'we' really didnt elect him however, electorates did. despite that, the popular vote was in Gores favor as we all know, and if it was up to me, they would have had to fight each other for the presidency with a crowbar each. Also, to that Slipknot kid, get your head out of your ass too, the media is biased, even the BBC (though it presents a fairly even view compared to the US networks). Statistics do not mean anything, because they can be modified. People just hold up numbers and we instantly expect them to be accurate, as if they are definite proof. Hey, if i was a troop commander in Iraq, i would print that bullshit too so that soldiers wouldnt get all depressed because the people they invaded hate them and because its always 90 degrees plus. thats my little rant anyways...
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Grinding planetary rings would be incredibly difficult, not the least for which because there is no surface per se to slide on, and the collisions of the pieces of asteroid, dust and ice in the ring would make an environment that would not be pleasant. Your blood would first boil in the vacuum of space, leaving you so incapacitated that you could not maintain sufficient balance if there was a surface to grind, and then the temperature would freeze your skin, shatter your eardrums and sever your optical nerves because your watery eyeballs would freeze and then shatter. In the next split second, hundreds of particles of dust, ice and rock smaller than the size of this comma ',' would rip through your ski coat and body, instantly killing you. Your body would then still float about getting cut to shreds by the fragments until it is crushed between two colliding pieces of debris, eg two asteroids within the ring, which would grind your frozen body and regrettably snap your boards, boots and bindings, into dust to float around and become part of the massive debris fields that are the rings of Jupiter.