They can fly 200 miles with no fuel. Here's how.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKx1VJsLsfk

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StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 162d

TOM SCOTT IS BACK?!?!

artifex@piefed.social · 3 pts · 162d

That guy was so visibly stoked. It sounded like an hour-long adrenaline high. Good for him.

nichkara@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 161d

Love stuff like that. Not for me, being afraid of heights, but the concept of it.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 162d (3 replies)

Wow looks really fun! Must be very dangerous, right?

Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 162d (2 replies)

Not as dangerous as you might think, since you always got a security chute with you. So, paradoxically: you're safer the higher up you are, because the chute has actual time to deploy.

Statistically, it's safer than riding a motorcycle. (Which isn't too safe, I know)

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 162d (1 reply)

Oh wow that is surprising. I mean I don't have that much context for motorcycles but it's not an uncommon hobby so it can't be that bad right?

HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 2 pts · 161d
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