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  1. On 10/7/2021 at 4:01 PM, ufk22 said:

    “Reserves are really docile, and you weigh less after chopping.”

    And I thought I’d heard every bs line in the sport!

    Can we still say DGIT, or is that insensitive?

    Still waiting to hear which part you think is BS. The drive-by insult isn't a great look, especially when it doesn't make any sense.

  2. On 10/27/2021 at 4:51 PM, sfzombie13 said:

    a flaw in an artery wall would be deadly in this situation

    Hypoxia is deadly enough on its own. When it gets to the point that everyone around is impaired and multiple people are incapacitated with no sober person to save them, they are all lucky to be alive and without permanent disability, regardless of what this specific cause of death turns out to be.

  3. 15 hours ago, headoverheels said:

    Wasn't the Pfizer booster approved weeks ago (for over 65, or for 18+ with those with high risk of severe disease, or for those with job related exposure e.g. healthcare workers)?

    I got my 3rd Moderna injection today (half dose this time).

    I got the Pfizer booster on 10/5, when it was being offered to anyone who had the second Pfizer shot at least 6 months ago

  4. 4 minutes ago, winsor said:

      The statement from the White House to the effect that getting vaccinated guaranteed a positive outcome and eliminated the spread of disease, "full stop,"

    Do you have a reference?

  5. 3 hours ago, base698 said:

    If you go by current CDC deaths the number under 18 is 499.  74 million kids.  .0000067 chance chance of death.  Say 100x more kids are hospitalized than die and that doesn't even get you to 37 in 100k

    It gets you 67 in 100k

  6. On 10/10/2021 at 10:19 AM, wolfriverjoe said:

    My experience is that reserves are generally (not always) solid white or light blue.

    Very few people jump solid color mains.

    It tends to make them more noticeable.

    Of course, I know a jumper who has a solid white main.

    Yes, it tends to attract attention.
    Jumpers new to the DZ commonly ask if 'Did he have a cutaway?' 
    We give him a fair amount of shit about it.

    There's an all-white Lightning with retracting PC I see a lot.

  7. 3 minutes ago, Cocowheats said:

    But I was told to listen to my Dr. Now I'm being told he is an idiot!

    So, listen to your Dr, unless the internet thinks they're wrong.

    Got it. So much clarity now!

    You conveniently sidestep the idea that your "doctor" may be a naturopath or chiropractor. That is to say, not actually a doctor at all.

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  9. 27 minutes ago, ufk22 said:

    “Reserves are really docile, and you weigh less after chopping.”

    And I thought I’d heard every bs line in the sport!

    Can we still say DGIT, or is that insensitive?

    Which part is BS, and what does DGIT mean?

    You can watch my landing and judge for yourself how wildly dangerous you think it was.

  11. OMG guys I finally just realized something... I could have cut the stows that the brake line was tied around. fuuuuuuuuuck...

    On 9/17/2021 at 10:58 PM, heavision said:

    Did the author say they were flying a 135---and that it was the smallest canopy they'd ever flown---and their reserve was a 126? Ummm, isn't that a big no-no? Or am I trippin?

    Reserves are really docile, and you weigh less after chopping. Judge me if you want, I don't really care--I had a nice soft landing on my tippy toes.

  14. 10 hours ago, sfzombie13 said:

    the whole article, i just read it.  i had never heard it either. 

    Ok I've read the article now, and I don't see anywhere an implication that wing loading matters less for a bigger jumper, or that a bigger jumper at 1.2 is analogous to a smaller one at 1.0. In fact, the author refutes that notion directly from the very start:

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    It’s possible for two jumpers with widely different exit weights to get the same performance, but the lighter jumper must load their canopy a little more lightly. True/False?

    [...]

    The above statements are all false.

     

  16. 10 minutes ago, base698 said:

    Mr Billvon, quoted the WebMD article in reference to me saying kids dying was propaganda.  In that article they claim 1900 kids were hospitalized.

