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[Knight Templar]

Licking toads again?

[Kamikaze]

Apparently this thread's become some sort of tell-how-fast-you-run thing so I'm going to derail it further and ask if any of you run/ran the 440yd/400m? I can run that in like 68ish...

[Unknown Target]

We should make a HLP flight sim tournament! We pick the sim, then fly and fight!

[Stryke 9]

I can walk a mile in just over fifteen minutes. Don't know how fast that translates to running, as I've never had cause to find out.

[CP5670]

I have extremely nearsighted vision (about 20/180 right and 20/200 left; seems to be a genetic thing), short-to-average height (5'5"), fairly quick reflexes and can run fast but tire out very quickly (never ran a mile without tiring out halfway through and walking the rest of the way). I probably would not be much of a pilot and would be much more effective building prototype fighter designs instead.

[betterthanyou]

Originally posted by Thorn
20/20 is perfect vision.. so higher = better...

Erm... nope. 20/20 is average eyesight, You need 20/15 to be an airforce pilot/astronaut IIRC.

[Stryke 9]

CP: You can complain. 20/500 and counting.

I think 20/15 is farsighted, dude. You're thinking 25/25

[Knight Templar]

25/25 would be bad. 20/15 or 20/10 is good. Lower = better IIRC

[betterthanyou]

Yeah. Let me see if I can find something saying the requirements.


Hmm... Apparently NASA isn't as picky as I thought

Ability to pass a NASA Class I space physical, which is similar to a military or civilian Class I flight physical, and includes the following specific standards: for vision-distance visual acuity - 20/70 or better uncorrected, correctable to 20/20, each eye. For Blood Pressure-140/90 measured in a sitting position.

But still you see 20/70 is bad, they need to get it down to 20/20. Anything lower is simply icing on the cake.

In case anyone wants to view other reqs for NASA:
http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/factsheets/asseltrn.html

[Stryke 9]

What the hell you need good eyes for in NASA? Most you'll be staring at is a couple dozen dials two inches from your face. Just need to be perceptive, have quick reflexes, and be expendable. They throw in all that other **** because, hell, they've only got a couple shuttles, what the fuck are they gonna do with 200 qualified astronauts?

[tEAbAG]

With #/#  The 1st number refers to the distance you were from the test chart, which is usually 20 feet. The 2nd number represents the distance that a person with normal eyesight could read the line with the smallest letters that you could correctly read. If your visual acuity is 20/100 that means that the line you correctly read at 20 feet could be read by a person with normal vision at 100 feet.  So the lower the second number the better.

BTW, NASA has the most over-qualified group of truckers in the universe.