There are already cruise ships with sails -- from the real sailing vessels on Windjammer Barefoot Cruises up to 50,000 ton diesel-powered ships with sails that add maybe one knot to the cruise speed. Depends on how real you want the experience to be...
Maybe whalepiece in his case. No problem figuring out where his insecurities lay...;-)
Also interesting that the armor is 54 inches around the chest. Photos of it in official publications like the Tower of London guidebook are direct front views, which make the codpiece less obvious.
distributing brochures to computer users in vulnerable areas, instructing them on how to password protect their networks
Lame approach...that brochure will go in the basket with the aluminum siding ad. Better to leave them an email or an IM: "Hi there, Mr. Joe Blow! We were just driving down Partridge Meadows Blvd while you were browsing www.kidpoontang.com and thought you'd like to read this page about encryption and passwords..."
The military aspect was the excuse, not the motivation. Eisenhower promoted the system because he believed, correctly, that the economy needed it. But there was heavy resistance in Congress to subsidizing state roads -- which Ike defused by spinning the Interstate system as a defense project.
Here are a couple more. San Francisco switched from horse-drawn cars to cable cars when electric trolleys were only about 10 years away, because it couldn't afford to wait: the city's horse population was depositing 55,000 gallons of horse whiz on the streets per day, with a commensurate quantity of shit. The hoof and wheel traffic mixed these up into a greasy sludge that made the cobblestones so slick the horses couldn't get up the hills without slipping and breaking legs. Result: they were shooting an average of one horse per day.
Oh, and I hear there were issues with smell and germs too.
They also cut, fill and bridge much more than we do, keeping the grades gentler and more uniform. Common to see bridges a mile long and a hundred feet high, so you cross a valley almost on the level.
Yes...the advice given out these days is to go down on your knees, then hunch down as low as you can. Getting low minimizes the probability of establishing an ionization path that ends on your head, and keeping everything but your lower legs off the ground protects your upper body -- especially your heart -- from being affected by potential gradients in the ground.
Part of the problem is that news media say "hit by lightning" when they're really talking about people who were "near-missed" by lightning. Very few people actually take a direct hit; those who do are smoke. But the d(beta)/dt term in Maxwell's third equation is huge for quite a distance away from the main current path, and it can induce enough voltage to cause substantial arcing.
But if you get hit by lightning, you're pretty much fscked already.
Yes you are...but if the direct stroke hits fifty feet from you, it's a different story. That's why you bought that surge suppressor for your computer.
The story they told me when I visited that site was that no meteoritic material was found when they drilled in the crater, but then Barringer did some experiments with firing rifle bullets into dirt and found that a highly oblique impact can produce a circular crater...so they tried drilling outside the crater and did find fragments.
Should be modded up. An airburst sends down a mongo shock wave that flattens structures over a big area (not to mention the radiation that isn't a factor in the case of a meteor impact). A ground impact/explosion "over-destroys" a much smaller area, using its energy to excavate a crater instead of knocking buildings down.
The Tunguska event of 1908 devastated a really big area because it was an airburst: apparently a comet whose ice content flashed into steam when it hit the atmosphere.
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There are already cruise ships with sails -- from the real sailing vessels on Windjammer Barefoot Cruises up to 50,000 ton diesel-powered ships with sails that add maybe one knot to the cruise speed. Depends on how real you want the experience to be...
rj
You'll be notified thirty days in advance so you can reserve your seat on the deck of the Missouri.
rj
They know precisely what an 'off' button is...and they want to make damn sure yours gets pushed when they want it pushed.
rj
...why not just tell them where the enemy is and listen for the bangs?
rj
Maybe whalepiece in his case. No problem figuring out where his insecurities lay...;-)
Also interesting that the armor is 54 inches around the chest. Photos of it in official publications like the Tower of London guidebook are direct front views, which make the codpiece less obvious.
rj
Wonder what Henry VIII called it?
http://tinyurl.com/ed5ds
rj
One difference...most people have some vague idea of how a door lock works.
rj
Lame approach...that brochure will go in the basket with the aluminum siding ad. Better to leave them an email or an IM: "Hi there, Mr. Joe Blow! We were just driving down Partridge Meadows Blvd while you were browsing www.kidpoontang.com and thought you'd like to read this page about encryption and passwords..."
rj
The military aspect was the excuse, not the motivation. Eisenhower promoted the system because he believed, correctly, that the economy needed it. But there was heavy resistance in Congress to subsidizing state roads -- which Ike defused by spinning the Interstate system as a defense project.
rj
Here are a couple more. San Francisco switched from horse-drawn cars to cable cars when electric trolleys were only about 10 years away, because it couldn't afford to wait: the city's horse population was depositing 55,000 gallons of horse whiz on the streets per day, with a commensurate quantity of shit. The hoof and wheel traffic mixed these up into a greasy sludge that made the cobblestones so slick the horses couldn't get up the hills without slipping and breaking legs. Result: they were shooting an average of one horse per day.
Oh, and I hear there were issues with smell and germs too.
rj
They also cut, fill and bridge much more than we do, keeping the grades gentler and more uniform. Common to see bridges a mile long and a hundred feet high, so you cross a valley almost on the level.
rj
Oh, and the toilets have self-cleaning seats.
rj
Thanks for the tip...think I'll send them a few bucks myself.
rj
Yes...the advice given out these days is to go down on your knees, then hunch down as low as you can. Getting low minimizes the probability of establishing an ionization path that ends on your head, and keeping everything but your lower legs off the ground protects your upper body -- especially your heart -- from being affected by potential gradients in the ground.
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Yes you are...but if the direct stroke hits fifty feet from you, it's a different story. That's why you bought that surge suppressor for your computer.
rj
Remove the second O and Wikipedia will help.
rj
Topless in the back yard? In LOS ANGELES? Butt nekkid, sure, but TOPLESS?
rj
Two words: Volkswagen Beetle.
rj
You can. http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/wac5/smithtour.htm
rj
The story they told me when I visited that site was that no meteoritic material was found when they drilled in the crater, but then Barringer did some experiments with firing rifle bullets into dirt and found that a highly oblique impact can produce a circular crater...so they tried drilling outside the crater and did find fragments.
rj
Should be modded up. An airburst sends down a mongo shock wave that flattens structures over a big area (not to mention the radiation that isn't a factor in the case of a meteor impact). A ground impact/explosion "over-destroys" a much smaller area, using its energy to excavate a crater instead of knocking buildings down.
The Tunguska event of 1908 devastated a really big area because it was an airburst: apparently a comet whose ice content flashed into steam when it hit the atmosphere.
rj
Twice as strong vs 1.6 times as heavy, higher melting point, better resistance to corrosion and fatigue.
rj
Nope, you're gonna have to wait for cheap TRItanium.
rj