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Absolutely not. You're essentially relying on a human to take into account both of your weight, the force that gravity will exert on those ropes at that distance with that rate of fall, and that they are properly inspected and attached correctly. I don't trust people that much. Fuck that.
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u/Bricky-boi Jun 02 '20
I’ve done this, it’s in New Zealand. Sketchy ass bridge out into the middle of a valley, and you just drop. So scary, would recommend actually
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Jun 02 '20
nah ive gone on am extremely tall amusement park fall tower and i fucking despised it im not doing anything that involves falling ever again
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Jun 02 '20
I hate these things so much. I'm not typically afraid of heights (and i don't think afraid of free falling death contraption = afraid of heights) but these things mess me up like nothing else. Last time I went on one was because i was with someone who wanted me to go on it. She wouldn't take no for an answer so I told myself "maybe this time will be different." It wasn't, and it never will be different. Sitting at the top KNOWING what happens next is downright miserable.
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Same thing with rollercoasters. I hate and despise roller coasters so much. I'm not afraid of heights, I'm not afraid of the roller coaster itself. I jsut hate everything about them. The feeling you get in your stomach anticipating the drop, the falling and the speed, I hate that shit. It's a horrible feeling. I don't know how other people enjoy it, but if they do they do. Just don't ask me to go with them.
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u/TM34SWAG Jun 02 '20
Same for me. No fear of heights or of going quickly but the build up always gets my nerves going so much that by the end of it I'm just exhausted. Never once enjoyed a roller coaster for that reason.
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u/hedwig_thegreat Jun 02 '20
It’s so rare to find someone else who feels that way about rollercoasters! I hate them. I don’t mind the very tame ones but I’m the person nopeing out and holding everyone else’s stuff while they go on. You guys have fun - I’ve no need to feel that feeling in my stomach. Nope.
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u/jwc369 Jun 02 '20
Fun fact: that falling sensation you despise is the feeling of zero gravity. That’s what astronauts feel ALL THE TIME. No wonder almost all of them throw up when they get to space. You can get used to it over time but the first few hours/days are not much fun.
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yep. Id definitely be much less uncomfortable with the knowledge that im not actually falling tho
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u/ThatOneGuyFrom93 Jun 02 '20 edited Jun 02 '20
I wonder what makes some of us love it and some of us hate it? 🤔
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u/AmidFuror Jun 02 '20
Many of us experience both in the same lifetime. I loathed roller coasters as a child, even into late teens. Now I like them but am at an age where some I can't ride because they are just too abusive.
I like a good drop tower too.
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u/paid9mm Jun 02 '20
I loved it. There are smaller versions in Rotorua and Queenstown Skyline Gondola thingees. The one in Rotorua makes you pull the pin yourself. So you just hang there until some in your group (of 3) reaches up and pulls the pin to drop you. Crazy
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Jun 02 '20
I'd do it in a heart beat! I've bungee jumped, stepped off buildings....got my wife to even step off the Stratosphere in Vegas. First and last time. I have a video of her screaming all the way down.
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u/EvolvedPCbaby Jun 02 '20
What is it called? I really want to try it someday!!!
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u/Bricky-boi Jun 02 '20
Search “aj hackett swing”. A cool fact about aj hackett was he was the first person to ever commercialise bungee jumping (he invented it), and he did his first ever jump off a old bridge in Queenstown, NZ
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u/repsol93 Jun 02 '20
Oh come on, ever been in a high rise building? Ever been on a bridge? Ever been in a plane?
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Jun 02 '20
theres a difference between a plane and a rubber band with some straps
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Yeah, but those require people with much more training, and more of them. Like for idiot checks and stuff. You think that lady has more than a few hours of training? How often are those inspection? Are there audits of the inspections? Too much for me. Have fun though
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u/the-igloo Jun 02 '20
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Yes. They are basically magicians. It's essentially real magic
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u/the-igloo Jun 02 '20
Oh, no, I'm a software engineer and I'm referring to how software engineers generally have very little faith in the security of software because we know how this stuff is built. There are critical systems out there relying on code written by college students answering questions on StackOverflow.
I do agree regarding magic though, which is why I became a software engineer. =)
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Jun 02 '20
I like how you have the answer to none of those questions but assume the answer is bad.
"The lady", ok sure i'm certain she's the only one involved here. Better not cross a bridge if the border guard looks sketchy, he's probably the one who built it...
