Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "National Geographic" channel.

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  10. Let me break things to you all. Over 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth went extinct. The planet went throught temperatures way over anything climate change could ever cause, and way down what most animals and even plants could ever survive. The interest in stopping climate change, preventing current species from going extinct and stopping things like deforestation is selfish, and purely for our own benefit. Which is why we need to redouble efforts. Even if you think you don't care about those, you tip the balance too much to the wrong side and the delicate ecossystem we depend on to live can come tumbling down just like it also happened for previous dominating species in past epochs. Because the planet isn't going anywhere, and it would recover plenty fast overtime. Specially without us. Faster without us. The only thing poised to dramatically change if we do nothing is our own survival. We'll most likely not survive the next big natural mass extinction event anyways, better make good use and stretch things as long as we can by NOT killing ourselves with out own hands and actions. Who knows? We could have a few millenia to enjoy as long as we don't keep polluting and screwing around as much. We're but a tiny tiny tiny blip in Earth's timeline. Grain of sand in a beach, spec of dust floating around Earth's in a nanosecond-like moment of it's life. It's quite funny when you think that among the other animals who ruled the planet through long periods of time, we might end up being among the most short lived. Couple hundred thousand years is basically nothing in comparison to dinosaurs who might have been the dominant species for a good hundred million years. Which in turn is also nothing in comparison to Earth's approximate 4.5 billion years of age (as far as we know).
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  14. Why take a plane when all he needed to do was punch the ground? xD Anyways, nice one! Gotta love Terry Crews! 15 jumps here, all solo, AFF course, never did a tandem jump. The few last ones no helmet, no radio, pilot chute, amazing feeling. If you take an accelerated free fall course, it's a different experience because the first few times you jump, your chute will open right after exiting the plane, so you don't really experience a whole lot of free fall... but depending on how well you control your fall and navigation, you soon get some air time. You don't get to enjoy the freefall much in the beginning because you are more worried about stabilizing the fall, hiting navigation points, and sticking the landing. Well, that's from when I did my course, a bit over 15 years ago... don't think a whole lot has changed though. It's expensive as heck these days, but yeah, those who want to do it, should... nothing quite like skydiving. As for passing out, it really does happen. For tandem jumps not much of a problem other than the landing... pretty hard to stick a landing with a huge dead weight like that. xD As for students jumping solo, student chutes have an automatic pilot that will open the chute at a limit altitude, so it's mostly also not an issue... again, the problem is navigation and landing, particularly when you have a limited area. My landing zone was like the private airport area that was surrounded by two pretty large pastures, so you had lots of margin for bad navigation... which just happens when you are learning. xD Lots of people landing on top of fresh manure. :P
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