They had it coiled and attached to what looks like a caribeaner and hung it off a clip close to their chest. I'm looking for how they coiled the rope like that. It didn't look like a very long rope at all.
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So a "Swiss Seat" harness can be made for rappeling.  Also can use it to secure yourself to the floor of a helicopter if the seats have been removed...
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I DONT KNOW BUT I SAW A PIC OF THAT AND MAN THAT JUST LOOKED PAINFUL. SORRY IM NO HELP BUT JUST THOUGHT ID TELL YOU HOW PAINFUL IT LOOKED
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There was quite a bit we learned during the finale. Here's some of the more important stuff. For more information, check out the source.\n\n--- http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Push_the_Button ---\nThe button serves as a venting mechanism for electromagnetic energy located within the sealed portion of The Swan. The "incident", according to Kelvin was a leak of said energy from it's containment. Geological anomalies in the Island cause this energy to build up over time. After 108 minutes, the energy buildup is large enough that failure to vent the energy has catastrophic results. It has not yet been revealed why the values are not (cannot be?) automatically entered by a mechanical device or computer program, rather than by human beings. Desmond failed to push the button on-time on September 22, 2004 , triggering a system failure. Although the sequence was entered shortly after the time expired, the resulting magnetic burst was assumed to be strong enough to cause Flight 815 to crash.\n\n--- http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Snowglobe ---\nThe island is refered to as such by Desmond, in episode Live Together, Die Alone, after attempting to flee from the vicinity in his sailboat, implying that there is no conventional means to get away from it. He bases that assumption to the fact that he was sailing for about two and a half weeks in the open sea, on 9 knots (speed of travelling), heading west, and, as he states, that should place him in the Fiji in less than a week (Desmond is an experienced sailor; he participated in a sailboat world race and that's how he ended up on the island). Desmond's assumption is later confirmed when the man refered to as Henry Gale (maybe He?), who also appears to be a leader figure among the others, tells Michael that, once he is rescued, there is no way he could find the way back to the island. We have to presume, of course, that the word "rescue" carries its ordinary connotation (the way the survivors mean it).
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Probably a male orca somewhere, there was a gray whale calf kept for a while recovering from a stranding , but I don't know whether it attained a larger size than a male orca before it was returned to the wild. Blue whales are the only whales that reach 30m and 120 t and they have never been kept in captivity
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Here is the story that I found on Comcast news. Sick people I tell you!!\n\n\n\nN.Y.-Bound Puppies Used As Drug Couriers\nBy TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer\n5 hours ago\n\nNEW YORK - Colombian smugglers turned puppies into drug mules by surgically implanting them with packets of liquid heroin, authorities said.\n\nInvestigators believe the ring used the dogs, as well as people who swallowed the drugs, to conceal millions of dollars of heroin on commercial flights into New York for distribution on the East Coast.\n\nTen puppies, including Labrador retrievers, were rescued during a 2005 raid on a farm in Colombia, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday, while announcing more than 30 arrests.\n\nA veterinarian had stitched a total of 3 kilograms of heroin into the bellies of six pups. Three died from infections after the drugs were removed.\n\nThe surviving dogs "are still alive and well, we're told," said John P. Gilbride, head of the DEA's New York office.\n\nColombian police said they adopted three dogs, one of which was being trained to sniff for drugs.\n\nIt was unclear how many dogs might have been used in the smuggling scheme, Gilbride said.\n\n"I think it's outrageous and heinous that they'd use small, innocent puppies in this way," he said.\n\nBesides the pups and human swallowers, authorities said the ring based in Medellin also concealed drugs in body creams, aerosol cans, and the linings of purses and luggage.\n\nRecent raids in Colombia resulted in more than 20 arrests; another 10 suspects were in custody in New York, Florida and North Carolina. About 24 kilograms of heroin was seized, officials said.
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I bet you get the answer when Peter Jackson releases the 6 hour extended Director's Cut DVD in May. Either that or go check out "The  Bastards Have Landed" the Peter Jackson Fanclub site. They might know. I think they fashioned a raft out of timber woven together with that old native lady's whisker hairs, and floated him back tied to the back of the S.S. Venture, or as you refer to it, "That Tiny Ship". Hey, these guys transport Sumatran Rat Monkeys. If you know anything, You know those are way worse news than a 25 foot gorilla.
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um...what would said port hole look like? and where would it be located on the body? that's an odd idea.\n\nYet so rad.
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When they didn't push the button, the hatch imploded. No one seemed to have died or really been very injured from it, which doesn't make much sense, but there ya go. The explosion seems to have lost all of Desmond's clothes, and Hurley finds him in the woods. Charlie gets a few scrapes, but goes back to Claire unharmed and they kiss. Locke lost his hearing for a while, but seemed okay, and Eko got dragged off by a polar bear and Locke had to go find him.\n\nThe black smoke seems to be able to manifest itself as living (that might not be the right word, since Yemi is dead) beings, because Yemi said when he asked Eko to confess his sins "You talk to me as if I were your brother" before he turned into the smoke monster and killed Eko. We still don't know why the smoke thingy can do this, or what it's made of.\n\nThe Others...we still don't know why they're there. That hasn't been revealed to us yet.
