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Amazing story! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

sorry wonder if there any incidents directly attributed to thread drift? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

But all other factors aren't constant. Kallend, who I understand is a physics prof, in this thread http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1668217;search_string=density%20altitude;#1668217 says that your speed increases about 2% for every extra 1000' of altitude. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

are those military uniforms? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

(X) Smoked a cigarette (X) Drank so much you threw up ( ) Crashed a friend's car ( ) Stolen a car (X) Been in love (X) Been dumped ( ) Shoplifted ( ) Been laid off/fired (X) Quit your job ( ) Been in a fist fight (X) Had another person's blood on you (X) Snuck out of your parent's house (X) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back ( ) Been arrested ( ) Gone on a blind date (X) Lied to a friend (X) Skipped school ( ) Seen someone die ( ) Been to Canada ( ) Been to Mexico (pretty US centric questions?) (X) Been on a plane (X) Been lost (X) Been on the opposite side of the country (mine & both sides of the US) (X ) Gone to Washington, DC (X) Swam in the ocean (X) Felt like dying (X) Cried yourself to sleep (X) Played cops and robbers (X) Recently colored with crayons (with my daughter) ( ) Sang karaoke ( ) Paid for a meal with only coins (X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't (X) Made prank phone calls... (X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose ( ) Caught a snowflake on your tongue (X) Danced in the rain ( ) Written a letter to Santa Claus ( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe (X) Watched the sun rise with someone you care about (X) Blown bubbles (X) Made a bonfire on the beach (X) Crashed a party (X) Gone roller-skating (X) Ice-skating (X) Stole traffic signs (X) Been in a car accident (X) Watched porn (X) Cheated on someone (X) Been skinny dipping Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Velvet Underground and Nico is a brilliant album. I like their other stuff too, but that one is seminal. I really like Reed's Berlin too, though it gets a bit depressing at times Happy birthday to one of the greats! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

It was something I always wanted to do along with all the other once-off adrenalin stuff (like my er one and only skydive) now that i'm into skydiving i've lost interest, because i don't like the passivity of it (you jump and then... fall and then dangle around waiting?). still keen on doing stuff like rapp jumping though

Everyone is just being nasty cos John Elliot caught us all out, we're all a bunch of backward retards who couldn't get further than sixth grade! We must therefore all be dealing in drugs as there is no other way we could afford the sport. (Movie plotline, anyone?) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

I wasn't really gonna jump in but.... how many "different places" have you jumped with your 2 jumps? with those degrees in business and finance and experience and evidently more brains than the rest of us, why haven't you done well enough to have saved enough that the cost of the sport isn't such a major issue? A (probably large) number of people here are members of non-profit clubs and are aware of the accounts. In my VERY LIMITED experience the non-profit clubs may have to charge more because they don't run tandem mills that help pay the bills. So, a pilot, those degrees and now you're studying medicine? The drugs post did make me wonder if this isn't a troll Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Got their name from http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=83489 Are we meant to continue this thread on the cannibals theme, or on the lawyer-bashing-joke theme? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

....And I didn't mean to imply that anyone had caused an issue, and heads-up on reminding people that AFF is not the only way to learn skydiving Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

This pitched up on the latest page of Google News (search term skydiving) - barnstorming here... http://www.pr.com/press-release/7377 Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

My knowledge of US geography is patchy...but is KSUPC in the "Buffalo area"? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Domestic cat, owning someone like me Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

You have 2 jumps (according to your profile). Linked to your profile is a review of a Polish club where you say it is the "best" DZ you ever jumped at but you also complain it is "expensive". (Like Frontier?) With respect, maybe a bit more time in the sport will give you the basis to make especially relative statements about different DZs? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Only seen that about 4 times but I think it is a great movie! Yaaaaa.... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

What? They invented tomatoes too???!!! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Princess Bride - I've only seen the movie once. But it's not a patch on the book, which I've probably read about 10 times over the years! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

aw, she's absolutely gorgeous. we've got 4 cats, all rescued street specials and all gorgeous too

had to smile when i saw that sentence Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

I don't believe people can talk about "favourite" movies unless they have watched them at least 10 times When I thought about this, I was quite surprised at how long my list is. Certainly not all the DVDs and videos in my collection, but still a lot. Starting with my 5 favourites: True Romance – out and out all time #1 favourite. Love story with happy ending, lots of violence and good lines along the way Pulp Fiction. Lots of violence and good lines along the way and um an ending somewhere in the middle. Some brilliant scenes, but True Romance trumps it because I like happy endings Wild at Heart. Er, love story with happy ending, lots of violence and good lines along the way, plus Nicolas Cage in that snakeskin jacket. Trainspotting. One of the rare occasions where I’ve enjoyed the movie as much as the book. “Choose life…” Strictly Ballroom. Love story with a happy ending and wacky Australian humour along the way. No violence. “A life lived in fear is a life half-lived.” Others: Natural Born Killers. Love story with happy ending (at least for Mickey and Mallory), lots of violence and good lines along the way. Some amazing scenes. Um, Grease. Love story with happy ending. (OK, I’m a girl.) Watched this for the first time when I was about 8 or 9 and have seen it countless times since then – even caved in and bought the DVD. Hair. First saw in my teens and just loved it, probably the movie I’ve watched the most in my life. “I got life, mother…” Rocky Horror Picture Show. In a class of its own. I’ve never attended one of “those” screenings, but am probably word-perfect on the script. 12 Monkeys. I’m not generally a sci-fi fan but I absolutely loved this movie. Edited to add (reminded from below) Life of Brian - how could I have forgotten this?! I'm probably word-perfect in the script for this one too. A bunch of Disneys (thanks to my daughter) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Ah, I'll still be nursing my broken bones (the reason I'm post-whoring, only "discovered" Bonfire a few days ago) - will catch up with you another time! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

fyi: titanium mining stats (from Wikipedia, which incidentally spells aluminIum ...) Producer Thousands of tons % of total Australia 1291.0 30.6 South Africa 850.0 20.1 Canada 767.0 18.2 Norway 382.9 9.1 Ukraine 357.0 8.5 Total: top 5 3647.9 86.4 Total world 4221.0 100.0 (sorry for formatting but if you're all smart enough to pull, you'll be able to figure it out) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

ROTFL!!! Americans are now taking credit for "inventing" elements/minerals? edited to add: ah, squeak beat me to it. Well, at least they can spell "chicken soup" ... oh wait.. did they invent chickens too? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.