FlyingRhenquest

Yeah! Fuck everything! I hate that thing! Especially that goddamn train that rolls through Longmont at 4 AM! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

If it's anything like my lentil soup if you eat it before skydiving you're likely to be thrown out of the plane before it reaches full altitude. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I don't really see the point until two people get out of a plane with one rig between them... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I pee in your shower I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

For a game of russian roulette, you'd need a 13% probability that you were going to die on any given stunt. I don't recall if proximity wingsuit flying has crossed into single-digit percentages for fatalities, but it's still a lot more dangerous than I'd ever want to attempt. You left out the guys jumping without a rig and retrieving their rig in mid-air. Presumably because FAA regs won't allow it in the USA. Stupid FAA. Always holding us back. I mean, I would never attempt that either! There are a couple of videos where the guy gets back in the plane, either from freefall or with a wingsuit. That stunt interests me, because I'm lazy and hate to pack. It is kind of a long way to go to avoid a pack job, though. Guy here did his 100th, held a $100 bill in his teeth and told the group he was jumping with that if anyone got the bill before they hit the ground, they could have it. He got to keep his $100 bill. Given that the $100 bill has probably been in a stripper's butt and/or used to snort cocaine (or used to snort cocaine off a stripper's butt) that was probably crazier than anything else that happened on that jump. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Nope. You still need to communicate information about a state from point A to point B in order to perfectly re-create that state at point B, and that communication can occur no faster than the speed of light. Entanglement can envisioned in a simplistic sense as a bunch of pool balls. If you have a ball that's spinning in one direction and you whang it into a ball that's just sitting there, the first ball imparts a spin on the second ball. At that point, one ball will be spinning in one direction and another ball will be spinning in the opposite direction. That's kind of like what entanglement is. At a quantum level, you can't just look at the particles and determine which is spinning in which direction. The very act of observing what a particle is doing will change its state. The magic bits, as I understand them, is that the universe doesn't really decide which particle is spinning in which direction until you measure ONE of them. At that point if you see that it's spinning clockwise, you know the other particle is spinning counter-clockwise, wherever in the universe it happens to be at the moment. The other particle is spinning the opposite way because it was always spinning that way after its encounter with the first particle, but the universe didn't actually decide which was which until after you measured it. The magic parts of this make my brain hurt, but apparently have been proven experimentally. So far at least they don't appear to provide a useful method of communicating information faster than the speed of light or going faster than it either. If some sneaky bastard ever figures out how to exploit some of the underlying effects for that, it'll probably break a good chunk of current physics. That would be fun... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

You're still on coaching jumps aren't you? It's a great opportunity to talk to a coach about it! Takes a while to wrap your head around the concept of relative wind. All my coaches on coaching jumps wanted to do linked exits, so I didn't really get a chance to get a good feel for it until I started doing solo jumps. When you're getting out, don't really think "jump", especially if you're on a plane with a lower rear stabilizer. Think step. You just step to the side, open up and arch (All in one move.) Have your coach go over it in the practice rig. I'm guessing part of the problem is the door's still making you nervous. It'll all get better with time! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Do you live in an extremely dry climate? I've never heard of this, I'm glad I didn't have that happen to me. Best- Richard Well... Yeah, but it's not like they're bad for you. They just feel great when your eyes are dry. I always had dry eyes, even before I had Lasik. A few people do. You can have your tear ducts sealed so they don't drain if it's a problem, but then you get a lot more tears from the corners of your eyes. They don't have anywhere else to go. Normally this is just a mild annoyance, but I suspect it'd make my goggles fog up more. I'd rather have slightly dry eyes and be addicted to artificial tears than have super-foggy goggles all the time, I think. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah, if you want to make the D licenses start twitching, start a psycho pack and announce loudly that you got this because you watched a youtube video. I'm guessing some of them are twitching right now... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

9 years later I'm still addicted to the non-medicated artificial tears they gave me after I had it done. Those things are great after a 20 minute tunnel session! I've always had dry eyes. I thought about having my tear ducts sealed permanently (They did them temporarily before the surgery) but that would just make my goggles fog up even more than they already do. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I wasn't skydiving at the time but my eyes were pretty sensitive for about a month. Had it done 9 years ago now, best 4 grand I ever spent. Would do it again in a heartbeat. I went from nearly blind to 20/20 in one eye and 20/15 in the other. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah if there's one thing the time I spent in customer service taught me, it's that the customer is always retarded. Oh yeah, and also that it's usually not a great idea to talk about Fight Club in public. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Smart phone apparently has a GPS receiver. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Phone GPS isn't accurate enough. I've run a GPS logger through several of my skydiving days and it loses 1/3rd to 1/2 of most of my skydives. It can't even keep a GPS lock on a high pull, which is pretty damn sad if you ask me. Someone sent me a bunch of flysight files, those are much better. I didn't see a single lost point in about 30 of his jumps. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

