SethInMI
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one thing I have noticed is that the skydiving community can be tighter than a church, so building community around shared interests is definitely possible.
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I saw Penn Jillette speak a few years ago when he was on a book tour (probably for God No!). He took some questions from the audience, and one was "how do we replace the community that church provides?" His answer was "art", which I found unsatisfying. I think he meant people should gather around shared artistic interests, or support artistic causes.
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6'7, 350 lbs, Ex O-Line men, dream of skydiving
SethInMI replied to b3altena's question in Questions and Answers
there are very few people in your weight range that end up getting a skydiving licence. There was a guy named aubrey who was over 300lbs who jumped for a few years 2003-2005 and was active on this site. I looked up his first post, but you can search his user name for more. His name comes up often when large people ask on here about jumping. -
wikipedia has a more nuanced review of sentence spacing trends that in the most part precede ms words existence, as well as in general refute your assertion that it was solely ms word that instigated the single space transition. single spacing between sentences started to be recommended by style guides in the 1980s
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Upcoming battle with my mom about skydiving
SethInMI replied to David Wang's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
What will her concerns be? Are your parents well off, so spending two or three thousand of dollars a year on their son be an easy thing for them to do? Is she concerned about you not having skills you need to survive in skydiving, or just you being a victim of random bad luck? If she is willing to put up money, but can't handle the risks of skydiving, I would strongly suggest getting her to pay for tunnel flying. You can improve your skill, and eventually be able to demonstrate a level that could prove to her that you are serious about your new hobby and have the ability to handle yourself in the air. The advantage to you is when you did start skydiving, with many hours in the tunnel you would have a huge advantage in skills vs. any other newbie skydiver. Seth -
Where is @gisellemartins Soude, there was a long discussion on this forum about 7 years ago about if it is possible to design wingsuits with large enough wings to allow soaring (like a hang glider). The answer is it is not possible for many reasons. You can search for "JetMan" to see a person flying under a rigid wing.
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she shouldn't just put herself against it, but more just swing around it.
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perfect.
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Having trouble figuring out this whole "life" thing
SethInMI replied to Madigan's topic in The Bonfire
damn. I remember feeling some of those feelings back when I was in college. I so worried I wasn't going to be able to find a good job, and just get stuck doing something that I wouldn't like or wouldn't be good at, and spend life kinda miserable. So you are not alone in those worries. But that didn't happen to me. I did get a good job, and I'm not miserable. As for what is the point of life, I still ask myself that question, but the answer I use is the point of life is to have fun and try to leave the world better than you found it. -
I thought the same thing. The Model S and X are for the weathly, but the not the model 3 which is selling as well as many mainstream cars, and yes the idea of them as only status symbols is long gone. I saw a mention of the fact that Jim Cramer, who has long predicted the Tesla's imminent demise, has recently decided to buy a Tesla Model X. He is wealthy sure, but for him to buy one as a status symbol is ridiculous. From his tweet, he and his wife just really liked the car after driving it.
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Q: What do you call a hippie's wife? A: Mississippi
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To try and bring this back to Tesla: Brent, is this sharing this link supposed to be about the idea to eliminate the tax credits for electric vehicles? The article you linked to is a year old, so no new facts or ideas in it, and I wonder what about it made you decide to post it now.
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I think sfzombie was talking about a "fall" under a parachute that hit turbulence. Descending under a partially collapsed canopy is not the same as the fall rate if you cut away from that same canopy, so the survive-ability of the two situations cannot be compared. In addition, most industrial falls are onto concrete or involve other hard metal surfaces like equipment. Landing in a natural area COULD be much more survivable in that the ground is likely to be softer.
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Carry-On on Check Rig on Airlines?
SethInMI replied to PlaneFun's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Does anyone have any first-hand experience with this happening to them? Seems unlikely thing to worry about. -
Carry-On on Check Rig on Airlines?
