mathoda.com » base jumping http://mathoda.com the stories, poems, essays, biography, and projects of Ranjit S. Mathoda Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:16:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 When humans become flying squirrels http://mathoda.com/2009/01/when-humans-become-flying-squirrels http://mathoda.com/2009/01/when-humans-become-flying-squirrels#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:10:48 +0000 Ranjit Mathoda http://mathoda.com/?p=549 In my short story A Long Way Down the characters jump from a space station in advanced space suits and plummet through the atmosphere, all the way to Earth, a kind of futuristic bungee cord jumping.

Reality is catching up to my fiction. Behold, the human flying squirrel: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399

(Notice how they mention getting bored by the less insane jumps? That’s what I imagined in my story as well. Humanity is remarkably able to get bored by things that are ridiculously cool if they are repeated too many times…)

]]> http://mathoda.com/2009/01/when-humans-become-flying-squirrels/feed 2