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because you don't actually study what it is you try to consider yourself an expert on; source who developed the stuff; The USA government of course seriously...your position in indefensible, but you'd do yourself a favor by not using nutjob conspiracy sites as sources... ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. " ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Been there, done that. Bought the t-shirt. You gonna shut your incessantly whining mouth yet? ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Guess it just seems a little weird to have a first tandem with o2 ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

"Additionally we are the only skydiving center in the Los Angeles area to offer tandem jumps from 18,000ft, the highest tandem jump in the world." doesn't 18,000 feet require supplemental oxygen per FAA? ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Dude...you're just fucking wrong. This isn't theory or something debatable. it is well documented FACT. I sent you TWO links that explain the concept fully and completely. Perhaps you might be the one that needs to learn the English language. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted exactly how much difference there should be and reality matched the prediction exactly. Just because you are not able to comprehend that time is relative, doesn't make it not so. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Your rant is pretty close to unreadable but I take it you don't believe that time moves slower the faster you are traveling? If that is the case, you are flat out WRONG. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_relativity_on_GPS ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

...ok.... you believe that traveling to Australia is actually "losing time" ? I may not as hip on relativistic physics as quade and billvon but even I know that's fucking retarded. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Yah "aliens did it" is a much more logical answer.... ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Actually, that's exactly how it works. If a person could travel at the speed of light, a two light year trip would appear to them to be instantaneous, as would any other length of trip. While time does "stand still" at the speed of light, I dont think that is intended to mean objective time, more like relative time. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Such as the proponents of the public option blaming insurance companies for the expense of health care? The only difference between Palin's message asn Obama's message is that, while equally false and rhetorical, Palin's message resonated with more people. How about that? A retarded bimbo can win a debate against a Harvard lawyer! A retarded bimbo can more effectively spin and argue an issue than a Harvard lawyer! Either Harvard lawyers are themselves retarded or Palin is not retarded. P.s. - why is my objectivity an issue when I point out that her comment was a lie? I simply pointed out that her lie is actuallyrang more true than his whoppers. [Reply]Hell, even McCain knows she was a fucking retarded choice and has said as much on record. "A retarded choice" does not equal "retarded bimbo.". You are calling McCain retarded now. However, I'm glad you are not defending calling her a retarded bimbo because it is pretty much indefensible. [Reply]By defending her you seriously call into question your objectivity. Bullshit. I'm not defending her. I'm assaulting your tactics of personal attack. And frankly, if attacking Bible Spice and Dubya is the best you've got, then there isn't much to defend. I quit. Arguing with a lawyer is like running in the special olympics, even if you win you're still retarded. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

A point missed by most folks (but clearly not by bill) is that once you can go the speed of light, to the traveler, virtually every point in the universe appears to take the same amount of time to get to due to time dilation. Of course, anyone you left at home would be long dead by the time you got back from any trip of appreciable distance. Not that the speed of light can be reached in the first place though. Hence all these folks looking for "tricks" around it. Im not a physicist, but I dont think that's how time dilation works. Traveling two light years at the speed of light would take two years from the passengers point of view. Just because relative time speeds up, doesn't mean the subjective time does. Otherwise your body would instantly age, no? ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

On my very first jump I got injured...scraped my knee on the grip tape of the twin otter's floor before jumping ; p ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Uh, no. At the very most it suggests technological life isn't closer than 50 light years away. We -may- hear the knock at the door tomorrow. That said, since we ourselves only became capable of looking recently they could have been right next door somewhere in the Alpha Centauri system and we JUST missed them on a cosmic scale of time. Not that it matters anyway. 4.5 light years is much, MUCH farther than is even vaguely conceivable to travel physically. Any civilization that could possibly create interstellar travel would have a radio footprint hundreds if not thousands of years before such invention. But you are correct, any feasible means of inter-solar travel (much less intergalactic) would have to make use of some form of faster than light travel (wormholes, spacebending, etc) which, so far, exist only in theory. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

