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    George K
    wrote on 16 Oct 2023, 02:14 last edited by
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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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      Horace
      wrote on 17 Oct 2023, 04:34 last edited by
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      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-nyc
        wrote on 17 Oct 2023, 12:47 last edited by
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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.

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          Mik
          wrote on 17 Oct 2023, 12:54 last edited by
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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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            17 Oct 2023, 12:47

            @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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            taiwan_girl
            wrote on 17 Oct 2023, 16:12 last edited by
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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
              wrote on 17 Oct 2023, 20:25 last edited by jon-nyc
              #1370

              Travel times from NYC for different years.

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                jon-nyc
                wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 18:51 last edited by
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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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                  18 Oct 2023, 18:51

                  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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                  taiwan_girl
                  wrote on 19 Oct 2023, 13:11 last edited by
                  #1372

                  @jon-nyc Not only mildly but very interesting.

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                    George K
                    wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 00:56 last edited by
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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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                      Copper
                      wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 01:09 last edited by
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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
                        wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 05:08 last edited by
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                        Nixon was the last president to be born in a house with neither electricity nor running water.

                        Only non-witches get due process.

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                          Mik
                          wrote on 21 Oct 2023, 12:11 last edited by
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                          The rise of English pubs and the Black Death

                          https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub?fbclid=IwAR0werQwx0EDHUS_ejflNAa0OfFdgBKiUr-M_2oe802C56cZf_r3dSqI9ts

                          “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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                            George K
                            wrote on 22 Oct 2023, 11:35 last edited by
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                            "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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                              21 Oct 2023, 05:08

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

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                              Doctor Phibes
                              wrote on 22 Oct 2023, 11:53 last edited by
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                              @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

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

                              Dude, Obama was born in rural Africa.

                              I was only joking

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                                George K
                                wrote on 23 Oct 2023, 11:42 last edited by
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                                "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 K
                                  wrote on 23 Oct 2023, 11:43 last edited by George K
                                  #1380

                                  Employee of the month...

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                                  "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 K
                                    wrote on 24 Oct 2023, 12:25 last edited by
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                                    "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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                                      Horace
                                      wrote on 24 Oct 2023, 13:48 last edited by
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                                      Education is extremely important.

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                                        Copper
                                        wrote on 24 Oct 2023, 14:59 last edited by
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                                        Dude gotta float yo

                                        Link to video

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                                          jon-nyc
                                          wrote on 26 Oct 2023, 09:55 last edited by
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                                          Only non-witches get due process.

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