personality test
scuba diving or sky diving? sea or air? hypothetical scenario: you can only pick one. go ahead. i'll wait.
your choice says a great deal about your psyche. if you boil both exhilarating activities down to their bare forms, you are basically choosing between the illusion of control and lack of control. are you the dominant type, or are you more of a passive individual?
side note:
both require a great deal of mental and physical preparation and extensive training before you can make a solo attempt. both require detailed knowledge of proper equipment operation and maintenance. our body's density is somewhere between that of air and water, so we fall down in air and up in water. the trick is to control these uncontrollable physical forces. for scuba diving it involves weights. for sky diving it involves a parachute. tremendous care is necessary to strike a balance between enjoyment and death. if you fail to utilize your scuba weights properly, you could rocket up to the surface causing your blood vessels to violently explode. if you fail to utilize your parachute properly, you could splatter across the landscape in a beautifully mathematical pattern. either way, it's a pretty messy scene.
sky diving - unless you have one of those jet suits or specialized government training - traditionally involves careful planning to ensure you land somewhere near your destination and not on a cactus. aside from slight mid-air maneuvering, there is not much one can do when accelerating towards the earth's crust at almost 10 meters per second. of course, air friction limits your top speed, but no one wants to hit anything at that velocity. unlike scuba diving, there are not as many animal-related injuries possible while sailing through the air, but there is always the slight risk of slamming into a migrating goose or a propeller plane. scuba divers face the perils of ocean currents, curious mollusks, hungry fish, jagged cliffs, and of course the crushing pressure of water. that is one of many things i find fascinating about our gas-based atmosphere. our physical structures are so finely balanced to ensure survival at our average air pressure. we are not meant to inhabit any other locations. if we were tied to a balloon and set adrift into the clouds, we would slowly explode. if we were tied to a stone and dropped into the ocean, we would slowly implode. those are some pretty painful and disgusting images (not to mention the sick bastard who decides to torture people in these ways) so i do apologize. i think i am about seven tangents off course, so let's journey back.
while sky diving you agree to let go of the wheel until the last possible minute when you pull the ripcord and drift safely to the ground. while scuba diving you struggle to keep the wheel straight the entire time. both of these sound awesome. count me in.
your choice says a great deal about your psyche. if you boil both exhilarating activities down to their bare forms, you are basically choosing between the illusion of control and lack of control. are you the dominant type, or are you more of a passive individual?
side note:
both require a great deal of mental and physical preparation and extensive training before you can make a solo attempt. both require detailed knowledge of proper equipment operation and maintenance. our body's density is somewhere between that of air and water, so we fall down in air and up in water. the trick is to control these uncontrollable physical forces. for scuba diving it involves weights. for sky diving it involves a parachute. tremendous care is necessary to strike a balance between enjoyment and death. if you fail to utilize your scuba weights properly, you could rocket up to the surface causing your blood vessels to violently explode. if you fail to utilize your parachute properly, you could splatter across the landscape in a beautifully mathematical pattern. either way, it's a pretty messy scene.
sky diving - unless you have one of those jet suits or specialized government training - traditionally involves careful planning to ensure you land somewhere near your destination and not on a cactus. aside from slight mid-air maneuvering, there is not much one can do when accelerating towards the earth's crust at almost 10 meters per second. of course, air friction limits your top speed, but no one wants to hit anything at that velocity. unlike scuba diving, there are not as many animal-related injuries possible while sailing through the air, but there is always the slight risk of slamming into a migrating goose or a propeller plane. scuba divers face the perils of ocean currents, curious mollusks, hungry fish, jagged cliffs, and of course the crushing pressure of water. that is one of many things i find fascinating about our gas-based atmosphere. our physical structures are so finely balanced to ensure survival at our average air pressure. we are not meant to inhabit any other locations. if we were tied to a balloon and set adrift into the clouds, we would slowly explode. if we were tied to a stone and dropped into the ocean, we would slowly implode. those are some pretty painful and disgusting images (not to mention the sick bastard who decides to torture people in these ways) so i do apologize. i think i am about seven tangents off course, so let's journey back.
while sky diving you agree to let go of the wheel until the last possible minute when you pull the ripcord and drift safely to the ground. while scuba diving you struggle to keep the wheel straight the entire time. both of these sound awesome. count me in.
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