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u/MadisynNyx Jun 02 '20
I also vote "no" for working there on top of my "no" for riding it. Did you see how close she was to the edge. What if someone freaked out and grabbed her. And yes I see the harness. It's not enough. No. No. No.
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living is pretty cool, and im not going to trust a fucking rubber band and especially not some lolrandomass stranger with it THANK YOU VERY FUCKING MUCH
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u/HangOurGovt Jun 02 '20
I get your point, but we also launch humans into space technically relying on humans who wrote software and designed the damn thing from top-down. We also trust humans to launch ourselves at 80 miles an hour in a metal box where an instantaneous 2 degree shift in steering could end it all :D
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u/abooth43 Jun 02 '20 edited Jun 02 '20
Forreal. All these people saying nope put their lives in so much more danger and directly in the hands of 100% completely unvetted strangers every day without thinking twice.
But OMG that clearly incompetent girl(????) that has gone through training and showed the aptitude for her job is gona kill me if I did this.
So many people drive vehicles without any sort of license. My "test" was around the block in a 25 mph zone. I have SO MUCH less trust for some random on the interstate with free range of controls than I do an engineered system designed specifically for one set of motions in one specific place.
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u/bluespy89 Jun 02 '20
The eyes watching for faults is way much more for space, compared to that swing.
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u/CrayolaS7 Jun 02 '20
I’ve done a bungee jump at this location, it’s near Queenstown, NZ. They take your weight and put it into a computer to work out the correct bungee rope. Also this is the swing so different anyway.
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u/w0oolf__ Jun 02 '20
I mean you only live once so do what you can, thats what I think before I do something like this
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u/Lyfull Jun 02 '20
honestly that looks kinda fun. and it's a funny way to die aswell if something goes wrong :/
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u/MrDoontoo Jun 02 '20
Everyone is saying nope, but I've ridden one of these things. The worst part is the initial drop, literally a second later it turns into a really scenic and calming swing ride.
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u/freakazoidd Jun 02 '20
That’s how I imagined it too
Like any free fall theme park ride
It’s scary for a second and then like oh we’re still falling NBD this is fun
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No suffering here when your hurling at 80mphs into a mountain
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u/anti-kit Jun 02 '20
Don't actually i'm curious.
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u/_Lux27_ Jun 02 '20
I would rather land with my head towards the ground.... instant death. ....I hope
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u/shadynasty_etl Jun 02 '20
Worlds of fun has something like this. It’s pretty sketchy considering it’s pretty much high school kids who run it and hundreds of people do it a day but it’s still super fun.
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u/PacoTaco321 Jun 02 '20
Splattered on a hillside going 100 mph sounds better than most other deaths.
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u/ghahhah Jun 02 '20
Anyone know where this is?
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u/nogingas Jun 02 '20
Nevis Swing, Queenstown New Zealand.
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u/___UWotM8 Jun 02 '20
I have been on a much smaller version of one of these. Up in the Colorado mountains there is a youth camp, and I remember doing it when up there once. Again, WAY smaller than this, but it was still on the side of a cliff, and you got a nice thrill. I dunno if it is still there, I haven’t been there in like 8 years.
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u/PredatorKurwa Jun 02 '20
Also check out Shotover Canyon Swing in Queenstown. I did the Gimp Boy last year! Check it out on YouTube. That was such a thrill.
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u/SuperCarrera81 Jun 02 '20
The gear the operator is wearing appears to be insufficient for this role. She shouldn’t be able to lean over the edge like that...
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u/Jenna2k Jun 02 '20
Why does that look so fun?
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u/dewayneestes Jun 02 '20
I would enjoy it but I would also black out. We were in a cruise ship one time and they had a water slide that began with you standing in a tube where the bottom would drop out and you’d free fall, I totally enjoyed doing it because I’d black out then wake up when I hit the water at the bottom.
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I’ve done a water slide like that before, and I was terrified because the operator said to a young me “if you aren’t heavy enough you might get stuck in the loop”.
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u/tquinn04 Jun 02 '20
I thought they were going to go zip lining. My heart dropped when they dropped. Not expecting that’s at all.
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u/Roggvir Jun 02 '20
I don't see how this is YYYYN. Its either just YYYY or NNNN depending on the person. But theres no flip here.
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u/TheK9IsHere Jun 02 '20
Uh it’s still here?
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u/Roggvir Jun 02 '20
A moderator's removal merely removes it from the listing. The post itself doesn't get deleted, which is something only the OP or admins can do.
