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Cool...I'd go with you if I didn't have Salsa dance lessons on Thursday eves.

Have you seen the ads for the people who make door mats from old climbing ropes? IMHO there's just something fundamentally wrong with wiping my feet on my favorite old ropes. Sacrilige! What kind of cool things have you seen done with old ropes?

wasn't the "RSVP by" date the 7th or 9th?

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When I composed this question I had to count down over 20 posts to find one that Trask had started. Has the intellectual diarrhea about mars, orbits, and dehydration scared him off?

Matt, are you talking about those fern bars again? I knew there was something suspect about those innocuous looking places.

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very geeky cool!

so why does Alpinfox's original post say "edited by ChucK"? are both of the #2 keys on your keyboard inoperative?

I can see how it could contribute to hypothermia, but dehydration doesn't make sense to me.

It's good to see more of the details coming out. the articl states "One time, Witkowski said, he was so tired, he just laid down next to a creek, so he could lean over into the water and drink. He didn't eat snow because he knew it would dehydrate him." Someone please learn me a little bit. how can eating snow dehydrate you?

I'll take a stab at this off the top of my head. NO. rpm equates to angular velocity, not the 'straight line' velocity of an object in orbit. The centripital force actually creates an acceleration of the body, i.e. it changes the direction of the body. For instance, if the ball being swung in a circle on a string were to have it's string cut, the ball would tend to travel in a straight line (given no earth gravity effects). Thus, the string is changing the direction (accelerating the body) constantly. The tension in the string is equivalent to the force changing the direction, which is the centripital force. Given a higher RPM, there's also a higher 'straight line' velocity that has to be overcome by the tension in the string. In other words, f=ma, and a higher rpm requires a greater force to maintain the equivalent centripital acceleration.

There is no outward acting force. The force of a simple orbiting body has 1 component if it is orbiting at a constant velocity. That force is the centripital force, directed toward the center of the orbit. If a force is applied the body will accelerate in the direction of the force, whether that's toward or away from the center of the orbit. A force can act to accelerate the body, and in that case the body can (but not always) escape the orbit. If there were a constant force acting outward (180 degrees away from the direction of the centripital force), the body would accelerate away from the center of the orbit and likely jump orbit.

I can't think of a better place for G-Dub. Can we get this program sped up a bit? I'd push for a launch date early this year!

troll.....

people who want real content use rockclimbing.com. people who want spray and chestbeating post here. some are flexible enough to extract the valuable tidbits from each.

an article I read in the paper this morning says the higher levels of PCBs in farm raised salmon is probably due to the feed.

of the back room deals being cut here web page web page web page Biltmore gathering assailed Energy meeting is out of bounds, critics charge By Mitch Tobin ARIZONA DAILY STAR Critics say business executives are brazenly buying access to federal lawmakers and key energy officials this week at Phoenix's posh Biltmore Resort. The gathering includes a fund-raiser for Republican legislators, followed by an industry-dominated energy conference today. Both events were organized by the former communications director for Vice President Dick Cheney's controversial energy task force. At Wednesday's fund-raiser, a $3,000 donation allowed two members of a business to share "Mulligans and Margaritas" with lawmakers on the Biltmore's golf course before heading to a private dinner. Conference participants are invited to sponsor a panel on revisions to the Clean Air Act for $3,000, or spend $5,000 to support the keynote address by Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles. Organizer Jim Sims said about 10 Republican members of Congress, including several from Arizona, would attend the fund-raiser and then be at the Biltmore for today's "Roundtable Summit of the West." But Sims said "there's no linkage" between the fund-raiser and conference, even though they were advertised together. "Want to help Congress write its 'To-Do' list for next year?" the promotion said, pitching the gathering as "several days of events designed to give a limited number of business leaders the opportunity to share ideas, concerns and suggestions with many national policymakers." "I'm involved in both, but that's the only connection," said Sims, a former lobbyist who is now executive director of the nonprofit Western Business Roundtable. "I happen to have these members (of Congress) in one city at one time . . . that's how we always do these things." Activists are outraged and plan to hold a "counter news event" today in a rented conference room at the resort. "This conference is nothing less than a festival of access-buying," said Frank O'Donnell, executive director of the Clean Air Trust in Washington, D.C. Some in Congress also think the mixing of fund-raising and policy-making is inappropriate. Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo., chair of the House Ethics Committee, is listed as a conference participant. But Hefley's office said he never planned to attend. "It may be legal, but there's an appearance of impropriety. It simply doesn't look good," spokeswoman Sarah Shelden said. "He's very interested in Western land, water and energy issues and thinks they can be discussed at a hearing in Washington, D.C., just as easily and effectively." After the Enron scandal, the transparency of federal energy policy became a hot political topic. Democrats accuse the Bush administration of excluding them from Cheney's energy task force. Republicans counter that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean also held energy-related meetings in secret while he was governor of Vermont. Wednesday's fund-raiser supported the Western GOP Majority Committee, which divides money among 20 Republican congressional candidates in the West, including Arizona's Jim Kolbe, John Shadegg, J.D. Hayworth and Rick Renzi. Sims said only Kolbe, Shadegg and Hayworth were attending the fund-raiser and energy conference. "This event is no different than any other fund-raising event," said Neena Moorjani, Kolbe's spokeswoman. Shadegg's office said he would attend the dinner but not take part in the golf or energy conference. Hayworth's offices in Washington and Scottsdale did not return calls seeking comment. Kolbe, Shadegg and Hayworth have together received $56,488 from political action committees that represent companies attending the conference, according to figures provided by the Campaign to Protect America's Lands. "It is an alarming warning sign of how bad things have gotten that timber, oil and mining industries would be this brazen about buying their way onto the Capitol Hill agenda," said Peter Altman, director of the group. Registration for the conference, which is co-sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is $475 for businesses and $175 for nonprofits. "It's not a partisan event because we'll have a diversity of opinion," Sims said, noting that he invited many Democratic lawmakers and officials. But by midday Wednesday, no Democratic members of Congress had indicated they would attend the conference, he said.

Not precisely, he's more of a moderator-at-large. He has no authority in any of the forums, but still has access to the Moderator forum. As Alex alluded to, in many ways the moderators act as an advisory board, and Erik's input is still welcome. Like this contribution by Erik in the Red Rocks thread? "yeah who really cares...if someone is shallow enough to commit suicide then fuck them." Makes complete sense to me! edit: Someone deleted that little gem, too.......

Yes, maybe this is a good time to review the criteria for unacceptable posts. Edit: the only 'official' guidelines I see are here. Does this FAQ need to be updated?

Spray mode on: As the levels of bureaucracy here at cc.com increase I think we'll see more of this. Owners, senior moderators, junior moderators, tattle-tales, and posters. The personalities of each will continue to develop and finally we'll have moderators changing posts already changed by other moderators. Eventually one will have to have some sort of mod status to even play well here. Let's hope not!

5/16" = 7.9375 mm difference from 8mm = .0625 mm = .00246"