Youtube comments of mpetersen6 (@mpetersen6).

  1. It's not just the hulls. The USN needed all the machinery. The interior fittings. Bunks, storage lockers, refrigeration, desks, chart tables and God knows what else. Just how many light bulbs were there on a Cleveland much less an Essex. All of the electrical equipment. Generators, radios, radar etc. The armament. 20mm, 40mm, 5"38s, 6", 8", 12", 16" and the ammunition for each. Fuel. Av Gas. Food. Plates, bowls, cups, flatware. Uniforms. And we still haven't even gotten to the most important part of the ship yet. The crew. Basic training. Advanced training. Plus all the administrative work to keep track of just where all of these men went. Now add on everything the Army needed from small arms ammo to bridging equipment much less lend lease.
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  2. Your torpedo circles back around and sinks your sub. "A significant emotional event". Major Nicholas Moran "Once fired Mr. Torpedo is nobody's friend.' The Mighty (and exalted) Jingles Has anyone else noted that Drachinifel's videos are more entertaining when the subject matter is less than a stunning success
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  3. This lunacy started as soon as the "everyone has to go to college" began.
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  4. The amount of shrapnel laying on the seafloor of the Western Pacific expended by the US Navy would probably be equal to the steel required to build a Yamato.
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  5. "Porsche is teaming up with Boeing". Great now we're going have a flying 911
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  6. As my father-in-law used to say about people expecting the second coming any moment. "What makes them think they are so special that it will happen during their lifetime."
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  7. I wonder how many mosques have an armory hidden in the basement.
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  8. Sounds like a good point. Where US infantry and armored divisions had the M2 76mm and the organic division artillery assets and TDs along multiple independent artillery battalions/groups firing 105mm, 155mm (both howitzers and field guns) and 8 inch. Never mind air support which while it might not have actually knocked out that many tanks sure the hell shot up the logistics. A tank without ammo or fuel is just as effective as one that is a burned out wreck. I wonder how many Tigers or Panthers broke down between the factory and the train to shipped out on.
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  9. The screaming is all part of the playbook.
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  10. It's pretty inaccurate to show New Guinea as being completely Indonesian. Indonesia controls the western half of the island. One reason for Javas incredible population density is it's incredibly productive agricultural sector. Plus Java has long been the center of culture and power in the islands followed by Sumatra and Bali. But Java is really starting to push the limits of the population it can sustain in terms of clean water from what I understand. In comparision to US states by area Java is slightly smaller than North Carolina.
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  11. That took balls bigger than the unexploded shell. I wonder how he managed to walk? But yes, Plumridge was a complete ass and likely was the official mascot of the Upper Middle Class Twit of the Year Award on Monty Python.
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  12. DEI, Demand Exceptional Incompetence. She was the Captain. It's her responsibility.
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  13. The top brass of the Board of Ordinance should been handed a choice. A blindfold, or not.
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  14. A Greek scientist may have commissioned the device. He may have designed the device. But almost certainly it was built by an unknown Craftsman, or a group of them. I've been watching a series of videos by an amateur clockmaker who is known on YouTube as "Clickspring". He is attempting to replicate the mechanism using as many of the tools and technology of the time period. Something's he has to use modern tools and techniques simply because how the Greek Craftsmen did certain things. One thing he has noticed is the spacing of the gear train makes it appear that this was not a one of device. There may have been predecessor designs and this is a refinement of those devices. It is amazing what one can accomplish with hand tools and hand powered tools
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  15. This goes a long way to explain the COVID-19 response in the US. Americans by and large do not like being told what to do. Especially by agents of government. Of course at their workplace they are being payed so that's different
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  16. And you can always spot the king because he's not covered in shit.
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  17. This is the real Polish Mine Detector. The next time I see I guy looking for metallic objects on a beach or in a park I'll make sure to tell them to thank the Poles.
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  18. The Imperial Japanese Navy had a top secret rock laying ship operating outside of Russian ports
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  19. As the Chieftain recently stated "I'm not doing a Drach"
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  20.  @kingof-bunz6506  Some comments are meant to hoard server space.
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  21. The only way to make sure the Poles would not be under Soviet control and occupation much less the rest of Eastern Europe was to fight another war. Something the public in the UK, US and Western Europe had no desire for. Poland unfortunately has long been a victim of its geography.
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  22. Neanderthals lived through numerous climate swings and in different environment so I doubt it was climate.
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  23. If they don't leave can we sue them for breach of promise?
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  24. The ultimate anti tank rifle. The 16"50
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  25. Say what you want about Howard. He never dreamed small. The loudest aircraft I've ever heard was a Harrier. From about 5 miles it sounded like it was about two blocks away.
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  26. The Foundry it s nowhere near as monolithic as some think. While there is a deep rooted sense of your worth is in your work. There are other factors at work. But one thing I notice is not every community ravaged by de-industrialization has taken the blow equally well. Some have wallowed in self pity. While at the same time others have decided to pursue new opportunities.
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  27. If your level of academic achievement isn't high enough to meet the standards demanded by the university but you are admitted based on another factor you are being set-up for potential failure. Note I said potential. I think most rational people want to see the applicants with the best qualifications hired or admitted. No matter their race, sex or orientation.
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  28. LGBTQ....Lets Get Biden to Quit.
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  29. To the Southwest, thousands of them.
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  30. Its Swiss by way of France (no wonder it caught Ian's interest). That space in the hand grip is for storing your chocolate to nibble on while at the range
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  31. I'd be willing to bet that a pilot assigned to fly Hurricanes off of freighters over the North Atlantic would gave loved to have a set of floats available
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  32. There's another factor in place here. From my experience talking to Germans in particular but Europeans in general they are much more willing to pay more for locally made consumer goods because they feel the quality is higher and because these countries are smaller in terms of area they are more appreciative of the fact that buying goods from China for example may put their neighbor out on the street. On top of this tax laws in some of these countries encourage companies to upgrade and modernize their facilities. In the US tax laws seemed to penalize re-investment.
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  33. Any one who watched Secretariat's Triple Crown races knew he had heart. And what a heart he had.
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  34. One unfortunate thing that happens during a major war is a nation finding out it has admirals (and generals) who may have been brilliant in a peacetime assignment that failed badly under the strain* of combat due to a number of factors. That does not mean the officer should automatically be cashiered. Such officers if they are excellent in the administrative role can still be of service in training or other support commands. *the strain can be because of multiple things happening at once overloading the officers decision making capacity. Or it can be simply psychological in that the officer simply can not make a decision. Add in being not up to command of a combat formation is another thing.
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  35. If she doesn't. Can we sue her for breach of promise.
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  36. USS 2nd Amendment vs Kamchatka
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  37. It is 0 because your magazine rapidly holds 0. If Ian wants to take some time off I'll gladly step in. 😁
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  38. One point on ethanol production in the US. The left over mash from producing the ethanol goes into livestock feed. So it is not as though the corn used in the process goes completely out of the food sector.
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  39.  @krakenpots5693  When everybody stinks. Nobody stinks.
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  40.  @billbolton  Well after ther war they had to account to Congress most likely for all the materials. "Captain, we have 200,000 rounds of unexpended 20mm onboard." "Screw the paper work, expand it over the side."
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  41. I take exception to the Japanese being backed or forced into a war. The Japanese armed forces/government decided to invade Manchuria and then China proper. The United States deciding to embago oil and metals was done to try and bring about a peaceful resolution of the conflict. The Jzpanese had a choice. They chose to widen that conflict into one they literally had no hope of winning.
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  42. And when they realize they were robbed of their biological identity I hope they sue the clinics. The doctors and where possible their parents.
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  43. But if you had a dyslexic French admiral the bottom of the North Sea would littered with LeClerc Main Battle Tanks instead of Motor Torpedo Boats.
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  44. In case everybody missed it the horizontal milling machine being operated by a Japanese worker was made in Cincinnati. It says so right on the machine.
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  45. A rare combination of OHC and pushrod valve operation.
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  46. In regards to Spin Launch. I remember an article in Scientific American close to 40 years ago. The article was on space weapons within the bounds known practice and reasonable foreseeable technology. One possible system that could be employed on low gee worlds such as Luna was a rotary throwing system capable of velocities up to at least Lunar surface escape velocity. Landing boosters in the Bahamas. Makes sense to me especially if it requires less fuel meaning a possible increase in payload mass or mission station keeping fuel. Given Space X's safety record in landings at the Cape I really do not think that the possible Bahamian government's opposition is going to be a major roadblock. Thinking about it it's actually a better launch location versus the Cape in terms of range safety.
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  47. The decision to charge only Penny imo is based soley on just how much political mileage Bragg can get out of the case.
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  48. Brings a whole new meaning to "put another log on the fire"
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  49. The African American communities of the Foundry, Rust Belt or whatever you choose to call it got hit really hard by the loss of industrial employment in the region. Not that other groups didn't get hit too. But I think they got hit the worse.
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  50. The actual first landing (admittedly a really hard one) of any man made object was one of the Ranger photographic missions in April 1962. This was Ranger 4. In July 1964 Ranger 7 successfully carried out its photographic mission and then impacted 10.35°S, 20.58°W in the Mare Cognitum region. This was followed by two more Ranger missions in March and April 1965. The Ranger program was followed up by the Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter programs. The Surveyor program consisted of 7 flights with 5 successful landing and 2 failures. Surveyor 2 impacted after a failed midcourse correction. Surveyor 4 failed during the landing phase possibly from an explosion in the Solid Rocket Motor used to slow the vehicle to to a velocity such that the SRM and radar could be jettisoned and the final landing achieved with 3 liquid fueled vernier. Landing velocity was about 3 meters per second. Surveyor accomplished the first engineering project on an extraterrestrial body (a small trench). The Lunar Orbiter Program was used to conduct photo reconnaissance of the Lunar surface for both mapping purposes and selecting landing sights. In addition the Lunar Orbiters carried out Oblique Angle imaging. One of these photographs taken of the cater Clavius iirc at an oblique angle was considered one of the pictures of the year at the time. Additionally the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft took the first images of the Earth from cis lunar space. These included an image similiar to the Earthrise image from Apollo 8 and a similiar one of the Earth fully illuminated.
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  51. Its not who votes. Its who counts the votes.
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  52. The other night I watched "Siege of Jadotville". This was an instance of Irish UN peacekeepers in the Congo in the early 60s. They stood off a force of around 3000 mercenaries and Congolese Katangan rebels or 5 days while equipped with mostly British small arms. Everything from Lee Engield MkIVs to L1A1s including Bren guns. The Irish unit was 125 men all of who survived.
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  53. You mean he's still alive
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  54. When it comes complicated mechanical devices it seems Naiper's was smoking crack. I will give them credit though. Most of them worked.
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  55. They got to the bottom of the barrel and found it bottomless.
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  56. "And Goldilocks found the Three Round Burst was just right."
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  57. To roughly quote his excellency Jingles the 1st "Its got really crappy armor, did I mention its got a lot of guns" "Its really slow. Did I mention the guns?" "It handles like a greased pig on teflon. Lots of guns though" "Draws destroyers like sailors to a brothel. The guns shoot really fast. Um, just like the sailors."
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  58. And taking notes. Lots of notes. I wonder just how often a lone merchant man on her way to her destination just blindly found herself in the middle of one of these fleet problems.
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  59. l think I'll pass on the alarm clock version
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  60. 1984 A warning. Not an instruction manual.
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  61. The "far right" should be carrying rainbow flags. The coppers wouldn't know what to do.
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  62. The Golden BB. Yah, Bismarck had a certain amount of luck on her side. But Bismarck also had very good fire control and shooting. She also had her share of bad luck. A torpedo hit in just the right spot is what prevented her from reaching port in France. Imagine Bismarck sitting in Brest or another French Atlantic port. Just how much would that have complicated running convoys to the UK.
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  63. The magazines probably cost more than a complete Sten.
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  64. If the people that run Ben and Jerry's truely believe this let them lead the way.
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  65. Cis is thrown around like an insult
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  66. The bed spring, don't forget the bed spring.
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  67.  @Nyet-Zdyes  Plus the drawings needed for the Tool & Die shop that made the dies
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  68.  @fitnessen2860  Choice starts the moment to consenting adults engage in "shock" heterosexual sex. Or when somebody reaches for the Turkey baster. I'm generally opposed to abortion. Especially as a birth control method. But I'm not so blind to think if abortion is outlawed it will disappear.
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  69. The thing that is extremely stupid about this whole preferred pronoun idea is the use of personal pronouns such as he, him, her, they, them etc is used when talking about someone. Not to some someone personally. Then it's either their name or a variation of you.
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  70. You just don't understand. These 5 oppressed scholars were just trying to feed their families through their street acrobatic team. Five Men on a Bike. Now they missed their audition with Circus of the Stars.
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  71. ​ @ohsosomia  My thoughts exactly. I had a choice. Go to school and pay for it. Doable, easily doable. College was cheap 50 years ago (1). Or get an apprenticeship. Went with the latter. After testing my father called to ask if l cheated. Went straight to the top of the list just the test score. Worked out well enough. 1) Kids today bitch about the high cost of college tuition. Tuition has been going up at well over the rate of inflation for 40 years. Maybe the problem is in the universities.
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  72. Baby formula factory.
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  73.  @theguybehindyou4762  Oh, I think that lesson has been well, and truely learned by a lot of people.
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  74.  @Aelxi  That was her radar. Not her optical range finders.
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  75.  @apenza4304  Bong was the highest scoring US pilot. Ironically he was killed the same day as Horishima. About the only memorials to him are the one in Superior Wisconsin and state park in SE Wisconsin named for him. The park is the site of an USAF unfinished SAC base.
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  76. Let me guess Brett is trying to get a commentators jobs
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  77. In terms of aerial combat between mismatched foes my father used to tell the story of how they watched a Bf-109 trying to shoot down a Piper Cub being used to direct artillery fire. Due to the terrain and the Cub's pilot throwing his aircraft around in his desire not to get stitched by 7.92 and 20mm the 109 never could score. The 109 eventually flew off most likely out of ammunition.
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  78. Any parent that would allow much less encourage their young son to do this is pure evil.
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  79. The border between Haiti and the DR can be seen from space. Haiti attacked and conquered the DR. The people of the DR fought for their freedom.
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  80. And do the same for any other pro unlimited, everybody is welcome immigration enthusiast. Even at the height of open borders in the early 1900s the US didn't just let everybody in.
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  81. If she ever becomes prez the way to keep her out of the White House is move it to the border.
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  82. ​ @HerzausStahl  As does Tsar
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  83. I'm actually glad to see the Mayor of New York make a public statement about anything without a platoon of Hanger Ons behind him. One question I always have is just what do these people do. 🤔
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  84. Over the last three years the Democratic Party has embraced aspects of society that frankly turn a lot of people's stomachs.
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  85. RUD* of enemy aircraft *Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
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  86. Lexington and Saratoga in profile had to have been the two most recognizable warships on the planet in the interwar years. Simply because of that huge funnel structure.
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  87. Do you mean the Caliph of Canterbury
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  88.  @onlythetruth883  Land use and abuse. The DR has a large percentage of the county tied up in forest preserves and conservation areas. Haiti they try reforestation and people cut the trees for for firewood. And yes the general border is discernable from orbit. Another thing about Haiti. Consumption of Dirt Cookies is common. Yes cookies made with dirt.
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  89. In the recent past Chicago was threatening to sue the cities in SE Wisconsin for its water quality problems. The shore currents in Lake Michign circle counterclockwise. In reality the source of Chicagos water problem was the geese concregrating on Chicago's beaches.
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  90. Tulsi 2028.
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  91.  @greenwood89958  Good question. That is no more correct or proper.
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  92. Ted Wheeler approved this message.
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  93. You are not being a sell out. You are simply being a rational individual.
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  94. Oh, and by the way. It's a Rifle, Ball, Rocket, Model 1.
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  95. "Attacked freighter. Sank Truck" Log entry of USS Sea Tiget. Cary Grant commanding.
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  96. That she is an "influencer" says more about the influenced than it does about her
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  97.  @funnelvortex7722  Every merchant sailor I ever talked to that came up the Seaway hated the Lakes.
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  98. Earth is the Center of the Universe. The Observable Universe that is.
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  99. Add in Wisconsin vs T-34 in Korea.
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  100. My first wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer. After receiving radiation treatment for multiple brain lesions she suffered either a massive stroke or aneurism. In accordance with her previously stated wishes I refused to put her on life support. She had been put on O2 in the ambulance. She passed that night. It was hard to do but I had to honor her wishes. In my opinion she actually was lucky in that she did not linger in pain for months. Plus our children did not have to see it. In this case I feel for the family but at some point you have to let go. This young boy had zero. Absolutely zero chance of recovery. His continuing to be kept on life support by the parents wishes is in my opinion selfish. That bed in the ICU unit could well have been desperately needed by someone else who would have a very high chance of recovery. I think his parents should have been counseled early on that it was in the boys best interests to simply let him go peacefully.
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  101. One of the few times he made sense
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  102. It should be "I have cases and cases of French .30 Longe in the back
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  103. Ironically the best place in the Middle East for a Palestinian to live is in Israel.
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  104. When you're young it is not uncommon for all of us to say foolish or stupid things. What was absolutely idiotic was that so many people took her seriously. Whoever was managing things behind the scenes did an excellent job from their viewpoint.
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  105. The Athenian Naval Treaty attempted to limit the number of oarsmen and the size of bronze rams. But everybody cheated. Plus they were confused by Kamchatka steaming around aimlessly looking for torpedo boats.
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  106. I'm sure that someone else has likely pointed this out but the F4F was one of TWO fighters that served from 41 to 45. There were other types that served through the same period.
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  107. So exactly how many SOPU's* does it put out? *Snake Oil Power Unit
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  108. She likely has issues with some Republican stances as well. Personally l have no issues with that. I would love a third party that unites the Centerists from both parties. And leaves the fringe elements out in the cold. I would likely have issues with some positions. But never expect to see a political party l agree with on every single issue.
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  109. Feet and miles are perfectly adequate units of measure. They may not be logically consistent in not being multiples of ten. But they work perfectly adequately as long you stick to one system of measurement. And just so you understand the inch/foot system is just accurate for use in just about any endeavor. The accuracy is in the standards and the measuring instruments. And yes I know that the inch is officially 25.4mm. And l am conversant in each system of measurement. Mainly because l refused to buy complete extra set of micrometers, calipers and other tools. And don't tell me about electronic micrometers and calipers. In general l don't like them and having the batteries die at inconvenient times is not fun. Plus the electronic mikes l had access to at work took special batteries. 🙄
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  110. ​ @MonkeyJedi99  You need a certain amount of financial and business management. But you also need management that understands your core business.
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  111. I remember seeing a comment in the 70s or 80s that every Soviet citizen could legally receive 1 item of mail from a foreign country. The suggestion was that the US should send every citizen a Sears catalog.
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  112. ​ @aapje  They also knew a flight of B-17s would be inbound from California that morning.
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  113. Just think if Watt had used a term involving the drop of a Mill Wheel. "Well, the 327 in my Chevelle has an implied drop of 450ft"
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  114. In th US there's an expression. Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.
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  115. And super glueing themselves to art. Unwittingly supporting the chemical industry.
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  116.  @patchouliknowledge4455  And the Fletcher that did not meet specifications and was a bastard build. USS FitzFletcher
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  117. Like Reagan said. We didn't leave the Party. The Party left us.
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  118. The Christmas Bullet was clearly the fastest plane of its day. Of course that was sans wings and in a dive.
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  119. Saying she is weaselly is an insult to weasels IMO.
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  120. Their support and ammunition ship would be HMS Rock Quarry
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  121. The Anti-Gravity device was invented by Archimedes. It's called an elevator.
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  122. The USN was also interested in one of the Pratt & Whitney 24 cylinder H layout sleeve valve engines that were dropped in favor of the R-4360. These sleeve valve engines actually featured something of a throwback in some ways featuring seperate cylinders on an inline engine. The supposed reason was the ability make servicing easier. The engines were also bulkier than cast block engines such as the Sabre.
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  123. Can also be stated as 1) You aren't where you think you are. 2) The enemy isn't where you think he is. 3) Your met data is a wet finger stuck up into the breeze. 4) And finally your men on the range finders all need their eyes examined.
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  124. PIAT, Point It Again Tommy!
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  125. Like Ronald Reagan said. I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me.
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  126. Two scenarios Donald Trump gets vilified for potentially mis handling Top Secret documents. Unnamed low level staffer hands over Top Secret documents to the media and is hailed a hero. I've seen both in my lifetime.
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  127. Who matters more to the functioning of a society. The guy that picks up your garbage. Or an actor. The guys that are out repairing a water main break at 1:00 in the morning when it's -10°F. Or the English lit majors. The electrical linemen after an ice storm knocks out power. Or the ________ Studies majors. Do not misunderstand me. Education is wonderful. But so is common sense.
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  128.  @lyonelk3108  Yah, solar energy, in Canada, in the winter.
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  129. The "intellectuals" I fear never learned the old nursery rhyme. Sticks and stones can break my bones. But words can never hurt me.
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  130. When I read Shogun in the 80s the book slowly introduces Japanese. By the end of the book whole conversations are in Japanese and one can follow them easily.
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  131. What are the odds that the author of this idea has no children of their own.
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  132. I think its time for Critical Critical Theory
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  133. Probably helped Trump.
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  134. Ted Turner did the Chicago to Mackinac race one time.half way through the weather got bad. He later said the only time saw worse weather to race in was the Fastness in the Irish Sea
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  135. If children are tiny adults looks like child labor is going to make a comeback
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  136. Imagine a lad that goes to sea to escape mucking out the stables. And he gets stuck on a horse carrier shoveling ........
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  137. Now did he have to put up the whole 50k or just 10%. I wonder if there was a go fund me
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  138. ​ @Slimetime69420  No extra M-16s or M-4s. Joe forgot them in Kabul.
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  139. I also happen to find the word "breeder" offensive.
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  140. USS Essex l, ll, lll etc USS Fletcher l, ll.......MMMCCCCCXXXII....... LSTs. Send the production order to Ford
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  141. The big factor in improved performance was the engines. More power and improved reliability. I often wonder just why the RN used a mix of radial and inline liquid cooled engines up through WWll. Radials without enough power for home grown fighters? The Bristol Hercules should have been sufficient. But the Fleet Air Arm being hamstrung by the RAF likely did not help. For US Navy fighters the R-2800 was a godsend. Used in both the Hellcat, later Bearcat and Corsair.
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  142. This my be technically possible. I'm not a biochemist. But is it "morally" right (1)? I do not think so. My personal opinion is if a trans man living his life as a woman really needs to be a mom then they should adopt. And if they try to force the child into living life as an alphabet soup person (2) if they are not that's child abuse. 1) Morals are and can be subjective. Look at all the societies that gave practiced human sacrifice. We find it repulsive but to them it was a morally correct action. 2) I can't keep up with all the latest additions to the soup.
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  143. Every advocate of unlimited immigration should be required to house 5 to 10 immigrants in their own residence. At their own expense.
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  144. The photo of what l believe is Wisconsin moored next to the raised hull of Oklahoma speaks by volumes. Battledhips post WWll certainly could have been improved but would still have been vunerable to not only aircraft but the pace of technology. Improved ordinance. Homing torpedoes. Attack aircraft operating at higher speeds. And ultimately nuclear weapons. Their time as naval offensive weapons against naval targets had passed. Their employment against land targets as artillery platforms could be performed by smaller ships and they would always be range limited.
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  145.  @ThisDorkTho  And require them by law to move out of the country if they say they will if anybody with an R behind their name wins,
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  146. One needs to put the proper spin on it.
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  147. This fits into the cam type of barrel engine. Barrel engine designs have been around almost as long as conventional IC engines. Most proposals have been for aero engines. One attraction is smaller cross section. None of them ever went into production. Their one main enemy has always been heat. Now could this work as a range extender. Yes it likely could. But so could a small fixed speed gas turbine.
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  148. Away from the major cities in the upper midwest and the great lakes people usually are very nice and polite. We might be a little stand-offish with strangers but that's only because you might be from Chicago
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  149. It's not just the Black Sea that has ancient settlements hiding in its depths. When Bob Ballard was doing a project for National Geographic on the sunken British and French warships off of Anzac Cove (Gallipoli) they accidently discovered a number of circular stone structures up to about 30 meters in diameter iirc. They varied in size. All of them featured an entrance at one point and a central taller stone structure in the center. I wonder if these may actually of been some type of communal dwelling. The central pillar would provide support for roof beams which would also sit on the outer wall on the other end. Then roof the structure with thatch. The area was last above water at least 8k years ago. Plus I would think they were abandoned long before they were submerged unless they went underwater during the melt water pulses a the end of the last Glacial Advance*. *I won't say at the end of the last Ice Age because we are technically still inan Ice Age and have been for millions of years. We just see periodic warm periods in between glacial advances. As to the causes of the glacial advances there are the Melenkovick Cycles but another contributing factor is probably the rise of the Panama Isthmus and the blocking of circulation between the Atlantic and Pacific of warm surface water.
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  150. Calling it a dumpster fire is insulting to dumpster fires
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  151.  @johnkelly1083  You beat me to it. Both by skill sets and inclination.
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  152. When it gets to the point that we are looking at too many species or sub-species of Homo maybe science suould step back and consider either the "sub-species" as the variation in the species or perhaps sub-types. One way that the sub-types could arise is the relative isolation of different groups of Homo living thousands of miles apart. But these sub-types are all still the same species.
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  153. Westinghouse along with General Electric are both companies with their industrial efforts in many areas. They are more akin to large Japanese industrial firms. GE got the original US contract to build versions of the original Whittle centrifugal jet engines because of their experience with building turbosuperchargers for aircraft engines and high temperature alloys. Both companies have experience with steam turbine and generating sets for power plants. Other US companies that became involved in jet engine technology were Allison and Wright. Companies that would build engines under license included Studebaker and Allis Chalmers iirc.
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  154. Simple answer. "Because"
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  155. A running theme in these sorry incidents is that is the crews that pay the price. The boneheaded idiot is merely getting his just reward. The only good thing about the Scilly* disaster is it ultimately gave us chronometers. And as for ridiculous names there are a series of books recounting the fiction adventures of Amelia Pezbody Emerson and her husband Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson. There is one recurring character with a thoroughly ridiculous name connected to British intelligence. Author Elizibeth Peter's (Barbara Mertz) *given the pronunciation I've usually heard the whole was not silly at all.
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  156.  @hello-cn5nh  Southampton, in the County of Hampshire, England.
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  157. And make sure to wear your coconut bussoms Classical reference
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  158. One reason for Indonesia's very active volcanoes is the Australuan Plate is racing northwards at about twice the average rate for tectonic plate movements. Plus due to Plate Tectonics Sumatra and Java are slowly being folded with the hinge point in the Sunda Straight. This is also why Krakatoa is so dangerous. Highly explosive magma infused with high concentrations of water from material being dragged down into the subduction zone just to the south. Most of Indonesia's volcanoes line up along this subduction zone from Northwestern Sumatra to Flores. Add in one of the largest supervolcanoes on the planet in Toba. The rest of Indonesia's volcanoes are scattered across the region of the Banda Arc and Northern Suwlawise. There is another subduction zone active in this region.
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  159. A new school of thought coming out of France. If one simply puts the most luxurious hotels possible to sea the enemy will feel the immediate urge to drop all hostile activity and check in for a spa day. Then you escort them to their 4 star accomadations in the ships brig. For the British one must never conduct gunnery practice as it musses the paintwork. Simply won't do old chap.
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  160. "While Aluminum doesn't burn" Yah, right. Explain where all the Aluminum in an airliner goes in a crash. If an element can oxidize it can burn.
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  161. Well, I guess Arius was on his naughty list 🙄
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  162. The problem is it would be the ones that really do their job that ould be fired.
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  163. So you don't like the food? Say hello to my little friend.
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  164. Weren't just about all the Royal Houses of Europe related in form or another given the number of daughters that Victoria married off.
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  165.  @lesliesylvan  Yes if it keeps up at 3% per annum. Backwards compound interest sort of. But new know that Neanderthal ate more than just meat. The recent study of Neanderthal teeth with out cleaning them first has revealed that they where eating processed plant foods. As Stefan says it was most likely a number of factors. Up to and including possible predation by our ancestors. The relative scarcity of Neanderthal remains and habitation sites (these were lost by any number of means, erosion, plowed under for farming etc.) makes it unlikely we will never know
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  166. She belongs to the half of the human race George Carlin was talking about.
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  167. Gold plated shite is still shite.
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  168. Theres a precedent here. Part of DC used to be in Virginia. Turn all of the non Federal property in the District over to Maryland.
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  169.  @ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz  The reason no one is pushing nuclear. Five words Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island. Every single one of those were 1st generation designs. The current 3rd and 4th generation designs are far safer in terms of their design. But that does not matter one bit to the anti nuclear activists.
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  170.  @AaronJohnson-g9w  Toxic politics can come from both sides of the aisle depending on the viewpoint.
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  171. The absolute truth is even if the UK cut its carbon emissions to zero it would not make any difference.
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  172. ​ @Treblaine  Their ideal position on Net Zero is none of those awful people.
