The kid is psychic. She saw it coming before she lost the kite!

Continue by interrupting peop----

----Oh, there's climate change, all right. It's just not caused by kite flying or whatever new excuse the alarmists come up with every week.

By the way, are we on the 5th or 6th "point of no return" for the "climate crisis"?

And here's your quarter.

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This guy is clearly higher than a kite, but this is also clearly excessive force. They should have been able to get him in cuffs without a taser.

Verr'nice, verr'nice. It looked perfect to this aviator, in fact.

^dag: a Cessna 172 (just for example) can glide 1 nautical mile (6080 feet / also ~2 km) per 500 feet of altitude in calm air. Not too shabby -- the guys in the vid just didn't have much altitude to begin with, I'd say about 1000' before the engine quit. Also, once the pilot had selected his road and found it good, he was setting the kite down soonest rather than keeping it up as long as possible (the road below was good, the road up ahead might have been less so).

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>> ^obscenesimian
Atomic weight (200.59) should be sufficient to tell you that the density of mercury vapor is much greater than that of nitrogen and oxygen, the largest components of air. If the vapors in the video http://www.videograter.com/video/Mercury-vapor-from-dental-fillings were mercury, the vapors should be falling not rising.
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^Obscenesimian, You're absolutely right.

The air at surface of the Earth is always the coldest, because warm air rises and cold air falls, so no warmth would ever stay close to ground where people live. These currents of air are NEVER able to push or pull ANYTHING along with them, not newspapers, kites, hang-gliders, and ESPECIALLY not other diffused particulate matter, such as vapors or fumes. Wind is just your imagination playing tricks on you half the time, and the other half it is Angels playing tricks on you. Toxic vapors and fumes are never a problem for us humans because the molecules that make up paint, gasoline and ESPECIALLY mercury are ALL heavier then nitrogen, oxygen and all the rest the components of the atmosphere which are always arranged in layers from heaviest to lightest particles and never mix. This is why smoke and ash always fall away from combustion sources and never rises. It is simply not plausible why these different particles would ever WANT to mix, and so they NEVER do. DIFFUSION is a myth created by Adolf Fick in 1855 to confuse good Christians into believing his friend, Charles Darwin's hoax of evolution, published four years later.

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I wonder about a few things:
1. How many kites can fly on each ground station (that gets it's power cable, etc).
2. How close together can you bunch up ground stations?
3. What sorts of aviation restrictions would this generate for airplanes flying nearby?

If this works the way I understand it from the talk, (1) would probably be 1 kite per station, to avoid any wires entangling, unless they figure out a way to avoid that altogether.

If kites in the same general area behave in the same way while airborne (same area means several kilometers), then there's no reason they couldn't have alot of them up at the same time from the same station. If the winds become less stable, however, and kites started flying into each other's path, you'd get the same entangling problem from (1).

As far as (3), they would certainly need to designate no-fly zones around each of those ground stations, as there will be wires moving around there all the time in unpredictable ways.
This might limit the possible locations for these kinds of stations, as at the moment, the US is quite full of commercial and private airfields, and updating all those aviation maps each time you place a new station would give the FAA a gigantic headache.

Assuming all that can be solved, this technology looks very promising...

EDIT - apologies for giant wall of text.

You didn't like the restaurant analogy because you didn't have the "choice" to eat out, or choose where to eat.

Well, you've apparently chosen to live in America.

So pay your fair share.

>> ^imstellar28:
Nobody is forcing you to fly a kite. Nobody forced the slaves to not kill themselves. How is any of this relevant?
>> ^rougy:
>> ^imstellar28:
If your analogy is to be valid, you have to include the choice of whether to eat out, the choice of where to eat, and the choice of what to order; not just the choice of whether to pay the bill.
Nobody is forcing you to live in America. Let's start there.

Nobody is forcing you to fly a kite. Nobody forced the slaves to not kill themselves. How is any of this relevant?

>> ^rougy:
>> ^imstellar28:
If your analogy is to be valid, you have to include the choice of whether to eat out, the choice of where to eat, and the choice of what to order; not just the choice of whether to pay the bill.
Nobody is forcing you to live in America. Let's start there.

According to the google cache heres my top 5 zombie vids:

1. http://www.videosift.com/video/Drama-King

2. http://www.videosift.com/video/Diesel-XXX-Commercial-SFW

3. http://www.videosift.com/video/What-would-a-geeks-kite-look-like-THIS

4. http://www.videosift.com/video/Impossible-to-flip-this-swing-Watch

5. http://www.videosift.com/video/Best-game-ever

A popular example of music made with tape splices was The Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr.Kite off Sgt Peppers. The Calliope music towards the end came from cutting up pieces of tape from a Calliope song throwing them up in the air and splicing them back together (so the story goes).

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79.4% of the Sift is high as a kite at any given moment. I've fixed it all up kulpims. Smoke on!

>> ^arvana:
This one looks like it's destined to hit the Top Sifts of All Time page.
Congrats, maatc!


It´s funny how some videos come to you by chance.
I posted an image of this kite in another blog about two years ago.

When I clicked on the product page again I saw it now also had a video of it.
From there to hitting submit it took about 15 seconds...

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His next kite project should be The Sims "green diamond" that he can float over people's heads!