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Next thoughts: Verily, thou art most dorksome.

Norway? Hmm. Colder air is usually denser, which is easier to maneuver in. The thicker the air, the easier it is to alter your course in a hurry.
However, the mountainous region may indicate high altitude, which means thinner air - harder to get a hold of with wings, and also poses the risk of altitude sickness. I wonder if Sirens have evolutionary advantages to combat low-oxygen situations... Being, I would assume, sea birds, I'm not sure Sirens ever needed to fly extremely high.

Also, mountain air currents and mountain weather systems are hella complicated.

And finally: Indeed, there's nothing quite like a good lungful of clean, wild air.

A large "no fly" zone?

Good. That will help keep Atsali's teeth clean during the flight exercises.

A möose bit my sister once...

GlytchMeister wrote:Next thoughts: Verily, thou art most dorksome.

Norway? Hmm. Colder air is usually denser, which is easier to maneuver in. The thicker the air, the easier it is to alter your course in a hurry.
However, the mountainous region may indicate high altitude, which means thinner air - harder to get a hold of with wings, and also poses the risk of altitude sickness. I wonder if Sirens have evolutionary advantages to combat low-oxygen situations... Being, I would assume, sea birds, I'm not sure Sirens ever needed to fly extremely high.

Also, mountain air currents and mountain weather systems are hella complicated.

And finally: Indeed, there's nothing quite like a good lungful of clean, wild air.

Just because there are mountains doesn't mean they are at high altitude... They can still be at sea level or near it and see mountains... and Fjords too.

Mountain weather systems are hella complicated? Okay, having been stationed in Colorado and Arizona and having dealt with Mountain range weather systems, I can vouch for that... but you haven't seen complicated till you've been to Adak Alaska... They call the place the birthplace of the winds. There are no trees anywhere because you'd have to anchor them in concrete to keep them in the ground. Complicated weather? Try mixing the warm north pacific currents with the Arctic currents... They say there are only ten days of clear weather a year out there... and they are usually never consecutive... We had seven spread across a seventeen day period.

Where's Adak? Look for the end of the Aleutian chain clear out by Russia... Adak is the third major island in from the end of the Chain. It's the only place I've ever seen Bald Eagles in the wild hovering three feet over your head, eyeballing you like an intruder into his domain...

"Ya velll, dar in der Skandahooovianlander's vorld, chu gots to be outloookin' vor der Hüldre an' der Trolls- but neider vun ob dem fly can so's der'd not much outloookin' ta do... an' dun vorgits ta say 'Halooo' to Olga... she's da pretty vun... she's gots da most teeth... an' only vun tattoo. Sven says it's a dinghummer- an' he should know... she don't shows it to everybuddy,"

(Quote from Günter Moebius as printed in "Norway with pistol and Camera" by Tobias Smithwick, 1935)

Atomic wrote:A möose bit my sister once...

Oh, don't YOU start.

Huh?

if you STILL dunno, look carefully at the clip - it has 'chatty' subtitles!!! WARNING! if flashy lights are bad for you they start about 3 mins in... :E

the hilarity starts at about 1:45...
"no realli! she was Karving her initials in the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush.....

Atomic wrote:A möose bit my sister once...

Did it live?

Atsali might want to consider trying her demon wings as well. Bats are mighty maneuverable. Be like comparing a jet with a biplane.

DilyV wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:Next thoughts: Verily, thou art most dorksome.

Norway? Hmm. Colder air is usually denser, which is easier to maneuver in. The thicker the air, the easier it is to alter your course in a hurry.
However, the mountainous region may indicate high altitude, which means thinner air - harder to get a hold of with wings, and also poses the risk of altitude sickness. I wonder if Sirens have evolutionary advantages to combat low-oxygen situations... Being, I would assume, sea birds, I'm not sure Sirens ever needed to fly extremely high.

Also, mountain air currents and mountain weather systems are hella complicated.

And finally: Indeed, there's nothing quite like a good lungful of clean, wild air.

Just because there are mountains doesn't mean they are at high altitude... They can still be at sea level or near it and see mountains... and Fjords too.

Mountain weather systems are hella complicated? Okay, having been stationed in Colorado and Arizona and having dealt with Mountain range weather systems, I can vouch for that... but you haven't seen complicated till you've been to Adak Alaska... They call the place the birthplace of the winds. There are no trees anywhere because you'd have to anchor them in concrete to keep them in the ground. Complicated weather? Try mixing the warm north pacific currents with the Arctic currents... They say there are only ten days of clear weather a year out there... and they are usually never consecutive... We had seven spread across a seventeen day period.

Where's Adak? Look for the end of the Aleutian chain clear out by Russia... Adak is the third major island in from the end of the Chain. It's the only place I've ever seen Bald Eagles in the wild hovering three feet over your head, eyeballing you like an intruder into his domain...

Got one word for ya, Shemya. On a clear day it is said you can see Russia.

oldmanmickey wrote:

DilyV wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:Next thoughts: Verily, thou art most dorksome.

Norway? Hmm. Colder air is usually denser, which is easier to maneuver in. The thicker the air, the easier it is to alter your course in a hurry.
However, the mountainous region may indicate high altitude, which means thinner air - harder to get a hold of with wings, and also poses the risk of altitude sickness. I wonder if Sirens have evolutionary advantages to combat low-oxygen situations... Being, I would assume, sea birds, I'm not sure Sirens ever needed to fly extremely high.

Also, mountain air currents and mountain weather systems are hella complicated.

And finally: Indeed, there's nothing quite like a good lungful of clean, wild air.

Just because there are mountains doesn't mean they are at high altitude... They can still be at sea level or near it and see mountains... and Fjords too.

Mountain weather systems are hella complicated? Okay, having been stationed in Colorado and Arizona and having dealt with Mountain range weather systems, I can vouch for that... but you haven't seen complicated till you've been to Adak Alaska... They call the place the birthplace of the winds. There are no trees anywhere because you'd have to anchor them in concrete to keep them in the ground. Complicated weather? Try mixing the warm north pacific currents with the Arctic currents... They say there are only ten days of clear weather a year out there... and they are usually never consecutive... We had seven spread across a seventeen day period.

Where's Adak? Look for the end of the Aleutian chain clear out by Russia... Adak is the third major island in from the end of the Chain. It's the only place I've ever seen Bald Eagles in the wild hovering three feet over your head, eyeballing you like an intruder into his domain...

Got one word for ya, Shemya. On a clear day it is said you can see Russia.

It's said because nobody knows for sure . . . they haven't had a clear day since 1963.


And what's really fun is to have a great horned owl go three feet overhead!

--FreeFlier

And now, when their local contact shows up, he's going to have an aggressive walrus mustache and announce his name is Leif Erickson . . .

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote: It's said because nobody knows for sure . . . they haven't had a clear day since 1963.

And what's really fun is to have a great horned owl go three feet overhead!

--FreeFlier

Will take your word for it. Saw the place out of the refueling glass on a KC, was as close as i wanted to get. lol

It's pretty impressive that Atsali joined the Wonderbolts before Rainbow Dash!

I wonder if they might meet any of the locals. Trolls, ice giants, some scruffy one-eyed vagabond or a guy wanting Atsali to ask her aunt Shelly to give his hammer back.

That's a little small to be Thor's, isn't it?

jwhouk wrote:That's a little small to be Thor's, isn't it?

Originally, yes.

Unfortunately for Thor, the fae he made a pass at in a bar in Trondheim had severe issues with social anxiety... he was drunk and pushy... got a bit grabby... she reacted reflexively... ZAPPO!

... and now both Thor and his hammer are a trifle size-challenged.