pope 0 #1 April 20, 2006 Just a reminder. I'll be in Moab--where will YOU be? cheers, pope Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SullyFlyer 0 #2 April 20, 2006 Enjoying the wounderful space between the walkway on the P. Bridge and the Snake River, repeatedly. ~ Fear is the thief of dreams... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 0 #3 April 20, 2006 QuoteJust a reminder. I'll be in Moab--where will YOU be? MoabMy grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cornishe 0 #4 April 20, 2006 and dont forget 4/20 is Jay-Epstein-Day. -amAbbie Mashaal Skydive Idaho Snake River Skydiving TandemBASE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gaper 0 #5 April 20, 2006 "Jay-Epstein-Day" should be a National holiday. I for one refuse to work on his special day. On Earth day? I'll be looking down on the Snake because.... oh yea, I wasn't invited Really, I wish everyone in Moab this weekend Tons of Joy and HappinessGo forth now, to the promised lands, and swear much unto each other, with mighty profanity and many personal attacks. T.A. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brits17 0 #6 April 20, 2006 Tearing up the earth between Sacramento and San Jose _______________________ aerialkinetics.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
basehoundsam 0 #7 April 20, 2006 Giggiddy Giggiddy!!!!!!! My own special holiday..... Jay Epstein Ramirez www.adrenalineexploits.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
badenhop 0 #8 April 20, 2006 I hope that box of junk arrived okay. God bless you. Avery================================== I've got all I need, Jesus and gravity. Dolly Parton http://www.AveryBadenhop.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
basehoundsam 0 #9 April 20, 2006 Hardly Junk ... Thanks for all the help................ Jay Epstein Ramirez www.adrenalineexploits.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gaper 0 #10 April 20, 2006 holy crap I'm Epsteined!Go forth now, to the promised lands, and swear much unto each other, with mighty profanity and many personal attacks. T.A. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
basehoundsam 0 #11 April 20, 2006 Pick, You were Epsteined before I was even born...... Jay Epstein Ramirez www.adrenalineexploits.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yuri_base 1 #12 April 20, 2006 Also, 7/20 is World Jump Day. Everybody should BASE jump precisely at 11:39:13 GMT to shift our planet to new orbit and stop global warming.Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FIREFLYR 0 #13 April 21, 2006 QuoteAlso, 7/20 is World Jump Day. Everybody should BASE jump precisely at 11:39:13 GMT to shift our planet to new orbit and stop global warming. High noon...brilliant ~J"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cornishe 0 #14 April 21, 2006 Taken from "The Straight Dope...", http://www.straightdope.com ---------------------------- Dear Cecil: I hope that you can answer a question that has plagued me since childhood. If every man, woman, and child in China each stood on a chair, and everyone jumped off their chair at exactly the same time, would the earth be thrown off its axis? Also, if prior to jumping, they all yelled at the top of their lungs, would we hear it here in the United States, and how much of a time delay would there be? --Robert P., Los Angeles Dear Robert: Amazing as it may seem, I am actually going to answer this incredibly retarded question. But first Uncle Cecil wishes to have a word with his devoted readers. As you can imagine, I possess phenomenal scholarly resources. I have converted the spare bedroom in my house into a research library containing 16 million volumes, which are dusted twice a day by a team of robed acolytes holding candles. I have instant access via my Apple 380S GT to all the world's data banks. Why, right here on my writing table next to the box of spare quills I have a dog-eared copy of 16,000 Unbelievably Complicated Physics Experiments for the Home and Garden, With Answers, which has helped me out of many a jam. But despite this wealth of scientific knowledge, the Teeming Millions routinely write in with questions that not one sane person has ever asked in 6,000 years of recorded history. As a result, my usual sources of information are useless. Nonetheless, I try. I have been in repeated contact with the Beijing government all week in an effort to persuade them to get all 1,027,000,000 Chinese (1980 estimate) to jump off chairs. I have pleaded with them that will signficantly advance the cause of science. However, they have not been cooperative. They point out the China is a poor country, and lacks a sufficient quantity of chairs. Moreover, many of the chairs that are available are of nonuniform height, meaning that even if all the Chinese jumped off at the same time, they would hit the ground at different times, thus throwing off the results of the experiment. Finally, they point out that discipline among the Chinese people has become notoriously lax since the Cultural Revolution, and many of the participants in the project could be expected to be fooling around when they were supposed to be jumping. The Chinese government suggests that instead of having the entire nation jump off chairs, I should get one representative citizen to jump and multiply the results by 1,027,000,000. I have, needless to say, rejected this solution as grossly inadequate. The possibility of an actual test thus being remote, I have been forced to rely on my considerable powers of inductive logic, to wit: given the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when the Chinese get up on their chairs, they would essentially be pushing the earth down in the process of elevating themselves. Then, when they jumped off, the earth would simultaneously spring back, attracted by the gravitational mass of one billion airborne Chinese persons, with the result that the Chinese and the earth would meet somewhere in the middle, if you follow me. The upshot of this is that action and reaction would cancel each other out and the earth would remain securely in orbit. Just for fun, however--after you've been doing this job for a while you get a pretty bizarre notion of what constitutes a good time--suppose 1,000,000,000 Chinese, give or take 27,000,000, were somehow to materialize atop chairs without their having to elevate themselves thereto. And suppose they jumped off. Having performed astonishing feats of mathematical acrobatics (requiring the entire afternoon, I might note--sometimes I can't believe the crap I spend my time on), I calculate that the resultant thud in aggregate would be the equivalent of 500 tons of TNT. Not bad, but nowhere near enough to dislocate the earth, which weighs 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion short tons. I refuse to even discuss what would happen if all the Chinese yelled at the top of their lungs. --CECIL ADAMS ---------------------------- -amAbbie Mashaal Skydive Idaho Snake River Skydiving TandemBASE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
magot 0 #15 April 21, 2006 IM CONFUSEDTOSS MY SALAD I'm an invincible re-tarded ninja derka derka bakala bakala muhammad jihad 1072 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cornishe 0 #16 April 21, 2006 QuoteIM CONFUSED I know. -amAbbie Mashaal Skydive Idaho Snake River Skydiving TandemBASE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bazair2air 0 #17 April 21, 2006 Hey Maggot, This is a condensed version. Currently, one billion Chinese jumping at the same time can not effect the rotation of the Earth. However, if the entire population of China were to face in an easterly direction and then simultaneously fart in a westerly direction, they could spin this planet like a centrifuge. This is information that Big Brother does not want us to know. Have Fun! Baz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
