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I finally got around to playing with this program. VERY COOL Outside of the large download, this program is very processer and memory intensive. I have a very fast processer and a gig of memory and it still uses most of my system resources and internet bandwith. I have attached some screenshots. Fist picture is looking at Boulder, CO from the East. Second picture is the Colorado River in Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands NP, Utah Third picture is Moab, Utah from the North. Note Canyonlands Field (Skydive Moab) on the Lower Right edge of the picture. Compare to this picture that I took at the Moab Boogie last month. Fourth Picture is Moab from the West Fifth Picture is the Grand Canyon.
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0:0:0 Bad weather for jumping all weekend. I finally packed a main though, then pulled it out, then packed it again. Now I just need to pack one and jump out of the plane with it. Didn't even get to ski because I was very sick at the end of last week and spent the weekend recovering. If it ever doesn't snow on a weekend here, maybe I'll get to jump again someday... (Of course this is Colorado in the winter, so I shouldn't be complaining about snow )
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Um...A little late in the year for whitewater rafting...unless you want go go in the spring. High Ropes Courses are always fun for everyone. I used to be a facilitator at one of them and usually almost everyone involved had a great time!
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magic
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Paintball. Nothing like getting to gun down your boss
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ya, I'm bored too I was just thinking how happy I am to live 5 minutes from work. It's sooo nice. I have to leave the house 5 minutes before I show up every morning. I can ride my bike in about 10. I just went home for lunch, made a sandwich and relaxed for the hour. It's so nice to come back to work all refreshed. It always makes the last 3-4 hours of the day fly by! I know someday I'm going to have a job with a long commute, but for now I am really enjoying this.
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Man, I remember getting in big trouble for that one a few times growing up.
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If the cruise uses the brake pedal switch to sense whether the brake is being pressed(I assume it does), crossing wires with anything in the headlight system would cause the car to 'think' the brake is being depressed anytime the headlights are on. Hence, the lack of cruise control and the brake lights. If the running lights are in the same socket as the brake lights, installing the wrong bulb could easily cause this short.
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Actually, I would bet that's what it is. I that happen to me before: the salt and corrosion in the back of the car wore some of the insulation from one of my marker lights where the wire croses with the back of the brake lights with very similar results. Also I had a short in the tailgate which prevented me from turning my car off (same vehicle as above). The only way I could turn the car off was by disconnecting the wire to the distributor cap. It was causing weird lights to go on and made a weird dinging noise whenever the short was made. It took me several weeks to track it down. I finally figured out it was in the tailgate when I noticed that when I opened / closed it, the short would usually happen.
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I'll second that. I had a bunch of friends that live there and everytime I visit, I feel like I am stuck in some kind of nightmare living out the suburbia "american dream."
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::1 No jumps, but I made a wasted drive on Sunday all the way to the DZ just to get manifested and geared up and have the plane grounded for maintenance. My FIRST ski day of the year on Saturday
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As with many stories spread on the internet, this is not the real story behind these pictures. This bear was simply a bear killed by hunters in alaska 3 years ago: Clicky It's still a frickin huge bear!!
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Skydiving as part of a research project for a class?? Man, you kids in Fort Leisure have it way too easy.[/Jealous]
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I gotta agree with the Chai
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I'm just a newbie, but when I saw this thread title I was thinking: Light Speed Ridiculous Speed Ludicrous Speed
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Okay, yes I am bored right now but I thought I'd do up a quick graphic. This shows a skydiver at 10,000 feet and at 1,500 feet Three seconds later in both cases he is 500 feet lower. There are two points on the ground 500 feet apart. The points could be anything: the edges of two buildings, the sides of a field, two cars, etc. I have shown the visual angle between the two points in all cases. In the first example, the points remain at relatively the same angle apart, "moving" at only about 0.025 degrees per second. In the second example, the points are moving apart relatively quickly at 1.5 degrees per second. So, when you look at a 500-foot long object on the ground from terminal velocity at 1500 feet versus 10,000 feet, it will appear to be getting bigger at 60 times the rate. (Can you tell I used to tutor physics?)
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Suffice to say I had a great halloween! It involved 25 drunken rafters and kayakers in full costume out in Utah on the river. We even had good weather whilst Denver was getting snow!
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Hey Dont Even Joke about that...
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Yeah, It's called paralax. When you are far away from an object (the ground) the angle between points is fairly constant as you move. The closer you get to an object, the angles change faster as you move. Think of driving between two telephone poles in the distance. At a mile they will appear to be in about the same location and angle relative to each other. As you get closer they will quickly change angles and eventually be at 180 degrees to each other as you pass them. The same thing happens with ground rush.
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I once went whitewater rafting down a class IV river in February into a frozen waterfall then went ice climbing. Later that evening we went skiing. Full Moon backcountry night skiing. Climbed the third flatiron in Boulder, CO under the full moon. Full Moon night whitewater rafting...I flipped my raft in the middle of a class IV rapid at 1 in the morning last summer. Tried to climb a 22,000 foot high mountain in Peru, but had to come down in the middle of the night because my friend got HAPE. Rappeled into a pit in a cave that I couldn't see the bottom of. I had no idea if my rope would reach or not. (It barely did) Eaten fresh rattlesnake. Rowed a raft 225 miles and 18 days through the Grand Canyon.
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Damn, I've got a T-1 and I'm only getting 86k with half an hour left Oh well, looks worth the wait.
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I so rarely climb inside anymore that I dont bother having a second pair for inside shoes. (But as luck would have it I am going climbing inside after work tonight) I have gone through three pair of the same shoes since I started climbing (mythos) and I still havent found any that I like better.
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Yes, And in the worst place imaginable. I was hours away from anything out in the middle of the desert in Utah. I dont know what I was doing locking my car out in the middle of nowhere, but I managed to lock my keys in. My truck is near impossible to break into as well. Besides, where are you going to find a coat hanger in the middle of the desert? Luckilly my truck, being fairly new at the time was covered under Ford's roadside assistance and I managed to find a place with a cell phone signal and call for help. Help arrived the following morning, which wasnt a big deal since I was camping there that night and all of my sleeping bag and stuff was in the bed of the truck. If it happened now (no AAA or roadside assistance) I would just break a window...I'm sure that would be cheaper than calling a tow truck from 2 hours away.
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I couldnt find a map online, but here is a picture of the building you are looking for.
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"I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration? Oh, you were finished? Well allow me to retort...".