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	:[Cueball falling in the sky facing, his back down, him facing upwards. He has a tall unzipped backpack with a pouch for holding additional items on his back and a skateboard in his hand . Clouds are seen in the background and are in the following panels in different positions]		:[Cueball falling in the sky facing, his back down, him facing upwards. He has a tall unzipped backpack with a pouch for holding additional items on his back and a skateboard in his hand . Clouds are seen in the background and are in the following panels in different positions]

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 :[Cueball talking on his phone, back facing upwards, similar to the first panel]
 :Cueball: Hello, Pro Skate Parks LLC? I'd like an extremely expedited order for a 600-foot halfpipe.
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 :[Cueball talking on his phone, back facing upwards, similar to the first panel]
 :Cueball: Hello, Pro Skate Parks LLC? I'd like an extremely expedited order for a 600-foot halfpipe.
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-:[Cueball falling in the sky facing, his back down, him facing upwards. He has a tall backpack with a pouch for holding additional items on his back and a skateboard in his hand. Clouds are seen in the background and are in the following panels in different positions]
+:[Cueball falling in the sky facing, his back down, him facing upwards. He has a tall unzipped backpack with a pouch for holding additional items on his back and a skateboard in his hand . Clouds are seen in the background and are in the following panels in different positions]
 :Cueball: I guess this is on me. I should really keep my skateboarding gear and my parachutes in different-looking bags.

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-:[Cueball falling in the sky facing, his back down, him facing upwards. He has a tall backpack on his back and a skateboard in his hand. Clouds are seen in the background and are in the following panels in different positions]
+:[Cueball falling in the sky facing, his back down, him facing upwards. He has a tall backpack with a pouch for holding additional items on his back and a skateboard in his hand. Clouds are seen in the background and are in the following panels in different positions]
 :Cueball: I guess this is on me. I should really keep my skateboarding gear and my parachutes in different-looking bags.

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 ==Explanation==
-In this comic, [[Cueball]] appears to have gone {{w|skydiving}}. In mid-fall, he opens what he thought was his parachute, only to discover the bag in fact contains {{w|skateboarding}} gear. This may be a reference to [https://www.ladbible.com/news/us-news/skydiver-final-words-forgot-parachute-ivan-mcguire-367933-20250409 an incident] where a skydiver switched his skydiving equipment for his camera equipment backpack and perished. Cueball blames himself for the error, pointing out that having something that is not a parachute in a bag that looks a lot like a parachute bag is practically inviting disaster.
+In this comic, [[Cueball]] appears to have gone {{w|skydiving}}. In mid-fall, he opens what he thought was his parachute, only to discover the bag in fact contains {{w|skateboarding}} gear. This may be a reference to [https://www.ladbible.com/news/us-news/skydiver-final-words-forgot-parachute-ivan-mcguire-367933-20250409 an incident] where a skydiver switched his skydiving equipment for his camera equipment backpack and died. Cueball blames himself for the error, pointing out that having something that is not a parachute in a bag that looks a lot like a parachute bag is practically inviting disaster.
 After a {{tvtropes|BeatPanel|beat panel}}, Cueball (still in mid-fall) takes out his phone and makes a call to a company responsible for {{w|skatepark}}s, hoping to place an order for a {{w|half-pipe}}. A half-pipe is a skating ramp consisting of a semi-cylindrical surface that forms 180 degrees of a tube, allowing skaters to ascend vertically to perform tricks and then descend onto the same ramp. It seems Cueball's intention is to have a very large half-pipe transported to (or constructed at) his landing zone, then use his skateboard to land on the ramp. From there, he could either transfer his downward velocity into much more survivable horizontal velocity, or continue onto the opposing side of the ramp to transfer into upward velocity, which would be counteracted by gravity and ultimately allow him to survive.

