真实趣闻——“躺椅拉里”事��(Lawnchair Larry )😂。
1982年7月2日,33岁的卡车司机拉里.沃尔特斯在加州的圣佩德罗进行了一次惊人的飞行。
他将42个氦气气球绑在一把从Sears 买的铝制庭院躺椅上,并带上了气枪、三明治、啤酒、无线电对讲机和降落伞。
他原本计划只在低空飘浮,但没想到切断缆绳后却升力过大,直接飙升到近16000英尺的高空(约4877米),并飘进了洛杉矶国际机场附近的进近航线😂
民航飞行员向塔台报告看到有人坐在躺椅上漂浮在高空😂
他在高空冷得手脚麻木瑟瑟发抖,担心手抖打偏,所以只能用气枪逐一击破几个气球后慢慢下降,最后气球挂在长滩的输电线上引发短路停电😂,但他最终还是安全着陆。
他被联邦航空管理局处以1500美元罚款(起初为4000美元)
他对警察留下了一句名言:人总不能就这么干坐着("A man can't just sit around.")😂
我感觉这件事,可以让拉里家族吹几辈子了😂,比如:当年我太爷爷/叔公……绑了42个气球……飞进了民航进近航线……顺手搞瘫痪了半个街区的电路🤣🤣
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Legacy media REFUSED to show you a SINGLE SECOND of President Trump's speech and historic state dinner with Xi Jinping tonight at the White House
So here's the ENTIRE thing, from start to finish, with translations for Xi's speech
DO NOT LET LEGACY MEDIA KEEP YOU IN THE DARK
This is still one of the most extraordinary experiences I’ve ever had. Around 5:30 in the morning, while I was alone on a beach in Costa Rica, I came across a stranded dolphin. About six vultures were surrounding it, waiting for a chance to peck at its eyes, while the dolphin kept making sounds as if it were crying out for help.
If anyone thinks I was weak for being scared in that moment, try imagining having to move a slippery 275-pound animal while it’s panicking and you know its life is at risk.
It was a chaotic yet extraordinary moment that left a lasting mark on my life. Throughout the entire experience, I felt like the dolphin was trying to communicate with me. I don’t really know how to explain it, but I could sense its trust and, in some way, its gratitude that I was there and had helped keep it safe from the vultures.
A real-life experience I’ll never forget. 🐬🙏
📹 danielbarousse
A tiny newborn elephant was swept away from its mother while trying to cross the swollen Teesta River in India.
Fishermen spotted its trunk above the water and chased it for nearly 4 km through the powerful current before pulling the exhausted calf to safety.
Then, after a two-hour search, they found its mother. She rushed to her baby, took it back and began nursing it❤
This man became Spider-Man to see his son smile one last time. In 2014, Mike Wilson jumped from a roof to surprise his 5-year-old terminally ill son, Jayden.
A father's love is unmatched.
The man they just pulled out of a collapsed tunnel in Nepal survived 9 days underground because he stayed behind evacuating the 40 to 50 workers trapped with him. When rescuers finally reached him, his first question was what date it was.
Search and rescue doctrine treats 72 hours as the survival window. Past 3 days, dehydration kills most buried people, which is why international teams usually start scaling back around day 4. Sanjay Sah lasted 216 hours.
The physics of a flooded hydropower tunnel explain how. Trishuli 3A is a network of chambers that snake up and down inside the mountain, so the flood that sealed the entrance also left air pockets higher in the structure. Humidity near 100% slows the water you lose just by breathing. Rock holds a cool, constant temperature, so you never sweat. And drinkable water is the one thing a flooded tunnel has in abundance.
Nearly every survival story that beats the 72-hour window comes down to water access. Reshma Begum lasted 17 days in the Rana Plaza rubble in 2013 on pooled water and dried food she found in the wreckage. Pedrito Dy survived 14 days under a collapsed Baguio hotel in 1990 drinking rainwater that dripped through the debris.
Rescuers heard more voices from inside the tunnel Friday morning. Around 115 workers are believed trapped at this one site, roughly 500 across Nepal's flooded hydropower tunnels. Water and temperature are solved down there. Oxygen is the clock.
Sah told doctors his job's primary duty is to safeguard everyone's life. He spent 9 days buried proving he meant it.
Three lives lay buried beneath the mud for nearly three days, and after all that, the mother dog broke down in tears after being rescued 💖✨
After heavy rains in Kerala, India, a minor landslide occurred near a residential area. Local people heard a faint whimper but could not work out where it was coming from.
The rain gradually eased, but the sound continued. Unwilling to ignore it, they began digging around the place where the cries seemed to be coming from and discovered a mother dog buried in the mud, with two newborn puppies beside her.
The three of them are believed to have been trapped for nearly three days without food or water. The puppies were trembling, their bodies covered in mud, while the mother remained trapped and unable to free herself.
The rescuers quickly brought them out. They washed the mud from the two puppies, dried them with towels and wrapped them in cloth to keep them warm.
Immediately after being rescued, the mother dog broke down in tears. She stood close to her puppies, watching as they were cleaned and kept warm, while her faint cries could still be heard.
No one can know exactly what the mother dog was feeling. But after nearly three days trapped in the mud, perhaps those cries were a mixture of stress, exhaustion and relief that she and her puppies had finally escaped the danger.
What is particularly striking is that the two puppies were still beside her. After days of being unable to free herself, the mother could now see her puppies being cared for and have them right beside her.
The people then built a small temporary shelter for the three of them beneath a telephone pole, giving them a place to stay and protecting them from the cold rain. They brought them food and water and continued caring for all three until they gradually recovered.
What still puzzled those who witnessed the rescue was how the three dogs had managed to survive beneath the mud for so long. There is not enough information to know exactly what allowed them to remain alive in those conditions.
But one thing is clear: without those cries, the people might never have known that a small family was trapped beneath the mud.
For an animal buried underground, making a sound may be one of the few ways it can signal that it is still alive. People do not need to understand exactly what that sound means to recognise that there is a living creature beneath the mud that needs to be found.
Natural disasters do not threaten only people. When landslides occur, water rises or shelters are destroyed, animals can also become trapped, lose their homes, become separated from those they depend on, or be unable to find food and water.
Rescuing an animal in such circumstances is therefore more than an act of compassion. It shows that people can extend their sense of responsibility to the other living creatures that share the same environment.
A society is judged not only by how it protects its most vulnerable people, but also by how it treats creatures that cannot speak for themselves. People cannot prevent natural disasters from happening, but they can still decide what to do when living beings are left in danger afterwards.
Perhaps the most memorable part of this story is that three lives survived because a very small cry was heard.