• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    My father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.

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      5 days ago

      Surface tension is a weird thing chemically/electrostatically, but we also probably don’t have life on Earth without it.

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      4 days ago

      Former Navy rescue swimmer here. Judging height over open ocean is really hard. Especially in rolling seas. Deploy too high and too fast and you fucking skip off the water.