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Is still looking for a Date to a wedding in April 2006. ... might be me (hope hope) My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

This is it here I had added this to my 'Watched Items' because I wanted to see what would happen with it. I was looking at a different item altogether on Ebay and ended up bidding 100 bucks on this piece o' crap by mistake. Thanks guys, I've retracted my bid. My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Hey all, How do you stop bidding on an Ebay item after you've entered a maximum bid? I go into "My Ebay" and I see all the items I'm currently bidding on... They certainly don't make it easy to stop. I've mistakenly entered a stoopid figure on an item I don't want... I need to stop it before I win the damned thing! lol Nick My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Huh?...but: and Sounds like you got the bug. We are not Adrenaline Junkies so much as Dopemine Addicts. Once you realise you aren't playing Russian Roulet with your life, you don't get a surge of Adrenaline. Experienced jumpers will tell you they get the adrenaline feeling when they try something new on a jump... or take on a new 'risky' aspect. I get it when I jump with someone I've never jumped with before and we're doing something sorta technical to me (meaning something I'm still working on) No. -Wear a blindfold on exit?... -Don't pull until 800ft?... -Tie your hands and feet together and have someone throw you out on a low pass? disclaimer: DON'T acutally do these things. hehee. My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

I've been very curious about this myself. I wasn't going to say anything about "Welcome Marines"... but I had thought I saw something else once. hehee. No problem? My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Yo that pic looks hillarious! Bugun... are you just some freakishly BIG dood or what? lol. Is that the reason for the name? My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

#2...some peeps get real touchy. My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Have you priced out buying just the container new? If you have it built for one size smaller then what you intend on putting in it, you'll get some miles out of it. (won't have to downsize the container the first time you downsize your main). It may not be too bad to get the container fit to you... and then buy used canopies to put in in. Anyhoo, keep your chin-up and hang in there. It can't rain all the time right? And what are good times if you've never had bad times to which you can compare 'em? Life if good. I'm sending Ontario {{{VIBES}}} your way Nick My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Bwahahaa! I remember that shot!! That's pretty funny dood. You might wanna reconsider this post though... rememba tha rules. Nick My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Hot damn that's... hot! Nice shot there. I would frame it and call it Art. Thank you so much for sharing

whoa.....take it easy.... I'm not offended.. You shouldn't be... your nickname is AK47 for goodness sakes! lol My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Yeah. But don't you think landing a wingsuit would be sweet enough as it is? My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

... imo, that's the best reason... (second only to the gear being unsafe) My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

So to bring it all back to the original poster, we alleviate a pilot of all responsibility by firing the wingsuit jumper into the air with a catapult and we ensure the jumpers survival by building him a giant Lime Jell-O Snow Cone landing area with tons of 'stuff' added to it for scientific softness. BRILLIANT! My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Thanks Kallend, "Stuff" is not a very good scientific term for Solid Proteins... neither is "Adding Stuff" in place of creating an emulsion between liquid and solid forms. lol. We've now posted a pretty good explanation how Jello is made... a little more complexe than "adding stuff to water"... a little less relevant then... Jell-O is denser than water. My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Ummm - bad science there. Jello is based on gelatin, a loosely cross-linked polymer that forms a gel with water. And Wile E. Cayote really wasn't a Genius. Gelatin is a protein which has a distinct shape. The proteins like eachother and grab one another. When gelatin gets wet and warmed up, it get's limp. The building blocks fall apart. When the gelatin cools again, the proteins go back into their shape. But now they have trapped a drop of the liquid. So Jell-O is no more than protein that has trapped a bit of water. Proteins are building blocks. They get their strength from getting tangled up tightly in each other again. Jell-O is denser than the water you used to make it with. My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

