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Someone TOTALLY needs to make a FSM kite...

#7. You think like a socialist. You know how you like to call yourself a dialectical materialist who ascribes to a realpolitik understanding of history as shaped by conflict over material needs? It turns out that this American pastime was actually not first invented by Edison flying a kite over the Potomac, but was originally invented by German socialists!

Only one way to find out...
Sadly, I don't own any sail/wing/kite boat at all, so it's up to someone else.

I'd like to see how fast an AC72 would do this course. The wing sails are very different in performance to conventional cloth, and they turn a lot of the conventions of sailing on their heads (they sail faster downwind in more adverse tide due to sailing faster than the wind for example). I know the kite is fast, but is it that fast?

Beautiful watercraft all.
I'm not surprised at the results, beyond (SPOILER ALERT) the fact that the foil cat beat the moth. That thing looked fast. Kites beat sails hands down every time, though. They simply work better in many ways.
Why didn't they include any kite-cats? There are plenty of automatic kite systems, and non-automatic kites to replace sails as well. A kite driven foil cat would have been nice to see in the comparison.

I live in such a boring place compared to this place.
Is the camera attached to his kite/shoot ? or is it a drone following him/her ?

She might have some kind of mental illness, which would explain the "non-injury related reason." But my first thought when I saw her stumble out was that she was high as a mutha-fucking kite.

*promote

Wow, I really wonder what was going on in that woman's head.

Even the article didn't help very much; and it even brought up more questions related to her arrest/charges...

I wonder if the police had yet to have see this video to use as evidence against her and had no real idea as to what happened in the accident (as the witnesses may not have helped them very much in piecing everything together; it made me wonder if this driver of the video taken stayed around for the police or merely went on their merry way and uploaded this later in the day). So they charged her with DUI, but the tests came back inconclusive so they had to release her.

Because from watching this video I can think of at least three to four charges they could arrest her with. So I'm assuming as I mentioned above that they merely slapped her with DUI and hadn't seen this yet, so they hadn't charged her with anything else as of yet; otherwise she would still be arrested. So I imagine she will be getting picked back up pretty soon. I'd love to know what the real cause was.

I'm guessing it was one of two things: high as a kite or a medical condition; I'm not entirely sure that this would be an alcohol related issue. But I have seen drunk people do some very weird things before. This however looks like she didn't care about parking the car or she "thought" that she had. Then she went to the sidewalk for whatever reason that compelled her to get out in the first place; perhaps a delusion or psychotic event--or something akin to it.

That is a very good question. I'm thinking it's a physical structure since it remains in a fixed position. Perhaps wire covered in whatever they coat sparklers with, arranged in the ladder configuration and held aloft by a kite or structure or something.

The first rule of kite club is NEVER talk about kite club!

I'm thinking this is the kind of kite people use for indoor competitions that can fly with zero wind just by tugging on the lines slightly.

It's a very light kite and he's pumping it to get it going. These things are amazing and this guy really knows what he's doing with it!

The way it is moving makes it kind of look like CGI, but I'll take your guy's word for it..I've never seen this kind of kite in action before.

I bought one of those kites years ago. Trust me. This guy has mad skills.