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  173. ​ @stevejones9290  Most people tend to be more comfortable around people like themselves. Even if they are not racist. Our loyalties are still Family, Clan, Tribe and then maybe something else. Only today Clan and Tribe have been replaced by Protected Classes and one Religion.
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  174. Corruption, kleptocracies. I feel sorry for the Kenyans getting sent their as peace keepers.
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  175. Remember, if we never prosecute our crime rate goes down. If we prosecute (and file no charges or get no arrest warrants issued) no one we effectively have no crime at all
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  176. It has not been about pride for a long time. It's about power.
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  177. ​ @joeybydin439  Send the bill to the Nigerians
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  178. Shooting was too good for them
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  179. "after charging into melee range" On fire and taking water having already used your fire suppression and damage control and are on cool down.
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  180. ​ @roykliffen9674  In the US the Coast Guard likely had more boarding party experience than the USN at that time.
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  181. Common sense is now far right. Normal is far right.
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  182.  @IO-hh2fz  If the RN had been in that position the Argentines never would have acted
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  183. You have a right to freedom of expression. You do not have a right to be offended by what other people say.
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  184. Well if they survived into the 1840s it would be likely.
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  185. The winner of that year's Upper Middle Class Twit of the Year Award
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  186. Call me old fashioned. Call me a reactionary. Call me whatever you want. But if you get to call me those things l get an opinion too. 1) I am completely against encouraging minors to begin tranisitioning early. 2) I am completely of the opinion that any transitioning up to and including surgery should not be done without comprehensive medical and psychological evaluation. 3) Any individual opting for this must be made thoroughly knowledgeable of sny medical and or psychological risks of said procedures and treatments. As well as signing off on multiple approval documents that are notarized. 4) The primary focus of any psychological or psychiatric therapy for any individual should focus on seeing if the individual can maintain their birth gender while still maintaining a healthy mental state. One other thing that needs to be understood by everyone. No matter how many hormone treatments an individual undergoes. No matter how many surgeries an individual undergoes said individual is still genetically be the gender they were born as. All they will ever be is an imitation of the gender they are assuming. Perhaps in the future medical science will allow an individual to fully transition from one gender to another. But if medical science ever reaches that point curing diseases and healing injuries will be childs play. PS, i am completely opposed to allowing transgender athletes from competing in competitive sports in the gender they are transitioning too assuming. Most males if they are transitioning and have already been engaged in competitive sports are going to have an unfair advantage in physical strength and speed. I refuse to see womens sports be thrown under the bus just to cater to a small minority of individuals.
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  187. Filmed with the help of the Red Army which supplied all the extras.
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  188. Potentially the 2024 DNC could be a hold my beer moment.
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  189. Entirely possible. IMO more likely as either passengers on a trading vessel or they charted a trading vessel. That vessel could have originated in either India or SE Asia. The spice merchants along the Malabar Coast knew they had a good thing going. They were getting rich buying cheap and selling high. The last thing they wanted was the Roman's or their agents finding a way of going to the source. In the 1600s when the Dutch started sending fleets to the "Indies" they ould lose every ship in the fleet except one that got back and still make a fortune.
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  190. One can reach a much higher level of precision by hand than most people understand. As an example people who hand grind telescope mirrors for reflecting telescopes. It is possible to produce very flat surfaces by hand using The Three Plate Method in which three flat surface plates are produced using two plates to check the third and alternating which plate you are scraping by hand. Scraping is an art all in itself. The trick is of course developing the set of standards and measuring tools required for two individuals in different locations to produced parts within tolerance that will work together. Some would say the development of the first screw cutting lathe really jump started the Industrial Age. Some would say the steam engine. In reality it was a number things working together.
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  191. He's waiting for all the celebrities to move like they promised too if Bush got elected.
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  192. Make voting required. Low turnout makes a mockery of democracy.
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  193. The Swordfish. The worlds first prop driven swing wing aircraft 😊
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  194. Way past stupid.
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  195. Forgotten Hangovers
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  196. Submariners would probably be a better candidate for duch flights
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  197. ​ @EllieMaes-Grandad  Once Islam gains a firm enough foothold that it can dominate elections even though it is not a majority. Then you can expect to see an increase in conversions from people who want to be on the winning side. IMO this is how Islam spread so rapidly in the 1st Millennium. Islam has built in policies that can be used to actively discriminate against non Muslims.
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  198. CIS-phobia.
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  199. As long as the springs haven't been compressed and released 100Ks of thousands of times and gotten rusty there's no reason they should have failed.
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  200. Here a gun, there a gun, everybody gets a gun, on Old McNavy's farm
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  201. Or the Culinary Institute of America
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  202. I wonder did he have to apply for a green card? Fill out the forms for resident alien status? Does he have a residency visa*. If anybody else needs to get residency status for a foreign born spouse it can be a hassle from what I hear. If they travel does he have to go through TSA? Hell, does he even get asked for a passport. *He probably thinks a Visa is plastic you carry in your wallet
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  203. And divide the gap difference by pi to determine actual variation in diameter.
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  204. When my brother was in the reserves he said they practiced tank main gun firing at the Army Reserve facility in Milwaukee. Indoor facility with a .22 mounted in the breech of an M60 turret.
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  205. The shear strength sucks too. In terms of machining a lot depends on the tooling. The worst stuff I've worked with is nearly pure copper. In fact most metal in a nearly pure state machine like horse dung. Soft and gummy.
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  206. I'd take either one in office now over the clowns we have today. Both sides of the aisle.
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  207. At the same time if a child wants to get a tattoo or their ears pierced they likely need their parents consent.
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  208. I share your pain. I used to work as a Tool Marker and later i worked for a company that builds centrifuges for waste treatment plants. The number of times i heard people expouse that stainless steel is some kind of wonder material. They think if they use stainless screws they are much stronger.
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  209.  @Shamris  The media is always against censorship. But practice it continuously. Only they call it editing.
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  210. Seattle, hold my coffee
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  211. ​ @lolitapitpong3826  There was major immigration of European Jews out of Central and Eastern Europe at the time. Can you blame them for wanting to leave.
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  212.  @rogersmith7396  The DOD also decided to eliminate the chroming in the chamber
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  213. Hiroshima and Nagasaki both held legitimate military targets. Plus they were bombed to bring Japan to its senses. They had already lost the war. The only hope they had was to make the end so bloody for the US and UK. The US engaging in Operations Olympic and Coronet (the invasions ofthe Japanese Home Islands) would have cost far more lives. Slow starvation by continued naval blockade would have caused far more deaths.
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  214. I'd say one of the two best aviation guys at least from the history aspect. Greg's Planes and Automobiles goes much deeper into the technical details especially on the engine side.
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  215. That is just a means to ensure a jury trial. If it even gets that far.
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  216. Two key developments in the ability of the ability to produce tight tolerance work on a mass scale was the development of the first commercial micrometers (Palmer in France and Brown and Sharpe in the US) and gage blocks by Johannson in Sweden. These combined with flat surfaces allowed the inspection levels required. Moores Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy covers a lot of what is really required.
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  217.  @gregsmall5939  P D's might be interested in them for riot duty. I'm not sure what the size the gas cartridges today are. But if they are still 37mm that would be one way to differentiate them from military weapons. At least in a legal situation. Truthfully the old Bloop Tube reminded me of the older tear gas launchers. It's just my opinion but the pump action looks like it would be far more user friendly in terms just carrying the damn thing. That revolving cylinder on the one that was adopted might work. But it's big. And yes they should have stuck to the Hi-Lo 40mm. At least in terms of chambering. I could see the idea behind being able to shoot flares if needed though. If they wanted to fiddle with the design (some things they did make sense) why not look at adapting say the Remington 1100 autoloader action. But only if it allowed a faster follow up shot without an increase in complexity. For sights a simple Red Dot optic that rotates on its mount for elevation. One question. Do they make 40mm Flash Bangs. If the US deploys troops into a combat situation I want them to win. If it takes killing the opposition fine. After all they had a choice and made it. But there are times when I could see it might be useful to take the opposition alive if possible. Intelligence for one thing. Another is why make a martyr out of somebody if killing them just helps create 2 or 3 new enemies.
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  218. That's an idea that goes back a long way. The earliest designs were tested in vacuum chambers in the 60s. But then you still need temperature control units and heating elements probably.
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  219. Great work if you can get it. 😅 In other uses of language it is called grifting, working the system or BS's your way to the top.
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  220. @Jesus loves a Shovelhead What this really shows is that JP is as flawed a human being as anyone else. But does that mean everything he says should be disregarded? I have enough of my own problems that I'm not going to throw stones at any one else.
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  221.  @KickyFut  Since the Legion used some maybe it's for the extra sand to put in their boots.
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  222. How in the world did they test these things. Not as trowels but as the sharp pointy thing. Pig carcasses's? Unwilling volunteers? Willing volunteers? Grave robbing? Or did they finally find something useful for Second Lts to do.
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  223. Bread. There must have been loaves of bread going to waste.
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  224. It's just like the well meaning people who only want to do good. They confronted by evil individuals saying evil things and their reaction is, "oh, they really don't mean that". Here's my take on just what a Palestinian State that consisted of to the river to the sea would be like. Where Israel created a prosperous State that has both high tech and prosperous agriculture a Palestinian State would be a food importer with perpetually declining services. The politics would be a continual dog fight amongst viewing groups. The freest Arabs in the region are likely those that live in Israel.
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  225. Even for a "simplified version" beautifully made. My father served in an independent artillery battalion in Italy (173rd Field Artillery). Made up of part of the 32nd Infantry's division artillery that got split off when the division went from a square to triangular formation. When in Italy they managed to pickup some intesting pieces of equipment. One time he said they got their hands on some of these. He said compared to the M3 Grease Guns they had the Barettas were a Caddilac compared to a Model T. He said it was very easy to shoot with your left hand just supporting the stock behind the magazine. A lot of people make fun of Italian manufacturing (1) but over the years they have produced some very good machinery. Excellent machinists and foundry skills. 1) I think a lot of it has to do with their automobiles. Properly cared for they drive great. Just a little too lightly built for they way most Americans treat their cars. Especially in the days before imports tipped Detroit a new one. At one time if you wanted to buy machinery in certain industries you went to certain countries if you wanted the best. The UK for printing presses. Germany or Switzerland for really high quality machine tools. Italy for textile machinery. The US for machining lines capable of putting out millions of specific parts over decades. Or high quality grinders and gear cutting machinery. Not that other countries weren't able to produce good machinery. But there is always somewhere that's just a little bit better than the rest of the world.
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  226. And how many Europeans have a dim view of us Yanks.
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  227.  @EvitoCruor  That's kind of what I think happened to a lot of ancient tools. Valuable scrap was recycled just like we do today. The Antikythera Device didn't appear out of nowhere. There had to be some sort prior use of the different major portions of the device. The thing that is really impressive from the design standpoint is the way the Moon's change of speed throughout it's orbit due it's orbital eccentricity. The thing that is super impressive from the manufacturing stand point is the gear train was evidently made completely by hand. The gears in the device are just under .5 Module. That means from peak to peak it's about 1.5 mm. A 60 tooth gear is under 31 mm in diameter. And these gears were laid out by hand. And filed by hand.
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  228. Dear Mrs Bomb Defusal Drone; It is my regret to inform you that your it* suffered a RUD** while performing his duty in the general location of the Baltic Sea. He bore the best traditions of the service until his end Regretfully; Marvin Martian, General, Looney Tunes ace Force *would it really be fair to use his preferred pronoun as it was unknown **RUD, in SpaceX terms Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
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  229.  @charlytaylor1748  Not just Poland. All of Eastern Europe. Partly I blame FDR. But there was a little matter of the Red Army sitting in the way.
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  230. ​ @cacogenicist  I would not be surprised if some oral histories/legends about floods can be traced to either sea level rise or floods related to melt water release as the ice sheets retreated.
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  231. One that a viable SSTO could be really good at is crew delivery. Especially if it could be robust enough to be Launch on Demand. Not every mission is going to require 100 tons to LEO. Myself l wish DARPA and the USAF would have pursued the Black Horse to at least hardware and flight test. That was a TSTO sort of. The first stage would have been a KC-10 or KC-135 that would refuel the Orbiter that would take off with a minimal fuel/oxidizer load. This would allow much lighter structure in the landing gear etc.
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  232. ​ @lmb1962  I wonder if she smokes too.
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  233.  @l.plantagenet2539  No. They where blue. And now they have been appropriated by Blue Man Group
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  234.  @briantarigan7685  North Carolina is bigger than Java. Most US states are bigger than Java. A whole lot of begetting going on.
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  235. Who else remembers her attitude about male suicide.
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  236. 30 seconds
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  237. I would suggest holding these people financially responsible for any economic damages resulting from these protests.
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  238. He won't leave. He and the rest of the so called celebrities that have said multiple times if blank wins I'm leaving. They'll stick around living in the midst of their sycophants in Manhattan, Malibu, on Maui, Beverly Hills etc sipping espresso's and crying about how oppressed they are. All talk. No action.
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  239. Once the program stretches into a new administration or Congress all bets are off.
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  240.  @matthewcarroll2533  The optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says its half empty. The paranoid says someone punched a hole in it.
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  241.  @rotwang2000  It's like the guys wearing Carhartt stuff that have never been near a job site
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  242. My first thought was Abe. To move Abe today it's going to take jackhammers
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  243. Given the needed aircraft requirements for naval convoy escort. I'm surprised the Lysander never was adopted by the fleet air arm. It's slow landing speed and rough field capability would seem to have made ideal for operating off of the smaller escort carriers in the North Atlantic.
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  244. Saddam and Gerald Bull tried. 100cm
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  245. ​ @Photosounder  Identify as Micheal Vick. Then say you are just looking for dogs to put in the dog fighting rings.
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  246. One reason the Sherman was originally designed with an air cooled radial was it was available. Plus the US really did not have an inline engine large enough to power armored vehicles besides the Allison. Sherman's were actually powered by a number of engine types. The air cooled radials (gas and diesel), Twin inline GMC 2 stroke diesels and the 18 liter (1100 cid) Ford V-8. The US possibly could have had two useful engines for armored vehicle use in the Wright D-12 and Conqueror aircraft engines if the tooling had still existed. The Ford V-8 was actually developed from a 27 liter (1650 cid) aircraft engine Ford proposed and dedigned.
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  247. I worked with several men who were stationed in Korea in the late 60s. They all told me there were guys that volunteered for Nam just to get out of Korea.
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  248. Whoopi will be packing her bags. Not.
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  249. At one point they were also exchanging weapons. The slave trade actually helped kick off a certain amount of tribal warfare.
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  250.  @richardm3023  There is some evidence as I understand that the Spanish Flu may have originated in Kansas iirc. I happen to agree about the over reaction. There are of course certain common place precautions that make sense. The same ones we should do during every flu season. But COVID-19 has been compounded by stupid decisions on all levels of government. Given the average mortality rate of approximately 8,000 deaths per day in the US on today August 19th we should have seen 1, 856,000 deaths from all causes. I would like to know just how many we have seen total. So far this about the craziest year I can remember since the 1960s. All we need now is a major impact or Yellostone to erupt.
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  251.  @Korschtal  Yes. I'm not even British and I remember her using the slur "neckbeards".
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  252. Use non numerical figures for her pay statement. That will teach her
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  253. Fitted with proximity fuses these would have been able to put out a much larger volume of fire to engage incoming attack aircraft. They could have been amongst the first SAMs
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  254. I remember people complaining about "them goldarn new fangled plastic shells"
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  255. The scholars made them in their shop classes of course. Ammo in chemistry.
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  256. @citrosoda5370 From what l understand the DR has it's problems. The average income is 4 or 5 times Haiti. Which is still low. One problem is there simply are not enough high paying jobs in the world. Or the need for them.
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  257. The US Navy has carried on Mahan's habit of running into things in recent years
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  258. A sponge? No leach is a better term.
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  259.  @StoutProper  Two reasons. First is what if you are already enroute and the weather gets bad. And it can get bad in a hurry on the Lakes. Plus on the Lakes you do not have a lot of sea room. The second is if you have more balls than brains.
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  260.  @johnfisk811  That or Sgt Mackenzie will have him forking out the stables forking quick.
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  261.  @smoothvirus  HOWRRYWOOD! The girl taking the dip is the one from the opening of Jaws
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  262. Off course for the Americans and to a lesser extent the Australians* they had the problem of the South Pacific Area of Operations under Nimtz and the Southwest Pacific Area of Operations under everybody's favorite target of scorn old Dugout Doug himself. Nimitz saw the SW Pacific as little more than a side show. Mcarthur saw the SW Pscific almost as a sacred crusade as he had given his word the he would return. Nimitz wanted to defeat the primary means that Japan had to project power. The IJN. Midway started that process. Milne Bay started the process of defeating the primary tool of the Japanese Empire in subjugating the various nations and colonies of the region. In terms of logistics the South (and Central) Pacific certainly got more support in terms of material to start with. In some ways the SW Pacific was the Italian campaign of the Pacific region. And the boundry between the two meant was situated between the Solomon's/Bismarcks and New Guinea. This tended to complicate things between different commands. Army ground forces on New Guinea had a very difficult time getting any Naval support. I would assume that Nimitz had a hard time getting B-17s and later B-24s from the 5th Air Force to support him. A word on Mcarthur. I know he gets a bad rap from several vectors. His ego deserves it. But once the Buna area was secured by joint operations of Australian units and the 32nd Division USA in a campaign that was more costly than it should have been he perfected the leapfrogging operations that isolated various IJA units and strongholds along the north coast. The Buna campaign was made more difficult due to the near lack of artillery support. Partly this was due to General George Kenney desire to have his aircraft act in the role if artillery support. The USArmy and the Australians both learned valuable lessons at Buna-Gona. But at a cost. In terms of casualties the forces involved had a 1 in 11 chance of death versus 1 in 36 on Guadalcanal. *The Australians bore a large brunt of the fighting at Buna as they were engaged longer. The 32nd initially performed poorly. The major factor as they were ill trained. Of factor in this is from around January 1942 until the first elements landed at Port Moresby (by air) they had spent most of the intervening months preparing to move, in transit and setting up new training facilities. They had no training in jungle operations. In many ways it should be expected that the first units to be deployed to perform poorly in that state. My father was in the 32nd in early 42. At this time the division was converted from a square division with 4 infantry regiments to a triangular formation with three infantry regiments. The artillery unit my father was in was attached to the separated infantry regiment. That regiment went somewhere else and my father wound up in North Africa and Italy (173rd Field Artillery Group). The 32nd itself would go on to having more days in combat as defined by the US Army than any other US division. It was still involved in combat operations after the Japanese surrender in August 45.
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  263. ​ @gamerkingdom1442  In reverse so she sees it every time she looks in a mirror.
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  264. An AK leaves the factory with a "I could of been a Madsen" bumper sticker
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  265.  @72mossy  Well at least the whole mission in the Congo was pretty clear cut case of greed on the part of the mining companies. Glad he got home safe. I firmly believe we need an organization such as the UN. But not necessarily this UN.
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  266. Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo beats 'em all with his appearing and disappearing bullet holes.
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  267. In the early 70s I remember seeing something on TV about gunships in Viet Nam using rockets that had flecette warheads.
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  268.  @viperscot1  I suspect the high VC count had something to with taking the sting out of Islandwana. Not that the defenders of Rourke's Drift didn't put up a stiff fight.
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  269. Ah, the Jeremy Clarkson rock target
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  270. If l were advising kids about college today unless they want to go into a STEM field l would advise them not to. I'd tell them to look into a tech school or an apprenticeship. Burdening yourself with student debt in a field you cannot find a job in is pointless. Plus the Education Industry needs to be de-politized. I not sure how we can accomplish that beyond checking the whole system and starting over.
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  271. ​@@psyop-g63ja The notion that everybody in Africa is and always has been ethnicly Bantu. I've known ethnic Nilotic individuals and they do not seem to care for the Bantu descended African Americans. (1) Also I remember when the term black first started to be used that it might not be a good idea. After in how many cultures is the color black associated with bad things. 1) Why is that recent immigrants from West Africa can succeed. Let alone immigrants from elsewhere.
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  272. Correction. PARENT. who knows were the daddy is.
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  273. To be fair it's not everybody involved. But there are more than enough though. Exhibitionism no matter who it is not publicly acceptable. As to the as Hooters analogy that gets brought up. Been to the beach lately.
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  274. That or boil religious philosophies down to their core value/s I don't know enough about other faiths but aside from the redemption part, Love they neighbor as you would love yourself. That's about as core as Christianity gets.
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  275. Do you mean illegally? Legal immigrants can make for very good citizens. Note l said CAN. The problem l see from the US is you are gaining an excess of young men illegally immigrating into Britain not because they see a better future but because they see suckers who will take care of them. IMO certain questions need to be asked. 1) Just who is paying for all the nice Zodiacs they drive up onto the beaches of southern England. Along with their uniformly all the same life jackets and the 100 hp outboard motors from Yamaha, Honda or Mercury. 2) What happens to the Zodiacs? Do they get off the beach and go back for another load? Do they get seized? 3) How are these "asylum seekers" getting to France in the first place? None of them look under nourished. They all seem to have the latest cell phones. 4) From the reports l see the UK has. Housing crisis. UK residents are waiting lists for government owned housing. Who gets preference. And when are the residents of the UK saying enough.
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  276. And likely each one had a lot of time by an armorer going over them to make sure they functioned properly before being issued.
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  277.  @ForgottenWeapons  A key to the door would be nice too. Not going to happen of course. Also if you were getting any financial compensation from say RIA then the other auction houses might say thank you, but no thanks
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  278. Well, they've heard on CNN and MSNBC for years. And straight out of the mouths of people like Rev Al. Of course they believe it.
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  279. Yodeling Neanderthals 👍👍, works for me Seriously, they were able to survive in multiple environments. They survived through multiple glacial and inter-glacial periods. They made stone tools. And beyond some wooden spears we have no idea just what level of technology using organic materials they had. DNA research has opened a new window on their capabilities. I suspect that the more sites we find, the more we will be forced to change our opinion of just what they could do. One thing I wonder about is did they sometimes keep pets. If so they were started down the road to keeping domesticated animals
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  280.  @Dave5843-d9m  Possibly, but I question the cost effectiveness. In a production vehicle the currently used scintered and forged rods are perfectly serviceable for threat use. The rod is actually larger when it comes out of the sintering process and when forged ir reduces the volume and increases the density. Another option might be 3D printing using laser sintering of metal powders. This would actually allow the use of two different alloys. Hard and tough on the outside while softer on the inside. People are already doing 3D printer non load bearing components such as intake manifolds. Just how long before we see aftermarket aluminum 3D printed heads and blocks. These would still require a certain amount of machining but IMO would be cost effective in comparision to billet. I suspect that the engine manufacturers are already doing this. Originally 3D printing allowed for rapid production of patterns for casting prototype parts*. *One of the early 3D printing or stereo lithography techniques used paper rolled out on a platen with a laser cutting out the cross section. Glue on the next layer and tra e the cross section. Rinse and repeat until done. This technique is still around to some degree. There is a company in Ireland that was showing a desktop 3D printer that was combined with an inkjet. The idea is to produce fully colored and finished items https://newatlas.com/mcor-iris-paper-3d-printer/32903/
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  281. Which as a historian is his job description. If an author discards facts to fit his opinion he is a historical novelist at best. At least that's honest. But with history the truth is often muddled. Details get lost. The people who might have known what happened in a certain instance quite simply aren't there minutes or seconds later. The same event seen from multiple viewpoints can have wildly different descriptions.
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  282. The decline of Christianity in West has left a void. And a void will be filled by something. And we know what is filling it.
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  283. I want to see them try the same stunt in Sturgis during the annual bike week.
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  284. And then there are the artifacts from antiquity that defy explanation by archeologists. There are stone blocks in Egypt that display evidence of being machine worked. This was noticed as far back as Flinders Petrie in the late 1800's. And no, I'm not saying aliens or any of that whoo whoo crap. Only that the ancients Egyptians and others had technologies we do not yet know that they had.
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  285. One former German vessel is still in service withthe US Coast Guard. The Eagle of course.
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  286. In my experience hydraulics always eventually leak. As do pnuenatics. Electricicals even if they leak do not make puddles. Of course the problem with electronic systems is keeping the red electricicals in the red wires. The blue in the blue etc. 🙄
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  287. They will be allowed to vote,,,as long as it's for Labour
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  288.  @johndododoe1411  I think they'd be better off using a fixed wing aircraft. Snagged the chute and winch into the cargo hold.
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  289. I suspect the F Class proponents were avid water skiers
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  290. It would have been her civic duty after all. Yah, sure.
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  291. Maybe that's why US mafioso have such colorful nicknames.
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  292. ​ @joesmith1574  That isn't right either.
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  293.  @MravacKid  The two Yamato class battleships are shrapnel
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  294. What about the one individual who was in Hiroshima on business and survived. He was evacuated home to Nagasaki only to survive again
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  295. I am old enough to remember the cycle of jokes every four years about the East German female athletes. One was how they could have gotten rich endorsing mens razors.
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  296. One thing I always wondered about blower cars is just how much of a blind spot do you have almost right in front of you.
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  297. All top shelf hooch
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  298. He probably later went on to have a hand in the design of the Ford Expolder, err Pinto.
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  299. And her escort. USS Second Amendment.
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  300. This type of behavior will never be punishable by the school administration. Not when the administration encourages it.
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  301. And when they loose money and have to close who do they blame.
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  302.  @calebdoty9090  If any of the standards was considered the US Navy's flagship I think it would have been one of the West Viginia's or Colorado's. Heavier armament and better armor. Arizona as she existed on Dec 7th was in no position to engage in a gunnery duel with any fairly modern opponent. Nor were any of the other older standards. In a way the US Navy was lucky that the Japenese had not been spotted. If the battleships had sorties to try and engage the Japanese any of the battleships sunk would have been in deep water.
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  303. ​ @QuantumMech_88  Semiautomatic. Functionally no different than a semiauto deer rifle and firing a much less powerful cartridge. After the Kenosha protests l heard somebody ranting about how he was carrying a machine gun. Corrected her and her answer was "well it looks like one".
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  304. As someone who lives in that city l for one will never forget.
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  305. The actual word cowboy is a derogatory term imported from Britian
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  306.  @okuratwarmianski7993  Yes that was inexcusable.
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  307.  @PandaMan-xy1he  But in which Circle of Hell?
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  308. There's another factor in the terms of copper alloys used in North America is the general lack of tin deposits. The whole idea of native copper from deposits on Isle Royal and the Kewanee Peninsula is an idea that really flies in the face of logic. For one thing the Upper Peninsula is a good way inland. Summers are pretty short compared to other copper using regions. Did any Bronze Age sailors wind up in North America? Its possible I suppose. Did they get home? That another thing. Most likely no. And any Bronze Age sailors that did wind up in the Americas most likely wound up in the West Indies. Now could a Bronze Age or early Iron Age vessel have been driven by weather and current across the Atlantic. And then picked up pieces of copper in trade. And then made it home. It's long odds. Possible but not likely.
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  309. Cue Yoda voice. "Weak the logic they have."
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  310. And the other woman in the khaki pants. "Is anyone getting this". While l have to admit I would like to get off of burning oil. The stuff is too useful for other things. But if that's what they want. Why don't they do something useful instead of virtue signaling.
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  311. Monty Python moment "nobody expects the Girl Scouts*" *but only if we have bi-sexual, transgender genetically Male individuals who self identify as heterosexual females
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  312. And in Germany if you point it out you will get prosecuted.
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  313. Yes, the Greeks and Romans along with the Egyptians and likely other painted statues, temples and other public buildings. But I have to say that I find the bare statue devoid of pigment vastly more beautiful. Why? Because the naked stone, no matter the color of the stone, displays the skill and technique of the true artist in their creation. The sculptor. Painting the objects to me was just gilding the lily.
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  314. I may be mistaken but I thought the majority Iraqi armored vehicles knocked ut by airpower were taken out by F-111s dropping laser guided munitions.
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  315. There's an old cautionary tale about the F-86 Saber. There were a number of fatal crashes that were ultimately found to be attributed to an assembly error on the wing leading edge slats caused by a case of an individual on the shop floor knowing "better"
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  316.  @Alan.livingston  I'm not talking about people exploiting the misfortune of others. I'm talking about the new homes that were built in the 30s. I'm sure the number was down. Just like auto sales were down. But Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nash and a few other independents continued to operate. GM and Nash also continued to earn a profit. I'm not saying times were not tough for a lot of people. But the idea that everybody was out of work is plain wrong. Both my Grandfather's had steady work during the 3Os. One was a Tool and Die Maker. The other was a Stationary Engineer. I also realize more real millionaires were made during the Depression than the 1920s. And that was people able to buy stocks and property cheap. And some of them were vultures
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  317. There are probably a number of fairly pristine MK 14 torpedoes littering the western Pacific
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  318. And being smart enough to only two basic reactor designs.
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  319. But how does one tension the tracks? Besides if the tanker ever needs his tanker M1 he has already experienced a significant emotional event.
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  320. And Washington and how many other places.
