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y'all are being weird. it's not about "i could afford to" it's cause going to the highest/deepest/whatever is, itself, cool. you don't have to make up dumb sociopathic reasons, "i wanted to do a cool thing and didn't care who or what was damaged for me to accomplish it" is messed up enough
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Achmed Jones posted:y'all are being weird. it's not about "i could afford to" it's cause going to the highest/deepest/whatever is, itself, cool. you don't have to make up dumb sociopathic reasons, "i wanted to do a cool thing and didn't care who or what was damaged for me to accomplish it" is messed up enough yeah, but I'm a poor sociopath and I also want accomplish things
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Achmed Jones posted:y'all are being weird. it's not about "i could afford to" it's cause going to the highest/deepest/whatever is, itself, cool. you don't have to make up dumb sociopathic reasons, "i wanted to do a cool thing and didn't care who or what was damaged for me to accomplish it" is messed up enough If it was cheap lots of people would do it. If lots of people did it, it would have less value. They wouldn't do it.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Nahh, climbing Everest is nothing but rich assholes saying you will never do this. Same reason Amazon guy launched his dick into space. Same reason they imploded looking for the Titanic. I can afford to do this, you cannot. Look at me! Conversely most of the guys who went to the moon were not rich, being government employees and all that. I think Alan Shepherd owned a beer distributorship and did OK. And I sure as hell hope Jim Lovell made some scratch from the movie deal. But, for the most part, they were not rolling in dough. When I mention this to people, I often get, "Naw, they're doing alright." Upper middle class? Sure. But it's like we equate these great achievements with being loaded.
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Mercury astronauts made about $100k/yr in modern terms in salary but then I think they got double that from their Life Magazine deal.
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They had to do the life magazine thing because they couldn't get life insurance.
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And when the New Nine joined, Life decided they would just divide the original Mercury 7 pot instead of adding to it.
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Meanwhile, back on Mount Everest... https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/asia/six-killed-nepal-helicopter-crash-intl-scli/index.html NOT that I am not enjoying the OceanGate discussion here, because I am. Climbing season is over and people are still managing to die on Everest.
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The cause of the crash was a combination of hubris, helicopters and physics. RIP Nepali pilot
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basicblack posted:Meanwhile, back on Mount Everest... The flight was enroute back to Kathmandu from just outside of Lukla. I did that helicopter flight and that air is... not fun to deal with.
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2023 footage of hillary step https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs7PaqZZFcM
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That doesn't look like Everest. The sun is on the wrong side for a morning summit, the ridge doesn't have the path cut to the left like that (and the image isn't flipped because the logos on the clothing are fine). Where's Makalu? Lhotse? Which raises the question: What mountain is that high (needing oxygen) and that popular? Also, this is two clips. The second half of the vid is Everest, just after the Hillary Step. Notice the direction of the sun is flipped. Also, this later footage is from a video posted on YouTube four years ago. Nice Tuckpointing! fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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That looks boring as hell standing around like cattle
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:That doesn't look like Everest. The sun is on the wrong side for a morning summit, the ridge doesn't have the path cut to the left like that (and the image isn't flipped because the logos on the clothing are fine). Where's Makalu? Lhotse? Which raises the question: What mountain is that high (needing oxygen) and that popular? 
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:That doesn't look like Everest. The sun is on the wrong side for a morning summit, the ridge doesn't have the path cut to the left like that (and the image isn't flipped because the logos on the clothing are fine). Where's Makalu? Lhotse? Which raises the question: What mountain is that high (needing oxygen) and that popular? Does Everest even exist or did rich people invent it.
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Desert Bus posted:Does Everest even exist or did rich people invent it. the real everest is the posts we made
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orange juche posted:the real everest is the posts we made Starring Lowtax as Greenboots
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orange juche posted:the real everest is the posts we made So many idiots dying on the posts we made. We should probably feel bad about that.
