Also unimpressed.

i would say something about now,, but most of your fark has beat me to it by now. i guess it a slow slow evening.

Haha, stupid drunken Irish.

/wtf

Whiskey, it's a hell of a drug...or something like that.


/i dunno
//i'm drunk

I'm half-Irish, so I'm getting drunk.

Subby and fark admin.,

The horse is obviously dead, please find a new one to beat.

Thanks.

Meh... everyone is good at falling. He's only slightly better.

Doink_Boink

Hey, a greenlight's a greenlight, even if it reuses a lame, centuries old stereotype.

/Subby
//Properly Irish.

eeny meeny, chili beany, the spirits are about to speak

I guess I'll be the first to say that traveling that fast over water is really farkin cool. good for that guy.

/continue with ranting about anti-irish headlines

This would be helpful in the U.S., as a way to avoid the TSA.

If you need an airplane, it's not unaided.

That headline is so full of win I don't even know where to start.

FTFHeadline
"stuntman dressed as flying squirrel"

Rocket J. Squirrel unavailable for comment.

/ hates having to use the big hammer.

Shostie: I'm half-Irish, so I'm getting drunk.

half-drunk?
1.5 sheets to the wind?

God, I would love to do that.

Doink_Boink: Subby and fark admin.,

The horse is obviously dead, please find a new one to beat.

Thanks.

Welcome to Fark. Home of the endlessly repeated cliche.
Also. What the fark. Flying squirrel costume?! If he actually set a record and that isn't snark (didn't rtfa) then that.... that's just swell.

Did his best friend try to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but got a lion instead?

And yeah, that was sarcasm. Lame subby, just lame.

What a way to guarantee putting the airlines outta business... only problem: limited carry-on space.

haemaker: half-drunk?
1.5 sheets to the wind?

The other half is Dutch-Belgian (as opposed to French-Belgian), so I suppose I should also build a boat and shave my scrotum while making outlandish claims, such as how I invented the question mark.

As a local drunk, I'd like to say that I'm unimpressed. I see this kind of thing every day.

mrexcess: And yeah, that was sarcasm. Lame subby, just lame.

/It is still better than flying.

Is unimpressed (new window)

I thought a guy dresses as a squirrel tried to hijack a passenger plane and the rest of the headline was stroke induced jibberish. I really was surprised when I read the article.

airline security must be established!

/drunk too!
//farkin from a bar, actually
///irish pub too!

you know what, it makes me wonder, do really want to leave the relative safety of my home and deal with these lunatics in the world, heck yes, im one of the lunatics

Wait'll ya see generation II...

FTFA: An Aer Arann passenger plane, which travels the 17.6km route everyday with a top speed of 193km/hr, took off from Inis Mór airstrip but lands at Indreabhán seven minutes later.

After landing, the pilot commented on the unusually short, wide runway.

you know, every time I read one of these stories about a guy with a winged skydiving outfit, I wonder how hard it really is. I mean, I suppose if you violently turn you could hit a fair amount of wind resistance, but it REALLY sounds like fun.

I mean, falling isn't hard. Skydiving isn't really that hard. This must be much more difficult, but seems doable. What do you think?

Hokey Smoke, Bullwinkle!

Hey, Rocky!

RobertKnicks: you know, every time I read one of these stories about a guy with a winged skydiving outfit, I wonder how hard it really is. I mean, I suppose if you violently turn you could hit a fair amount of wind resistance, but it REALLY sounds like fun.

I mean, falling isn't hard. Skydiving isn't really that hard. This must be much more difficult, but seems doable. What do you think?

What I think is that it's been done several times. How do you perceive that as merely "doable?"

4:1 glide ratio, not too shabby

This and giant human catapults. The morning commute will never be the same.

He didn't actually pass a plane; he only covered the given distance faster than one.

A hang glider will have a glide ratio of at low end, 9:1, 17:1 at the high end. That is in still air, will change with head/tail winds. 4:1 is really nothing, but that is to be expected with such small wings.

Charles Hoy Fort notes newspaper reports of the sighting of a bat-man flying over New York City in the 1880s (IIRC--it could have been the 1890s). There are no reports of the mystery chiroptonaut or chiroptiator fighting crimes. (I just invented both words for men who fly like bats)--aviator would be just plain wrong.

So much for the Steam Punk version of Batman. "Reality" beat the cartoonists to it.

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