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  321. I wonder just what she has ever done for her district that has affected it in any positive way.
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  322. Probably the best duty any German enlisted man could have during the war was to be attached to a German Embassy in a neutral nation. Like say Argentina or Uraguay.
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  323. ​ @annabellethepitty  Along with Carharts
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  324. Chick Yeager liked itso that's to say something. But once the decision was made to strip the engine of it turbo supercharger it was a second rate aircraft as used. The decision made by the USAAC in the 1930s that the V-1720 would be turbocharged meant Allison never put the engineering effort into a good mechanical supercharger that firms like Rolls Royce, Damiliar Benz, Junkers and Pratt & Whitney did. By the time the V-1720 had a good supercharger it was too late. Looking at post war usage in say unlimited hydroplanes were in a lot of ways it was favored over the Merlin tells me the engine had much more potential than really used.
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  325.  @stephenarling1667  Obsolete. Not unneeded. The Sabre only had one aircraft it powered iirc.
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  326. Just wait until we find out just who "his" VP pick is. His VP pick is going to be who they tell him to pick. And within 6 months his VP will be sworn in. If the Democrats sweep the election I expect to see a number Constitutional amendments or calls for a Constitutional Convention
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  327. ​ @SirBlackReeds  No l am not. I can respect Musk for what he has achieved in his life. That does not mean l have respect for, admire or even approve of his personal life. The same goes for anyone else. Judge people by what they do. And achieve.
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  328.  christopher snedeker  See, here's proof Climate Change was caused by Paleolitic hunter gathers burning fossil fuels! Now we know why all the continental ice sheets melted. Bring back the ICE! Sarcasm mode off. Of course the beauty of heating with wood it heats you multiple times. Once when you cut it. Once when you split it. Once when you stack it. Once more when you bring it in the house. And finally as you sit in front of the fire place on a chilly evening. Provided all the heat just doesn't go up the chimney. PS I suspect that humans have been utilizing surface deposits of coal a lot longer than we realize.
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  329. @No one! Political appointees working their way up through the organization. Follow the money sort of 1) Who appointed them 2) Who has backed them and seen to their promotions 3) What political parties or groups do they belong to. 4) Where were they educated and in what field.
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  330. ​ @Lurch685  Name one other religious group that gets vilified as much. That's not saying there are individuals who call themselves Christian that do not deserve it.
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  331. The new model to be called the JagOff
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  332. Probably boxes of 5 colors. Red, Blue, Yellow, Black and White. Crayon is of course pencil in French Techniques for wax colored drawings go back to at least the 1st Century AD.
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  333. The Swedes are a little crazy also https://altdriver.com/gearhead/two-stroke-v8-rudezon/ https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=rudezon&&view=detail&mid=511CC5B0F1661A9FFFC5511CC5B0F1661A9FFFC5&&FORM=VRDGAR
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  334. Depends on how much insulation they have. Remember it gets cold in Western Pennsylvania in the winter. But l agree. This whole thing stinks.
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  335. Every time I see a picture of Pelosi all I can think of is a wax dummy at Madam Tusades
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  336. That oil change due light had only been flashing for maybe 25,000 miles
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  337. And to think people drink the crap
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  338. There is no such thing as waste. The so called waste is only a resource we are not using.
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  339. That sir is an insult to POS's
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  340. ​ @ronschlorff7089  Sure if they are positioned permanently ”lowered” inside a frame and you just open and close them. And they aren't built by Boeing.
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  341. All it takes is one 7nfortunate incident they can capitalize on.
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  342.  @thecanadiankiwibirb4512  P-47 and some P-51 pilots took it to the next level. Shoot the train. Blow a bunch of holes in the locomotive's boiler. Train stops. Strafe the rest of the train.
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  343. One of the few land borders that can be seen from orbit
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  344. In our mind we imagine the Sahara to be a vast ocean of sand. It isn't. Parts are covered in dunes. Others are rock strewn plains looking similiar to images we have from rovers on Mars.
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  345. I remember seeing a documentary on the Lusitania which showed the salvaging of the ships screws. And now a question. When does a war grave become an archeological site?
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  346. Ask someone who favors equality of outcome if they were ould be in favor of enduring that every sporting event being required to end in a tie. At the end of the season every NFL team just as an example has the same record. Every time gets a Lombardi Trophy and all players get a ring. I know it's an extreme dumb idea. But in essence that is what equality of outcome boils down to.
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  347. Gee, I didn't know that Vietnam looked like the PNW👍👍
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  348. Why? The power of social media for one thing. Plus there are a large number of members of the Alphabet community in the entertainment and news media that wield far too much power.
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  349. For all the hype about battery banks etc I find I am more in favor of mechanical storage systems. One reason is they are already developed. These break down into two types. The first is flywheels. I'm sure there is room for improving efficiency but they are a currently (no pun intended) available technology. The second is gravity batteries. Today this mostly means pumped hydro. But pumped hydro isn't going to work in all locations. Either because of the topography. Or simply because the excess water might not be available. Another type of gravity battery is simply a large mass turning a generator as it falls. And no I do not mean that idiotic idea they were demonstrating in Switzerland. Instead have a tower enclosing 4 vertical shafts. In the shafts you have a box containing say 500 metric tons of sand. 1 million kg. That's around 1600kg per cubic meter. 625 cubic meters of sand. In a box 8.5 meters on a side. Build your tower whatever height you want. Install your motor/generator set not at the top of the shaft as in an elevator installation. But at or bear ground level. It just makes servicing easier. OK, you now you have four shafts grouped together in a square 20 to 30 meters on a side. If you build this in an urban center wrap the tower with office space, shops, apartments, what ever. These offer rental income. Is it elegant? Maybe not. But at say 50% efficiency I could live with that. Hell, even at 25% it looks attractive. How much energy would be stored in 500 metric tons raised to a height of 100 meters. The only other potential battery system I can see that is possible to put into widespread use is some sort of Thermal Battery. For home or individual apartment energy storage one idea that sounds good provided it works out is the iron/air battery. It offers the possibility of an individual battery about the size of a standard washing machine being able to provide power for up to 60 hours.
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  350. Well, that won't work out well for a certain demographic.
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  351. Saddled with the underperforming Westinghouse (1) axial flow engines and aerodynamics of questionable performance for the late 1940s. I wonder just what the difference a more powerful set of engines and fly by wire controls only really made possible in the 1970s would have made. 1) Westinghouse did have turbine engine experience prior to dipping their toes into aviation jet engine design. Unfortunately that experience was all in steam turbine or posdibly gas turbine units for power plant or possibly ship board use. The US market for steam turbines was pretty much dominated by General Electric and Westinghouse to my knowledge. And the Westinghouse was not the first acisl flow engine designed or built in the US. That goes to the Lockheed engine designed for their L-133. That engine was taken over by Marquart and never really did work out.
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  352.  @xoxo2008oxox  Hand stitched by Ricardo Montebalm
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  353. Falcon Heavy
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  354. If they want their privacy they can just stay home. Problem solved.
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  355. How long before someplace somebody decides enough is enough and the gloves come off.
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  356. The reason we are going to spend the rest of the year exploring it is to make sure you identify as one of the three
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  357. Big surprise.
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  358. He'd be better off filing a complaint that the guy misgendered him.
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  359. "What knockers"
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  360. And they have no idea just what they are asking for.
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  361. Those fairing must be under pretty hefty decellerstion.
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  362. Yes there literally are people who should prefer to see people starve rather than have to bend on one of their principles. The field of GMOs and Golden Rice in particular are a prime example.
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  363. And not all men are interested in the glamorous types. Hence the attraction to the girl next door. Plus the eternal question. Ginger, or Mary Ann?
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  364. When you pulled the valve cover off did it have the steel and rubber washers for the Valve Cover screws. If you see those I built the machine to put then together
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  365. I wonder if the escape by balloon was the inspiration in part for Jules Verne's Fantastic Island
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  366. Sometimes medication can be required for psychiatric or psychological issues. Chronic depression can be one example. But medication should be the second to last option employed or chosen. The absolute last option should be life altering surgery's. I fear that this social craze (1) will turn out to be looked upon the same way lobotomies are. 1) There really are people with genuine gender identity problems. Generally they are related to miss timing of gestational events as a fetus develops. As to what causes them I'm not sure anyone really knows. They occur at a rate of about 1 in 10,000 births iirc. There is another gestational problem that can crop up. Is revered to as Chrimerism. Basically it involves a second fetus that was absorbed by one that is eventually born. This is also very rare. I remember one case which involved parental rights and support. The birth mother was found to not be related genetically to her her children. When they did future tests they found her reproductive organs had different genetic makeup than the rest of her body.
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  367. One thing that really makes me wonder about the whole concept of hypersonic missiles. Especially longer ranged ones is the IR signature such a vehicle would have.
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  368. That is neat.
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  369. He only has to light the first one. Besides what do you think the MAP gas torch is for.
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  370. As an example, HMS Hood. The damage caused by the 308mm shell hit was structurally rather minor. The secondary damage on the other hand. 💥💥💥 Seconded by USS Arizona or USS Shaw
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  371. Saw it in a documentary hosted by Wallace and Gromit
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  372. There are any number of locomotives from the Steam Era I wish had been preserved. The M8lwaukee Road's Hiawathas come to mind.
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  373.  @MilitaryAviationHistory  Wonders will never cease
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  374. ​ @MarinCipollina  All through the war I suspect the automotive companies had some of their staff working on new designs for the post war era. Maybe not actually building prototypes. But serious design work up to the clay model stage.
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  375.  @jimbothegymbro7086  Or each other. Just wait until there is a push to make cannabilusm accepted.
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  376. Maybe it was Jagermeister
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  377. Now I'm going to ask a question. What is the profit motive in stealing a CitiBike? Is there a reward for "finding" a missing CitiBike? If so does CitiBike keep records of the finders? Just asking.
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  378. It just wouldn't be memes without the it's got to be aliens guy. And I think that was the retouched photo of Admiral King meeting with Ordandace. There just had to be fire coming out of his mouth and 40mm Bofors from his eyes.
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  379. Of course the battleship had to carry them. Just a bit heavy for the crew to lug around.
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  380. The shooters pronouns have been changed to was and were.
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  381. Record unemployment. Yet we need unregulated immigration 🤔
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  382. Plus wootz was sourced from India. It gets termed Danascus because that was were people were trading for the ingots.
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  383. Plus I'm willing to bet they have no issue jetting off to the tropics a couple of times a years on daddy's money.
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  384. Tulsi 2028 or 2032. I'd give her a 50/50 chance of being the first woman president.
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  385.  @domdubz7037  No, not everyone. But the majority did. Again and again. If there is an urban area circling the drain in the US odds are it is run by the Democrats and has been for decades.
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  386. This is what happens when people from the big city get out in the wild. They act like everything is a big farm animal.
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  387.  @athenasowl78  Plus they intentionally bought seats in the next to last row. In the real cheap seats. Watson did not purchase her seat. Vice did. If possible I refuse to fly on AA. I'd almost rather fly on Frontier
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  388. We used to donate to a local food bank. I'd see people in nicer cars than mine drive up. There will always be leaches looking to game the system.
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  389. Insert face palm picture. That was bad.
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  390.  @kemarisite  Hence the AA shells for Yamato and Musashi
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  391.  @johnchambers2996  All of the civilian casualties on 12-7-41 were caused by anti aircraft shells that failed to detonate at the set altitude.
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  392. Took the Japanese to build a British sports car that works. First time every time.
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  393. But this was good pollution and CO2 emissions. Because it was caring and nurturing arson.
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  394. The USS Tenth Amendment suffers from continued lack of power as the Department of the Navy insists that as it is the 10th Amendment it is up to the individual States to supply the needed power
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  395. Remember, this is the guy who bragged his name was all the crime bills
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  396.  @magisterrleth3129  If it bleeds, it leads
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  397. One thing Ian over at Forgotten Weapons has brought up is all of the Swiss subsidiaries that were set up by German manufacturers that were heavily into weapons development.
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  398. The idiocy of todays world never fails to astonish does it.
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  399. I've known some plus size women that did turn heads. Because they knew how to carry themselves. And not wear epandex.
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  400. HMS Vanguard. A rather ironic name for a ship that's the last of her line. But better than HMS Finis
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  401. ​ @EdgarTurner-py4fe  I hate tell you this. But most White owned businesses do not succeed. The majority of small businesses fail. Sometimes from economic conditions. But most often from poor planning, poor service and bad business practices. I have no problem with African-American businesses being supported by African-Americans. But supporting such businesses simply because they are owned by African-Americans if the business does not offer good service, good value and the business is run poorly stupid. And that applies to any group of people. No matter the race, ethnicity, religous affiliation or any other grouping.
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  402. One of my neighbors who was an infantry man in the 3rd Army was involved in liberating one camp. I dont know which one but he said it shook him to his core.
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  403. She don' know nuffin
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  404. There was also their experience building the Turbosuperchargers used in USAAF radial engines bombers and the two staged Allison V-12s used on the P-38. The early Whittle jet engines used compressor turbines similar to the ones used on automotive Turbos and an Axial Power Turbine. There was at least one other effort by Lockheed who had designed their own Axial Flow jet engine in the late 30s. There were a number of people around the world who had looked at building gas turbines for aviation use prior to the successful Power Jets but they were frustrated by the lack of high temperature alloys and the inability to make the designs light weight enough.
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  405.  @k.sophiacavallo8858  I could care less about millionaires in the NBA or NFL or MLB. Yes they are talented. But for playing a game? The only thing that impresses me is if they do something constructive with the money. I'm more impressed with somebody who starts from nothing and builds a business successful business that puts people to work doing real jobs that pay real money.
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  406.  @brasshouse-fireball  Because for some people racism is their meal ticket. Or a justification.
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  407. There's another factor in coolant passages. Dead zones as far as coolant flow goes. For an example on AMXJ's YouTube channel he has a series of interviews with an individual who was involved in cylinder head porting on the 4.0. One thing th heyfid was install thermocouples all through the engine. One of the things they found was dead coolant flow towards the rear of the block between cylinder cores. A fix for this is to install exterior coolant lines to shoot coolant right into those areas. This could be done on any engine that has hot spots caused by uneven coolant flow. Aldo the farther the heat source is from where the coolant is introduced to the block or head the hotter the coolant is by the time it gets to the rear of the block or head. Overheating kills more engines than anything else. This is one reason the Lemons for example requires only wayer as coolant. Second is probably bearing failures due to lack of oil pressure and flow. As for blocks splitting under high power loads, detonation etc. One thing the manufactures could have done is to have a web cast into the blocks between the cylinder banks. The webs could have been cast almost as high as the finidhed ends of the blocks. The cost per block would have been negligible. But weight was probably also a factor. In many ways the US auto industry penny pinched itself to death. Look at a lot of the imports. Even on four cylinder engines they employed deep skirted blocks.
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  408. The biggest mistake we made with nuclear was not going with a standardized plant design like France did. When Carter went to 3MI he got more radiayion exposure on the flight from DC to Harrisburg. When they had the Congressional hearings the AEC/NRA inspectors were asked how they measured the radiation. They had their Gieger Counters with them. When they measured yhe radiation levels in the hearing chamber it was far higher than the 3MI. Just from all the naturally radioactive stuff in the stone work of the hearing chamber.
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  409. We just lost two local privately owned (open to the public) that are soon to be paved over with soulless McMansions. Could be worse. It could have been perfectly good farmland. Between lower numbers of rounds and higher property taxes I am not surprised.
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  410. Does any one seriouly think that if the Arab nations (1) that attacked the new State of Israel. And had they successfully pushed the Jews into the sea they would have established a Palestinian State. Or would they just have carved up the area to suit themselves. Why is it we never here about the ethnic cleansing of Jews from countries throughout the Middle East. What is the safer place for a Palestinian to live? Israel or Palestine? I have my issues with the State of Israel. One is the demographic trend. With the birth rates amongst the Hasidic the Secular Israelies will be a minority living in a theocracy. Also the Hasidic appear to want to enjoy all the rights of being Israeli citizens while bearing none of the burden of being citizens. Rights which Arab Israelies also enjoy. PS As a thought exercise just think what the Middle East would be like today if the Arabs had welcomed Jewish immigration post WWll. 1) Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq
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  411. Kekistan, humbug. Elbonia shall rule them all
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  412. To far too many people "pay their fair share" means everybody else pays through the nose and I don't pay anything.
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  413.  @Bird_Dog00  It's the naval version of geometric progression. 1gun, need 2, 2 guns, need 4 ect
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  414. The Royal Navy also had a two years headstart unfortunately. In 1939 and 1940 there was no great support in the US to get involved in Europes "problems". Remember Lend Lease only got through Congress by one vote. Now as to whether or not the US Navy and its officers corps could over come it's own inate prejudices and actually learn from others at the time is another question. The graduates of Canoe U (Annapolis) are Naval officers serving the interests of the United States. They are not supposed to be serving the interests of their own career advancement or personal egos. The same can be said of any service academy worldwide. Besides what really set the table for victory in Western Europe and the Pacific in my opinion was the Two Ocean Navy appropriations bill. While FDR sometimes gets accused of intentionally dragging the US into WWII I personally don't buy it. The US was not going to go out of it's way to provoke either Japane or Nazi Germany into war*. But once the US was officially engaged it was all in. *One could say certain as actions did provoke Japan into war. The embargoes on steel and oil certainly were a push in that direction. And with Germany Lend Lease and fighting an undeclared war against the Kreigsmarine were two factors. One thing I think might have provoked a US declaration of war with Germany is if (an admittedly big if) during Rhein Maiden KMS Bismarck had encounted USS Texas while she was on patrol in the Western Atlantic. At one time iirc they were about 200 miles from each other. The Texas would have been sunk in all likelihood. And her escorts probably badly mishandled. The would have in all likelihood caused the US to declare war on Germany. A destroyer getting sunk with major loss of life (Rueben James) is one thing. A major asset like a battleship is another.
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  415. ​ @leonnunhofer3453  Specializing in some sort of "______ Studies" most likely.
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  416.  @ELIGG15  He chief designer couldn't find his engineering rule and had to use an ugly stick
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  417. I never knew that. Camels in Canada
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  418. A far better looking aircraft, and likely much better, than the clumsy Vought Pirate.
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  419. Ian should have been dressed in sheep's skin jacket, pants, gloves, flying helmet and goggles. And standing in the waist of a B-17
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  420. And all the recent "asylum seekers" will of course have no interest period.
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  421. A mistress. There has to be a mistress in the mix somewhere who is actually a Flobonian agent extracting secrets under the covers 😁
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  422. Can't you have the police arrest them for "offensive behavior"?
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  423. I miss the days of Friday night fish fry with fresh caught Lake Perch
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  424. Do you really have to wonder.
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  425. There had to have been some water based commerce between Mesoamerica and South America. The Darian Swamp almost makes it a given.
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  426. My brother had to spend about two months in Buffalo refurbishing shower and bath facilities at a DOD facility. He came back and he told me that people in Buffalo keep an old junker in storage for the winter. Junker comes out. New car goes in. I wonder if people still do.
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  427. Free Valve engines have been around for a long time. Only the valve is only free in one direction when the keepers come off of the valve spring.
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  428. Bayonets? We don't need no stinkin' bayonets. We've got katanas!
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  429. Great idea but I bet they turn you down.
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  430. Ain't no such thing as free brother. Somebody's going to pay. Just be willing to pay your fair share. What constitutes fair is another question all together.
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  431. When it comes to putting radiation into your body I always get a kick out the banana as the perfect food commercials. Some of the potassium atoms in the banana are naturally radioactive.
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  432. I would not be surprised if Hoel, Gambier Bay or St Lo are at deeper depths when found. And if any of them went into the Trench they may not be found for a long time if ever.
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  433. In comparing aircraft from the WWII time frame the tactics and training of the pilots always come into play. As I understand it the majority of pilots shot down during the war never saw their attacker. You could be flying the best fighter of it's time and still get hammered by an inferior aircraft with its pilot doing a boom and zoom. If you wind up in a turning fight you have already lost in terms of advantage. Looking at the aircraft of the time the five best in my opinion but not ranking them. FW-190, Bf-109, LA-7 (9?), the Spitfire and the P-51. Close but not quite the P-47, the Typhoon and possibly the F4-U. Also rans include the P-39 (it did better at low altitude in Russia than most appreciate), the Hurricane (it just didn't age as well as the Spit), the P-40 (again better than its given credit for but not aging well.), the P-38 (brilliant in the Southwest Pacific), the F6F (great carrier fighter, the best of the war imo but against quality land based compitition). But one thing must be remembered as to fighter aircraft. Their initial design can be an anvil on their back or a good starting point. The P-51 if the British had never tried putting a Merlin in one it would be remembered as a slightly better P-40. Saddled with an Allison that never really got a good mechanical supercharger. The point is if an airframe has room to grow and be modified as circumstances change it has the capability to be a great design. If it cant, well it can always tow target sleeves. The ones that survive that is. If jets had been delayed by one or two years for some reason (there was no way they were not coming) Republic would have had what could of been the ultimate piston engine fighter in the XP-72.
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  434. Lske Erie is still relatively warm. The winds pretty much were blowing straight down the length of the lake. There are other areas getting hammered pretty good but not as bad as Buffalo and areas the south. Yet I've seen comments that Niagra Falls hasn't gotten much to any at all.
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  435.  @tomdolan9761  As part of the whole Marshall's campaign there were also landing on Guam and Tinian. WWll saw US amphibious landings in Northwest Africa, the Mediterranean, Western Europe, numerous islands in the South and Central Pacific and the Southwest Pacific from New Guinea to the Philippines. I wonder just how many landing craft and amphibious ships that participated in D-day were then sent back across the Atlantic, thru the Canal and west to be used in the Western Pacific.
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  436.  @AKATenn  1) Use of local resources to produce fuel and oxidizer 2) Escape and orbital velocities for Mars are low enough that the Starship could easily achieve both. The key though is #1.
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  437. And the recipe described here could not exist without the Columbian Exchange
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  438. Tooling today is easier to produce due to two technologies. CNC which is still getting better. And the tooling. Which allows finishing with zero to very little hand work in polishing the molds. But in the future 3D printing will take over more and more. Especially for low volume production
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  439. Unplanned ground plane interface.
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  440. The dry lakes in other locations in the Southwest have disappeared. The large lakes from the Ice Age disappeared. The Great Salt Lake is but a remnant of the the Ice Age Lake Bonneville. It is my understanding that the lake has been slowly shrinking for decades.
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  441. Are drawings available The geek in me yells "that is so freaking cool" The only thing geekier is Clickspring's Antikythera Device he's building
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  442. Brave and Daring.
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  443.  @Roonasaur  We just need to understand that the people on both sides of the exchange were not saints.
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  444.  @davidschwartz8125  Changing political requirements due to new administrations or changes in Congress have resulted in how many changes to programs. Or cancellations and starting over. Consider the SLS*. If it was to be limited to strictly heavy lift cargo they just could have dusted off the Shuttle C. But then everytime the government tries to save money by modifying something it seems like it costs more. *Senate Launch System. I'm all for putting all 100 of them onboard.
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  445. She hasn't been given her script yet.
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  446. Nice to see you included the official Gloster production drawings for the Meteor 😁
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  447.  @justnsaliga8518  The M4s not starting when being off loaded was probably due more to dead batteries than anything else. At US factories building tanks I would expect the majority needed to be driven on to the rail cars in the plants shipping yard. Not a complete test by any means but you do know the damn thing runs at least.
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  448. A while back I was watching the film "Vera Cruz" here on YouTube and sure enough Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster are walking around with Colt Single Army pistols and 1873 Winchesters. The movie is set in about 1866.
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  449. The one thing that was absolutely guaranteed with the Mk14 (and the Mk13 plus the Mk15) was that something would sink. Usually the tordedo.
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  450. Hand them a pointed stick and introduce them to subsistence farming using all hand labor.
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  451. Unfortunately any company needs some bean counters in the system. But if you are working on developing new applications or technologies your development staff is far more important. In my opinion any technology company that employs more non technology staff than it's engineers, chemists, physicists and production staff is a non technology PR company.
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  452. Why do l suspect that little of this has to do with democracy.
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  453. +Benson Inner a former life these served as cannon at Trafalgar
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  454. Metacentric Height. First thing that came to mind. Not an ocean liner (although the lakes do get violent) the poster child for metacentric height issues has to be the excursion vessel Eastland. To capsize at the dock in the Chicago River.
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  455. Two points. Mythology has its roots in two places. The first is in trying 5o make sense of the world around us. The second in the garbled retelling of actual historical events. This is the simplified version. The reality of the populating of the Earth is probably far more complex.
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  456. Well, when your character is boning Ursula Andress who's character is married to a German general you know it isn't going to end well.
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  457. There is another factor in the lifter centerline to cam cam centerline equation. The squareness of the lifter bore to the centerline of the camshaft centerline. When I worked in an engine manufacturing facility this was one of the major headaches I had to deal with. Several factors were responsible for this. The lifter bore being machined in multiple station on the transfer line (1) being one. Typically a lifter bore might have two drilling operations plus a roaming operation per hole. I was primarily involved in six cylinder blocks but that only can amplify the issues. 1) Drills and tooling wear. Cutting tools wear. Drill bushings wear. The guide bushings on bushing plates wear. The machine slides on machining stations wear. Two or three million cycles and misalignments will behind to appear. 2) These misalignments will effect accuracy. These can cause the drilled holes to be slightly off location. 3) Another source of potential misalignment is fixture wear. Part locator pins and clamping surfaces wear. This can cause the machined feature to be in a slightly different location in one station to be in slightly different spot relative to the print dimension than in another. If the clamping surfaces are wearing this will eventually cause the cylinder block to twist when clamped up in the station. 4) As tooling wears drill especially can move during the cut. They are far more flexible than most people realize. 5) Reamers even if they hav a bushing plate to guide them will have a tendency to follow the hole. One way to reduce a lot of these issues is to semi finish or finish the lifter bores in boring operations. Just machining 12 lifter bores in a block could take a set of machining stations around 100 feet in length. Tolerances on these features typically would be +/-.003 on location or less. The real killer though is squareness. Typically a lifter bore is .0001 per inch in squareness to the pan rail. But the cam itself may be +/- .003 to true position and .003 in parallelism to the crankshaft bore. The point of all of this is it is almost impossible in volume production to hold tolerances of less than .001 in volume production. 1) Typically components in modern internal combustion engines are machined in a series of sections of specialized machine tools. These sections are typically broken down as Operation sections. Typically devoted to toughing and proceeding on to various other semi finish and finish operations. A fairly simple part such as a con rod may require a machining line 100 to 150 yards in length (2). As the complexity of the part goes up the more operational sections that will be needed to produce finished part. These operational sections are usually separated by loading or unloading stations allowing individual sections to continue to produce parts if the one before or ahead is down for various reasons. This can be tool changes or various repairs being undertaken. 2) Typical operation sequence on a connecting rod would be the following A) Rough grind to finished with using a double disc grinder with the rod carried in a rotating plate with pockets that the rods fit in. This operation includes automatic inspection to allow adjustment of the grinding heads to control width B) Rough bore and semi finish of the pin and rod bearing diameters. Includes auto Matic gaging and tool compensatory C) Drill, ream and tap for connecting rod bolts D) Finish grind rod width E) Finish bore pin and bearing diameter F) Crack the big ends of the rods, brush the faces, insert rod bolts and torque. Cracked rods have an extremely accurate registration in terms of the cap and main body fitting back together. G) Drill oil must holes if required H) Press in pin bushings I) Finish hone pin and bearing diameters J) Final gaging of diameters and weighing of rods on each end. Most modern rods are sintered material that can be post processed forged after sintering. Rods in higher performance engines will have slightly different sequences of operations.
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  458. Fitting don't you think
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  459. I have actually heard leftists say you do not have a right to our own opinion
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  460. UPS and the Post Office both charge by weight when shipping a package. Why should lardasses get the same price as normal sized people?
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  461. It had been a very dry summer with dry warm conditions lasting pretty much up to the time of the fires. In terms of loss of life the one in Pestigo was far worse than the Chicago fire. Thee fires also happened the same time the Earth passes through the debris that follows the same orbital path as Halley's Comet. There is some thought that the fires resulted from meteors that struck while still hot enough to cause fires. The fires in Wisconsin and Lower Michigan along with the Chicago fire all pretty much started at the same time.
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  462.  @GibsMeMunny  500$ bottles of Mad Dog (Mogen David 20/20)
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  463. Of course the North American impact was by a giant feather pillow hence Lite Beer
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  464. He is likely hoping for an out of court settlement. Somehow the KaChing heals all hurty feelings.
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  465. Imagine the gun is trained port. The gun is fired. The sub rolls to starboard and floods.
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  466. With all the advances that did happen in this country in the 50s and 60s. One still can not prevent individuals from being racist. Aside from individuals in all communities. there are other factors causing a lot of the problems in America today 1) The break down of the family. And with it the rise of single parent households. Especially involving teen aged mothers. Children without a father in their lives. And fathers who could care less. Too many of both. How to fix it? The only answer I can think of is a return to being affiliated with a church. 2) Did the Great Society and all of the social programs that began with it really help? Some did. Some didn't. One thing that didn't was the replacement of the commodities program that distributed food to those who truely needed the help with food stamps and EBT cards. The food stuffs the government bought for use in these programs was usually to higher quality than what was normally available in the local grocery store. Maybe there wasn't fresh produce but what about planting a small garden. I see people shopping with EBT cards and all too often all I see in the cart is stuff you put in a microwave. My wife contribute heavily to a church run food bank. The people running the program told me that most recipients prefer to receive prepared heat and serve foods. Whole generations that don't know how to cook? 3) The big killer. Job loss. Across both the White and Black communities. And typically the jobs that people can find have less benefits and lower wages than the jobs list to off shore. All in the name of cutting costs. 4) Drugs. From crack in the inner city to meth in the country. And drug use is destructive to everyone. The lives lost to addiction. Not just ODs but the productive lives lost and the damage to families around them. The lives list to violence in cities like Chicago. Let's be honest. Aside from crimes of passion just how many of the murders in our cities are the result of turf wars by gangs over drugs. And every single drug user is contributing to that violence by financing it. Putting the user's Iin jail doesn't seem to work. And if you put the people running the gangs selling the stuff they will either run the operation from behind bars or get replaced by somebody else. There simply is too much money to be made.
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  467. The same airframe as used for live fire air to air missile training and tests iirc. Built by Ryan. Of course for missile tests any number of old aircraft were used.
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  468. Right up there with "we'll make it up on volume".
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  469. USS Muskallunge. A salt water boat named for a fresh water fish.
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  470. Just what is involved in replacing a major warships machinery. In terms of underwater protection one factor the US faced was transit through the Panama Canal. There are armor piercing bombs and there are armor piercing bombs. The converted 16" AP shells from the Nagato come to mind.
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  471. ​ @ronaldgray5707  The US Navy river monitors of Vietnam have an IJA analog in some of their patrol craft built to operate on rivers in support of ground troops. The USN ones were based on landing craft iirc. The US was also using the late WWll rocket bombardment ships in Vietnam. The ones with the launchers based on the 40mm Bofors mount with fire control directors.
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  472. US WWII Bombers has a video on the US rocket assisted bombs. Code named Disney
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  473.  @Ushio01  The US did drop test radio guided T-10s. Also bombing missions over Germany did not end with VE day. Later test drop missions were flown against a "bomb proof" U-boat factory. With mixed results.
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  474. I used to subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American and read Nature at the local library. Quit subscribing over 20 years ago. You could see the trend then.
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  475. But it makes them feel oh so important.
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  476. Just remember. Joe said so.
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  477. In the 1980s AMC* started Ziebarting every car in the factory. The State of Illinios was going to sue them because it wasn't being done like at the Ziebart shops. You know where they had to drill holes. Instead of doing it after the body went thru paint and before it the interior or drive train installed. Politicians can be some of the dumbest people on the planet. *Almost aCar, All Makes Combined etc
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  478. ​ @GilbertdeClare0704  Anytime you hear "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" run like the blazes.
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  479. No. It might have been a great short range fighter but the small wing and airframe would limit range.
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  480. He's probably an Elf emancipation advocate to boot. 👍
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  481. ​ @Ashley-WatchmanStudios2.0  White, Black, Hispanic. It doesn't matter. It's assault.
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  482. The North Shore actually ran through the Nash property in Kenosha. Large sections of the right-of-way in Wisconsin is now bike trails
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  483. Yup, sieze Obana's property under imminent domain. And then put up a 16 story project. And then put another one in Hyannis. I remember when there was a proposed wind turbine project between Cap Cod and the Vineyard. The Kennedy family had it killed because it would spoil the "view".
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  484.  @davidmcguire6043  The first you take a Mk II apart its lie one of those Chinese puzzles.
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  485.  Eric da' MAJ  I don't think that the Depression was any bad of roses. But at the same time Gm, Ford, Chrysler, Hudson, Nash and Studebaker all kept building vehicles. Somebody was buying them. Nash for instance had a profit all through the 30s. Homes were being built. The railroads were starting to switch to diesels. There was more money floating around than you would think. More people became real millionaires in the 30s than all the paper millionaires created by the Stock Market in the 20s. Yes the various federal programs aimed at the unemployed and underemployed were geared towards public works. And there was nothing wrong with that. But also in the 30s the US military invested in technological development. The Army in the automotive side of armored vehicles. The Navy in aviation. Lack of income due to tariffs can largely be blamed on the Smoot-Halley Act.
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  486. And places for it to get out of alignment. In a way it reminds me of the table saw I've got for just general use. It's got a sliding table that movable on the fence rails which are moveable all on a sheet metal box with an cast aluminum table. Cuts nice when set-up properly. But it is a real PITA to get set-up.
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  487. Good thing the ear buds kept repeating. "Breathe in, Breathe out."
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  488. ​ @lindifuller9113  That's the look she's going for.
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  489.  @pcs9518  No. When it looks like Gary. Or Beirut.
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  490. ​ @mreale2811  No. But crippling fines against their funder.
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  491. Actually the name of the pistol comes from the test reports. Unfortunately the writer of the report had a broken typewriter. Meaning he had to substitute "t" for "d". Hence lines in the reports such "The tarn plstol repeatedly failed to function".
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  492. I can readily see that these were built in Central Europe, probably one of the German States given their metal working skills especially in clock and watchmaking. When the presenter mentions Nuremberg my first thought was the Nuremberg Egg.
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  493. Imagine if the Western Allies were planning Overlord the way th things are done today. Some one on the planning staff suggests the concept of the Mulberries. Immediately it would go off to have an environmental impact study done. This would involve all concerned. Including the Germans. Circa 1955 the concept would be scrapped.
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  494. One problem with car ferries on the Great Lakes is they do not operate year round. We've taken the Lake Express between Milwaukee and Muskegon. Not cheap but l hate driving through Chicago. Muskegon is also home to USS Silversides
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  495. And afterwards, a little wine, eating some cheese and catching some rays. Bon chanc
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  496. We know why all of them sank. They lost buoyancy for one reason or another and sank. What caused the loss of buoyancy is another matter entirely. May they rest in peace. All of them. Of the U-boats that have not been found how many where lost in deep water where their remains are sitting on the Abassyl Plain of the Atlantic Ocean or in the deep basins of the Mediterranean.
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  497. Remember when she used the slur "neckbeards". I wonder how she squares that with a lot of her constituents.
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  498. Plus they all Express their individuality by dressing alike.
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  499. Never let an opportunity to make political points slip away. When she says DA In SF that should be all you need to know.
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  500. Its gravity. Of course she expects everything just comes to her.
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  501. ​ @michaelkimball8192  I thought that the officers had called for an ambulance.
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  502. One of my pet peeves regarding military footage is when the subject of the video is one thing there is all kinds of other footage that is spliced in to fill the void. The YouTube channel Dark Skies is great for this. Movie director John Ford was a USN reserve officer during the war producing films for the Navy. He was on Midway when the IJN attacked the island and filmed parts of it. In terms of aircraft that made attacks on the IJN carriers and surface ships at Midway it ranges from SBDs on up to B-26s and B-17s flying out of Midway.
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  503.  @lizzahk  No, it's a Marty Robbins reference.
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  504. ​​​ @waltonsmountain nd water if they are on a municipal system. Plus sieze their passports so they can not travel.
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  505. If you want to get up early get a dog. More reliable than an alarm clock
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  506. I think the myth about firing the guns at 90° to the centerline moving the ship comes from blast effect on the surface of the water.
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  507. Britian as a nation has its share of history that is shameful. What nation doesn't. It also has a more as a nation and as a people it can and should be proud of.
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  508.  @farmerned6  I would say that there had also been physical effect on the crew from being basically on battle stations for several days.
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  509. And here I thought that was Chrysler
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  510. I have an idea on the reason for the slow speed of technological advance and its spread in previous eras. There is generally a very small percentage of innovators in the population. With the small populations in the past combined with slow speed of communication this alone can explain why new ideas took so long to spread.
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  511. Requiring certification is racist. Why? Because reasons.
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  512. ​ @TheCsel  The yard build the Freedom Class LCS (1) in Marinette is switching over to the new frigate class 1) The building yard has little to do with uow suitable the design is. That's the BuShips responsibility.
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  513.  @MrBothandNether  Most of the wrecks still on the bottom of Lake Michigan are SNJs, F-4-Fs and SBDs. Plus the wrecks are still officially owned by the US Navy. I really doubt that there are any F-4-Us off of the beaches of Illinios or Southeast Wisconsin
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  514. Two words that normally do not go together. Criminal+Mastermind
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  515. ​ @СТРОКАТОВДЕНИС  Sadly to same thing can be said for those who automatically will vote for a Republican candidate no matter the quality. It is my opinion that we need a new major political party that represents to majority of those in in the middle. Not everything the Democrats do is insane. And neither is everything the Republicans do. But a new party the sheds the fringe groups at either end sounds good to me.
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  516.  @jtim83  I think he means the Organization not the Movement. The organization's founders are all committed Maxists and in my opinion racists as well. The whole People of Color can't be racist is heifer dust (a polite euphemism for BS). Any individual can be racist. Hence the the position that "All Lives Matter" is racist. When the statement that all lives matter should be self evident.
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  517.  @florida5135  I doubt anyone would complain. And if they do. Keelhual the lubbers.
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  518. The same goes for Kink at pride events.
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  519.  @kayzeaza  If North Korea did something really insane all on their own I suspect China and Russia would act to keep them in line.
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  520. Any car for $29.95.
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  521.  @quinnroberts3158  With PMS for 12 yesrs
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  522. Yoda standing on a RN destroyer holding up his light saber, er make that Electric Razor or Doom. "Jam it, it does"
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  523. As Dennis Stanford once said. I paraphrase. Rivers and bodies of water are not barriers. They are highways and means of communications (1). And it is my personal opinion that by the time an Ice Free Corridor could have opened up between the Cordillian and Laurentide Ice Sheets capable of supporting prey animals into the more southerly regions of North America. Anyone who traveled down that corridor would eventually wind up meeting distant relatives whose ancestors had travelled down the coast and up rivers by boat. 1) I heard the statement regarding him giving a talk on the Solutrean Hypothesis. Whether that whole idea holds water or not is a whole different matter.
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  524. They will also fight tooth and nail to keep everything.
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  525. All the effort that Ireland has put into restoring Gaelic will go for nought when it is replaced by Urdu, Arabic or Pushtu.
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  526. I didn't move mine and now I'm a zillionaire with a bigger willy. First liar never wins. 😊
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  527. Why am I not surprised. I think the old EV-1 built by GM and leased to owners for real world testing used the heat generated from the reduction gears to run the heater/defroster. Yah heat as and a/c are sure to be big range killers.
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  528.  @mrjockt  Makes sense. I would expect the troops involved in the familiarization process would be SF or airborne personnel that could potentially be deployed into the area. A just in case situation.
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  529.  @JakesFavorites  Theres no way he was not going to get convicted. In my opinion Chauvin did not commit murder or manslaughter. But he was culpable and bore some responsibility for Floyd's death. Once you are in police custody your safety is their responsibility. Another factor was the long delay in the arrival of the ambulance. Plus I never understood how it can take 8 plus minutes to strangle someone.
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  530. The people in most states are the issue. And it is not all of the people. It is usually the stereotypical bad resident that turns people off.
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  531.  @josephlilley9249  Why should they accept you if you cannot do the work. Besides not everyone should go to college.
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  532. Now who ever would have expected this to happen.
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  533. Every time they test a Starship at Boca Chica it's the 4th of July.
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  534.  @Nonybusinessxxxxxx  Netflix is starting to get the message. If you are careful you can still find good content. Now the question why do we see do much of this in the product these companies produce? Probably because the percentage of Alphabet people (they keep adding letters and I can't keep up) working in this industry (1) is way above the percentage un the rest of the population. They live in their own little bubble and think the rest of the world either just like them or beneath contempt. Hence terms like "flyover country". 1) Its an industry. It produces a product. A product that a log of us find we can live without.
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  535. @philip joyce see So it went through redesigns. It's called "upgrades". It was realized early on they needed a "hole puncher". The first attempt at a more powerful gun was rejected simply because the crews could not function in the damn thing. 76 mm ,Sherman's were available for D-DAY. They were rejected for logistical reasons. In hindsight a poor decision. But then not training for the Bogage country was just as bad. As to survivability. Just anecdotal but my uncle survived three Sherman's in Italy. Not exactly the ideal tank country. Once 76mm Sherman's began to arrive in sufficient numbers working in conjunction with artillery and air support German armor wasn't that big of a problem. Yes they suffered losses. Some of them avoidable in hindsight. But if one was in a combat arm you were far better off in armored units than in the infantry or the 8th Air Force for that matter. As to the Pershing being rushed into production. It was barely ready in late '44 and early '45. As witnessed by it's fairly rapid development into the M-46/47/48 series of tanks. The Sherman continued to serve in combat until the Yon Kippur War of '73. The near suicidal stand of the Israeli M-4's on the Golan Heights being pretty much it's last use in combat. The Sherman wasn't perfect. Neither was the M-26. Or the Cromwell, Comet, Churchill, Valentine or any other British design until the Centurion. Maybe. Underpowered Pershing. As where the Panther, the Tiger. The Sherman was designed around a 9 cylinder radial to start with. Why? Because they where available and fit the power to weight ratio and packaging size the Armored Board was looking for. And they were adapted for Twin GMC supercharged diesels, the Chrysler Multibank, 9 cylinder diesel radials plus the Ford V-8. The Ford was eventually developed back into the V-12 it started out as when designed to be a competitor of the Merlin.
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  536. He could also get the Packard's off the S S Wisconsin
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  537. The cops probably had orders. And the local DA most likely would not press charges.
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  538. Just go for Heinlein style powered armour.
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  539. Somebody should develop a video game similiar to Sim City or the old Impressions games. Except instead you start with a totally functional urban environment with the goal of turning it into a shithole. Call it Craptopia!
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  540. The inability or unwillingness to listen to what the other side/s of an issue say is both stupid and arrogant. Arrogant because it implies that you are so sure of your beliefs and opinions that everyone that holds different views from your are beneath contempt. Stupid because like it or not what others say has value and the real kicker. They might be right and you are wrong.
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  541. Pretty much anything built for the US market in the early '80s sucked
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  542. I've always wondered why they are so insistent on demanding people use their chosen pronouns. Pronouns that are almost always third person pronouns. The type on pronouns you would use when talking about someone. Not to someone. Maybe it's all about dominating the conversation even when they are not present.
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  543. The lead image is the USS Shaw blowing up ofcourse. I'm surprised she did not take the floating drydock with her. Shaw her self was put back into service after having a temporary bow installed (practice for putting temporary bows 9n ships which would come in handy) and being sent back to the West Coast. Mare Island or Brementon I would think. I actually have an inbuilt 1/250th scale model of the Arizona from Digital Navy. Doesn't take up much space though as it is a card stock model. By using the scaling function on a printer it can easily scaled up to a larger scale.
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  544. I remember Harrison Ford was on the Tonight Show and he got asked a political question. His answer was basically. Why is my opinion important. I'm just an actor. Never mind Ford grew up in a solidly Democratic Chicago family.
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  545. No mon ami. He drove a Citroën Traction Avant.
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  546. Mongolia should claim China as its "traditional raiding territory"
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  547. ​ @ryanparker4996  How many people really read for deep questions on society, life, politics etc. Most people read for pleasure. As a way to escape the dreary everyday world. The critics may love the artsy fartsy stuff. And some of it sells. But the same 95% of literary fiction falls into the same bracket of Ellison's Law. That 95% of everything is crap.
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  548. As to the liberal "elite". Just who the hell elected them along with a lot of the other activists and spokespersons.
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  549. The Irish is the proper stuff
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  550. Because they were too busy earning a living. I often wonder just how many of the perpetual protesters actually have a job. And not just in this crazy year. But any year. But there is one excuse for some off them. If you get out of school with a degree in any of the social justice "disciplines" you are basically unable to do any useful work.
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  551. Kaiser (IKA) in Argentina building older AMC models.
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  552. This is a great opportunity for a black ontruppenor (sp) to open a business that caters to needs of the community. What no takers?
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  553. Poi, no. Like the shirt though. I thought the jury was still out on how the sweet potato got to Polynesia
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  554. Reminds me of the joke about which part of the body thought it should be in charge. They had a fine discussion until the Arsehole went on strike. Explains a lot doesn't it.
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  555.  @shatara42  I used to tell the welders at work that they worked with the metal hot glue gun
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  556. One driver of the South's attempt at secession in my opinion was the fact that prior to about 1850 the South pretty much controlled the Federal government. After statehood was granted to Texas no more slave holding states were admitted to the Union. Yet by 1860 we would see Wisconsin*, California, Oregon, Kansas, Minnesota and Iowa (not in that order and Kansas is in January 1861). It didnt take a genius to see which way the wind was blowing. Slavery would die eventually. The question is would it be with a whimper or a wail. *the last state that was part of the old Northwest Territory which was the first part of the nation in which slavery was specifically outlawed
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  557.  @MilitaryAviationHistory  If the Wehrmacht had special designations for captured weapons did the Luftwaffe have a similiar system for captured aircraft and engines. And the French were on the verge of producing some really decent aircraft power plants. Just consider it lucky they didn't get a chance to set-up Merlin production. If aircraft and aircraft engines are one of your interests I highly recommend the web site Old Machine Press https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://oldmachinepress.com/&ved=2ahUKEwiYho75j87vAhVBLs0KHX6EA6IQFnoECAgQAg&usg=AOvVaw1R7vOgQmBRt1-feuQ6S2aN An excellent website. They mainly cover aircraft and engines that showed promise but didn't make production for one reason or another. Along with other stuff of interest to gear heads. One engine they covered was the largest radial engine ever built to my knowledge. Built by Nordberg these were stationary engines for generating stations and pumping stations. They where something on the order of 12+ft or 3 meters in diameter. In 11 and twelve cylinder versions. Interestingly neither the 11 or 12 cylinder version had a master rod. Very up to date there with no master and slave rods to offend special snowflakes. The last engine they covered was the Curtis Wright H-2120. This was not a flat double stacked engine layout like the the Sabre. This was a hexagonal engine similiar in layout to the Jumo 222 but being only 12 cylinders. A 24 cylinder H-4240 was planned. There were a number of aircraft type engines from the 20 and 30s that in my opinion while they may have been obsolete in the aircraft role would have been very useful in armoured vehicles such as tanks in a detuned state.
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  558. Concrete, what the Panteon is built of. The Panteon's beauty is on the inside.
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  559. ​ @jyllianrainbow7371  It could be worse. You could be in Britain and have the Archbishop of Canterbury urging you to learn Arabic. Let that one sink in. Nothing wrong with being bi-lingual of course. But l'l bet if you moved to a Spanish speaking country they would not trip all over themselves to have government forms in English.
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  560. Greta complained about having her childhood stolen. The ones who stole her childhood were her parents.
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  561. One of the Central American heads of state (El Salvador or Costa Rica iirc) has gome on record as one major cause of the immigration we are seeing is a direct result of policies in those countries that discourage economic development. IMO part of this is a result of foreign companies having excessive influence and control in those countries. But if a nation has a history of nationalizing foreign owned companies attracting foreign investment becomes problamatical.
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  562. The Jenny Durkin Community Housing Project. I suggest that every resident of Seattle that voted for any of the City Council members, Jenny Durkin or the King Co DA volunteer to take 2 homeless people into their homes and provide them with free housing, food, medical care and recreational drugs.
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  563. Once you get below the anaerobic layer the Black Sea also preserves wreck quite well.
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  564. I remember a section from James Jones history of WWII in which he describes interviews of German POWs about their opponents. They said the the English shouted, the French sang. But when the Americans attacked they were grimly silent. The Germans said that scarred them more. Jones said it was so the krauts couldn't hear their teeth chattering
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  565. In World of Warships the Erie is one of the entry level "cruisers".
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  566. It's not related to race. It's related to culture. And there happen to be a lot of white people who would act the same way in towards the cop.
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  567. ​ @mannylikestoanimate  No. We know there was an English seaman who got shipwrecked in Japan. It makes an interesting story and TV show. But we know he didn't change Japan. Both he and the black individual were mere blips in the history of Japan. About as significant as Henry VIII's trumpet player.
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  568. It's nice he had the time to squeeze this into the hectic schedule he must have had on the trip.
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  569. I think the technical term for this kind of behavior is "spoiled brats"
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  570.  @juliancrooks3031  Remember dinosaurs are still around. And they taste just like chicken 🍗🍗
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  571. Cars and trucks have long been a disposable commodity. Especially in the areas of the country that saw the use of road salt. We think of the "good old days" when cars lasted forever. They didn't. One reason was rust. The second is owners that frankly didn't do their maintenance. For the owners that did. Good for them. Yearly tuneups. Frequent oil changes. And you could still expect to add in shocks that lasted three years tops. Crappy bias belt tires. Suspension bushings falling apart. Valve jobs. Having to keep bulbs for turn signals in the glove box. Or interior lights. I have not had to change a headlight or tail light bulb in almost thirty years. Exhaust systems. That used to be a constant money maker for shops. The last one l had done was in 98 on an 84 XJ.
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  572. There is no shortage of politicians (and voters) who believe that they can just ignore the US Constitution in regards to their particular hobby horses. And let's be honest. It happens on both sides.
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  573. If you destroy it, they will come.
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  574. Similiar to other markets. You can have two automotive manufacturers that both produce good products. One well sell better than another for "reasons". Another decent 9mm service pistol. The Agentinian copy of the Hi-Power. They shoot decent. Are reliable and were really cheap. A little rough maybe but they work.
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  575. I believe there was a Swedish race team putting an Evinrude/Johnson two stroke V-8 in an old Volvo Amazon for drag racing. It can be found at engineswapdepot.com https://engineswapdepot.com/?attachment_id=5142 https://chromjuwelen.com/de/network/237-engineswapdepot-com/201908-rudezon-test-drive https://altdriver.com/gearhead/two-stroke-v8-rudezon/
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  576. The liberal urbanites have long hated the rural communities. For a time they transferred their hatred to the suburbs. Personally I think they suffer from agoraphobia. Myself Iive in a city of about 100k. Lots of parks. Plenty of green. Actually if I were standing looking out of a window in one of the taller buildings in the city in the summer it looks like a forest with church spires sticking up. I'm maybe five minutes from the countryside. A small home by US standards with room for gardens. There is no freaking way I would give this up for living in a brick or concrete box in the sky. If you like living there that's perfectly fine.
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  577. Once the denounciations begin they will be followed by purges, show trials and the gulags. Excuse me, the "Re-education Camps". Plus there was agency not of the list. The Queens Commision on Wokeness
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  578. Dr Jerry Pournelle once commented that you cannot predict the future. But you can invent it. Pournelle did make one accurate prediction. On the Tom Snyder show he discussed how you would be able to buy a device that would allow to read books in electronic format. Down to how you be able to get them off of the net.
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  579. ​ @Winstonsmithsalias  Depending on the species of Wisteria it can collapse arbors and fences. Thankfully l don't live in the botanical range of Kudzu. Although we have Wild Cucumber. Which while it can be pretty will grow over and choke out just about anything. When it floors it looks like the supporting plant or structure has frosting spread over it.
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  580. Zeppo was more successful than Karl. Zeppo actually machined parts for the war effort in his home shop during WWll as a subcontractor.
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  581. If it involves a United States Man of War, most likely Royal Navy fanboys with a man crush on Lord Nelson
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  582. ​ @wjf0ne  But l thought all those African immigrants were doctors, engineers and other educated professionals.
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  583. Just look at the glorification of self mutilation. From excessive piercings or tattoos to "gender positivity" surgeries. What's next? Creative scarring? Amputation of limbs or digits by "choice" or as "therapy" because the cause the individual distress?
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  584. I'm actually surprised some of these can actually be driven. I imagine the Netherlands to be like France. Where you can't even put a different size tire on a car.
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  585. Straight F students.
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  586. And thus we have the incels
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  587. Could the spear have possibly originated as a tool for spearing fish. Most likely a reasonably straight sharpened stick.
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  588. The ballistic tables for artillery (land or naval) in the US at least were calculated by groups of people by hand. In their job description they were called "computers". least
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  589. Insurance companies have far more power to punish you than the state does.
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  590. What about rotary valve heads. I know there's been a few engines built with them. In the early 80s (1982 to percise) I saw a V-6 in the garage area at Indianapolis that featured dual rotary valves per cylinder. I imagine that sealing as well as expansion issues due to temperature would be a problem. Of course the ultimate solution for street engines is either the camless engine with electronically controlled valves or if one gets really extreme a direct injection two stroke with no intake ports that uses fuel and an oxidizer injected directly into the cylinder. This could be either sprak or compression ignition. Barney Navarro actually messed around with oxygen fed cylinders in his days racing on the dry lakes of California. In that case the oxygen was just feed either into the intake manifold or somewhere else upstream of the intake valve.
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  591. In the future all US battleships will be equipped with Red Ryder BB guns. Let's hope they do not shoot their eyes out.
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  592. Yes you are. I have no wish to live in a theocracy. Especially a Woke theocracy.
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  593. What's that saying about going Woke.
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  594.  @IanSinclair77  One oarsman to the next, "Oh crap the Captain wants go waterskiing!"
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  595. Denise Ovan, Cave Girl
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  596. It is what happens when a project spans numerous administrations from the time the services ask for proposals until entering service. If it was just the airframe and engines the time to first flight would be much shorter. Add in all of the radar and weapons systems. Along with requests to match changing needs or requirements. Then see what happens. The US Navy used to do a lot of business with Petersen Ship Building in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin. Primarily support and auxiliary ships. Petersen finally walked away from submitting for contracts because they were sick and tired of having to tear apart partially finished vessels because the Navy changed their minds. They now build top tier pleasure craft. Much less hassle.
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  597.  @ONECOUNT  It's ironic that the only surviving "British" battleship in in Japan
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  598. Yes the RAF was attacking military targets pre Blitz. Plus pre Blitz the Luftwaffe was attacking Chain Home radar stations and airfields on the South Coast. What is known as the Blitz started when Geman bombers attacking the docks in the East End missed their target and hit a residential area. Churchill ordered the RAF to attack Berlin. Then the Germans switched to hitting civilian centers. One thing the Poles were not is stupid. They knew they were next on the list. Of course they were stationing troops along the frontier with Germany. I remember a quote from a Polish leader being caught between Germany and the Soviets. On one hand we will lose our freedom. On the other we will lose our souls. Another thing that often gets forgotten about is the Kyten (sp) Massacre when the Soviets executed thousands of Polish officers.
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  599. Believe me. If they weren't triggered by an alt history video it would be something else. Probably something really disturbing like sunrise. Or that Monday follows Sunday.
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  600. Harris saying she will lower grocery prices day 1. Well why not now Joe and Kameltoe
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  601. The idea of intentionally planning to ditch fixed landing gear aircraft vs having the aircrew bail out. You know you are going to lose the A/C anyway
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  602. And in Chicago you get to keep voting, or a proxy does
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  603. Its not mis pronouncing. Its correcting the pronounciation.
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  604. Gilgamesh probably goes much farther back than that. Parts of Sumerian legends probably go back to the flooding of the Persian Gulf and the breaching of the Bosporus
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  605. Ignorance? More like a combination of arrogance and cowardice.
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  606. And if two have a bounty it was the one with the highest bounty. During WWI or II did the Royal Navy award prize money to any ships that may have captured German or any of their allied vessels
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  607. ​ @invertedpolarity6890  And l remember when it was just coolant pumps. Maybe they think they are still building engines for fighters. The aircraft will never survive long enough to reach Time Before Overhaul. AKA as the driver is going to total it anyway
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  608. If people like Jess Phillips will not address the underlying issues. Does that make her misogynistic?
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  609. ​ @politicsuncensored5617  At 1/200th that's pretty big. The biggest I've tackled was a 1/250th Arizona from Digital Navy. But that's a Card Model so it's a lot like scratchbuilding compared to injection kits. I've got a 1/200 Saratoga but the thought of around 100 planes made of card is daunting. Of course the best thing about card models is if you scan the sheets you can always start over if you screw up.
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  610. ​ @juliepearlvillarba4689  The dreaded Nose Cone Bra.
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  611. ​ @mooremob100  I suggest Afghanistan. See how she likes it there.
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  612. I remember seeing some graffiti once that said 'free Huey Newton'. Newton was a Black Panther in the 60s. Somebody changed to 'free Huey, Dewey and Louie'
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  613. In the pecking order it was probably CBI, Aluetians, SW Pacific with CBI at the bottom. CBI was really more of a British operational area. The Aluetians. Cold and wet. SW Pacific. Hot and wetter. Next up the food chain would be Italy.
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  614. Maybe not capsized. But it would develop a list
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  615. Bingo. The Bahamas or the Caymans
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  616. I don't know if there would have been a land connection between Sulawesi and the Phillipines. Yes during glacial advances sea levels would have been lower. How much depends on just how extensive the ice sheets were. But also could there have been tectonic uplift or subsidence in the region. Plus remember rhinos got there.
