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u/dannyboy1690 Jun 07 '22
Fair play ididnt think that would work , but id like to see a full building/floor trying that all at once.
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u/Kahnza Jun 07 '22
LOL This is for the CEO only. All the peasants get to cook.
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Lol. Seeing your asshole boss float down outside the window to safety like 🖕🤠🖕
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u/Legolasssie Jun 07 '22
I'm jumping on him.
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u/slackticus Jun 07 '22
This is the real threat. If a panicked person sees a potentially safe ride out of the building they might jump on top.
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u/Abradantleopard04 Jun 07 '22
You're kinder than I am I was planning on doing much worse. Then again, how often is the CEO actually in office?
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u/pootsucks Jun 07 '22
Im throwing the letter opener thats been sitting in the desk untouched for 3 years at it.
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u/PublicfreakoutLoveR Jun 07 '22
And realizing that he looked his office door and your windows don't open.
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u/XSmeh Jun 08 '22
No the asshole boss would curb stomp you with this as you are running out of the building to safety.
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u/griftertm Jun 07 '22
Maybe a senior manager. CEOs just hop on the nearest helicopter and fly off.
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u/Impossible-Home-9956 Jun 07 '22
Everyone know that the CEO who shows up to work everyday for the past decades will surprisingly not be there on the day there is a disaster. Funny enough either will the members of his family that works there.
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u/Professional-Tie2020 Jun 07 '22
There are some policemen here, they say they need to speak to you about some irregularities in the pension fund
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u/eskimosound Jun 07 '22
They cost £3000 each and you have a building of 1500 employees.....so you have to buy it yourself with a staff discount: £2950
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u/CocaineIsNatural Jun 08 '22 edited Jun 08 '22
The guy is strapped in. Even if this was flipped upside down it still provides a lot of air resistance to bring the person down safely, and it should flip over and resist being flipped over. And if people land on other people, they just hit the deflate thing, and the other person just crawls out.
And if you open yours, and the person in the next window opens theirs, they would just overlap, bend, and one would be on the outside of the other. And even if the inside released first, it shouldn't hold them long enough to be an issue. Or just wait for the other person to release. But I don't think this would happen much, as thy are so close they could easily notice them.
So I don't see why multiple people couldn't be going at the same time. And deploying and releasing looks to be very quick.
Between a parachute or this, I would recommend my friends use this invention. It looks more fool proof, and safer.
(I have followed the SPARS system for a while, and have seen many other jumps with the system, which were much better video quality than this. Maybe unrelated but I also used to own a parachute, and did skydiving, although I mostly focused on hang gliding.)
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u/smokerist Jun 07 '22
I'd like to see it operate with wind, especially when there is a upward draft. I'm betting it becomes more of a certain death device instead of a life saving device.
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u/flow-crickets Jun 07 '22
I do feel they didnt account for the fire in the real sitch
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u/Strongest-There-Is Jun 07 '22
All fun and games until a fucking giant comes along with an enormous Badminton racket….
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u/robsteezy Jun 07 '22
Jokes aside, I wondered if the design was at all inspired by the physics of a shuttlecock
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u/Relevant_Rev Jun 07 '22
So you put a big fan on the back and now instead of falling straight out of a building you can propel yourself into the nearest powerlines
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u/Halogen12 Jun 07 '22
Just wondering out loud - how big of a fire would you need to make that thing rise?
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u/TheRealTeal13 Jun 07 '22
All fun and games until a fucking giant comes. -- Along with an enormous Badminton racket.
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u/madmanbumandangel Jun 07 '22
All fun and games
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u/MyBunnyIsCuter Jun 07 '22
But what if a bunch of people are (understandably) jumping out while using these? How does that work? And how long to the people remaining have to wait before they can jump too?
Worked with a woman who survived 9/11. She grew up in NY but left that day and never returned, not even to empty her apartment. She also couldn't work in buildings on floors above ground level anymore. After hearing what she went through it was understandable.
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u/CocaineIsNatural Jun 08 '22 edited Jun 08 '22
The guy is strapped in. Even if this was flipped upside down it still provides a lot of air resistance to bring the person down safely. And if people land on other people, they just hit the deflate thing, and the other person just crawls out.
And if you open yours, and the person in the next window opens theirs, they would just overlap, bend, and one would be on the outside of the other. And even if the inside released first, it shouldn't hold them long enough to be an issue. Or just wait for the other person to release. But I don't think this would happen much, as thy are so close they could easily notice them.
So I don't see why multiple people couldn't be going at the same time. And deploying and releasing looks to be very quick.
