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I’m going to disagree that money is everyone’s primary motivation. Consider the people who are able to eke out a living skydiving: many of them could earn significantly more, but they choose lifestyle over money. Some people are lucky enough to find a passion; it’s even better when they can earn some money doing it. That applies to scientists, too. And rife with corruption? Probably not. Completely pure? Absolutely not — but that applies to pretty much every organization that has more than one person. Everyone has to their own motives Wendy P.

How many Scaramuccis would that be?

No, nobody is the same as 6 years ago. Huh? You are one bizarre person. I do get a chuckle out of the irony of you trying to chastise Biden for not making sense.

OK maybe you're really not following the conversation. You: "You'll never build enough wind and solar to replace coal and gas fired power plants." Me: "I've done it." I replaced my need for coal and gas fired power plants. Not for cement kilns. Not asphalt. Not plastic. Not lubricants. Just power plants - which is what you yourself said.

The very thing that has frustrated the Cooper investigation for 50+ years also attracts people to this mystery.. That is, we have very few 100% facts, try listing them. This case is the ultimate bayesian example. We take a few facts, some conflicting and lots of inferential info and try to reconstruct the crime, it is a fascinating intellectual challenge where we as individuals utilize our own unique experiences, history, education, logic and reason. The Cooper case is the ultimate intellectual puzzle challenge.. a test of our own minds.. The problem is there may not be a 100% provable conclusion.. without forensics.. so, we do the best we can with what we have and that includes consistently re-examining the evidence and exploring new theories that fit within the information we have. It is like having a 10,000 piece picture puzzle with 300 confirmed pieces and only 1,000 more pieces that may or may not even belong to that puzzle.. We try to put enough pieces together to establish the full picture... lots of pieces fit that may not even belong..

Nope. Getting to net zero means getting close to zero production of CO2 and also creating processes that extract CO2 from the environment. (Both sides of the equation matter.) But we don't need to get to net zero. We just need to reduce the amount of CO2 we emit to the point that the planet's existing regulation system can handle the excess CO2.

That would happen even if they handed over power tomorrow. But like biden, if they keep working and improving things it gets harder and harder for the right to maintain that narrative

We sit on other sides of the political fence and seldom if ever agree but in this instance, I do agree - other than the rule thing which I guess may be tongue in cheek. As I think I said earlier in this thread, the country now needs a change of ruling party. Enough is enough. Hopefully Labour will have learned from the dismal Tory performances of late and will make a decent fist of it. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for the press and sm experts to revert to type.

Also the Clear eye express from Washington

Nothing of the sort need be done, my friend. I won't have any part of the hypocritical BS the suddenly woke to ethics right wing is having over left wing naked political reasons. Also, I am long since fed up with the Saudi's so the idea of raining on their Hajj tickles my willy. Moreover, I'm pretty sure I have been explicit about the left tossing down our Pom-Pom's and fighting shitty dirty and pretending, like the Republicans do, there was no yesterday or a tomorrow either. Is that more clear?

And I don't recall anyone saying we have to end climate change tomorrow or everyone dies. Although from what little I remember of the 1970's there was a lot of "we have to claim the moon as ours or the USSR will WIN and we will end up in the scrapyard of history."

But you are fine with the hypocrites on the left doing it?

Not cheap. But I'm all for this.

Sacked Chancellor Kwasi Karteng has told the Times that booting him out has only bought Truss a few more weeks in office. I think he's being as optimistic there as he was with his mini-budget. 50-50 she's gone by Monday, 90-10 she's out by next weekend (and cue the party chairman frantically re-writing the rules so the Tory MPs can just crown Sunak immediately and have done with it).

I would never sell a mattress simply because I would never want to meet someone who wants to buy a used mattress.

Very nice photo montage of Kliff and friends in the May 2022 Parachutist mag. My thanks to the Wuest Ways Family. Craig

Hi Seth, Here is one option: HALO Skydiving - SkyDance SkyDiving Jerry Baumchen

@Rover "why?" you asked. I'd pay a 1-2k to do it once. Why? I dunno, because it would be cool somehow to push your own envelope, jump out into literally thin air, higher than commercial airliners. Any time I would be flying commercial I could look out the window and see the view to the ground and say to myself, "I was in the air like I am in this plane now". That would be worth something to me. Not worth 11k though.

I jumped in the Aerobats club at Conn barracks, I still have my membership card. Lt. Bob Iverson signed my log book many times. We had some great times and great jumps.[reply