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  617. ​ @FS2K4Pilot  Primarily used on Escort Carriers by the US and the Royal Navy.
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  618. Questions 1) How did the ladder get there? 2) How did this 20 year old get past security with a weapon? 3) Why was the sniper team observing a known threat and did not fire until the threat got off 6 shots. 4) Who is the women that was holding a Biden sign behind Trump who them calmly holds up her cell phone? 5) Why was rooftop in easy range not covered or occupied by SS personnel? 6) Who was the agent in charge on the ground? There is a lot here that stinks. Either from collusion or gross incompetence. As to why he missed. I suspect the point of aim of the sights were off to the left.
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  619. The engine on the left side if the thumbnail is a V-16 built by Miller in the 20s two straight 8s geared to a common output shaft. IIRC one was used in the Stutz Blackhawk. Probably the most beautiful LSR car ever built.
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  620. I think of the Age of Steam as being the period of double and triple expansion steam engines. The AoS effectively came to an end with Turbina and Dreadnought. Even though steam piston engine technology continued in use on the cargo and passenger side for some time. Turbines and reduction gearing aren't cheap. Steam piston technology finally replaced by diesel.
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  621.  @merafirewing6591  Then why are modern cargo ships diesel. One likely reason is power density. The same output in smaller volume.
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  622. My dad was in Italy (173rd Field Artillery) in an independent field artillery unit. He said they got their hands on some of these late in the war when German or Italian Fascist units were surrendering. He said they shot very smooth with very little recoil. Even the "simplified" version looks to be machined beautifully.
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  623. Ike was first and foremost a political general. Given the job he was in he had to be.
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  624.  @792slayer  I think they used surplus 6 or 8 inch barrels from cruisers.
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  625. Plan Alpha Omega. The be all and end all.
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  626. Railways were well established by this point. Shipping is still cheaper though. Consider the existence of more carriers on the Great Lakes. Iron ore could be shipped by rail from the Misabe Range of Minnesota to steel mills on the Great Lakes. And in winter it can be. But once the Lakes are open for shipping the ore boats go back into operation. Plus in Mahan's time rail transportation of bulk materials (ore, coal, crude oil, stone etc) was actually more expensive than today when looking at cost per ton in constant dollars.
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  627. And Kamchatka does, well Kamchatka things.
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  628. Those Bat guided weapons at the 6:50 mark. From the appearance of the target could they have been tested on the Great Lakes. The target sure looks like it has the classic Great Lakes bulk carrier layout.
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  629. It's good thing they didn't manage to torpedo a volcano. 🙄
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  630.  @JamesPhieffer  A couple of years ago I was on vacation on the west side of Maui (Napili Bay). The people staying in the resort told us that the week previously there had been 15 foot surf coming in. I then showed them video of the 40 footers that were hitting Duluth a couple of days before.
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  631. Being in effective range of most anything can be a significant emotional event. Even the Rock, M1, Antitank.
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  632. More like Steampunk. Or better yet Magnetpunk. Or Coilpunk
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  633.  Opecuted  I thought that was Snoopy 🙄
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  634. ​ @ronwatford7331  Absentees? Or the absent minded?
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  635. Looks like she's very inclusive when in the cafeteria line line though
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  636. ​ @mrbenn1489  There is an old joke. "How to keep a (insert ethnic, religious, racial identity here) occupied for hours." The joke consists of a sheet of paper with the instructions "See other side" printed on both sides.
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  637. He obviously had the money to keep buying crap. Or was he just moving stuff from the house to the yard.
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  638. I think that advanced alloys or composites combined with 3D printing and proper designs concentrating on maximunstrength vs minimum weight might finally allow for a practical SSTO. Not one that carries cargo. But one that can function as a taxi carrying crew to orbit.
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  639. You just knew with his response that he found the word truth offensive. The social sciences have truely become broken. Instead trying to find ways to help people rid themselves of delusions they now seek to affirm them.
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  640.  @arthas640  When everything stinks (including you and everyone around you) nothing stinks.
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  641. In the US the old joke is the IRS is coming out with a new simplified 1040 tax form. 1) What where your total earnings. 2) Send it in.
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  642. The L85 and my grandfather's axe are 1st cousins
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  643. The Blahuas School as l call it
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  644. Probably former FW-190, AM-6, or MiG-15 pilots
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  645. Ah, but with a calzone the pizza goes around the cheese
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  646. Try converting an empty mosque into a church in Saudi Arabia. I want clean electricity in enough abundance that oil production falls to that only needed for applications where it is not used as fuel. That electricity can be generated by renewables (1), geothermal, nuclear and someday fusion. I really don't care which. Because then the Islamic countries that just happen to be sitting on a sea of oil will have little other income. Let them eat sand. Maybe it's time Western countries nationalize the holdings of certain other countries. It was fine when it happened to the West. 1) Renewables include direct Solar (PV Panels or Heat) or secondary Solar such as wind, wave, ocean thermal and hydroelectric. Another renewable is tidal.
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  647. ​ @donnav3270  Genuine sexual harassment cases should be pushed and the offender disciplined. But cases that are brought because somebody has a crudge against another employee should be disciplined the other way.
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  648. We have only a minor fraction of what the Romans wrote and recorded. Much less everybody else.
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  649. The overwhelming majority of enslaved Africans were shipped to Brazil and the Caribbean. Mainly to be worked to death on sugar plantations. It may sound cruel but the Africans transported to the British colonies in North Ameria and what later became the US were probably the lucky ones. Luck that did not necessarily pass on to their descendants.
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  650. Hell, aliens inhabiting a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy. Plus I expect the USMC guard post outside the Pearly Gates has a couple of these in sand bag emplacements. Just to keep Ol' Scratch's minions at bay
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  651. All of it! 😬
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  652. Add in corporate self interest. One of the best examples being GMs foisting the Fischer P75 Eagle off on the USAAF to avoid having to build engine nacelles for the B-29s. Plus sometimes the companies that were contracted to the project simply were not up to the task. Add in there was general waste on the part of the Government. A good example is the factory built in Indiana to build a certain model tank of which they produced around 30 examples tops.
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  653. Well, any nation that used Spitfires to ferry beer.
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  654. The US got lucky in the first crossing involved seizing a mostly intact bridge. Which made the follow on pontoon bridges a lot easier to put in place. Which then had to bear the entire load after the Ludendorf Bridge finally collapsed. Add in the fact that the north end of the Ludendorf Bridge ended at a tunnel portal.
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  655. Given the weight of Spanish influence in Catholic Europe I think it would be unlikely. Doesn't mean that he should have.
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  656.  @jhoughjr1  Friday night salmon patties. 😋
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  657. Two aspects of the Industrial Revolution that gets missed by a lot of people is the rapid development of improvements in the machine tool industry. The second is improvements in meteorology (the science of measuring things)
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  658.  @JacksonNomad  Good thing you didn't use a word that starts with 'r' or Jess Phillips would be wanting a word with you.
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  659. There were a few aircraft experimentally fitted air bleed systems to improve performance in the 50s or 60s. They had a really hard time keeping all of the air channels and ducts clean.
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  660. ​ @Meowface.  I thought was slurp, slurp
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  661. I served on a jury one time that among the charges was assault with a deadly weapon. The weapon? A cell phone used to beat the victims head repeatedly. The perp was only about 14 hours out of jail from serving his sentence. Almost anything can be a deadly weapon. Including a pillow.
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  662. I think he won the lottery right there
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  663. ​ @desilanni8144  You obviously do not understand. The shoplifters and looters in SF, NYC, Chiraq, LA etc are just trying to return to their hunter gatherer roots.
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  664. The year 1600 is actually the last year of the 16th Century. The 21st Century runs from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2100.
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  665. In my mind its always Macaron
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  666. The only reason they are willing to pull the race card is because it has worked. I'd laugh my ass off if the guy in the Chucky suit is black.
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  667. And now new for th he 2023 model year. The pintel mount is standard equipment on every Rhino 1/2 ton pickup. Ring mount optional. See your local Rhino dealer for more details.
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  668.  @valkymia3708  WTF. How do you get lost with GPS.
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  669. ​ @dukeon  I have to agree the Solutrean Hypothesis is likely to be false. Unfortunately the hypothesis got hijacked by certain unsavory individuals. The Solutreans had to have been either early European Hunter Gatherers or related to people from North Africa. Stanford himself said North Africa was likely. They would not have been related to the Neolithic Farmers who basically took over Europe. Plus it opened up a can of worms in that it immediately became political in that Native Peoples rejected it as being a tool that could be used to reject any land claims. But note l said likely to be false. Art work found in the region the Solutreans occupied shows they were utilizing marine resources. Specifically images of what appear to be tuna and seals. You don't catch tuna from shore. That implies watercraft of some type capable of handling waves of decent size just to get on and off of the beach. Could seasonal hunters from Southwestern Europe have reached the eastern shores of North America? Possibly following seals. Although l think it unlikely l also have to admit it is possible. The only way to really prove it would be a stable find on a stone tool that could be traced back to a source in the area the Solutreans occupied. Evidently there is one. But the artifact in question was a surface find in the Jamestown area. Could the artifact be a hoax? It is possible. But if it is related to early settlers why would 17th or 18th century settlers being using stone tools. And if the artifact was produced by Native Peoples how did they acquire the stone. The artifact in question has been traced to a quarry known to be used by Solutrean flint knappers. In the end l suspect we will find the peopling of the Americas a much more complicated and older story.
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  670. I wonder if Starmer knows if he applies the equally investment from Qatar and other Gulf State sources will dry up.
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  671. What if the hamster identifies as trans-species.
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  672. Retroactive perhaps?
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  673. @morriganmhor5078  What about Sheik of Canterbury
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  674. But that would be racist. I'll bet if Oxford offered to ensure that only scholars of color who are Bantu descended were awarded Rhodes Scholarships this would all go away.
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  675. There where people swapping SBC valves into 343s in the late 60s. Main reason is the valves were lighter. Not much but weight in a reciprocating mass counts.
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  676. Corinthean leather for sure. Just ask Ricardo Montebalm
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  677. Given the question of keeping the factories open producing spare barrels etc. Perhaps a video on just how naval guns were produced.
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  678. When it comes to weapons procurement the Sten has to be the exception that proves the rule.
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  679. Next time ve build mit counter-rotating propellors.
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  680.  @KT-bd5ym  And then call to reschedule
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  681. Could part if this have anything to do with the politicians quite simply not giving a rats behind about that segment of society.
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  682. Likely with crayons
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  683. The Amish. No. Let them live like Neolithic subsistence farmers for a year.
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  684. Rocket Science is kind of a misnomer. It's really rocket engineering. The science may come in on the materials level but it takes competent engineers to make things work. One thing I think that is missing in engineering today is the practice of making engineers work on the shop floor in manufacturing, assembly and servicing areas so that they really have a grasp of just what problems they can create. My last job I found a number of engineering mistakes that caused problems in the service life of machines. These were caused by assembly issues or improper clearances or tolerances. One involved the a problem that would cause a bearing spaced to be crushed because it was possible to be constantly chasing the torque specification because the part holding the bearings in place had too much clearance allowed between the faces. Others involved seals inside an assembly that could be rolled over simply because there was no lead on the part the seal rode on and when assembling there was no way to know. Experience on the shop floor would have solved a lot of these issues.
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  685. Yet they most likely support unlimited migration.
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  686. And Samsung turned around and used either stills or film footage from Kubrick's 2001 to demonstrate that that the concept of portable devices are nothing new. The tablet props used in the film look thoroughly up to date. Todays smart phones also bear a lot of resemblance to the personal computers used by the crew of ISS MacArthur in The Mote in Gods Eye. Also the author Jerry Pournelle when appearing on Tom Snyder in the 1970s gave a very accurate prediction of a Kindle or Nook when discussing a possible future E-reader including the download process.
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  687. We've experienced the same thing in the States. Some media outlets sf till fo it. Others have actually decided that an accurate description is more important. I'm surprised the Bumbling Broadcasting Company even identified the clothing.
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  688.  @PistonAvatarGuy  The US moves a vast amount of freight by rail. Every year the total tonnage moved continues to climb. Where trucks really shine is transportation from hubs to destination. Especially with container cargo. There are some situations in which cross country trucking is used simply because the shipping time by truck is faster.
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  689.  @MrRobbi373  Yes, I expect Sargent Harper was demanding to know just who nicked his bolley gun made by "John Nock of London".
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  690. Sorry for your culture shock
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  691.  chris younts  the aft gun mounts of Arizona were used for coastal artillery on Oahu
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  692. There are some superb British engineering/manufacturing firms that come to mind. Cosworth and Ilmor come to mind. The British also had at one time a superb machine tool manufacturing sector. As did the US. A number of factors killed these industries off. Cost was one factor of course. Two others were poor management and government. In the US companies were paying inventory taxes on spare parts and unsold machines. Foreign manufacturers could import machines and warehouse them without going through customs. The machine would then go through customs when shipped to the buyer. This allowed the importer to fill orders in a shorted time frame. Mazak for one was especially good at filling orders this way.
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  693. Internal M80X4 Trapaziodal* Threads in Ampco-18. That Aluminum Bronze. 85% Copper, 10% Iron, 5% Aluminum IIRC. *METRIC acme equivilant, 30° included angle When cutting threads try mounting the tool upside and running the lathe in reverse. That way you are threading away from the chuck
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  694. And their viewers are looking for an echo chamber.
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  695. In some ways this reminds me of the orbital launcher that a German company wanted to build in Katanga. Literally dozens or more of identical super simple engine and tank assembly.
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  696. Contempt of Congress. I guess we have impeach the whole country
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  697.  @michaeldunne338  Pre WWII Japan was a signatory of the Geneva Convention. It withdrew in the 20s or 30s. Japan to this day still has racist elements to it society. The descendants of ethnic Koreans and the Eta caste are still the bottom of the social ladder. Non ethnic Japanese individuals cannot become Japanese citizens as I understand it.
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  698. Another example of Merlins not improving an aircraft is the P-40 models equipped with Merlins. Both engines had single stage SCs. The Allison actually made more power. Plus the Allison was capable of handling insane amounts of boost compared to its rated boost levels. Australian squadrons in the SouthWest Pacific would often run 60 inches or more of manifold pressure.
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  699. That was my first thought. What really killed steam in rail applications was excessive servicing requirements compared to diesel and electric types
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  700. Seeing as it was a Russian design how much tonnage was allocated to binoculars?
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  701. Does this mean Kendi has a blue vest in his fiture.
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  702. Choice of weapons. Blunderbusses I. Balloons.
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  703. Who raised them. No one.
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  704. As did Venezuela
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  705. Robert Ballard was contracted by the National Georaphic to explore some of these wrecks. This was around 2005 iirc (2009). Finding the wrecks was no problem. They also found circular stone structures up around 40 meters in diameter. Some of the structures had crude stone "towers" in their centers. It has been speculated that the central tower may have acted as central support for wooden beam supporting a roof. The structures may be the oldest habitation with stone used in their construction yet found. The area was last above water around 8,000 BCE.
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  706. What these people need is to be mocked in public and held up for ridicule. There is no need for polite debate.
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  707. And arrogant.
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  708. I wonder if we can develop an elastic polymer that when fed an electrical current will contract. Basically a plastic muscle.
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  709. I suggest they organize a pride celebration in some countries in the Middle East.
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  710. Rear ended a Scout one time. My car wound up totaled. The scout had a dent in the bumper.
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  711. In Hawaii its Pele
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  712.  @Dreams_Of_Lavender  If Ian were a vampire they way to distract him would be to lay a trail of French Longue
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  713.  @richardm3023  My father called them the "destructions"
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  714. Build? Of course they could be built. Would they meet the tonnage, would they be any good? Or would they just turn turtle in the first breeze. Just name the Vasa Class
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  715. I have to admit there were days when I was still working that I didn't have to open my tool box all day. I worked maintenance in a large metal stamping facility. The only reason this happened was because nothing was broke down. The next day you likely payed for it as you were neck deep in it.
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  716. I can't wait for Sept 19th. National Talk Like a Pirate Day
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  717. ​ @cbroz7492  If you are going to cavort. Cavort with the best. I always get her and Susan Hayworth confused. IMO Hayworth was hotter. It's like the eternal question. Ginger or Mary Ann.
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  718.  Joakim von Anka  It similar to why we do not have universal world peace, love and personhood. 10,000 years ago somebody stole somebody's goat.
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  719. ​ fedmcglowie7240  One possible advantage to having a monarchy (1) with limited powers is you get to raise and train diplomats and a national rallying point from an early age. The problem is to weed out potential idiots and moral degenerates. Note l said possible. I'm not advocating the idea. 1) Even nations such as the US have their "monarchy" or "royalty". It's just that the people involved change over time. And l mean royalty in the way they get treated in the media and the public's attention.
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  720. I'm surprised they just didn't use the face on that statue from Bristol
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  721. You want heirloom vegies? Plant a garden or visit a farmers market.
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  722. ​ @thunberbolttwo3953  Plus they changed the F designator from Photo to Fighter
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  723. ​@wm9346 There was the POW camp in the Southwest where a guard machine gunned a number of Gernan POWs after VE day.
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  724. Its a technology that needs to be developed eventually.
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  725. I vote for the water route. Boats have been around a long time. But who ever reached the Americas first it wasn't like they just packed their bags and decided to settle somewhere new. Any migration was likely a slow process that saw family groups split off when their numbers grew too large to be supported by their normal range. But there is one thing that may have speeded migrations along the way. If hunters were following seals or walrus into their summer feeding grounds then they could have noticed one population headed back the other way in fall. I suspect that a lot of the evidence of early human inhabitation of the Americas is under anywhere from 100 meters to 130 meters of water. Also there could have been early groups that died out for one reason or another. Where did the these people come from? The obvious answer of course is Northeast Siberia. The supposed genetic evidence for a southern route across the Pacific. I don't buy it. It's too far and any landfalls along the way are simply too tough of an environment. One possible route I could see having taken place by accident is from West Africa if there were coastal people that were fishing off shore and got swept out to sea due to bad weather. It's a long shot. Plus it would have to be a breeding population. The third possibility is along the fringe of the sea ice in the North Atlantic. The only way this could happen IMO is if a population in Western Eurasia was habitually hunting seals seasonally and wound up following the sea life down into the Maritimes or along the East Coast. The similarity between Clovis and Solutrean lithic point technology is intriqueing but not totally convincing
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  726.  @bkjeong4302  Not quite as bad as the Alaska's in terms of capability. That the Iowa's never really fulfilled their original purpose is easy to say now.
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  727. ​ @captainahab2485  Obviously doesn't launder his clothes.
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  728.    The average Italian soldier at a given level of training was probably about on par with average soldier of most other countries. Yes there could be cultural differences but we are all human beings. From what I've heard and read in the average rifle company or squad most mem dont shoot. Or if they do they don't really fire effectively. Maybe the Germans had the right idea in building their rifle squads, platoons and companies around the MG-34/42 with the "riflemen" mostly there to carry ammunition for the gunners.
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  729. Having worked in the Tool Room of an engine plant I can absolutely confirm that their were foremen that were completely concerned about their numbers. I remember one time I got sent out because they were having a problem with actually pushing the blocks off of the fixture clamping pads. The production foreman wanted the hydraulic pressure turned up. Putting a gage on the pump I found it was already at the specified pressure. I then asked the set-up man to pull one of the drills out. The drills were completely shot in terms of cutting ability. This was on main bearing cap tapped holes. Turned out the drills were a week past their scheduled change point. Something on the order of 4000 machine cycles. Sharp drills, every thing worked fine. Another time we spent a weekend rebuilding a milling head that cut the top of the head on each end for the valve cover. Hot everything re-installed and we had the same problem. Again I asked to see the tooling. The cutters were one RH and one LH. They had the carbide inserts for the other handed cutter in the side they were having issues with. Proper inserts, problem disappeared. All because nobody properly analyzed the problem to start with.
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  730. Then basically metallurgy could have begun with the Jomon. Personally I think one of the first copper ages could well have been in the Lake Superior region due to the generous amounts of nearly pure float copper.
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  731. Mules are not a species of Equine. They're a mostly sterile hybrid of horses and donkeys. Usually a Male donkey matesd to a female horse. It is possible to use a Male horse and female donkey but the chance of offspring is lower. Donkeys and horses have to have separated from a common ancestor recently enough to allow them to interbreed but due to different chromosome counts they are rarely fertile. It is rare but there occasionally female mules able to breed. These are also other "mules" such as donkey/zebra. Additionally there are similiar cross between Zebra and other Equine species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vigor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebroid
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  732. It's pretty much Milwaukee.
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  733. There's a series of interviews on the channel AMXJ here on YouTube. The person being interviewed was involved in running a dragster powered by a AMC/Jeep 4.0. It set class records in NHRA. Spinning 9000 through the traps. His actual job was in developing head porting on the 4.0.
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  734.  @ajvonline  It was just figure pulled out if my backside. You know how know-it-alls like to talk.
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  735. Ford should have been given a pass on future emissions and ”safety" upgrades for the Crown Vic. And GM the same for the last generation rwd Impala. To be allowed to produce them as long as they want strictly for police use.
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  736.  @royasturias1784  If we are going to blame anybody blame William Randolf Hearst. The Maine's forward magazine in all likelihood detonated due to a fire in an adjacent coal bunker. When the wreck was salvaged in the early 20th century in order to clear the harbor one thing found that supposedly supported a mine explosion was there was some hull plating curled inwards. After being raised she was towed out to sea and sunk. The Maine has been found of the north coast of Cuba in about 9000 feet of water iirc.
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  737. Lend Lease. This is what happens when you don't return borrowed tools and are behind on your lease payments. Towards the end of WWII there were several "friendly fire" incidents in what is today Croatia involving USAAF aircraft and Soviet forces.
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  738. One pilot that flew the Saber/Fury off of carriers was F Lee Bailey
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  739. Hood may hot of been penetrated by a deck hit. Look at Drach's analysis of her loss in an earlier video. Hood's belt was fully exposed in area where she was likely hit when at full speed due to the water flow along her side.
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  740. Likely the Gambirr Bay when discovered might well be the deepest ship wreck ever found. The Johnston and the Robert's are pretty close to the edge of the Trench. Gambier Bay may be in it. Up to 10km down. And there are likely other wrecks of ships and planes at the bottom of various Trenches at the borders of subduction zones.
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  741. Ian has all of the French .30 longe in existence. All 5 rounds
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  742. If the work was done in private yards no doubt the owners were encouraging them to turn a blind eye.
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  743.  @samsonsoturian6013  We are a lot closer to dropping that x number of years away today than we were 20 years ago. Mainly imo because of advances in material sciences and the engineering done to bring higher temperature superconductors to market. If I was Biden I'd pump double or triple into fusion. With some if the money going to small startups with the proviso that the Feds get the right to use the tech at lower costs. Site any reactors at current shuttered coal power plants to start with.
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  744. Before the Amerika bomber the RLM was looking at a Ural bomber proposal. Thats were the HE-117 came from. Why they just didn't build that with 4 Jumos is beyond me.
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  745. Just part and parcel of living in a world class shity. I mean city.
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  746. ​ @bruce1002003  The problem with crime stats in rural counties is a really low population county has one horrific crime and it skews statistics. At one time Addams County in Wisconsin had the highest murder rate in the country. All due to one mass murder/suicide in a family.
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  747. What he really had was an ultralight
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  748. The Iowa's had a system of I beams with trolleys that allowed the shells to be stowed onboard ship in the magazines. I really don't think I'd want a loading hatch on the barrette. But then you do have crew access hatches. Another factor in the disappearance of dedicated dive bombers was the expanded use of fighters in the fighter bomber role. Plus with the emergence of jets up until guided missiles came into their own the engagement time was cut significantly
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  749.  @aff77141  No its not. But the idea that the Earth is part of its cosmic environment and never interacts with it it is equally stupid.
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  750. I remember a single panel cartoon were the Party Leader is screaming at the designer. "I said Space Shuttle! Not Space Shovel!"
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  751.  @aperson1  Well of course they're pretty light. Just as light as they can get away with. I'm surprised at how stable they are.
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  752. Don't laugh. In reality a lot of that goes back to the 50s or earlier. Common platforms with each division putting it's own twist on things. Look at a mid 50s Chevy, Pontiac, Olds or Buick based on the Belair chassis. They all have the same general look and feel to them aside from the trim.
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  753. Napoleon, meet your Waterloo!
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  754. How easily he can lie. Just like a politician
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  755. USS Wisconsin, hold my beer. She reportedly had a direct hit on a T-34 in Korea with one of her 16"50s
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  756.  @JamesThomas-pj2lx  My father was in an independent Field Artillery Group in Italy. From he told us once his battery broke up an attack by panzer with pretty close to direct fire from 155mm Long Tom's. He said the forward observer could see shells skip off the ground the angle was so low.
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  757. Thanks, now I'm gonna have "kill da wabbit" rattling around in my head all morning
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  758.  @Notsure92  The Martini was probably the best of the Single Shot black powder breech loading service rifles. In terms of handling, fire power. The British were willing to spend the money. The US Army stuck with the Trapdoor because of finances. They did run trials of other rifles but they didn't go anywhere until smokeless powder came into being. The Trapdoor really isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Once drawn brass cartridges were figured out it came into its own. Karl on In Range did the mad minute thing probe and shot off over fifteen rounds iirc. Other good Single Shot Breechloader of the era include the Remington, the Norwegian one (K something, name escapes me) and the really slick Werder from Bavaria. Two triggers. One drops the hammer while the other trips open the breech and ejects the spent case. Insert round. Pull back on hammer which closes the breech and cocks both the hammer spring and the spring for the front trigger.
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  759.  @barelybear5489  Ball Ends are fine. As long as they are used for their intended purpose. If some hammer handed idiot misuses them he deserves the problems removing the broken end. Ball ends on stainless screws especially the smaller sizes pretty much are not going to be torque high enough to reach the yield strength on the wrench. Before I retired I worked on industrial centrifuges. These machines are all stainless steel with stainless fasteners on all parts aside from high stress areas such as retaining flanges that the back drive for the internal screw conveyor mounts to. A lot of the issues with Ball Ends can also apply to Tee Handles. The absolute worst screws with an internal hex to take out are Flat Heads. It's not the torque of the screw it's the taper of head locking in the countersink.
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  760. That's Pro-regressive Politics.
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  761.  @Ushio01  I can see the AJ Savages going splash off the end of the flight deck.
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  762. ​ @TheInquisitiveShark  I guess l better not get on my roof.
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  763. Finding a lawyer willing to sue another lawyer. What's the old joke about why sharks won't eat lawyers. Professional courtesy.
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  764. A distinct lack of Pride events in Tehran. But we never hear a complaint about that do we.
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  765. Or 2016, or 2020 depending on who you ask.
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  766. Egyptian cotton rapidly took over the cotton market during the Civil War. The CSA was never realistically in a position to gain a strategic victory during the ACW. The best it could hope for was to make victory too costly for the North.
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  767.  @Ensign_Nemo  I've talked to a number of crew off of ocean freighters and they hated sailing on the lakes. Not for the size of the waves but because they come at you at a higher frequency. A bad storm will literally pound the hell out of a ship. Plus as I understand it the ore boats will twist in a blow
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  768. In the past I've seen where it has been hypothesized that it was the adoption of agriculture that derailed the coming of the ice.
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  769. Eating Big Macs doesn't do it either.
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  770. The coal storage facility at PH had to handle coal going both ways. Not only coal being loaded onto ships to refill their bunkers but also coal being off loaded from ships to stock the facility. I would imagine that this facility was pretty comparable to other coaling stations used. All it real needs is an oversized Christmas Tree in the middle.
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  771.  @mrgameboy6261  There's brute force and brutal brute force.
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  772.  @soundautomatic1  We didnt see any of those. AMPCO-14 & 21, D-2 and S-7 are bad enough. Later we switched AMPCO-18 and that's actually not bad. Copper Nickel alloys can really suck
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  773. And imagine their shock when Pride Month is canceled.
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  774. Modern day society where? In the West possibly. The US certainly. The rest of the world? To a lesser degree. Personally I think society would be better off without social media to a large degree.
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  775. Objects in the mirror are lapping you.
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  776.  @Deridus  All it would really take is either an oral description or a general drawing for the starting point for the development of the Kammerlader. But who knows. It is entirely possible that one or two of Hall's commercial guns made it to Norway sometime prior to 1840.
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  777.  @zacharytracy3797  get it hot enough and it will.
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  778. Or the book store. Or the health food store. By her at least.
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  779. A million? Try 5.
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  780.  @oldsguy354  I'm surprised he didn't.
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  781. Let's see. If we print more money, it will be worth less. Great it costs less to print more money. Now I know why Elon wants to go to Mars.
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  782. Well, as long as it was a Rocky Road. Single or double scoop?
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  783. Surrender Rifle? Dropped once Rifle? Dropped twice?
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  784. My late father in law got to tour he Canal while enroute to his extended vacation on Okinawa. After his vacation on Iwo Jima was cancelled due to over booking.
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  785.  @LurchFetterman  Damn straight. I need my Dodge Hellcat. I feel the need! The need for SPEED!
