Technically, we consider arriving at the atmosphere-terrain interface without the canopy in a fully deployed configuration to be a “failure” condition. Unless, of course, you’ve let a German scientist experiment on you in a top secret government super-soldier program, in which case you should probably use your perfect teeth and imposing stature to hook up with the neighbor across the hall who keeps subtly flirting with you. Sure, she may be spying on you at the behest of your boss, but what better way to find out the truth, and besides, she might actually be interested in you (like every other woman in the Western Hemisphere–“Ask for her number, you moron!”) and she doesn’t appear to have any awkward lip piercings, obvious tattoos, or any other hangups that your 'Thirties era sensibility would find objectionable.
I had a point when I began this post but it has since escaped like a cybernetically enhanced Soviet master assassin.
Stranger