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You watch TV? It's that big black box with pretty colors on it, right? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

1 clear Sunday : 3 meter snow drifts : 0 loads up -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

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That Sangiro dude scares me man. He could erase me completely and I wouldn't even see it coming. It's like the matrix. He can shape the forums as he sees fit. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

How big of a deal would this be on a larger canopy. Say a 160sqft Triathlon loaded at about 1:1? I was told that it can't really spin me up so bad I can't cut away manually, so the inserts aren't that big of a deal. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

As I understand it, they're talking about the relative wind that you launch into when exiting. A 4-way would present their entire bodies to the wind, and a freeflier would not. More surface area, more wind drag, less plane throw. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

AAARGHH my eyes, my eyes! It burns, it burns! HEEeeeelp... @$#&%^! -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Imagine you have 1000 equations to solve. You can do it by getting a pen, a pencil, a calculator, and cranking away. You could get a few of your friends to help you. Or, better yet, you could start a webpage where anyone who wants can solve an equation. This is the same idea. They give your puter a small task to do. When your puter is done, it uploads them the answer. A big smart program on the main puter at Stanford takes your answer, and the answers of thousands of others, and makes one big answer out of that. It's called distributed supercomputing, or occasionally cluster supercomputing. It only needs to be online to download a question or upload an answer. That is probably less than 1% of the work for it. So it really doesn't need you to be online all the time, only occasionally. It does need to run all the time. I made a few tests on it, and basically I came to the conclusion that it does not slow your comp down at all. Not even a tiny bit. It always uses the processor only when you are not using it, so it really can't slow your comp down. As to safety, every time you install a program, you make your computer vulnerable to certain types of attacks. You just have to trust the maker of the program, kind of like trusting your rigger when he repacks your reserve. You can't really see it, you don't really know how it was done, but it could be really bad for you if it was done wrong. Same idea here. You know how we trust those riggers that we know? This program came from Stanford, and I trust them. Do you? If yes, install it. Hope that helped! -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

clicky EDITED TO ADD: 66% done, and it's been running for at least 2 days nonstop. That's at least 48 hours. Athlon XP 1800+ with Win2k pro. So it takes at least about 73 hours to finish a work unit on my puter. Ouchie, this is no SETI@Home

If someone is cursing at you for trying to be safe, that person needs a smack. If you want to be really curteous, inform them that you will take a long separation delay before the load takes off. I can understand getting angry if you wasted half a jumprun, but according to Dr Kallends presentation the jumprun is over a minute! Maybe, if you're last, you might need to request a go-around, but if those folks can't stomach that, then they need a reality check. This sport kills if you do it wrong, just read the Incidents forum, or this. Would you let someone pressure you into buying an 84 VX at 200 jumps? Why would you let people pressure you into not getting adequate horizontal separation? If anything, the latter is even more potentially deadly, cause a freefall collision will likely take you and another person out. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

That looks like an acid trip gone horribly, horribly wrong. I think I'll torture my roomies with it now -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

That's exactly what I'm saying. I think it would work best as guidelines to instructors of canopy flight. If we make such instruction mandatory, ie, you need to be certified by an approved canopy instructor before downsizing to anything, we can see the fatality reports cut in half. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

http://www.hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~mitsuru/pi-e.html 1+ trillionth, no, but how about 400 million digits? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

My Russian spies are invading the IRS as we speak. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Someone has way too much time on their hands. http://3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209.autopron.org/pi -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Isn't that how it always starts? Def'n: History. History can be summarized by the following phrase: "it seemed like a good idea at the time". -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

From the document you linked to: So the difference is not in the airspeed, but in the responsiveness. This is not surprising, since responsiveness really depends on the shape of the airfoil, ie, the way it's deflecting the air. Sounds like a claim that the person on the very low wingloading is not learning anything under that parachute. Seems to me that this implies, paradoxically, that there is such a thing as too small a wingloading, that is, a wingloading so small that the parachute does not need you to fly anymore. So they need to progress differently from the average sized jumper. I read that as a claim that a large safety benefit is provided by helping that jumper downsize safely. What happens in this progression is that the 85lbs person is kept at < 1.0 wingloading and moderately large canopies until they reach 1000 jumps, and are then allowed to do whatever they want. While there is obvious merit in making their progressions gradual, seems to me that this is accomplishing the opposite. According to this article this kind of progression can prove disastrous. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

You mean you have to go out to see boobies? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Installed and running. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Actually, there are some people I heard about that weigh that much and jump. How does a 20 minute canopy ride sound? The beauty of the bell curve is that it never reaches zero. I'm just concerned that, while this makes the progression safer for the majority at the bump, it may make it more dangerous for the fringes of the curve. As it stands, the risk of skydiving is already marginal. These regulations may just be moving the risk from being evenly distributed across everyone to nothing for the "normal" people and more for the far ends of the curve. That just doesn't sound right -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Instead of basing it so much on jump numbers, maybe the jump number restricitions should be relaxed and it should work similar to the USPA licenses? There are licenses for freefall, why not canopy? Give out instructor ratings for canopy flight and have them administer tests to condidates that want to move up. And make sure that everything is waverable in special cases. I don't think an 85lbs person is made safer by forcing her to jump a student wingloading for 1000 jumps and then letting her downsize to a tiny x-braced. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Have these guys ever even heard of the First Amendment? I don't know what the rules are for what is a political protest and what isn't, but I'm sure that peacefully wearing a shirt is not one. Go out of the mall peacefully, write a warning letter asking for an apology, if none received, sue them. This is why you folks have a civil legal system, no? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

What I find the best is the chronic smokers frantically yelling at me because I'm throwing my life away by jumping out of planes. Bwahaha. I'm an asthmatic. Never tried it, have no desire to try it, wouldn't even if I wasn't asthmatic. BTW, studies show that smoking causes asthma in your children. No, I don't think it was my father (he smokes), it was more likely the polluted environment in my case. My generation in Russia has an abnormal rate of chronic breathing deseases. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Absolutely -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

You'll probably put on your glasses in the morning and stuff will look weird, so you'll think your surgery messed you up and run to the doctor. The doctor will tell you that you are wearing glasses and will publish your case in the medical journals as post-surgery symptoms. This will become a running joke of the medical community, and will commonly be referred to in all classrooms 20 years from now, since this surgery is obviously the wave of the future. Do you want to be immortalized like that? Good luck man! Tell us how it goes. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.