Calvin19

I hope he is not your urologist. No, he is not my urologist. But my actual urologist that cut on me was fairly confident that after cut, burn, and tying the vas that it would not spontaneously untie, de-cauterize, and re-connect.

Seriously? You didn't go back for the sperm check before playing, Maestro? I did not. Besides, it takes a month for the swimmers to die off. And, I still have not had a check. Still with the same girl 6 years later and she still has not caught that seriously terrible preggers disease. My thoughts on the subject of "the check up" should not be taken as advice, BUT I have a friend who is a urologist, and he tells me that the plumbing is like, well, plumbing. If the water line is not hooked up, you are not going to get any water. Yea well let me tell you this, you are lucky. A friend of mine got snipped, ignored the follow up and a few months later his wife was preg with TWINS!!! They already had 4 kids, they did not want anymore. Sometimes shit doesn't work out right I have heard a few stories like that. And my friends in the medical field, after telling them about hearing stories like that, don't really believe them. My urologist told me to come back in a month, and then at six months for a check up, but that those were a "required" part of the procedure. He also told me none of his had ever "failed".

Seriously? You didn't go back for the sperm check before playing, Maestro? I did not. Besides, it takes a month for the swimmers to die off. And, I still have not had a check. Still with the same girl 6 years later and she still has not caught that seriously terrible preggers disease. My thoughts on the subject of "the check up" should not be taken as advice, BUT I have a friend who is a urologist, and he tells me that the plumbing is like, well, plumbing. If the water line is not hooked up, you are not going to get any water.

heavily modified quicksilver sport. what mods? power plant? I'm putting unicorn stickers on it.

I was 20. BEST DECISION I EVER MADE. I went in at 8am, got numbed, sat for 20, doc cut me open, snip, tie, burn, sew. cut the other open, snip, tie burn, sew. Gave me a script for some good drugs and I was out by 8:45. I sat on the couch the rest of the day and was in the sac with my girl the next evening. NBD. GET IT DONE. PS- It always is funny when friends don't believe you and you have to show them your scar. (a tiny

Thus, the reason for the exception: PS-5' huh? That's my approach altitude.

heavily modified quicksilver sport.

I'm just gonna shoot stuff with it.

This does not make me invincible. It just means it will take more than simple gravity to kill me. (A minor ballistics error could still end me pretty effectively)

But, to give such things consideration would be like giving consideration to flat earth theories in the realm of astrophysics. The majority of the educated world is past that so the collective mind can focus on things to benefit the future, not dwell on fashionable political propaganda.

THERE IT IS AGAIN!

I fly paragliders and speed wings VERY close to the ground on a regular basis. and it is absolutely the most dangerous place for 'turbulence', as well as the least predictable. Usually, and I'm not pointing fingers here because the OP seems to know his shit, but usually the skydiver-turned-speed glider pilot is 99-100% ignorant of micrometeorology as it pertains to flying foot launched gliders off mountains and hills. 2 years ago there was huge surge of skydivers buying speed wings and breaking their ankle on the same hill. It was a monthly occurrence. Awesome used speed glider deals everywhere. It was all because kids would get to the hill and say "huh, looks fine" and would go fly. little did they know it was honking over the back (guilty of this myself back in the day) or the thermals are so sharp and nasty even the expert PG pilots are taking a break. (Even speed gliders need to be 'actively flown' in "turbulence", which is not turbulence at all to the paraglider pilot. Just "active air" that can be used to get high). I for one have 700+ ground launched small canopy flights, half of those more than 2000', I have flown anything from a JVX to a BASE canopy to a skate8 to a little cloud 16, and I have never had a collapse on any of those when foot launching. SO, what I am saying is, if you do not know how to predict the air conditions, if you do not know how to PREDICT THE TURBULENCE and deal with it, you should probably not be flying that day.

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110227-33375.html http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110227-33375.html As a commercial pilot and amateur LASER "research specialist" I can 'kinda' put myself in their place and see why some idiot teenager would point one at a plane. It does seem like just a flashlight, kinda. There is a huge distance between the lase'r' and the aircraft getting lased, it's like a video game. a very disassociate game. They don't even know the danger they could be putting pilots in. I, for one, would NEVER. EVER. shine a laser at a vehicle, especially an airplane. Mostly because it is a HUGE danger to the pilot's health and the safety of the passengers of the airplane. Second because if the pilots DO get lased, (and are not blinded*) they have a gorram 20,000$ moving map at their fingertips, and it is very easy for them to transfer the EXACT location of the laser origin to ATC and thus authorities. *though it is possible, most lasers used to do this are owned by idiots that are ignorant of the cause and effect. Further, most of them are green lasers that cost 20$ and are 1000m where most of these incidents happen. BUT there is still a blinding effect at that point, making it a danger to the immediate safety of the aircraft. -SPACE-

Have you looked up the word 'turbulence' lately? tur·bu·lence   /ˈtɜrbyələns/ Show Spelled[tur-byuh-luhns] Show IPA noun 1. the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion. 2. Hydraulics . the haphazard secondary motion caused by eddies within a moving fluid. 3. Meteorology . irregular motion of the atmosphere, as that indicated by gusts and lulls in the wind. I added the bold to highlight my point. None of those words contributes to anyone 'knowing' what turbulence is doing. Don't fool yourself into thinking that you do. While I appreciate the lesson in vocabulary, and in some ways I agree, I personally use the predictable forms of turbulence A LOT. I soar sailplanes and my airplane in the wave, I use convective turbulence to thermal my paragliders, I use mechanical turbulence to soar my speed gliders. When close formation flying I use "wake turbulence" to my advantage and know where it will be and what it does to my airplane. Of course, heir on the side of caution. At my landing strip I know where the rollers are off the hangars and trees, I know where there is valley flow, I know where there will be drainage. The trick is to fly so that you have an out either way, if the 'turbulence' is there or not. You could argue that those are not 'turbulence' but predictable forms of airmass movement or "sink"and "lift" but in aviation it seems to me the two can be fairly easily interchanged, just need to adapt the vehicle and flying style. -SPACE-

HEY!!! this is a 9/11 conspiracy thread!?!? Sweet! They were holograms over cruise missiles how else can you explain the barium in the rubble. all you all are sheeple.

Of course. This article is nothing new. Just a replogger that needed to fill a page.

I would think that would pretty easy, I think the problem at that distance would be spotting a target to lase at.

or that... but what kind of wind was there?

Is this from the wake of another canopy a few seconds ahead of the pilot in this photo? a wake is really the only thing that could cause that kind of turbulence that low to the ground.

Agreed

I was told by a few LASER experts that wicked lasers are hit and miss, and that a lot of the time the power that actually comes from their LASERs is far less than advertised, thus the cheap prices. Also, my main goal is visibility. A 532nm (green) light is 4x+ more "visible" than a blue/violet light of the same power. So, if I were to buy a 400mw 532nm laser it would give me just as many warm fuzzies.

How did you get that scar? "compound fracture, paragliding crash" and this one? "LASER fight"

Well, YEAH! Goggles are all I care about with lasers. Brain, spine, and eyes. Almost everything else is for sale.

Nothing more than playing. Some people have a Glock, I have a LASER. (and before any of you rednecks get a woody, the manual has several warnings that read "this LASER device is FAR too powerful to be used as a gunsight. Always wear protective goggles and proper clothing. Do no use within 200m of unprotected personnel and nowhere where the beam or beam reflection can inadvertently come into contact with a person or animals unprotected eye at ANY range")