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Nope, 42 is a special number. It is the meaning of life.
--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."
Iflyme 0
Hey -- I'll be 42 in December ...
riddler 0
I think our non-American friends would like us to remember that skydiving happens in other parts of the world too.
Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD
Jimbo 0
QuoteI think our non-American friends would like us to remember that skydiving happens in other parts of the world too.
Yeah, but that doesn't count.
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Jim
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QuoteNope, 42 is a special number. It is the meaning of life.
More than that, it is the meaning of Life, the Universe, and everything.
Patrick
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I can't remeber 42!
Sparky
Sparky
My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals
I realize that there are many dz's outside of the US, but what i was needing was a fact. Its for my speech class in college and I'm doing my Informative speech on skydiving. For the opening the teacher wants a fact. I figured that the total number of sport skydives in a year would be a great fact to tell everyone since i'm informing them on our sport and i would like to get someone that has wanted to skydive to go out and actually do it. I didn't mean to offend anyone.
Beau
Beau
QuoteNope, 42 is a special number. It is the meaning of life.
I think it's not the "meaning" - it's the "answer", which is only useful if you know the question.
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jams 0
what is six times seven?
lmao....
lmao....
Tonto 1
What. So jumping outside of the US is not a fact?
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It's the year of the Pig.
I called the USPA and got these numbers for the end of 2002. The total number of jumps by USPA members since they started jumping was at 26,850,923. The total for the previous year was 2,151,228.
Beau
Beau
quade 4
I'm not impressed with the pseudo-accuracy implied by the numbers.
Again, it's only a rough estimate at best.
Again, it's only a rough estimate at best.
quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver
The World's Most Boring Skydiver
Remster 30
But Quade... the numbers arent rounded off... therefore they must be exact!
Remster
I didn't know the point of this thread was to "impress you"......... 
Dreams become reality, one choice at a time...
Dreams become reality, one choice at a time...
Michele 1
Hi, Beau!
Glad you could find something to work with. If I recall correctly from your pm, you needed this information for a speech class, right? Hope this fulfills the need! I'd be interested in reading the speech - pm me if you want with the whole thing.
And glad you went to the source - if there are any numbers available, them's the folks who'd have them, rough estimate or not. It's at least a great starting place, you know?
Have a "nice" day (Nice = word of the day)
Ciels-
Michele
~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~
Glad you could find something to work with. If I recall correctly from your pm, you needed this information for a speech class, right? Hope this fulfills the need! I'd be interested in reading the speech - pm me if you want with the whole thing.
And glad you went to the source - if there are any numbers available, them's the folks who'd have them, rough estimate or not. It's at least a great starting place, you know?
Have a "nice" day (Nice = word of the day
)
Ciels-
Michele
~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~
quade 4
QuoteI didn't know the point of this thread was to "impress you".........
It isn't . . . please don't anyone ever try to impress me, that's how accidents happen
. . . but it's the job of the USPA to represent its facts or estimations properly.
In this case, they imply that they have an accurate fact, when in fact, it's simply a rough estimation.
AOPA also does this with regard to the number of hours they think their members fly, but in their case they admit it's a very rough estimation.
quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver
The World's Most Boring Skydiver
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I think our non-American friends would like us to remember that skydiving happens in other parts of the world too.
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Yeah, but that doesn't count.
Damnit
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only students skydives or also after student status, i can see i´ll need to re-type my logbook
Stay safe
Stefan Faber
ok.....Beau is new to this forum and was feeling a bit "beat up" . I was trying to "ease his pain" (ain't I just a swell girl ). He decided to go with ROUNDED numbers on those figures as "estimated facts"
He's off to do his speech as we email....
Dreams become reality, one choice at a time...
). He decided to go with ROUNDED numbers on those figures as "estimated facts"
He's off to do his speech as we email....
Dreams become reality, one choice at a time...
Remster 30
Admit it.. you saw fresh meat and pounced!
Remster
And here I thought I was the only Bo on dz.com....
Brian "Bo" Beauregard
you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
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