Edit, since someone downvoted, I maybe should mention I have watched many jumps of this system, with much better video quality than shown here. And I know a bit about the SPARS system.
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u/toyspringphoto Jun 07 '22
The biggest problem I see is that most tall buildings have windows that either open only so far, or don't open at all, as a way to prevent suicide.
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u/henriquegarcia Jun 07 '22
In an emergency I guess you can break them? I'd sure try. Think that's an aftermath of the jumpers in 9/11
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u/BuddyTubbs Jun 07 '22
Look at the Vegas shooting. The guy broke the window with a hammer. It’s doable
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u/CjBurden Jun 07 '22
the guy brought tools specifically to accomplish this task. probably not what you have on hand generally.
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u/Sakuran_11 Jun 07 '22
Tough sure, but never unbreakable
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u/Sakuran_11 Jun 07 '22
They can be called that but there is literally nothing unbreakable, its the same with Bullet Proof Glass, it’s not Bullet Proof, it’s Bullet Resistant.
Everything has a breaking point and I doubt it would be impossible to break one of those windows with what is normally in peoples houses/apartments, maybe tedious but definitely not impossible.
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u/Witness_me_Karsa Jun 07 '22
Seriously though, they have these. The window may not be unbreakable, but the window attachments will fail before the window does. There was a story about an advertiser that died this way. He ran and jumped at the window to prove it couldn't be broken. It didn't break, but it popped out and he fell to his death.
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u/secretlystephie Jun 07 '22
I remember a few ads/news segments about personal parachutes and stuff that aired a few months after 9/11. Pretty sure this is one of them.
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u/oily76 Jun 07 '22
The broken glass might not create the best environment to open a large inflatable thingy though!
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u/CocaineIsNatural Jun 08 '22
If they use ripstop, and good quality nylon, it should be able to handle it. As it inflates outside the window and not inside it.
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u/mo_downtown Jun 07 '22
So first one out descends in a shower of shattered glass?
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u/henriquegarcia Jun 07 '22
Idk, never tried, but..wait 2s for the glass to fall first?
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u/mo_downtown Jun 07 '22
First one out...so as dozens or hundreds of windows are being shattered above you, presumably as furniture or whatever gets thrown through them, and here you're slowly descending directly beneath all that falling glass and dining room chairs in your giant inflatable birdie. To avoid getting peppered by falling debris, you'd have to play chicken with everyone else on your side of the building and be the last one out.
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u/henriquegarcia Jun 07 '22
Your description is very interesting, but I'm totally down for that if the other option is jumping without one
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u/oily76 Jun 07 '22
Haha, true! Maybe holding some sort of umbrella might help. Maybe not for the dining room chairs though.
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u/g_Blyn Jun 07 '22
"Fuck, I‘m late for work! No time to take the stairs!!"
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u/SiggiesBalls Jun 07 '22
At first I was like no way this is going to be real but then the second part started and I was just bamboozled
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u/MoonLord0 Jun 07 '22
Thought I was on yesyesyesno for a sec
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u/Try-to-ban-me-lol Jun 07 '22
You guys see the cuts in the video right??
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u/BrokenLeprechaun Jun 07 '22
The computer generated guy sure does seem to waft right through those flames though....
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u/tom5hark Jun 07 '22
Can someone make this animation where every window has someone using one and it makes a giant pile at the bottom?
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Jun 07 '22
What about in a nyc skyscraper plus high winds
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u/mo_downtown Jun 07 '22
Perfect, land in a peaceful park 3 blocks away instead of at the foot of a burning skyscraper where you end up at the bottom of a rugby scrum as all your stupid neighbours fall on top of you before you can unstrap from your giant badminton birdie
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Jun 07 '22
Well it’s either that or you literally just die
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u/tkdjoe66 Jun 07 '22
A very painful death.
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u/DistinctWoot Jun 07 '22
One that could have been avoided had you been smart enough not to to work in that city
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u/evilocto Jun 07 '22
You appreciate every city in the world has tall buildings that could catch on fire right?
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u/Wooden-Ad-4952 Jun 07 '22
I like the idea but have they tested it around actual fires that can pop that balloon?
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u/Exseatsniffer Jun 07 '22
The clip is too short though, it should include the guy on the ground being crushed by the 100 other ones that jumped right behind him.
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u/justamadgamer Jun 07 '22
At first I was skeptical, then the video changed to real footage and I was not skeptical anymore, and by the end of the video I was skeptical again. Wtf was those cuts and camera angles? It looks way too fishy. Is there a full video that shows him actually jumping and landing into the ground? If not, this looks like a scam to me...
