Skydiving With Umbrellas Is a Bad Idea
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- I try to jump off things with umbrellas to see if it slows me down
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To be fair, I also became a scientist when I tried testing grocery bags being used as parachutes
Haha me too, i jump and use big Plastic bag as parachute
Yeah same! But I ended up landing to hospital
My childhood
🕴😎
Trash bags work better.
“So I started out in my backyard trying this on my kids play set”
*_Finally, some real fuckin’ science_*
That's what I love about this guy he actually does things
I felt that too
ABAHHAHAAHA YES
Lol
Lol
“Honey, what’s the neighbor doing this time”
“I think he is trying to be Mary Poppins”
“I’M MARY POPPINS Y’ALL!”
_Yondu entered the chat_
@@aidancommenting thanks
@@DMGSL Yondu: he may have been your father boy, but he wasn't ya daddy.
Me: 🥺😢😭
@@Happy_Shaikh bro, you edited it but it's still wrong💀
Don’t jump off playsets with umbrellas, kids. Leave it to the professionals.
*single professionals
id like to be a professional umbrella jumper offer when i grow up
Lol
Leave it to Mary Poppins, kids.
I can’t believe someone actually tested this, I thought I was the only one who wanted to know this lol
ok thanks for telling me, I’ll leave the umbrellas at home and jump without them 👍
It's the ground that's jumping. You are there completely still in space.
@@MThomasB are you ok
@@MThomasB are you ok
@@MThomasB are you ok
He received enlightenment
nah dude this will actually help me with my all achievements speedrun if i use 2 umbrellas, i will take 98 damage instead of the full 100 so thanks
😂
Just use the kfc glider
Only genshin impact players will understand
@@yoslam69 😂😂😂
@@yoslam69 what's your psn 🤔
@@Gatsu_Gambino what's a psn
I remember that when I was a kid I used to jump with my brothers from the house roof (10 ft +) with umbrellas… long story short. We all have lower back problems now and I indeed remember having lower back and knees pain after jumping form the roof.
Where were your parents?
@@bigboibejamin3776 cheering them on
@@casandra0 did she become a butterfly?
@@badgoogle9938 Nah. Sometimes catapillers dont transform
i used to do that off my couch 😌
6 year olds:
“I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that”
I hope so......
I would to 😑
I used B A G S
Well 6 year olds are more lighter so maybe it'll work just a little bit?
@@strawbso when I was younger I would say in my head: what happened if i used...bags?
That’s literally part of a story by Astrid Lindgren, childhood classic here: Madicken a Swedish girl wants to learn how to fly so she jumps of the roof of the shed with and umbrella and gets a concussion. Moral of the story, don’t do it kids.
oh hey i know this book
Oh you also said the story! 🤣
:0 i was looking for the name so long! Thank you!
Finnish people also like Astrid Lindgren's work :)
@@HONNEKI Norwegians too. Love Emil i Lönneberga, Mio Min Mio, Pippi Långstrump, Bröderna Lejonhjärta... the list goes on!
Mary Poppins: “*Do not believe everything you see on the internet*”
**flys away**
With a single freaking balloon. Ma’am weighs less than a dang feather.
Ur pfp where I watch :0
Oh, I just commented a similar thing XD
👁👄👁
Fortnite
"...and I took offense to that."
- Mary Poppins
Rip yondu😭😭😭
ive been looking for this comment for a solid minute now, thank you
@@blueproductions4856 respect to you sir
Mary Poppins is a grandmaster with the umbrella. She can make it work.
Also Mary Poppins: "Amateurs!"
“Skydiving with umbrellas is a bad idea”
Guy who skydived without a parachute but landed on a giant net: *hold my beer*
Or that guy who skydived with a wingsuit and landed on a bunch of cardboard boxes
But the guy who did the parachuteless dive didn’t have umbrellas, so, wtf?🤔🧐🙄🤦♂️🤡🤷♂️
I used to jump off my playset when I was a little kid with an enormous umbrella and the size of the umbrella combined with my 40 pound body (I was a small kid) actually made for a significantly slower decent than my regular M/O of jumping off it without my umbrella.
This alone makes it sound like you have the greatest childhood ever
God... I shoulda done that !!!
