MarkM
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You could still likely do Ortho-K, but nobody ever hears of it because Lasik is all the rage right now.
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Another option is Ortho-k: http://www.ortho-k.net/ It's perfectly safe, the effects are reversable, they're just hard contact lenses you wear during the night while you sleep. They reshape your eye so you have corrected vision and your eye holds that shape when you remove the lenses for the next day or two. And as you age and your eyes change, the contact lenses can be adjusted to keep your vision correct. I've had this done in Fort Lauderdale by a Dr Kennith Maller who's an extremely good contacts guy. It's all he's done for the past 10 years or so and it's what he specializes in. He's a perfectionist too. If you wouldn't mind wearing contacts just while you're asleep, then Ortho-K is something you might want to look into.
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If you have any home owners insurance yourself, check up on that. You never know, your property might be covered through that.
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1> Got bitten by the bug while up in Indiana enough to move to Florida. 2> Spent a good deal of time getting enough money together to get gear / finish training after I moved down to Florida. 3> Got injured during Wind Tunnel training. 4> Had general unrelated health problems after that. 5> One of my old instructors from Indiana bounced. 6> Said the hell with it for awhile and played around with scuba, hang gliding, motorcycles and worked out my health problems over a year or so(lost 15 pounds and figured out I had TMJ). 7> But I got back up into the sky today though and had a very good time.
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Honor is great, loyalty to the guy next to you is even better. Completing the objective and coming home alive is the most important thing you guys can do though IMHO. Things like honor and being in the right are often perspectives. I'm sure the terrorists think of themselves as heros and as us as the scum. We often rationalize/ignore things like the firebombing we did of Tokyo in WW2, wiping out the Native Americans, etc etc. I'm sure they rationalize the same way every time there's a nasty hit against us or one of their enemies. I don't care so long as in the end we win. I think Germany/Japan are better places today because we won against them(of course, naturally I would think this because I feel my Westernized democractic way of life is the best way of life) and I also think Iraq will be a better place tomorrow because of what's going on today, assuming we can rebuild the country.
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Who said I was blaming Iraq? Iraq likely had very little to do with 9/11 or at least as much as some of our "allies" in the region. But 9/11 definately changed our foreign policy, which is why we're in Iraq today. Personally I dislike dislays like what was in the origional post because they're designed purely to create an emotional response and that's the kind of things that leads to drek like not being able to take nail clippers on board and airplane.
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"Go back to sleep Frank!"
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That's the why of the fighting in Iraq, here's the how. North of Bahgdad, 12/01/03: http://staff.washington.edu/bfiguero/Movies/longapache.avi
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Played it when it first came out for a couple years or so. Sorta got bored with the downtime though.
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9. World War 1 10. World War 2 Yeah, remember those two times we invaded those peaceful loving Germans. Man, what a hoot.
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My most memorable plane rides were the ones where I was riding up to altitude thinking to myself, "Why I am doing this? There's no reason for me to be doing this again." But I always ended up wanting to do it again
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Me Without You - Gentlemen
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Or we could just look into more effecient ways to get stuff up into orbit in the first place. Space evelators are projected to cost 6 billion, which I'm sure is quite a bit less than what this moon project will cost. Currently it costs $10,000-40,000 per lb to put an object into orbit. A space elevator would bring that down to $100 per pound. And that low price would be available to everyone on earth, corporations, governments, even hobbyists. The problem with a moon base is that you have to the friggen moon to use it. That isn't cheap, unless you had something like, oh I dunno, a space elevator...
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We could create the next big fad by shipping back and selling the Pet Moon Rock. I think a better project would be to build the first space elevator by 2015. Make it cheap enough to get into space in the first place, and people will exploit it.
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Pretty much a bunch of drek that will never happen. But NASA will spend the next 20 years blowing its budget on it, just because the politicians like to give pretty speeches about space and are willing to fund them for the priviliage. I really think if anything significant is gonna happen in space in the next 50 years, it'll have to be the private industry that'll do it.
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About 20 mins or so.
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I'd be hanging around somewhere, most likely practicing my arch.
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www.skydivingmovies.com is at ftp://ftp.jaffie.com/Public/ for the moment and has lots of vids. DaWigVid2002 under freefly is hilarious and has some pretty cool footage.
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Learn to use photoshop.
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The phrase "As the prop turns" was invented long before these forums existed, so the dropzone drama is hardly limited to here. In fact, talking about dropzones is the surest way to get a heated debate going anywhere you go because everyone is so loyal to their own particular DZ, and by God, they know it's the best damn DZ around. At least until they move to a new DZ that is. But no one died and made Hooks or Billvon or bytch or any of the other well respected posters here Gods, they earned the respect they have through the patience and good sage advice they have given out over the years. If you don't agree with their advice, then argue intelligently why they're wrong. It's really that simple.
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72F out. That's very chilly for us Flor-e-duh-ins.
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Everytime I hit the throttle on my motorcycle I can't help but grin.
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Well at MY dropzone, they cover the landing area with those little white styrofome peanets so the experienced jumpers always have a safe landing. And they wrap the AFF students up in 100 yards of bubble wrap so they bounce softly when they hit the ground. So I dunno about that...
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Very new but losing current status!! Help!
MarkM replied to ames_i's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
The instructor at any new dropzone will tell you what you'll need to do. -
Would be kind of funny if it's really true. Dunno what else you'd use as a conversation starter though: "Hey, you have brown hair." "Yep. Brown hair all right. Got it from my mom." "Really? Wow. Where did she get her brown hair from?" "Uh, her parents...??"