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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    #1356

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

      Topological map of South America.

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      taiwan_girlT Offline
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      #1357

      @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

      Topological map of South America.

      IMG_0579.jpeg

      That is quite interesting. I mentioned in another thread when talking about if there was a military invasion of Taiwan by China and how many mountains there are. Below is the same type of map for Taiwan.

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      • jon-nycJ Online
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        #1358

        Only non-witches get due process.

        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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        • George KG Offline
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          George K
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          #1359

          Calibration

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • George KG Offline
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            George K
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            #1360

            At the Tri-Delt house...

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            • George KG Offline
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              George K
              wrote on last edited by
              #1361

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • jon-nycJ Online
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                jon-nyc
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                #1362

                Population density of the US.

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                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  ab84c54f-1d19-404e-a489-9d0c56a7cd31-image.png

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                  • George KG George K

                    At the Tri-Delt house...

                    jon-nycJ Online
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                    jon-nyc
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                    #1364

                    @George-K said in Mildly interesting:

                    At the Tri-Delt house...

                    IHT.

                    And so would all of you guys. I just had the gumption to say it out loud.

                    Only non-witches get due process.

                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                    • George KG Offline
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                      Thanks for your comment. Actually, you'd hit any of that, right?

                      I was waiting, and for a while, disappointed, that you didn't.

                      You've restored my faith in you.

                      Let's hear it for the Tri-Delts!

                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      • HoraceH Online
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                        Horace
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                        #1366

                        I like to imagine the driver intentionally got my dog center frame.

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                        Education is extremely important.

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                        • jon-nycJ Online
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                          jon-nyc
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                          @George-K Regarding the holdout property owner who won’t sell to the developer, we have a case of that here. An older brick house sits surrounded by a big commercial development.

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                          Only non-witches get due process.

                          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          • MikM Offline
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                            It's certainly convenient for them.

                            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                            • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                              @George-K Regarding the holdout property owner who won’t sell to the developer, we have a case of that here. An older brick house sits surrounded by a big commercial development.

                              IMG_0584.jpeg

                              IMG_0584.jpeg

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                              @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                              An older brick house sits surrounded by a big commercial development.

                              Wasn't there something similar to a Trump casino or something like that?

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                                jon-nyc
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                                #1370

                                Travel times from NYC for different years.

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                                Only non-witches get due process.

                                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                  Two enormous gyroscopes being installed in the USS Henderson as a roll stabilizing system during its construction in April 1917 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in World War 1.
                                  The Henderson, a transport of 80 ton displacement, was the first large ship to be gyroscopically stabilized to prevent the ship from rolling from side to side with ocean swells.
                                  The gyros, built by Sperry Rand, consist of two 25 ton, 9 ft diameter flywheels which during operation are spun at 1100 RPM in opposite directions by 75 HP AC electric motors.
                                  Each gyro case is mounted on a vertical bearing which can be turned by a 75 HP servo motor. When a small sensor gyro on the ship's bridge sensed the ship roll, it ordered the servo motor to rotate the gyros about the vertical axis in a direction so the gyro's precession would oppose the ship's roll.
                                  During trials they were able to keep the ship roll down to 3 degrees in the roughest seas.
                                  This technology was replaced by roll stabilizer fins and is not used today.

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                                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                    Two enormous gyroscopes being installed in the USS Henderson as a roll stabilizing system during its construction in April 1917 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in World War 1.
                                    The Henderson, a transport of 80 ton displacement, was the first large ship to be gyroscopically stabilized to prevent the ship from rolling from side to side with ocean swells.
                                    The gyros, built by Sperry Rand, consist of two 25 ton, 9 ft diameter flywheels which during operation are spun at 1100 RPM in opposite directions by 75 HP AC electric motors.
                                    Each gyro case is mounted on a vertical bearing which can be turned by a 75 HP servo motor. When a small sensor gyro on the ship's bridge sensed the ship roll, it ordered the servo motor to rotate the gyros about the vertical axis in a direction so the gyro's precession would oppose the ship's roll.
                                    During trials they were able to keep the ship roll down to 3 degrees in the roughest seas.
                                    This technology was replaced by roll stabilizer fins and is not used today.

                                    IMG_0589.jpeg

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                                    taiwan_girl
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                                    @jon-nyc Not only mildly but very interesting.

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                                    • George KG Offline
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                                      George K
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                                      This was in 1987.

                                      Can you imagine the problem today, given the increase in obesity?

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        Good luck finding 800,000 who could wobble from the entrance to the first tower.

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                                          jon-nyc
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                                          #1375

                                          Nixon was the last president to be born in a house with neither electricity nor running water.

                                          Only non-witches get due process.

                                          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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