If the world ended tomorrow, but all ATOT members survived...

[CJZ]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
A lot of people are quite smart on these boards.

Hahaha. LOL.

 

[wfbberzerker]

female:male ratio would be about 1:1000

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
female:male ratio would be about 1:1000

There aren't 100 females on this board.

 

[Azraele]

Originally posted by: baffled2

ewww but think about it, there are some puinshments that are worse than death

Hmm, good point.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
female:male ratio would be about 1:1000

There aren't 100 females on this board.

Maybe 50 at the outside, probably closer to 20-25. And in any case, does that even matter? The ratio of females who are not spoken for to males who aren't spoken for would be something like 1:50,000 :Q

ZV

 

[UltraQuiet]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ScottyB
The female members would be quite sore, if you get my drift , and Red Dawn would be walking around complaining how all of the people around him are AOL kiddies.

BS, I'd be hunting them down for food!

Not much meat on a pencil necked geek.

 

[Grasshopper27]

Actually, we'd probably be just fine...

The real issue is the long term survival of the species, not our own short term survival.

There is enough canned and preserved food sitting on supermarket shelves and warehouses around the world to feed 10,000 people for a long time. Add to that the food in the fields and the animals on farms and we really wouldn't have a food problem.

As for power, 100,000 people only need a single working nuclear reactor, and I'm sure they come with user manuals.

If we all lived in one city for example, our first priority would be to travel around the world and shut down the 300 or so nuclear reactors in the world to keep them from going critical. Then we'd need to find all nuclear ships and shut most down, keeping one or two for our own use.

After that, beats me... No more Friends episodes I guess...

Grasshopper

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: Azraele

Think about it. All the members are males!

Not all of them. I'm female, for one.

Yep, but there are probably 9 men for each woman here...

That of course means that you women would get the pick of the litter, and we'd depend on couples like Skoorb & MrsSkoorb to get us started...

Grasshopper

 

[N8Magic]

I can fly a plane. (among other things)

 

[EvilYoda]

I'd drive around in a Honda CRX, all riced out with a giant wing, fart-can, AOL stickers up the a$$, with my stock speakers blaring. I mean, if everybody else is gone, and the chances of me finding a hot girl among AT members (I'm sure there are a few, but they're only here b/c of a guy, I'm sure) is slim to none......I couldn't think of anything more entertaining to do than piss off all the remaining members of the earth.

Oh yeah, I'd shout about how Monster cabling is better than Radio Shack's, and 12 guage is necessary.

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: N8Magic
I can fly a plane. (among other things)

Helicopter pilots do it lower, slower, and better...

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: grasshopper26

Originally posted by: N8Magic
I can fly a plane. (among other things)

Helicopter pilots do it lower, slower, and better...

Meh.

There are also way fewer people with their gyro rating compared to those with a plain old private pilots license. You'd likely be hard pressed to find one among the members of OT.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: N8Magic

Originally posted by: grasshopper26

Originally posted by: N8Magic
I can fly a plane. (among other things)

Helicopter pilots do it lower, slower, and better...

Meh.

There are also way fewer people with their gyro rating compared to those with a plain old private pilots license. You'd likely be hard pressed to find one among the members of OT.

Grasshopper26 is a helo pilot. (EDIT: Oops, my bad. I'm wrong there.)

I used to know a guy who flew helicopters, used to joke about how he was so good that he could fly a helicopter upside down....once.

ZV

 

[N8Magic]

Grasshopper26 is a helo pilot.

I used to know a guy who flew helicopters, used to joke about how he was so good that he could fly a helicopter upside down....once.

ZV

Oh.

grasshopper26: How long did it take you to get your rating? I hear it is a fairly long, expensive process.

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: N8Magic

Meh.

There are also way fewer people with their gyro rating compared to those with a plain old private pilots license. You'd likely be hard pressed to find one among the members of OT.

Actually, I don't know anyone who has a gyrocopter rating... I'd personally be more inclined to get my glider rating before my gyrocopter rating. If I want to do autorotations, I'll just use the helicopter.

Are you a private or commercial pilot? If commercial, do you fly for a living?

I'm a private fixed-wing pilot myself, so I know about the fun of ziping around in a SkyHawk, but my first love remains forever with the helicopter.

*edit* just to be clear, I'm a private fixed-wing, commercial rotor-wing pilot. I fly fixed-wing planes for fun, I fly helicopters for a living.

Grasshopper

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: grasshopper26
Actually, I don't know anyone who has a gyrocopter rating... I'd personally be more inclined to get my glider rating before my gyrocopter rating. If I want to do autorotations, I'll just use the helicopter.

Are you a private or commercial pilot? If commercial, do you fly for a living?

I'm a private fixed-wing pilot myself, so I know about the fun of ziping around in a SkyHawk, but my first love remains forever with the helicopter.

Grasshopper

Damnit. I could have sworn you had a helo license. My bad.

ZV

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Grasshopper26 is a helo pilot.

I used to know a guy who flew helicopters, used to joke about how he was so good that he could fly a helicopter upside down....once.

ZV

Actually, that isn't completely true. Some helicopters can be flown upside down in a barrel roll. Many modern military helicopters like the Apache and BlackHawk can do it, some commercial helicopters like the Agustua 109 and BK-117 can do it.