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dr_rat posted:So many idiots dying on the posts we made. Yet Iceposiedon lives another day... Did he ever do a follow up on his near-death experience?
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Yet Iceposiedon lives another day... Did he ever do a follow up on his near-death experience? He got arrested in Thailand. Skip to 3:30 for the apology video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW_eSViau7s
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Mynameismud posted:He got arrested in Thailand. Wow, he got arrested for performing a lap dance while streaming which apparently is against the law in Thailand and is facing up to five years for it, that's crazy. Kamrat fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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But what mountain is that in the vid? It sure doesn't look like any Hillary Step vids I have seen, but it's gotta be something that produces traffic jams at the top.
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Mynameismud posted:He got arrested in Thailand. Woah that took a turn...
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orange juche posted:the real everest is the posts we made we have climbed such heights together.
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I figured it out. It's Manaslu. From the video:  From Wikimedia: 
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(rainbolt voice) nice
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ethanol posted:are you telling me theres a 2nd everest? There's only one platonic everest, and it moves of its own ineffable accord Some may boast to have climbed Mt. Everest, but none of them tamed the everest in their hearts
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Xlorp posted:There's only one platonic everest, and it moves of its own ineffable accord What if i don't want to have a platonic relationship with Mt. Everest and instead prefer a romantic relationship or perhaps FWB, am I allowed to gently caress it?
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:Conversely most of the guys who went to the moon were not rich, being government employees and all that. I think Alan Shepherd owned a beer distributorship and did OK. And I sure as hell hope Jim Lovell made some scratch from the movie deal. But, for the most part, they were not rolling in dough. When I mention this to people, I often get, "Naw, they're doing alright." Upper middle class? Sure. But it's like we equate these great achievements with being loaded. Yeah. But there is no trip to the moon rich people can go on is there? Not yet, at least. Not knocking the first people to do these things, just the ones who have nothing else going on in their life that they decide, I'm going to spend a years salary, or more, on a frivolous trip to a dangerous destination
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Yeah. But there is no trip to the moon rich people can go on is there? Not yet, at least. Not knocking the first people to do these things, just the ones who have nothing else going on in their life that they decide, I'm going to spend a years salary, or more, on a frivolous trip to a dangerous destination This is gonna be a thing soon enough.
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redshirt posted:This is gonna be a thing soon enough. That isn't good. There is enough space garbage as it is
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orange juche posted:What if i don't want to have a platonic relationship with Mt. Everest and instead prefer a romantic relationship or perhaps FWB, am I allowed to gently caress it? Buddy,
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orange juche posted:What if i don't want to have a platonic relationship with Mt. Everest and instead prefer a romantic relationship or perhaps FWB, am I allowed to gently caress it? Pounded In The Butt by the Ghost of Green Boots
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Jamsque posted:Pounded In The Butt by the Ghost of Green Boots is tingler the author or is it the feeling of incipient frostbite enquiring minds want to know
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kalleth posted:is tingler the author or is it the feeling of incipient frostbite You mean Chuck Tingle? No, he doesn't write trash
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Yeah. But there is no trip to the moon rich people can go on is there? Not yet, at least. Not knocking the first people to do these things, just the ones who have nothing else going on in their life that they decide, I'm going to spend a years salary, or more, on a frivolous trip to a dangerous destination I went and met a bunch of them a while back where they were sitting at booths, signing autographs, for a fee (minimum $150 for those who went to the moon; shuttle folks were a better bargain). And it threw me off for the whole event. Surely Michael Collins and Charlie Duke are doing just fine, right? But we just assume they live in mansions and get big speaking fees because they did those great adventures. The rich adventurers, and aspirational adventurers, are chasing that glory from the opposite end, and that feeds our perception of the wealth of the original adventurers. Or maybe the astronauts are just anomalies. Because the rich adventurer has been a thing since ancient times.
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orange juche posted:What if i don't want to have a platonic relationship with Mt. Everest and instead prefer a romantic relationship or perhaps FWB, am I allowed to gently caress it?
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