In all seriousness, I am absolutely KICKING myself that I didn’t think of the Superman approach - what a fool I made myself look…
GAH! 
Proof that these birds do exist. 
Who knew Santa’s reindeer are attracted by the smell of Peruvian Maoist guerrillas ?
Not me, for sure.
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Like Parakeets in many ways - Slippery fellows, no mistaking.
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Sometimes obvious shit is obvious.
You’ll know better next time.
Don’t dismiss the parakeets.
Or the magic reindeer.
I wouldn’t completely rule out the Peruvian Maoist guerrillas either. Always makes sense to have a Plan D.
I wouldn’t bother asking Ant Man though. He’s as thick as a boxing day turd and has no powers beyond making himself very big or very small, which is of zero fucking use in this context.
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Fucking hell. Looks like a furry shark.
Apparently a sub-species of the long-tailed tit that we have here.
That image is a bit suspect - they do puff-up their feathers like little balls, but for obvious aerodynamic reasons, not normally in flight.
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Caudatus sub-species, AKA Northern Long-tailed Tit.
Occasionally recorded in Britain.
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TIL that Twitter monitors your “interests” and you can effectively unsubscribe from topics, but, like, wat?
Loads of people I’ve never heard of, Andrew bloody Tate, and I’m apparently a maniac for Brighton & Hove Albion
Who the fuck is Charlie Adam?
What is DTM?
German motor racing?
And in a slight collection, apparently JSO have a merchandising arm.
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That the world record distance for a ski jump is 291 metres…
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Surely that will just get broken when someone builds a longer slope. Sure, some skill in staying upright, but not so much of a jump as a controlled drop.
I remember an article in The Grauniad about this back in t’day, innit…
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The launch speed will eventually be limited by terminal velocity (air and ski/snow resistance = gravity, accounting for the slope of the track). I don’t know how close we are to that already. Once we’re there no further amount of track lengthening will make any difference.
Once the launch angle has been chosen the (approx parabolic) path of the airborne skier will depend only on their ability to minimise air resistance and to take advantage of any ‘gliding’ they can achieve. The length of the jump will be set by how far away the path in the air intersects with the ground. I’d have thought a lot could be gained by having the ground drop away as quickly as possible after the launch point. But as the path in the air gets more and more vertical even that will run out of steam eventually.
I’m assuming the ‘length’ of the jump is really only the horizontal distance travelled. If we allowed the vertical distance to be factored in too then we could achieve a very ‘long’ jump indeed without a snow slope at all, simply by dropping the skier down a mineshaft 
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World record speed on skis is 255km/h, think they mentioned he left the ramp at 107km/h so still a fair way to go.
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Wow !
I doubt that the rules would permit but I imagine that if he jumped in a wingsuit he could go double that distance.