What do you want to do before you die?
A topic I made from another forum:
What do you guys want to do before you die? travel the world? fight a tiger? threesome with Asian twins?
The one thing I really would like to do (other than the Asian twins) is parachute from 102,800 feet like Joe Kittinger did. that high up you can see the curvature of the earth unaided.
Videos:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HHBOHFZfTI&mode=related&search=]
Discovery Science clip[/url]
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MkB6NkQscI&mode=related&search=" target="_blank">Music video by Boards of Canada featuring some better footage and nice music (first 2 and a half minutes)</a>
Wikipedia:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) was a pilot and career military officer in the United States Air Force. He is most famous for his participation in Project Man High and Project Excelsior. While on project Man High he became the first person to see the curvature of the earth unaided.
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Captain Kittinger was then assigned to the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. For Project Excelsior (meaning "ever upward", a name given to the project by Colonel Stapp), as part of research into high altitude bailout, he made a series of three parachute jumps wearing a pressurized suit, from a helium balloon with an open gondola. The first, from 76,400 feet (23,287 m) in November, 1959 was a near tragedy when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but the automatic parachute saved him (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm, the G factor calculated at his extremities was over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). Three weeks later he jumped again from 74,700 feet (22,769 m). For that return jump Kittinger was awarded the Leo Stevens parachute medal. On August 16, 1960 he jumped from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). He was in freefall for 4½ minutes and reached a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, causing his hand to swell. He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere. [1]
According to Kittinger, he broke the speed of sound during that famous highest jump. This may be debatable, as other references give his peak speed at 614 (988 km/h) or 618 (994 km/h) miles per hour, or mach 0.9. Nevertheless, he occasionally ribs Chuck Yeager about being the first man to break the speed of sound.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What about you guys?
What do you guys want to do before you die? travel the world? fight a tiger? threesome with Asian twins?
The one thing I really would like to do (other than the Asian twins) is parachute from 102,800 feet like Joe Kittinger did. that high up you can see the curvature of the earth unaided.
Videos:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HHBOHFZfTI&mode=related&search=]
Discovery Science clip[/url]
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MkB6NkQscI&mode=related&search=" target="_blank">Music video by Boards of Canada featuring some better footage and nice music (first 2 and a half minutes)</a>
Wikipedia:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) was a pilot and career military officer in the United States Air Force. He is most famous for his participation in Project Man High and Project Excelsior. While on project Man High he became the first person to see the curvature of the earth unaided.
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Captain Kittinger was then assigned to the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. For Project Excelsior (meaning "ever upward", a name given to the project by Colonel Stapp), as part of research into high altitude bailout, he made a series of three parachute jumps wearing a pressurized suit, from a helium balloon with an open gondola. The first, from 76,400 feet (23,287 m) in November, 1959 was a near tragedy when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but the automatic parachute saved him (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm, the G factor calculated at his extremities was over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). Three weeks later he jumped again from 74,700 feet (22,769 m). For that return jump Kittinger was awarded the Leo Stevens parachute medal. On August 16, 1960 he jumped from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). He was in freefall for 4½ minutes and reached a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, causing his hand to swell. He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere. [1]
According to Kittinger, he broke the speed of sound during that famous highest jump. This may be debatable, as other references give his peak speed at 614 (988 km/h) or 618 (994 km/h) miles per hour, or mach 0.9. Nevertheless, he occasionally ribs Chuck Yeager about being the first man to break the speed of sound.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What about you guys?
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Have a life, that'd sound pretty good around about now.
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I also agree with the mittens though, tough call which is more important. Life. Mittens. Life... bah screw it I'll go with the mittens.
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I want to be seen as one who caters to the independent, hardcore gamer, just giving the mainstream enough of a taste to get the sales needed to keep what I want going.
...and I'd like a wife, kids and a dog!
-2 hours in a forest with a minigun, not sure if I want a grizzly bear to be set loose.
-Prove the unified whiner theory.
-Walk on the moon.
-2 hours on the moon with a minigun, grizzly bear in a space suit definitely required.
-See the ideas of fashion and intellectualism die a fiery death.
-Delete Talesin's signature a couple hundred times.
-Go hoverboarding.
-Take a nap.
-Make a sammich.
-Occupy a position in the world of automatic respect wherever I go.