No, the slowest recorded (as per BirdMan's site) is 16m/s which is about 35-36mph. The slowest Instantaneous speed recorded was 18mph. But It's all realative. There is a certain glide slope required to achieve even this 35mph. When you have a landing area that matches this certain glide slope, the important thing is no longer "How slow can I make my decent rate" but "How small an increment can I increase my decent rate by?". Don't forget that there is a forward vector as well. As you move forward, the landing area constantly "Drop away".. because that's what a slope is... y changes as x changes. The speed at which the jumper will impact perpendicular the sloped landing area is not a function of his vertical speed. It's a function of the little extra vertical speed he can add.... to 'catch up' to the ever retreating ground. So that's the question. If you can ajust your vertical speed by say 5mph at a time, then the speed you will impact the ground PERPENDICULAR to it will be: Vyslope = 5 Sin z You make Jello by adding stuff to water... So it's denser than water... so it's harder than water to impact... hmmm. Though a GIANT cube of jello would have the ability to expand out the sides that a large body of water wouldn't. I have dreamed of jumping off bridges into a giant cube of jello, lol. I've pictured it using a series of nets that he could fly into as well. They could be desinged to stretch and fail, allowing him to plow into the next one, wich would stretch and fail, allowing him to plow into the next one.... each net absorbing some of the kinetic energy... eventually, the jumper would not have enough and one of the last nets would actually hold him. (The nets would have to be made to order by ACME and he would have to hold up a picket which read "Help!" though... much ala Wile E. Cayote.) My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Bwahaa! Just mention "landing" and "wingsuit" in the same sentence and look what happens! Okay. "It's always better to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask permission." I would wager they'd be scratching their heads just as much as us? That when it comes down to the nitty gritty, there's not much in the regulations that deal with jumping out of airplanes without the intent of using some sort of equipment to save ones life. For the pilots, the rules dictate that they can't drop stuff that will cause harm and that they can't drop stuff at all where people are without the permision of a governing body. For the jumpers, the rules dictate the gear that is required. My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Oh yeah! And as per Lawrence M. Patrick, retired Wayne State University biomechanics professor who gave his body for human impact-survival research from 1960 -1975: "The maximum amount a rib cage can compress without causing injury to the soft wet things inside it is two and three-quarter inches." My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Hello all. I did a search but all I found were threads where you were to list you lowest maintained descent rate. What I'm looking for are the records. What are the recorded lowest maintained descent rates. Who got them? What were they flying? I had heard the slowest maintained was 18mph, down. Anyone? My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

What it means is that he will have a two-staged "dump" (for lack of a more delicate word?... I prefer "adjustment") of his lift. What it means is, that if he matches the slope of the landing strip, say 6 feet above it, then adjusts to sink on said landing strip at a slow rate, he will be given an apparent increase in lift at about midpoint or 3 feet above the strip. It would be like an apparent 'air cushion' for him. He'll either end up matching the slope again (for him to adjust a second time closer to the ground) or it will simply reduce his sink rate a little more for the remaining 3 feet to impact. IOW, he won't have to worry about bouncing off said 'air cushion' because that's not how it works. The best you can expect from ground effect when landing a non-powered aircraft is that it slows your sink rate, or stops it alltogether. It's the only thing that will help him minimize his closing rate. Because he cannot mainain anything close to horizontal flight. This much is obvious. lol. And the jumper would not be very wise to come in perpendicular the slope (remember, we are aiming for parrallel it) But again, it's not what we are discussing. But we've decided that 15mph is his vertical speed. Vertical speed will be Vy=15mph, the speed he comes in at PERPENDICULAR the slope we will call Vy-slope. Where "z" is the angle the landing slope makes against vertical, Sin z = Vy-slope / Vy Vy Sin z = Vy-slope 15 Sin z = Vy-slope Circles... from my last post: My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

This is my point. Your speed is not 15mph PERPENDICULAR to the surface. It's 15mph PERPENDICULAR the horizon. Gravity pulls you to the centre of the earth... not perpendicular whatever slope you happen to be on. Gravities force upon you is vectored as well when you are on a slope... that's how skiers ski. Your speed is ZERO perpendicular to the surface as you have matched the glide slope. Your speed PERPENDICULAR the surface will be a funcion of the smallest increment you can ajust your sink rate by. "Ah", We're getting somewhere.... Groud effect will take place only for a height equal to the wingspan of the vehicle... that's not very high off the ground... and it's ADDED lift. Golly! Where have I heard that before? I think it might have been in one of MY posts! So your argument is still that the angle of the landing area doesn't matter (For the final time) ? My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

directly contradicts: The wingsuit cannot sustain horizontal flight. The sloped landing area matters... it is crutial. This is pretty much obvious. But it's not what we are dicussing. Our daring wingsuit pilot is not hitting a 45 degree slope coming straight down nor is he hitting a flat slope at an angle. He is going to match the angle of the landing areas slope... and then make his angle slightly steeper. He's coming in at 43 degrees on your 45 degree slope (where "up" is 0degrees and we are counting clockwise). Precisely! Matching your 45 degree slope for example lends itself to a situation where "He will never land" as you said yourself. Adjusting your sink rate by a little bit will have your glide slope become slightly steeper... sligthly Precisely. But the closing rate between what? The glide slope and the landing area's slope right?. So how is it that one of those two angles "doesn't matter" ? The wingsuit has limitation. It will not be able to make a "slow closure rate" unless he has a sloped landing area to match his glide slope to... then can adjust said glide slope accordingly. (Don't forget that when the two slopes are matched, you may be traveling at 18-30mph, Down, relative to the centre of the earth, but you are traveling ZERO miles per hour down relative to the landing area.) My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

Hey Aggie, Can you save a Picture and post it on here? For some reason, my work thinks this site should not be visited. N My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!