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Don't most ~2000-year-old religions just boil down to a set of rules that were put in place to have a somewhat functioning society once relative strangers started living together in communities? If you wanna keep the people in line and stop chaos in the streets, tell them that killing your neighbor is bad, because if you do God is going to send you to be tortured for eternity! I like to think that rule was implemented the day after somebody killed the only guy in town who knew how to start a fire.

More to the point, fuck ‘em in the name of God.

They meant don't kill your next door neighbor but the guy's in the next town, well, fuck 'em.

And another free jump.

So it seems at least one of the stewardesses left their purse. Most importantly, they went back into the plane to retrieve it, even though the terrible hijacker and his briefcase bomb were still inside the plane. They didn't seem too uncomfortable around him! This tells us a lot about how he set the ladies at ease - hint into his personality, maybe?

This is nothing more than a proposal to force DZs to maintain their aircraft, pilot training and operations to normal commercial standards like DZs must do everywhere else in the world. It will not be "devastating regulation". It will be requiring giving paying customers the same amount of assurance that the people selling airplane rides for money do in every other branch of commercial aviation. It is simply time for the industry to grow up and away from being a semi-outlaw sport. Those days are long gone. Skydivers should not be opposing these changes. They should be demanding them.

Massive fire and explosions at Russian military base in Crimea forces evacuation of 2000+ locals.

https://www.uspa.org/Call-To-Action

Always look on the bright side of life!

Flat-pack is probably specified in the old military manual. If I remember correctly, MC4 was introduced before PRO-packing became the norm among civilian skydivers (mid 1980s). I have PRO-packed hundreds of tandem canopies that are similar in size to MC4 canopies. They all opened fine.

Probably still airworthy as long as you keep the wing-loading well below 1 pound per square foot. Like most canopies made of F-111 fabric (pre-zero porosity). Back then no-one regularly loaded canopies much more than 0.7 pounds-per-square foot. WARNING: exceeding more than 0.7 pounds-per-square-foot will result in injuries on most F-111 canopies. IOW F-111 canopies can only be jumped at 1 pound-per-square-foot when new. They soon lose/gain porosity so after 50 jumps, it would be unwise to load them too heavily.

Anxiously awaiting the excuses from Trump supporters. . . . . . .

Then I'll say it for you. Brent knows he will be long dead before renewables will 100% replace fossil fuels. Therefore for him it is a win and he will not have to change anything. He obviously does not care about humanity or the future of humanity. As long as he gets his, that is all that matters. The affects that we create today are someone else's problem and he doesn't care about them at all. He has no concept of the idea that a small change today can make a big difference in the future. If you study history, you see this behavior from people in the past. Look at all the people who thought we could never exterminate the American Bison. Brent cannot see the damage we do until the last one dies.

squirrely in turbulence is what injured my friend. I watched from above and knew she was hurt.

No, it's an inevitability. FF are a finite resource. I'm not claiming that their end is in sight as of today, but at some point we're gonna run out of old dinosaur blood and it'd be best to have an alternative in place before that happens...as a skydiver, you should appreciate the importance of having a 'Plan B'. Even if you want to put your head in the sand about the realities of climate change, which you obviously do, I don't know what you think you're proving by getting all giddy about burning more coal rather than shoring up our long-term energy security. I know what I think you're proving, but if I said so I might get a time out.

Hi Ken, Well, when they say, 'Oh, my god,' isn't that what we are doing? Jerry Baumchen

DC and AC surge protectors, ferrites to slow the rise of fast pulses, shorting disconnects for external power sources (like solar.) They also reduce EMI and improve EMC which is nice. Sol-Ark has done a fair amount of work on this. They have EMP hardened versions of their 8K, 12K and 15K inverters, and have a few other components that are EMP resistant. https://www.sol-ark.com/e-m-p/

Well, I would call Genesis the 'best bullshit' rather than 'best guess'. It's just the story that was told the most times that it became a 'true and real' story to the people telling & retelling it. Kinda funny how each independent society has it's own creation myth. And each of them claims that "God told us this is what happened." So either God decided to tell different people different stories to mess with everyone... Or he has Dementia and couldn't keep his stories straight each time he told them. Newtonian physics is an approximation, not a guess. It's perfectly accurate and useable to a pretty decent degree of precision. NASA uses it for most of the rockets sent into space. When a greater degree of precision is needed, relativity is brought in. GPS couldn't be made to work properly until relativity was factored in. The speed of the satellites and the precision the clocks need require relativistic corrections for the nav data to be accurate. Some of quantum will likely be replaced with more accurate understanding, but basic quantum is pretty solid. Refinement, not replacement. Of course, it's entirely possible a new field will be discovered that supplants quantum, just as relativity did with Newton.

