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We spent $2 Trillion in Afghanistan and Iraq and survived, what's a couple hundred billion? Even if you are a true believer you must know that the day's of using fossil fuels for energy needs on planet Earth are numbered. You'll also be acutely aware that waiting until the last barrel is burnt to make a change isn't smart policy. Also, global consensus on when to invest in the energies of the future will never happen. Those truths exist independently of any belief that burning fossil fuels will have measurable negative impacts on the climate. So what to do? Think of it like the guy who loses it all trying to time the market top in any asset class; the smart money will see the bubble and exit early for the next thing. We're talking the world here and 100 years is a blink. Common sense say's that the sooner we get after it the better.

Not really. You'll be right about 1:1, which is a good place for you to be. From what I've read, the S3 is a decent canopy for lower experienced jumpers when lightly loaded. Personally I went from a 288 Manta student canopy to a 190 Triathlon loaded at 1:1. No issues, other than re-learning to flare (zp Tri flares a LOT better than a ragged out Manta).

You don’t need a criminal lawyer, you need a criminal lawyer!

My coccyx has been a complete mess since November and every time it starts to feel a bit better I do something to smash it again. Unless you do most of your landings downwind like I do you'll probably be fine but it does take a long time to heal.

I broke my tailbone after getting dropped by turbulence during a landing flare. The doctor said I snapped the tip like a toothpick. I was able to jump, although I admit I pulled back on frequency. I was jumping at a Cessna DZ, so I stayed on my knees on the way to altitude or sat in the back while leaning to keep the weight off the tailbone. This break take a very long time to heal, so I assume a bruise does too.

“In the year 2000 the U.S. graduated 1.9 times as many scientists and engineers at the baccalaureate level as China; but, by 2020, China was graduating 2.4 times as many as the U.S. At the doctorate level, the U.S. lead was a factor of 3.3, whereas today China leads by a factor of 1.1. If one excludes Chinese nationals who graduate from U.S. universities, that factor becomes 1.3 – and is rapidly increasing.”; Norman Augustine. According to Augustine: A Chinese high-school graduate has had nearly three more years of classroom education than an American counterpart simply due to the length of the respective school years. The standardized U.S. test called the Nation’s Report Card rates 76 percent of 12th graders below proficient in math and 78 percent below proficient in science. Increased spending on K-12 education has enlarged schools’ administrative staff 88 percent while student enrollment has grown just 8 percent. In the percentage of all baccalaureate degrees granted in engineering, the United States ranks 76th globally. Twenty-three percent of U.S. PhDs are in science, technology, engineering or mathematics; in China, 79 percent. Augustine says a “substantial” reason for U.S. proficiency in STEM subjects is immigration: 28 percent of U.S. university faculty members in science and engineering were born abroad, as were 38 percent of American Nobel laureates in chemistry, physics and medicine since 2000. “And nearly half of U.S. Fortune 500 companies had a founder who was an immigrant or the child of an immigrant,” Augustine says.

Hi Slim, Ironically, that is what most of us are doing in regard to your posts. Jerry Baumchen PS) Now, back to what Obama did in 2001 . . .

Yes… within one year of September 11th 2001 the Obama administration caused global heroin production to skyrocket. You certainly have a sound grasp of history.

Centuries can be counted in decades, you know. Your premises are speculations, nothing more. The truth is that taxpayer investments in technologies pays off. I don't know where you got your MBA but we're going there to beat their asses and get your money back.

WaPo: Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘No’ The former president’s current legal team includes a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for a parking-garage company and a former host at far-right One America News It's hard to believe there aren't top-level attorneys just rushing to defend a client who won't take their advice, nor pay them. My advice: Better Call Saul

The 302's are clear, bank bands,, Carr doesn't get that the rubber bands were used for the bundles..not the packets of 100. bank bands are paper bands 7:19 in video Himmelsbach.. Money was given to Cooper strapped in 100's and bundled with rubber bands.. A strap is bank lingo for 100 bills paper bank banded.. "There were ten thousand twenty dollar bills assembled in straps of a hundred bills to a strap and individual straps held together with rubber bands."

Like many things in the Cooper case we never get to 100%... That is why it has lasted 50+ years.. Tina bank type bands..

I don't doubt it. Nor do I doubt that you troll climate deniers in other places.

Didn't you post something a while back, where Tina indicated the money had "bank type bands"? Seems like I remember you posting something along those lines. I don't know that it's that important in the big picture. I think three packets being rubber banded together arriving at Tena Bar is more logical than three individual packets arriving together. Makes much more sense that the packets were randomized into bundles. I'm afraid Georger is right though, we'll never get these answers.

Fraud is fraud. Wendy P.

“Cold deaths vastly outweigh heat deaths. This is common knowledge in the academic literature and for instance the Lancet finds that each year, almost 600,000 people die globally from heat but 4.5 million from cold.” There are many more Johns, Jims, Mohammeds, Ricks, Melissas, Faisas, Hafzas, Rams, Aneishas and Rameshs that die of cold.

Good point. Ya gotta wonder how the idiots would have spun it if he had won. What about the 'Americans left behind'? What about 'all the military equipment left to the Taliban?'

Well, to be fair, he did everything in his power to prevent Biden from being in office when it happened.

Chaucer is incapable of sorting this out,, Carr will just repeat his error. Everybody including Carr kept saying the "bundles" were randomized... but the money was given to Cooper in 100's and rubber banded into groups.. the TBAR money was in 100's and in the same order.. the TBAR money was NOT randomized. So, it never made sense to me and when I questioned it I got trashed because nobody saw the logical conflict.. When Carr stated on DZ that the TBAR "bundles" were randomized into $500 or $1000 each I knew he mixed up bundles and packets of 100.. The bundles of several packets of 100 were randomized not the individual packets of 100.. So when Carr was told by the bank guy that the bundles were randomized and repackaged with rubber bands, he misunderstood and thought that the packets of 100 were.. Carr made other errors as well, he said the back chutes came from Hayden then he said he thought they came from Cossey's house and speculated that Cossey sent the chute instructions because of his modified chute... IMO, Carr is just not up to date with the case.. his case knowledge is circa 2012.

Okay there. I have no fucking idea what game you're playing, but congrats on the win: your trophy's in the mail.

Not sure, I heard recently that nobody's really gotten to the bottom of 9/11

I argued on here that the people who authorised that strike should go to prison. Still think so. Unfortunately many other posters on here represent most people in the western world, and don't quite understand that people on the other side of the world are still human beings.

I don't know what is scarier, politicians spreading this BS or millions of americans happily believing this BS.

The folks who had been "operators" of the DZ are no longer in the picture . However LONG Time airport OWNER and Original DZO John King, Still owns the place, Still calls the shots, Still has a dedicated following of certain staff members and Fun Jumpers. The airport has always Been and Still IS a DZ.. J.King simply stayed busy with Other things, and "subbed Out" the Running of the skydiving part to others... Word through the grapevine IS of the Likelihood that a C206 will soon offer the opportunity once again , for jumpers to Enjoy the Great views and Good Vibes of a Skydiving Venue with 40+ years of Parachuting History. So No worries, wmw999 jimmytavino in Rochester. :-)