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Wishing you all a fantastic Thursday. Light a braai fire, have a dop, and vape on!!!
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1797
October 22
First parachute jump is made over Paris
Duuuhh, gud moaning evione. Today I wull throw my whole bodi from a ballun and opefuly float guntly to the grund.
1797
October 22
First parachute jump is made over Paris
- Leonardo da Vinci conceived the idea of the parachute in his writings, and the Frenchman Louis-Sebastien Lenormand fashioned a kind of parachute out of two umbrellas and jumped from a tree in 1783, but André-Jacques Garnerin was the first to design and test parachutes capable of slowing a man’s fall from a high altitude.
Garnerin first conceived of the possibility of using air resistance to slow an individual’s fall from a high altitude while a prisoner during the French Revolution. Although he never employed a parachute to escape from the high ramparts of the Hungarian prison where he spent three years, Garnerin never lost interest in the concept of the parachute. In 1797, he completed his first parachute, a canopy 23 feet in diameter and attached to a basket with suspension lines.
On October 22, 1797, Garnerin attached the parachute to a hydrogen balloon and ascended to an altitude of 3,200 feet. He then clambered into the basket and severed the parachute from the balloon. As he failed to include an air vent at the top of the prototype, Garnerin oscillated wildly in his descent, but he landed shaken but unhurt half a mile from the balloon’s takeoff site. In 1799, Garnerin’s wife, Jeanne-Genevieve, became the first female parachutist. In 1802, Garnerin made a spectacular jump from 8,000 feet during an exhibition in England. He died in a balloon accident in 1823 while preparing to test a new parachute.
Duuuhh, gud moaning evione. Today I wull throw my whole bodi from a ballun and opefuly float guntly to the grund.
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Many happy returns
@Yuvir Punwasi
@Hooked
@Grand Guru
@SAVaper
@DarthBranMuffin
@NOOB
Firstly, it is a bit troubling that @Dubz seems to have disappeared without a trace. I sincerely hope that he is ok.
Regarding the birthday wishes, the best way to check is to select the "Members" tab right at the top of the home page (on the left) and open that page.
Scrolling down on the new page, you will see a "Today's Birthdays" list on the right of the page.
As far as I could determine, it lists the birthdays of people who have been active on the forum within the last 6 months or so.
@Dubz would select only people who have been active within the last month or so.
I'm a little more forgiving and select people who have been active within the last 3 months (hopefully encouraging them to return/stick around on the forum).
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@Hooked
@Grand Guru
@SAVaper
@DarthBranMuffin
@NOOB
Firstly, it is a bit troubling that @Dubz seems to have disappeared without a trace. I sincerely hope that he is ok.
Regarding the birthday wishes, the best way to check is to select the "Members" tab right at the top of the home page (on the left) and open that page.
Scrolling down on the new page, you will see a "Today's Birthdays" list on the right of the page.
As far as I could determine, it lists the birthdays of people who have been active on the forum within the last 6 months or so.
@Dubz would select only people who have been active within the last month or so.
I'm a little more forgiving and select people who have been active within the last 3 months (hopefully encouraging them to return/stick around on the forum).
.
Happy Birthday to you all!!!
@emelybrown
@Ryan69
@Satans_Stick
@TheBadMadMan
@veecee
Have a great day!!
@emelybrown
@Ryan69
@Satans_Stick
@TheBadMadMan
@veecee
Have a great day!!
@emelybrown
@Ryan69
@Satans_Stick
@TheBadMadMan
@veecee
Hope your Birthday was super.
Happy Birthday!!!
@Ryan69
@Satans_Stick
@TheBadMadMan
@veecee
Hope your Birthday was super.
Happy Birthday!!!
happy belated birthday
@emelybrown
@Ryan69
@Satans_Stick
@TheBadMadMan
@veecee
I hope you guys had a blast sorry for the late response guys ... I was delayed
@emelybrown
@Ryan69
@Satans_Stick
@TheBadMadMan
@veecee
I hope you guys had a blast sorry for the late response guys ... I was delayed
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