"That number seems to be going down over time as people learn that breaking into homes can be very unhealthy"
Hmm - I'm going to break into this home, but the occupant may own guns - so to be safe, I'd better shoot him immediately.
That's really good news. i was starting to worry that there would soon be no way to explain which way things turn. In a digital world, which way is "clock-wise"?
...I think the water at the top of the tower is just to sort of initialize the downdraft, but once it was started, it would probably continue for awhile - like poking a hole somewhere near the bottom of the water tank, once the whole is poked, you don't have to do anything to keep the water flowing out - gravity takes care of that.
Yep - that rings a bell...one of the engineering concerns was building it tall enough to use that effect. Another was erosion of the turbine blades caused by water droplets.....
Back in the 70s there was a proposal to build a very tall cylinder (1 mile or so), inject water mist at the top, and let the resulting downdraft drive a turbine a ground level. Interesting idea, fairly well developed and into the engineering stage. Of course, nobody funded actually building one. The engineer who designed it couldn't overcome the skeptics, and nobody thought it would be competitive with cheap natural gas/oil-fired generators.....
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Uh-oh..As a boater, will I now have to worry about polyestermites while I'm at sea?
punched on paper tape, for a Royal Precision computer, in 1962.
post-apocalypse ......
Hmm, this might solve any FBI funding problems...
"That number seems to be going down over time as people learn that breaking into homes can be very unhealthy" Hmm - I'm going to break into this home, but the occupant may own guns - so to be safe, I'd better shoot him immediately.
Hmmm.
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"Watson even reportedly used the word 'bullshit' within an answer..."
and
"...developed a smart filter..."
Could this filter have other uses, say to process politician's comments?
(Or
An automated BS detector....
Still bothered by the some of the religious references - particularly exporting on the starship.
Yes!!!! Still my favorite SF novel....
So the headers came from Jeff Dunham????
Usually the first adopters.....
That's really good news. i was starting to worry that there would soon be no way to explain which way things turn. In a digital world, which way is "clock-wise"?
On the upside there is increasing confidence they'll be able to ship at least one WP7 product
A WP7 product is an upside?
Or possibly "ScrewU"s
Hogamus, higamus...???
"Married couples are probably the best bet"
We're talking about a stress-filled, claustrophobic situation in which there would be no possibility of sex for months at a time, if not years....
Sounds like a couple of marriages I know of.....
But you'd better be sure to do this at the primary level; after that it's really too late....
I'm against term limits; I would however, support a bounty.......
Internet over sewer pipe?
Aha! So that's why I usually end up with a really shitty connection....
...somebody educated that way...
Hmm - interestingly put
Seems like he got the name backwards - I would guess that "PooPee" would be more recognizable....
...I think the water at the top of the tower is just to sort of initialize the downdraft, but once it was started, it would probably continue for awhile - like poking a hole somewhere near the bottom of the water tank, once the whole is poked, you don't have to do anything to keep the water flowing out - gravity takes care of that.
Yep - that rings a bell...one of the engineering concerns was building it tall enough to use that effect. Another was erosion of the turbine blades caused by water droplets.....
Back in the 70s there was a proposal to build a very tall cylinder (1 mile or so), inject water mist at the top, and let the resulting downdraft drive a turbine a ground level. Interesting idea, fairly well developed and into the engineering stage. Of course, nobody funded actually building one. The engineer who designed it couldn't overcome the skeptics, and nobody thought it would be competitive with cheap natural gas/oil-fired generators.....
f****** people always f******* censoring
Looks like you misspelled "f******"....
The most common five reasons for AC posting:
I tried clicking o those, but it won't let me vote!
"...and when we have successfully toppled the government that sponsored the terrorist plot in question."
Scuse me? To which government are you referring?
Iraq didn't sponsor, and the Taliban seems to be in resurgence.....