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2004-06-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Man Takes One Giant Step Over Grand Canyon

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Posted by Steve White 2004-06-11 3:26:18 PM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not that I want to display my superior medical knowledge, but ...

"Blunt force trama" @ 9.8 meters per second per second. . .

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-11 3:31:48 PM|| 2004-06-11 3:31:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Authorities say the cause of death won't be determined until the body is recovered from White's Butte.

Whaddya think, pneumonia maybe?

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-11 3:40:15 PM|| 2004-06-11 3:40:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Authorities say the cause of death won't be determined until the body is recovered from White's Butte.

In the mean time, police have issued an all points bulletin for the arrest of a suspect who goes by the street name of "gravity."

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-11 5:16:43 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:16:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Officials don't know if the man had any connection to the others on board the helicopter."

Think the other passengers would confirm a connection? "I'm sorry, I don't know why Dad - er - that man leap out."

The authorities are doing a great job on this investigation.

Posted by Sam 2004-06-11 5:20:59 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:20:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Distance is the primary value
Change of distance over time is velocity
Change of velocity over time is acceleration (in this case deceleration)
Change of deceleration over time is the jerk.

It wasn't the deceleration that got him, it was the jerk.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-11 5:21:01 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:21:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought it was cause he jumped out of a helicopter and hit the ground hard.

Posted by Hank 2004-06-11 5:37:11 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:37:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hank, I think it must be more nuanced than that. Don't be such a simplisme cowboy.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-06-11 5:59:47 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:59:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Where's Dar?

Okay, all together now...

"Gravity, why does it hate us?"

Posted by Anonymous5199 2004-06-11 6:11:43 PM|| 2004-06-11 6:11:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Prob'ly poison. Sounds like a poison case to me...

Posted by Fred 2004-06-11 8:37:34 PM|| 2004-06-11 8:37:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Smoking. Or second-hand smoke if he wasn't a smoker himself.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-11 11:10:32 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-06-11 11:10:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 We'll have a real mystery if he shows up alive.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-12 1:31:42 AM|| 2004-06-12 1:31:42 AM|| Front Page Top

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