Wrong! 50% comes from natural gas. Not to mention California is the largest importer of electricity, much of which is generated from coal. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/2021-total-system-electric-generation

I did about 20 jumps on one. Great flare, hard openings, squirrely in turbulence. I was glad to have it for one jump where I pulled at about 1000 feet (and was the highest person open on our 4-way.) I pulled at 1000 feet and was open by 900.

44745 will require cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders. Part 135 pilot requirements include a requirement for check pilots, and oral/practical check rides every 6 months. See 135.265 for maximum duty time and required rest periods. Someone is going to have to keep training records and duty/rest records.

I was too young to be into the Dead, but I am very glad my one trip to Red Rocks was July 2014. It was an Avett Brothers show, Bob Weir and RatDog opened, for one of their last shows. The Avetts joined in for Touch of Grey and I felt connected to a vast musical experience... Glad your daughter was able to gift that to you, that must have been a "gee I did something right" moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5LnjhbzRPg Going all the way back to the seventies my two greatest passions have been skydiving and the Grateful Dead. They're not everyone's cup of coffee, but I've known a lot of skydivers who love them as well. For a Father's Day present one of my daughters who lives in the Bay Area copped tickets for the very last show. The entire weekend, San Francisco was a wall to wall carnival of tie dyed old farts roaming around Haight St. and the SOMA district where Oracle Park is located. It was a special weekend for those of us who have grown up on the Dead. We lost Jerry Garcia along the way, but the music never stopped. Bob Weir and the guys promise they've got other things up their sleeves yet, but this was the end of an era.

This whole conversation is missing the fact that new vehicle inventory is up 70% over last year as the supply chain recovers. For all types of cars. Having stock in hand is a normal part of how companies make sales. If you don't have stock customers will often migrate away from you to someone who does. The Cox report clearly states that EV sales are on track as predicted. This would be why the troll did not link to it. https://www.coxautoinc.com/news/cox-automotive-forecast-june-2023-u-s-auto-sales-forecast/ As the market begins to turn toward EVs one part of the supply chain is dragging their heels somewhat. The car dealers have not yet made the investments they will soon be forced into. https://www.coxautoinc.com/news/new-cox-automotive-study-ev-consideration-at-record-high-but-dealers-feel-unprepared/

That's easy, the stuff they like. If it's poetry, most of the bible sucks. Only 1 book that I know of would really count as poetry - the Book of Psalms. All of the other books are just prose about gruesome violence and sex.

I had a Raider-230 Nine Cell Canopy in the early 90's. I did about 40 jumps on it and had no Issues and the canopy was jumped quiet a few times after that. Eventually a few years later, it was hard to get a decent Flare out of it, especially in Nil wind Landings. It was gracefully and respectfully retired on a Bonfire to a lot of cheering :) Rodger

The bit I don’t understand is how it goes from sections that some guys just made up because it sounds good to sections that are the absolute and definitive truth about human existence. I’m not really sure how you figure out which is which.

My son had some idiot teacher show them a video about the easter myth with fairly graphic representations of crucifixion etc at the age of about 5 (non-religious school). He had nightmares for weeks. Some choice words were had with said teacher - She was christian herself but hadn't actually watched the video prior.

Basically an old school seven cell F111 canopy tweaked into a 9 cell design with a slightly higher aspect ratio. Obsolete and of no monetary value anymore, but still usable if airworthy.

Do you own a parachute rig???

There was a packing course at Campbell River a couple of weeks ago. If you live in Vancouver, your best option is to contact the DZ at Abbottsford. If you tell me exactly where you live, I might be available for private lessons during evenings, etc. Hint: I live at the corner of 6th and 6th in New Westminster, but work near the north end of Boundary Road.

Mine was in a corsair which is now a hanging harness for my kids to go down my zip line. I guess I could have sewed it shut and put a zipper in the top to make a backpack or something.... www.facebook.com/FlintHillsRigging