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So the thing about LA is that there is a beach... and on that beach there are people with smartphones... and on those smartphones are cameras. What I am trying
by TrainedMonkey 6y ago
So the thing about LA is that there is a beach... and on that beach there are people with smartphones... and on those smartphones are cameras. What I am trying to say if that is a jetpack it is unlikely to have taken off from the city. Possibly from a boat, although flying jetpack from a boat sounds sketchy.
edit: I was wrong, LAX arrival corridor is inland and takeoff corridor is over the ocean. So this has to have been spotted over the land. See below comment by taneq.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>although flying jetpack from a boat sounds sketchy. Why? If takeoff fails it's likely to hurt a lot less than over land and if you get hurt your buddies can drive a direct line to within feet of you. Exhaust blast is trivial to solve.
- deanclatworthy 6y agoMy understanding is after you reach a certain height you might as well land on the ground. There’s a reason why even the biggest dives aren’t that high and see hugely dangerous
- harpiaharpyja 6y agoI only have an undergraduate level understanding of the physics but, an object falling into water should be comparable to water flowing over an object. There's a certain flow rate at which the flow around the object becomes turbulent instead of laminar, an actual transition point at which point you might as well be hitting concrete.
- iaw 6y agoNope. Water has a surface that basically applies force relative to how fast you're going. If you go slow the water displaces and nothing happens, if yo slap the water it stings your hand, if you hit the water at terminal velocity you may as well hit concrete because it can't displace fast enough for you to sink so your body decelerates rapidly from terminal velocity to a much slower sink leading to massive amounts of internal damage.
- skykooler 6y agoIf you're high enough up, you could use a parachute. The water helps when you're at too low of an altitude for a parachute to open.
- ceejayoz 6y agoArrival traffic at 6k feet is 5-10 miles away from the airport. Someone on a beach with a smartphone is gonna have trouble imaging a human-sized object a mile in the air and 5-10 away.
- dylan604 6y agoJust as a reference, 5-10 miles out from LAX would pretty much be an area between the 110 to the 710 freeways. Roughly.
- taneq 6y agoLooking at the map, 11km NW of LAX puts you in the middle of Topanga Park?
- TrainedMonkey 6y agoI think you are right, LAX landing corridor is inland and take off corridor is over the ocean.