airtwardo 6 #1 July 4, 2010 Enjoy the day! To those Military, current and past~ Thank you for your service to our country ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jbag 0 #2 July 4, 2010 were you around when the 4th of july was just another day on the calender?IHYD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HoldtheIce 0 #3 July 4, 2010 Huh! What do you mean by that?Cause they know, and so do I, The high road is hard to find A detour to your new life, Tell all of your friends goodbye Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nataly 38 #4 July 4, 2010 Have a great day all you Yanks!!! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #5 July 4, 2010 Happy 4th of July all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_squared431 0 #6 July 4, 2010 Happy 4th everyone! TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1 I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 3 #7 July 4, 2010 Quote Happy 4th everyone! FIFY"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
porpoishead 5 #8 July 4, 2010 happy 4th yallif you want a friend feed any animal Perry Farrell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy0689 0 #9 July 4, 2010 Happy 4th! What's everyone doing? No jumping for me but I get to watch a demo at noon here in my town (DuPont, WA). I'll post some pics. Hope you all stay safe and have a good time!Andy I'll believe it when I see it on YouTube! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #10 July 4, 2010 Who's jumping in? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #11 July 4, 2010 Quote Have a great day all you Yanks!!! Thanks, N@. Do the Brits do anything special today, like grumble and grouse about how we cheated? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #12 July 4, 2010 Quotewere you around when the 4th of july was just another day on the calender scratch on the cave wall? You guys have a safe, happy 4thYou are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 3 #13 July 4, 2010 QuoteHappy 4th! What's everyone doing? No jumping for me but I get to watch a demo at noon here in my town (DuPont, WA). I'll post some pics. Hope you all stay safe and have a good time! 'nother day at work... Go figure, they would give us 2 beers for the Army birthday, but nada for the 4th of July..."I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nataly 38 #14 July 4, 2010 Quote Quote Have a great day all you Yanks!!! Thanks, N@. Do the Brits do anything special today, like grumble and grouse about how we cheated? Not that I know of, but I can't really speak for the entire nation!! Besides, I've only officially been a Brit for a few months! "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beerlight 0 #15 July 4, 2010 Happy 4th of July!!! And thanks to my forefathers that had the balls to gain Independence!! edit: cause some things aren't necessary to add.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy0689 0 #16 July 4, 2010 Quote Who's jumping in? Don't know, John. Didn't get a chance to talk to them after the jump (low hop). Two postage stamp sized landing areas. One in each and one landed off. Pic attached. Know him?Andy I'll believe it when I see it on YouTube! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #17 July 5, 2010 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/04/american-flag-farthest-home-leaving-solar/?test=latestnews American Flag Farthest From Home Is Leaving Solar System Published July 04, 2010 The spaceflying American flag is a not a huge version of Old Glory, but will be the only one flying more than 10.5 billion miles (16.9 billion km) from Earth this Fourth of July. It is riding on Voyager 1, a 33-year-old space probe on the outskirts of our solar system. Another far-flung American flag is flying on Voyager 2, which is about 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth. Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are on trajectories to leave the solar system behind after passing through a magnetic bubble-like region called the heliosphere. A NASA photo of the Voyager 2 American flag shows it to be a small U.S. standard packed alongside other mementos from Earth, like the iconic golden record that were also launched the spacecraft and contain messages from Earth for any extraterrestrials that may find them. "We were extraordinarily proud of what we were doing as a laboratory, as a part of NASA and as a country and we felt it was important to make a statement to that effect," said Jet Propulsion laboratory scientist John Casani, NASA's Voyager project manager at the time it was launched, in a statement provided to SPACE.com this week. "I'm gratified that Voyager is still sailing out there, bearing America's colors. What it represents to us is an affirmation of the pride we had at that time." Voyager 2's space flag is a 16-inch (40-cm) long version of the Stars and Stripes made of Dacron that engineers painstakingly sewed into the insulating blankets of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which launched in 1977 on a tour of the solar system's gas giant planets. A similar flag is flying on the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which also launched in 1977 but is not as far from Earth as Voyager 2. [Voyager mission photos.] The American flags riding the Voyager probes are not the only distant U.S. standards out in space. Flags were planted on the moon by American astronauts during the six Apollo lunar landings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. NASA probes to Mars and elsewhere also include the U.S. standard. But the two Voyager probes are currently the farthest human-built objects from Earth, making their American flags the most distance from U.S soil. The probes' signals take nearly 13 hours to travel to NASA's worldwide Deep Space Network of listening antennas and back. NASA launched both spacecraft in the summer of 1977, but only Voyager 2 took a so-called "grand tour" of the solar system when it visited the gas giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s by taking advantage of a rare planetary alignment that occurs once every 176 years. Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and Saturn. On June 28, Voyager 2 hit a major milestone when it marked the 12,000th day of its mission. Voyager one, which launched later than its counterpart, will hit the same milestone on July 13. "I'm proud of the people who worked on this and put so much of their life and energy into building, developing and flying that thing," Casani said. "They did it right." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #18 July 5, 2010 Can't tell. Military jumper? Sure isn't the RedBull bunch. Did you see what they jumped out of? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #19 July 5, 2010 Quote Not that I know of, but I can't really speak for the entire nation!! Besides, I've only officially been a Brit for a few months! Yeah, but we still love ya. You'll always be Canadian to us. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #20 July 5, 2010 I'm celebrating the fourth with a fifth . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 3 #21 July 5, 2010 QuoteCan't tell. Military jumper? Sure isn't the RedBull bunch. Did you see what they jumped out of? A plane? That one of them there 9 cell accuracy canopies?"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy0689 0 #22 July 5, 2010 QuoteQuoteCan't tell. Military jumper? Sure isn't the RedBull bunch. Did you see what they jumped out of? A plane? That one of them there 9 cell accuracy canopies? A C182 as far as I could tell. One was actually jumping what I thought was a reserve rigged up as a main. Had red toggles and an all white canopy. They were military too.Andy I'll believe it when I see it on YouTube! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #23 July 5, 2010 Quote Quote Can't tell. Military jumper? Sure isn't the RedBull bunch. Did you see what they jumped out of? A plane? That one of them there 9 cell accuracy canopies? Or maybe a helicopter or a C-182 or a C-130 or a . . . I think you get it. Them there ain't no XAOS 89, that there fer damn sure. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #24 July 5, 2010 QuoteAttachments: 4thofJuly1.jpg ... God bless America...n women! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #25 July 5, 2010 Quotewere you around when the 4th of july was just another day on the calender? Quotewere you around when the 4th of july was just another day on the calender? It's a running gag here about airtwardo being really, really old. So that was a joke implying that he's so old that he's been around since before American independence. He may be old, be he's well-preserved for his age. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
