[extropy-chat] vertical wind tunnel

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:17 AM 10/17/2004 -0700, Spike wrote:


>I had an idea: what if you were in one of those things
>with a real parachute and you deployed it?  Wouldn't you
>go SHOOOM right up in the air?  Perhaps 100 meters?  Then
>you could float down nearby.

I have an intuition that most of the time you'd crash right down, tangled 
in fabric. At the top of trajectory the oomph would be lost (I sense) and 
the chute would turn into a mess of cloth and cable, and it's so hard to 
get the toothpaste back into the tube.

Damien Broderick
[just guessing]