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 Terminal velocity for {{w|Terminal_velocity#Examples|a human falling in a prone orientation}} is about 55 m/s (123 mph). A ramp with a radius of 600 ft, or 180 m, would produce a centripetal acceleration of ''v''<sup>2</sup>/''r'' = 17 m/s<sup>2</sup>. With 1 ''g'' (the acceleration of gravity at Earth's surface) being about 10 m/s<sup>2</sup>, that's 1.7 ''g''. A 300 ft radius ramp would generate about 3.5 ''g''. In both cases, the acceleration vector (pointed radially) will add to the Earth's gravitational acceleration vector (pointed down), and be at a maximum at the bottom of the ramp. Assuming no change in velocity while skating on the ramp, that would be a max of 2.7 ''g'' on the 600 ft ramp and 4.5 ''g'' on the 300 ft ramp. The duration of the acceleration would be π''r''/''v'', about 34 s on the larger ramp and 17 s on the smaller ramp. Humans will generally black out under prolonged exposure to 4-5 ''g'' acting downward, as the forces pull blood away from the brain, so the difference between the 300 ft and 600 ft ramps could be the difference between tragedy and skating immortality. However, if Cueball were to land lying flat on the board, the g-forces would be survivable - [https://www.goflightmedicine.com/post/pulling-gs-the-effects-of-g-forces-on-the-human-body humans can withstand] sustained transverse accelerations of up to 11 ''g''. The opportunities for tricks are more limited in that position, though.{{cn}}
-The human record for a controlled skateboard descent on an extremely tall ramp [https://www.redbull.com/int-en/sandro-dias-ultimate-skate-ramp was set on 25 September 2025], about two weeks before this comic appeared, by Brazilian professional skateboarder {{w|Sandro Dias}}. Dias completed a controlled 70-meter skating descent on a skateboard ramp built to match the curved contour of {{w|Centro Administrativo Fernando Ferrari|an office building in Porto Alegre}}, Brazil, with a shape somewhat similar to a quarter-pipe. Dias started from rest, on a platform attached to the skate ramp, rather than first jumping out of an airplane and reaching terminal velocity, but he was able to maintain control throughout the extremely steep and high descent, reaching speeds of over 100 km/h (28 m/s) without falling. Cueball is in a much more challenging position in various ways. Dias's feat actually confirms the conceptual plausibility of a 300-foot halfpipe, although (a) his maximum g-force was lower because he achieved lower maximum velocity after starting from rest, (b) his period of high g-force was much briefer because he started from rest and he's on a quarter-pipe instead of a half-pipe, (c) he is currently the only person in the world ever to have safely descended such a large ramp, (d) the ramp built for his challenge was constructed on the side of an existing building over the course of an entire month, not in a matter of seconds, and (e) he trained extensively specifically for thiis challenge, including sustaining the g-forces involved.
+The human record for a controlled skateboard descent on an extremely tall ramp [https://www.redbull.com/int-en/sandro-dias-ultimate-skate-ramp was set on 25 September 2025], about two weeks before this comic appeared, by Brazilian professional skateboarder {{w|Sandro Dias}}. Dias completed a controlled 70-meter skating descent on a skateboard ramp built to match the curved contour of {{w|Centro Administrativo Fernando Ferrari|an office building in Porto Alegre}}, Brazil, with a shape somewhat similar to a quarter-pipe. Dias started from rest, on a platform attached to the skate ramp, rather than first jumping out of an airplane and reaching terminal velocity, but he was able to maintain control throughout the extremely steep and high descent, reaching speeds of over 100 km/h (28 m/s) without falling. Cueball is in a much more challenging position in various ways. Dias's feat actually confirms the conceptual plausibility of a 300-foot halfpipe, although (a) his maximum g-force was lower because he achieved lower maximum velocity after starting from rest, (b) his period of high g-force was much briefer because he started from rest and he's on a quarter-pipe instead of a half-pipe, (c) he is currently the only person in the world ever to have safely descended such a large ramp, (d) the ramp built for his challenge was constructed on the side of an existing building over the course of an entire month, not in a matter of seconds, and (e) he trained extensively specifically for this challenge, including sustaining the g-forces involved.
 This comic shares a similar premise, at its core, to the recent example in [[3147: Hiking]], where the timely delivery of a structure was also put to good use — albeit that, in this case, the need is probably more urgent and not just a convenient means of assistance and fun to the respective recipient.

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	In this comic, [[Cueball]] appears to have gone {{w\|skydiving}}. In mid-fall, he opens what he thought was his parachute, only to discover the bag in fact contains {{w\|skateboarding}} gear. This may be a reference to [https://www.ladbible.com/news/us-news/skydiver-final-words-forgot-parachute-ivan-mcguire-367933-20250409 an incident] where a skydiver switched his skydiving equipment for his camera equipment backpack and perished. Cueball blames himself for the error, pointing out that having something that is not a parachute in a bag that looks a lot like a parachute bag is practically inviting disaster.		In this comic, [[Cueball]] appears to have gone {{w\|skydiving}}. In mid-fall, he opens what he thought was his parachute, only to discover the bag in fact contains {{w\|skateboarding}} gear. This may be a reference to [https://www.ladbible.com/news/us-news/skydiver-final-words-forgot-parachute-ivan-mcguire-367933-20250409 an incident] where a skydiver switched his skydiving equipment for his camera equipment backpack and perished. Cueball blames himself for the error, pointing out that having something that is not a parachute in a bag that looks a lot like a parachute bag is practically inviting disaster.