Oddball
Unobtanium Member
Maybe some of you saw this preposterous video, of the Chinese dude who claims to have been sucked into a towering cumulus cloud and spat out at over 8,000 meters (26,000feet)...
First of all, the ludicrousness of his story is a tale that not even SNL's Tommy Flanagan would try to pass off...
He *claims * that he was just doing some routine ground handling/kiting activity -in full cross country gear complete with flight deck and instrumentation and wearing heavy arctic clothing- when he was just unexpectedly grabbed up off the ground and sucked into a towering cumulus cloud -the kind of cloud that produces thunderstorms of significant strength- and spat out at 26,000 feet.
1) Nobody - and I mean NOBODY- does kiting and ground handling drills with all that equipment and clothing.
2) To go with the powerful updrafts, he claimed to have ridden to such a height in that cloud, are equally severe downdrafts...You cannot see moving air the way that surfers see waves, or none of us would ever fly those contraptions...The very idea that he could have entered such a cloud without encountering these downdrafts, then getting "burrito-ed" and spit out like a big fleshy hailstone, are lower than those of Biden having won AZ, GA, MI, PA, NV, & WI.
3) Then we get to this dude preposterously claiming that after he survived that, he was at 26,000 feet (Class A airspace, the realm of airliners) with no supplemental oxygen and survived to tell about it.
But let's leave it to the Murican lamestream media to take an utterly outlandish fable, ignore the previous obvious holes in it, and lavish onto it a heaping helping of techno-navel gazing.
Let's completely blow off the farcical claims that would get you laughed out of a room of entry level pilots at ground school, and ponder whether the whole this was made with....wait for it....AI.
WELL FUCKING DUUUUUUH!
www.nbcnews.com
First of all, the ludicrousness of his story is a tale that not even SNL's Tommy Flanagan would try to pass off...
He *claims * that he was just doing some routine ground handling/kiting activity -in full cross country gear complete with flight deck and instrumentation and wearing heavy arctic clothing- when he was just unexpectedly grabbed up off the ground and sucked into a towering cumulus cloud -the kind of cloud that produces thunderstorms of significant strength- and spat out at 26,000 feet.
1) Nobody - and I mean NOBODY- does kiting and ground handling drills with all that equipment and clothing.
2) To go with the powerful updrafts, he claimed to have ridden to such a height in that cloud, are equally severe downdrafts...You cannot see moving air the way that surfers see waves, or none of us would ever fly those contraptions...The very idea that he could have entered such a cloud without encountering these downdrafts, then getting "burrito-ed" and spit out like a big fleshy hailstone, are lower than those of Biden having won AZ, GA, MI, PA, NV, & WI.
3) Then we get to this dude preposterously claiming that after he survived that, he was at 26,000 feet (Class A airspace, the realm of airliners) with no supplemental oxygen and survived to tell about it.
But let's leave it to the Murican lamestream media to take an utterly outlandish fable, ignore the previous obvious holes in it, and lavish onto it a heaping helping of techno-navel gazing.
Let's completely blow off the farcical claims that would get you laughed out of a room of entry level pilots at ground school, and ponder whether the whole this was made with....wait for it....AI.
WELL FUCKING DUUUUUUH!
Part of viral video of Chinese paraglider is likely AI-generated
Video of a Chinese paraglider who claims he climbed to a near record-breaking altitude appears to have been at least partially generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nbcnews.com
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