We basically got "If you're not sure, chop it." The instructor went on to say that one or two line twists might not normally be considered a choppable malfunction, but on our first jump they'd rather we err on the side of caution. If we felt we could deal with it kicking it out above decision altitude, fine, if we didn't, just cut away. He did go on to tell a couple of the "Chopped because the slider wouldn't go back up" stories, though. We're pretty hip, and knew we'd be the subject of such stories, if we did that. I don't see too many AFF level 1 chops here. I think I've heard of one or two in the last couple of years. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well you'd need a full faced helmet too, or no one would be able to hear you over the wind! Also, if you (or at least I) were to call someone in freefall, it'd probably be best to hang up or mute prior to deployment. Usually the noises that come out of me at canopy deployment time are about as disturbing as the ones that come out of me in the john, and obviously you should never, EVER be talking to anyone while you're in the john. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

A lot of online businesses ask for it now. I suppose it'll get easier to steal over time and they'll add another code to prove that you're the owner of that code... There IS a scam going around where someone will call you and give you all your information and then ask for that number on the back of your card. Don't give it to them. There is pretty good fraud protection in place for credit cards. I've heard it's not so great for debit cards, so it's probably not a good idea to use them interchangeably. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

When you're a kid you don't really have a sense of your own mortality. There used to be a park in Hawaii that had a very steep hill with a sidewalk going down. At the bottom there were some stairs and the sidewalk did a 90 degree turn and then another 90 degree turn about 15 feet away. I used to put skates on and go racing down that thing and do both the turns at the bottom like it was nothing. The same park had a rock face that went up about 100 feet that I climbed a couple of times. I could never understand why the adults got freaked out about it -- it wasn't even a technically difficult climb! It was practically a natural staircase. These days I'm actually aware that I can break bones and stuff. I've been pretty conservative with the skydiving really, and don't plan on downsizing much past the 230 I'm flying now anytime in the foreseeable future. Plus I kind of like the ride down. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Oxygen is available if a skydiver needs it. Apparently there's a waiver in place, as most of the people here are acclimated to higher altitudes. Couple of the guys LIVE pretty close to the altitude that most dropzones jump from. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Most of my skydiving-related injuries happen on the ground. I have a scar on my finger from where I managed to cut myself on the door mockup rig while practicing an exit. I also have a scar on my arm from where I bumped into the lowered flap of a jump plane while it was parked in the hangar. That hardly even broke the flesh, but it left a scar. I currently have a bruise on my shoulder from demonstrating a PLF on a concrete floor. Sounds like I'd much rather have these types of injuries than the alternative. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I think you mean "Tuesday." I can drive higher than that out here It's fun to take visitors from the coast up into the mountains and watch them fall over when they get out of the car. I do try to warn them not to try to walk and talk at the same time. I did notice a HUGE difference in my skydiving endurance down in Eloy. If I grit my teeth I can make it through about 5 full altitude (~17K MSL) jumps here before I'm done for the day. In Eloy, where 13K AGL is a few thousand feet lower, I felt like I could keep going for as long as I wanted to. I feel the same way about hop and pops here. I did land after a night jump here with a longer-than-usual stay at 17K and noticed that my brain-thing wasn't working as well as it usually does. I opted out of a second jump that night. Some other folks on that load decided to break out the oxygen. If I know I'm going to be spending more than a few minutes at full altitude in the future, I'd definitely hit the oxygen tank for that. I'd love to do a 18K jump from some sea-level DZ. That's a normal altitude for me, but a good bit more freefall time. A 18K AGL high pull would be awesome! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

On a plane? I superstitiously set pointers to NULL after freeing them. I fear if I don't, my program will crash later on. Sometimes it crashes anyway, but a lot of my library functions check to make sure the pointer's not null before using it (if (str && strlen(str) > 0) ...) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'd see if you could get some unscented febreeze first. Can the liner be removed and washed? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'm 44 and will listen to anything except Country. Rap, dubstep, trip hop, trance, electronica, death metal, German industrial metal, it's all good. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yeah, that's why I went with a rainbow canopy. Easy to spot after a cutaway. A wingsuiter cut away last fall with an orange canopy. You never realize how much orange crap is around in October until you go looking for an orange canopy in the middle of that month. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?