You can not wear nine parachutes. It was a pain just getting into one, and even then you had to make sure your anatomy was "arranged" or the straps running down between your legs will apply... uncomfortable pressure :) One might be able to jury-rig two, although upon opening they would interfere with each other, not being designed to work together. Come to think of it, I doubt the troll describes would even be able to ge the chute on, let alone be helped by it.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Peter Maranci <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmaranci@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmaranci@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>So is there anyone who thinks that the troll would NOT end up as a thin red film on the scrith?<br><br></div>Also, can anyone who has had experience with parachutes confirm that you can't just wear nine parachutes? I assume that they would need to be arranged so as not to interfere with each other, nor "stack up". Lacking any experience or even *familiarity* with the concept, I imagine the odds of successfully setting up a bunch of parachutes to for a heavy payload would be astronomically small - less than 1 in 100. Sound reasonable?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>->Peter<br></div><div><br></div><div></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Sven Lugar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vikingjarl@gmail.com" target="_blank">vikingjarl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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This sounds like a fun sport! (except for the troll)<div><br>
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<div>The Ringworld's rotation is 770 miles per second. He'd
share that speed when he jumped...but presumably, he'd slow
down in relation to to the ground. My physics were never good
enough to calculate the effects of air friction and such. But
in any case, since we know that the chutes were rates for
approximately 400 pounds, and he's definitely much heavier
than that, I foresee shredding and<u><b> </b></u><u><b><big><big>troll-bombs.</big></big></b></u><br>
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