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- From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
- Subject: Music while jumping
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.200809.8706@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:08:09 GMT
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- Has anyone jumped with a CD player before? I've seen in done in videos,
- but have never done it myself. (I have, however, *tried* to do it. It
- turns out that my new player is a wuss. It didn't want to jump, and the
- batteries died during the climb to altitude!) Not having made the
- experiment myself, I'm starting to wonder just how badly this is likely to
- thrash the player. I've done it with a cassette player, dumped high, and
- activated the music. It didn't seem to hurt anything. (Note that you're
- usually dumping high while listening to music. When jumping at a one plane
- DZ like ours, it means that you land much later than everyone else, and the
- risk of collision is minimal.)
-
- For that matter, what would you all take with you while jumping? I was all
- cued up on "Learning to Fly" when the machine crapped out on me. The time
- before that, I had some new age synth stuff whose name currently escapes
- me.
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