FreeflyChile

Yeah, I was thinking about that as well.... and given the condition of some of the jump planes that I've jumped from, I don't know how egregious some of these things are. I just found it interesting and, given how many people with a lot of knowledge about airplanes and airlines post, I thought I'd throw it out there for discussion.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/06/southwest.planes/index.html From now on, if I fly SW, i'm bringing my rig.

No, it won't dock because European plugs are different!!!

bad wording on my part....

Right, I read that in the source that was provided, but I was going on the 6-8 inches from the previous years. Also, as stated in the article, the temperature would have to REALLY increase to melt ALL of it, so I don't see it as a source of concern...moreso what could happen if GW was true w/respect to Greenland.

So assuming that the 6-8 inch rise is true, how much of it was caused by people? How does it compare to previous 100-year periods? I can't imagine that the amount of greenhouse gasses in 1908 affected very much.

I once heard that if all the ice in the northern areas and antarctica melted, it wouldn't raise the sea level more than a few feet...don't remember where i heard it so I dont' have a source, but I was wondering if you had a source for your '75ft' assertion because i honestly don't know.

Biblical as in we can't ascertain with any real degree of specificity as to what actually happened? So is this biblical? http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3144840;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread

I'm curious to see if in the relatively distant future (be it 100 years/500 years/whatever), this argument will be seen as asinine because it will be obvious in a polar cap-less world that it existed or asinine in the same way that we consider the 'world is flat' argument from hundreds of years ago to be asinine.

I don't think it's immoral for people to cross-over to try and 'sabotage' the other side.... it's a person's right to vote for whomever they want for whatever reason they want. The purpose of voting, generally, is to try to get the person you feel is best qualified for the position into the position. However you accomplish that is up to you.

Snipers in auctions??? Man, those M'f'n campers are EVERYWHERE....

Well then there are quite a few people with hundreds or thousands of jumps who you must not consider to be skydivers. OK, how about this? If you've been in it long enough that you try to AVOID the topic with your non-skydiving friends instead of bringing it up (like every single one of us used to). It's just your sport, and it's annoying when they try to play it up or down as anything else. I like that one too. this is a great definition

Me neither. which is why you people better be spending it on strippers/hookers. Law school loans. WAYYYYY more obscene.

You're toeing the line of Speaker's Corner material here...careful!

You're off topic! The topic is not whether the OP makes a good point, but to be informed about the rules by shopshire, shopshire.

That's "awesome", I like how they "make fun".

By the 'consumers'. of course you mean the people that have Blu-ray players (still mostly early adopters and PS3 owners), not the populous as a whole, right? I mean, I think the format was superior and did not buy an HD-DVD player because I thought that Blu-ray would win. The only reason I have a BD player is because it comes with the PS3. The biggest reason I thought that Blu-ray would win (in the beginning of this) was *because* of it's inclusion in the PS3. If the PS3 came with HD-DVD, do you think that we'd be talking about HD-DVD as the winner?

That movie is spectacular.

Moses: Oh no! They have set us up the bomb! God: All your base are belong to us.

As a Bears fan: GOOD RIDDANCE!

That's what I've always suspected. (If it happened at all.) My "History of AntiSemitism" professor first pointed out me that Moses ate a mushroom. So Moses was one of the Mario bros?

From what I understand, she's also in a number of french movies where she gets completely naked.

I agree with your statement 100% I will only add that - say - after completing a tandem and showing a considerable level of interest, and than in 1 way or other pursuing the sport - that person at least should not be considered a whuffo. (I'm not talking about myself ) I think if you only made 1 tandem, and loved it to where you knew you were coming back to continue to skydive - meaning going through the student progression, getting licensed, etc - you're a skydiver. If you did a tandem, loved it, but that was it, I don't think you are. My girlfriend did a tandem a couple years ago, and wants to do another, and probably will periodically do them, but I don't think she'd consider herself a skydiver. Also, maybe it's just me, but it seems like this type of conversation/concern is usually brought up by someone relatively new to the sport...I know it was important to me when I first started because as a group we like to do something that is really different from anything else you can do in life and really special in many ways, so you want to set this love aside from what other 'normal' people do. After a while, it doesn't really matter to me that much anymore. I skydive, others don't. That's fine.

I could see Kareem Abdul Jabbar saying that line in "Airplane!"... and THEN the stewardess tells everyone to assume crash positions! And the boobs randomly bounce across the screen...

So true. I cannot *wait* til the season starts.... i am absolutely chompin at the bit to fly...