feral_brick

feral_brick t1_je46t7n wrote

Your level is either trolling or blindingly delusional.

I responded with childish insults because frankly you have not shown either the intelligence or emotional maturity to respond to anything else.

The rest of your comment proves my point that you either willfully ignore facts or don't understand why you're wrong and are incapable of learning. So I hope you have a nice life, but I'm not here to teach you the things your middle school teachers failed to teach you, so this conversation is over.

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feral_brick t1_je3v82c wrote

aLl tHe EsTaBLisHeD pLAyeRs dO iT

If you're too stupid to understand that the only meaningful (I won't use the word objective because you clearly don't understand it) way to compare reliability is to compare rates, rather than "x company had issues with component y" or that finding examples of similar failure modes without numbers on frequency is textbook whataboutism, engaging with you isn't worth it because you won't learn and trying to explain it in ways you would understand would only make me sink to your level

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feral_brick t1_iyc6bt8 wrote

Actually it's not as bad as you'd think... Turbulence in a situation like that a trivial factor, the tendency is to either stay in the flow (where your relative velocity is low) or get kicked out of it. Unless you're trying you're pretty much guaranteed not to stay at the interface of the prop wash.

And aeration from a point source like that is very much a function of water velocity, and the air bubbles tend to rise pretty quickly. So if you look behind a motor boat you might see a long trail of bubbles but the length is mostly because they get pushed far out, not that they take a long time to rise

With a pfd, if you had the foresight to hold your breath, I'd say it's pretty much a guarantee that you'd survive. So in context is just a question of whether they got caught off guard and got unlucky with their breath, or of they got disoriented.

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feral_brick t1_it2locn wrote

That's the whole point. Late wildfire season, with lots of fires smoldering in inaccessible areas, turned a normally high air quality place into the worst.

The wildfire season wasn't even bad, in terms of acres burned, but anecdotally I think the smoke was still pretty bad. Not the worst ever for sure, but not the best either (I think)

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