Thanks Jay, Glad to hear you're headed in the right direction. Hopefully we'll see you at the drop zone soon. Actually part of the reason I posted the link (besides trying to get folks here to give jumping a try) was to illustrate the effects of surface area vs. fall rate (got to get the science wherever I can...) The guy shooting most of the video was falling feet first, as was the person on the other side of the formation while the rest of us were falling "belly down" (the combination of the two different styles is why it's called a hybrid jump). Note that when the video guy and the other "feet down" person break off from the formation their vertical speed picks up immediately and they practically rocket away from the belly fliers. The reason being of course, that when falling feet first there is much less surface area exposed to the relative wind. What a fun way to do physics. patrick :) On 04 Aug 2010, at 10:53, Jay Eads wrote:
Patrick,
Oustanding. Tell you what, I've lost 35 lbs now with about 90 more to go. When I get to my goal in 12 to 15 months I'll jump as a reward to myself. Always wanted to do it and I'll have it filmed.
Now, how did you get younger, taller, more hair and going to James Madison Univ. in VA?
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Just watched the video. OK, it's official, Patrick's crazy!
--- On Wed, 8/4/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Aurora To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 2:44 AM
Checking the web when I got home for images of the auroral oval ( http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap) I found why we saw no aurora: It's waaaaay to the north of us.
But like Steve said it was still a fun outing. Weather was mild, skies had lots of stuff to look at, the ladies from Park City were a hoot and that rising Moon and it's reflection in the water were beautiful. I just hope some of the pictures get posted to the web soon (hint, hint!).
In other sky news, I returned home to find a friend had posted a video of one of my other "sky adventures" to the web:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_y48HObrTM
Anyone care to join me next time? :)
Cheers!
patrick
On 04 Aug 2010, at 02:33, Steve FISHER wrote:
Kim:
Looks like I'm one of the first to make it back from Exit 84. We did not see any trace of aroura. We ended up with about fifteen or twenty people just off the freeway far enough not to be bothered by freeway lights. Many of the people were on their first outing with SLAS or any one from Utah Astronomy. Some got Patrick's number from a schedule and asked him what was up tonight. They drove down from Park City and went to the desert with us. Great night, Southern skies cleared and we did a lot of binocular observing. When the moon showed up it was a beautiful and surprising sight. It looked like a shark fin as it rose above the mountain. Still no aurora though. Steve