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i wonder if it will be discovered as fun to "base-jump" into the net

• mschuster91 4y ago
  Not really, as you will notice and learn that the ropes are damn stiff and have metal ties to form the grid.
  • germinalphrase 4y ago
    In the US, my experience with this style of rope structure is that the ropes are actually steep cables encases in fiber or nylon rope sheathing. There is no stretch, so landings are immediate (unlike falling onto an actual rope net).
    • schoen 4y ago
      I think I've seen that too; why are they made this way? Durability? Supporting more people's weight at once?
      • mschuster91 4y ago
        Same shit as some commercial residential developments here in Germany have: wrong metrics. Like, when the builders' metric is "must last for 20 years at minimal maintenance effort and legal risk", you get radically different results (barely fulfilling the legal definition of playground, no one uses it) than if the metric is "out of the X potential users in the 200m surrounding the playground, Y% use it frequently". The latter costs more money in construction and upkeep.
      • germinalphrase 4y ago
        I was told that the cables reduce the potential for stretch over time, and this is important to maintain safety tolerances (“space x cannot exceed size y because otherwise a child can…”)