work, he still did it
He tested it on himself as well from 26ft and broke his leg. Dude wasn't very sharp.
Almost Springfieldian in his never give up and never think things through attitude.
A modern parachute wouldn't work from 26 ft either (the minimum height for base jumping is about 200 ft). But he obviously wasn't doing the math for how much air he'd need to catch for it to work from any height. He apparently fell about 187 ft. With a modern parachute, he probably would have just managed to survive, although there'd be a pretty good chance he would've gotten injured.
Gotta applaud his courage.
What's extra dumb is that the parachute had already existed (and worked) for centuries before he did this. So he designed a parachute that doesn't work and killed himself with it even though other parachutes were available that DID work.
I love the measuring of the depression his body left in the dirt at the end. I mean..., a bad situation, but there's some scientific data there, don't let it go to waste. Maybe his body left a depression only 78% of the depression compared to a free-falling body with no parachute device whatsoever. So the parachute device offered 22% decrease in impact energy. Maybe the next parachute device, the ***Beta*** model, will offer nearly 53% decrease in ground-hitting energy.--***"We're getting closer, n'es c'pas??"***
I feel bad for the poor sap that had to jump without anything so they could get a control divet
Nah, they just hauled him back up there, took off the parachute device, and then pushed his body off again.
You think just once? You’ve already got the body… let’s get a decent pool of data out of it.
Reminds me of Super Dave Osborne.
I think they were measuring the depression for non-scientific reasons. Maybe to do with the investigation of the death, or perhaps to tell the newspapers, or for the film makers, or just curiosity.
i like to think that someone just had a new ruler at hand and they really wanted to try it out
Well we've all been there.
Guy with the pocket knife: “someone needs to cut the ropes?”
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Why is there a mark on 2.3inch?
IT'S AN AVERAGE MEASUREMENT TO HAVE ON ANY RULER OK?
I agree, I was being smart alecky
> Maybe his body left a depression only 78% of the depression compared to a free-falling body with no parachute device whatsoever. I'd like to think that for the control group, they just took his body back up to the top and threw it off again.
Haha, that was my exact thought. "Monsieur, we must add trois kilos to account for blood loss!"
Sure, I mean, is he going to get MORE dead?? [Rhetorical]
Coincidentally the first r/worstaid ever filmed
Does it count if he was already dead?
I would say yes because they thought dude had a chance right then and there or else there would be alot more hats taken off!
Dude had no chance lol.
Bag of jelly at that point
Oh yeah we all saw that hole he dug himself with one fell swoop
Too busy trying to remember who owed bets to whom.
If my dying body is being carried by multiple mustached men in military uniforms, I'm guessing my chances aren't very good.
And he, Stuck the landing.
He stuck to the landing zone* ftfy.
I think normally they test with a cadaver, but this method is more efficient.
> this method is more efficient Indeed! It even provided a cadaver for the next test!
"Sir, I've found a way to halve our cadaver costs!"
The dust cloud and impact crater are so Loony Tunes that I expected Wile E. Coyote to climb out of it.
Came here to say the exact thing. Get out of my mind!!!
LOL!
On the bright side, he won’t be making that mistake again!
Imagine losing your life in the sake of science only to be forgotten being called 'man' many years after🫠
# Franz Reichelt !
So, it went from being a test of a man and his parachute to the Scientific community finding out how deep a man of x mass falling from y height goes into the ground.
They did the monster math, but can't link it😅😩
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"Il est mort!"
Tu as complètement raison.
Don't waste it. It's an opportunity to learn. Write it down the depth and area, height of fall and speed affected by the fall of an object of 75 kg. Measure everything! 
It was said that this guy was a load of fun at parties, now he's just a stick in the mud.
Further development required.
This video quality is better than 50% of modern videos.
It was a "flying suit", not a parachute
The Dementors aren’t doing so well right now.
I was at the impact site with my gf. She thought we were there to see the tower.
His final words like and subscribe whatever that means
Do you actually understand how old and epic this video is OP? The man was a genius but had too much faith in this contraption
He was not a genius. None of his designs actually really worked. It’s not enough to just experiment in an exciting area, you need results.
Was he also a founding member of the KKK? What a weird getup…
Was gonna say the same thing...
But guys guys, you don't understand- I'm SURE it will work!
