[TheForge] on death and dying.OT

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

I have hung in a harness trimming trees before and it gets painful 
relatively quickly.   That is why real tree saddles have a wooden seat 
you sit on.     Regarding the balancing act, here is a good site on a 
homebuilt Segway with caveats. 

Charles

Grover Richardson wrote:

>If it was easy, or cheap, someone would already have on one the market<G>.
>Anything ADA related is hideously expensive.  The govt funds bunches of it,
>there are the liability aspects, and of course, each and every unit must be
>tailored to the specific specifications of the individual, so each one is a
>custom fit.
>
>In order for it to be unconditionally stable, it should have either a large
>footprint, or 3 legs<G>.  Look at the walking robots they have today.  
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>As far as standing in a rig without leg support, have you ever hung in a
>parachute??  If you have no muscular support, this is similar to hanging in
>a parachute, very constrictive to blood flow I would suspect (Hey jarheads
>out there, am I wrong???, tar heel here<G>).  And seriously
>uncomfortable<G>.
>
>Still, brainstorming is good.  It's much simpler to figure out how things
>will go wrong, than to try them and have to cut them up into scrap<G>.
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>Woof
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