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"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
by 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.