The worlds most remote base exit is still untouched(espenfadnes.com)
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The worlds most remote base exit is still untouched
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I don't know why he claims it's untouched, Red Bull sent a team out to base jump from Ulvetanna back in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GIbZbBsDg
For those of you who are as ignorant of this as me: BASE is an acronym (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping). I don't really understand what exit refers to in this context, anyone care to enlighten? It's surprisingly hard to google info on this, must be a really fringe thing.
As others said, exit is where you jump from. Exits matter because not all are safe vertical drops, some are way more stylistic than others and in case of BASE wingsuiting, some lead to specific lines. A line is the flight path a wingsuit pilot takes after jumping. Recent times, proximity flying has been getting more popular, where a person wearing a ram air wingsuit tries to get as close to cliffs, ground, trees or other natural elements as possible. As you can guess, lots of people die doing this.
For an example of a safe exit that immediately leads to a very spicy line, check this video, at 0:40 specifically: https://vimeo.com/82949889
For an example of a safe exit that immediately leads to a very spicy line, check this video, at 0:40 specifically: https://vimeo.com/82949889
My palms got sweaty just watching that video. I don't think that is something I could do.
Agreed. I'm so glad the people who do record helmet-cam videos of it, and post them for me to watch instead.
Thanks, my first thought was some super-secret underground lair...
The exit is the edge where you jump off to start your fall. You "exit" the building or cliff or whatever.
I assume it meant "jumpable cliff" i.e. a cliff/tower high enough and smooth enough that you could jump off and deploy a parachute and land safely.
"Exit", short for "exit point", just refers to the place someone BASE jumps off.
What fresh hell is responsible for the scrolling on that site? I realise that he's used to seeing the world flash before his eyes at nauseating speed, but I'm not sure it makes for a great web interface.
Oddly enough it's not even necessary. Site works fine with NoScript on.
Scrolling doesn't work at all for me, I have to manual click and drag the slider...
I think this ironicly named library is the culprite: http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/
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Scrolling works 100% in my latest firefox 27.0
But it behaves... strange. You'll notice it if you use a touchpad and kinetic scrolling. It seems too fast and somehow not very, well, kinetic.
Read the article in FF 26 and mouse-wheel scrolling was indeed way too fast and "slippery". Reminded me of all those Flash scroll bars in the 00's that just worked... horribly.\
I pulled this quickly from the source: http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/
Curiously, the nicescroll website itself seems to behave a bit better. Maybe it's this implementation that went wrong.
I pulled this quickly from the source: http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/
Curiously, the nicescroll website itself seems to behave a bit better. Maybe it's this implementation that went wrong.
It works terribly on the nicescroll site itself. Why do they feel like they need to mess with the scroll behavior? Why break the expected behavior?
The NiceScroll website doesn't let me stop the scrolling's inertia/movement by tapping with both fingers.
If this site hadn't broken it, I wouldn't even have noticed that this is possible and that I use it every few seconds :)
If this site hadn't broken it, I wouldn't even have noticed that this is possible and that I use it every few seconds :)
What is meant by the last sentence?
> For us came on the probable cost of one big awesome flying ride off the majestic Ulvetanna.
> For us came on the probable cost of one big awesome flying ride off the majestic Ulvetanna.
The failure of the group to work well cost them mission success (they couldn't do the jump).
Not very relevant to hacker news.
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Every time I see one of these videos I have two thoughts. One, insane never could do. Two, that's what flying in my dreams looks like, I can completely see why they do what they do.
That said, with all the buildup, it feels a wee bit unsatisfying to not know what went wrong. Perhaps the writer doesn't quite know for sure, since everyone (themself included) is biased.