My favorite Red Green line: "Now you hold it in place by putting a nail through here and bending it -- or you can use a cotter pin if you're made of money."
Hitler's chalet above Berchtesgaden, the Kehlsteinhaus*, is now a tourist attraction, with a nice restaurant and tour guides who are quite upfront about the history. However, it has an ongoing problem with Hitlerpilger, "Hitler pilgrims" who hike up at night and leave little bouquets and love notes for the Fuhrer around the ruins of his Berghof nearby.
*Non-German media call it the Eagle's Nest, after a metaphor attached to it by a visiting journalist circa 1938; but in Germany it is and always has been the Kehlsteinhaus, named for the minor peak it sits on.
The E6B (and its smaller brethren such as the one I used to carry in my flight jacket pocket) is nothing but a circular slide rule with a couple of special index points for minutes calculations.
Ummm, no. It also solves the wind triangle problem, graphically.
Here in the States I haven't been to a traditional theater in years. Think of the attractions of a reasonably big-screen TV:
Comfortable seat. No loudmouths. Bathroom and pause button. My feet don't stick to the floor. Refreshments at grocery-store and liquor-store prices. (And this is Colorado, so there's another refreshment.) If I hate the movie, I can abandon it without hurting my wife's experience.
And for the rare movie that really merits a big-ass screen, maybe 3D, there's the local tavern theater with excellent seating. It's an expensive movie, but a modest-priced dinner-and-a-movie.
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I saw The Man Who Fell to Earth on first release, when local censors had shredded it into incomprehensibility. Gotta give it another shot...
because it's a big and trusted name
And trying hard to rectify that...
My favorite Red Green line: "Now you hold it in place by putting a nail through here and bending it -- or you can use a cotter pin if you're made of money."
If it's not found in nature, then they all should be called Unobtanium.
More like unobtania, since there are now 28 of them.
They had to survive being heated to thousands of degrees and then being plunged into cold water.
What cold water would that be?
Better Bier und Weisswurst than we ever had hereabouts...
Just how much faith do you have in the FBI? JFK assassination, anyone?
the American Malmedy Massacre
Now, that's a keeper.
There is still a Nazi movement in Germany
Hitler's chalet above Berchtesgaden, the Kehlsteinhaus*, is now a tourist attraction, with a nice restaurant and tour guides who are quite upfront about the history. However, it has an ongoing problem with Hitlerpilger, "Hitler pilgrims" who hike up at night and leave little bouquets and love notes for the Fuhrer around the ruins of his Berghof nearby.
*Non-German media call it the Eagle's Nest, after a metaphor attached to it by a visiting journalist circa 1938; but in Germany it is and always has been the Kehlsteinhaus, named for the minor peak it sits on.
Disney's lawyers could have told them how to make their copyright last forever.
We'd need someone who likes to make entrances from above and has a signature hand gesture...
You're describing the Darkover books...;-)
How long do you suppose it would take them to get there if they had to decelerate
Two words: Swingby maneuver. Same way V'Ger et al got their initial acceleration.
I'm on tenterhooks.
Excellent choice.
Don't bogart.
It's an insightful post marred by an obvious spellcheck error, not a grammar error. Cut the guy some slack.
OK, sorry, I mentally substituted "elliptical" for "parabolic". It was a long night...;-)
Yes, eccentricity barely less than 1 would be nearly parabolic. My bad.
Arcturus, which is the star that the handle of the Big Dipper points to.
More precisely, Arcturus is one of two major stars along the projected curve formed by the handle. "Follow the arc to Arcturus; speed on to Spica."
What the hell does that mean?
If it's parabolic but really really long, "near-hyperbolic" would be a reasonable description -- that's not out of the ordinary for comets.
The E6B (and its smaller brethren such as the one I used to carry in my flight jacket pocket) is nothing but a circular slide rule with a couple of special index points for minutes calculations.
Ummm, no. It also solves the wind triangle problem, graphically.
QED...
...that show us how many home-schooled constitutional lawyers there are on the Internet.
Imagine how much useful work could of been done for a Billion dollars
Like teaching English grammar to Slashdotters...
Here in the States I haven't been to a traditional theater in years. Think of the attractions of a reasonably big-screen TV:
Comfortable seat. No loudmouths. Bathroom and pause button. My feet don't stick to the floor. Refreshments at grocery-store and liquor-store prices. (And this is Colorado, so there's another refreshment.) If I hate the movie, I can abandon it without hurting my wife's experience.
And for the rare movie that really merits a big-ass screen, maybe 3D, there's the local tavern theater with excellent seating. It's an expensive movie, but a modest-priced dinner-and-a-movie.
Yabbut the CRT projector doesn't have a great big CRT. It has three small CRTs whose images are projected onto a much larger screen.
I don't want to think what a 50 inch would weigh in at.
My old 48", which you can have if you come get the bloody thing, is 172 pounds.