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Whn I looked at that photo, it reminded me of Daryll Hanna's character in "Blade Runner," based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep." Zing Lurks

Suggest to your noisy neighbor that they invest in one of those bark collars, and politely inform them that if the noise doesn't stop, or reduce to a tolerable level, that all the neighbors will be forced to begin making complaints to the police/animal control. Then follow up with the complaints and enlist your other neighbors to join the effort. Takes time, but it has worked for me. Zing Lurks

Sounds to me like one of those gremlins lurking in the airplane hitched a ride in your gadget. Could be a one-time anomaly, or the first indication that your audible altimeter is going south. On the other habd, sometimes those gremlins just go away and are never seen, or in your case, heard from, again. Gadgets are nice luxuries, but not a substitute for your eyeballs and time sense. Zing Lurks

Yessir ... that'd be the one. Zing Lurks

I got in trouble for stripping them down and slipping them into bed with my sister's Barbie dolls. My dad thought it was funny, but my mom and my sisters had a shit attack over it. Zing Lurks

Yeah ... I hate it when they do that! Zing Lurks

This makes a great finale ... find someone with a rig that's near expiration, or past, on the reserve ... then pull the ripcord to punctuate your closing line. Almost as good as a smokebomb! Zing Lurks

Nah, you can find them on Ebay for about $10 ... unless you've got the capsule and a GI Joe in the complete spacesuit in the original package. Then its worth about $150. I only have the capsule, but it can sit in a box for another 45 years. Zing Lurks

On a visit home last summer my folks were cleaning out their basement and gettimg rid of a bunch of junk. In one box they found a GI Joe Mercury Capsule that I received as a Christmas present, umm, more years ago than I care to remember. But, I've still got a NASA approved GI Joe space capsule. Zing Lurks

Well, there was the Ghoulidge Star Service at a dropzone not far away a long time ago. SCR on the first jump, SCS on the third. Zing Lurks

I had one of those original tri-cons too. I used it once and then got something else after hearing sport death stories about tri-cons. I have also done a few intentional cutaways for airshows/demos, but always with three canopies. I've had 51 for real reserve rides, one total and 50 cutaways. I've had three reserve problems. A 26' navy conical without a diaper streamered for about 900 feet, then finally inflated at about 400 feet. No clues as to why and no damage to the canopy. I had a total inversion on a 24' flat, as in, the reserve pilot chute was hanging down from the apex inside the canopy and a full twist on the line groups as if I had stepped through the lines. It was packed properly, I packed it, and seemed like a normal slam-bang terminal opening, but on the "breath" rounds do after inflation, it wadded up, florb-a-dorbed around a bit and re-opened inverted. Again, no damage. On a 26' Lopo with a diaper, I had a cigarette roll occur in the front right quarter of the canopy. By yanking on the riser and lines I evetually got it to clear, but it caused about a dozen burns over four panels. But hey, what could possibly go wrong? I'll hold your beer and watch while you do it. Zing Lurks

I had an uncle who retired out of the Air Farce to Leesburg, Fla. He used to call my dad's place and then hold the phone out the window and you could hear the launch roar clearly. I managed to be at the Titusville Scareport during a launch in 85 (???) and got to watch one of the night launches from my uncles backyard. I can still remember my dad getting me and my siblings up to go outside in the middle of the night to see Sputnik and tuning in signals from it and other early satellites on this multiband tube radio my dad got in Germany just after WWII. Guess I never shook off the bug that got me back then. Zing Lurks

I'm on that load. Can I fly? Zing Lurks

"Smilin' faces up here" ... wish I was up there. Zing Lurks

Wouldn't even think such a thing. Zing Lurks

Anybody here remember where they were when the shuttle blew up in 86? Or when the second one burned apart on re-entry? Man, I can never forget either of those events. I was getting an airplane out of a hangar at dawn that morning, knew it was coming, and was watching as it passed overhead. It started shedding pieces just after passing directly overhead and it was obvious to me that there was a major problem. I ended up starting up and flying steadily for about 6 hours until a shutdown when I learned what had happened. Somebody asked earlier in this thread about the rigs used. While I worked for Joe Crotwell, now gone from this world, he told me several stories about building, modifying and testing gear for the shuttle escape system. He said he even got to "ride the pole" out of the test bed aircraft used. The harness/containers of the rigs on the shuttle crew that burned up were made of an exotic (at least to me) blaze orange parapack/kevlar material. There were still several rolls of the orange fabric, webbing, velcro and kevlar used in the rigs, along with the NASA/Govt. approved plans for the rigs when I had an office in Joe's shop at the Apple Valley airport. Zing Lurks

Who is Brittany Spears? What is this Google? Zing Lurks

Its the kite that kid was flying near the airport ... anybody seen my little brother? Zing Lurks

Curiously ... I just found the NASA channel on the cable tv I've got. Same coverage as on the net, but the Internet is on about a 5 sec. delay from live tv. ??? Hope it goes tonight. This is the best damn fireworks show going. C,mon boys, LIGHT THE BIG ONE! Zing Lurks

I know, I know ... but you know I'm not the patient type. Zing Lurks

Damn ... holding at 9 minutes Zing Lurks

Anybody else notice that there is no 20th ranking in this list? Could there be other errors in this list? Zing Lurks

If you got to live forever, you'd likely not have to remain on the planet Earth the entire time. Yeah, I'd do it. Zing Lurks

Tami ... did you warn the hospital staff not to piss Scotty off during his stay? Zing Lurks

I've flown on the decompression express a number of times out of Cozumel, and seen two people unloaded in Houston with symptoms of decompression sickness. The one guy ... fortyish? ... happened to be sitting in the same row as me. Said he'd waited 24 hours between last dive and the airline flight. He was complaining of deep tissue pain in his arm, shoulders and neck and had an impressive display of small "skin bubbles" on his upper arm and shoulder. The other case was a younger man, but I don't really know any details about him other than he was given oxygen and they had medics waiting for the plane when it landed. I've pushed the limits for diving and flying a few times, so far with no ill effects that showed, so far. I'm now in my mid-fifties and try to be more conservative. I had an interesting conversation with a medical person with a bit of expertise in blood-gas work. According to him, getting bent "a little" happens to a lot of people who either feel no symptoms, or don't recognize them for what they are. He warned that the effects of getting bent are cumulative. A bit of damage might not bother you in your 20s, 30s, 40s, even 50s, but could contribute to the detrimental effects of osteoporosis, arthritis and other conditions of the skeletal-muscular and circulatory systems. In other words, play now ... pay later. Zing Lurks