And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Right. And I (barely) lived to talk about it, but I'd never jump out of a plane again. Now BASE jumping, I might try that if the conditions were right.
I have some 250 skydives from back in the days when sex was safe and skydiving was dangerous, and I wouldn't touch this with the proverbial ten footer. Tiny, tiny margins for error. A good way to die young.
jumped/ejected out of broken/burning/exploding airplanes some time ago(45 years ago?) what a panic. even training/confidence jumps accelerated the heart rate. Jumping off a cliff is not even on my list of viable survival tactics. Punching out of a burning POS that's trying it's best to kill you before crossing the hard deck is a different thing altogether.
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ReplyDeleteUh Uh. Nope. Nada. You wouldn't even get me up there.
ReplyDeleteNah, nope and aw HELL no!
ReplyDeleteNo different than jumping out of the back of a C-130.
ReplyDeleteRight. And I (barely) lived to talk about it, but I'd never jump out of a plane again. Now BASE jumping, I might try that if the conditions were right.
DeleteI have some 250 skydives from back in the days when sex was safe and skydiving was dangerous, and I wouldn't touch this with the proverbial ten footer. Tiny, tiny margins for error. A good way to die young.
DeleteIt's a great spot for a base jump.
ReplyDeleteTrump wins, Hollywood snowflakes jump but don't pull chute
ReplyDeleteQUICKER WITHOUT A BACKPACK.
ReplyDeletejumped/ejected out of broken/burning/exploding airplanes some time ago(45 years ago?) what a panic. even training/confidence jumps accelerated the heart rate.
ReplyDeleteJumping off a cliff is not even on my list of viable survival tactics. Punching out of a burning POS that's trying it's best to kill you before crossing the hard deck is a different thing altogether.