LabVIEW Helps a Really High Skydiver

[smercurio_fc]

As seen on LAVA: http://lavag.org/topic/15575-labview-at-the-edge-of-space/

[SnowMule]

Nice find!!

Wish I had the $$ to do something like that.  

[EvenDeejay]

Bah.. Same old ugly Front Panel (Not the structuring of elements, but the graphical design). Every time I see LabVIEW on Discovery Channel etc. there's always the old school looks, except on that Mythbusters episode when the guy from NI was there to measure explosions in water.

[Yamaeda]

How high was he? ;D

/Y

[smercurio_fc]

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@Even Deejay wrote:

Bah.. Same old ugly Front Panel (Not the structuring of elements, but the graphical design). Every time I see LabVIEW on Discovery Channel etc. there's always the old school looks, except on that Mythbusters episode when the guy from NI was there to measure explosions in water.

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I've always wondered why that's the case. I think it's another example of the rule that programmers cannot be graphics artists. If they were the universe would explode.

[jcarmody]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

[...] programmers cannot be graphics artists. If they were the universe would explode.

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It's not as bad as that.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2002-09-23/

[SteveChandler]

I have always insisted that you need to be pretty high to jump out of a plane.

[Ray.R]

It's not the fall that hurts, it's the sudden stop.

The jump he made was ~13 miles high.  He'll attempt 120,000 ft.  That's high!!

[LV_Pro]

"I have always insisted that you need to be pretty high to jump out of a plane." or pretty low. I've jumped out of many a Cessna, while at the tie down! My pilot buddies and I always wondered why anyone would "Jump out of a perfectly good plane".

[Ben]

I used to be Ok with hights until i jumped (yes that was stupid but I was still learning I was mortal at that time) from a 10 ft ladder.

I learned;

acceleration is constant not velocity

a stage floor does not give

and ten feet is long enough to be able to think about what a dumb thing you did before hitting the ground.

Ben