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Where were you thinking of jumping? Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

yes. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

I'm going to be the first BASEM jumper. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

The best thing we can do is to ignore it and stop talking about them. That's all they want, and we're just feeding into it. It's just another retarded Bonfire popularity contest. Ooh ooh, i want a number so i feel special! lame. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

That's ten jumps, smartass. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Yes, the jumps will be split evenly among all anti-goggle activists. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

It's been my theory for some time that the goggles have mystical powers. I think they're trying to take over the world, and apparently several of our dear friends have come under their nefarious influence. The only solution, as I see it, is to put each and every goggle victim through a rigorous de-gogglification program. This program consists of negative financial reinforcement: for every post on DZ.com in which the poster is wearing goggles in their avatar, they must buy me ten jumps. Positive reinforcement is provided by the liberal application of alcoholic beverages for any goggle victim who successfully removes the goggles from their avatar. It's the only way, people. Who's with me? Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Awesome. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

All those stats indicate is that sex offenders don't get caught and convicted as much. They might be still doing it. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Yeah, just look at Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. He ended up trying to insult everyone in the universe in alphabetical order. Immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

You twisted my arm. I'll come check out the fancy new plane if you insist. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Define "sick". Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

yup. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

and they support skydivers too... yes they do....cause the owner is a skydiver here at my dz......he fully sponcers 2 teams, partly sponcers many more.....and is building the wind tunnel here I bought my rig from their webmaster.... Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

And "The Parachute and its Pilot" by Brian Germain. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

One more time, in English. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Hell yeah, cross countries are the best! Sitting in brakes at 10k on the last load of the day... looking out over the world... man, there are few things in life better than that. You need to finish your student program so you can do this stuff, dude. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Vanilla butter sounds good. I want some on my pancakes. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

HerMeShe. Sort of the whole solidarity thing. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

She's looking for this. Or maybe not. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Get better soon, Miranda! You need to be healthy so you can teach me how to do this skydiving thing.

I'll buy a Q, please. It is TOO a vowel! Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

I don't think that's how metal detectors work. Without googling, i'm pretty sure that metal detectors are loops of wire that have an inductive current set up in them by the motion of magnetic objects near them. The detector is just an antenna to detect magnetic flux -- it doesn't actually emit anything. Now I'm going to google it and see if I'm right. edit: nope. Hand held metal detectors do produce their own magnetic fields. Interesting stuff. http://home.howstuffworks.com/metal-detector1.htm Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

Take your logbook to the dropzone, ask them. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams

It depends on the application. For instance, you don't want your hip to be weak, but you want the joint to have low friction. So you're going to use materials that have the right characteristics. There's also the issue of the bio-material interface. When you implant something, the body has a healing response that depends in large part on the material's electrochemical and surface properties. You don't want a lot of scar tissue around the implant, but at the same time you DO want the cellular/bone structure to form a tight seal around the implant and integrate it into the rest of the body (i.e. not reject the implant). There's a large amount of research on polymer coatings for bio-implantable devices with the goal of guiding the immune response to what is an extremely traumatic event for the body. Titanium is nice because it's strong, light, and relatively non-reactive. Note I'm not a doctor, just a materials scientist with an interest in the bio-material interface. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams