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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Bull Fighting (was A-word)
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:16:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.233243.26965@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- marlatt@spot.Colorado.EDU (Stuart W. Marlatt) writes:
- >>What would you nominate as the most injurious sport? I say rodeo riding.
- >
- >I don't know how various sports stack up statistically regarding injuries.
- >I'd imagine mountaineering has a pretty high fatality rate, as would
- >cave diving. Football seems to produce a lot of blown knees and separated
- >shoulders. Sport climbing has its share of tendonitis and joint problems.
-
- I'm working on the stats for fatalities for the panels.
- If you want something in writing, see John Dill's paper in Yosemite Select.
- It's harder to count injuries than fatalities. Yosemite is 2.5 deaths
- per year in a population estimated at 25-50K. John is helping me on this
- one. He's curious too, or maybe he wants a transfer of surplus NASA hardware.
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- I have had more trouble with skiing injuries than all of climbing.
- The velocity has something to do with it.
-
- Been lucky so far and have not yet been thrown by a perfectly good horse.
-
- Watching the GBytes flow by....
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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