I would love to try skydiving! Have you ever been parachuting before?
No, but I'd love to try it sometime and experience the free-falling before the parachute deploys.
Yes, that split-second feeling of absolute fear! I wonder who invented the parachute
It was  André-Jacques Garnerin, he not only invented it but was the first parachute jumper, so he has skin in the game
Oh wow, I wonder where he jumped from
He tested his prototype by jumping froma hydrogen balloon above Paris, that was in 1797.
Wow, from a hydrogen balloon? That's insane, he must've been an absolute madman!
Yes!, and his parachute was very different from today since it was not packet in a container and did not have a ripcord.
Oh, so it was just the parachute part? That was probably really unsafe
I imagine, the first intentional jump with a parachute with a ripcord didn't happen until more than a century later in 1919.