Scared of heights?/crazy Russians (vid)

WhilstI agree it is reckless, there's a lot to be said about thrill seeking - pushing the boundaries sometimes leaps us forwards to new things in life. Don't be so quick to write it off! :)
 
Freefaller said:
WhilstI agree it is reckless, there's a lot to be said about thrill seeking - pushing the boundaries sometimes leaps us forwards to new things in life. Don't be so quick to write it off! :)
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Risking your life for thrills is just stupid, there are a lot of thrills that are far safer than that, go skydiving or white water rafting.
 
Surely skydiving is still risking your life as are any extreme sports... riding a motorbike, cliff walking, rock climbing? No?

Sure, there are mitigating factors in those sports - I can't see the vid so I'm talking blind, but I'm sure we've all done risky silly things in life, if not, I certainly have. Sure it's dangerous, but you don't half feel alive afterwards! It's addictive!
 
Dutch Guy said:
If one falls down at least our average IQ as humans is raised a little.
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What does IQ have to with taking risks? We'd have never have gotten out of caves without the part of our brain that says "Do it! Take a chance!".

Would the average IQ go up if Sir Ranulph Fiennes died whilst doing all the mad crazy stuff he's done? Some of the stuff he's done is far far more dangerous than those videos.
 
Gilly said:
Plenty of better things to do, must be very boring where they live.

Having said that I climbed to the top of one of those gas cylinder frames as a teenager, and walked all around it (whilst the gas cylinder was all the way down), which I suppose would have killed me had I fallen.
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So we can assume it was very boring where you lived?

I would never dream of doing that in a million years.
 
Captain_Slick said:
Does adrenaline differentiate itself? Doubt it.
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You get adrenaline from doing it, but before that is taking the rational decision to do something stupid like standing on a building where a fall can kill you, that is my point.

In the case of the caveman he had no choice, his cavewoman and cavekids were screaming at him that they were hungry so he had to go out and hunt a buffalo or whatever.
 
Dutch Guy said:
You get adrenaline from doing it, but before that is taking the rational decision to do something stupid like standing on a building where a fall can kill you, that is my point.

In the case of the caveman he had no choice, his cavewoman and cavekids were screaming at him that they were hungry so he had to go out and hunt a buffalo or whatever.
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You've missed the point entirely. When I mentioned cavemen, I wasn't referring to the hunting and gathering, I was referring to the exploring the unknown and such. Things that could have be avoided but otherwise weren't. Cave man could have stayed in his cave nice and comfortable, but no, he went out and started new families, explored his surroundings, discovered fire and what not.

There was no need for Columbus to set out into the unknown to discover new worlds, but he did it because that part of his brain egged him on (Plus all that lovely Spanish gold). Now that we live in a world of assured survival, that part of our brain is still active and hasn't gone away and thus you get people doing things like that in the video, like performing solo circumnavigations of the world in a trimaran, like crossing the Antarctic continent in seriously freezing temperatures. There's no need to do these things, but we still do.

The minute we start colonising other planets, that part of our brain will have something potentially useful but just as batpoo crazy to do.
 
Done one or two crazy things in my time too but I'd never do either one of those, not now, maybe when I was a stupid 15-17 year old or something.

The buzz for such things is extremely addictive, to know that you could easily have been killed but managed to do it and tell the tale.

I don't think IQ has anything to do with it either, it's boredom and wanting to see if you're still alive more than anything else.

I think the closest thing to it I do these days is drive a car! :p
 
I wouldn't call that crazy, I'd say it was a pretty dumb idea.

I can understand people taking risks for thrills, but go motorcycle racing, sky-diving or rock climbing. Doing something that a tiny gust of wind could end your life and affect your friends lives forever IS dumb no matter how you look at it.

Remember kids, teh internets, serious business.
 
Kazz said:
I wouldn't call that crazy, I'd say it was a pretty dumb idea.

I can understand people taking risks for thrills, but go motorcycle racing, sky-diving or rock climbing. Doing something that a tiny gust of wind could end your life and affect your friends lives forever IS dumb no matter how you look at it.

Remember kids, teh internets, serious business.
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People die motorcycle racing, sky-diving and rock climbing and end their lives and affect their friends lives forever every day, sometimes through stupidity and sometimes through accident.
 
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