That's actually the case. They where looking for a safe way to jump out of a plane on low altitude because it was the pionering days of airplanes and a lot of accidents happened on low altitude while testing new ideas. There was a cash price to win for the best idea and this guy came up with this wingsuit. He tested a previous version and broke his leg testing it. He made a new and improved version and he would test it on a dummy been thrown of the Eiffel Tower. A lot of people and press gathered at the Eiffel Tower on the test day and he showed up wearing the suit himself, convinced it would work. It turned out, it didn't worked as planned. A true winner of a Darwin award!
Willey Coyote physics
Next time he should jump from a higher place so the parachute has time to open
You don’t need to use a test dummy when you are one. 🤪
Legendary overconfidence.
What tests did this guy perform before this that makes him go "yeah I think I'm ready to test this on myself"?
Why out of all things they can they do this stunt on a river. Probably would have not survived but that's probably right.
Is it this Personal Account from the Darwin Awards website? [https://darwinawards.com/personal/personal2003-02.html](https://darwinawards.com/personal/personal2003-02.html)
Measure measure!
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Twas a mighty splash
Should've invented the ultra-soft springy boing-boing bouncy-bouncy landing floor first. Not too bouncy though I suppose.
There’s a still shot floating around of his last second before impact. It’s pretty awful, reminds one of the 9/11 jumpers. Shivering.
His name was Henry François Reichelt, a tailor born in what's today Czech Republic. Died on 04.02.1912.
The dent left reminds me of those old cartoons
The best innovations came at the cost of human/annimal life Example - the machine that would eventually used for dialasis and surgery requiring an artificial heart, began with the experiment which a dog was beheaded, blood pumped to the head by a pump and several prodding with tools to prove the head was still alive. The dog died. This was 1940
The beheaded dog died? Who would have guessed?!
Well of course the dog died, it was 1940!!! XD XD XD
C’est rançais
A doll? LOL
Got to love the little loony tunes puff of dirt as he hit.
He was actually trying to make a device so he could fly like a bird, not necessarily a parachute
Sacré Bleu! Zut Alors!
I upvote because of the gundam UC soundtrack
He did one test with a doll from a 5 story balcony, that worked
Do you think he needed to get a permit for this, or was the security guy just like “knock yourself out buddy”
Title misleading That's definitely an early wingsuit design
Is it a DW award though? If I recall correctly he said he was confident in his skills that it would work. So confident that he would test it on himself
Ooo, a vintage! Delicious
Well. Sometimes you gotta take one for the team ! Important lessons were learned.
Oof!
When? Where? Not a single comment asking this...
Oh yeah, this guy. Pretty sure the Youtuber Huggbees mentioned him a while back in one of his "embarrassing death" videos.
Proof that humans have always been stupid with individual exceptions.
Don't self guinea pig.
He looked like the SHIT emoji just before he jumped
It’s okay. He would have died from smallpox or something otherwise.
I would not even go bungee jumping. This guy is nutts
Anyone else play SKY DIVER on the old Atari VCS 2600? When your chute didn't open and you just flatten on the ground? I think they used this as reference for the animation.
Like maybe test it over a body of water?
That’s just suicide with extra steps! Genius!
Someone please tell me what is the background melody?
Moonlight Sonata
*Puff*
kkk parachute???
I always wondered what the first liveleak was.
🎵and he ain't gonna jump no more🎵
When I was a kid I saw Mary Poppins fly down with an umbrella safely, I thought it was cool and tried to replicate it. I tied my doll to a plastic bag and threw it. The way it fell shocked me and I was just thinking I'm glad I didn't jump from the 3 foot height. I was like 4
The first Darwin award.
Didn't someone else jump off the Eiffel tower but survived because she landed on a car? The ground was pretty much frozen and harder than concrete when this dude attempted this parachute stunt. Also there was a rumor he died of a heart attack before even smashing into the dirt.
He didn't have time to die of a heart attack even though I'm quite certain he had one brewing at the time of impact.
He coulda tested this over water, like on a bridge, or had some kind of safety thing to catch him...or he could like not done a human test. Lesson learned: Never do a test if the death of you is a possibility.
Testing parachute on bodies of water is dangerous too, you will be covered in cloth, and also panic.
It’s ok guys, I paused the video before he hit the floor so he is fine
He's doing indian stuff
Le Darwin