<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I'm not sure when trolls switched from silk to nylon. The documentation is remarkably poor. :) <br><br>Andrew E. Larsen </div><div><br>On Mar 25, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Leon Kirshtein <<a href="mailto:leonbk@yahoo.com">leonbk@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Does not matter he would be dead from wearing Iron.</div><div><br></div><div>Leon<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 25, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Peter Maranci <<a href="mailto:pmaranci@gmail.com">pmaranci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">I have a question which may seem a *trifle* unusual. But I think that I'm more likely to get an answer from this list than anywhere else.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Could an eleven-foot-tall SIZ 37 great troll in iron platemail, carrying a troll maul, a greatsword, and a backpack, using a standard WWII paratrooper parachute, successfully parachute to a landing if he started from from 500 miles up the Spill Mountains (i. e. the rim) of the Ringworld?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Also, what would be the effects and strain of a 500-mile parachute jump, both on the troll and the parachute? I've never parachuted at all, so I don't know. It seems to me that the seams and straps might break?</p>
<p dir="ltr">And did they use silk or nylon for parachutes back then?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks!</p>
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