• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Water isn’t like in the video games. It’s still a hard landing that you wouldn’t survive if you were going too fast. There’s just much more margin for error trying to hit the ocean vs. a plot of land.

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      4 hours ago

      My father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.