You can do everything right and still die in this sport. There are things you can do to minimize the risk (progressing slowly, good gear checks, getting as much coaching as can, not swooping or doing low turns) . But the fact remains that you could be loaded at .5:1 and landing 200 meters out and still get tangled up by a faster flying jumper, or have a plane crash (read the ntsb reports, it will scare the piss out of you) or even something as simple as a faulty altimeter (rare but possible) Do a forum search for "shindig" and find the tragic accident he suffered in the incidents forum. He was a very experienced jumper and while there is speculation that his camera wings may have interfered, its just speculation. Long and the short of it was he chopped a mal and never managed to pull his reserve for whatever reason. If it can happen to him it can certainly happen to anyone. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

the most logical proof would be that any intelligent species that would be advanced enough to have interstellar craft would pretty much HAVE to have some sort of radio footprint. We have been looking for 50 years and found nothing of the kind. This pretty much rules out anything within at least 400 light years. There are TRILLIONS of galaxies though, each with billions of stars, many of those with tens of planets. It would be a statistical impossibility that NONE of those harbor life. HOWEVER there is NO reason to believe we are not the most advanced civilization in the universe. Is it likely? God I hope not, but chances are that the majority of all life that has ever existed in the universe never even made it as far as we did. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

No. She didn't. She played to the only strength she has, making inflammatory (and often flat out wrong, as in this case) comments to rile up the uneducated. Hell, even McCain knows she was a fucking retarded choice and has said as much on record. By defending her you seriously call into question your objectivity. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Try sending a 30 pound package across the country. I PROMISE you fed ex is cheaper. FAR cheaper. I parted out a motorcycle and sent things from alaska to New york and yes for smaller things like mirrors or turn signals USPS was cheaper, but shipping oversized or heavy items, they were sometimes 10-20 times the price. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Keep 6 pack in the pool. Problem solved ;D ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Hell I grew up in SoCal in the 70's and 80's and saw these all the damned time, its just a trail of unburned jet fuel vapor. I never even considered aliens. Mostly because I was a science nerd and knew while the likelihood of extraterrestrial life is almost a certainty, the likelihood of them being willing and able to cross the vast distance is laughable at best. Much less to go to all that effort to anally probe a bunch of rednecks. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

I understand the bill bill, and it sucks But is it quite the little turtle shell you withdraw into when "yo man" is "questioned! Yes, questioned, not attacked. But you and your fellow Obamaites cant have that can you? Since you voted for him and all. That makes him perfect! Well, I stated before and it is time for the reminder. What the media creates, it can destroy. Wait for the destruction, it is coming cause they will not go "down" with him. They are much to petty to do that As for me, I love watching you attack and label (or try to at least) those that question his (insert adj here) mind. Am I correct? In less than 5 months we will know, won't we

"Bubbles hotter than the sun" (One of my old research labs worked on sonoluminescence.) /Marg A couple years ago a researcher made a fool of himself proclaiming that sonoluminesence was actually micro fission. Turns out his neutrino detector was sitting RIGHT NEXT to the neutrino generator used to create the micro bubbles. DOH. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

Door apprehension, normal or not, affected me too. For me it was a fear of failing a level, instead of dying. What helped me was to focus on one thing at a time. Instead of going over the whole dive flow over and over, just worry about the door check-in/out and count. It made it a lot less of a big deal for me to know all I had to do was make sure I got the door count right. Then jump and arch then worry about the dive flow when it was too late to be nervous :D ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

His analogy is correct. Fedex and UPS exist as a faster and more affordable way to send items. Private health care will still exist just like it still exists in the UK. It will likely be more expensive than the government plan, but will offer faster service. There is ZERO reason (aside from greedy corporations taking advantage of public fear) they would have to raise their rates as many of the people who will be on the gov health care couldn't get private insurance anyway. And yes the postal service IS losing money. Why you ask? One word: Email. Nobody writes letters or sends postcards anymore; why would they? The post office relied on having planes and trucks jammed packed with mail to make it cost effective. People will ALWAYS get sick. People will ALWAYS get hurt. Don't listen to the FUD. If you can afford/qualify for private insurance, this wont hurt you a bit. If you can't, now having a heart attack wont bankrupt you. ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~

The massages are harder to get when in my case, shes jumping with me. I end up having to give em out! ~Bones Knit, blood clots, glory is forever, and chicks dig scars.~