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QuoteJumpers have achieved 1:1 tracks with RW suits; that's about two miles from average exit altitudes. Generally a good track will sacrifice vertical speed for horizontal speed.
Thanks for all the info guys. I've made up my mind..the boss can go ^%$# himself friday, I'm going jumping
Anybody else here going to be at orange, MA this weekend?
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QuoteSooo...guys aren't into the girls who have kick @$$ trucks but could only tell you that it's big & shiny???
Guess, I'd better tell my co-worker to hold off on her upcoming purchase.
NOO I'm into them girls too! Show's good judgment!
I can't put my finger on why its so but a cutie in a big truck is more than I could ever hope for!
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With all the talk over the forums about tracking, horizontal seperation etc., just how far might a jumper be able to track (assuming they are an awesome tracker) if going into a track right out the door down to pull time?
Now I know the birdmen are all going to chime in, so for simplicities sake, the jumper is wearing a standard suit with no booties. We talking 1/4 mile? 1/2 mile? Over a mile? What kind of glide paths can you get? What's the trade off of horizontal speed to vertical speed?
(I know what I want to do next weekend!)
Thanks,
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QuoteThere's a company that does something like that with planes (6 or 8 T-6s that fly side by side). But all they have to do to generate smoke is to inject some oil into their exhausts. It would be a bit trickier for skydivers.
Dave
Unless they all had bean burritos the night before.
The method of smoke generation is going to be the hard part. I got some ideas but it's back to the lab now to see what I can cook up
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Being bored at work has it's dangers....
Now I know a skydiver with a smoke trail will never be able to draw out a Q in the sky but what about this....
Imagine, 10 or so divers exit and get them selves online at regular intervals (level or not isn't going to matter). Now, each of these divers has a smoke can and a PDA stuffed somewhere in their suit. One of the divers, has a PDA that is set up as the "server" and each PDA is connected to an altimeter and a wireless connection to the server. Each PDA is also connected to and controls the smoke release. As soon as the dive starts, the server PDA tells the rest what altitude they should release a puff at relative to itself and each PDA in turn releases it's puff. So in theory you can put a strip message in the sky like an old dot matrix printer. More divers, wider strip, use different colors, etc. So in Boston you could jump out and write "GO SOX" or some such trash.
Questions for the gurus - how do the smoke cans work? Can they be switched on and off? or once they are on, they are on until they run out? Has anyone ever tried this?
Damn I hate being at work on a nice saturday......
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QuoteRisk is everywhere, so, why not jump?
I sense much wisdom here.
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QuoteChances are that there are people working for you right now who are engaged in adultery. (If you employ alot of people) You'll may never find out about it.
I got to agree with whocares here. Take away a person's possessions and really the only thing that he/she has that is truly their own is their word and integrity. If you can't keep your word then you have nothing. I'm surprised there are many that feel otherwise because in skydiving we deal so much in trust - trust in the packers, trust in the riggers, the airplane mechanics, the pilots... Maybe there are degrees of keeping your word - I don't know. I just know that when you marry someone, you give your word to (supposedly) the most important person in your life. If you can't keep and stand by that, then I sure as hell don't want you representing me to the world.
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QuoteGot my D finally, now I can legally jump into my wedding in August!
D26421 OH SO CLOSE
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QuoteSpeaking of Barnes and Noble... all these good picks are giving me the itch to make a run!
Instead of using up good jump money, maybe there could be a DZ.com book swap????
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QuoteAny good book recommendations...
I just finished Walking in the Garden of Souls - WOW
I am currently reading The Secret Life of Bees.
Waiting patiently on the table to be read is The Lovely Bones.
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The Fatal Shore. About the first convicts sent to Australia and how they made Australia. Pretty good so far.
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Hi all,
I've got an awesome pit special suit that I bought in 97 that's never fit quite right. I'd like to get the thing altered but haven't been able to get up with the Tony suit people. Anyone here near them? If so, could you check that the lights are still on?
Thanks,
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A Sheep in Wolf’s Corset: Gendered Vocalism and Heteronormative Recuperation in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
If anyone ever needs to see the movie, there's a theater here in Cambridge, Mass that plays that damn movie EVERY saturday night at midnite....
no shit....
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QuoteOh, and please do me a favor, never compare my truck (a Chevy) to a worthless ford.
You just made a friend for life!!!
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QuoteIt would be if we had a lot of excess (and free) electricity.
What that big bright thing up there you keep telling us about? Don't see much of it in New England anymore...
Use solar power to drive the hydrolysis.
Sorry for not keeping up with the thread completely (i have no idea how you guys can post so much) but I'll personally be happy when all the fossil fuels are gone. (for ecological and political reasons) then we'll have to come up with something else and hopefully we'll get it better.
Damn back to work....
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Quote?? There is a reason they're called hydrocarbons. Methane, the simplest hydrocarbon, contains four hydrogens for every carbon. Right now, most hydrogen comes from oil, either through fractionation byproducts or hydrocarbon reforming (with natural gas, coke etc.)
