The Glade 4.0

Oh damn you FarSky, damn you to hell!

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Raell Kromwell

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Fun with Fiziks

I need to quit reading YT comments.


Uhh...that's "People Need the Lord", by Greg Nelson and Phil McHugh, dude. It was written in 1987, though, so I guess you get partial credit.

Edit: Ok, that guy is way out of tune. Linked to better version.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

"Uhhhhh....."

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Goddammit, Russia.

If it makes you feel better, 'Skeee, remember that the fisheye lens' distortion effects will include making depths seem larger than they are.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Why did I watch every second of that?

Brain bleach:


Edit:
What am I doing with my life?

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

"Fifty thou a year will buy a lotta beer"
Just ran that through an inflation calculator and it says that $50,000 in 1986 dollars has the same buying power as $107,108.12 in 2014 dollars.

This information did not bring me any joy

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

To-may-to, to-mah-to.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

From the water:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... 6346971528

From above:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... 8954824484

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I'm not convinced That rock is in the camera for nearly 6 frames. I want to do the math on this, but I think its a lot more likely someone above him dropped it. Terminal velocity for a carbonaceous meteorite would seem to be much higher than that of a parachuting skydiver who's already partially engaged his chute.


edit: Some back of the napkin math:
Terminal velocity for a skydiver with a chute undeployed is about 125 mph in the lower atmosphere
Terminal velocity for a meteorite is somewhere between 200 mph and 400 mph. Assuming a high speed sports camera, and the greatest possible similarity in speed, (assuming they're traveling along the exact same heading, it works out to about 33.5 m/s difference. A high speed portable camera is probably, what? 30 fps? making it possible I suppose.

Still not convinced.

Norwegian is such a funny language.

(Cool video, too.)

TheRiov: Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer) points out that you may be right.May be small rock that fell out of parachute. Not meteorite.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Thank you. Glad I'm not the only one having doubts about that.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

The fact that the article mentions that a geologist stated that there was a meteroid explosion directly above that area isn't good enough?

[S|H]e seemed to provide a fairly decent argument that it could have happened....

Given that objects falling out of someone's parachute is, as the 2nd article describes, a 'fairly common occurrence' compared to the ridiculous odds required for that same meteorite to be the one that is detected on camera...?

Even if we postulate that they could pinpoint the fireball to the square mile that this skydiver was in. (a fact I contest given the size, speed and indeterminate composition of the rock, I seriously doubt it was picked up by radar) the odds of the parachuter being within ~18 meters of the rock (required by the focus, see their calculations in the 2nd article) in FOUR dimension, the odds are astronomical (no pun intended) --

The odds of catching a rock on camera that just fell out of your parachute? Pretty good.

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My low end Contour can be set to do 60FPS @720p. Top end GoPros can do 60fps @ 1080 IIRC.

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Holy shitsnacks!

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Everybody on the internet is an expert on physics.

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