From:	Tom Pendergrast <pendergr@***.EDU>
Subject:	Re: PuWa's guide part 3
Date:	Sun, 26 May 1996 18:03:03 -0700 (PDT)

> ><bungee snip>
> >
> >> And yes, the bungee jumpdown the dam in Goldeneye... But we are
> >> talking Shadowrun, not Stallone movies, and in *my* shadowrun
> >> sessions, when someone bungee jumps down from ahelicopter, he
> >> gets chopped up by the rotors when he comes up again. :)
> >
> > Umm... physics generally don't work that way... if you bungee jmp
> >off of something, you are not going to come back up to a point higher
> >than you lept off of... you are going to com up short actually, due to
> >velocity lost to friction. If you jump out of a chopper, you aren't
> >going to hit the rotor...
> >
> >
> > ---Tom---

> But the cord will. OOPS!
>
> Sasquatch

Umm.. no: the cord shouldn't either: it not going to come up any
higher than the person, really. Besides, the downward force from the rotor
would push it dow, even if it did come up... jumping out of a chopper is
really no different than jumping off of a bridge or balloon;


---Tom---