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2025-05-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Video: Paraglider Is Sucked Into a ‘Cloud Vortex', Gets Covered Head-To-Toe in Ice, Almost Freezes to Death Drifting at Five Miles High

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [211 views ] Top

#1 Authorities (faceless). What would we do without them.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-05-28 05:08|| 2025-05-28 05:08|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-05-28 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree..AI can generate (almost) lifelike realism.

Posted by Warthog 2025-05-28 09:27|| 2025-05-28 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 And where was the camera? Did he have a selfie stick?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-05-28 12:15|| 2025-05-28 12:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-05-28 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 five miles high? What did he breathe?

Posted by Bobby 2025-05-28 12:41|| 2025-05-28 12:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-05-28 13:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-05-28 17:38|| Front Page Top

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

Layers, and layers, of fact checkers.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-28 21:05|| 2025-05-28 21:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Geez. I' beginning to feel like the NORK Chief Boat Launcher. ;-)

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-05-28 21:25|| 2025-05-28 21:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-05-28 22:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-05-28 23:16|| Front Page Top

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