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  786. I think you mean Supermarine. I'll assume that it's just spell check.
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  787. It wasn't useless to the Allies. Just that much less steel that could have gone into a sub, x number of armored vehicles, tank crews, infantry etc.
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  788. If you are a "normie" and complain to the police about bring offended don't hold your breath waiting for them to show up.
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  789. There is a model available of this aircraft in 1:33rd scale. Available from Orlik's website. Only it is not your standard injection molded styrene. Comes in book form printed on cardstock. Do not laugh. Highly skilled paper modelers can do some amazing builds.
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  790. Probably 20 years back there was a lot of research being done on ceramic turbine rotors a d housings. One place I think a gas turbine might make sense is in an electric trick vehicle were the turbine simply runs a generator. The turbine when running runs at it's most efficient speed.
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  791. If the Army can bring back the Pinks and Green there's always hope. 😀 the idea of the Navy employing camouflage uniform patterns strikes me as slightly silly though. Although camo in a dazzle pattern might be interesting.
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  792. And thank the South American Andean natives via the Spanish for those chips. That's all the Spanish Armada was doing don't you know. Trying to import the first loads of spuds.
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  793. Boats (or water craft of some kind) have been around a long time. There is some evidence of Neanderthal presence on Cyprus. And with the topography of the Mediterranean Basin they sure didn't walk there. There is also some evidence of possibly Homo Erectus in the Phillippines. It may have been possible to walk from Borneo to either Mindanao along the arc of islands that extend between the two or from Borneo via Palawan. But there's a stretch of deep water between Palawan and Mindaro. Another possible route is from Sulawesi along but it features a number of deep water gaps. Several of them fairly long.
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  794. Along with the recreational mortar.
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  795.  @Tugela60  Useless you say. Copper leaps buildings in a faster than a speeding train. Carves obelisks in a bound. Builds pyramids in a thrice. It's a miracle material.
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  796. In 2005 when the earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Sumatra and Thialand the US Navy immediately sent a Nimitz Class to aid in disaster relief. Some way (French iirc) responded "what are the going to do, bomb them". It was then explained to him just how much fresh water a day the ship could put out. Just how useful the task forces choppers would be. And just how many rations they carried on board.
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  797. Depends if your partner is channelling his inner Gerald Ford.
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  798. My sister had a 124 Spyder. If it sat for two weeks the battery was dead. Did the Italians learn automotive electrical systems from the Brits?
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  799. The Missileer wasn't really a bad concept. The airframe almost looks like an up dated Skyknight. The big problem is the overall slow speed of the airframe. Just no dash capability at all. Of course if the launch aircraft could hand off the misdile to a guidance aircraft then you are just dealing with a missile truck.
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  800. It's my understanding they do. A friend has written a number of Great Lakes shipwreck books. One thing he describes in one book is that in heavy seas you can see the ship twisting by looking down the length of the tunnel.
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  801. Since it's the stock rear end, half shafts, control arms, and hubs the travel is most likely OK. If the rear end had a torque link to the transmission imo one sould go back in.
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  802. All to the Immigrant Song playing in the backround. Sometimes the Swedes come up with interesting names for weapons systems. Carl Gustav. They could always use Thor, Odin, Loki etc.
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  803. ​ @rdrrr  People who literally can't figure out how to put batteries in a flash lite. Although I want one of the USB rechargeable ones. Just don't like the price point.
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  804.  @PunishedSpindle300  screw Marvel
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  805. I hope you noticed the "solidarity tax" mentioned in the Guardian article.
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  806. The train story. Well if it's got Burt Lancaster (did all his own stunt work as usual) in it I'm game.
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  807. And then Panther used the motor and transmission package from the Eldorado in their Panther Six
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  808.  @jettz8571  Looking at VietNam strictly from a military aspect the VC and NVA got kicked six ways to Sunday. After Tet the VC were never really a factor. The NVA had the staying power. Afganistan, the place they say empires go to die. Again the Taliban got there collective asses kicked. But staying power and a tribal mentality do mean a lot. Someday, maybe around the time humanity launches its first starship the Afghans will climb out of the Dark Ages.
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  809. Anything can be recycled. One reason that things sometimes aren't is economics. If the product to be recycled costs more to transport to a facility to do the processing their is no incentive. How yo solve this problem. One way would be have local regional facilities that recycle the materials. A also happen to believe that plastics used in packaging, bottles etc should be limited to a few certain types to make recycling easier. Engineering plastics (1) are a different matter. Also IMO styrofoam should be banned.
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  810. ​ @desertstar223  Enough energy and they can be reduced to their component elements. Just don't count on renewables to do the job.
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  811. Just think if they turned their efforts towards a personal E-VTOL
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  812.  @wolfpack4128  Where I live we used to have a large number of industrial facilities. All of them with unions. All of them are gone now. Out of business, moved South, consolidated in other locations etc. But the community has moved on to a large degree. Granted there are still those who long for the old days. It's understandable. You could buy a home, raise a family etc. But as you stated. They never understood economics or market forces. There is another factor in the decline of manufacturing in the Rust Belt that often gets overlooked though. A lot of industrial facilities dated from the 1920s or earlier. They were often inefficient to run and did not lend themselves to modernization. Also when they were built there location was often at the edges of the community they were built in. Eventually the the communities grew around them. Their primary mode of transport for materials coming in and goods going out was rail. As railroads began to shut down branch lines that were losing money these companies had to begin relying on trucks. With their location inside of cities often surrounded by residential neighborhoods this was not an ideal solution. I retired out of an automotive facility in 2005. We built engines. There were plans being looked at to expand and begin building transmissions. It closed two or three years later. One reason was the downturn in the economy. The second is the company (Chrysler) simply built too many different engines. At one time we built two different V-6s along with the 4.0 liter inline 6 and 2.5 liter four used in Jeeps. Model redesign and government regulations killed off the 4.0 and 2.5. The V-6s were dropped in favor of the newer Pentastar. The third reason was the plant was basically in the center of the city. Truck access in and out to the Interstate was more of a pain. Also a major portion of the facility went back to the 20s. Newer facilities with more efficient operationing conditions built in and being closer to vehicle assembly plants won out. Other companies in other industries often suffered the same problems. A wire rope company merged with another company. The other company had more modern facilities. That labor rates aside simply took less manpower to run. Another is a company that produces high quality hand tools. They decided to move all of their manufacturing to facilities they already owned and just keep the corporate HQ. All of these companies and others were unionized. In some cases it was the union that was the last straw. In some cases it was simply economics.
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  813. And every single place they are found is a "temple"
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  814. Possible scenario Reperations paid. Doesn't work. Need more reperations. Adinfinatum
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  815. ​ @edthompson9337  Plus doing any actual labor is beneath him. In his opinion anyways.
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  816. The citizens of King County have the power to change things. If they continue to elect these people in local government they are getting what they deserve.
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  817. Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.
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  818. Free Nations navies warship names. The Poles should have a ship named Winged Hussar
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  819.  @guidor.4161  Some of it was trying to be on the right side of history. Some of it trying to look good at home. The worst example imo was Argentina. For some nations who did join the Allies any material contribution they could have made was outweighed by basing agreements. A good example would be Brazil. While Brazil did have units in the Italian Theater (the most multi-national theater of the war) their biggest contribution was the use of airbases for anti-submarine patrols. Mexico largest contribution was the 300k people doing farm work in the US. Of the neutrals the two that have the least clean hands were probably Sweden and the Swiss. Both allowed manufactured products to be sold to the Axis. And allowed transit of their territory to a certain degree. To be fair both were stuck between a rock and a hard place to a degree. The Swedes did sell a limited amount of manufacturing turned goods to the allies but shipping in anything other than Swedish hulls would be a problem
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  820. ​ @Martiandawn  I have no issue with people who hunt and eat their kills. It is certainly more honest than buying meat at the store and then complain about hunters and hunting. But "hunters" who strictly want a trophy. Those l have no use for. I worked with an individual who saved for several years to go on a bow hunting trip to South Africa. He obviously could not bring back the meat. All he could bring back was the mounts and several skins. With the appropriate paperwork that showed all animals were taken with the proper licenses etc. He said that if he shot an animal that he had a license for and they could not find the animal he would still lose the use of the license. The people running the hunting camp took the prime cuts. Loins or steaks. The local people who worked for the hunting camp took everything else. Nothing or very little went to waste. He also said that it was allowed to shoot as many feral pigs as you wanted. They were invasive and destructive to the local environment.
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  821. Proper British atire circa 1900. "Dear I'm going out to my club. I need my umbrella and knife to cut the air."
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  822.  @scottgiles7546  Warm beer means different things in the US vs the UK.
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  823. Can anyone imagine elephants as an invasive species on the North or South Islands. Thank God Woolly Rhinos aren't around.
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  824. ​ @SparkyJohn111  Just what is stealthy about it.
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  825. the only way i can see HSR working on a Transcontinental route in the US is if air travel becomes prohibitally expensive. Even then it may make some trips not work time wise. Better to work on regional first.
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  826. Another thing that destroyed the Me Too movement was the Jacob Blake case. The sexual assault charges against him at the time. Which is why the police were there in the first place to execute an arrest warrant. Were swept under the rug and ignored by the media.
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  827. Feed a man and you feed him today. Teach him to grow his own food or catch his own fish you feed him forever. That said not everybody has the will to feed himself.
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  828. The picture of the Marine sitting on what appears to be a dud 14" projectile is priceless. Just where does the term 'dude's originate anyways?
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  829. Third graders? Maybe first graders.
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  830. HMS Fromage
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  831. One part of the Illinois still survives. The ships china is in the governor's mansion in Springfield. The ex governor's mansion is the state prison in Joliet.
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  832. ​ @SandymoorFerrariClub  If you want to use that arguement the protesters have no legal right to prevent others from going about their lawful business.
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  833. The elephant in the room is still overall electrical generation capacity.
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  834. Ask the Woke if they want a surgeon operating on their child that was a diversity hire or from the best and most qualified available.
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  835. ​ @NickMeisher  The Secret Service drone was down for a motor replacement. The rubber band broke.
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  836. Function over form. The closest to a snazzy (1) looking Ruger pistol imo is a Mk ll/lol or lV with custom grips and bull barrel. The best looking firearms ever built were the Woodsman, the Wolverine and the PPK. 1) The word sexy and firearms do not mix imo.
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  837. Race baiting ambulance chasers
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  838. There are pranksters in the US going around with gas cans filled with water pouring them out on motor vehicles. With the drivers in the car. Who have no idea it's water. Its only a matter of time until one of them picks the wrong vehicle.
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  839. Stewart was once in Spain for film work. He had a reservation at a Madrid hotel. On arrival the hotel staff informed him that they were very sorry as they did not cater to actors. Stewart took out his wallet and ha ded them his military ID. No problem. Also on visits back to Pennsylvania to visit family he'd help out in the family hardware store.
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  840. All that rigging actually functions as the arrestor gear
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  841. Given the way Foxconn is doing in SE WI good luck with that.
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  842.  @dustincarlson7010  USS Sable prepares to launch an airstrike
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  843. Gringe worthy naval history movie moments. On that comes to mind is the F-9-F Panther landing just short in the first Midway movie.
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  844. Don't worry. There will be a demand for more money. It's always more money. And never any accountability for the money spent
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  845. Can a pregnant woman car pool?
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  846.  @stevenkurinec4194  I object that they get their own soup. And cereal.
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  847. The VAWTs have a number of advantages IMO. Yes I know their overall efficiency is lower but they also can be sited more densely. Also because the mast only needs to support the loads of the top bearing assembly and its associated loads the overall mass of the foundation block can be lower. Another factor in their favor is the generator is pretty much at ground level easing servicing by maintenance personnel.
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  848. As was the idea of fighter pilots. You are only as good as your last engagement. There are no prizes for second place. Except for a telegram and a gold star for mom and dad
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  849. The one Ford engine th as t should have been introduced in the States was the Barra from Ford Australia.
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  850. Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving
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  851. An Aisian Transgender man who identifies as a Black Lesbian. It's a twofer
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  852.  @flyoverstateresident2890  In normal flight I doubt it is any louder than most other aircraft. But hovering 😬
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  853. Because a certain ethnicity has learned all it needs to do is seethe and whoever they seethe at gives in.
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  854. Not they never show him from the front. Does anyone think its possible he might now re-consider if he truely is in touch with his inner woman. Of course the NCAA in the US will just carry on.
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  855.  @bayyinahzhaxx7620  Irregardless of that Haiti has long had economic policies in place that make it very unattractive for foreign investment to take place. Add in a long line of corrupt leaders out for themselves.
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  856. I'd say a lot of evidence of violent events on the Moon has been erased. By even bigger violent events. Such as the impact events that formed the Mare.
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  857.  @jackchop1576  Maybe he's majoring in Drag Queen Story Hour 😖😖
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  858. The use of the term Breeder is an insult
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  859. ​ @Soulsalivation  It be what it be Watson.
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  860. Elbonia buys l'l the surplus IJN torpedo boats lurking in North Sea ports
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  861. I'm hearing sad violin music in the backround. Played on the worlds smallest violins.
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  862. ​ @joshmitchell1002  One can appreciate the engineering behind a firearm. Or be interested in its history. One can even participate in and enjoy shooting sports. One can appreciate a firearm in its performance. But love a firearm? I reserve the word love for my wife, my kids and family.
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  863. @Vitor If the primary vector in the spread is sexual contacts in a certain group of people then trying to get that group of people to restrain their behavior is not "targeting" that group. Its targeting the spread of the infection.
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  864. Quite possibly they did not want to remember details. Or they did too vividly and kept it to themselves. Bill Mauldin came up with a fictitious society in Up Front. The Society of Them's That Been Shot At. It had members from every army. Plus, be it tanker, dogface or pilot. You are only as good as your last engagement.
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  865. Offer them a laxative. They'll move themselves
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  866.  @Tonatsi  How much of the issue of student debt is related to the fact that tuition rates in the US have for decades gone up by amount to well over the inflation rate. At one time in the US a college education was not excesseively expensive. Several things have driven up the cost of education in the US. One the expanding administrative costs involved due to meeting various governmental guidelines on policies. Another is the continual expansion of the education industry. And yes it is an industry. It ta,es in raw materials (students and money) and produces a product (graduates). Another problem as I see it is if we make college free to all just who gets to go. I seriously doubt we can afford to confir a college education on every HS graduate. One reason is cost. The second is not every one is suitable for a college education. Some of these are simply not up to the academic challenge. Others have different interests*. There is an other reason I really do not like the idea of expanding no cost education**. Is it fair to tax people who do not have the ability to enter into higher education to pay for those who can? *These I terests make include skilled trades etc. In the early 1970s shortly after I started an apprenticeship is was told by a state official that the state I lived in that a 4 year apprenticeship was worth more to the individual than a bachelor's degree. Obviously some degrees are worth more than others. **There is no such thing as free. Somebody is going to pay for it. Also it is my opinion that if society offers a free education to individuals it should be in those fields that directly benefit that society materially. Physicians, engineers, teachers etc. You want to get a degree in medieval literature. Fine go for it. Just don't expect everybody else to pay for it.
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  867. In the History of the World according to Flip Wilson Chris set sail to discover were the Ray Charles records came from.
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  868. One thing that kind of surprises me is that no one to my knowledge ever tried building a pushrod V-8 with a camshaft for each side. I know that both GM and Chrysler messed around with two cam blocks where one cam was above the other. One advantage of a twincam pushrod block with a cam for each bank is the pushrod would be extremely short compared to a normal pushrod layout. There is one production engine I know of that used pushrod with the cam mounted high in the block. Those were built by Renault. In the 80s i had an 18i wagon that used the engine. Plus it actually was a hemi! The cam drives aren't going to be anymore complicated than any other vee type OHC engine. Think of them kind of as an Under Head Cam Engine.
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  869. You beat me to it.
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  870. In town electric makes more sense. At least in terms of cars. Outside of town. Not so much. At least back then battery fires weren't an issue. One also needs to remember that at this time cars, trucks and buses powered by any of the three were seen as a way to remove horse manure from the streets.
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  871. ​ @RaidenMK67  Personally l think Trudeau will be a major reason Canada eventually separates. The chokehold Quebec and SE Ontario has on Canadian politics is poisonous imo. And I don't think some Canadian provinces would be a good fit if they tried to join the US.
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  872. Preferably outside the US.
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  873. ​ @gamera5160  Thiacovsky (sp) was gay. Who the hell cares.
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  874. The Rambler models built in Argentina were mostly powered by the Kaiser SOHC inline six. The cam only had 6 lobes as each lobe operated both valves. Plus it was a hemi head.
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  875.  @mattrogersftw  Lots and lots of binoculars. Whole bloody ship loads of them.
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  876. Just the term Samurai Caveman has me thinking of John Belushi. I know I'm showing my age.
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  877. That's "fiery but mostly peaceful".
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  878. Choices, choices, choices. Drach or Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles. Early destroyers referred to as whale backs. Wow, I didn't know early destroyers were built in yards on the Great Lakes!
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  879. Next up Tombstone
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  880. The idea with any sub. At least yours or your allies subs. Is to balance the equation of submergence and surfacing
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  881. Patton the pistoleer. Used his own personal handgun in Mexico during the hunt for Pancho Villa
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  882.  @johnmclean2010  They have reputation?
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  883. Shhhh. Don't tell Jess Philips.
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  884. There is another problem with boots that get wet from sweat and are worn day in, day out. Their insides rot pretty fast 9 months if your lucky. When I was working I got into the habit of having two pairs of good quality work boots of different styles that I would change off every work day so they had a chance to dry out. I'd wear the soles out before the uppers went bad.
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  885. There's always a Lava soap commercial 😊
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  886. That's the only people they'll get to take the job
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  887. ​ @baronvandragon2427  Fair fights are for suckers
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  888.  @24YOA  It's probably hindsight but one would think somebody had to think of it. But I could see them being a problem if you had a mixture of 20mm and 40mm Bofors on the ship. "Well Captain, we shot down all the kamikaze but we asphyxiated the crews on the guns too." At 32 rockets a minute these would put out a heavier volume of fire than a 5" dual mount. But for sustained fire you need a pretty large magazine. As a bonus you also get a smoke screen.
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  889. While being as mealy mouthed as possible.
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  890. But, but, Charlton Heston hadn't been born yet. And its "Oartator, Ramming Speed"
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  891. But I don't like winter. Does that count
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  892. Fast is always a relative term.
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  893.  @valcan321  Before I finally retired I worked for a company that builds and services industrial centrifuges. Primarily the waste water (ie sewage treatment plants) and other users to dewater the end product so the water can go through the final treatment. One of the users is the ethanol industry. Extremely hard on the machines due to high heat and humidity. When I was working I did far more for the environment than 99.9% of all the "activists". We here about how ethanol is a net energy loser. What a bbn out petroleum with all the heating and processing they have to do to seperate out all the different petroleum products.
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  894. Run Silent, Run Deep has entered the room
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  895. Well the puppies will fit in the back seat alright. I never fit into mine. But then I never rode there. 95% of the time I just left the back seat down. I used it as a small station wagon. That just happened to have 4wd
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  896. I hope they tank.
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  897. One thing l find amazing about the Spanish is they managed to miss Hawaii in all those voyages between Mexico and The Philippines.
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  898. ​ @Stephdk-k4x  They won't. All talk. No action.
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  899. Why do you think so many younger people have latched onto the religion of Woke. If you doubt it is a religion consider. It has a "theology" and "theologians", It has its "saints" and "martyrs". And it has people who they consider "saviors".
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  900. If they are so forward thinking how come they can't see their own demise.
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  901.  @WhittyPics  At least double the sticker price. That or they trade me even up when they get some in.
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  902. ​It's only a hate crime if it is said about the correct group. Insult, deride, abuse or use any other kind of speech against net a certain ethnicity and it's a free pass. Hate speech applies to everyone. Or it applies to no one.
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  903. Don't forget that Imperial Japan basically fought three wars at once. A land war in China with sideshows in SE Asia. A naval war with the US. And an internal war between the IJN and the IJA.
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  904. And not just regular machines. Specialized machines and tooling to do specific jobs.
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  905. Why? Politics, pure plain and simple. The SLS, the NLS, the Shuttle C, the Jupiter all had to have 4 or 5 segmented SRBs to keep Morton Thiekol happy. And Utah politicians happy. Using the basic External Tank kept Lockeed Martin happy along with various politicans happy in Alabama, Maryland etc. Nevermind the tank had to be extensively redesigned given the thrust loads and where the payload mounts. For boosters I think you would just as well to contract for Falcon 9s. We know they work. We know they are reusable and we know they can return to the launch site. But there's those pesky politics sgain.
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  906. They did raise street levels. Then the buildings needed to be jacked up to match the new street level.
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  907. The Peoples Republic of Boulders
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  908. ​ @30AndHatingIt  I used to hear people in Buffalo kept two cars. A nice one for when the snow finally melted and the salt was off the roads. And a beater for winter. They still do that?
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  909. The executive in charge of programming at the History Channel. "History? We ain't got no history. We don't have to show you no stinkin' history!"
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  910.  @larryphelps6607  Somebody high driving is just as bad as a drunk.
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  911. The statement about lingerie being for men is dead on. But I bet VS sold more bras than anything else.
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  912. The cars would quit in protest. 😂
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  913. Remember these are the same idiots that get up close and personal with the hot springs. Or dive head first off of piers in two feet of water.
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  914.  @ncg5560  Or won't read.
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  915. The same applies to wrecks of both merchant men and warships that lay in shallow water with large quantities of explosives on or around them. There's a wreck on Truk Lagoon with a significant number of IJN 18" shells on board
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  916. Plus distance!
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  917. It was simply biding it's time
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  918. The last time I was this early Kamchatka wasn't even on the builders ways
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  919. It's pronounced Spo-can
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  920.  @icegiant1000  The design and development team that came up with the computer mouse as showing it off to management. On hearing what the development team called it management's response was 'who's going to want a mouse on their desk'. Then they gave the idea away pretty much. That was Xerox. The stories a little more complicated than that of course.
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  921. Eventually when the power goes out, there is no pressure in the mains and sewage backs up maybe those in office will get the message.
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  922. Mr Roger's talks guns
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  923. It probably wasn't fit to be used as a target.
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  924. There'stwo easy ways to reduce thew environmental footprint (finprint? flukeprint?). The first is simply cut down the amount of consumer goods. The second is to do more local manufacturing of goods. There was a sail assisted tanker built and operated in Japan back in the 70s or 80s
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  925. Mark Fenton has a video on US involvement pre Pearl Harbor. US military personnel were in Northern Ireland in mid '41. USAAC and US Army personnel were already picking sites for camps and air fields. Coast Guard personnel were already stationed on Iceland.
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  926. Fractured? Drawn with a kaleidoscope more likely.
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  927. To the SJW its narrative, narrative, narrative
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  928. It's my understanding that Wes Studi specifically wanted to play the role of Maqua when he had been offered Uncas.
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  929. One needs to remember that these islands and areas of exposed continental shelf would take a period of time before they can be really habitable
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  930. If you do leave do NOT bring your voting habits with you.
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  931. Probably the most important food of the Columbian Exchange.
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  932.  @paulie-Gualtieri.  Salisbury Plain Training Area?
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  933.  @happyundertaker6255  Any government.
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  934. I used to work in a maintenance dept at a large industrial facility. Our job wax to keep machinery running and in print tolerances. The work load could be crazy or slow. It varied. To be on hand we had instructions to be return to the work area when done with a job. My and an other guy both would doodle while waiting for the next job. There was an a-hole in the area who just loved to come up and juggle your elbow.
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  935. Their whaling fleet seemed emulate the Essex. "And this years winner of the Pequod Award is........"
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  936. The Americabs just made it simple. Everything was either an M-1 or M-4 😖
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  937. Add a longer barrel as in the carbine models. 30 or 40 round stick mag and it's a sub gun. I wonder if anyone ever modified a 1911 into a machine pistol.
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  938. Lesson number one. What can go wrong. Will go wrong. Lesson number 2. See lesson #1. One thing that the fleet exercises should have hammered home is that even if your carrier survives an enemy strike if your flight deck is serious damaged you can write off any of your air group that is currently in the air. If you have all of your aircraft sent out on a strike mission less a small number of fighters. And an enemy slips in a strike of dive bombers. That strike group even if they all survive th he strike portion of the misdion will have no place to land. They will have to ditch. Your carrier is now worthless as an offensive weapon. This provided you have only one flight deck. Damage control would prove to be a critical skill the USN learned the hard way.
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  939. If you use dowels that are case hardened dents and dings should not be an issue.
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  940. I'm surprised the Russians don't have warehouses full of flintlocks left over from the Napolionic Wars.
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  941.  @HappyCynic  First thing I thought of. Closely followed by "maybe he's a Republican"
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  942. I agree that it wasn't just the bombs. The Soviet attack into Manchuria shocked the Japanese in terms of just how fast the Red Army advanced. The IJA simply wasn't equipped to handle a large combined arms operations. But I also think that there is significant modern revisionism at work regarding the use of the bombs. One major aspect being that Truman wanted to send a message to Stalin. In truth Truman had several options in regards to ending the war. Blockade and starve the Japanese into surrender. Carrying out Operation Olympic. Or trying to end the war by dropping the bombs. The first two would have led to far greater loss of life than the bombs caused. Remember the deadliest air attack against Japan wasn't Hiroshima. It was the fire bombing of Tokyo. In fact air operations by Lemays bomber force occured right until the Japanese used for peace in mid August.
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  943. It's not the tool that becomes obsolete. It's the tactics. In the end unless the goal is to leave everything irradiated you still need to take and hold ground with boots on the ground. And even if you hold boots on the ground no western nation can ever win against an insurgency. Eventually the public will demand an end.
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  944. "I'm a social scientist" The late Jerry Pournelle. Masters in Psychology and PhD in Political Science called the social sciences Rubber Science. In that there is no hard truths.
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  945. You can wonder all you want. But without solid information it's just guess work. I want to assume that the father is somehow involved in his children's lives. But then because I know that is the way it is supposed to be. I just hope this little girl doesn't grow up with her mother b/#$&<>g at her whole childhood about how she got ignored at Chucky's.
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  946.  @toddwebb7521  I was thinking Cheech and Chong. "Come on down to Almonte Slims, where every truck comes with an Easy Rider rifle rack"
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  947. I'm white and have zero interest in skiing. Does that make me black? If a black* individual is into snowboarding** or skiing does that make them white? * Personally I hate the terms white, black, yellow etc. It smacks of bigoted thinking no matter the source. Just my opinion. ** Break dancers might be really good at snowboarding.
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  948. In my mind the single greateet picture taken by an unmanned lunar mission was the Lunar Orbiter picture of Tycho taken at a low angle. It made the Moon an actual world in the publics eye.
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  949. ​ @EnyawYorlig  I am assuming (yes I know what 'assume' means) he means Simon. Simon from what l can judge is not a fool.
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  950.  @idiotbuster8662  Well they are dealing with human beings. But then some off it seems like th hey sre making it up as they go along. The part about babies and infants being able to identify their gender. Just how are they communicating this. Being a father the communication cues I picked up were feed me, hold me, change me and I'm tired.
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  951. More than likely she came out of one of the Humanity's Departments.
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  952. The other thing that pisses me off is refusing to support older printers.
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  953.  @mikeklaene4359  Specifically targeting the cockpit area and hitting it requires either luck or very good shooting. When attacking head-on the attacking pilot simply has more high value targets on the approaching bomber. Try to hit the center of mass. But once you begin to fire just how much does the vibration of the guns cause your shots to go off target. How many rounds of cannon and MG fire were required to bring down one bomber.
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  954. It is not society's responsibility to re-enforce and support your delusions. If it is. l won the 1.2B Powerball. Pay me.
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  955. Illinios is about 26% for recreational. Just like booze and smokes. Gotta tax them sinners.
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  956. Who is paying for all the boats. The outboard motors. The life vests. Who???????
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  957. Don't forget any plan or attempt to divert said asteroid will be racist. Because, you know REASONS
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  958. And Laheva Brown. Of the St Louis Browns
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  959. +jbscotchman Open Range with Devaul (sp) and Costner. Beautifully photographed, great script, solid preformances. The best western since Tombstone. A close second is Appolloosa with Ed Harris and Vigo Mortensen . Both far better westerns than Unforgiven or the remake of True Grit. Although Seleck has done some decent work notably Monty Walsh
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  960.  @hermanman8235  Somewhere Pederson must have had a German engineer somewhere in his make-up
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  961. One thing about the target selection process in the Pearl Harbor attack plan was the ignoring the logistical targets.
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  962. ​ @p.w.352  He doesn't watch them. He mainlines them.
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  963. After all, they need to protect their phoney baloney jobs
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  964. I thought that was a Kirk Douglas thing.
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  965. ​ @HiAdrian  You know they're committed when they go under the knife.
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  966. The 74 Javelin was only produced through mid December of 73.
