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From the links I just posted: --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

From the links I just posted: Edit to add from the Maxim article: --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Here's a transcript of the NPR story: http://www.michael-s-kearns.com/national_public_radio.htm The site it was found on: http://www.michael-s-kearns.com/south_pole_skydive.htm --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

I actually have gotten junk mail address to Art Gallery. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Yep, even if it's edited and with commercials. There's just something about it being on TV. Maybe there's something about watching it "with" thousands of other people at the same time as opposed to watching it alone. Plus it's fun to see what they changed. Like in Smokey and the Bandit, it's funny to watch how the changed/censured the cursing. "You scum-bum!" Music is the same way, like 2fat2fly said. Got the CD. Can listen to it anytime I want. Gotta crank up the radio cuz it sounds better. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Dog balls - to - dog tongue - to- your mouth. check. Maybe what's she's trying to is that if you want to kiss her you have to lick her dog's balls first. sorry, couldn't resist. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

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Thats cool. We need to extend CAPS to SAPS (Skydiving Airdrop Planning Software) As far as the learning curve, the way I see it is you'll need someone computer savvy setting it up and inputing alot of the data, but you could use anyone with basic computer skills at manifest to just pick the jumpers, put them into groups, and click Go. One interface could be dumded down to that level with another for more advanced users. I think it could be done. It just may be, like I just said in the other post, that it's too expensive to build making the return on investment not worth it. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

There are alot of variables but I don't think it would be impossible (I used to intern on casting simulation (pouring molten metal into a mold) software where they were solving upwards of a million equations with a million variables and that was over 10 years ago). The whole thing really hinges on how well you can model the freefall, opening, and canopy flight. I just have a feeling that could be done reasonable well. If you start with a 2D sim of one person and build from there it doesn't seem so daunting to me. I don't believe the week-end hacker is going to do it in a couple of months though. I think it would take a team (a dozen?) a couple of years or so to do it right. IF you could get the model right, it would be useful for large dropzones and boogies. It wouldn't have to replace the current system, just assist it. But, it would be fairly expensive to build and the return on investment may not be there. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Ok, ya ready?? This would be cool: Software that would analyze all the individuals/groups, weather, aircraft characteristics, jump run, and landing zones to determine the best exit order (when and where). It would model each group's freefall, expected opening altitude, and canopy ride to ensure openings maintain good separation and everyone can make it back to the DZ. The software would not only make predictions, but be able to identify problems and suggest solutions. It would make sure groups open with good separation, and, if not, suggest a better exit order. It would also predict if someone is in danger of landing out (suggesting a better exit order). It would also model what would happen if someone has a mal (gets an open main low or reserve ride). Even better than that, the operator would simply enter the group data and let the computer suggest the exit order. Perhaps the computer will predict that there's no way to load the plane without someone landing out (which may be fixed if multiple jump runs are allowed) or predict that everyone will make it back but some won't if they have a mal. This would be an extension of John Kallend's Freefall Simulation (http://lensmoor.org/cgi-bin/chute.cgi). It would model groups, canopy ride, multiple jump runs, and be specific to the dropzone. It would model in 3D. The operator could import a satellite image of the dropzone. There would be three types of landing zones: green (on DZ), yellow (off DZ but suitable to land), and red (not suitable to land). They would draw polygons to represent green and yellow. Everywhere else would be red. From there they would enter everyone's freefall and canopy flight info. They'd have to define freefly, RW, Tandem, AFF?, and Wingsuit (others?) for freefall type. They'd have exit weights and intended opening altitudes. For the canopy ride, they'd have to define size/type of both main and reserve (other stuff?). The operator would enter weather data: wind speed and direction at all altitudes, air temp, others? They would enter exit altitude(s) and jump run direction(s) (maybe the jump run directions are suggested). They would enter other stuff I forgot or didn't think of. Once everything's set up, the computer would predict green, yellow, and red exit zones for each jumper. Exiting in the green zone will get that jumper back to the DZ. Exiting in the yellow, they won't make the DZ, but will get an out. Exiting in the red would be bad. Perhaps each jumper will have two sets of GYR zones (one for good main and one for malfunction). The zones would be visualized by extending the 2D polygons on the ground into 3D. Each jumper will have their one GYR zones. For groups, the green zone would be the intersection of every individual's green zone. The yellow zone would include at least one individual's yellow zone, but may include some individual's green zone. It would not include anyone's red zone. The group's red zone would have at least one individual's red zone but may include someone's yellow or green zone. The software would not only predict where people will open (to provide good opening separation) but predict where people will land. As such, it would have to have an accurate freefall and canopy ride model. Since this would be very difficult to model accurately (freefall: 3D model each individual's body with gear or generalize into height/weight/body type/expected freefall position; canopy ride: 3D model each individual's body under canopy and each canopy's flight characteristics by make/model or generalize into wingloading/canopy size/canopy type), some generalizations would have to be made. Whew! That's all I can think of for now. It would be fun to model a load where everyone does hop n' pops from 13.5 in a hurricane to see what county people land in. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Sophie (47): 12% Babydoll (42): 11%

