AggieDave 6 #1 September 18, 2003 Ever thought about it? Sure you have, everyone has... I'd love to be able to go back to the mid-1960s and go out to 'snore and get on some of the loads when RW first started really clicking. I'd love to do it with my current jumpsuit and gear, though... Scream down to the formation, fly mantis, do center point turns, deploy, then come SCREAMING out of the sky for a kick ass swoop. Then get in my car and leave after that one jump. That'd really fuck with people. Oh going back in time with a Vector3 Micron and showing Bill Booth back in about '75 or so...or a Sigma tandem system...Not only that, but I don't think he had his beard back in the early '70s.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumper03 0 #2 September 18, 2003 QuoteEver thought about it? Sure you have, everyone has... Yep, but not in the same way. I always ending up thinking about how you would actually do it and short of a wormhole, you need to go faster than the speed of light. Then I start thinking about how I can outrun my laser pointer beam..... JumpScars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #3 September 18, 2003 oh crap.... I have thought about this too!!! Same thoughts pretty much. Except I would love to stay there ....Leroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #4 September 18, 2003 Wicked!!!__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,991 #5 September 18, 2003 >I always ending up thinking about how you would actually do it and >short of a wormhole, you need to go faster than the speed of light. Not really. Going close to the speed of light very close to a spinning ultradense cylinder will also do the trick. It's theoretically possible, just very, very difficult. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blahr 0 #6 September 18, 2003 Quoteyou need to go faster than the speed of light. If your main deployed at 669,600,000 mph (speed of light) I think that would hurt. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #7 September 18, 2003 Can't be too hard, Doc Brown did it in the '80s with a kid, a dog and a fucking delorien...--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #8 September 18, 2003 what if you had a really BIG slider?Leroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blahr 0 #9 September 18, 2003 Quotewhat if you had a really BIG slider? Are we talking infinitely big? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AirMail 0 #10 September 18, 2003 It's a piece of cake. All you need is a Tardis. Postal Rodriguez-- It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Postal Rodriguez, Muff 3342 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retreved 0 #11 September 18, 2003 Hey, if you close to New York you may have your opportunity to actually try this. Check out this post on craigslist. Much like our gear manufacturers they don't guarantee your complete safety but you shouldn't have a problem with that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #12 September 18, 2003 thats what i want the girls to think.... not sure my pics are helping the causeLeroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,991 #13 September 18, 2003 >Doc Brown did it in the '80s with a kid, a dog and a fucking delorien... Yeah, but he had 1.21 gigawatts of power. Always wondered what sort of energy that needed; how long did the transition take? I mean, 1.21 gigawatts for a nanosecond is only a little over a joule; you can get that with a flashlight battery and a very good capacitor (maybe that's what a "flux capacitor" is.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blahr 0 #14 September 18, 2003 QuoteI mean, 1.21 gigawatts for a nanosecond is only a little over a joule This remonded me of something I read. You all have probably seen this before but it never ceases to make me laugh. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Is there a Santa Claus? As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renown scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am Pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. There are 2 billion children (persons under 1 in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75 1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run tops 15 miles per hour. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this air will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft's re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per Second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion, if Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve -- he's dead now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflygoddess 0 #15 September 18, 2003 I want to go back in time with Zing and the porter to see Leonardo Devinci and do a few jumps with him... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #16 September 18, 2003 QuoteQuoteI mean, 1.21 gigawatts for a nanosecond is only a little over a joule This remonded me of something I read. You all have probably seen this before but it never ceases to make me laugh. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Is there a Santa Claus? As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renown scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am Pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. There are 2 billion children (persons under 1 in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75 1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run tops 15 miles per hour. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this air will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft's re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per Second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion, if Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve -- he's dead now. Why do magic flying reindeer and immortal toymakers have to obey the laws of physics as we currently understand them?... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blahr 0 #17 September 18, 2003 Quote Why do magic flying reindeer and immortal toymakers have to obey the laws of physics as we currently understand them? Thats easy. They dont I just thought it was funny when this guy did. Me? I believe in Santa! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #18 September 18, 2003 heres what I would do. IT WOULD BE A BLAST. I would go back to the birth of jesus and call mary a slut and claim he was my kid wonder how that would chnage historyMy photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blahr 0 #19 September 18, 2003 I take it you are not a religeous man I think that Joseph would kick your ass and history would be relatively unchanged. Except that you might end up being one of your own decendants... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #20 September 18, 2003 that can't be goodLeroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #21 September 18, 2003 spirtiual, yes religious? mmm not be any firm definition of the word. prankster? yea, odd sense of humor definitely well if things went awry i could always go back to just b4 I went back and stop myself from doing itMy photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,991 #22 September 18, 2003 >wonder how that would chnage history There would be a second serpent or satan or whatever in the bible. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AirMail 0 #23 September 18, 2003 Man. That would cause a tear in the fabric of the Time/Space continuum. Postal Rodriguez-- It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Postal Rodriguez, Muff 3342 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #24 September 18, 2003 cool I'd be famous again! LOLMy photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blahr 0 #25 September 18, 2003 Quote>wonder how that would chnage history There would be a second serpent or satan or whatever in the bible. Maybe not. PErhaps he WILL do as he says and its already happened. There might still only be 1 satan because maybe JTVal IS the root of that particular belief. Could JTVal in fact BE satan in our past (his future)? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