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  967. But, hey, they planted a garden. With plans to fertilize it with humanure 💩💩👍👍
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  968.  @RCAvhstape  I wonder how they would have worked out as anti air rockets when fitted with proximity fuses
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  969. ​ @chemistryofquestionablequa6252  First before putting out the fire they must do the following 1) An environmental impact statement about the potential pollution that putting out the fire will cause. Starting with actually starting the engine on the fire truck. 2) DEI statements concerning the make-up of the fire department crews. Along with their participation in all training and seminars. 3) Organizing protests at the manufacturers of the fire fighting equipment to make sure it was not built by racist white men. 4) And finally negotiating with the Pro Fire Allies to ensure that in putting out the fire its feelings will not be hurt At the end of it all the matter of the fire is declared resolved and site of the fire is turned over to the Department of Vacant Lots.
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  970. If somebody is in an accident that causes the death of an unborn child they can be charged with killing said child. But abortion is completely OK.
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  971. I used to work in facility that produced among other things (1) the rocker arms for ICE engines. We had one Tool and Die maker that worked full time maintaining the die sections of the progressive die due to the wear caused by the process. The single most impressive operation was stamping a small hole on the order of 1mm through steel about 2mm thick. 1) The other things include complete engines, rear ends, body stampings and finished cars all under one roof.
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  972. Had some very stiff competition at the box office at the time.
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  973. Mad Dog 2020
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  974. Given that these were likely layed out by hand with no indexing mechanisms 4, 6 or 8 chambers in the cylinders make sense. In fact dividing a circle into 6 equal parts is the easist as we all should remember from geometery class. This must have been an absolutely gorgeous girearm when built. The one thing l wonder about is how dud they prevent chain fires. Some sort of partial ring around the cylinder possinly with a leather or felt seal?
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  975. I think they make an amount of sense given the operating limits of aircraft at the time. In bad weather that might prevent air operations the thought that an enemy destroyer squadron might be able to get close likely had something to do with it.
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  976. Perhaps the single most important supply item that the UK was getting from the US would have been fuel oil. Bunker oil for ships and high octane aviation fuel.
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  977. Then in the early 70s Olds was working on the 4 valve heads for the 454. Both pushrod and DOHC
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  978. Father told me and my brothers that when in Italy they got to shoot a couple of these. He basically said that you could rest the magazine on your left hand and fire it.
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  979. The older part of Savannah is laid out as a grid. But it is the multiple squares that truely make that part of the city great. Cool oasis full of old oaks and shade.
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  980. Plus just who was making their identify
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  981. He's in a dead heat race with Chicago's Brandon Johnson.
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  982.  @tesnacloud  Well there were the huge tin deposits in what is now Bolivia. Copper alloys called bronzes do not always include those with tin. Other common alloying elements include Phosporous, Aluminum/Aluminium, Iron, Beryllium and Nickel. Phosphorus is normally an alloying element in Bronzes meant for journal or plain bearings. Aluminum/Aluminium, Iron and Nickel are used in Aluminum/Aluminium Bronzes used in bearings, tooling and high wear applications. Berylium Copper alloys are used for non sparking tools meant to be used in chemical environments with high chance of fire or explosions. The golf equipment Ping used Beryllium/Copper in it's original Ping putter. Other uses alloy include anvils anvils and tooling for injection molds. Naval Bronze is an alloy of Copper, .7 % Tin and around 35 to 39% Zinc. The variance in percentage is to allow for the inclusion of Lead ~ 5% to increase machinability. These alloys commonly used in marine applications due to their strength and corrosion resistance. A common use is ship propellers
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  983. And remember when the temperatures plunge and the snow is up to your nose its be ause of climate change.
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  984. Madison has an almost recession proof economic situation. Home of not only the state government but also the state university system.
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  985. Most fan cooled sealed electric motors. I've seen have a fan actual, attached to the motor shaft. Adam I've run Sharpe mills. Both manual and ones with a CNC control installed. Prototrak* and Anilam controls. The ones with controls can be run manually. I'm not sure what retrofits cost but if I had the shekels sitting around I would seriously look into it. They can make life in the shop so much easier. But if all you are doing is simple milling operations maybe not. *Prefer the ProtoTRAK. I'm not sure what type of control package they have now. I haven't run one since 06. AGE 2, AGE 3, MX 2, MX 3. They're all very similiar. Heck. The ones I was running used floppies for storing programs.
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  986.  @Battleship009  Chuckled usually. Especially the MIG welder. There is even a type of combined CNC/3D Printer that uses a wire welder to build up the rough part which is then machined all in one set-up.
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  987. Isn't that the way it always works. The policy makers never have live with the results of yheir policies.
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  988. Staging a walk out should be followed by a "Don't let the door hit you in the ass"
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  989.  @jantschierschky3461  Just about every major city has seen wide spread fires in the past.
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  990. There are several factors at play. First is sea room. Quite often there is literally no where to run. Second is the wave frequency. We used to be an active port and a lot of sailors off of foreign vessels said they hated coming into the lakes. And not all the Lakes are the same. Plus the St Lawrence Seaway has been a mixed blessing. Greater trade plus invasive species.
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  991. When the Fitz sank she was carrying a lot more taconite than she was originally rated for.
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  992.  @missano3856  I agree about Pakistan. Israel not as much. They only way they use nukes is if they literally are facing annihilation. Today Iran gets all the notice but how many other states have weapons programs. Or the capability. Japan for instance could have nukes very rapidly if they decided they needed them. I'd be willing to bet that Tiawan has a nuclear program. Australia if they felt sufficiently threatened by Indonesia or found themselves outside the US umbrella.
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  993. The F-86 was the last USAF fighter to be produced with an armament of .50 BMGs that l know of. Early adoption of 20mm cannon in US fighters was stymied by the problems in producing reliable cannon. The issue was not in the manufacturing. The problems lay in the Bureau of Ordinance using the wrong tolerancing when converting the drawings from metric to inches.
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  994. Sir, you have just invented an internet meme. All it needs is Monty Python jumping out and yelling "Let's all ignore the Italians!"
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  995. You guys are Sikh
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  996.  @sylamy7457  I worked with an individual who was stationed on the USAF airbase in Lybia in the 1960s about the time Qaddafi took power in the coup. There was a rumor that Lybian forces supporting the coup were enroute to seize the air base. The base commander ordered one of the F-100s taxied out onto the main gate with its nose pointing down the road. A four 20mm welcome. Fortunately no shots were fired.
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  997.  @lukestrehlau2823  They're upset because they feel entitled to be upset. Also I think some of the pushback on this is from educators not being able to keep curriculum hidden from parents.
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  998.  @charlescasturo9146  Oregon was converted into an ammunition hulk. Much to the chagrin of elected officials in the State of Oregon who thought she could full fill an active role*. Survived the war including breaking free of her moorings in a typhoon. Only to be scrapped post war in Japan. *Perhaps as a way to cause the Japanese to die from convulsive laughter.
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  999. USN sailor. I want to go home to my girl IJN sailor. Banzia!!!!!!! I know it's not that simple. Nothing ever is
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  1000. Engineering test 4.0s with roller cans were built sometime after 1994. Due to the tight fit between the curtain wall and the block proper the lifter retainers were mounted underneath the lifter bores. I actually saw blocks being machined in the Tool Room of KEP to take the roller lifters. IIRC around 50 were built. The cams were probably ground by an outside supplier or at one of the Chrysler development shops in Troll Land*
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  1001. According to Wikipedia (yah I know but they have links to source material) there are indications that grasses date to at least the Early Cretaceous. Fossils found in corpolites from India and China from this time period indicate the existence of primitive grasses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwx145 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMID_(identifier) https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1482
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  1002. Graph of 20mm and 40mm ammunition expended
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  1003. I suspect, and of course can not prove that while this may of been a trials rifle afterwards it was restocked and given either as a presentation piece or intended to be used as a sporting rifle. This speculation is based on the rather nice looking checkering. If a presentation piece any documentation might of been lost due to WWI or WWII
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  1004. Says someone named LaMont. 😁
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  1005.  @magmat0585  That is going to be their Bridge to Far
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  1006. ​ @TheRogueAdventurers  If possible IMO we should reduce the use of plastics in consumer goods. Both in amount and to those plastic types that lend themselves to easy recycling. People focus on renewables but things that concerns me about them is land use, wildlife impact, mining for required materials and recycling of systems past their life span. Hopefully one of the fusion startups will crack that problem. At one time just in the US more money was spent on cosmetics annually than the Federal Budget for both fusion research and NASA iirc.
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  1007. Not true. Debt grows Crime rate grows Homelessness increases. There are too many money junkies on the Republican side also.
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  1008.  @jefffinkbonner9551  🎶Jaques the frog came to town, riding on a pony!
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  1009. But then we get Harris 😵‍💫
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  1010. Easy Eight. Rule #1. It's not supposed to be a fair fight. Rule #2. See rule #1
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  1011. California, especially Southern California is heavily dependent on water being piped in from long distances. Plus storing water from the winter rains in reservoirs. They should have been building more. At the same time their are environmental activists that seek to have reservoirs and their dams removed.
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  1012. Well, they haven't had a screaming fit since Trump's inauguration
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  1013.  @RMJTOOLS  Better a pair of remote operated 20mm turrets from the B-36
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  1014. But not over oiled.
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  1015.  @kyoai  It is easier to do nothing and blame somebody else. The heavy flooding in southern Pakistan is taking place on a flood plain. Let that sink in. It's a flood plain. This is what happens when you build a society with a large population on a flood plain. Floods will happen. If there is any spot on that flood plain that has built up glood deposits and is not underwater from this flood you know there have been worse floods in the past.
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  1016.  sailorx1976  Along with the Hamptons, Hiannisport, Martha's Vineyard, and quite a few other places. Why is it everytime somebody with a burning ambition to do good wants to build a Halfway House, Section 9 housing etc it's never, ever where they live
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  1017. "Wrench on!" "Wrench off!"
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  1018. ​ @cyndirankin  The only thing special about all of us is we are unique individuals. So unless you want to be treated as someone special you better do something extraordinary to earn that specialness.
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  1019. I suspect if (note the IF) there was a neolithic culture living along the Nile circa 10,000 years ago the evidence is mostly buried in the silt now filling the Nile River Valley. Just how much lower was the Nile relative to it's current level then. I have a had time believing that the Nile was close to it's current level when sea levels were 100+ meters lower than they are today. The amount that we know about the past isn't squat compared to what was actually going on. We know that cultures were building crude stone structures on what is now the bottom of the Aegean Sea 8000 years ago minimum. Why? Because Robert Ballard found them while surveying the wrecks off of Gallipoli for National Geographic. Who were these people? Sedentary hunter gathers? Neolithic farmers? And if these structures exist in this one location surely there are more.
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  1020. Including Anita
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  1021. She should support climate change so that avocado and almonds can be grown in the UK.
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  1022. She also clearly does not understand that some kids can be down right mean. Bullies exist and far too often will skate through life because they figure out how to game the system. And when their victims react invariably it is the victim who is punished.
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  1023. ​ @candy-le4nh  In some ways l am. But l also realize that entertainment is limited by the tools they have at hand. Personally l have no issue with using black actors in a production of Shakespeare. It's about the language, not the flipping actors anyway. But racial substitution for historical persons just to score points or claiming that X was black, gay, trans or whatever because it makes the backers feel good is horseshit. You may as well cast a Scotsman as Shaka Zulu (1). 1) Tell me the Zulu were not an expansionist imperial state.
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  1024. The problem is they confuse respect with common courtesy. Or they treat common courtesy as an insult.
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  1025. There are bronze alloys a lot tougher than Tin Bronze. There is a company founded in the 1910s that specailizes in bronze alloys. The first product they brought to market was meant to be used for cutting tools for machining steel. Companies name is Ampco
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  1026. Some people seemed to lionize Robert Falcon Scott. Shackelton and his expedition team members were far more worthy of praise.
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  1027. Its damn hard to move silently through that type accumulated dead leaves and branches
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  1028.  @MrKbonez  I've wondered about about that. He doesn't look much like his brother does he. I suspect that if his "father" ever becomes king. He's going to be the last of the line.
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  1029. In the US Navy lexicon naming a ship the New York must get confusing. The state? The city? Or the state of mind? 😖
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  1030.  @reactivearmour5126  I have no problem with people calling Kipling a racist or an apologist for Empire. Kipling was a man of his time. What I do have a problem with is when people attempt to judge people from the past by the standards of today.
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  1031. Safety or hazarous equipment is going to yellow or possibly orange. As to the color of the paint used on machinery, tool carts etc. That's not a standard that I know of. The colors used today are better than the traditional industrial grey and greens of 60 years ago. Some of the color choice may simply come down to buying machine tools from the same manufacturers. Machine tool* builders do seen to have standard colors they use on their products. *this used to mean pretty much material removal aside from stamping, forming, casting and welding. Now machine tools include additive methods.
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  1032. A friend who is an author did a book tour in Germany. Their first morning their handler from the publisher picked him up at their hotel. When asked if everything was alright the author said "yah, great. I woke up this morning and heard Wagner. And then I wanted to invade Poland". It did not go over well to say the least. But when he got to Vienna the hotel was really psyched for his arrival. It might have been a case of mistaken identity. He has the same name as famous F1 driver who had a sking accident Michael Schumacher - amazon.com It took to page 5 on Bing
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  1033. Yes it is. All it takes is growing a set of 'nads and telling the woke to sod off. I personally do not care if there are black people in a TV show or movie set in the modern era. But if your producing a show about a historical period then the cast should fit the ethnic profiles of the time. And if it is a mixed race cast the people should be cast in roles that reflect actual history. My wife loves watching that abortion called Bridgerton. Personally I find it stupid. The producers now say the amount of black characters in the show reflect an "alternate history". What alternate history? The one in their heads? Let's have a production of Shaka Zulu* with cast of ginger headed jocks. *A real imperialist Shaka. Just one of the Bantu peoples of Africa that displaced the San people from their homelands.
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  1034.  @fulcrum2951  Physically human. Psychological monsters.
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  1035. ​ @petesheppard1709  Launched via catapults iirc. One example would be in the Marianna's once an air field was secured. And I've wondered the same thing myself.
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  1036. Makes me ant to break out th Corb Lund
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  1037. Maybe it's a specialized case but look at Formula 1 engines. Very oversquare designs usually. Sometimes approaching 2:1. Look at two of the iconic engines of the 70s the Ford Boss 302 and the DZ-28, 4" bore, 3 inch stroke. The Mopars, AMC and Pontiac Trans Am engines all had shorter strokes than that. Pontiac was the shortest of all of them ar 2.840". All these engines in race trim were pushing 8k rpm.
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  1038. One needs to remember. It's like the Grand Champion of the Westchester Kennel Club show at Madison Square garden is still a dog. If it exploits children it's still child exploitation. The chairman of Netflix needs to be share a cell with Bubba
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  1039. I remember when the World Cup was played in the US and the Silverdome was still in use. Players said the grass field used was best they had ever played on.
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  1040. Well you can also use MEK (Mythol Ethyl Ketone). Available in hardware and big box home improvement stores. Either way any of these solvents have the potentail to nasty long term. And every time I use or see a plastic cement being used I immediately think of Lloyd Bridges
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  1041. Angle cutting the joint face changes your intake manifold face perpindicularity, the perpindicularity of your bolt holes. Your tapped holes in the intake face will no longer be perpindicular to the intake manifold face. Or the correct angle to the intake side if they are angled. The faces for the head bolts need to be spot faced. Depending on just how much you take off you are messing with pushrod le goths and angles. Plus if you take more off off the exhaust side of the head face you have opened up a gap at the top of the head face.
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  1042.  @PistonAvatarGuy  There's some parts of the US that use electric locomotives with overhead power supply. But for a lot of the US the traffic density just isn't there. For the major high density lines between freight hubs. Yes, electric makes sense. For branch lines no. As far as passenger rail I for one would really like to see more options. But once you get past a certain distance it's faster to fly.
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  1043. No might about it
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  1044. Napier's last hurrah and sacrifice to the temple of mechanical complexity. At least they didn't try and build a version of the Jumo 224. Don't get me wrong. The Deltic is an amazing powerplant. And sounds wonderful. PS I also happen to think that it was out of work Napier engine designers and development engineers that were hired to design the 1.5 Liter supercharged V-16 intended for F-1 use.
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  1045. HMS Drake. Commissioning paper did they include a Letter of Marque?
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  1046. I wonder if the Fleet Air Arm ever considered the Lysander for carrier service. With it's short field performance especially on landing it seems a good fit.
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  1047. As Someky Yunick said. It all depends on how much air and fuel you can stuff in it. He did not say how long however. 😫 In terms of unlike,y engines posting substantial power in the 60s Barney Navarro was getting 600 plus HP out of a 199 Rambler 6 with the bore sleeved down to meet the rules displacement. With a stack cast crank and rods. Not sure how much boost. Dry sump oil system. Unfortunately the spun the bearings at Willow Springs iirc in a left hand turn as the oil pickups where all on the rhight hand side.
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  1048. ​ @wildcat67-b7n  One thing about aviation engines is they require some sort of thrust bearing arrangement to handle the axial load the prop puts on the engine. No matter if its gear reduction or direct drive.
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  1049. Why did you stay so long?
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  1050. Is there any truth that a USCG cutter spotted Bismarck during the hunt?
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  1051. To this day there is a company in Illinois that still build vacuum tubes for specialized uses. I'm old enough to remember test fixtures at electronics stores where you could check tubes for whether they worked or not.
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  1052. It did not matter if MacArthur, the Commander Asiatic Squadton and all of their staff did everything possible there is no way the US could have held the Phillipines or even part of them in early 1942. There simply was no way for the US Navy to effectively re-supply and get re-enforcements to the Phillipines. Not after Pearl Harbor. I agree MacArthur could be an egotistical ass and self promoter. But then again he was not the only one around. As to being caught on the ground. The Philipines had around 4 hours or so from the time the attack notification from Pearl Harbor went out. If the notification went out at 7:20 AM that means it was 3:20 AM in the Phillipines. Forget that it was Dec 8th. The International Date Line comes into play. Even so his air commander got a lot of his aircraft off of the ground to try and keep them from being caught on the ground. They were low on fuel and had to land. That's when Clark Field got attacked. Could the aircraft had been effectively dispersed to auxiliary air fields. Of course. Could they have operated effectively from them? I have my doubts. Even if MacArthur had authorized the available aircraft to launch attacks at Japanese bases on Formosa. Just how good was US intelligence on Japanese bases and or forces on the island. Following the plan of operations for ground units on the Phillipines for defense of the Islands. First the enemy has plans too. Both the IJN and the IJA got inside the decision loop of the US Army and US Navy. US forces along with the forces of the Philippines were reacting instead of forcing the Japanese to react to what they were doing. Another factor that comes into play was training levels. The training levels of US Army units in general was pretty low in 1941. In 1941 the US Army was rapidly being built up by the call up of National Guard units and the induction of draftees. The NG units had training levels of generally poor efficiency. While there may not have been any NG infantry units in the Phillipines there were NG armored elements on Luzon when the war started. These were equipped with M3 light tanks. Even though the money tap had started to open up in 1940 equipment does not just automatically appear. And in 1941 a lot of the armor being produced was going to the British in Egypt. Could the US forces in the Phillipines done better. Yes they probably could. They also could have done worse. Was MacArthur out if touch during WWll. Parts of it I think he was. Especially early in the operations on New Guinea*. His later combat operations actually had relatively low casualty rates. Units under his command also took back from the Japanese far more territory than US forces in the South and Central Pacific. The US Army landing on the Phillipines to retake them in 1944. Was it strategically necessary? Probably not. Was it morally necessary? In my opinion yes. The US had promised the Phillipines their independence before the war (July 45 iirc) and meant to keep that promise. *New Guinea is the second (or third depending on how you define Australia) largest island in the world. Its 1500 miles from Milne Bay to Sorong at its western end. It also contains some of the worst terrain on Earth.
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  1053. ​ @crisdeeming2758  When was the last time the UK was food self sufficient? As far back as the American Civil War the UK was importing wheat from the US.
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  1054. Anti Tankette Rifle?
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  1055. I hope when they flew to Oz they carried their ground crew with them if possible.
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  1056. Was the vacuum a Dyson or Electrolux?
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  1057. The initial sequence of video is from one of the many YouTube videos of Da Vinci's Songo di Volare as adapted by Christopher Tin. Used in the video game Civilization VI. Tin won a Grammy for his Baba Yetu from Civilization IV. The first piece of music from a video game to do so. And not in a special catagory.
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  1058. ​ @vorynrosethorn903  So the Turks aren't happy about it. Just what relationship do the modern Turks have to the Bronze Age population.
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  1059. ​ @rendezvouzwithrama  Only if you crossover to the other side.
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  1060. A lot of pre 20th century Cairo is built from stone scavenged from Dynastic Eqypt
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  1061. The thing that Beatty and the designers missed out on was superfiring turrets.
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  1062. What is missing is Chieftan explaining about significant emotional events
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  1063.  @stevenlamb3971  But did it reach the Christie Bullet level* of wrongness *Basement level? Sub-Basement?
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  1064. Ain't gonna happen.
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  1065. Desertion, rape, murder
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  1066. BB masts. Fuso, "hold my beer"
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  1067. Having an interest in building card models I'm pleased to see that there have been at least two versions of this lesser known aircraft available. One in 1/33rd scale and a bundle of three versions in 1/100th. The three great things about card modeling are 1) At 1/33rd scale it at least a magnitude cheaper than plastic. 2) Because of greatly reduced development costs unusual subjects can be done even in large scales. 3) If you scan the parts sheets you have a back-up if you mess up. Just print more parts 😊
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  1068. Underestimating them if push comes to shove generally doesn't go well unless you have strategic depth
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  1069. The Soviets were perfectly happy with the idea of the workers siezing the means of production. As long as they where Soviet workers.
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  1070. Does pizdets translate as "pucker factor"?
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  1071.  @bobroberts2371  Definitely a possibility. Any time you are mating up two components the mating surfaces have to be clean and free of high spots
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  1072. Better materials. Better manufacturing technology. The only thing with IC engines is the push to extract as much efficiency (and power) from them. This has resulted in engines that can be problematical as total time increases. Interference engines that destroy the engine if the valve timing gets out of time. Low friction piston rings that have a higher chance of failure simply because they are so thin. Internal components such as connecting rods made as light as possible. Plus they are made from scintered materials in many cases. Another problem with IC engines is owners not ignoring the maintenance schedule. Or in some cases going by the factory recommended oil change schedule. Which in some cases is 10,000 km or more between changes.
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  1073. POC may well turn out to mean the same as POS. In the 70s I saw the suggestion that the use of the term black may backfire in Western society. Ask yourself just what color is normally associated with evil in Western Culture. I especially do not like the term Afro American. Does that mean people who's ethnic origins are in North Africa and have Semetic ancestors can not be African Americans? Given the the overwhelming majority of what we call African Americans have their ethnicity in West Africa perhaps a more accurate term would be Bantu American.
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  1074. A man is an adult human Male. Now a Man is something else entirely. Who also happens to fit the first criteria.
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  1075.  @sometimesleela5947  You'll go back in time problem fixed.
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  1076. And here I thought it was two observer/gunners.
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  1077.  @Tumbleweed_Tx  In aluminum it wouldn't be cheap. High quality resin might be the way to go. Lighter to
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  1078. Probably because the display had lighter skin tone. Might upset the BBC and the Guardian
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  1079. The DAs were dumber than a box without any rocks in it.
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  1080. Another reason the US decided to take action was the Barbary Pirates, local sultans etc were basically running a protection racket. The European powers at the time had other concerns. A little thing like the Napoleonic Wars for one.
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  1081. The first place l saw the use of the term stylagi was actually in Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
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  1082.  Mister Fields  That's not on the sheriff's department. That's on the DA's and judges in Polk and surrounding counties.
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  1083. As to the WEF. I want to know just who the f#@& elected them
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  1084. I used to have a set of ratcheting box wrenches for hydraulic fittings that you could open and close. Very handy when you had a bank of hydraulic hoses and you had to get at one
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  1085. The total drag as expressed in pounds exceeds the weight of the aircraft. Probably I like how for Britian you just mentioned Blackburn
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  1086. Having read the book probably 10 times it never struck me as facist. The comparisoon to Republican Rome (but not Imperial Rome) comes close.
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  1087. Not to mention Napal, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Andora. One must watch out for those Andorans. Lichtenstien too.
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  1088. The Rust Belt isn't as rusty as it used to be. Some areas, cities, counties have managed to find new economic opportunities. And some haven't. It boils down to a few reasons. 1) Location, location, location. If your community is off the beaten path so to speak you are often drawing the short straw. 2) Urban vs rural. Often counties in the Rust Belt may have a modest sized city but the rest of the county can be mostly rural aside from a few smaller towns or villages. This can cause conflicts as to what direction the people want to go. 3) Apathy and the refusal to see that things have changed. Inefficient businesses lost to more competitive ones. Taking the jobs with them. The de-industrialation of many areas did not help. Sometimes this was because of competition from off shore. But sometimes there were actual government policies that drove it. The academics in the 70s were talking about a post industrial society. Well I'm sorry but everyone isn't suited to higher education. What do we tell the people who aren't, we're sorry you'll just have to accept working at a convenience store for minimum wage. Plus a nation with the international commitments the US has requires a domestic industrial base. What happens when you buy everything from a potentially hostile country. And then they say no. In 1939 Germany's biggest trading partner was France. Also refusal to see change is just wanting the good old days back. The good old days often weren't that good really.
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  1089. Yup, we give the Elbonians a run for the money. One problem the US and other western nations have is the change in administration every four to eight years (or less) often means that programs get canceled, priorities change etc.
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  1090. ​ @DanielHughes-rf2yf  Unemployable
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  1091. ​We already have Portland, Seattle and San Francisco. Why would we want London?
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  1092. Free time on your hands is one thing. Gainful employment is something else
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  1093. Toxic Feminism?
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  1094. I bought my 1st wife a PT. She and later l used it for what it was. A small station wagon. And it fit the role perfectly.
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  1095.  @casey9439  Copper from Lake Superior was traded widely across North America. Shells from the Gulf Coast went the other way. High quality stone for tool making was also traded widely.
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  1096. Applying modern morals to past societies is in my mind a game for losers. Every nation has practices or behaviors that another group will define as immoral.
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  1097. Why do the East German uniforms remind my of the old Luftwaffe/Wehrmacht ones. Especially ially the officers The local AP school had one of these outside the building for years. It was on loan and not owned by the school. A new administrator came on board and had it cut up for scrap
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  1098. Shannon also greatly benefited from the quite rapid incapacitation of the Chesapeake's command structure. Whether this not happening effected the overall outcome in terms of Shannon winning the fight if it had not happened I can not say. But when your vessels command personnel along with your helmsman are either killed or severely wounded in rapid succession it does not help. But in the long run Lawerence should not have accepted the challenge to come out and fight. His duty as an officer in his country's service was more important than any regard for his personal or his ships honor.
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  1099. Unfortunately any compensation from the School Board or its members will likely be paid for by the local citizens that pay property or other taxes that support the local school district. The School Board members should be sued personally..
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  1100.  @MaximilianvonPinneberg  He meant the jet fighter.
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  1101. Why is this a surprise. It's well known that the current "native" (1) population of the Americas are descended from Siberian populations. Denosovian (2) genes are known to exist in East Adian populations. 1) Aside from East African populations aren't we all descended from immigrants? 2) Just who were the Denisovans? We need more finds to nail them down.
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  1102.  @Ilia1138  The Poles has a number of choices. All of them bad. Ally with the USSR. Ally with Reich. Attempt to be neutral. It's never good to be the smaller guy in between two bullies. No matter which one starts the fight you're gonna get hit. The Poles had more industry than one might think. In fact both they and the Czecks developed some really good small arms. Plus they had an extremely good intelligence service. After all they were the ones who cracked the Enigma originally. It's just they really didn't have any really good defensible natural borders.
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  1103.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Eat some pierogies, you are definitely going to need some space
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  1104. As Ted Briggs said. "A beautiful shop with a glass jaw." I think Drach's analysis from a couple of years ago makes sense. Hood got hit by a shell that penetrated below the belt.
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  1105. Next if he's got one the 215 Aluminum Block. Although the Olds version with extra head bolts is likely stronger. The 215 is basically the root of the Buick Small Block.
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  1106. Spent fuel rods being waste is wrong. It is a resource we aren't using. Carter banned reprocessing by Executive Order. That can be reversed. Also we need to put a lot more effort into fusion research. Starting with the reactor design being developed at MIT. And some of the non Tokamak designs being worked on. IMO the DOE is more interested in producing Phds than electricity. At one time the US Navy was funding alternative fusion reactor design research. For one simple reason. They wanted a design that would fit into a ship. Robert Bussard was leading that effort using Electrostatic and Inertial Confinement. Their efforts were achieving greater than expected results. Following Bussards death the research was moved to Scandia Labs. I haven't heard anything for a few years but there has been major breakthroughs in producing commercially available superconductive materials. These would allow much higher magnetic field strengths. These are also at the toot of the MIT design. The MIT design is also taking into account servicability and energy extraction.
