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In a message dated 95-10-04 11:24:40 EDT, you write: > Rod, being irresponsible is not funny... >I don't have to worry about >them emulating me.... George, It seems to me that you have said some irresponsible things, and some people might emulate _some_ of what you say you do: In a message dated 95-10-01 11:01:25 EDT, you write: >Two weeks ago, someone stole my oxygen bottle >out of Wakulla ( I left in in overnight from the >previous dive). Not having O2, I just skipped the >twenty and ten foot stops, got out and went home. >I was in a hurry, and did not want to wait for the >surface crew to get another one out of my van. Guess >what? No problem. I like the idea, the 20 & 10 foot stops are the long, boring ones anyway. If I don't have any O2 to do them properly, I can just blow them off like Geoge does! In a message dated 95-07-22 11:06:52 EDT, you write: >As my dive partners will tell you, I don't even carry tables >when I dive , any more than I would need to carry the operators >manual for my automobile every time I drive. Since the Buelman >algortithm is essentially a solution to a system of linear first >order differential equations (non-linear perturbations considered, >no tecno weenies , please) , i.e. a summation of exponential terms >with their respective cooefficients (haven't you noticed that all >decompression schedules look like the time-varying voltage across >a charging capacitor?), and since most diffusion phenomena in >nature obey this behavior, why not go to the source and just >reverse a Fibonnacci sequence? Any type of piece-wise linear >approximation to an ideal exponential profile is very easy and >very reasonable to interpolate at will, after all it is just a >model. Good idea! We'll just leave the computers and tables on the boat - more streamlined that way. We can just make up stops as we go along! In the spirit of what you said to Rod, please be responsible in what you post. We have been told that you know your stuff, so some people take you seriously. -Dan ========================================================= Daniel R. Fountain dfountain@ao*.co* CIS 76545,1467 "I try to learn from the mistakes of others, since I can't live long enough to make them all myself." =========================================================
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