Funnies & Good Vibes Thread
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The Earth is mostly covered by water?
Anyone dived off a 3-meter springboard? It hurts.
A 5-meter platform? Instant headache.
Jumped off a 10-meter platform? That’s about 33 feet. It hurts.
“We” had a “rule” at the state championships (the “we” was the 13-14 boys and the 15-and over Men)….win, dive off the 5-meter platform; win and set a state record…..jump off the 10-meter platform.
We were swimmers; we hated diving.
Swimming? Good. Leaping from heights? Bad. Water is hard.
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Some people just know how to do this. I don’t agree with Zohran on everything, but he’s a natural. I’m so glad he’s getting a chance to show what he can do.
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Fucking losers seems more appropriate.
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It's ok, Braves won
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Damn. Righty vs lefty for your first pitch?
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Agree with all you say. Russia has a lot of empty land. Russia adds one more round of parachutes to its capsules to slow them down enough for a ground landing.
Apropos of nothing, I have always loved the Jules Verne's books "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865) and "Around the Moon" (1869) and comparing and contrasting the following details to Apollo 8 in December 1968:
1) a launch from Florida,
2) capsule containing three men,
3) took five days to get to the moon, (Note: Apollo 8 made it in three days.)
4) the capsule went around the moon, but didn't land,
5) the crew members observe the surface of the Moon and determine it does not have life, (compared Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin's description, "Magnificent desolation.")
6) the capsule uses rockets to slow its re-entry to Earth, and
7) A US Navy ship picks up the floating capsule and its three occupants from the Pacific Ocean.
Comparing those details to the actual Apollo 8 mission shows some surprising similarities for books written 100 years prior to Apollo 8
