Comments on: They Earn Their Bread at The Risk of Their Lives (Jan, 1931) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/05/30/they-earn-their-bread-at-the-risk-of-their-lives/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: blast http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/05/30/they-earn-their-bread-at-the-risk-of-their-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-1079694 blast Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:07:51 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=4521#comment-1079694 1. "Natural science has a good deal to do with the success of a daredevil, whether he knows it or not." I'm thinking natural selection has a great deal to do with the success (or failure) of a daredevil. 2. Love how the fellow who crashes planes for a living is mentioned in the same sentence as the one who "commutes regularly from coast to coast." 3. So are all these men too proud to have safety lines? I can't wrap my head around that generation. A little effort would have saved a few lives here and there. 1. “Natural science has a good deal to do with the success of a daredevil, whether he knows it or not.”

I’m thinking natural selection has a great deal to do with the success (or failure) of a daredevil.

2. Love how the fellow who crashes planes for a living is mentioned in the same sentence as the one who “commutes regularly from coast to coast.”

3. So are all these men too proud to have safety lines? I can’t wrap my head around that generation. A little effort would have saved a few lives here and there.

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