Re: Hockey, Curling and other sports (some futuristic)

Quoting ShldWulf@aol.com:

> In a message dated 2/25/02 11:55:51 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
> KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de writes:
> 
> 
> > > As in Competitive Atmospheric Rentry?  *That* ought to be
> interesting.
> > > Talk about having a meteoric career...and going out in a blaze of
> > > glory....
> > 
> > Well, given the mad sports some people do today, I bet they will
> figure out
> > how to do that (and with few casualties)
> > 
> > 
> 
> I would point out that this has already been brought up as a sport
> sortof.
> 
> 1. The cut begining of Star Trek:Generations, Kirk was supposed to be 
> "skydiving" from orbit, prior to going out to the launching of the new
> 
> Enterprise.
> 
> 2. In an episode of Voyger, B'lanna does a high dive in the holo-deck
> and 
> cuts the safety protocals to nil to encite a sense of "danger." She
> acted 
> like it was a pretty standard sport at the time.
> 
> Randy
> 

I have friends who are, at the present time, on a heli-snowboarding
holiday.

They jump out of helicopters and slide down hills on snowboards. "Yeah, 
it's /virgin/ snow - it's GREAT". They're doing this because it's not
skydiving 
season in the UK and most of them have written off their superbikes.

Me, I go go-kart racing occaisionally. Like maybe once a year. Except
last 
Easter I broke my knee doing it. I'm *STILL* on crutches, and the
current 
expectation is that I'm unlikely to be walking again before the one year

anniversary.

Some people are suited to dangerous sports. I've gone right off them.
But I can 
think of at least three people I know who would give "Competitive
Atmospheric 
Rentry" a try.

On the bright side, I did get a lot of the new Stargrunt stuff painted
while 
flaked out on the sofa last week recovering from surgery on it. I just
have to 
find the crates with the terrain in it and reassemble my table and I can
start