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Horses are expensive to maintain, and have a rough daily limit of about 30 miles. In comparison, a human walking at 3 mph can go the same distance in only 10 hours.

That's not comparable. The horse could do that forever (for example, see this US cavalry manual which stipulates cavalry can go 35 miles a day, six days a week indefinitely - page 152) while the person would not be able to maintain that sort of pace for more than a few hours to a day unless they were in really good shape.

In comparison, typical indefinite marching rates for an army were about 10 miles a day (both for roman legionaires and US soldiers).

It's very comparable. A human can keep up a 3mph walk forever as well. A 3mph pace is not hard for a human at all and without
a pack 30 miles a day would not be an issue for a human. 35 miles per day, six days a week indefinitely would not be a problem for
the average person either. I don't think a march with camp setup, etc... is comparable to what the original poster was talking about.
I think you underestimate what a human is capable of. When I was in college we went on a hike to the bottom of the grand canyon
for a week. None of us were in great shape, did any training, or probably near as fit as a peasant who worked all day in the field
every day yet we averaged about 20-25 miles a day for a week with heavy packs on rough terrain and making camp each night.
We obviously could have done alot more with a light pack. And again, we were not in shape, didn't train, and most had never even
been backpacking before. For endurance running a human is every bit as good as a single horse. The pony express used multiple
horses because horses are faster over short distances but over multiple days a human is actually faster. A good runner can do alot
more than 35 miles per day. This guy averaged over 50 miles a day for 40 days:
http://www.outsideonline.com/blog/outdoor-adventure/the-human-express-interview-with-karl-meltzer.html
Here is one of many articles that states that humans can outrun every animal on the planet:
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/may/tramps-like-us

Horses are expensive to maintain, and have a rough daily limit of about 30 miles. In comparison, a human walking at 3 mph can go the same distance in only 10 hours.

That's not comparable. The horse could do that forever (for example, see this US cavalry manual which stipulates cavalry can go 35 miles a day, six days a week indefinitely - page 152) while the person would not be able to maintain that sort of pace for more than a few hours to a day unless they were in really good shape.

In comparison, typical indefinite marching rates for an army were about 10 miles a day (both for roman legionaires and US soldiers).

I have to say, I was really hoping to see something more like this.

I see your "creationist nonsense" and raise you a "both sides are biased".

I could care less who believes what...as long as both (or all three, or however many) sided are realistic about the problems that their own pet theory has. (and, you know, stops being jerks to anyone who has a different opinion than they do...)

For example, evolutionists ignore the issues with the dating methods that they use, and creationists assume that their bible can be used to prove something. Both sides need to get their crap together, stop ignoring the scientific method, and just do science. (article deals specifically with evolution, but all the principles apply to creationists)

http://naturalselection.0catch.com/Files/ancientice.html
http://naturalselection.0catch.com/Files/radiometricdating.html#Different Dating Methods Agree
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=6841

I see your "creationist nonsense" and raise you a "both sides are biased".

I could care less who believes what...as long as both (or all three, or however many) sided are realistic about the problems that their own pet theory has. (and, you know, stops being jerks to anyone who has a different opinion than they do...)

For example, evolutionists ignore the issues with the dating methods that they use, and creationists assume that their bible can be used to prove something. Both sides need to get their crap together, stop ignoring the scientific method, and just do science. (article deals specifically with evolution, but all the principles apply to creationists)

http://naturalselection.0catch.com/Files/ancientice.html
http://naturalselection.0catch.com/Files/radiometricdating.html#Different Dating Methods Agree
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=6841

Real Science no, of course not. Using boiled willow bark as a remedy for various ailments based on praxis, very very likely.

As for the killing of witches - its worth noting that the word translated as "witch" is in Hebrew the word for "poisoner" - but that to ignorant Europeans the two meant the same thing.

Actually that's a modern misunderstanding. It was the Septuagint, a Greek translation (and the first translation of the Torah) that created the label for poisoner, not the original Hebrew Torah, or Pentateuch. The original Hebrew word itself used in that passage was "M'khashephah" which seems not to translate all that well, though some interpretations are, "whisperer", or "spellcaster", the root of the word having something to do with cutting off.. but wasn't "poisoner", in any case. The Greeks had no good equivalent for the term and so went with "pharmakos ". That's where the poisoner thing came in. http://thedomainandrealms.0catch.com/Library/witch.html http://www.necroticobsession.com/forums/76/43022 Unfortunately the original site proteuscoven.org is no longer around for reference, which is where the above two pages got their info.

Nope, it was Miss Crabtree:

http://spakatak.0catch.com/southpark/character_ms_crabtree.gif

For those who don't remember this technology, mylar tape is punched tape like ticker tape. Ticker tape is the paper version. If the machinery is no longer around to read it, it can be read by hand. Most Mylar tape has 9 rows of holes. The small holes near the center are the clock. The other 8 bits were ASCII. If memory serves me, there were 3 bits, clock, then 5 bits. The clock was off center so the tape could not be threaded in upside down or tail first from a tape that was not rewound.

