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Yup. I often wonder why we use a hanging harness for practicing emergency procedures, when we could practice them in the air and die if we got them wrong. Exactly. I'm glad you understand. In many ways if not most, an arctic site would be a better testbed. I'm wondering about the support from the public aspect tho. Would it be greater if the pictures from the testbed site came from the Moon or from Antarctica? Or would it matter at all?
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It's better in that it has the possibility of capturing the public's imagination in a way that going to Antarctica will not. Aside from that, it's better than Antarctica in that if your shelter isn't airtight on the Moon, you die, just like on Mars.
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You don't launch from the Moon to go to Mars. You store stuff/whatever at Lagrange points and go from there. Why fight the gravity well twice? The Moon would be a test bed for the technologies to use on Mars.
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Rent a suit like this: http://www.suavecito.com/images/Suits/RedBlackGang.gif Rent a tommy gun from a costume shop. mabye get the suit there too. Put one of your members in it. Take a picture, then "cartoon it up" in photoshop, make the suit pink, etc.
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I believe the ACLU has adopted Rush.
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Perhaps I should have looked for a less "volatile" Amendment to use for my example.
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The ACLU defends the Bill of Rights in the way they interpret it. That may or may not be the way others interpret it. 2nd amendment being the prime example. "The ACLU therefore believes that the Second Amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns or other weapons nor does it prohibit reasonable regulation of gun ownership, such as licensing and registration." Whether or not you believe in "gun control" or not, the point is that the ACLU defends the BoR in the way they see fit. If I wanted to fight a court battle where I'm defending the "individual's right to keep and bear arms" argument, they would not help me.
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My wife and I both use helmets made by Boeri. They're ski/snowboarding helmets. I removed the goggle strap snap from the back of them to get rid of that snag hazard. There's room inside to put a dytter, although we haven't done so so far (just got my wife a used dytter yesterday.)
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On the flipside - if the product was built to standard WHEN IT WAS BUILT there shouldn't be a case. ie. the case recently in CA of the Ford Bronco that flipped, it met the standards of the day when it was built but not current ones.
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They had a blurb on this on the news a bit ago... interviewed the fire chief (I think) who responded. The newsie was joking with him a bit, and asked him, "Noone tried to play the machine while he was in there, right?" He responded, "We spent four bucks in quarters but couldn't get him out that way so we called a locksmith." (Or something to that effect.)
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Our DZO mentioned this, that it happened to someone famous (can't recall the name, someone here will tho) who had the gromet on the slider on his reserve come down and go over the riser of the cut-away main, which fell free and pulled the reserve slider back up, collapsing the reserve? Anyway, his point was that that particular situation was basically a freak thing and his opinion was to cut away first, no question.
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heh... nah, that was just a disclaimer required by the government. I just think this whole thread (and the comments on the other one too) were primarily a disagreement over the discussion and usage of the word "safe."
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Matter of definition, I think. Usage here of "safe" on Stephanie's part is "safe enough." Not "without any risk." She's obviously not trying to imply that skydiving is as safe as say lying in your bed with the covers over your head - which has its own risks, the ceiling could cave in, etc. She's saying that skydiving, the basic jump-out-of-airplane-land-without-deliberate-low-turns kind, is safe enough in her mind to accept the risk that comes with it. What's "unsafe" anyway? Risk and risk management isn't a black and white science. Pulling at 5,000 feet every time is safer than pulling at 3,000, you have more time to deal with any malfunctions. Swooping is less safe than a gradual "regular" landing. Skydiving is less safe than staying on the ground. I think unsafe pretty much has to be defined by the individual, and for the most part could be defined as "carries a risk that's beyond what I am willing to accept." I'm Stephanie's husband, by the way, just fair warning.
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Right, it won't. Paid = same as competition = not "just for fun."
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Yeah, I already had that discussion. If it's done for fun, it's covered. Competition isn't.
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I called my homeowner's insurance and told them I was having a discussion with some friends about personal liability and our sue-happy society. He laughed.
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Vegetables are what food eats.
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I know you can buy a chinstrap for the Air to replace the neckstrap.
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The model both my wife and I have is the Myto Air. I think they're not making that specific one anymore, they've replaced it with one called the Myto Switch. It's a hard shell helmet. They have several models tho - some cover the ears, some don't. http://www.boeriusa.com/
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I bought a Boeri snowboarding helmet. They come in sizes up to 3XL, mine is a 2XL. I'm very happy with it. The XL Protec didn't fit me either.
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Have kids.
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Anyone have a picture of a Wings container done with the yin-yang color option?
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You think it's loud enough to hear if it were in a thigh pocket, in freefall?
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Which one is louder? the skytronic FX or the pro-track?
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Hm. so it sounds like the protrack is a better way to go, then. Looks like the protrack runs about $65 more, give or take?