GoPro: Wingsuit Flight Through 2 Meter Cave - Uli Emanuele
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as a striking example of humans doing extremely dangerous, precise things for fun.
What it is
A short GoPro film of Uli Emanuele's wingsuit BASE jump through a roughly 2 meter wide cave opening, after three years of preparation. It follows his climb to the exit point and the flight itself, shot on a HERO2 camera.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2016 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Cites onion2k · 2016-11 · on “Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human drivers were the fear”
Statistically too dangerous. Humans do immensely dangerous things for fun all the time[1]. That isn't going to stop. People will continue to drive on private roads pretty much forever. [1] For example [this video]
Cites saberdancer · 2021-03 · on “Why Are So Many Base Jumpers Dying? (2016)”
[this video] this is why. Constant pushing of the envelope in a incredibly dangerous sport. Judging how fast you are falling and whether you'll end up a meter above or below your target is hard and it probably cannot be predicted in a persistent manner. One time you'll get a gust of wind that pushes you slightly off target and you catch a rock wall or a tree at 100mph+.
Cites kragen · 2022-01 · on “Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza”
"Antiquity" is conventionally considered to end about 1500 years ago, though this really only applies to Europe: [LINK] The reason for this is the very sparse historical record from the European Dark Ages. Scholars in the High Middle Ages like Petrarch could look back on their own recent history, and then a vast gap of mostly unknown, and then the impressive cultures of Antiquity among whose ruins they lived. We know more about the Dark Ages now than we did then but still not that much. Here you can see people flying like birds without being canned in metal tubes: [LINK] [this video] [LINK] [LINK] It seems likely that we have changed. I suspect Merer's workers, even if they had grown up in modern