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[–] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the dude who threw himself from the top of the fucking Eiffel Tower in a test of his prototype "flying suit". There's actual footage of his descent.

Note that he was told multiple times not to do this, and only ended up getting access at all by lying to security and claiming he was only throwing a dummy down.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that the guy who ended up becoming a vaguely humanoid splatter mark on the concrete below?

[–] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Died on impact, with the suit failing to deploy properly. Supposedly the tests with the dummy had been successful.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

except for the final test with the dummy, which spectacularly failed