Skydivers generally use a rule of thumb of 10 seconds for the first 1,000 feet and then 5 seconds per thousand feet thereafter.
So that is roughly 30 seconds to confront your mortality. I'm not sure a lot of folks think about what that might be like before they make jokes.
That is one reason I was relieved to find out that Kobe Bryant's helicopter likely impacted the ground in fog, I would have hated to think of his daughter enduring 10 seconds or more of terror.
This guy knew what he was in for if his equipment failed, still, it probably wasn't pleasant.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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