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Bahaha!
- Record a CD for sale
- Own a DeLorean
- Graduate college (in other words, pass music theory, aural skills, and piano <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />)
- Visit Europe for a while
- Goto Japan (maybe next summer, actually)
- build a practice/recording studio
- stop being a lazy bum and draw my gd graphic novel I want to do
I think thats about it.
oh, wait...
- pair of asian twins
(isn't the "Two chics at the same time" what you would do if you had a million dollars or something?)
- Visit Machu Picchu
- Produce a work of Industrial Design people will remember me for
- Find <i>the</i> woman
That's as far as I've planned.
- Oh, I guess that leaves just about everything...
- play the wii
- learn how to draw properly
- start a family and have kids
- Get rich (Think the above covers it)
- Threesome with Japanese Twins
- Suspend/Ban those admins which have done it to me (Unlucky Nem and Talesin <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> )
- Iradicate obesity and stupidity in the British population
And most importantly... become the Prime Minister's husband. To think the life of luxury while she has to go out and do a hard days work!
- Marry and Divorce Britney Spears
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Very very possible IMO.
-Play Duke Nukem Forever
-Play S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl
-Play NS2
-Play a sequel to TIE Fighter
-Play Starcraft 2
See? Now I can't ever die before completing all of that. That's how it works right?
See? Now I can't ever die before completing all of that. That's how it works right?
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i'll 1up you.
I want to find, meet and enjoy a healthy relationship with an intarweb female.
*boom* immortality GET!
Seriously.
Also, I want to see the end of modern civilization. Yea, I'm like that. No I am not drukn lol.
Kill a man just to watch him die.
Seriously.
Also, I want to see the end of modern civilization. Yea, I'm like that. No I am not drukn lol.
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You monster, at least put up a webcam so we can see too (not the killing part... the other thing)
Kill a man just to watch him die.
Seriously.
Also, I want to see the end of modern civilization. Yea, I'm like that. No I am not drukn lol.
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Anywho, <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4_N3YVP-Vdg&mode=related&search=" target="_blank">there is only 1 thing for me</a>
I want to find, meet and enjoy a healthy relationship with an intarweb female.
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Been there, living that...
Hmm, mine would have to be to enjoy my life with said intarweb female, and all the perks that go along with being with the one you love, settling down, marriage (If we get married, then y'all invited, you can have my word to hold me to that) kids, etc... (you say I'm soppy, and I WILL be slapping some faces...)
Not much else really, Ive done a fair bit in my life, including walking through the streets of Oslo when it was -5oC, wearing a tshirt...
Oh, and Aurora Borealis, with my girl, and a glass of something nice...
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And learn Dutch to the point I can actually understand what someone is saying to me in the store...
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The intraweb female thing makes me wonder if it's THAT hard for ya to meet women in REAL life.... ... .. . <img src="http://www.nsmod.org/forums/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
The intraweb female thing makes me wonder if it's THAT hard for ya to meet women in REAL life.... ... .. . <img src="http://www.nsmod.org/forums/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
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Nothing to do with that, old timer <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Me meeting my girl has nothing to do with meeting women in real life. I gave up on relationships, after being dumped several times for no reason at all, the last one I took it really hard, seeing as I'd been with her for a good while. She left me for no reason, and only by word of mouth, and a chance meeting did I learn that she'd married after she left me. Apparently, she'd been engaged for over a year before she left me, and I was just her "bit on the side", which apparently gave her the right to ditch me with no reason...
So anyway, I took it hard, basically gave up on relationships altogether. Given my "open" standing on sexuality, it meant basically I'd given up on compassion being given to me from anyone outside my family. I'd chosen to quit NS, but decided not to, after my connection got sorted. Looked for a server to play on, found the [o] servers, got adminned, got booted, and left with my current girlfriend (which it took an amaing amount of effort to ask round to mine for her holiday, let alone ask her out...). After a couple of nights of tearing myself apart, with her sleeping in the same room as me, I told her, and she said the feeling was mutual, and we hit off from there.
Nothing to do with me not being able to meet women in real life, Mr. Laz-to-the-Deepoe (I still remember your name, old man <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />) my meeting someone online was because the woman I thought I was going to make it with was such a ###### ###### to me, it scarred me for a good 3 years