A quick google search turned up a confirmation. The clock row was called the S row for Sprocket.

When characters were written there was great care in selecting the placement of bits to insure accuracy of numeric computations. Character skewing was less a problem the nearer the Read/Write Head was to the timing sprocket pulse. The sprocket pulse (position S) was in the center or near center as there were 8 bits in total with the sprocket pulse. The check pulse to insure the bit count was odd (position 1) and the 4 lower bits (positions 4,5,6,7), which included the vital numeric characters, were crowded next to the sprocket pulse. The remaining 2 bits (positions 2,3) were for the alphabetic and special characters and were located on the outer edges of the tape. The bit numbering positions on tape were 3,5,1,S,6,7,4,2.

http://univac1.0catch.com/index.htm

The US government can sell the bail out of big corporations but can't sell space exploration like the Chinese by having women hand out gold models of space craft.

The US government can sell the bail out of big corporations but can't sell space exploration like the Chinese by having women hand out gold models of space craft.

why there was NO remainder of anything a passenger plane crash leaves in a crash site, and there were NO bodies, passenger belongings, pieces of bodies, ANYTHING but fairly intact TWO bodies in the scene.

Are you saying there were no bodies, or were you saying there were two?

Allyn E. Kilsheimer, CEO of KCE Structural Engineers (a company involved in providing emergency engineering and post-collapse assistance) said "I held parts of uniforms from crew members in my hands, including body parts."

Of course, once you reach the level of batshitness you've achieved, you can simply ignore his testimony by saying "they got to him too!"

And I'm sure you simply don't accept the claim that the remains of 184 people were identified; surely "they" got to all 102 DNA analysts, sample processors, logistics staff, and administrative personnel at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory. It's a DOD facility, after all.

Are you saying there was no debris from the plane? That's simply incorrect; hell, you can even see photos of a bunch of it at this batshit conspiracy site. And photos of the plane debris inside the building (where, in answer to your question about the lawn, most of it ended up, in agreement with conservation of momentum) can be seen at this somewhat less batshit crazy site. And some more photos here. And more photos, with amazingly detailed analysis, here

But I'm sure "they" got to the owners of all of those sites.

tell me where the hell did the 767's huge tail has vanished.

757. If you can't get that much right after being corrected, I don't see any point in talking to you further.

Like most of the plane, the tail and wings got shredded, and ended up inside the building. As Mete Sozen, a structural engineer who studied the impact in computer simulation, put it, "At that speed, the plane itself is like a sausage skin. It doesn't have much strength and virtually crumbles on impact."

It's like shooting an aluminum foil origami crane out of an air cannon at high speed, through a stack of steel cheese graters, and then demanding "where's the crane's tail? There must be a trick!"

please, spare the bullshit. as if the world has never seen a passenger liner crash.

Into a building? One as hardened as the part of the Pentagon that was hit? Please, name me one similar crash.

Oh, and by the way, regarding your original question about simulating the piloting of the crash, see this:

Brian also consulted with a pair of commercial airline pilots who decided to try this kind of approach in a flight training simulator. Although the pilots were not sure the simulator models such scenarios with complete accuracy, they reported no significant difficulties in flying a 757 within an altitude of tens of feet at speeds between 350 and 550 mph (565 to 885 km/h) across smooth terrain. The only issue they encountered was constant warnings from the simulator about flying too fast and too low. These warnings were expected since the manufacturer does not recommend and FAA regulations prohibit flying a commercial aircraft the way Flight 77 was flown. These restrictions do not mean it is impossible for a plane to fly at those conditions but that it is extremely hazardous to do so, and safety was obviously not a concern to the terroris

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that life was created by random chance

Read much of evolution theory? Evolution is not fundamentally a random process. DNA Mutation happens all the time. Some put it at 17 mutations per person per generation. Pit that against billions of years of time, and the common-sense notion that some variations ensure their own survival (survival of the fittest), and voila, you have evolution at its grad scale.

May I suggest the book Climbing Mount Improbable for a better/more complete explanation.

Folklore, definitely. But, folklore as most people think of it is a pretty simplistic notion. There's a lot more to the culture and beliefs of our ancestors. paganlibrary.com has some interesting things on Halloween and, also to some extent, our modern monsters (primarily: see Witch's Thoughts, All Hallow's Eve, Origins Of Halloween; also useful: Death of Llew, Derivation of the Word "Witch", Wiccan Sabbats, the (mildly humorous) Public Service Announcement, and perhaps /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?=&p=52511 -- they all show up within the first 30 hits.)

(defining) Halloween: A pagan holiday perpetuated by the American Dental Assoc.

