• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    My father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.

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      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.

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