[tener]

> He was inspired by his father, an aeronautical engineer and inventor, who killed himself when Mr Browning was a teenager.

Inspired he was; his invention clearly has the potential to kill the user. He may end up doing the same thing his father did, though surely I don't wish him such fate.

[eps]

Who peed in your espresso this morning?

[tener]

The espresso machine is broken. You can see why I'm upset!

Seriously though, there is a long (and sad) tradition of flying machine inventors (or engineers) getting killed by their own inventions. Looking at this particular one it has all the flashy features ('Look! I am the Iron Man!') and none of the safety ones.

[psyc]

Paraglider here. Having met many hundreds of flying contraption enthusiasts, I'd say as a population we're much less bothered about maiming and killing ourselves than average.

[nsxwolf]

From "The World's Fastest Indian"

Tom: Aren't you scared you'll kill yourself if you crash?

Burt Munro: No... You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Indeed. YOLO.

[Neliquat]

My grandfather was an EAA builder and the most overly cautious man I have ever known. He got out of his car to look behind it every time he reversed, and then went and did insane aerobatics in something him and his buddies built in a garage. We all have our own level of risk we accept. That man died at 96, tired of living.

Do something worth living for while you can, we all die.