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[–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Water isn't like in the video games. It's still a hard landing that you wouldn't survive if you were going too fast. There's just much more margin for error trying to hit the ocean vs. a plot of land.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    My father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.

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