lol.
When I see this I remember our dog starting to paddle in mid air when we attempted to put her into water for the first time.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
In many of the situations were a parachute might have been useful in these accidents, the plane breaks up in mid air, making it moot
And like someone pointed out, a good majority of crashes happen on take off and landing where chutes would be relatively useless


yea most crashes happen at take off or landing, the majority of the rest happen because the pilots fly the plane in a mountain or something, most mechanical failures either kills you on takeoff, makes the plane explode or is fairly easy to recover from so you can do an emergency landing.
But almost all crashes today are due to human error in one form or another, so the planes doesn't need parachutes, it needs to get rid of the pilots and in some places their operators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft

In many of the situations were a parachute might have been useful in these accidents, the plane breaks up in mid air, making it moot

And like someone pointed out, a good majority of crashes happen on take off and landing where chutes would be relatively useless

It is a novel idea, it just can't get off the ground for large planes (har har har)

>> ^laura:

Totally awesome ~ but obviously the stingray was in distress and had to give birth right then in case she was a goner...
my hubby says you wouldn't feel sorry for it if you had ever been stung by one
quality


Haha. Yeah, it was in the news a few years ago that a stingray jumped over a boat and stung a woman in the heart while in mid-air, killing her.

I had my domain registered years ago. http://www.nickeldesign.com

A few years ago after renewing it for another 10 years, my server company went out of business and sold off all their hosting service to a new company. (apparently I have it for another 5 years!

I don't know who this company is, or what happened to my hosting account - It just went poof into mid air.
I paid for it - I own it - But that's where it ends - My site disappeared and I never received any notification. My payment was made to Network Solutions directly but I don't know enough about hosting to know where I go from here or what my rights are.

http://who.is/whois/nickeldesign.com/

Any incite anyone in the know might have would be great!!!!!!!!!

The planes the kid was directing weren't in the air, they were planes preparing to leave the gate. It's not like there was a chance of a mid-air collision. The only problem I can see here is that all it takes is one uptight asshole to ruin a light-hearted day.

Eh. Color me not impressed. At 1000 fps, a dog licking his balls looks cute. There was also a distinct lack of catching treats. Just one dog? I was expecting it to break into a montage of all those dogs catching treats in mid-air. That would have been voteworthy. Having just one was meh.

>> ^alizarin:
The vase breaks in mid air from the impact of that soft tree... rigged.
The acting was believable though.


Are you fucking kidding pal? THIS constitutes great acting?

"What was it doing on there!?!"
"That's where we keep it!!!"

The vase breaks in mid air from the impact of that soft tree... rigged.

The acting was believable though.

>> ^doremifa:
Don't understand how when the characters shrink back to normal size they are caught in mid-air.


Why not? If a character is represented by a center of gravity and a scaling factor, reducing the scaling factor will cause them to be in mid air. That would be the most reasonable (physically plausible) representation, as well. If you pop a balloon the center of gravity doesn't change. The contracted pieces will, on average, be near the center of the balloon and not at the bottom.

Don't understand how when the characters shrink back to normal size they are caught in mid-air.

A mathematician, an engineer and a priest are on an airplane, and the pilot announces the plane is going down, and unfortunately there is only a parachute for him. The pilot jumps out and leaves the three passengers to their own devices.

At first, they are of course shocked and at a loss for solutions to their problems. The engineer decides staying in the plane is suicide, so he does a few quick calculations in his head and jumps out. Mid-air, he manages to adjust his clothes just so into an airfoil of sorts, and slows his descent to the ground enough to survive.

In the meantime, the priest decides to put his faith in God, and also jumps out, all the time praying. Miraculously, he lands in a haystack and survives.

The engineer and the priest, having found each other on the ground, watch the plane on its way down, and see the mathematician jump out as well. He just falls down unceremoniously, and crashes violently into the ground. Horrified, the two rush to where they saw the mathematician hit the ground, approaching with trepidation. As they arrive at the site, they are extremely surprised to find the mathematician dusting off his clothes, completely unharmed. "How on Earth did you survive that?", they ask.

"Induction", replies the mathematician.

it's like the cat jumped then decided to stretch in mid air...

http://folklorewiki.lydiafish.us/pmwiki.php/Main/GiveMeOperations

Give Me Operations

Don’t give me a P-38; the props, they counter-rotate
She’s scattered and smitten from Burma to Britain
Don’t give me a P-38, NO!

CHORUS:
Give me operations way out on some lonely atoll
For I am too young to die; I just want to grow old

Don’t give me a P-39; the engine is mounted behind
She’ll tumble and spin, and she'll auger you in
Don’t give me a P-39

CHORUS

Don’t give me a Peter-four-oh; it’s a hell of an airplane, I know
A ground-looping bastard, you’re sure to get plastered
Don’t give me a Peter-four-oh

CHORUS

Don’t give me an 86D, with rockets, radar, and AB
She’s fast, I don’t care; she blows up in mid-air
Don’t give me an 86D

CHORUS

Don't give me an F-84, she's just a ground-loving whore
She'll whine and she'll wheeze and make straight for the trees
Don't give me an F-84

Just give me operations way out on some lonely atoll
For I am too young to die; I just want to grow old

=====

>> ^doogle:
Can someone explain to me how cutting an iron curtain rod is more amazing than splitting a flying bibi bullet in half in mid-air?


One is in a studio in front of 100 people, the others are prerecorded.

...just saying.