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Thanks for stating the blindingly obvious.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: blindingly
Didn't your mom teach you to never look directly at the sun?
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"But, mama, that's where the fun is!"
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She said it was OK at night.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It's always night somewhere... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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i am gobsmacked the videographer could film this on a small DJI Mini 2 consumer grade drone in temps as low as -18 to -25C, at times in high-wind !
video: [^]
story about about the making of the the shoot: [^]
observing my emotional reaction to watching this: i note, again, that such videos do not trigger my fear-of-height reaction. my hypothesis is that reaction is triggered by content (without people) that somehow summons a projective identification where i "place myself within the scene."
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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A beautiful area. Potentially a nice video but it cuts almost as often as a modern music video so spoils the effect for me. I found the constant cuts so annoying I didn't watch it more than a minute. A shame, it could have been so much better.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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hi, Forogar, interesting that i didn't react to the frequency of scene shifts, as that's something i usually find annoying.
i often play YouTube nature videos at half-speed ... with sound off 
perhaps it helped to be in a tropical country with a temperature over 95F, and over 75% humidity, and be rather sleep-deprived, as well as dehydrated ? 
that drone has a flight time limit of about 30 minutes.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Awesome footage!
Vertigo, they say, is triggered when you see the height contrasted by the foundation, foothold or foreground. Most folks do not feel vertigo on a plane
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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megaadam wrote: Vertigo, they say, is triggered when you see the height contrasted by the foundation, foothold or foreground. Most folks do not feel vertigo on a plane
A good point !
For me, the presence of a human actors(s) in the scene does seem to trigger, compared to the same scene without actor(s).
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Alignment of a small charge with a directionless coral tree. (11), not (12).
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 5-May-21 5:07am.
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Do you mean that the same word negated is one letter longer than the original?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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typical ... atypical just for an example!
No, I left the (12) in for the benefit of anyone who had started with that, to make the correction obvious. I probably should have used strikeout.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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alignment of (definition & indicator)
a small charge ion
with a directionless (anagram)
coral tree correlate
correlation
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Yep. and YAUT.
Care to add the solution?
[edit] crossed in the mail...
minor tweak to the solution - directionless also meaning missing an 'E'. (That's where I miscounted in the original.)
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Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I edited it with the solution after submitting it.
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Ah yes, directionless meaning to drop one of NESW. Didn't even think of that.
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When and where the Chinese rocket will hit earth.
The winner will earn the largest chunk of the rocket...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I'm going to guess "in the Pacific Ocean".
Since it covers 30% of the Earth's surface, it's the most likely "landing site", and I don't think it'll all burn up on reentry.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Their pervious crash was at Ivory Coast (Atlantic Ocean) - so you may be wrong too...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yeah, but the Atlantic is only 20% of the surface area, so that's 1:5 where the Pacific is closer to 1:3.
The odds are with me here. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The scientists stated (or at least that what the journalist stated) that the probability of dropping on water is 71% - I would say it is 50-50...
And from that they concluded that it would not land on settled areas (and injure someone) with a probability of 83% (seems like a number randomly picked by someone) - I would say it is 50-50...
Way to high of probabilities to left to to chance IMHO...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Getting numbers like that isn't hard. A first approximation is just to look at the percentages of sea, land, and populated land between +/-42 (44?) degrees latitude - the parts of the Earth that the boosters orbit takes it over, a refined value would take into account that the orbits shape means it spends more time over the areas near the N/S limits of it's ground track and weight the areas based on that. Once it gets to within a day or two of re-entry you could refine even more by factoring in exactly what's under each of its orbital passes instead of aggregate around the world numbers. At that point the values would be adjusting themselves at ever increasing rates as the maximum number of possible orbits goes down.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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It is very nice, but the probability of event is depends on the possible outcomes... And there are only two of them - it will hit someone or will not... That makes it a 50-50... Which is horrible...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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