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Have you been taking “false news spreading” lessons? I love the technique of sprinkling just enough true statements among the complete bullshit anecdotal based lies in this rambling unfocused post.

I'm probably one of the more right-wing on here and I have reached this conclusion. I've lost three Anti-Vaxx close friends since May. We'd had arguments, we had discussions, every fucking thing they brought up; I shot down with medical information. Science, Facts, numbers, risks, proof and they still believed more in their facebook friends encouraging them to get down to the local feed store for off-brand Ivermectin, than their doctors who had encouraged them to get the vaccine. And, they died. And, they died a fucking horrible death. Without family. Without anyone being able to hold their hands in their final moments. So, yeah. Fuck 'em and fuck anyone who doesn't get the vaccine. It's a selfish move not to protect your family, friends and your fellow Americans. @winsor - yes it is a cure - but only of everyone gets it. Ya know, kinda like polio. I'd rather be alive with a tail growing outta my ass in ten years than dead next week. [/sarcasm]

I think you should seriously consider getting a 2nd opinion.

"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” said someone, and they were right. Trump understood this very well. Say "stolen election" often enough and people will start to believe it. Say "ivermectin works" or "vaccines kill" or "it's a bioweapon" often enough - same thing. Heck, Winsor's starting to believe some of that.

Jeff Bezos’s New Shepherd rocket will take a new group into space, including William Shatner, the original Star Trek Captain Kirk. No matter your opinion of his company, rocket, or hairstyle, there’s something cool to me that two of his first passengers are one of the women who were tested for the astronaut core in the early 1960’s, before being told “sorry, ain’t gonna happen,” and Captain Kirk Wendy P.

If your Dr. told you that then you need to drop the naturopath or chiropractor and find a real MD.

The article is true for traditional vaccines which refutes your earlier claim that vaccines are less than efficient. wrt the above statement. The mRNA Vaccines are better. https://www.vumc.org/viiii/infographics/how-does-mrna-vaccine-compare-traditional-vaccine Look, you can argue all you want, but the fact is - this shit works and we are on the eve of an entire new way to immunize society.

Are you saying that just because those people died, that does not mean there is a link between the vaccine and their death???? Quite the radical claim!

Agreed. Followed shortly by: Apparently you are annoyed that anyone could possibly claim ivermectin is dangerous, but feel you are doing a public service by pointing out how dangerous vaccines are. Let's look at the published side effects of ivermectin: - weakness - fever - vision changes - neck/back pain - chest pain / tachycardia - seizures - loss of consciousness. Now let's look at the published side effects of the Pfizer vaccine: - Pain - Redness - Headache - Muscle pain - Chills - Fever - Nausea In other words, it's similar to ivermectin, but without the seizures, vision problems, heart problems and loss of consciousness. And unlike ivermectin, it actually reduces infection rates, severity of illness, hospital admissions and death. If people really have a hankering for ivermectin because all their friends take it, I recommend getting some fish-oil supplements, relabeling the bottle to "ivermectin" and giving it to them. Far safer and it will actually help them. Further, if people have a fear of vaccines, I recommend having them follow a recent right-wing meme - get the vaccine, get a snakebite kit to "extract" the vaccine, and then reassure them that the toxins/bioweapon/microchips have been extracted. Again, far safer - and it may just save their life. That's nothing compared to, say, the polio vaccine. Of the people who I know who got the polio vaccine when it first came out, 80% of them are now dead. 80%! They died of suspicious causes, primarily heart disease, but also cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's. Given that everyone gets the polio vaccine without a second thought, and given that the COVID-19 vaccines are far safer, it's difficult to see any valid justification for their terror over the vaccine.

My Parachutist finally showed up in the mail yesterday.

So many strawmen, so little time.

No. That's not how it works. You want me to read what you think? Then the onus is on you to choose a source that I can at least respect. If I start quoting my mate Jeff the brickie from the pub as a source of covid information then you could rightly tell me to shut up and have no need to refute any of the points he made, because it's a stupid source of information at the start. We don't need to go any deeper than that as it's a waste of time. I'm not sure why you feel the need to throw some Latin in there - it's not as impressive as you might think, but hey - maybe my classical education may finally have a point if you want to go that route? I'll also just leave this here from the BBC: "The BBC can reveal that more than a third of 26 major trials of the drug for use on Covid have serious errors or signs of potential fraud. None of the rest show convincing evidence of ivermectin's effectiveness. Dr Kyle Sheldrick, one of the group investigating the studies, said they had not found "a single clinical trial" claiming to show that ivermectin prevented Covid deaths that did not contain "either obvious signs of fabrication or errors so critical they invalidate the study"." https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809

I have to agree with that. The crew noted when the stair door was opened, and they noted the pressure bump, and they were separate events. Any movement by Cooper down or up the stairs would be a gradual change in the leverage of his weight on them. The one event that would cause a sudden change, and the 'bump', would be his jumping. And that was re-created in the tests.

This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. The Evergrande group - the second largest property developer in China - has been building hundreds of billions of dollars worth of buildings over the past decade. A very large percentage of them are completely empty. In some places, entire small cities are empty and waiting for tenants. Thus, Evergrande doesn't have as much money coming in, and it's now unable to pay its debts. And this isn't something they can get a loan to cover - they have 300 billion in outstanding debt. For a company that's worth 400 billion, that's a lot of debt. So what now? They can try selling off properties to larger buyers. That's failed in the past but presumably if they go low enough someone will buy. But if they do go low, then 1) they don't have enough to pay off the costs they incurred building them and 2) that equals instant real estate crash. They can declare bankruptcy but of course that clobbers the Chinese economy; thousands of creditors lose their investments. The government can try to take over. They are trying that now - the government has taken over control of sales revenue for Evergrande's properties, and have created a state-controlled custodial account to protect home buyers from the fallout. Worryingly, they are also trying to continue construction on all their ongoing projects, They are pretty much the definition of a "too big to fail" company since if they fail, hundreds of thousands of people lose their (uncompleted) homes, thousand of creditors lose their investment, the real estate market tanks and the Chinese economy follows soon behind. But there's no simple way out of this - and whatever happens is going to affect not only the Chinese economy, but the world's.

Caution: not a rigger, nor an expert. I mostly jump a L160 main and have a Tempo 190 reserve, which I got to land once. I have more confidence in my abilities of dealing with a two out than in my abilities of landing unconscious or otherwise incapacitated under a small reserve. I don't fully buy into the "two out" school of thinking, especially where the mains get smaller and the models more agressive. I am really curious about how a small swooping canopy would actually behave in a two-out scenario with any type of reserve of similar size, simply due to the differences in what the canopy is intended for and consequently what I imagine to be quite large differences in flight characteristics. It's one of these bits of wisdom "everybody" knows and passes to newer jumpers without question, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's only actually true (instead of merely kind of true-ish) for either rounds or the very first types of squares, which were both big and made of F-111. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong - with an explanation. :-)