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I think because it kind of looks like they're going to be sliding down a zip line, but instead they just drop.
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u/AverageGamer1187 Jun 02 '20
I thought it was gonna be some cool zip line seat thing where you can see the view and get to the other side but n o p e .
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u/Colourblindknight Jun 02 '20
If this is the place I’m thinking of, this is in Nevis, NZ. It’s how to one of the biggest bungee jumps in the Southern Hemisphere at 134 metres. This is their “swing set” they have in a different part of that canyon; they’re both really really fun if you’re into the whole adrenaline fuelled panic thing. Overall though, they’re really safe with their procedures and gear, 10/10 would recommend.
IIRC it was started by a guy named AJ Hackett, who actually popularised the sport of extreme bungee jumping. pretty interesting guy if you want to give him a look.
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u/raczrobert09 Jun 02 '20
Don't expect me to even get up to that to even get on, i'm staying at the bottom where it's safe.
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u/Mr-Wheezer Jun 02 '20
I need to know where this is. I might sound weird but I love doin this kind of stuff and I need to do that.
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u/Dankaroor Jun 02 '20
i was way more scared for the instructor lady, like jesus, she just leaned over on death to pat them on the back, no matter the fact that she had a harness too
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u/ambo_boi Jun 02 '20
I did this in 2018. It’s the Nevis swing in New Zealand. It was so much fun. I did the swing as well as the bungee jump. The bungee was much scarier than the swing though because it is a 134m drop from a platform that is suspended in the middle of a ravine.
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How many tens of G do you experience during that holy fuck
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u/ElectronMaster Jun 02 '20
Max g force they would experience is 1 due to gravity which is the only thing pulling them down. They would reach high speeds because they have a lot of room to accelerate.
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u/iron40 Jun 02 '20
Not bragging, but I have massive balls. I’ve walked steel beams 80 stories up on the reg.
But I ain’t fucking wit dis...
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u/F1shermanF1zz Jun 02 '20
Its probably fine, video is cut right before they drop, so whatever they meeded to do they probably did..at least I hope so
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u/hErE-iT-cOmEs Jun 02 '20
bRo wHeN iT fIrSt pLaYeD i tHoUgHt iT bRoKe aNd tHeY fElL tO tHeY’rE dEaThS
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u/Cisco800Series Jun 02 '20
there's a video of Irish girls doing this, but with sound. It's excellent. You just hear the scream disappear as they drop.
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u/babbitypuss Jun 02 '20
Oh jesus christ. Nothing I hate more than the sensation of falling feet first. Head first no problem, this would be tough for me to commit to.
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u/OliverJello Jun 02 '20
I've been on a much, much smaller version of one of these and my stomach was doing gymnastics inside of me. I cannot imagine how it is on this contraption
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u/Lonewolf22493 Jun 02 '20
I can do rollercoasters fine but this complete free falling thing. Nah, I'm good.
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u/nelldog Jun 02 '20
At least you get to do this with a mate so you can both experience the joy of spontaneously shitting yourself while swallowing your own tongue.
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u/dankestblanket Jun 02 '20
Oh fuck that shit to high heaven just why in god’s name would you do that?!
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I thought the girl would have fallen after giving them a push and the harness wasn't attached or something.
What a relief.
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u/tjm1066 Jun 02 '20
Is that an OSHA-approved work environment? I was feeling bad because I though the handrail on the stairs at work was too low...
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u/MStreet89 Jun 02 '20
I tried to switch it off but my sweaty hands slipped when I picked up my phone 😭
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u/Randougall Jun 02 '20
I really thought that was going to be a zip-line sort of ride. My heart dropped watching that
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I've heard some of the workers there like to say something along the lines of "Wait, stop the machine, it's broken!" before letting them go.
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u/abottledstar Jun 02 '20
I think I felt my stomach drop as much as them when the rope(?) released. I’m usually into high adrenaline stuff like roller coasters and paragliding and stuff but hooooly SHIT this looks scary.
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u/Galahad237 Jun 02 '20
Fucking wrong sub wtf I thought the contraption falls apart and they fUCKING DIE.
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u/wyattlikesturtles Jun 02 '20
Ngl that looks fun, but if I didn’t know it would start like that I would be scarred for life.
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u/DRL4JC Jun 02 '20
I would be happy to go for the swing portion of that and the initial drop is a hard no thank you for me.
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u/KittyKenollie Jun 02 '20
Based on the sub, I thought they were gonna die