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Clearly a candidate for a Darwin Award

• sideshowb 7y ago
  No more so than any casualty of extreme sports like climbing, biking, paragliding etc. It's cliche but I'd like to think the man died doing something he loved: piloting a home-made rocket. The world is a richer place for people like him following their passion.
  • eejjjj82 7y ago
    uhhh.... i'm pretty sure we're going to find several orders of magnitude difference between 'extreme sports' (except maybe base jumping) and 'homemade rocketry' this infographic isn't exactly authoritative... but it's sort of fun to look at: https://www.tetongravity.com/story/news/your-chances-of-dying-ranked-by-sport-and-activity https://www.tetongravity.com/story/news/your-chances-of-dyin...
    • sideshowb 7y ago
      But there are several orders of magnitude between different extreme sports. The principle is the same either way imo.