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Norwegian skydiver almost gets hit by falling meteor!

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  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Radical dude.


    High five.


  • #3
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Those Scandinavian languages are gorgeous.


  • #4
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    .... if a meteorite has your name on it...


  • #5
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    youtube! wrote: »
    Amazing footage, surprised a plane hasn't been taken down by one of these yet!

    Now that is a terrifying thought!

    How come there wasn't flames & smoke and stuff behind it?


  • #6
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Mr Freeze wrote: »
    Now that is a terrifying thought!

    How come there wasn't flames & smoke and stuff behind it?

    It was 'only' going 500kmph, not enough for the fireworks.


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  • #7
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    At least it wasn't a Vodafone


  • #8
    postitnote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭postitnote


    Mr Freeze wrote: »
    Now that is a terrifying thought!

    How come there wasn't flames & smoke and stuff behind it?

    ...it has been slowed by atmospheric braking, and has cooled and is no longer luminous.


  • #9
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    It was 'only' going 500kmph, not enough for the fireworks.
    postitnote wrote: »
    ...it has been slowed by atmospheric braking, and has cooled and is no longer luminous.

    Thanks lads.


  • #10
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Not a good idea to skydive and be stoned.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    fake?


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  • #12
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,593 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Meteor down again


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Doubt it is fake. Though pretty damned insane.


  • #14
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Those Scandinavian languages are gorgeous.

    Don't know if they sound attractive. They often sound like German but where the speaker has a hot potato in their mouth.

    They are interesting though, esp in the way some words are similar to English words/Irish words/Scots words.

    Bairn/kirk/prattle/quine


  • #15
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Quick cast Holy!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGHDXDI-DNc


  • #16
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,799 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    You always hear these mad statistics like 'you're more likely to be killed by a stampede of elephants than you are to win the lottery'

    This story came so close to allowing us to say with a straight face that 'you're more likely to be hit by a falling meteor while skydiving than you are to win the lottery'


  • #17
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    He must have pissed off someone in a veeeery high place...

    Whoever that was (Galactus?), he gon geddit...


  • #18
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Is it not more likely to have been a stone that was accidentally packed with his chute?


  • #19
    Standman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Is it not more likely to have been a stone that was accidentally packed with his chute?

    My thoughts exactly, or something that fell off/out of the plane.


  • #20
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Not as impressive as when Keanu Reeves jumped out of a plane parachuteless and caught up with Paddy Swayze.

    Totally gnarly, maaan.


  • #21
    D1stant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Is it not more likely to have been a stone that was accidentally packed with his chute?

    Looked a bit like pebble dash to me. A bird probably got stuck in the wing and with one last gallant heave demonstrated what he thought of sky divers. Pity he missed


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  • #22
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Is it not more likely to have been a stone that was accidentally packed with his chute?
    Standman wrote: »
    My thoughts exactly, or something that fell off/out of the plane.


    Ah lads, can we not just have a bit of magic for once? :)


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