Bungee Cord facts
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While Erin Langworthy was bungee jumping 360 feet above the Zambezi river, the cord broke and she was forced to swim the raging waters with her feet tied together, at one point diving to free the rope from debris.
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A Pizza Hut manager during the Joplin tornado saved many lives by herding customers into a walk in freezer and bungee cording his arm to the freezer door before being sucked into the tornado and killed.
What is inside a bungee cord?
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NASA has a detailed set of written procedures for dealing with a suicidal or psychotic astronaut in space. The astronaut's crewmates should bind his wrists and ankles with duct tape, tie him down with a bungee cord and inject him with tranquilizers if necessary.
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A man tried to bungee jump off a 70-foot bridge in Virginia. He made his own 70-foot bungee cord by tying several bungee chords together. Unfortunately, he didn't realize that bungee chords stretch, and died.
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In 2008 a South African man bungee jumped from 100ft, using a cord made only of 18,500 condoms
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If an astronaut lose it in space, their colleagues are supposed to bind their wrists and ankles with duct tape, tie them down with bungee cord, and tranquillise them.
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Objects such as trampolines, rubber bands, and bungee cords all have elastic potential energy.
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In 1997, a man died bungee jumping off a railroad trestle. He taped together several bungee cords measuring longer than the distance he was jumping.
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Blue Whales (and other rorqual whales) can engulf an amount of water larger than the volume of their own body. This is because the nerves of their mouth and tongue stretch to double their length and recoil like a bungee cord, without damaging the nerve fibers.
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About Carl Mosca Dionisio who tied 18,500 condoms together and used it as a bungee cord
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Steve Trotter, the same guy who went down Niagra Falls in a barrel, and did the 'Tarzan Swing' across the golden gate bridge, attempted a similar swing on the Sunshine Skyway, but the 5 daredevils broke their bungee cord during the stunt, falling around 70 feet into water.
