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Are you sure? You may be in shock right now. I would recommend visiting an attorney immediately who can help convince you of your need for to see a doctor for medical attention - just to make sure you are okay. For example, soft-tissue injuries often are not apparent immediately. A detailed workup with the right neurologist should help you confirm that you are hurt, and hurt badly - at least up to the limits of this guy's insurance. Come on, let us tell you how hurt you are. I'll make sure you are treated with everything but an e-meter. I know you're joking and all, but that's what's wrong with the legal system today. cavete terrae.

For what it's worth, they shouldn't have. If you were unhurt after an accident without airbag deployment, it means the sensors did their job. If airbags are oversensitive and deploy when not needed, more people are going to get hurt by them, and it adds to the cost of the repair. An airbag should ONLY fire in a serious accident. Glad you're ok, though! cavete terrae.

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I'm currently living in a room that's roughly 15 x 10 feet at my aunt's house until I move to Australia at the end of the month, and I've been here for about 6 months. For 4 years before that, I was living in a reasonably small single dorm room. At the end of the month, I'm moving into a 2 bedroom, one bathroom flat with a good sized living room and a kitchen. It's going to seem like the Taj Mahal Grue Edition I'm not going to know what to do with all the room cavete terrae.

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Apparently he's in town for some reason or another, I took a back route from work specifically to avoid the motorcade traffic issues, but apparently they had the same idea cavete terrae.

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Now that you've spent $70,000 and you are making $3,999,700/yr just in interest from leaving it in your checking account, what would you really do??? BTW, that's $76,869/wk. Why don't you just pay me to be your accountant/investor and we'll both be extremely happy for the rest of our lives. Shiite I'd even move to Texas. Except that it'd only be insured to $100,000 if it were sitting in a bank account. Some investor you are! cavete terrae.

Pay off my student loans, and move back to Oz as planned. Buy a nice house, and then follow the big boogie circuit for a while. Also get a lot of tunnel time whenever in the US, and a lot of freefly and canopy coaching. Oh, and get a pilot's licence, and a decommissioned 2-seater jet for my personal aircraft. Something like a T-38, perhaps. cavete terrae.

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20688006-2,00.html THE motorist who jumped onto a moving semi-trailer after seeing the vehicle swerving across the road with the driver unconscious at the wheel has said he was just doing what "any decent human being" would have done. Local miner Mick Thompson was driving along a main road outside Cessnock in New South Wales at about 6.50am (AEDT) when he saw the truck driver slumped over the wheel of his semi, which was heading in the opposite direction, the NSW ambulance service has said. He immediately did a U-turn, then drove past the truck and parked ahead of it. He then ran towards the out-of-control semi and leapt aboard. "I opened the door and dropped it into gear and put my foot on the floor on the brake and stopped the truck," Mr Thompson has said on Southern Cross radio. "I just pushed him off the steering wheel onto the passenger side and just knocked the truck into neutral and went from there." He called an ambulance and waited with the ailing truckie, a middle-aged diabetic who had fallen unconscious because of low blood sugar levels, until it arrived. The spokesman has said Mr Thompson's action probably saved the truckie's life. "It was a huge semi so who knows what could have happened," an ambulance spokesman has said. Without medical attention, an injection of glucose into a muscle, the truckie may have lapsed into a potentially fatal diabetic coma. Mr Thomspon then drove off without giving his identity. "He told the paramedics what had happened, then drove off. He didn't stick around," the spokesman has said. Mr Thomspon, who has said he has never driven a truck before, went straight to work 7km underground at the Hunter Valley's Austar mine after the amazing feat and has denied he is a hero. "It's something that any sort of decent human being would have done," he has said. The driver was treated at the scene and had partially regained consciousness by the time he reached Cessnock Hospital. However a hospital spokeswoman later said the man is in a serious condition in a "high dependency" unit, which she has described as "one step away from intensive care". The ambulance service has said it is possible the truckie will not remember the actions of his saviour. He has said diabetics who have lapsed into unconsciousness are often "a little vague and disorientated" when they wake up. He has said that even though ambulance officers had probably told him what had happened as he was regaining consciousness, "I doubt if he would remember anything about it". cavete terrae.

Don't think you'd have a minute to work with: Tlme of useful consciousness Altitude (ft) without oxygen 40,000 15 seconds 35.000 20 seconds 30,000 30 seconds 28,000 1 minute 26,000 2 minutes 24,000 3 minutes 22,000 6 minutes 20,000 10 minutes 15.000 Indefinite Doesn't make much sense because we can all hold our breath for longer than that, but I think it has to do with the lack of pressure and how blood transfers O2 around in your body. Maybe you'd wake back up before hitting the ground. I know someone who passed out on a 24k jump and woke up at 8k or so. Note though, it's time of USEFUL consciousness. You might be tumbling, but you're still awake, and you recover from conscious tomfuckery faster than you do hypoxic unconsciousness. cavete terrae.

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Not true. A jump from 35,000 without a bailout system wouldn't be the most intelligent move in the universe, but it's far from unsurvivable. It'd take a minute or so (probably less due to thinner air) to get down to 24,000MSL, approximately where I've jumped from without bailout oxygen. Another 30-40 seconds or so and you're into quite a bit thicker air. You might be a little loopy as you pass into the "normal" skydiving altitudes, but I'd say chances are good for a person to be quite functional in time to safely get a canopy out, especially if he/she is a healthy non-smoker. EDIT: That having been said, you'd be one chilly mofo, that's for sure. EDIT2: I didn't take into account "Putting on the rig and getting out of the damned plane", I know, but you only mentioned the freefall part. You could use an in-aircraft mask while you prepare. cavete terrae.

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