So 4 to 1 - 4 moles of hydrogen weigh 4 grams, 1 mole of carbon weighs 12 grams that comes out to be 75% carbon by my reckoning.....
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QuoteIChris
Atmosheric Physisist/Meteorologist for MIT
Fat People are Harder to Kidnap !!!
Are you in the Green building!?!?!
I'm down on the 12th floor! Thought I was the only nut around this place. Lets hook up sometime!!
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[replyYou know that hydrogen comes from oil and natural gas, right?
Categorically wrong. Oil and gas contain only minimal amounts of hydrogen - carbon is the major component here. That's why living things - full of carbon- have to die and rot to make oil and natural gas. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and is most abundant on the Earth in the form of water. As for the amount of energy returned from electrolysis - we're getting better at that. There was an article in the MIT tech review a few months ago about it. I'll see if I can dig it up but it's getting better. Fuel cells are almost a reality - an economic reality. I'll take water as a byproduct over carbon monoxide any day.
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QuoteJust spoke with my doc about the congestion in my ear canals. It's getting worse and my hearing is also getting worse. I have an appt. to see him tomorrow. He told me in the meantime, under no circumstances am I do skydive.
Damn, I was so looking forward to putting my new found tunnel skills to use this weekend.
I'm sad.
Chris
Sorry to hear that man. Shouldn't stop you from coming out though! You can still learn to pack, get ahead on the book side, talk, joke around, etc.
Get better quick!
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QuoteFor all of those arguing this "Earth is warming" stuff, I'd like to ask a simple foundational question that I've never heard anyone ask or answer:
What temperature should the earth be?
We all know that they had grapevines in Greenland in the middle ages. Then it got too cold.
We all know that we had glaciers in California in the Ice Age. THat's why there is the Half Dome. Then the glaciers melted because it got too warm.
Which was the correct temperature?
If you want to get even more extreme, there's ample evidence (albeit hotly debated at the moment) that in the Proterozoic - about 2 billion years ago- the Earth was basically a snowball with glaciers and sea ice extending down to the equator. Whether this is true or not, is as I said hotly debated, but everyone agrees that the majority of the planet was covered by ice. So what is the equilibrium condition? I don't think anyone knows and anyone who tells you they do know has some hidden agenda.....
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QuoteI know that you have already received advise from people that far exceed my experience in the sport. based on your profile, it seems tat you have been in the sport quite a while, yet (I'm assuming), that you do very few jumps a year.......so therefore if this is true, then, you have probably seen more in your time spent on the sport than I have.
The point I am trying to reference is that it will probably will serve your purpose on getting a few jumps a year still, but at least get your water training, it does not matter if you are ever going to do a night jump, but as an advice, just do the water training for your own safety. No need to get the B license, but consider that if you go anywhere where there is a river, sea, etc or any body of water, at least you can be prepared...
Blue skies!
Unfortunately, I had a four year lay off (stuff for another thread entirely) and should be severly punished for putting aside something that gave me so much relief and happiness. But now I'm back with a vengance!
Curiosity was the reason for the question nothing more. I knew a guy at the DZ I did my student jumps at and he was content with a B license. He could outfly many D and most of the C license holders hands down and was a great canopy flyer. I don't know what his # jumps were but it was in the 4 digit range. But if he wanted to do a beach jump he couldn't while someone more inexperienced with a C could. Just seems odd but I guess that's the way it goes.
My goal is a D however
First I gotta call Ralph! This renting gear sucks the big one!! Jump
QuoteThe timing of my flares still need some work.
BTW, next time you see me, introduce yourself. I'll be at Jumptown the weekend after this one.
Chris
No worries man! I did the same thing my first jump of the day. All you need it more practice! It'll be a few weeks before I'm back there due to work and VACATION!!
You can't miss me - I got the purple protec helmet with TCU plasterd all over it - GO FROGS!
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QuoteI was thinking the same thing Jessicakes. In fact I took this past Sunday off because after only doing 2 jumps, I was so friggin sore and bruised. I swear when I PLF, I must roll over rocks, turtles, stumps, and God knows what else. Also, student rigs suck!
Chris
I remember you now! Are you the guy that flared on "1" instead of "flare"? No damn wonder you're sore! You dropped quite a bit there....I even winced.
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QuoteThanks for the advice everyone. I guess I'll go and spend way too much money for shoes. Also, (I said it before, but nobody answered me
Check out www.halhigdon.com
He does mostly marathon training, but that site is loaded with cool links and many, many tips.
And if I can drag my sorry ass across the line before the course closes - I have no problem with buying the beer!
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QuoteWhat would you do with all the money? The Texas Lotto is at 5mil .. Let's use that as a base number.
Free jumps for everyone!!
What is it about a woman in a pick-up?
in The Bonfire
Just put big tires on it and viola...
One hot chick to go!