45 Perfect 90% 16 miles average error 331 seconds

cough I must have really made the original post look like it was me. ooops. sorry. too late to edit. I imagine what happened was:firework placed (fuse way too close to ass!), lit hurts (before taking off) clentch (YEEEOOOW!) more pain. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Foooor SlothMUD???? I didn't register yet and I can't telnet to it from work. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

If it were me, I'd wait for it to come out on PC. It's a very good game, but not worth spending $150 + $50 just to play it. But, if you want to start playing console games, a PS2 isn't a bad choice. You may be thinking of Skydiving Extreme (pic attached). If so, the game sucks. It's been a while since I played it, but I recall it's just simple game where you repeat a displayed pattern. It shows you a pattern of up, down, left, and right and you have to repeat it quickly. If you do it right the jumpers change formations, but that's hard to notice because of concentrating so much on the pattern. Get one right move on to the next. Mess up one and start all over. The more you get right, the more freefall time you have. It's really really bad. It's actually worse than Skydive! for the PC. I'm going to checkout SlothMUD.

Losing T.O. is no doubt a big hurt. But I think the Eagles have a chance. McNabb is a good QB. Like you said, the rest of the team will have to step it up and no doubt they will. I'm going to say they're going to make it pretty far. The Super Bowl isn't out of site. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Ooo ooo ooo! PC vs. Console Flame War!!! Pee Seas suck! Consoles are better because: * games just work, pop 'em in and play, no worrying about drivers, hardware specs, etc... * consoles are cheaper * ok, you can't beat point and shoot with the mouse, but the console controller is better for everything else (that's why they make 'em for Pea Seas) unless you need a joystick or steering wheel (which they make for both) * no expensive hardware to buy every 6mo just to keep a decent frame rate Games: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to a lesser extent racing games the Gran Turismo 3 (still waiting for for GT4 because it was delay AGAIN and NASCAR Dirt to Daytona). and, aaah, that's about it for now. Too busy to play lots of games at once. Ok, ok, PC aint' too bad. I got Doom 3 which I'm going to get into maybe after Christmas. Plus I love MS Flight Sim 2004. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

HAHA I was waiting for that! Thanks again everyone. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

That sucks that he got hurt. But, the Eagles still have the best record in the NFC and have clinched home field advantage. I haven't kept up with what all the teams are doing but, just looking at the records, Atlanta is the next best team and rest just look so-so. I don't know how much T.O. has been a factor but I'd say there's still hope. What I want to see is an all Pennsylvania Super Bowl. With a victory for those of us on the left side, of coarse. Go Steelers! --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

HAHAHA! BTW, that was not me in the pictures. They're just some pictures I got e-mailed from a friend. --Art (as in not Silvester ) Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Just a tip for those who may not be aware. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

On the link that CrazyIvan gave, maybe they are linking to the wrong filename. I tried downloading from all 8 sites and none worked. Just for shits and giggles I went to the command line and ran ftp there. Logged into ftp.jp.nero.com (because it was first on the list). Used anonymous for username and anything for password. Tried to get nve3014.exe but it came back with "no such file". Did a dir and found a file called nve30114.exe (35039149 bytes). Tried a get on that and its downloading now a bit slow for a cable modem. Maybe using a US site instead of one from Japan may help. Art Edit to add: If that's the right file this link should work: ftp://ftp.us.nero.com/NVE30114.exe Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

Thanks Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

WOW!

I have some coworker friends that jumped. A couple of times I did a "Hey, let's get a big group together to go skydiving!" Each time it ended up being a small group (2 people and 4 people). I really doubt any of them would have jumped if I didn't do this. --Art Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.