It isn't fake per se, but it was windy as hell and he was more gliding than flapping. He would have had the same results without the flapping.

This is a serious record, more for the airplane design than for the throwing brawn. This isn't "most eggs eaten in 5 minutes". There are flight engineers who spend thousands of hours on this because it's relevant to their field and demonstrates their understanding of thrust, lift and glide. I've heard the engineers actually spend more time making the tools to form the plane than designing or throwing the plane itself.

My fear is that his corporate friendly austerity, deregulatory and tax policies would easily glide through the legislation process, while his corporately opposed foreign policy would get stuck in a congressional traffic jam. And then he gets voted out in 4 years and we're left with an even more damaged democracy. A Ron Paul administration would not be good for the 99%.

Good point. I say this calls for some controlled experimentation by Mythbusters.>> ^HaricotVert:

Although QI has a ton of fact checkers and are typically correct, there are some problems with the study they quoted. Radiolab discussed the findings of the "cat terminal velocity," and had Neil deGrasse Tyson on as a guest to dispute the study based on that it was working from a biased sample. That is to say, the study would have a disproportionately high number of cases where cats fell from heights of X feet, yet sustained non-life threatening injuries, and then were brought to vets by their panicked owners to get them checked out. The vets only have those cats that owners actually brought in to document the height from which they fell.
Cats that are obviously dead after falling from any height (whether 2nd story or 30th) are typically not brought in to vets. They're buried.
>> ^messenger:
According to QI, any higher than 7 stories, and a cat's skin will spread out like a wingsuit and it will glide to the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Uq1s-gts

>> ^HaricotVert:

Although QI has a ton of fact checkers and are typically correct, there are some problems with the study they quoted. Radiolab discussed the findings of the "cat terminal velocity," and had Neil deGrasse Tyson on as a guest to dispute the study based on that it was working from a biased sample. That is to say, the study would have a disproportionately high number of cases where cats fell from heights of X feet, yet sustained non-life threatening injuries, and then were brought to vets by their panicked owners to get them checked out. The vets only have those cats that owners actually brought in to document the height from which they fell.
Cats that are obviously dead after falling from any height (whether 2nd story or 30th) are typically not brought in to vets. They're buried.
>> ^messenger:
According to QI, any higher than 7 stories, and a cat's skin will spread out like a wingsuit and it will glide to the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Uq1s-gts


Good call. I have the same problem with people who talk about "Surges in violent crime". The instances of violent crime aren't surging, it's merely the reporting of them. A police department can show success against crime merely by making it harder to complain.


Also, while I don't think violent video games CAUSE violence, it is possible you will get fewer reports of violence from people inured of violence, hence the false idea of "violent video games reduce violent acts".

Oh, and I totally laughed out loud at the cat.

Although QI has a ton of fact checkers and are typically correct, there are some problems with the study they quoted. Radiolab discussed the findings of the "cat terminal velocity," and had Neil deGrasse Tyson on as a guest to dispute the study based on that it was working from a biased sample. That is to say, the study would have a disproportionately high number of cases where cats fell from heights of X feet, yet sustained non-life threatening injuries, and then were brought to vets by their panicked owners to get them checked out. The vets only have those cats that owners actually brought in to document the height from which they fell.

Cats that are obviously dead after falling from any height (whether 2nd story or 30th) are typically not brought in to vets. They're buried.

>> ^messenger:

According to QI, any higher than 7 stories, and a cat's skin will spread out like a wingsuit and it will glide to the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Uq1s-gts

According to QI, any higher than 7 stories, and a cat's skin will spread out like a wingsuit and it will glide to the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Uq1s-gts

>> ^grinter:

Taking control of the drone sounds pretty unlikely.. but I wonder if there is a kernel of truth to this. Maybe they just jammed it's guidance signal, autopilot kicked in, and when it ran out of fuel it glided to a, relatively, gentle landing?


I would take a wild guess that those things are designed to go kaboom if there is even the slightest hint of malfunction (malfunction meaning ANY undesired event). The interesting part was the fact that the CIA lead on that perhaps that exact sequence of events didn't quite occur correctly maybe.

Also yes, that is a fake airplane... The drones are MUCH bigger than that piece of crap, paper-mâché high school project. For example this is a bomber drone that is brand new, it's 65 to a possible 90 feet across (BTW, in the video you can see that they label it as the RQ-170, which is what I linked to)... Like I said it's a bomber, it needs to be pretty big. So unless the CIA has a stealth version that is 3/4 the size of the bomber, they are full of crap. I think what the CIA was worried about is maybe that the entirety of the drone wasn't destroyed leaving possible tidbits behind like it's stealth mesh and other composites to be reverse engineered--I think TDS had a bit on this a few days ago.

-Second Part
I did look around some more and there are some US officials taking this very seriously, so maybe they do in fact have their 45~ft drone. If you read at the bottom of the RQ-170 on Wikipedia (I linked it above), it has been updated with much more current information. So it may indeed be a small coup for the Iranian Military indirectly, as it seems to be a navigational flight error. Which asks the question: where the hell is it's self-destruction switch; are they really that stupid?

Taking control of the drone sounds pretty unlikely.. but I wonder if there is a kernel of truth to this. Maybe they just jammed it's guidance signal, autopilot kicked in, and when it ran out of fuel it glided to a, relatively, gentle landing?

>> ^SlipperyPete:

piano intro
Vomit rain!
Lay your lunch all o-ver the terrain.
Vo-mit rain!!
I turn my head here to avoid puking on myself
Cover your heads or you will feel the pain!


HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Retro meme win!

Your video, Guy can't keep his breakfast in during hang gliding, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

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I don't vomit often. But when I do, I do it hang gliding.

>> ^SlipperyPete:

Heard on the ground below:
"This rain smells funny".


Or splattering on someone's face.

>> ^ulysses1904:

meh. They will report anything they hear when it's live TV, they have to keep up a constant stream of chatter. That morning at work we were hearing that there was smoke coming from the White House and that the Sears tower in Chicago was burning, blah blah blah. We heard lots of stuff that day, this is par for the course.
Also there's plenty of footage of eyewitnesses whose versions are at great odds with the actual videos of that day. Like some guy insisted the 2nd plane shut off its engines and glided into the 2nd tower.


Yeah hundreds of eye witnesses claim there was multiple ground level explosions, including firefighters, emt, and police. But the 9/11 commission didn't feel it was necessary to hear their testimony, and the few it did hear never made the final report. So obviously the eye witnesses are just delusional and must be suffering from post traumatic stress... :eyeroll:

meh. They will report anything they hear when it's live TV, they have to keep up a constant stream of chatter. That morning at work we were hearing that there was smoke coming from the White House and that the Sears tower in Chicago was burning, blah blah blah. We heard lots of stuff that day, this is par for the course.

Also there's plenty of footage of eyewitnesses whose versions are at great odds with the actual videos of that day. Like some guy insisted the 2nd plane shut off its engines and glided into the 2nd tower.