Your life was nice
Same!
@@evanreloadingbazookagaming1699 well… haha at least it was fun at first lol
Literally everyone wanted to know this. Everyone.
Then why are there not 7 billion views on the video?
@@russ_carspotta not everyone is online rn
@@russ_carspotta Ah yes, Everyone can afford internet. I like the way you think
I tried this as a kid. It left me with disappointment and a twisted ankle.
@@LilmeMusic YES everyone can afford internet theoretically
If they sell their kidney ofc
his tone at the end had me dead
"But that actually sounds VERY optimistic; I'm sure that these things would not hold up while falling through the sky-"
"it took me a 10th of a second less to get to the ground while holding the umbrellas"
So the umbrellas made you fall faster?
I heard that too
10th of a second LESS
@@theparkourgamer5857 yea so less time to hit the ground with the umbrellas. Should have taken him longer if it slowed down.
@@theparkourgamer5857 yes, less. If someone ran 100m a 10th of a second LESS than someone else then they obviously beat that person.
Less time over the same distance = faster
@@PrismZet oh right… my brain dont work sometimes
Fun Fact: I used to jump down about 16 steps in my house with an umbrella, as a kid. Idk why I did it, and idk how my legs aren't broken, but I did it...
Did you die?
The only logical answer to that is youre sasuke
I used to do the same except it did slowed down my landing. Maybe cuz i was light
@@PoggusAmogus Sadly, yes... But I lived!
I used to do the same thing too could hear the rush of wind in your ears like you were running on a windy day the floor getting closer then the impact a tuck and a roll. As a kid I feel like it was safer than it would be as an adult, less weight.
"could you go skydiving with umbrellas?"
"Why yes, I am an idiot with a death wish"
They should make umbrella parashoots so people skydiving can be like “I’m marry popins y’all”
Ode' to Gardians of the Galaxie 2
Chutes"
Parachute is offended
Rip Yondu
I heard that in Yondus voice lmao
Do you think the reason that they don’t work well is the fact that there isn’t enough area to effectively slow you down, or is the cloth thin enough that at the speed of the fall, it doesn’t trap the air and slow your descent, but it flows through the cloth which makes it less effective? Is it a combination of the two? Would it work better from a higher distance?Edit: I do realize he did a full length video about this, but he didn’t address the density of the fabric, and whether air would flow through it
Umbrellas are waterproof therefore are "pretty good" at stopping air but are obviously less effective than a parachute.
As to the area of stopping, how parachutes work is by simply using the inertia of air it touches to slow it down - in simple terms it tries to accelerate all the mass of air under the cloth instead of the person's mass alone.
Umbrellas dont cover a large enough area to provide enough mass of air to save your life because air is too light. Having one would be handy, dual wielding would make the two together about 75% effective because one will have to be angled slightly.
Also umbrellas tend to break if they experience high forces anyway as seen by them being utterly killed by wind
Basically open your umbrella close to the ground to maximise its effect before it breaks (air is denser near ground), but assuming its an immortal umbrella it would slow you down by approx 5-20% the value a proper parachute would provide meaning you still need to land in a hay stack or a forest to break the fall
@@asmaar566 opening the umbrella at terminal velocity would probably just immediately fold back the arms that support it. You'd definitely want to ride it the whole way down if possible. You'll slow down a little, but eventually you'll hit "umbrella terminal velocity" and hit the ground, just a bit slower than if you hadn't used it at all.
@@OtherDalfite but, in the showed experiment, Action Lab actually had attached supports so that it wouldn’t fold back. While in practical use a umbrella wouldn’t have the extra support, the umbrella showed did. However, I agree with your statements
@@asmaar566 you seem very knowledgeable, and I thank you for answering my question! I agree with what you said, and upon reflection it makes sense that umbrellas are waterproof, meaning they would trap the air quite effectively
@@elijahbadgett5994 oh I must have missed the part where he mentioned the supports. Yeah if the supporting arms were strong enough, the slightly higher speed of falling at normal terminal velocity WOULD give you a temporary slow down boost until you hit umbrella assisted terminal velocity. However, I think the affected acceleration would only last maybe a few seconds if that.