I personally wouldn't try it in a Bell 206 or 407 however...

Since the blades of most helicopters are symentrical (meaning the bottom of the blades are curved at the same camber as the top of the blades, this is done for center of pressure reasons), there is no aerodynamic reason you couldn't fly a helicopter upside down if you could somehow move the pitch of the blades far enough, the real problem would be mast bumping and tail strikes. The helicopters are just not designed for it, but given enough money, anything can be done.

Grasshopper

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: grasshopper26
Actually, I don't know anyone who has a gyrocopter rating... I'd personally be more inclined to get my glider rating before my gyrocopter rating. If I want to do autorotations, I'll just use the helicopter.

Are you a private or commercial pilot? If commercial, do you fly for a living?

I'm a private fixed-wing pilot myself, so I know about the fun of ziping around in a SkyHawk, but my first love remains forever with the helicopter.

Grasshopper

Damnit. I could have sworn you had a helo license. My bad.

ZV

No, I do... I'm a private fixed-wing, commercial helicopter pilot. I fly the Bell 206BIII and Bell 407 helicopters in Part 135 charter work.

What I was trying to say is that I do understand the joys of flying around in a fixed-wing airplane. A lot of my fellow helicopter pilots are not fixed-wing rated, and don't have a very high opinion of fixed-wing pilots.

Grasshopper

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: grasshopper26

Actually, I don't know anyone who has a gyrocopter rating... I'd personally be more inclined to get my glider rating before my gyrocopter rating. If I want to do autorotations, I'll just use the helicopter.

Are you a private or commercial pilot? If commercial, do you fly for a living?

I'm a private fixed-wing pilot myself, so I know about the fun of ziping around in a SkyHawk, but my first love remains forever with the helicopter.

Grasshopper

I'm a private pilot. (a somewhat inexperienced one at that )

However, a very good friend of mine went through an aviaton program at college and is currently instructing and towing gliders up at the local club in order to build up his hours so as to be hired by one of the major airlines.

If you have any questions about commercial pilots, I could pass them along for you if you like.

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: N8Magic

Oh.

grasshopper26: How long did it take you to get your rating? I hear it is a fairly long, expensive process.

Everything is realitive...

It took me about 8 months to get all my helicopter ratings (private first, then instrument, commercial, and CFI ratings).

Total cost was about $40,000, give or take a few bucks. About the price of 4 years of college.

Getting your ratings in a fixed-wing is cheaper, about $20,000 for the same set of ratings. Helicopters are really expensive to fly. The Bell 206BIII costs about $500 per hour to fly and the Bell 407 costs about $1,000 per hour to fly. The 206BIII holds 4 passangers and the 407 holds 6 passangers. The 206 cruises at 115 knots and the 407 at 135 knots.

You don't train in those helicopters of course, they are much too expensive to fly. You train in either the Robinson R22 or Schweitzer 300CB at a cost of about $200 per hour.

Grasshopper

 

[MrPhelps]

My backup p/s is guaranteed to work!!!1

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: grasshopper26


No, I do... I'm a private fixed-wing, commercial helicopter pilot. I fly the Bell 206BIII and Bell 407 helicopters in Part 135 charter work.

What I was trying to say is that I do understand the joys of flying around in a fixed-wing airplane. A lot of my fellow helicopter pilots are not fixed-wing rated, and don't have a very high opinion of fixed-wing pilots.

Grasshopper

Gyro rating != helicopter? The two terms are used interchangably up here...

Sounds like you have an interesting job though. I would LOVE to be a commercial pilot, but I simply don't have the time and the reserve of cash to drop my current job and train towards it.

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: N8Magic

I'm a private pilot. (a somewhat inexperienced one at that )

However, a very good friend of mine went through an aviaton program at college and is currently instructing and towing gliders up at the local club in order to build up his hours so as to be hired by one of the major airlines.

If you have any questions about commercial pilots, I could pass them along for you if you like.

Don't worry about low experience flying, we all started with the same number of hours (zero).

I've been flying for almost 4 years now, have about 1,800 hours total time, about 500 of that is turbine time. What I really need is twin turbine time but that is usually hard to come by. It is required for working in some of the better jobs in the business.

As for the airlines, I couldn't possibily have less interest in working for them. Take off-get to 400ft, press the auto-pilot button, you just became a computer systems manager. Blah...

Grasshopper

 

[RossMAN]

Everyone's mortgage, checking, savings, CD and credit cards would be issued by Bank of Ferengi Association not to be confused with BOFA (Bank of America).

Of course we would only approve car loans for Nissan Altima's, Honda Accord's and VW's

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: N8Magic

Gyro rating != helicopter? The two terms are used interchangably up here...

Sounds like you have an interesting job though. I would LOVE to be a commercial pilot, but I simply don't have the time and the reserve of cash to drop my current job and train towards it.

Blah... Please don't confuse true helicopter pilots with those pretenders in the gyroplanes...

The two official ratings are:

Rotorcraft - Helicopter
Rotorcraft - Gyroplane

Gyros are different than helicopters, and shouldn't be confused with us...

[touchy, aren't I?]

As for the money, I only went to one year of college. Used the rest of my college money to pay for my flight training.

Grasshopper