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Ummm, I can send you my address... Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Hey, does anyone know how heavy to make a spaceball? I am assuming they can be made with lead but how heavy to make them, anyone, anyone??? Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Inquiring minds want to know... Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Sean, I think I understand what you are saying. If there was no air resistance (i.e. you were in a vacuum) two objects with different weights and or shape would hit the ground at exactly the same time because gravity is acting on them equally, pulling them both toward the earth at -9.8 m/s^2. However, when you factor in the air resistance which is the result of molecular air collisions on a moving object (in this case the leading surface of a skydiver's body) a change in weight, speed and/or surface area will affect the time it takes for a jumper to reach his/her terminal velocity. These factors are also how we modify our fall rate. Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Just to add to what Billvon said, there is also another formula for the amount of drag (resistant) force exerted on a skydiver’s body. R= ½ (D)(p)(A)(v^2). Where R is the drag (Resistant) force, D is the drag coefficient, p "rho" is the density of the medium (air), A is the cross-sectional area of the falling object and v is the velocity of the object. If velocity or cross-sectional area is increased, the drag force will also increase. When the drag force acting on a skydiver equals the force of gravity, the skydiver has a net force of 0 Newtons and has reached terminal (max) velocity for his/her body position. Also as you go higher in altitude the air gets "thinner" and its density decreases. Therefore, the resistance due to the air (drag) decreases also. This would be relevant if you were traveling say to the Rockies to skydive or any place with much higher elevations. Since the air resistance is less at higher altitudes, your descent rate under canopy and loss of altitude while doing 360s would increase. Hope that helps There is a lot more to know and understand about physics and skydiving. In fact I am writing a term paper this semester which I will put on DZ.com since I promised a few people I would let them read it. They gave me some pretty good resources. Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Congrats on your 100th jump!!! Now where are the pictures??? Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Eating dinner for lunch which is grilled chicken with rice and a diet pepsi and doing the SlimFast shake for dinner. (chocolate/banana) Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

High: Getting to spend a very fun weekend with special friends and skydiving with great weather when it was supposed to rain

My current guilty pleasure weaknesses are those Circus Cookies (pink and white with the hard sprinkles), Girl Scout frozen Thin Mint cookies and I have to agree with Skymama ... DZ.com is definitely up there Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

81 jumps so far this year. Dang it Chop Chop you are going to catch up to me. Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

My favorite animal is the Orca (killer whale). Top of the food chain baby. One of these days I am going to get to swim with them and maybe even train them ... On my big list of things to do while on this planet. But I also love the dogs, cats, birds and fish ... especially the salt walter ones. Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Hmmm, lets see ... Saturday was 3 videos and 1 FJC, Sunday was 1 video and 3 AFFs. One evening full of bar carnage and a couple more spent with great friends, good times, some definite adventure and big laughs. It was ALL GOOD Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

I vote for the Hera Dura (spelling?) Of all the tequilas I have tasted, that one has to by my favorita. I will try and find a bottle to bring down. This is gonna be interesting... Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Hell Yeah SkyBytch, Chop Chop and I are coming down and now we have even more reason to party!!! I am totally looking forward to meeting you and getting you shitfaced. I'll drink to that!! Good times ahead Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Go to: http://wannaplaygames.com/skyball/ Can anyone tell me how to make this a clicky?? Its kind of cool... Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Oh my goodness Roy You are out of control friend Skymama look out Perris next weekend Cinco de Mayo Boogie Jumping my ass off This weekend I hope The weather gets sunnier I need to fun jump Hope this weekend rocks Blue skies to Everybody Safe landings to all Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Apparently, even though I am a woman, I am capable of having good times with the monkey. In fact they even played the song GOOD TIMES for me in my honor. Hmmm. I spanked the monkey with a score of 313. What kind of alleged talent that gives me, I have no idea. How some of you got into the 900s I don't know and I don't think I want to. Blue skies, Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Okay I feel like a moron. I tried to unzip the pictures but don't know how. Damn it they were funny as hell! Don't know if I have the time now unless anyone can send me a quick message how to unzip a zip file. I looked under everything I could find and couldn't figure it out. It wasn't like there was an "unzip" option. Sorry Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Okay I tried to uplaod these pictures but they didn't upload. It was in a zip file, anyone know why they didn't work? Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Brace yourself for these ones... Standby for the pictures, experiencing technical difficulties. Okay, the pictures are up for your "hot" viewing pleasure, see Riddler's post below. Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

"Searge ... when a compass point Norf, how do it know?" Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

They are probably worried about your commitment to the job due to absentee-ism based on the weather conditions, i.e. 85 degree weather, blue skies no clouds ... Sorry boss, I am feeling REALLY sick today and can't come in. (The DZ is screaming my name!!!) Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Speak for yourself. I can "B" humble ... I think there4 I must be??? This is funny cause I was thinking about starting a "pet peeve" thread to find out the things that annoy others. I woke up and here it is. One of my biggest pet peeves is SLOW/BAD drivers, real slow drivers ... Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

MissKriss rocks, That just goes to show the love on Dz.Com. When in need of something as simple as even a watermelon question, just ask your fellow Dz.commers and they will have or find the answer! I love this place. Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

Wow, nice job Tony. The pictures are beautiful and the formations looked nice too. Great multi airplane shots! If I was a guy, I would have wood right now... Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires." Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."