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I think it was the "some of my good friends are black" card

We try to not make fun of the special needs children in this state. [southern lady accent] God bless his soul. [/southern lady accent] Jon Stewart was no less than masterful. I was dying laughing.

Conservatives say that liberals are snowflakes while exhibiting the most snowflakey behaviour possible. Texas passing a sweeping bill cancelling books, lessons and teachers’ freedom of speech if there’s a tiny chance their kids’ feelings might get hurt being a prime example.

I disagree with terming it “sexual themes”. But even if that is what you want to call it, you specifically mean “non-heteronormative sexual themes.” Many of the Disney stories/movies had boy/girl “sexual themes” and as long as that stayed white boy/girl “sexual themes”, everybody was just fine with it. I am not buying that “sexual themes” is the issue with Disney.

Yup a real American Patriot reading Chinese propaganda into congressional record. But Biden is weak on China. The level of stupid is high on this new crop of Republicans/libertarians.

Two controls in the rear one inside and one outside,, like the 727

In a world where the child of a religious fundamentalist might go to school or otherwise meet with a child who has two mommies or two daddies, is there a way to convey that neither child has to hide their parentage? And maybe even that it's rude to either call the parents deviants or bigots? Because those are lessons that schools should be teaching -- that everyone comes from people, and no one should go out to offend. Wendy P.

And today we hear that Trump promises everyone new "freedom cities" and flying cars. And let me guess - Mexico will pay for all of it.

So is that the two-step or the foxtrot?

Conservatives seem to very easily have their feelings hurt and then meltdown like snowflakes. I do believe the word was first used by the right to make fun of the idea of everyone being different like special snowflakes. But it has long since been turned back on them. Nazis? I've never used the term myself except when speaking about, well, Nazis. It's just too easy to go all Godwin so I don't.

Fly, you’ve got to chill out on being so defensive about everything. For real. I think you’ve got PTSD from years of this board being snarky assholes toward you, but it was a knock on Colbert, it had nothing to do with you or whatever you’re working on with this decryption. I’m sure you’re doing solid work, as usual.

If he tied the money bag securely to his leg and the parachute harness, then it should still be with him when he landed whether he was a pull or no-pull. The paratrooper leg bags are tied to the harness and only released to swing from the lanyard when getting ready to land. If Cooper just tied the money bag to his body or parachute harness by a lanyard, as Tosaw seems to suggest, then you have an "earth and moon" situation and that would change the free-fall dynamics if he delayed opening. This is bad news with an unpredictable outcome.

Let's crunch some numbers here and all are related to the Cooper jump. The typical shroud lines used on parachutes in the 1971 era were rated at about 550 pounds tensile strength each under static conditions. Using 25 pounds for the weight of the money and its bag (it was actually about 22 pounds), a single shroud line should be able to support 22 times the weight of the money bag under static conditions. According to Tom Kaye's measurements, Cooper cut enough shroud lines from the second reserve parachute to wrap around the money bag about 10 times. And he would surely use more than a single line to attach the money bag to himself or his parachute harness. Consequently, it is a reasonable assumption that Cooper securely attached the money bag to himself or his backpack harness. The opening shock of Cooper's parachute would probably be an impulsive load, as opposed to a static load, of about 10g's or less. If tied as mentioned above, the money bag should easily remain attached to Cooper or his rig. If Cooper had an open canopy and went through some trees on landing, the money bag might be damaged to some extent but would still be essentially intact in my opinion. But if Cooper were a no-pull, we have a completely different story. If he impacted at sea level, his minimum speed would be at least 120 MPH if he were in a stable sky diver position with his body parallel to the ground. But that is also unlikely and his real speed would probably be at least 175 or 200 MPH and he would probably be tumbling. A significant force is required for the money bag to be damaged enough for the bills to later emerge. If Cooper landed on top of the money bag while doing 120+ MPH, a pneumatic rupture would occur but it would probably be relatively minor and the vast majority of the bills would remain in the bag. This is not like popping a balloon since there is not very much air in the bag to begin with. The money found at Tena Bar was probably in a damaged money bag when it arrived there. And there is a good chance that the bag was still tied to Cooper's remains or his parachute harness. Some bills came out and the rest of the bag plus Cooper and his parachute harness went on down stream.

If we use McNally as a template, then no. Speaking to him, he told me that as soon as he lost the money he immediately looked around to try and find lights or visible objects to triangulate where he was at the moment the bag slipped away so he could go looking for it once he landed. Because there were broken clouds beneath him, he was unable to do so. He knew that with with the wind blowing him away from that spot that he'd never be able to find it in the dark. This is when he became so pissed he came close to killing himself. He unhooked the leg straps to the harness and almost unhooked the chest strap, but decided "where there is life, there's hope" and reached the conclusion that he would just pull off another hijacking. The next time he'd make sure to secure the bag better. Presumably if Cooper lost the money, it would have been at the same time Mac did: when he opened his chute. If Cooper pulled below the cloud cover or, if he had been successful where Mac had been unsuccessful in finding a way to triangulate his position, then I suppose he could have looked for it. Did he have a flashlight in his mystery bag? Obviously that would have been necessary if he was going to attempt to find it that night. But I suppose your question could also be: did he stay in the area the next few days looking for it? It seems that if he was local or had a place to stay nearby that he could have seen where the search efforts were happening and that would have impact his decision making on the issue. If he knew that where they were looking was NOT where he jumped, then he likely wouldn't have seen any risk in hanging around and walking through the woods or fields looking for it. A small white canvas bag though? Good luck. My issue with Cooper losing the money is the bag itself staying together upon impact. Would a stuffed tight canvas bag wrapped in parachute cord stay intact when it hit the ground or would it explode and throw the contents everywhere? So many variables there. If the bag had hit tree tops first that may have slowed it down tremendously.

It was a joke, Joe. Choose love.

I'm really beginning to wonder what you got against neolithic goat herders. Some of my best friends are neolithic goat herders.

I remember jumping PC's at Claresholm in 1982, but pretty sure in 1983 they had gone to the LR288 mains, predecessor to the Manta.