“Um, this is a bad idea”
“Ok”
Why does this guy talk and look like he's always really uncomfortable? He reminds me of that smile through the pain meme of the old man.
Hide the pain Harold?
@@evergaming7960 yeah! Have you seen his Ted Talk lol (not joking)
Maybe high functioning autistic like me :))
@@evergaming7960 what is your announcement???
YOU SPEAK OF HIDE THE PAIN HAROLD??
I need to experiment, only by jumping out of a plane. (Gotta make sure he is not scamming us)
I wanna see can I join?
did it work?
@@necaton getting in the plane now
@@Maximus_prime08 to late ._.
@@boss.2206 darn did it work tho?
"Sorry, guys, my wife said no."
Fun fact: you can actually go skydiving without a parachute
But only once….
Bro how did you come up with that? You’re actually a genius
what if you land on a giant pillow
@@richraichu1370 you can only still do it once
Fair enough, why don't you try your amazing idea?
@@alexanderrichards6403 ok ill try
I tried this as a kid 😂😂
Now I have a collection of wheelchairs.
Did this off my bunk bed as a kid too😂
I friend this so many times😂😂 let’s just say I have had 5 broken bones from “falling” off my roof
“Why isn’t it possible?”
“It’s just not.”
“Why not, you stupid bastard.”
😂
At one point, we all tried to fly with an umbrella.
True enough.
Even my kid, AFTER THEY WATCHED THIS VIDEO 🤦♀️
yep
*I'm Mary Poppins y'all!!!*
the first time I can remember touching an umbrella was when I was like 5-7 so I highly doubt I did that, partly because I can almost never relate to other peoples childhood or most things people did as children. It gets frustrating but eh, it is what it is
My little brother tried this as a toddler when a big gust of wind came along. I miss him.
*Spits water*
Um-
Hopefully you’ll find him one day
Reminds me of a story my brother told me. When he was an active duty Marine they jumped out windows at there barracks with bed sheets during a hurricane.
oh. I hope your better now. sorry for your loss. My brother too had got blown away by the wind when he was just a tot.😭
I think the reason you fall FASTER when holding umbrellas is that you hold umbrellas parallel to your body in order to use them properly, which means you have to angle your feet towards Earth in order for the umbrellas to supposedly slow you down. This means that your profile relative to the air is much smaller than if you spread-eagled and fell face down with all your limbs out. So you’d be like a rod falling to terra firma impacting a small area at your terminal velocity and weight, which translates to big crash (maybe even explosion) and certain death. By putting your feet down below you as you fell, you would have far less wind resistance the umbrellas cannot compensate for.
You COULD put the umbrellas pointed down, hook the handles under your arm pits, and have a VERY unwieldy and unreliable “wing suit”, but an ACTUAL wing suit would be superior. Plus, wing suits don’t make you fall slower, they help you control the direction where you fall, you will still need a parachute to make safe ground contact.
And if you strapped the umbrellas at 90 degree angles to your arms via some kind of aluminum frame (aluminum to keep it light) so that you CAN fall face-down and spread-eagled, you’re still not getting much benefit from the umbrellas because your body is already blocking most of the air going into the umbrella. So the amount the umbrellas would slow you down further is FAR less than you would expect. You would have to put the umbrellas in strategic spots to maximize the surface area, AND IT WOULD ONLY WORK IF YOU ARE FACE-DOWN FALLING FLAT. The moment you change ANYTHING about your position, the umbrellas would be out of alignment to a SEVERE DEGREE, and a system that adjusts the umbrella angle on the fly to allow some freedom to move around while falling would be limited by the limitations of the umbrella.
In short, using umbrellas doesn’t solve problems, and they create new ones. Just use a wing suit, and a parachute, like most normal people.
Afraid of breaking his legs yet he jumps from an odd shapped plastic platform.
It's a slide 😂
@@leviosarwingardium yes, but i was describing the actual surface he was standing on.
@@leviosarwingardium cause if I said slide, people would think he jumped off the flat part of a slide, when he actually jumped off the rounded railing.
@@junatah5903 Oh okay. I had a feeling you knew it was a slide and wanted to say it in a more creative way. But idk i just think maybe i should point it out just in case 😅
@@leviosarwingardium lol, understandable.
