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Re: Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

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You might like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-Iwv5NJKg

Took me a few goes to realize that psychedelic alien ribbon sidescrolling at the end is in fact a river https://i.imgur.com/ln61VPZ.mp4

Why is the parallax so crazy?

What is the behind/top?

Re: Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

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From another viewpoint: people fly turbine-powered model aircraft all the time. Why wouldn't you believe it?

Well for one, where is the fuel? Seems like it would take a tremendous amount of fuel and there are no visible fuel tanks on the jetpack.

They glide for most of the flight.

Re: Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

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>we saw a massive stock market crash For this one specifically, i don't really agree, because the index is positive year-to-date, sitting at the historical all-time high right now. Doesn't seem like a massive crash to me, given that it dipped not that badly in the first place and then almost instantly recovered.

So the market didn't crash this year?

At this point, I think it is just semantics. You can call it a crash, I would call it a dip.

Mostly because I cannot seriously call it a crash (in a way that most people think about crashes), if just a few months later the market looks like as it never even happened in the first place. When I think of a "real" crash, I think of something the effects of which are still present for at least a year or more after the dip.

But that's just my personal take on it, I do not expect everyone to agree with this interpretation of what constitutes a "real" crash.

Re: Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

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post #483

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Took me a few goes to realize that psychedelic alien ribbon sidescrolling at the end is in fact a river https://i.imgur.com/ln61VPZ.mp4

Why is the parallax so crazy? What is the behind/top?

I'd love to know the answer. Also, turns out it's not a river but a "swoop pond":

https://goo.gl/maps/pSZVqNJatFoyY6ge9

https://i.imgur.com/MkFmo5v.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plqEYjIcOow

(bonus blooper https://youtu.be/-rMy8CvHhAw?t=3)

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