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Hostile to the idea, not the person. With some reason - there are a lot of pernicious myths that survive purely on the false mimesis you can generate by using made-up numbers. See: Politics.

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As a skydiver - slow and carefully is better, but with that one becomes quicker as one does when practising lots. The number of jumps one can have in a day is limited by aircraft availability rather than packing speed. So of course there are 'professional' packers (say army) who are not constrained by aircraft and say have a week or two to repack a couple of hundred chutes - so different number likely apply. Further ones reserve chute needs to be repacked yearly (or so)- and that's one fella that one does wants the packer (needs a certified packer) to be slow and careful with. Thinking about it aviation (and space) seems to be one area where care comes before speed. So dude I think you are right in calling this out. [edited]

I'm specifically saying that "You're attacking this analogy with made-up numbers and wild logical leaps" is too harsh a way to begin a comment here - it's not civil. The dude just said some hypothetical thoughts, you could have responded "Unfortunately I feel your numbers are not drawn from the real-world, and I think some of your conclusions take real leaps of logic. Specifically..."

but hey it's just me. this place is usually pretty civil - it's in the rules.

Yeah I thought we were talking hypothetically and in a very general sense (hence the obviously made up numbers to merely indicate some scales) about an inherently very general issue.

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