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Comment by foxyv

Sky diving is dangerous, but not that dangerous. A single jump is less dangerous than bunion removal surgery. (0.004% chance of death for skydiving and 0.01% for bunion removal) This puts the LD50 of parachute jumps around 1,700 jumps. (Not exactly something I would do for a job but would try once without worrying too much.)

However, there is definitely the possibility of death from jumping out of an airplane and I don't think any reasonable person would think there isn't.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859333/#:~:tex....

https://edinburghorthopaedics.org/media/cfikoe2l/bunion-corr...

parent foxyv 2 years ago

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