Best (or most interesting) way to die?

[tshirts]

With a name like that you may appreciate my “favorite” way to die. It’s the scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey where one astronaut looses his line and drifts out into space, to become a tiny moon.

If you gotta go (and they say it’s true), that’s a classy way to do it.

[SpinneZiege]

On a more serious note, I would have to say that the way to go would be through something where the odds of making it out are slim to none. Like an extreme sport. Not that crap on ESPN, but EXTREME. Like those solar flare surfers in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Now that’s the way to end it all.

[AWB]

*Originally posted by Tristan *
Me, I would like to steal a freshly fueled 747 from some airport near DC, and then ram it (empty of passengers, save self) into an emergency joint session of congress and senate.

After getting the plane, hitting a target in DC shouldn’t be too hard. One guy already tried it with a small plane and the White House, and crashed on the lawn. He was drunk, otherwise he might’ve hit his target.

The gov’t says they could defend against such an attack. I say BS! My office window overlooks DC from the Lincoln Memorial to the Library of Congress, with planes taking off or landing from/to Reagan Airport all the time. Within 30 seconds of takeoff, a plane could crash into any one of several federal structures.

[SpinneZiege]

*Originally posted by AWB *
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The gov’t says they could defend against such an attack. I say BS! My office window overlooks DC from the Lincoln Memorial to the Library of Congress, with planes taking off or landing from/to Reagan Airport all the time. Within 30 seconds of takeoff, a plane could crash into any one of several federal structures. **

Another case I heard of was that of “flying saucers” back in the fifties. Betcha they didn’t see that one coming!

[MonkeyMan]

SpinneZiege sed

On a more serious note, I would have to say that the way to go would be through something where the odds of making it out are slim to none. Like an extreme sport. Not that crap on ESPN, but EXTREME. Like those solar flare surfers in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Now that’s the way to end it all.

I guess that’s extreme. I like Space Moose’s take on extreme sports:

[Fiver]

AWB:

After getting the plane, hitting a target in DC shouldn’t be too hard. One guy already tried it with a small plane and the White House, and crashed on the lawn. He was drunk, otherwise he might’ve hit his target.

There was another actual case even closer to Tristan’s scenario. In 1974 [url=“http://www.prop1.org/park/pave/rev9.htm”]Sam Byck attempted to hijack an airliner at BWIA. His objective was to crash the plane into the White House and kill Nixon, but police shot him to death before he was able to take flight.

[Caliban]

I’d want to be beheaded so I could find out once and for all how long the head remains conscious after decapitation.

–Caliban

[Spritle]

Caliban, I’ve often wondere that myself, but the true scientist in me must wonder, once you found out, how could you communicate that information?

In my re-read, I noticed that I, true to form, used, perhaps unnecessarily so, a God-aweful number of commas.

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Darn.

I thought this thread was about the best or most interesting way to diet. Such as, “Surround yourself with gorgeous babes so you’ll be too busy pleasuring them to think about food” or “Cut off your left arm to lose a quick 5-10 pounds.”