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Here is some info on them however it's more of an informative piece..  not about any recent news stories.\n\nhttp://www.users.bigpond.com/sch57/portnoarlunga/beachworms/beachworms.html\n\nScary to think it can be 8 feet long!
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ELEVEN PEOPLE ON A ROPE \n\nEleven people were hanging on a rope under a helicopter, ten men \nand one woman.\n\nThe rope was not strong enough to carry them all, so they decided \nthat one had to leave, because otherwise they were all going to fall. \nThey weren't able to name that person, until the woman gave a very \ntouching speech.\n\nShe said that she would voluntarily let go of the rope, because, \nas a woman, she was used to giving up everything for her husband and \nkids, or for men in general, and was used to always making sacrifices with \nlittle in return.\n\n\nAs soon as she finished her speech, all the men started clapping \ntheir hands.......
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I've looked for near an hour and for the life of me I can't the history of it.  I thought it would be pretty simple, but boy was I ever wrong.  I'm sure you already found the sites that make and sell them, not to mention an airplane called a Windsock, but all the help I can give you today is good luck.  Sorry I couldn't help.  But I had to give you some sort of answer because nobody else has posted anything.
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Actually there was such a device according to Mythology. She was called Medusa. She had hair of slithering snakes, she was so hideous that anyone who looked at her turned to stone. Look it up to find out how someone was finally able to kill her while many others tried and failed!
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it has a handle and some kind of webbing in it!
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ok first off i'd like to point out that the navy uses 3 things that fit into the general category you are talking about\nrope (line)\nSteel cable (wire rope)\nChain (chain)\n\nit depends on what you are using each for.  i'm assuming now that you mean to tie off to the pier?  if not then please note it in the add details section.\n\nok the navy uses lines and sometimes wire rope to tie off to the pier however it is almost exclusively lines.  now if you are asking if one is stronger than the other than it depends on the size and material you are  talking about.  generally here's the breakdown and i'm not going to type in all of the increments cuz i really don't feel like it.\n\nusuallly the navy uses nylon lines as opposed to polypropylene and manila (marline) now a days though they are now trying to switch to kevlar (i'll get to that later)\n\nthese are the break pounds ratings for line vs wire rope\n\n       nylon......wire rope\n1/2"   6400.......18700\n1"     25000......72800\n1 1/2" 53000......160000\n2"     92000......278000\n2 1/2" 140000.....424000\n\nacross the board the wire rope is stronger yes but now look at it this way.  the navy uses 2 1/2" lines to tie off ships to the pier at 140000 lbs the wire rope equivalent would be 1 1/2".  now per 100 feet the line weighs 149 lbs\nthe wire rope weighs 360 lbs  its a matter of being able to handle the lines a 360 lb line is just to bulky and heavy also the mooring operation is very complex and wire rope kinks and twists in ways that tend to make it not easy to handle.  thats just for beginners now you have getting underway.  if pearl harbor happened again you think you're going to want to mess with 360 lbs of wire rope in a big tanged mess in order to get underway.  NO  you cut the lines loose.  then you have the issue of lines doing what is known as PARTING.  this is where the line (line here meaning MOORING LINE be it line or rope) breaks.  with nylon line you can install what is known as a tattle tale.  it is a smaller piece of line that is spliced into the line as the line stretches (and it WILL) if it is going to part.  the tattletail's will pop first giving warning to relax the line quickly or get the hell out the way.  when a nylon line parts it whips back like a rubberband at faster than the speed of sound it WILL KILL PEOPLE if they are in the WRONG place at the WRONG TIME.  now a rope whan it parts.  first you won't know it's coming cus there is very little stretch to a rope so no tattletail. second if you tried to put in a tattletail it would weaken the rope. now here's the kicker when a rope parts.  it not only snaps back but it also becomes in escence a shrapnel grenade.  there is no right or wrong place to be when a rope parts. IT WILL GET YOU.  and if it doesn't kill you.  you AIN'T GONNA BE HAPPY! remember i mensioned KEVLAR Lines?\n\nthe navy is switching to them cuz A: they weigh about the same as the Nylon does B: they are stronger C: you can put a tattletail in them without weakening them and D: when they part they simply drop down into the water. they don't snap back and kill people.  this is of course just the basics i'm not mensioning the myriad other reasons like chemical exposure rust etc etc...
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The one that is stretched tightly would probably be more likely to break.   The lack of tension would cause the rope to reach its breaking point sooner.
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It looked like the hover boards worked with some sort of magnet on the bottom that probably conteracted with the earth's magnetic force. Since, water isn't magnetic, the hoverboard wouldn't work on water. Thats what I thought at least.
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I don't know the name since I saw it in a western only now I can't remember which one it was. Anyways, what you do is get a bar about a foot in length and tie a piece of rope in the middle of it long enough that it almost hits the floor when held at mid waist. At the end of the rope put a weight or something that weighs about 3-4lbs on it. Then by rolling your wrists and turning the bar, roll the rope on the bar and then let it down again by doing the same motion only backward.