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I Heard the Shuttle's characteristic double sonic boom during the Thunderbirds performance at MacDill AFB Airfest. For a moment I thought one of the Tbirds went supersonic in the distance until I remembered that the Shuttle was scheduled to land about that time. A nice added treat to an already great airshow!

Oh, I wasn't considering whether such a situation would be survivable. I'm just saying that if the plane was going down and someone had a rig, he would probably have to fight someone (everyone?) over it. If one of the other passengers ends up with the parachute he/she probably wouldn't be educated enough to consider other hazards (exit speed, engines and other parts in the way, etc.) He's maybe thinking "I've got the chute. I live...everyone else dies."

I have to agree with grimmie. I think that most whuffos in that situation would think parachute=life and no parachute=no life........even if he didn't have any idea how to use it. Too many movies, cartoons, etc.

For anyone who'd like to hear some good acoustic picking & singing on youtube check out "fretkillr". I found him while searching for some old Paul Brady stuff (a lot of that on there, too!) Good stuff if you like that sort of thing.

I didn't know this practice irritated some people. I used to impress my kid when he was younger by magically commanding the doors to open. Now he realizes that I was just full of sh!t.

Lighten up! It's just the "Moonies".

Yeah! I'm sure the northwestern mountain folk won't be tipped off by his Brit accent. If he just doesn't say things like "anti-clockwise" or call a hotdog a "sausage" he'll blend in unnoticed.

Yeah! I'm sure the northwestern mountain folk won't be tipped off by his Brit accent. If he just doesn't say things like "anti-clockwise" or call a hotdog a "sausage" he'll blend in unnoticed.

Here's a warning sign from a park in BC, Canada. Found this somewhere on the interweb. I'm sure it's good advice in Yellowstone, too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianmlau/2756629523/ Be careful out there!

Incredible! I bet she can't do that now!........probably break a hip or something!

Just saw the weather forecast this evening. Looks like the highs for the next 7 days are going to swing between 80 and 82. The lows at night are about 60 and increasing to 65 by the weekend. White puffys all over the place. No precip. What is this "snow" you speak of. Sounds like fun!

How about that Mars Lander ? One little math error and it is Mar's flattest extraterrestrial object. Extramartial object "Frikkin' meters..." Agreed, but it's way better than BS or Whitworth.

I've heard it said that if you halve the distance between you and an object - and then do that repeatedly, you'll never reach it. Well, at least down to ~0.0000000000000000000000000000000000016 m. Then you either have to stop or go the rest of the way to the object.

You're mixing your apples and oranges scientifically. Weight is measure of mass in a gravitational field. Vacuum is the absence of atmosphere. People often confuse those points because they equate weightlessness with being in orbit around the Earth. According to your logic, the astronauts would have been weightless on the moon, not just much lighter. An object in an evacuated bell jar on Earth would drift around weightlessly, mindless of the gravity affecting every other object on the planet. As usual, Happythoughts logic was impeccable. A mass accelerated by a gravitational field (unimpeded by externally applied forces like air or a scale or thrusters, etc.) has no weight at all, hence the term "weightlessness". Weight appears only when the mass is not allowed to accelerate naturally in the field. Weight = mass of the object X acceleration of gravity and is related to F=ma. Weight is really a measure of the force applied by a massive object accelerating in one reference frame to another massive object accelerating in another frame. A ball can weigh 3 pounds when weighed on a scale resting on the surface of the earth.......or the earth can weigh 3 pounds on a scale resting on the surface of the ball. No difference. The same ball weighs approximately 1/2lb on the moon, in a vacuum. Yeah, and the moon only weighs ~1/2 pound from the ball's point of view. Vacuum is mostly irrelevant.

You're mixing your apples and oranges scientifically. Weight is measure of mass in a gravitational field. Vacuum is the absence of atmosphere. People often confuse those points because they equate weightlessness with being in orbit around the Earth. According to your logic, the astronauts would have been weightless on the moon, not just much lighter. An object in an evacuated bell jar on Earth would drift around weightlessly, mindless of the gravity affecting every other object on the planet. As usual, Happythoughts logic was impeccable. A mass accelerated by a gravitational field (unimpeded by externally applied forces like air or a scale or thrusters, etc.) has no weight at all, hence the term "weightlessness". Weight appears only when the mass is not allowed to accelerate naturally in the field. Weight = mass of the object X acceleration of gravity and is related to F=ma. Weight is really a measure of the force applied by a massive object accelerating in one reference frame to another massive object accelerating in another frame. A ball can weigh 3 pounds when weighed on a scale resting on the surface of the earth.......or the earth can weigh 3 pounds on a scale resting on the surface of the ball. No difference.

My high score so far.... "0". (3 tries).....although I think I did duplicate a couple of the more interesting dives I've been on.

Old-man Mendelssohn's baby boy.

What the heck was a dad-blame foreign baseball team doing in the World Series anyway!

Maybe it's not upside-down. Maybe they just put the pole on the wrong end.

If I used that rule I would have to date only old ladies.

Be very careful with Turbotax!! The Secretary of the Treasury used it and it (allegedly) caused a $34,000 error!!! It must be very difficult for us commoners to use.

Maybe he left the lights on so he could find the truck in the heavy snow after his work was done. ......Probably still looking for it.

I'm referring more to the selection of songs rather than degree of difficulty.

It appears that picking around the campfire has become MUCH more sophisticated than I remember.

Also, search Youtube for "Fretkillr" and for "Paul Brady"