{insert obligatory HAIL ERIS ALL HAIL DISCORDIA ... obligatory for me, at least!}

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YOU'RE PITIFUL!
Yes, Al recently recorded a James Blunt parody which unfortunately, due to matters beyond his control, will not be appearing on his forthcoming album. But if you're so inclined, you can just download it for FREE! Go ahead, we won't tell anybody! Right-click (option-click for Mac) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, or here, or here or here, not to mention here, or even here!

I want a Constitutional amendment that says Congress can't give itself pay raises. Instead, I think we the People should get to vote on that, as part of the election process. The framework is already there, ready to be used.

Feel free to grab copies and spread 'em around. Redistribution isn't just allowed, it's highly encouraged!

Personally I'd go with Rabbi

I remember the stories of my ex-boss, when he and his buddies went to mt. everest in march, and what's probably the highest cibercafe (at ~5300 meters above sea level), is powered by big 24v batteries, which are recharged by solar panels, and the service is offered by a few laptops, it seems pretty rudimentary in the pictures.

SCO is doing what Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and so many other companies have done. They do absolutely anything, legal or not, ethical or not, to pump that stock.

That's an important point there.

And keep in mind that for the stock to trade higher and higher means that people have been standing in line to buy it. Those asses share some of the blame.

Oh, I imagine there are probably a few investors or wannabe investors really banking on SCO's chances of a big payout, but most are not.

SCOX stock is shorted to the hilt. It's shorted so hard, a lot of people are having trouble finding shares to short. That means a lot of investors are fully confident that SCO will go down in flames. The only reason SCOX stock is rising is because of some pretty flagrant stock manipulation. SCOX is a small-cap, tight-float stock that started this affair as a penny stock in danger of delisting. For those unfamiliar with the stock market, the practical upshot of that is that SCOX stock is very easy to manipulate.

Who's manipulating it? My guess is, SCO's the chief manipulator (with other parties serving as accomplices), though I can't be certain. This isn't the first time this company's tried it; if you look back in the days when they were still Caldera, you'll find an old (unresolved?) class-action lawsuit hanging around:

(See legalcasedocs.com. See legalcasedocs.com get slashdotted. Gee, I sure am sorry about that!)

If you want to see the current manipulation in action, just grab yourself a copy of LinuxTrade, get yourself a free real-time account, and watch the trading happen in real-time. (The LinuxTrade docs will give you hints as to where to get free real-time accounts; I refuse to have a nameless, innocent, and very generous brokerage slashdotted on my account). You'll see miniscule volume, mystery entities bidding up the ask on the smallest lots possible, and end-of-day tape painting to get the stock to close higher. Lately whoever's yanking the stock around seems to have a fetish for targetting close to exact dollar amounts like $17.00 and $18.00, so I'm betting the yanking duties have recently been consigned to a bot.

SCOX: Short: 459.0K (6.46%), Float: 7.10M, AveVol: 268.0K (as of 8-Aug-2003)

Unfortunately, this does not tell the whole story. There are very few shares available to short, which is one reason why there is a very low short interest.

-Rick, author of LinuxTrade: A Curses-based Stock Streamer for Linux

Anyone still have a _working_ mirror of the original Blue Flash coaster pics? All the mirrors listed are broken.

The pics of the Blue Flash are way more professional looking than this coaster. I'm working on convincing my S.O. to let me build one of these puppies with metal made from melted hard drive platters in my home made forge so I'm gonna need something better than 2x4's and PVC.

It used to go to http://execcareer.0catch.com/ - apparently he's picked up new hosting space again.

Just thought I'd mention that due to a generous money donation by a private sponsor, the LinuxTrade software was converted to the GPL on 08/30/02.

This is a great trend, IMHO.

Now that rocked...

could you provide the link please ?

Here it is:
http://cnndecss.0catch.com/

sorry about the lame banners & schitt, but I am not going to slashdot my own damn servers...

ps this free host says they give you "unlimited bandwidth"... LOL.

Show Bud Selig...

Vote Expos-Twins for All-Star Game...

Show Bud Selig...

Vote Expos-Twins for All-Star Game...

Posted by michael on Wednesday March 13, @10:48PM
from the things-not-to-tell-your-life-insurance-company dept.
Usquebaugh submitted this link to a guy who built his own roller coaster. The guy builds grain elevators for a living and - let me take a wild, city-slicker guess - they probably use some sort of rail system for transporting grain, so....

We slashdotted it.

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"No someone did not fall off, the lift was not able to carry me all the way up the lift (I'm working on losing weight and It should be able to carry me in a month or so plus the engine wasn't working up to par due to the 30 degree temperatures)."

Read it for yourself here.

You're right ...

http://www.negative-g.0catch.com/BlueFlash/Februar y2002/Bond-on-Blue-Flash-3.jpg

Somebody call Child Protective Services !

Important: I have never bought anything from this company and don't know anything about them other than they have a link from audreyhacking.com's message boards. Caveat emptor.