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a leap of faith with a contract clause that physics actually honors.
means An elasticized cord that stretches under load and snaps back, used to secure objects or to break the fall of someone jumping from a height.
from "Bungee" began as British schoolboy and dialect slang for a rubber or eraser in the 19th century, a word of obscure imitative origin — possibly echoing something springy or squishy, though no firm root is known. It drifted toward meaning stretchy elastic cord, and was launched into worldwide fame in 1979 when members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club tied themselves to such cords and leapt off a bridge, giving us "bungee jumping."
- origin word
- named after stretchy rubber cords from the 1930s
- first jumpers
- Oxford daredevils leapt off a bridge in 1979
- vine roots
- Vanuatu men dive with literal vines, no rope
- the stretch
- a good cord doubles its length mid-fall
- the rebound
- you bounce several times before hanging still
kawarau bridge jump — first commercial bungee jump, queenstown new zealand, 1988
bloukrans bridge jump — highest commercial bungee jump at 216m, south africa
verzasca dam jump — 190m jump featured in james bond film goldeneye, switzerland