Choking game, also known as the fainting game

Re:Choking game, also known as the fainting game by AstralStorm on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:50AM (#20326571)

Actually it is much lower, because people who skydive tend to carefully check safety and many motorbike drivers don't - and other road users do not take care either.

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Re:Choking game, also known as the fainting game by londons_explore on Monday July 01, 2019 @02:13PM (#20328111)

Skydiving in the USA has one death per 130k jumps. Since a jump from a typical 14k feet takes about 60 seconds of freefall, that means there is a death every 2,200 skydive-hours.

There were 390 motorcyclist deaths per billion vehicle miles in the USA in 2006. Assuming motorbikes average ~40mph (between city and highway), that works out a death every 64,000 motorbike-hours.

So skydiving is significantly more dangerous per unit time.

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