Been in Mexico almost 7 years- it's common knowledge, you don't drink the tap water, ever. The destitute who can't afford bottled water might be the exception.
I’ve lived here for 3 years and been drinking the tap for about a year. I’ve got lots of friends with “filters” that don’t actually do anything for microbes, and they drink that water. Anyways, very very few people can’t afford a garrafón.
It's not the microbes in my experience, it's the heavy metals suspended in the water.
It's like a 0.1% damage over time effect. A few days drinking it? Fine. A few weeks? Still fine. Months? I started feeling just a bit more sick until I cut it out for filtered water.
Try drinking tap water in Africa, India, Bangladesh, most of South America and South Asia, in fact most of the 3rd world... good luck. Ie India had (maybe still has) high infant mortality due to water-transmitted diseases. Once you can't effectively 100% separate waste water from natural water table or other sources for drinking, everything becomes contaminated.
I don't use it but it's one of the few projects I have followed the change log fairly religiously for many years (others being Slackware and MAME which I also rarely use)
flying is not safer than driving- unless you drive 500 miles with 150 other people every time you get in the car- statistics are massaged, and I think risk of accident per journey is better (and is higher in flying)
Well, unless your cutoff is between 100 and 104, if you were her you would have missed out on half of your skydiving opportunities, since her first jump was at 100.
Also, its probably a bit harder to arrange someone who will let you do that than a normal skydiving jump,
I just had this conversation with a friend the other day. He asked what I'd do if I had a week to live and I said spend like 3-4 days hanging out with everyone and saying goodbye then skydiving into the ocean with no parachute.
I was on a plane during an aborted landing over the weekend, I think the 2nd/3rd I've experienced. I always assume death will occur shortly after but it hasn't yet.
Go-arounds are pretty common. I've experienced several in the last 20 years.
* Aborted after wheels on ground at Sheremetyevo (obstacle on runway or perhaps messed up the landing; I never found out)
* Aborted 30' off ground in Albuquerque (severe weather; plane was all over the place on approach)
* Aborted 600-800' off ground on final approach to SeaTac (most passengers never noticed, probably runway did not clear)
* Aborted 400' feet off ground on final approach to O'Hare (severe squall, it was pretty obvious the pilots were not going to land so no surpise)
In the second one there was audible relief in the plane when the pilot gunned the engines to go around. The winds died down and the 2nd pass was a perfect landing.
