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"4) Parachute deploys at Mach 2. " I hope it knows its EPs!!! Anyway, I don't get that either. I mean, NASA put the Viking landers on MARS back in the 70s with the best late 60s, early 70s technology of the time and those things were pretty big. So, what I don't get is why their newer systems seem to be getting more and more complicated. Edit... yeah, yeah, I know, Mach 2 on MARS isn't the same as Mach 2 on Earth!

Yeah, I know, I was just making a quip about the way-ward MARS rover... or was it a Lunar Rover... that accidentally came back to Earth and the 6 Million Dollar Man had to do battle with it. Anyway, I'll bet someone has lots of fun testing rover prototypes out in the desert somewhere. I'm sure they learn some really cool "realities" that just make those PhD "rocket scientist" types nut-up. I mean, I've meet some of them that could do calculations using Kepler's laws of planetary motion in their head, but couldn't change a flat on their car or figure out the positive from negative terminal on their car battery if given 2 tries.

Oh, and from your "Winter Bike Project" thread putting Nina together and Julia helping and all... I was half expecting the next MARS rover to have a raked out front end and fat rear tires.

Yeah, I seem to recall a certain jumpmaster telling me something like you'll never know who'll walk through that door next and who do you think they'll be talking to first... in reference to attractive young gals showing up for first jump course they're about to teach...

HOLY SHIT Batman! That thing is HUGE! Or is it just an upscaled version of the real thing? Anyway, I've often wondered why NASA doesn't just set one of those rovers loose out in the desert somewhere for testing before sending them to MARS, but then I remember that old episode of the 6 Million Dollar Man where we learned that was a bad idea...

Even I would show up to a bike show to see that! Yeah, You and every other guy on dropzone.com! Heck! I'd bring 3, maybe 4 cameras!

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Democrats in control of Congress and the White House + Taxes going up to pay for their entitlement and social welfare programs... yeah... there's a news flash...

I think for your next bike show... you need to enlist skymama's help to pose, in a bikini, next to Nina... on a turn-table...

DuuuuuH!

No, mama, the correct way to prep a condom for re-use is to turn it inside out and shake the fuck out of it.

So, if Nina's measurements are 6-4-45, what are mama's?

Well, the airport is a Municipal Airport. As far as I know, the city still owns the 4 hangars at the west end of the airport and the acerage to the southwest of the airport that used to make up Cal City Skydive. I don't know if anyone is renting or has purchased the hangar or land. The hangars were still sitting empty the last time I went by there a few months ago and, althougth I haven't looked in awhile, I can find no commercial listing for the property being for sale. Sure wish someone would re-open a dropzone there. Even if it was a Cessna operation and build it back from there.

Welcome to dropzone politics. Careful. I once said something like that and wound up eating my words.

So can you actully make a phone call on the thing.

Baltic divers find what they claim is world's oldest champagne in wreck near Aland islands Published July 17, 2010 STOCKHOLM (AP) — Divers have discovered what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne, fishing a bottle of the centuries-old bubbly from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Dive instructor Christian Ekstrom says the champagne, believed to be from the 1780's, "tasted fantastic." Ekstrom said Saturday he's "98 percent sure" of the champagne's age, having conferred with experts. About 30 bottles are believed to remain in the wreckage. Swedish wine expert Carl-Jan Granqvist says each bottle could bring as much as euro50,000 if the corks are intact and the age and authenticity can be proven. Samples have been sent to champagne laboratories in France for testing. The bottles were discovered Tuesday near the Aland islands, in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden. -------------------------------------------------- This reminds me of the time Robert was cleaning out under the stage at Cal City and found an old case of Budweiser... steel cans... pull tabs... many with surface rust...

WTF does this have to do with anything? Assuming the coeds are of legal age and we're not talking rape here, if they boink their Professor(s), poor decision or otherwise, why the fuck should one care!!!??? This poll has nothing to do with skydiving, guns or boobies... a waste of Internet bandwidth!

You'll spring for the whole $5 footlong? I bet you make the girls swoon. Nothing makes a girl swoon like a footlong! ... of course, I wouldn't know... I'm white...

Dem Mothers' Group Slams McMahon Over Former Role as WWE CEO http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/15/mothers-group-slams-mcmahon-role-wwe-ceo/ Published July 15, 2010 Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon, who gained fame and fortune with her husband through their WWE empire and putting "the smackdown" on her opponents in the wrestling ring, now faces a Democratic group trying to put her on the ropes with an ad attacking the sport's sex and violence. The online ad by a group calling itself Mothers Opposing McMahon strings together a montage of clips showing female wrestlers being humiliated and objectified, including Linda McMahon slapping her daughter in the ring. The ad was paid for by a Connecticut Democratic political action group. McMahon stepped down as the WWE's chief executive to launch her bid for Senate. The ad comes as McMahon continues to trail in polls by double digits the Democratic candidate, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, despite her cash advantage and the scandal over his misstatements on his service in Vietnam. "WWE CEO Linda McMahon has vowed to spend $50 million to buy a U.S. Senate seat," the ad says in the opening. "Do you know how she made her millions?" The first scene shows her husband, Vince McMahon, in 2001 forcing a female wrestler Trish Stratus to get on her knees and bark like a dog. Then he makes her strip. Another scene from 2002 shows a female wrestler being dragged by her hair in the ring and lifted above the shoulders of a male counterpart flirting with tossing her out of the ring. "Humiliating, degrading, and incredibly violent treatment of women and Linda McMahon marketed it to children," the ad says, showing clips of children cheering the wrestling. "A vote for Linda McMahon is a slap in the face to Connecticut women," the ad said. On its Facebook page, Mothers Opposing McMahon described itself as a group of concerned mothers and others joining forces to "give light to the graphic, steroid-fueled violence and sexually explicit WWE content marketed to kids under Linda McMahon's watch at WWE CEO." "While McMahon profited, kids learned that it was okay to mistreat women that violence is acceptable behavior," the group said. Five women with the group held a news conference this week to announce their intention to derail McMahon's candidacy because of her former role in the wresting world. But the McMahon campaign dismissed the group as a bunch of "Democratic operatives." "I don't think anybody considers it particularly newsworthy that a handful of Democratic operatives and activists held a press conference to announce they were not supporting the Republican candidate," McMahon campaign spokesman Shawn McCoy said in an e-mail to FoxNews.com. "The press conference was organized and paid for, after all, by the state Democratic Party."

Wait for the group that left AFTER you to pull!!!!??? I hope you just made an honest mistake there Spence??? If not, I think your advice there is really really bad! Think about it... if you jump out, I wait 15 seconds and then leave, I make no effort to get down to your level, you just watch me, above you, waiting for me to pull, I pull between 2500 and 3000 and saddle out a bit above 2000... you've been in freefall 15 seconds longer than me... do the math, you've bounced if you wait to see the group that left AFTER you pull.

Yeah, but you're not supposed to die either!

Not sure where it is you skydive, but unless you're landing on grass 99% of the time... or... in otherwords... if you're landing on dirt (i.e. a desert enviroment) anywhere from some of the time to a lot of the time, sooner or later, you won't have a white canopy with red ribs... you'll have a tan canopy with red rigs... ... just something to think about... do as you wish...

Q: What's happening at Elsinore? A: From some recent photos posted on their website, looks like they're doing some new landscaping.

Test to mama: Does corkin' out in the middle of a FF jump count as belly flying?

Don't think they're Lisa H's, unless she got them pierced since last flashing them at Cal City.