2026-04-14 08:36 UTC
My father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.
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@bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2026-04-14 12:52
Surface tension is a weird thing chemically/electrostatically, but we also probably don't have life on Earth without it.
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@fred_garvin@lemmy.world 2026-04-14 23:58
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.