[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I suppose. Though 500 years ago, people far smarter than you or I wouldn't have had any idea what conditions are like at 30,000 feet . It's just lack of general knowledge which doesn't really say anything about intelligence IMO. Some of the smartest people I know are severely lacking in some areas of what seems like really basic knowledge.

This man wasn't born 500 years ago. He has access to the Internet... it's Kenya, not China. I'm sure he could read, even if he did the most menial of jobs. And he worked at an airport. Someone who is going to embark on a journey like he did must surely have looked into how it might go? It's not like this is the first person who's tried it. Sounds pretty stupid to me, and his dead body falling thousands of feet kind of punctuates that fact.