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IMO even the appearance of a conflict of interest is corrosive to the public trust.

10000 year old ice is melting, which means this is not some regular 50-500 year 'weather cycle'. just one of the thousands of data points that you continue to ignore or dismiss using your version of junk science

It is a relatively slow walk, but it is already here. the deniers are like 'oooo Al Gore said 2030....' and then it happens by 2070, therefore it must be all false and just a load of crap so that Bill Gates can put chips in everyone.....

There are many atavisms and myths in parachutes they are based on the "knowledge" of physics... The slider was invented for vertical openings because there were no others at that time. In horizontal opening, the body towing the parachute with its mass, forcing it to rise during deployment, like any wing. Like for paraglider or kite. A short pushing of the flow alongside the surface of the slider is enough for it to fall.

Federal contractor to federal contractor, in their federal capacities, also have codes of conduct. At least we did. And, frankly, we were expected to behave that way in general, but I was a federal systems employee after 1985... Wendy P.

I suppose you could say Stalin was a leftie. Not sure if Solzhenitsyn would agree.

Thanks for your response Glad to hear that you came back from that injury I began to get convinced that it needs a true stubborn to pass through this distress Two of the orthopaedics whom i visited explained that the pain is due to muscle spasms that occured because of the change in vertebral shape and that it should disappear once the fracture is healed and the last doctor i visited added 6 weeks of rest and calcium supplements i'll take your advice and add milk too Thank you for your advices i really appreciate it

Yes, she got into it while dating Jim Hancock. Interestingly, Jim would eventually be the one at NWA who calculated Cooper’s descent for the DZ. She ended up getting a pilot’s license too.

Not sure if I didn't hit the "submit reply" button or my post got deleted, but I'll try again for posterity. As I become a more and more experienced skydiver a decade into jumping, I am less and less sympathetic to gear with significant failure modes from perceptibly normal operation or minor faults. In the case of the Racer dual RSL, it will try to kill you if you follow instructions in the SIM. This is for sure the worst offender I can think of in that category. That simply should not exist in skydiving. The "borrowed gear - borrowed death" age should have been long over by the time I became a skydiver. I've actually met someone who a Racer almost killed. He bought a rig second hand and downsized into it. He was very heads up, but never in a million years did he think that following something in the SIM would almost kill him. But lo and behold, it did. Even if you're the most heads up skydiver and know to disconnect one side of the RSL in a high speed mal - someone will buy your gear, and selling something with that RSL to someone else is just reckless.

Next time I will try and couch it in 1,000 words.

Mindless attack without merit. Keep up the good work! If you're paying attention, you will note that I don't indicate approval of all things Jewish. FWIW, there are practices amongst the Haredim that I'm not okay with and so forth. Also, saying that the Tanakh mandates stoning of non-hetero types does little to support ideologies that stone them or pitch them off high places right now. In any event, reflexive hostility noted. BSBD, Winsor