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Let's have you hop in the left seat of a small aircraft, at night, 500 feet above the ground and I'll blind you for 20 seconds with a laser pointer. The fact t
by pc86 5y ago
Let's have you hop in the left seat of a small aircraft, at night, 500 feet above the ground and I'll blind you for 20 seconds with a laser pointer.
The fact that you're "unconvinced" of something that is a documented danger that could literally kill people is astounding to me. When people talk about this they're not talking about 747s or private aircraft 10k feet in the air. They're talking about small planes in airports and low to the ground.
You're getting (rightfully) downvoted because you're making ridiculous ignorant comments about things you obviously know nothing about.
- brokenmachine 5y ago"Documented danger". Has it ever caused a crash or other damage? Or just "documented danger", unlike the myriad other undocumented dangers I listed in my other comment? 20 seconds seems like an extraordinarily long time to be able to hold a handheld laser on a moving target. Exaggerate much? You seem to think it's a world-ending danger. I don't. That's fine, I don't fly so whatever.
- labcomputer 5y agoYou're right! We should do a randomized controlled trial to make sure that "obvious dangers" like jumping out of a plane without a parachute are really a bad idea. I volunteer for the test (parachute group). Will you volunteer for the control group? There's been no peer-reviewed scientific evidence to date that parachutes actually help. We'll be advancing the cause of science!
- eythian 5y agoThe parachute study has been done: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094 https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094 tl;dr no significant difference in results with vs. without.
- labcomputer 5y agoHa! +10 points for pedantry. I should have been more specific: Jumping from a plane from a significant altitude, say 2000 feet AGL.