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NPR Interview
Caught the last couple of minutes of this today on the radio.
http://www.npr.org/...but-no-second-chance
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Re: [base570] NPR Interview
I didn't know that Mario Richard died. Frown
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Re: [base570] NPR Interview
He woohoo'd. Eric's got a rule about that.
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Re: [base570] NPR Interview
omer mei-dan, now that name is a blast from the past. BD 2008 he was there conducting a study on BASE jumpers. cool cat. did the surveys we filled out ever result in a published article? i've often wondered...
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Re: [littlestranger] NPR Interview
the study found that agter bd average female jumper had dna of 7.6 men in vagina.. cant find the link to article sorry
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Re: [sky12345] NPR Interview
No, I think you may be confusing data points- that stat was regarding your Mom the day after the Sturgis Harley Rally.
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Re: [Treejumps] NPR Interview
Sounded to me like he said 3000 base jumpers of that 10% use wingsuits. So of that 300 6-7% die a year. 6 percent of 300 is 18 which seems like decent estimate.