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Ah, yes. Herman Gulch. I redesigned that trailhead a few years back

I am still good friends with all of my ex's. My GF is secure in our relationship and (to my knowledge) doesn't have a problem with it. In fact, my GF spent the day hiking with one of my ex's yesterday..(nothing good can EVER come of that)

Or the one before that...

With a background that dark and messy, the text is almost impossible to read. Use brighter text or lose up the background.

I dont know about Oahu and Kauai, but if you make your way out to the Big Island, dont miss the night diving with the Manta Rays....definatly one of the coolest dives I have ever been on!

OH HELL NO! There was a video posted not long ago of someone being shot into the air on a slingshot with a BASE rig on. I searched, but I think it is in the period of time that the posts aren't indexed for searching right now. Maybe someone can find it...

The B-17 “Aluminum Overcast.” was flying around Denver this morning. I was landing at centennial and the tower advised "You are cleared to land runway 17 Right, traffic is a B-17 on final." Never heard that before... Edit to add this link:http://www.b17.org/

Hmm..I drive 4 hours to go play in Southeast Utah about 10 times per year. It's one of my favorite places on earth. My worst is Kansas (even though I was born there) . The drive across Kansas and Eastern Colorado on I-70 is about one of the most excruciatingly painful experiences that can be inflicted on someone. Once you leave Denver and the mountains fade away in the rear view mirror...the scene does not change for the next 600 miles. If you are lucky you will fall asleep at the wheel and wake up 6 hours later...no need to worry about the car, the road is perfectly straight, and if you run off it the worst you will do is knock over some wheat. I have driven I-80 through Nebraska, and Kansas is far worse...

Been to most of 'em. States I haven't been to: Rhode Island Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota Alaska

45-55 hours per week - Civil Engineer at a small firm. 90 hours per week is outrageous. Sure you might make a lot of money, but why bother? When are you going to spend it?

Well, I live in Colorado...and I could tell you all about it and how great it is. But of course, having lived here you already know that and it would probably make you sad you wern't here now

9.59x10^-9 is right. I'm not sure where my other answer came from.

So that we have a hand free for talking on cell phones, putting on makeup, eating fast food, and obscene gestures!

Very cool. I'm sure she'll be thrilled!

It's as big a deal as people choose to make it. It's really just any other day as far as the world goes. The sun came up this morning. I'm pretty sure it's also going to set tonight. But if some kid decides that 6-6-6 would be a good day to go shoot up his school, then it's not such a normal day for those involved.

You expect us to do your homework for you?? Oh well. The answers are 8.16ms, 3.07x10^4 N, and 1.3x10^-9 N. Now ya just gotta figure out where those came from.

FYI, the Denver Real World is filming right now. They are living in LoDo in the old B-52's Building.

To tell the truth, you will never see a more nervous load of jumpers then when the winds kick up on the climb to altitude and they have to land with the plane....what does that tell you about the "perfectly good airplane" theory??

My favorite was the use of two lines and the confrence function. I would dial two numbers (preferably of people who knew each other) and connect them both as they both started ringing. Ideally they would both pick up at the same time. The results were great it usually went something like this: Person 1: Hello? Person 2: Hello? Person 1: Hello? Person 2: Hey (Long Pause) Person 1: Whats up? Person 2: Nothing, you? Person 1: Nothing... (Long Pause) Person 1: Did you have a question or something? Person 2: No, Why? Person 1: Well, what did you call for? Person 2: You called me Person 1: No I didnt, you called me Person 2: My phone rang Person 1: No mine did.... ...and it would go from there...sometimes it would become an arguement, sometimes two very confused people would just hang up, but it was always amusing to listen in on.

My sister had a roommate in college who got drunk and decided to cook some macaroni and cheese. He started the water boiling and proceeded to pass out on the couch. Multiple hours later, when the rest of the house got up, the water had long since evaporated out of the pot and the pot itself had melted into the stove and was glowing bright orange.

QuoteIn high school, thanks to a job I had, I had a key that opened almost every padlock (master lock brand) in the campus - it had to be a real high security lock not to be on the master padlock key.... So, I simply unlocked the irrigation system timer and programmed the system to water during every passing period, and readjusted the sprinklers to water the sidewalks... Quote I went to the same high school you did.... I seem to remember walking between East and West one afternoon my freshman year and getting soaked so you're the one...

If you want to argue statisitcs, you can use them to say almost anything you want by varying your sets. The way I have always looked at it is like this: There are Roughly 30 fatilities per year in over 3 million jumps: this equates to about 1 fatality in every 100,000 skydives. The fatal accident rate for passenger vehicles is about 1.5 in every 100 million vehicle miles. This is about 1 fatlity every 65 million vehicle miles. The fatality rate for motorcycles is 38 per 100 million miles traveled, or about 1 fatlity every 2.6 million motorcycle miles. This roughly works out to each skydive being about the same risk as driving a car 650 miles, or a motorcycle 26 miles. So I want to prove making a skydive is safe? Easy. How many miles do you drive a year? I bet it's more then 650. Therefore skydiving is safer then driving. I want to prove skydiving is dangerous? OK. An average jumper might make 150 skydives in a year. Now you have to drive almost 100,000 miles a year to equal the risk of skydiving. If I want to go out drinking and drive now my driving risk just went back up. But if I want to swoop a highly loaded eliptical my skydiving risk just went up. The basic fact is that a single skydive can be made with a reasonable level of safety. Start multiplying that by hundreds and thousands of skydives and that safety factor starts to go away... But you can always manipulate the statistics in your favor by making intellegent decisions. If I choose to wear a seat belt and drive conservatively, my chances of getting killed in a car wreck go down dramatically. If I choose to make good decisions about the kind of canopy I fly and the kind of jumps I go on, I can make the risk of skydiving go down considerably too. There is always that nagging factor though...you know, that "you can do everything right and still die" factor. It is ever present in life. It's the Shit happens factor. You can be the safest driver in the world, but that won't help you when a truck drives off an overpass onto your car. You can be sitting on the couch in your house watching TV and a meteor crashes through your roof and kills you. Or you could be the unlucky one who goes in under a double mal...but it's not very likely.

That's a heck of a mapping error! The "real" Colorado River is over 1000 miles from the Texas Colorado!

It is on land owned by the Hualapai Tribe. The tribe owns all of the land on that side of the river in fact. If you could talk the Hualapai into it, you could jump it without setting foot on NPS land. Knowing the Hualapai, you could probably talk them into it if you were willing to pay the price. This is the same tribe that runs the very expensive Diamond Creek takeout for Grand Canyon whitewater rafting trips. It's literally the only takeout on the river for hundreds of miles, but it costs something like $100 per head to pull a trip of 16 people out there... In truth, The tribe really doesn't have a whole lot of money, but hopefully with the new Grand Canyon West development (which includes the skywalk) they will start making some additional money so they can stop hitting the boaters for the fees. Then again, it looks like they are putting quite a bit of capital into the development, so it may be awhile before they start seeing any kind of profit.

I was about to argue with you, matter of factly stating that the Colorado river does not flow through Texas... But I decided to look it up and determined that Texas has it's own Colorado River, seprate from the "other" Colorado river I am familiar with. Looks like a fun trip, I'll have to keep that area in mind if I ever find myself in that part of the world.