Finally!! Us Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, & Wiley Coyote kids needed this answered 😂😂
....for science, of course
@@maxk4324 of course 🤣
As a kid, I did a “Mary Poppins”
OFF a 2nd floor balcony over 20ft up!!
I loved how Mary Pippins gracefully glides down.
Umbrella flips up like in high winds. Sprained an elbow but neighbor hopped over a 6ft fence to scoop me up.
It was a quick exhilarating fall!! Although it scared the bejesus outta me!!!
(Scaling the balcony up n down using a rope w/ knots. That was fun!!!)
Everyone: "Ooooh, I've been waiting for this..."
Me: "How did he get his clothes dried so quickly?"
He did both attempts at separate times. Probably to avoid the wet clothes affecting the experiment?
@@multiversetraveller3118 he’s a bit slow, I’m pretty sure he gets it now
He use Magic like Loki to dry his cloth
@@kakyoin5713 lol
how do you know how much time elapsed between each experiment?
The real question is how big of an umbrella would you need to skydive?
Probably a parachute sized one. And the material would need to be top of the line, way better than the average umbrella. And I'd want it strapped to my back with lots of support strings, I wouldn't trust myself to hang on the whole way down. I think they might call this thing a parachute though...
@@rickandrygel913 lol
@@rickandrygel913 you stole my comment! Lol. I was about to say "a parachute sized umbrella"
or how many you'd need?
@@rickandrygel913 so simply put a parachute?
Ending Mary Poppin’s whole existence.
His physique and movement proves that he really is a scientist.
Bet you were a bully in school huh?
@@WillPrimo I don't understand?
Lol fucking nope...its the same as anyone😐
He looks like the Todd Howard small face meme
This is definitely false, I saw Mary Poppins do it before
-Some 7 year old
HE HAS UMBRELLAS OPEN IN HIS HOUSE!!! THATS BAD LUCKKK!!!!!!!!
When it takes *LESS* time to reach the ground holding umbrellas.
Yeah wtf? Did it really do that (why?!), or did he say it backwards by mistake?
I used to do that as a kid, too. I'd
Jump off side of my back patio hat was about 7 or 8 feet from the ground with an umbrella. It didnt work so well and I ended up getting in trouble for busting one of the thin metal bars that pop the umbrella open and support it.
So I decided grocery bags were a betutter Idea, anyway. The umbrella obviously didnt work for me. But the grocery bags did a little bit. (Or so my child brain led me to believe! Lol.) Occasionally I would use a garbage bag, but the grocery bags were better, because they had arm holes in them! 😄😆
I mean, sure the bag tended to not get as much air in it, and sometimes it wouldn't get any it seemed. But I believed it worked enough that
I did it for a year or 2, and even got my old sister to join in. I think my older brother did as well once or twice, and he was 6-7 years older than me, and I was about 6 or 7.
Edit: Haha. I'm so glad to see that there were a lot of other kids who did this same thing, in some form or another. Makes me feel a bit normal.
😁
Nah u ain’t normal u the only one using the grocery bag armholes to parachute with
Wtf is a “back patio hat”, we wonders?🤔🧐🙄🤦♂️🤡💩💩🤷♂️
^betutter?🧐🧐🧐
^Where are you seeing that others did this too? Have you hit your head or something?🧐🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡🤷♂️
"Why women live longer than men?"
"Yeah, that's weird"
Us:
The real question: How many umbrellas would be comparable to a parachute?
Michael from Vsauce needs to get on that.
Probably 7
@@shadownode5970 what if I'm fat?
@@jeffersarmy depends, how fat?
@@Memer9456 my 5 year plan includes getting on "my 600 pound life"
Fun fact, you don’t need a parachute to go skydiving.
*You only need a parachute to go skydiving twice*
I didn’t know that. Ima go try it! Thanks for the advice! I’ll update you later.
No, no. He has a point.
@@funniguy5703 indeed
@@Aguywandering waitno-
@@BigOlGooberr chuga cha
What if somebody tried skydiving with a bunch of umbrellas but they also had a parachute on them for actual use
Not all of us can be a Mary Poppins.