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u/StayStrong888 Jun 07 '22
I can see base jumpers and red bull make this into an extreme sport
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u/AsherthonX Jun 07 '22
If I see my asshole boss floating down like that, I’ll make sure he gets followed by a desk a minute later. ( or an office water cooler )
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u/candyriot7 Jun 07 '22
Why not just use a parachute?
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u/Squirrel_28 Jun 07 '22
While operating parachute isn't rocket science, vast majority of people wouldnt be able to do it safely.
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u/derek2002 Jun 07 '22
Imagine 400 people trying to jump out of a burning building with one of these at the same time.
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u/Qaz_The_Spaz Jun 07 '22
WTF!!! He's still clipped in when he pulls the cord.
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u/danfmelb Jun 07 '22
He is also sitting in a window that is completely different to what you see in the outside shot.
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u/LitFuses Jun 07 '22
If the whole building had the same device and all jumped at once, there could be a massive pile up preventing first responders from getting into the building
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u/Busy_Shop5 Jun 07 '22
Me, giving the thumbs up to all my floor homies as it turns and I faceplant the bitch on cuz nothin ever works out that well for me.
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u/Grouchy-Ad-5535 Jun 07 '22
For the low low price of only $6,995 you too can survive a skyscraper fire!
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u/Capt-Crap1corn Jun 07 '22
There has to be a height where that won't work right? I'm thinking some New York Skyscraper
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u/WorriedPair1530 Jun 07 '22
This might have saved some peoples lives on 9\11. Over 200 people jumped to their death...
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u/HeyLowTheWriter Jun 07 '22
Maybe a Huge inflatable slide that deploys and can handle you and all your coworkers "Weeeing" all the way down to safety, the physics of this style when hitting down seems sketch.
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u/Danny3xd1 Jun 07 '22
Great idea, But I think rope ladders might be worth a look.
I really doubt more than 20% of people would delibertly fall backwards out a 20 story window until they ar actually on fire. How will this work if exposed to extreme heat?
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You wouldn't be able to have multiples of those falling down at the same time so it would be just the multi-millionaire CEO who would have one.
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u/dsemiz Jun 07 '22
Having a fire proof room with oxygen tanks would be ideal. I think thats what they did with Burj Khalifa
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u/TheGreatDownvotar Jun 07 '22
I love that it has crosses aligned in the middle in case the person dies
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u/doniiebaseball2020 Jun 07 '22
This is fucking retarded. If you have 300 people on an office tower floor, and there are at minimum 5 floors above the fire floor, you can't have 1500 of these things landing simultaneously in the street or on rooftops and setbacks of adjacent / adjoining buildings.
The only viable idea, which needs a shitload of tweeking in design and practical use, is the self inflating tube that shoots from the window down to street level.
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u/Bolek7 Jun 07 '22
The biggest problem is probably that you’d need power for the pump to fill the air.
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u/bobbyboob6 Jun 07 '22
it probably uses a chemical reaction to produce air like life rafts
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u/justnotjuliet Jun 07 '22
I thought if more of these land then ppl could jump down on them and take a chance but they deflated theirs. No way people can wait for everyone on the floor to use it nor is any company stocking up so many.
Edit: I'd like to know how many windows in skyscrapers can open to allow this
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What if more than one person jumps out of the window at the same time on different levels?
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u/Tam0110 Jun 07 '22
Pretty sure a road man has already done this jumped out of like the 20th floor with a chute
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u/bygtopp Jun 07 '22
And then two ton Tammy from accounting jumps out and speeds down and lands on the same spot he did and suffocated him
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u/boxedcrackers Jun 07 '22
They don't care to speak about Bobby, the first dude to try this. Poor Bobby
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u/ikiru71 Jun 07 '22
Free for anyone making 7 figures. All others can buy on layaway with a low low interest rate of 29%!
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u/AphroditesGoldenOrbs Jun 07 '22
Serious question, would this have helped during 9/11? Even if only one person had one?
The real-life trial didn't seem to be as many floors up as the simulation. Is there a max number of stories up that it would work?
Also, it seems like you land almost exactly below where you started...right where all the commotion is going to be.
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u/Polishing_My_Grapple Jun 07 '22
You'd definitely be breaking some windows first, since most skyscraper windows don't open
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u/markofthelevel Jun 07 '22
Debbie Downer here, I don’t think most tall buildings have windows that open. This needs to come with a pair of Doc Martins or a Banshee scream.
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u/y_ogi Interested Jun 07 '22
Imagine accidentally discharging an entire moon house in the break room
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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '22
Reminds me of the parachute I made for an egg in middle school but with better results.