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EdEnsHAzArD t1_j3bn5t7 wrote

Reply to comment by SandiegoJack in A vulture decides to rest his wings and hitch a ride with a paraglider by Chadyaronkr

I'm not scared of heights, I'm just scared of falling

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Secret_Autodidact t1_j3bsjc2 wrote

I'm not scared of falling, I'm just scared of the sudden deceleration at the end.

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jsha11 t1_j3buhu3 wrote

So gravity isn’t the force to be feared, but electromagnetism is

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Secret_Autodidact t1_j3c5idp wrote

Gravity gets a bad rap, it's making you accelerate just the same on the ground as it is when you're falling through the air. It's the damn ground that's the problem, without it we'd be weightless!

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Rossrox t1_j3box9p wrote

Same! I describe it as a fear of unsafe heights - if there’s something that I could do either accidentally or on purpose that could put me in serious danger, I don’t like it.

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