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Video: Paraglider Is Sucked Into a ‘Cloud Vortex', Gets Covered Head-To-Toe in Ice, Almost Freezes to Death Drifting at Five Miles High
2025-05-28
[GatewayPundit] Still, the paraglider said he miraculously remained conscious the entire time and eventually was able to stick a safe landing.
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[the pilot] suffered extensive frostbite and is recovering in a hospital, but is now under investigation since air traffic authorities hadn’t approved his flight.

Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#12   @10
Saw a deal out there ratio 1:whatever NORK destroyer - just a bunch of blue painter's tape, maybe over a Battleship destroyer, same difference, I laughed.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-05-28 23:16  

#11  @#7 - Absolutely. Hyperbole is TGP's middle name...maybe its first name. I quick reading TGP ages ago.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2025-05-28 22:21  

#10  Geez. I' beginning to feel like the NORK Chief Boat Launcher. ;-)
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2025-05-28 21:25  

#9  Not just Gateway, but NY Post as well.

Layers, and layers, of fact checkers.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-05-28 21:05  

#8  going from 3km to 8.6km he would have lost 60% of the atmospheric pressure he started with

that plus being frozen would kill him

fairly obviously false info

Posted by: Lord Garth   2025-05-28 17:38  

#7  Gateway is known for clickbait. You get the good with the bad, and this looks like their bad.
Posted by: mossomo   2025-05-28 13:36  

#6  five miles high? What did he breathe?
Posted by: Bobby   2025-05-28 12:41  

#5  Imma gonna call Bullshit.

To add to NN2N1, no vapor, or if the wind is too hard to see it nothing else reflects a high wind. Plus, the mouth is weird.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-05-28 12:31  

#4  And where was the camera? Did he have a selfie stick?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2025-05-28 12:15  

#3  I agree..AI can generate (almost) lifelike realism.
Posted by: Warthog   2025-05-28 09:27  

#2  
I have to say I am suspect of the video.

One issue, despite all the ice everywhere, the camera lenses remained crystal clear of any ice or moisture is one.

The background look generated.

Posted by: NN2N1   2025-05-28 07:10  

#1  Authorities (faceless). What would we do without them.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2025-05-28 05:08  

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