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Originally posted by bas What is wrong with you? What kind of asinine questions is "why don't people have parachutes when they fly". Jesus.

LOL you're ridiclous. It's not that asinine, nor is it that obvious to people when they don't know the logistics of parachuting or plane crashes for that matter.

Get over yourself and go find your boyfriend or something

P.S. infinity HiGH you edited your post after I made mine... damnit!

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Originally posted by Theresa How many G's would you get when jumping out of a plane going that fast? Humans can sustain upwards of 9 G's for brief periods of time. If you deployed a parachute, you wouldn't have as many G's as you initially did when jumping out. With that being said, if you were to stay in the plane and go down with it, would you likely be passed out long before you even hit the ground? Anyway, I get that it's a dumb idea, just discussing now.

Have you ever been on a roller coaster? Imagine how hard it would be to get up and walk around on a roller coaster. That's close to what a plane crash is like. Once the plane is falling you're fucked. You don't just get up with your parachute and hop on over to the exit. Combine that with 100+ other people who would be attempting this same feat and you have no survivors either way. But you blew a shitload of cash on parachutes, lol.

edit: you need to watch Discovery during the day. They have this one show that talks about plane crashes and what went wrong, bla bla bla. Not once did this idea cross my mind while watching. Too much chaos for something like this to even be suggested.

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Originally posted by Clovis This thread gives me a headache. Most all of your assumptions are wrong, and every one of your wild hypotheticals is a...wild...hypothetical.

Mine?

I asked a question. I claimed ignorance and made no assumptions. Just wanted to have a discussion.

Good lord you people are touchy. Just have an interesting conversation and stop flipping out about shit. Take some midol!

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Originally posted by Theresa Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't the emergency exit doors behind the engines? Therefore pushing you away and not sucking you in? Infinity, there have been crashes where the pilot knew there was a problem before the plane lost control. Yes, odds are very low that you would survive or that conditions would work for it... but it seems like you would have at least a teeny tiny percentage more of a chance of survival than just sitting there waiting to crash. EDIT: The emergency exit doors in the middle of the plane is what I am referencing, not the ones in the front.

Yeah, those doors are designed to be used after an emergency landing. Or did you think the automatically inflating slide is just a fun way to launch yourself off the plane with the parachute?

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Originally posted by Theresa Mine? I asked a question. I claimed ignorance and made no assumptions. Just wanted to have a discussion. Good lord you people are touchy. Just have an interesting conversation and stop flipping out about shit. Take some midol!

Its not that you claimed ignorance, its that you are actually ignorant of it in the first place. You obviously did not make any sort of rational personal thought of the question before you made this thread.

Its just electrons and some magnetic bits on a hard drive some place but this could probably be construed as an actual waste of matter. You know the stuff that theoretically is never lost, just transmuted and shifted around... Yea you actually broke the laws of physics and the universe by making this thread.

It really was that stupid.

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH Have you ever been on a roller coaster? Imagine how hard it would be to get up and walk around on a roller coaster. That's close to what a plane crash is like. Once the plane is falling you're fucked. You don't just get up with your parachute and hop on over to the exit. Combine that with 100+ other people who would be attempting this same feat and you have no survivors either way. But you blew a shitload of cash on parachutes, lol. edit: you need to watch Discovery during the day. They have this one show that talks about plane crashes and what went wrong, bla bla bla. Not once did this idea cross my mind while watching.

I don't have TV... but I might youtube it if it's on there.

So more on the idea of a parachute on the entire plane. Wouldn't the parachute have to be monstrously large? AKA VERY heavy?

Krypton if you were being serious, how would you suspect that would work?

Suffice to say, if this was a good idea, it would already have been done for years. It is not a viable, logical idea for a number of reasons, most of which have been pointed out and most of which are quite ridiculously obvious if you just think about it for more than 10 seconds.

Flying is the safest form of mass transport of all time anyway and the net gain in survivability of crashes from having parachutes on all aircraft if it were even feasible in the first place would be an incredibly small fraction.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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Originally posted by Clovis Suffice to say, if this was a good idea, it would already have been done for years. It is not a viable, logical idea for a number of reasons, most of which have been pointed out and most of which are quite ridiculously obvious if you just think about it for more than 10 seconds. Flying is the safest form of mass transport of all time anyway and the net gain in survivability of crashes from having parachutes on all aircraft if it were even feasible in the first place would be an incredibly small fraction.

Not to mention that most crashes happen at altitude where fucking parachutes would be worthless, except in the hands of expert skydivers, as in less than 5000 feet.

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Its not that you claimed ignorance, its that you are actually ignorant of it in the first place. You obviously did not make any sort of rational personal thought of the question before you made this thread. Its just electrons and some magnetic bits on a hard drive some place but this could probably be construed as an actual waste of matter. You know the stuff that theoretically is never lost, just transmuted and shifted around... Yea you actually broke the laws of physics and the universe by making this thread. It really was that stupid.

Or, I was reading an article about a plane crashing and I thought "hmmm, why couldn't they have parachutes?" and thought maybe it would spark a somewhat intelligent conversation on TA. I should have suspected that I would get flamed for it, but ah wells.

Maybe I should just start posting about my boyfriend and how I like to masturbate so I can win the affections of all of you back?

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Originally posted by Theresa I don't have TV... but I might youtube it if it's on there. So more on the idea of a parachute on the entire plane. Wouldn't the parachute have to be monstrously large? AKA VERY heavy? Krypton if you were being serious, how would you suspect that would work?

They already have parachutes for certain light aircraft which have proved to be of little use in practice.

The logistics and variables involved in trying to make them work for large passenger planes are so huge that any possible gain is not worth it, thus why this has never been done and likely never will.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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Originally posted by Theresa Maybe I should just start posting about my boyfriend and how I like to masturbate so I can win the affections of all of you back?

At least that would be less angering and I would be able to ignore it more easily.

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Originally posted by Theresa Or, I was reading an article about a plane crashing and I thought "hmmm, why couldn't they have parachutes?" and thought maybe it would spark a somewhat intelligent conversation on TA. I should have suspected that I would get flamed for it, but ah wells. Maybe I should just start posting about my boyfriend and how I like to masturbate so I can win the affections of all of you back?

Or you could post something intelligent?