Indeed
Mary Poppins' umbrella is overpowered. Normal umbrella would just flip due to air resistance.
But some of us, like me, can ruin 69 likes
@@thelocalnecromancer1224 ok and
Yondu can be.
The umbrella would have snap itself backwards. Like a backward umbrella
He's got strings supporting the shell of the umbrella.
That's actually my childhood dream ..
Me: Mom, can we have Mark Rober?
Mom: We have Mark Rober at home.
Mark Rober at home:
Todd Howard at home
Mom, Can we have a bad comparison of 2 different people who have different topics?
Mom: sure.
And this comment was it.
you must be new
Lame
5 yo' old me: I want to Skydive with Umbrella, When I grow up..
Me after this: ok, I will rather try balloons :)
The cover will fold up and you’ll just have more momentum than without them. It happens with high winds on Earth, so falling through the atmosphere will probably rip the cover off and pull the ribs perpendicularly toward the top of the shaft
Fun fact: Jackie Chan jumped off from a 4 or 5 storey building with 3 umbrellas. And of course he survived with no injuries…
Oh god, when I was young (I would say 7 year old) I genuinely thought holding an umbrella would make me fall slowly... I jumped off a platform (that's what Google translate told me the stairs kinda things besides sports' fields are called) with an umbrella and sprained my ankle
I think you can tell it didn't happen how I pictured it lol
Bahahaha!!! This brings back memories! I remember when I was about 7 years old, I was watching Looney toons, on one of the episodes a character used a sheet as a parachute and I thought it was soo cool lol. So I go grab a sheet from a drawer, and go outside to climb our shed. It was about 10 ft high. I immediately jumped, and tried to use the sheet as a parachute, but it did absolutely nothing lol. I still feel that landing to this day! I always was and still am very resilient. So I didn't break any bones thankfully, but the shock and the pain I felt in my legs was something else lol. I remember just sitting there in my back yard, in pain. I didn't cry, but I just sat there kneeling in the grass for like 5 minutes. Didn't say a thing. I think I was just sitting there trying to process wtf just happened and what went wrong as pain pulsates through my feet and legs 😂
“She was afraid I would break my legs and I was too”
Dude… it’s like a four foot drop.
And he's a 4ft dude so it would be a longer fall
Beta male
@@gossamercheese8858 blue pilled
The swingset looks about 6 ft tall. It’s pretty easy to hurt yourself on a 6 ft drop. Also, you can hurt yourself on any size drop if you land wrong. However, they were clearly exaggerating with the “break my legs” part; they just meant they were afraid he’d hurt himself.
He's also older but alright
"this is a bad idea", yes, yes it is.
Phew! Thanks for the warning, i were just about to skydive with a couple of umbrella's! 🙃
I’ve never seen someone with eyes this close together before
"I'm Mary Poppins y'all!"
- Yondu
That was what in my imagination. Thank you for realizing it
The important part is that he let his kids watch and that makes him a good dad... except for if they start trying things like this. But kids never imitate their parents and/or do fun(ny) things.
I cannot help to notice that this guy's eyes are really close together.
better to see u with, my dear
I scrolled to find this comment. Thank you.
😆 🤦🏾♂️
You're not here for that.
I was in the comments to see if someone said it thanks
Fun fact: the inventor of the parachute tried to get someone to test his invention, no one did so he tested it himself and fell to his death. His invention was a huge jacket that acted like a umbrella when falling. All though it didn’t work to well
“Uhm, this is a bad idea.”
*“K.”*
This dude's cool and all but he reminds me off when I'd accidentally put the eyes on my miis to close together
Great. Now I can't unsee that
Its weird that his eyes don't actually look physically farther apart. I think its the wide beard and the hair on the sides of his head
I think he just has a small face in comparison to the rest of his head, which is why it catches you off guard. It’s pretty common though.
Hey! Thats really miin
@@spewdog lol
Those are some strong umbrellas. I've seen way to many people's umbrellas break just because it's a windy day. Lots of them go inside out, and for others that can't go inside out I've just seen the fabric blow off it completelt
Him: I'm sure these wouldn't stay up in the sky
Mary Poppins: you dare oppose me mortal
Plot twist: the kids tell their parents to get off their electronics and play outside
Jumping from trees with taped together bin bags is one of those "fun" childhood memories
The combination of a surface area and lightweight children actually kinda made it work
Me, an actual skydiver: guess we will have to put it on practice..