    Dude they quoted about kids being sent to Oklahoma was a judge, and not at anyway affiliated with the hospital or public health.

    Right... Billvon quoted an article from WebMD and then you quoted an article from CBS and pointed out a flaw in it... Completely separate articles...

  17. 55 minutes ago, base698 said:

    Also note the common propaganda technique here :

    “That means if your child’s in a car wreck, if your child has a congenital heart defect or something and needs an ICU bed, or more likely, if they have COVID and need an ICU bed, we don’t have one,” Clay Jenkins, a Dallas County judge, said on Friday."

    Why quote a Dallas county judge and not someone in the hospital?

    Lol you're the one who cited the reference. What do you think you're proving by pointing out flaws in references you're citing yourself?

    37 minutes ago, base698 said:

    https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-revises-total-covid-deaths-by-over-20/

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/wpde.com/amp/news/nation-world/man-who-died-in-motorcycle-crash-counted-as-covid-19-death-in-florida-report-07-18-2020

    In addition in overzealous use of ventilators they were basically executing people early in the pandemic before treating like other respiratory disease with oxygen and steroids.  Treatment has improved dramatically.

    This, combined with an excess death measure lower than COVID deaths, could be compelling evidence that COVID deaths are being over-counted.

    As it turns out, excess deaths (675K - 850K) are the same or higher than COVID deaths (680K), indicating that COVID deaths are either accurate or under-counted.

  18. 2 hours ago, wmw999 said:

    canopies below about 150 sq ft have shorter lines, and therefore are more sensitive to inputs. 

    That's true, but I wouldn't try to bake that into wingloading to say a big guy at 1.2 is equivalent to a small guy at 1.0. 1.2 is 1.2, and 1.0 is 1.0. If you happen to be on a 150 or smaller, there will be additional things to consider, but that's separate from wingloading. Just like rectangular vs. elliptical--another thing that greatly affects performance that I would not try to bake into wingloading.

    To put it another way, when someone recommends a wingloading for you, if that were to put you at 150 or below you'd want to have some more dialogue about it. It absolutely does not mean that if you're above 150, that he's actually recommending 0.2 higher. It just doesn't work that way. 150 and below is the special case--above that is the normal case and you don't need to adjust anything.

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  22. 9 minutes ago, EasySix42 said:

    I understand a higher wing loading matters less for a "big guy" like me or the example than it does for an average sized or smaller person. So the decision for me to fly at 1.1 or 1.2 is probably more analogous to a smaller person deciding to go to 0.9 or 1.0

    I've never heard this before.

  23. 16 hours ago, base698 said:

    Yeah and all the paralyzed, brain damaged, and amputees from skydiving don't show up in fatal stats.  I treated those outcomes as constant for covid and skydiving.

    So you just assumed two different things were the same for no other reason than it was convenient. You can't seriously think this is a reasonable approach.

  24. 1 hour ago, billeisele said:

    the experts agree that many were classified as COVID that most likely weren't COVID.

    This is news to me. Do you have a reference? The CDC excess death estimates jive with the official numbers pretty well.

     

    1 hour ago, billeisele said:

    If the presumption that many of the most vulnerable died in 2020 is correct then the numbers for 2021 would show less risk

    Trying to predict an outcome that is dependent on a large number of factors that we don't fully understand, by looking at only a single factor, is kinda silly.

  25. On 9/18/2021 at 10:25 PM, Divalent said:

    Except polarized sunglasses are oriented to block light reflecting off of surfaces, which has a pronounced horizontal polarization. This is why they are better at preferentially cutting down on glare, compared to non-polarized sunglasses. I doubt they make polarized glasses that are oriented 90 degrees from the standard orientation. (I mean, who would want sunglasses that make glare worse?)

    I didn't really mean to suggest that as a solution, just to explain how polarization works. I didn't know that most reflected light is horizontally polarized though so thanks for explaining.