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minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoWater isn’t like in the video games. It’s still a hard landing that you wouldn’t survive if you were going too fast. There’s just much more margin for error trying to hit the ocean vs. a plot of land.
minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoMy father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoSurface tension is a weird thing chemically/electrostatically, but we also probably don’t have life on Earth without it.
Water isn’t like in the video games. It’s still a hard landing that you wouldn’t survive if you were going too fast. There’s just much more margin for error trying to hit the ocean vs. a plot of land.
My father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.
Surface tension is a weird thing chemically/electrostatically, but we also probably don’t have life on Earth without it.