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  1. I can judge whomever I please. Yeah he can do whatever he wants and he did. And I can point to its grandstanding nature. Cuban probably doesn’t see it that way, but he’s making a move that nobody else will make. Why?  To call attention to himself. 


    On that note, congratulations on being a mind reader. Since he seriously needs the attention and money right now. Luka and his billions aren’t enough. Eye roll.
  2. Jives with what ESPN is saying but they could just be reading the same graph I guess.

    "Shortly after 9:40 a.m., the helicopter turned again, toward the southeast, and climbed to more than 2,000 feet above sea level. It then descended and crashed into the hillside at about 1,400 feet, according to data from Flightradar24.

    When it struck the ground, the helicopter was flying at about 160 knots (184 mph) and descending at a rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute (45 mph), the Flightradar24 data showed."

    https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28572984/helicopter-carrying-kobe-bryant-made-climbing-turn-rapid-dive

     

    EDIT: duh they say it in the quote "the FLightradar24 data showed" 

  3. 1 minute ago, Goo Punch said:

    some said the NBA should have canceled the games today; others have suggested they cancel all games the day of his funeral. thoughts?

    On one hand it seems shitty to ask players to play when they might want to attend his funeral (if its open for them to attend which I imagine it might be) if there are conflicts. On the other hand, it becomes a slippery slope. How important of a player has to die for them to cancel games? They can't do this for all players. 

    I won't be upset either way. Either way people will bitch and moan about it and others will love it.

  4. 5 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    I’m not on Facebook, but unlike a message board anonymity (where I wanna know who the idiots are), why would you not simply remove this person as a connection?  I do it all the time on LinkedIn. I simply do not want to be associated with crazy people or people with whom I’ve worked that piss me off. Life is too short. 

    Good question. I haven't done that with a lot of people who don't have similar views as me. I think I've justified it as not wanting to fall into group think and only have friends who have similar beliefs to me on Facebook. It's sort of refreshing to see the different view points about politics and other stuff on my Facebook feed even though most of the time it just pisses me off. I should probably remove the guy.. he's for sure a racist. It just baffles me that someone so educated with engineering degrees, trust from the FAA, pilot, smarts etc could have such a twisted view of the world. Anyway enough about him... he's old so he'll die one of these days along with his racist views and his daughter just went to college so she's probably off getting boned by other dudes.

  5. A former coworker of mine posted this on Facebook:  "Of the 9 people now reported on the aircraft, how many did not rape a girl in a Colorado hotel room, then publically smear her and pay her off to drop the charges? Or did we all forget about that?" 

    He's always posting sensationalist shit or far right religious views that are borderline racist and I want to reply but I don't want to stoop to his level. I wanted to reply "Well he died in a fiery helicopter crash today knowing his daughter was going to die as well so I'm guessing you're content that he got what was coming to him right?"

  6. 3 minutes ago, pops said:

    If he was that close to the hills ground affect would have been a serious problem in a bird that big. 

    But at this point, short of mechanical failure, it's tough to blame anyone other than the pilot for making a series of bad decisions. 

    Will be interesting to see what the ntsb says. 

    Wouldn't ground effect only have helped him hover with less required power? Or are you thinking possibly getting into some kind of vortex ring state / settling with power? 

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