Comments on: “Moonwalk” http://schissel.org/?p=215 a new idea each week Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:01:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: jason.schissel http://schissel.org/?p=215#comment-32775 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:43:09 +0000 http://schissel.org/?p=215#comment-32775 ok, actually I don't think this would work very well. If you were rigidly affixed to your flotation device, you would have to push it up (against air resistance) as you jumped. This would limit you significantly. If you were non-rigidly affixed, your jump would just "shorten the tether" as the balloon slowly rose (and your body rose quickly), rather than moving the whole system up. on the other hand: www.parabounce.com ok, actually I don’t think this would work very well.

If you were rigidly affixed to your flotation device, you would have to push it up (against air resistance) as you jumped. This would limit you significantly.

If you were non-rigidly affixed, your jump would just “shorten the tether” as the balloon slowly rose (and your body rose quickly), rather than moving the whole system up.

on the other hand: www.parabounce.com

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