SethInMI replied to PlaneFun's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I have done both, carried it on and checked it. I put the rig in a 22" roller suitcase, but not everyone's rig would fit in such a bag. Don't try to carry on your hook knife. TSA took mine. -
Saw this licence plate frame on a car yesterday: "Do you follow Jesus this closely?" Which I personally found hilarious. The contrast between the two messages encoded there: 1. Jesus is the answer 2. Back-off asshole is just so fun. (passive aggressive people for christ!)
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Yep. And of course in a normal election, the dem nominee would be doing the same thing to their repub rival, trotting out evidence from the primaries that they are too conservative. But this isn't normal.
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well, it's primary season, and you gotta get to be the nominee first. The always issue of the need to get the likely primary voters out and voting for you requires being away from center: inspiring, promising, demanding, riling up the base. Then when you are the nominee, you pivot to center as much as you can get away with.
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In your own car? There could be a manual override. In a driverless taxi? I would doubt there will be one. The taxi company has no way of knowing what kind of person is in the back of the car, and if they will be helping or hurting the situation by driving. I suspect a driverless taxi service just won't operate when the weather will be such that it would likely be too bad to operate. Like commercial aviation now, if the weather is bad enough, the planes don't fly and passengers get stranded. As time goes on, those weather events will likely need to become more severe to shut down the system as it gets more robust.
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actually the current tech path is to have autonomous taxi services, which makes sense as it keeps the cars utilized. But in that case, you may have passengers who don't know how to drive at all, or have not driven in a while, and asking them to drive an unfamiliar car in poor visibility is not a good idea. A middle ground would be a semi-autonomous "slow" mode where a passenger could guide the car along at a speed where the cars basic safety sensors could still work (6-15mph). a taxi service is also going to have a lot of empty cars driving around, and there would not always be a place to pull over if they could not navigate, so even if you could take over and drive your autonomous car, you may stuck anyway.
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Most autonomous car sensors, cameras and lidar, work in the visual or near-visual ranges. This means if a person struggles to make out what is going on ahead of them while they are driving, like in heavy rain or snow or fog, or just where to put the car wheels, like on snow covered roads, then an autonomous car will also struggle in those situations. I expect while cameras and lidar are used, we are going to deal with autonomous cars that must slow down or stop in certain weather conditions. I really hope they can at least drive slow as much as possible as even 6-10mph is better than nothing. Sure in a heavy snow day it could take 2 hours to do a normal 20min drive, but even with people driving that often happens as there are auto-accidents that shut down traffic, and those would be greatly reduced.
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I'm not an SUV person, I'm a 5 door wagon person, but yeah the Y may be closer to that idea than the 3.
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i'm posting in here because I recently decided my next car will be a Model 3. The AWD version. I'm still a few years from a new car, so I'm not going all brenthutch and setting some prediction in stone, but the Model 3 sure does appeal to me right now. 1. I use my car for commuting like 99.99 percent of the time. An electric means I never have to "fill up" at a service station. I hate doing that in the winter. 2. In winter, the dual motor AWD on the Model 3 is very capable. Better than my subie. 3. The auto-steer / auto-pilot will make the commute drive less tedious. Until it lulls me to a false sense of security and drives the car into an abutment. 4. the electric drivetrain gives the car a feeling that it has more than the 346 eqv. HP it is rated for, so it will feel plenty zippy. I really hope mr hutch's pessimism is misplaced. Now we both have made predictions of a sort for the next few years, and we will have to wait and see what the future holds...
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The hate and contempt you have, and can't let go of, is inspiring. This is what happens when you wander into Speakers Corner after several months away and click on a thread because you recognize "Bill Burr" in the title. I didn't see the "She's back" thread that apparently has gone on and on about the Tulsi thing, so that (obviously to me now) contained the source of turtle's inspiration for the post and Jerry's comment to me. Wheee! well I'm back out...
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Ha. Actually it was an honest question. I don't follow Hillary news at all, so if she did or said something in the last few days that got turtle's undies wadded up, I wonder what it was. I know her daughter published a book recently, and there is this thing about Tulsi and Hillary and the Russians that I have completely ignored and maybe that is it?
