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Inceltown posted:The fact that they were trying to bargain 50c USD off a cup of tea just makes it. They should have died. e: vvv Oh okay that's a bit of a different case. Elukka fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Cojawfee posted:I skipped around in that video and the one guy said "if you get stuck, I can help you through it". loving how? You're both just clinging onto the side of a cliff. Then my hands got really sweaty and I turned it off.
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orange juche posted:Why, loving why would you decide to climb Everest with a pacemaker, your ticker is already hosed, that's why you have a pacemaker! Climbing a mountain is one of the most athletically strenuous exercises you can do, and even worse, Everest is really loving tall, so you don't have much oxygen to work with, your heart beats faster, and you're putting even more stress on your already shot heart. gently caress people are dumb sometimes. Why do people insist on going to Everest to die.
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This was, however, near base camp, during acclimation. Though maybe that's not much different depending on the state of her heart.
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HopperUK posted:Oh poo poo really? I totally missed that, apologies. In that case yeah, she should never have been allowed near the drat mountain with that attitude.
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May 20, 2023 14:20
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I keep reading the handle "REALiceposeidon" as Lice Poseidon.
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May 22, 2023 14:03
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I feel like I'd really enjoy this stream if it was done by someone who is not a huge asshat.
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May 24, 2023 06:00
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Kamrat posted:Edit 2: Seems like he's regretting pushing himself too hard, he's feeling ill, drat, this is pretty sad, he needs to go down after eating and drinking a lot, continuing up is dumb and I hope he makes the right call.  e: Now saying it's fine bro, I'm just tired.
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That's getting really concerning. I don't wanna watch this guy die. He keeps nearly falling, can barely move, and then he decides to run, collapses and nearly throws up. Insists on keeping going. He's completely delusional and thinks it's just a little way to the destination where it's hours.
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May 24, 2023 10:30
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Honestly feels like his best odds are that he's unable to continue and has to be medevaced.
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May 24, 2023 10:34
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Quixotic1 posted:He has the sunk cost fallacy that every Everest climber gets while trying to get to the peak. Except this time it's just to get to Base Camp.
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May 24, 2023 10:41
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fuctifino posted:"My fingers are numb" He also keeps going on about how he can't stop or he's a failure. It's like the dumbest summit fever ever.
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May 24, 2023 11:00
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Yeah my impression is that this isn't some ultra-extreme unreasonably dangerous hike if you don't do literally everything wrong. He started his day being told he needs at least one rest day for acclimation and insisted on continuing.
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May 24, 2023 11:11
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Vernii posted:It has a four day supply of oxygen which is a weirdly over-engineered component for an environment in which every other critical failure results in either instant death or freezing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Roger_Mallinson_and_Roger_Chapman
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Jun 19, 2023 23:43
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Honestly, if I'm an aging billionaire, $250,000 for an instantaneous, pain-free epic death is a decent bargain. I wonder if life insurance pays out on something this frivolous and dumb.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Feel bad for the rescuers who have to pop open that capsule. Who knows, though, maybe some other rich adventurer will want to try.
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Jun 21, 2023 15:48
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Is it really a significant problem? There aren't a lot of billionaires getting lost in subs and I'd rather not mess up and overcomplicate things over something so rare. I don't actually know how much these operations cost though. I'm sure it's a ton if you bill by the hour for every person and piece of hardware involved, but in practice those people are being paid anyway, the hardware exists anyway and is not built for this one job, and they get to do some real-world exercise. I wonder what the additional costs over normal operations would look like.
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Goddamn, Rush was double wrong. No injuries in 35 years? Yeah, for all those other operators who follow safety standards and industry best practices and take them seriously. All that stuff he ignored. Safer than mundane stuff like helicopter flights or scuba diving? No, not even for those responsible operators. If you've got one activity that's been done for millions upon millions of times, against one that's done... I don't know how many deep sea dives have been done, but I know it's orders of magnitude fewer, the thing that's essentially still at an experimental stage will essentially always be more dangerous, simply due to a comparative lack of accumulated experience. This reminds me of Jared Isaacman, flying on the Dragon spacecraft, saying it's probably safer than the training flights they had on aircraft. That's just not understanding the risk. Dragon is no death trap submarine, it's probably as safe as the state of the art in spaceflight can get, which means... not very. Certainly nowhere near any kind of aircraft. Simply because we have mountains more flight experience with planes than with spacecraft and we have found way more problems and the state of the art in safety is immensely further along. Elukka fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Jun 24, 2023 |
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There was a point in that stream where I had to stop watching because he was shambling on a mountain path, highly unstable, and kept almost walking off a cliff without even noticing. There were so many ways he could have ended up dead or seriously injured on that trip.
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I'm guessing another reason is that they're mountain climbers who want to climb mountains.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:climbing mountaisn rules
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The space thread escaped GBS during that time that Lowtax decided to make GBS funny again, which meant returning to the early 2000s relentless shitposting he was nostalgic about. Until that nonsense calmed down it really couldn't exist here - neither could this thread, or anything that indicated any kind of genuine interest in anything, because it would get relentlessly shat down. You could have a space thread in GBS today, again, but it found a good home in SAL and nobody has made a new one in GBS.
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