No one:
My mind for no reason whatsoever: "You don't need a parachute to go sky diving! ...you need a parachute to go sky diving twice" 😂 I'm sorry
I wish you would have tried something like five umbrellas in each hand, you probably have to extend the handles so you could allow them to be spread out evenly. That might have actually been enough to significantly slow you down, especially with a higher drop.
The umbrellas turn inside out when there is heavy wind, forget jumping out of the plane with them
We can make stronger ones though
observe the video clearly, he tied ep up the ends so they wouldn't go inside out and don't let an umbrella JUST DO IT
Personally I see umbrellas being better as stabilizers in the air that something that would slow your fall
His carer has given up telling him she's not his wife...
This dude: wants to know if umbrellas help slow ur fall.
Rwby fans: "sounds familiar"
NEO
Dudes eyes are so close together, I imagine his sunglasses are just one lens in the middle.
I was thinking the same thing 😂
Umbrellas are basically improvised parachutes
Yes Mary Poppins sadly would never share how she did it.
This is why you shouldn’t try being like Mary Poppins XD
"I'm Mary Poppins y'all."
"these probably wouldn't hold up thru the sky"
The entire internet: *ya no shit* 🤣🤣
LMBO
I'm going to ignore this and continue to believe in the magic of Mary Poppins, and nobody can stop me.
We have a Swedish children's book made by Astrid Lindgren which also became a few movies, about a girl called Madicken (no joke) that is set to be around the first World War.
Madicken does this exact same thing where she takes an umbrella and jumps off the roof of a big shed, and knocks herself out.
Seeing you do this immediately made me think of her.
I once was holding an umbrella and randomly decided to jump on a slightly downwards hill, I broke the umbrella and my Asian parents were... Very happy lets say :')
"I'm Mary Poppins y'all!"
Hes so proper.." we TOOK to the water "...lol love this guy
This is literally an experiment my friends and I conducted in elementary school on the playground. This man has a child’s brain.
Lol
"On my kids playset"
Jesus, this man has procreated already
If he keeps that up he'll "have to wear an ankle bracelet" ⁽ˢᵒˢ ᶜᵃˡˡᵇᵃᶜᵏ⁾
Oh thank you, I was planning to go skydiving with umbrellas tomorrow, you may as well have saved my life!
"It took me a tenth of a second less to get to the ground while holding the umbrellas"...🤔 So your terminal velocity increased after adding the umbrellas? That doesn't make sense. Did you mean to say it took you a tenth of a second longer to get to the ground?
Wondering the same
I think it was an errir
He’s kind of the worst “scientist” on UA-cam
Dude, instead of buying all these umbrellas how about buying a razor, that shit is gnarly bro...
Bruh why you gotta do science man like that
"I'm Mary Poppins y'all!🤠☔"
Wow, the guy really figured out to the end, that an umbrella wouldn't hold together whilst freefalling? GENIUS!!!
They'd turn inside out instantly. You'd have to make super sturdy poles and those which wouldn't. And make the umbrellas thicker and just keep adding. Stack them in a kind of pyramid shape. Like add 1 more over top & in the middle where the bottom 2 meet. Then make the next pyramid with 3 on bottom and 2 on top, I'd say go ahead and add that last on top in the middle like you did the last one. I think though at some point you'll just have to start combing thicknesses and increase as much that way as outwardly obvious. It might be as bug as an hot air balloon or blimp or something fit eventually you'll be able to not kill yourself if you want to use them as your parachute.
I can see his kid in the playhouse thinking, "I'm going to jump off the roof tonight with those when dad's asleep.
Lol, this is totally something that my brother and I would have tried as kids. We tried something similar with plastic grocery bags strapped around our arms, jumping off the back of the couch. It never seemed to work! Thanks for making a video of this and for sharing it with us!
you saved someone's life with this short
Man jumped in the water with a whole ass belt on
“Mary Poppins 3:a spoonful of cocain”