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From: joris en sandra <svzanten@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: REQ: Skydiving stickman
Date: 1997/10/13
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Snarkamedes wrote:

> =>> The runes were cast, the portents thundered and then Shinil Hong
>          warbled on about "Re: REQ: Skydiving stickman" in
> alt.ascii-art <<=
>
> > Gary Stewart (gary@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
> > : How about this? - gary
> >
> > :       .---.
> > :      (_____)
> > :        \ /
> > :        <o>
> > :         @
> > :        / \
> >
> > Thanks!  It looks concise and great..
> > But I was rather hoping for one without the chute.  (free-fall
> "spyder" form)
> > Do you suppose (or anyone else) there is one out there?
>
> How about a side-on view? ... or a 3D oblique view?
>
>                                         | /
>        o>=_/`                       ,  @"/
>                                     `-O--'
>
> And here's Gary's effort after the chute lines fail to open
> properly......
>
> Fig.1    ()
>         _/|
>        (@//
>         )(
>        (/_)
>         \/        HELP!!!!!!!
>         <o>    _____/
>          @
>         / \
>
> Oh no!  Can no-one save Stickman this time?
>
> Fig.2
>
>    ((((( SPLUT!!!! )))))
>
> Guess not, so now he's pavement pizza (skydivers term it 'bouncing',
> although it's not an apt description really).


Of course he can be saved...
Didn't you see the second chute on his belly?

So, Garry get's rid of his main chute and and pull
the handdle of his belly chute. Thay's it.

         ()
        _/|
       (@//
        )(
       (/_)
        \/



       .---.
      (_____)
        \ /    Wow, that was close!
        <o>  ________/
         @
        / \


Now garry's got an other scarry story to tee
his grandchildren.  :D
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