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  1107. One reason Americans eat so much is because food in the United States is relatively cheap. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm just stating a fact. Another problem is the amount of processed heat and serve foods available in the grocery store. Not all heat and serve foods are bad in terms of how healthy they are. We eat a fair amount if frozen vegetables in the winter. But for every package of frozen vegetables available in the freezer section how many pot pies, packages of frozen lasagna, frozen pizza etc are there. Plus people do not read nutritional labels.
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  1108. ​ @vincentlopez1350  Depending on where you are you have interesting options. Australia, JDM inline or the Barra. Europe, BMW or Jag (1). North America, just about any inline. People have been cutting and welding together V-8 heads to put on top of inline sixes for a long time. Chevy OHV I6 and Small Block have the same bore centers. The AMC/Jeep matches the Ford small blocks and is only .020”/.5mm less than the SBC/LS. Then there is the GM Atlas. Calvin on Nivlac57 has been getting obscene power out of them.
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  1109. There were proposals for replacing the B-52. In today's air defense environment the BUFF is best used as a bomb truck. One thing that surprises me is how long it took to re-engine the BUFFs in service. One proposal from Boeing was a high winged twin engined aircraft with two crew in a tandem cockpit. The airframe would use the wing and engines from the 757 or 767 iirc.
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  1110.  @chris6796  I doubt she has ever had a happy day in her life.
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  1111.  @Jelsick  The 290 was first introduced in the mid 1966 model year in the two door hardtop Rouge. The AMC Gen2/3 V-8 is pretty similiar to the Buick big block. Oil pump in the front cover. Same bore center distance. Thin wall castings except for the 390, 401 and service blocks. But that's where the similarity ends. Those could be machined on the crank webbing for 4 bolt mains. The earlier 250/287/327 were a completely different block. Similiar in some ways to the Ford FE. Deep skirt crankcase. The 327 4 barrel motors actually were a heavier casting with solid crank webs. There's a guy trying to push one as big as he can go. IIRC it's some where around 460 ci. The one GM big block that would have been legendary is Oldsmobile's W43. In either the 32 valve pushrod or DOHC version. One thing we see in some if not all of the billet ultra high end pushrod race motors is the cam raised higher in the block in order to optimize pushrod angles and shorten the pushrods. In the past various experimental twin cm engines have been built with the cams stacked vertically. One for intake and one for exhaust. One thing I wonder if anybody ever ran any twin cam engines with the cams being placed high up along side the cylinder banks such that the top of the lifters would be basically even with the top of the deck surface. For a pushrod this seems like an ideal situation as allows the shortest possible pushrod. In the 80s I had a Renault that had the cam so high in the block that the head actually had clearance in it for the timing gear and chain. Plus it was a hemi.
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  1112.  @dakkadakka9189  Not all German cars are excersises in excessive engineering. The original VWs are good example. A simple and very well built vehicle to move you from point A to point B. But then Germans also built the Trabant. A simple poorly built vehicle that might move you from point A to somewhere short of point B. If people think the Germans are maniacal about designing overly complex pieces of machinery they haven't thought about the Swiss. The Swiss build excellent watches", firearms and machine tools. Just pray you never have to work on them "One of the dirty little secrets about the Swiss watch industry is a lot of the parts are made just over the border in France.
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  1113. The main reason the US wound up in Somalia was because the media had it plastered 25/7 on TV. So something had to be done. Then add in typical DC micromanagement of the situation on the ground.
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  1114.  @markmaki4460  Plus he's willing to cover the failures. The top aircraft channels on YouTube for historical military aviation are Ed's, Bismarck's, Greg's and the new kid on the block who seems to be doing a good job. And right now I can not recall his name.
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  1115. I've wondered if somebody in the era this rifle is from had tried a paper cartridge similar to the old paper hulled shotgun shells. given some of the problems with early copper cased and brass foil cartridges. Well it seems some one did.
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  1116. Why is there no movements in their native countries to reform or improve the lots of the average person?
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  1117.  @tsteinebach287  Did l mention Socialism. Or Venezuela. The same story could be told about Argentina from 1945 to today. Everybody should remember Margaret Thatcher's quote about running out of other people's money.
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  1118. The battleship at about 28 minutes. Isn't that film clip from Billy Mitchell's rather rigged demonstrations. At 33 minutes Lexington or Saratoga demonstrating just why the Panama Canal exists
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  1119. I wonder why.
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  1120.  @waynemapp6333  IMO SLS should never have been designed to be man rated. In fact I think we just should have built Shuttle C with the cargo front mounted and the engines in a return pod. Use Falcon 9 for crew launch.
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  1121. But there are pockets of bad along Lake Michigan. Benton Harbor, parts of Muskegon. As much as l like the Traverse City area TC has been insufferable the last few times we visited. Non stop virtue signaling.
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  1122.  @charlesdewitt8087  As was I
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  1123. The XJs got the 4.0 before Chysler bought AMC. And after the 4.0 came out AMC was already playing around with what today is called the stroker. In fact the original stroker was the 282 built in Mexico by VAM. Basically a 258 with 3.875 bores.
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  1124.  @rikulappi9664  Not only does Sasha get to fire 15000 rounds on semi-automatic. He also gets to load all the rounds by hand into the mags.
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  1125. I think her fretboard was considerably lower when filled to her rated capacity. Which crept upwards between 59 and 75
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  1126.  @cases2939  The duck hunt "gun" was actually a crude tv camera
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  1127. ​ @Jimmy-yu9xy  I know what it says. But even then at the height of 19th and early 20th Century immigration it was not a free for all. Immigration was regulated and some people were sent back. Sometimes for political reasons. Sometimes for health reasons.
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  1128. In this case it's a matter of dosing commitment to the UN.
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  1129.  @charlytaylor1748  Like I said there was that little matter of the Red Army.
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  1130.  @TheReaverOfDarkness  The "investor" in this case would be a government sponsored science agency (NASA, ESA etc). This object is going to be moving fairly rapidly plus its orbit is highly inclined to the ecliptic. It is far less energy costly to change your orbital parameters in the plane of the ecliptic than to change your orbital parameters to an inclination to the ecliptic. Plus any flyby will most likely require a gravity assist of Jupiter or Saturn to bend the probes path in relation to the ecliptic. Most likely the vehicle would have to do a flyby of Saturn's southern polar regions. Just getting to Saturn takes time. Jupiter will complete just over 80% of one orbit between now and the objects closest approac. Saturn some where around a third. In this case a gravity assist may not even be possible given the time frame. In that case a low mass probe with the most delta vee that is achievable is what is needed.
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  1131. ​ @neddyseagoon9601  It's not like Britians or other Europeans invented the written word. Using symbols to convey ideas, concepts, or specific things likely originates in the following areas. The Fertile Crescent, the Yangtze or Yellow River valleys and Mesoamerica. I think there is some question whether Egypt developed the idea completely independently. But use of the written word is an entirely different matter. I remember seeing a statistic concerning the publishing industry from around 2003. Just Spain alone saw more published in that year than the area from Morocco to Pakistan. Granted a large percentage of the books published in Spain might have been trashy fiction. If the supposedly literate swath from Morocco to Pakistan saw that little what does it say about Sub Saharan Africa.
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  1132.  @stevenmoore4612  There was probably cameras being used on Prince of Wales and the cruisers trailing Bismark.
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  1133.  @92redferrari  Or a nautical mile. I agree Metric or more properly SI is internally logical although it does have units nobody uses. Decimeters anyone. And l hate when people use different systems of measurement on the same drawings products etc. Personally l wish the US would go metric fullbore. Not halfway like it has. We use metric for things that really matter. And traditional for stuff that is out in the everyday world.
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  1134. ​ @davidg3944  I have a few. Used to have more. Today this type of kit is designed on computers. In the past they were hand drawn. These can look really bad or very very good. Depending on the skill of the builder. Subjects range from ships, aircraft and vehicles to figures and animals. Still very popular in Eastern Europe. A number of YT channels on this. Dan Smith, builds aircraft kits. Lots of WWl subjects Swager, currently finishing up a 1/25 T-72. Including flexible tracks. Ship models are mostly 1:250 or 1:200 Aircraft models are different scales but 1:33 is very common
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  1135. Here in the US we have businesses that "sell" rent to own furniture. About the time its paid for it is for sure junk because it is so cheaply built.
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  1136. "The "CZ factory was contracted with...." It was probably more of case you will make these and you will like it.
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  1137. The deck armor is much thinner than the belt armor. Plus even if the Atizona's deck armor was upgraded during her 1930/31 modernization I doubt it was upgraded to the ability to withstand a 16" shell falling nearly vertically. The armor if upgraded was probably to a standard to with stand any projected AP bombs that could reasonably be expected.
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  1138. Long post. Not just throwing out a wall of text. I'm reasonably sure there are European-Americans, Anglo-Saxon-Americans, Nordic-Americans etc who go out of their way to only support businesss owned by Americans belonging to those ethnicities. Locally l know plenty of Italian-Americans who try to exclusively do business with other Italian-Americans (1). The same could likely be said of Baptist-Americans, Evangelical-Americans, Roman Catholic-Ameticans, Jewish-Americans etc. Some of this is simple clannishness. Opposites may attract electrically or magnetically but not always in social interactions. But, there's always a but, some of this is down to plain simple racism. There's individual racism. Normally displaced by people I call "friends of Bevis". Of all skin tones. Of all ethnicities. Of all religous backgrounds (including atheists). And then there is institutional racism. Jim Crow was institutional racism. Red Lining was institutional racism. Slavery was institutional racism. Fortunately we are past that (2). But in trying to make up for past wrongs the political classes have attempted to install other forms of institutional racism. Call it DIE, Affirmative Action, Set Asides, whatever. At what point does any society that institute such system of legal racism put that system aside? Supporters of such systems remind me of George Wallace standing on the school house steps ranting about segregation (3). They have a vested interest in such legal protections. Mostly political. Often cash based (4). Without "racism" race hustlers have to find another hustle. 1) Locally we have a large percentage of the population that is Italian-American. Mostly descended immigrants from the same region (Calabria) and the same city or town (Cozenza). And they stuck together like glue. 2) As to ending slavery l for one would like to hear Stacy Adam's, Al Sharpton and others thank the 360K Union soldiers, of all races, who died in the American Civil War that effectively ended slavery in the United States. I expect it will be a long wait. 😴😴 3) If "Black only spaces", "black safe spaces" etc isn't segregation what is it. Also some of these systems intended to help one group of people can often hurt the individuals it is trying to help. If anyone who gets into an elite educational institute based solely on race, gender (actual or precieved), ethnicity etc does not have the level of scholarship needed to take advantage of that opportunity. And subsequently drops out. Who was benefited. The only one l can see is the institution that gets bragging rights. 4) In my opinion anyone that rakes in cash off of race hustling is no different than any other con man.
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  1139. But if they eliminate cattle farming you can "eat zer bugs, und you vill like it".
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  1140. The French may had the better rifles. But the Prussians had the better artillery. Plus the French started the war didn't they?
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  1141. All it needs is a big Hollywood hoop.
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  1142.  @joshwilliams9843  There was also an Essex class CV named Kearsage
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  1143. Milwaukee has the Kia Boyz. Seattle has the Hopeful Future Lawyers.
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  1144.  @Gryphyn3  Even if he did it's 10 too 15 years too late. Some parts of Canada the Glorious Leader Justin "Al Jolson" Treadue will go for the former.
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  1145.  @jaylucas8352  People are always dying. And always at the same rate. One per person
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  1146. Find a copy of 'Real Horses Don't Say Oink' by Patrick McManus.
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  1147. ​ @JMoneyX5z  They really only allowed 41. Blame Dakless for the other 7. From what I saw the Cowboys were thinking about next week. Green Bay came in prepared and focused. 6 and 0 in Lambeau South 😅 It's been 29 years. Maybe in another 11 they'll get to the promised land
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  1148. What about the Basque? Granted there j.g as probably been a lot of admixture from other groups. Anatolian farmers, Germanic tribes etc. Personally I don't buy the ancient total population replacement idea. The Old European Hunter Gatherers probably were never really that numerous. Instead of being wiped out by the incoming Anatolian farmers or pastoral steppe Indo Europeans they were likely just absorbed. Just as in Britian the various migrations were more absorbed into the genetic population group even if those Celts, Angles, Saxons or Jutes did impose their language and culture on the natives thru intermarriage etc.
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  1149. I sincerely hope you and yours the joy of the season. Lock downs and all. Hopefully we will see something of a return to sanity in 2021.
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  1150. And if they were there to do domestic work they'd be overjoyed because they could pay them less.
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  1151. There were bombardment ships equipped with the rocket turrets. There is a video out there. The turrets themselves were mounted on 40mm Bofors mounts. Controlled from a central fire control system. Mark Felton. Beach landing battering rams. At least a couple of them were in service into the 60s.
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  1152.  @co6308  That's what Joe said
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  1153. ​ @Lonovavir  I thought it was hours or minutes. Of course they showed their true opinion concerning firearms
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  1154. The thing I want to know about the Kiwi is if they ever finished 1) the fastback Cougar. And 2) the Mitsubishi with the late model hemi.
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  1155. ​ @StonedtotheBones13  Some are. And some likely aren't.
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  1156. ​ @davepeters4955  I hate to think what their bikes were like. See through tires so you could see how much air was in the tires?
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  1157. Hunter Gatherers also tend to eat a lot more organ meats than agriculturalists. But if the agriculturalists are also raising livestock they may have a much more reliable source of animal protein.
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  1158. My heart says Lions and Ravens. My head says 49ers and KC. I could care less about the Ravens. I just want KC knocked off. I think the 49es will hang on enough to win. They are beatable. Green Bay had them by the balls and just couldn't finish it. Green Bay lost because of not converting twice in the red zone and two late ITs. I want the Lions to win. I'm just not sure they will. But no matter who wins the NFC they lose in Las Vegas.
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  1159. If not the individual police their superiors for sure.
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  1160. Just be willing to accept any unforeseen environmental costs that arise. Be they production, land use, disposal etc. Nothing is free.
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  1161.  @markvogel5872  Do you really think the politicians give a rats ass about the "average" person. At most they may care about their pet segment of the population. Usually that means about enough if their district, state or what ever region they "represent" is.
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  1162.  @hazelisaacs2201  Theres an old joke in the US about Texan who meets two woman in a bar. It ends get us three lesbians a drink.
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  1163. Ward may have fired the first shot in the war with Japan. The US was already fighting an undeclared naval war against Germany. The first US service personnel killed in the Pacific well could have been pilots of some Wildcats that were inbound to Ward Island* having launched off of Enterprise as she was headed for Pearl. *Were the ship and the island named for the same man. Somehow I don't think Mr Cleaver was involved.
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  1164.  @clarkkent9080  OK Clark, the point was so that everyone would understand what they were using.
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  1165. If the conning tower gets hit even if the shell doesn't penetrate the concussion will kill everybody
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  1166.  @philm9593  A Colt or Remmington revolver were not cheap in the 1860s and later. The average cowboy did not make very much. In fact the cowboy was looked upon as a less than desirable person. The term cowboy actually has its roots in England. Much of American cowboy practice was adopted from the Mexican vaqueros.
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  1167. Montgomery IMO was a master of the set piece battle. MacArthur as always the smartest person in the room. Unfortunately his ego was the largest also. Bomber Harris along with the USAAF was unfortunately limited by the technology of the time. His biggest fault tactically IMO was his failure to understand that critical industries vital to the German war effort were not panacea targets. Nimitz conducted a methodically yet brilliant campaign. Yet I think he failed to understand the moral need to liberate the Phillipines. Patton was one of those figures that needed to be kept in a glass case with a sign. Break only in case of war.
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  1168. The problem with conspiracy theories is there is always too many people in the loop. Eventually somebody talks or says something. Did the US Navy and Army know something was going to happen. There were indications from message traffic that was intercepted. The long message to the Japanese embassy in DC was certainly an indicator. Prior to Dec 7th there had been at least two warnings issued by the War Department* about possible hostile actions on the part of the Japanese. It is my understanding that the War and State Departments were of the opinion that if Japan went to war against the US hostilities would begin in the Western Pacific. If there was any criminal negligence at Pearl Harbour it was the failure of the officers in the communications center to take the report of the Ward seriously. *After WWII the War Department was changed to become the Department of Defense. Prior to and during WWll the Secratary of the Navy was still a cabinet position iirc.
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  1169. Ocean Brutality. Recovering the kettle bell is gonna be a little tough.
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  1170. Didn't pretty much every nation with a domestic firearms industry look at German weapons post WWll. I am excluding those countries that were building licensed copies with no experience of domestic design work. One thing a lot of countries did as they began to industrialize was look at establishing their own firearms industry along with railroad networks. Building railroads if you produce any of the items domestically gets you a steel industry. Even if all you produce is your own rails. A domestic firearms industry is going to get you a core of trained machinists and tool makers that can then train others. On another note. The first major consumer product that offered a precision made product was the wood pencil industry (1). First you have to form the cores from graphite and a bonding agent. These have to be quite uniform. Then the wood halves of the pencil body need to be machined in multiple bodies. The cores inserted and the halves glued together. The grooves for the cores need to be the proper depth. Too shallow and the body won't close. Too deep and the cores fall out. Another commercial product that relied early on precision machinery was the mass production of pins and sowing needles. Of course all of this. Indeed everything produced by an industrial process rests on a machine tool industry and national or international standards of measurement. 1) The author of On Walden Pond. His family owned a pencil factory.
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  1171. I don't blame the migrants. If I was in their situation I'd likely do the same. I blame career politicians.
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  1172. Plus every time you turn around they want to install a new update. I used to play the Blitz version on my tablet a lot. Often when an update came out l would have to uninstall a bunch of apps just to free up enough memory. And the cheats. Get into a multi player game and 5 seconds you have a full spread of torps slamming into you before can even get up to speed.
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  1173. Is the United States the greatest country? Was it ever the greatest country? Two loaded questions. The answers of which tell you more about the person giving the answer than the country in question. The answer to the question is of course never simple. As a nation the US has failed to live up to the platitudes of the Declaration and its Constitution in many ways. But it must also be looked at as a nation created in a period of time where certain attitudes were commonly held. Over time we have become truer to those ideals. But our enemies today. Our own home grown enemies would tear the whole structure down because the roof has a few leaks. To me the question of whether the US is worth saving lies in the fact that so many people across the world seek to come here. America still really is the land of opportunity. A place where you can re-invent yourself. Is everyone going to succeed? Unfortunately, no, of course not. Today we have activists and politicians that seem to be engaged in legislating "success". The recent effort in California that mandated a raise of the minimum wage in fast food restaurants to $20 an hour is one example. Laws such as these will generally fail as prices will rise and business will shed employees in favor either fewer employees that work full time or increased automation. One reason these laws fail is because the law makers generally have no idea how businesses are run. The first thing a business has to do is provide a goods or service that people want. Second it has to make a profit doing it. If it doesn't that business won't be around very long and any employees will be looking for new jobs. Enough businesses fail without legislative hurdles. The other big enemy we face is the idea of equality of outcome. It simply cannot happen. Or be legislated to happen. Human beings are born with different strengths, different weaknesses and different personalities. Some are gifted intellectually, some aren't. Some are born that they can have great physucal strength, some aren't. Some are born that they have a drive to succeed. Most aren't. All we can do as a society to ensure anything like equality of outcome is ensure that every child has the opportunity to obtain an education up to a certain basic level. One can gain an education. One cannot be given an education. One cannot recieve an education. One can only be given a chance to gain an education. Today our education system is broken. For the amount if money our education system recieves each year one would think we have the best educated students in the world. Saddly we don't. And more money is not going to fix it. The cry for more money for education began in the wake of Sputnik. And it has necer stopped. Yet the quality of our K thru 12 graduates has continued to slip. That colleges need to have remedial courses tells you all you really need to know.
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  1174. Why do I get the idea that NASA cannot develop a damn thing anywhere near on time or budget. Is it political meddling? Engineering inability? Changing requirements? Or a combination of all three?
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  1175.  @sharlin648  His weak perform as once in the 52 Wisconsin primary finished any aspirations he had. He was not particularly popular here.
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  1176.  @Jebu911  Perfect is the enemy of good enough. Ian makes the point about the current 40mm launcher being awkward to carry etc. The China Lake 40mm pump certainly beats it hands down on that matter from all appearances. Yes fix the problems in the original. Just dont get creative with "improvements". As to the property rights I have a post on that further up the comments.
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  1177. 11 and 12 cylinder radials built by Nordberg. 14" bore and stroke. Both versions are radials that feature no master rod. Only link rods. With two different systems to keep the tod car carrier in phase. The 11 cylinder used a gear train system while the 12 cylinder used two retaining cranks with a connecting link. As usual see Old Machine Press
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  1178. If your prof was using proto pulp fiction (1) then feminist theory is bullshit 1) H Rider Haggard just may be the prototypical writer of pulp fiction.
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  1179. If he had filed a complaint what are the odds that neither his bosses at work or the police would have done a damn thing to protect his rights. Just look at how the police in Britian cater to and engage with the 5% of the population that are LGBT. Look at how police and prosecutors either ignored or protected the grooming gangs in the Midlands, The individuals nd groups that run things in Britian. The police organizations, the media, the politicians and the education system are scared if they do anything that they will be the next victims. As an outsider looking in IMO Britian is facing a period of violence that will make the Troubles in Northern Ireland look like an ice cream social. Expect in the next few years for suicide bombings to become as common as in some Muslim countries. Targets will be stores, churches, pubs and anywhere groups of people are gathered. And the tactic of labeling people who object or even simply do not want to be involved racist, phobic or whatever they can dream up will continue. We are seeing some of the same thing here in the States. Only now the target is Christians. If you are Christian you will be labeled as radical right wing extremists. It is starting with the media attacking "rural right wing Christians" as the new "dangerous" hate group. I will admit that there are some people who call themselves Christian's who hold extreme and hateful positions. But I expect that they are a far lower percentage than those in other groups that hold similiar opinions.
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  1180. Also on the wing in early aircraft you see a lot of wings with camber in the underside of the wing. Something that pretty much disappeared once proper wind tunnels were developed. I think about the only aircraft you would see camber in the underside of the wing yo day is on ultralights.
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  1181. Just so long as it doesn't turn into a firearms version of Orange County Choppers
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  1182. I thought of something sort of similiar years ago. Have the heat shield shaped as shallow conave cone. Have engine/s nozzle/arrayed in the center with the nozzles pointing so that the their exhaust flows over the heat shield. At the perimeter use a ring that can extend backward or a set of flaps that divert the exhaust gases. The idea is to use the whole heat shield as the expansion nozzle of the engine. Sort of a backward aerospike. The only area of the heat shield not used as the expansion nozzle is the cap over the engine assemblies. After all rocket engines work by expanding gases putting pressure on the engine assembly.
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  1183. They were warned off for encroaching on the territory of Nigerean princes.
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  1184. There were quite a few SBCs and likely SBFs stuffed into Datsun Z cars. This thing is gonna be likely an Austin Healey 3000. There's probably some guy in Oz going I could stuff a Barra in there.
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  1185. A dark bit of gallows humor the Navy A3D was also known as the All 3 Dead.
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  1186.  @markroberts928  I figured somebody would catch it
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  1187. Worth a hell of a lot more than all the gold, silver and emeralds.
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  1188. Ah yes. The lint trap. Another issue in the laundry aside from fires I suppose would be potential vibrations from the washing machine.
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  1189.  @cardinal-fang  Or stupidity.
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  1190. In all likelihood if you were living in a predominantly black or brown country that was seeing unlimited immigration Europe or any day of the Anglo-sphere nations and objected to it the liberals (1) would agree with you. 1) Liberals in the modern sense. Not the classical.
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  1191.  @alphatrion100  As opposed to awarding the contract to Boeing, LockMart, Northrup Grumman or General Dynamics? Or they rely on the same development team as SLS.
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  1192. Just like the ballast tank in Titanic's fore peak. So well built it's still holding water to this day.
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  1193. Probably because it might limit their fun. Sodomy bans really never prevented the practice. The issue I had in the early 80s when AIDs exploded was shutting down gay sex clubs to slow or possibly stop the spread was attacked as it infringed on "choice". Well, l have a right to not be exposed to a deadly disease due to someone's selfish choices.
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  1194. The Paracone idea reminds me of the Monson Lung for escaping from subs. Yea it can work but is it more of sf something to make the families feel better.
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  1195. The video or videos of Ian shooting FG-42s are very impressive. One I think is titled Is the Hype Real? The answer was yes. In one portion he fires a full magazine and all if the expended brass lands forward and to the right in about a six foot circle. That shows just one small detail that the designers thought out. Regarding any possible fragility of these weapons. Just what was the expected amount of service for one of these weapons. If it is only expected to last x number if hours in combat or x number of rounds building them to last 10x's as long is a waste of resources. As a side question. I'm sure there is probably data in the various archives. How many rounds did the average rifleman fire total in WWll?
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  1196. And in the early 1920s the Curtis D-12 came onto the scene. Burying the Hisso and leaving the Liberty to die a lingering death. Of course after that came the Whirlwind and the Wasp. The 20s and 30s are actually very interesting in terms of the various engine designs that at least reached the test stage. As usual Old Machine Press is a great source.
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  1197. If an NBA team has one white player will they have to conduct race sensitivity traing
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  1198. And if was not used as a form of expletive speech then. It sure would be afterwards.
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  1199. I'm of the opinion that had the Whirlwind been ready and available in the summer of 1940 the losses of Luftwaffe bombers over Southern England would have been far worse. The Spit was an incredible design for it's time. It's one fault lay in its construction time. It took many more man hours to build than other types.
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  1200. Offer aircraft to the enemy?
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  1201. One of the old time hot rodders, engine builders Barney Navarro messed around with using oxygen bottles as a way to boost engines.
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  1202. Parents around organized sports for kids and teen agers can get insane. In my personal experience from my youth I saw plenty of kids who couldn't catch or hit playing in Little League. All because their dad knew somebody.
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  1203. I remember Greta screaming about "you stole my childhood". The only people who stole her childhood was her nutjob parents. Someday Greta will be a lonely and embittered old woman.
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  1204. It wasn't just the airframe and the 6 .50s (or late war 4 20mm). It was that big honking Pratt & Whitney R-2800 up front. And a lot of the F6Fs had their R-2800s built by Nash.
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  1205. ​ @charleebunch6637  Define "big block". Bore Spread? Deck height? Both? All AMC V-8 blocks were 4.750" bore spread. That's .125” more the Pontiac, .150" more than the Ford FE and .130" more than Oldsmobile. The wildest AMC got was 1) Special Service Blocks (390/401 water jackets and bottom ends with 343/360 cylinder bores) to take parts catalog 4 bolt mains and some aluminum blocks. A short deck block for Champ Car and solid aluminum blocks without water jackets for drag racing. There was a Hornet in Pro Stock that ran with siamesed cylinder heads in order to raise the intake ports. Wally Booth iirc.
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  1206. The actor Leslie Howard was killed on a BOAC flight from London to Lisbon over the Bay of Biscay. Those flights were not without risk. Howard was foing work for the UK government at the time.
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  1207.  @HerrGesetz  With floresiensis I think a lot depends on just what their level of cognitive abilities were. Brain size while of some importance in my opinion is less important than complexity and internal connectivity. The worlds smallest living woman is approximately 24 inches tall and weighs 12 pounds. Yet she has full mental abilities. To me this proves that the Hobbits could have well been capable of levels of mental abilities on par with their Homo Erectus cousins. Who most likely weren't as dumb as some in the general population think. We can thank the "cave man" charactures for that
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  1208. Here they just got done with Pride Month and they need another special festival. WTF Isn't Wiener the Cali state rep that introduced legislation to decriminalize giving somebody HIV intentionally. Plus lowering the legal penalty for sex with a minor or decriminalizing it. He really needs to be deNOUNCEd.
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  1209. Of Antioch
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  1210. You get bonus points for pronouncing Winnebago correctly. But you screwed up Tecumseh
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  1211. Refering to the F-84 as a jet powered P-47 makes sense from the design philosophy at Republic.
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  1212.  @petesheppard1709  A local technical college had a F-84 on static display outside their Airframe & Engine school. The swept wing version. One of the administrators decided he didn't like it and called in a scrap company to chop it up and haul it away. Turned out the airframe was on loan from the Wisconsin Air National Guard and they were not pleased.
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  1213. There was a test program that was run in Germany. Electric semi trucks were fitted with pantographs like on electric trains. One lane of a section of autobahn was equipped with overhead wires. I'm not sure how it worked out but imo this is the only viable solution for long distance trucking if you want to go electric. It still would not be cheap to build but it does at least offer the possibility of recovering costs thru charges for power consumed by the vehicle. Workable? I'm not qualified to answer that. I still think that the majority of long distance frieght over land should move by rail whenever practical.
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  1214.  @LK-pc4sq  One thing that some climate alarmists* fail to realize is that the Earth has never really had a climate that has been steady state in that it just plods along and it never changes. I'm not saying that human activity is not placing ecosystems under extreme stress. Or that human reliance on fossil fuels is not having an effect on climate. We know that climate has changed over the course of humanities existence. But when I hear somebody screaming about the average temperature has gone up .1 or .2 C in the last 50 or 100 years I want to know where was the data gathered. Are they using data from urban areas with lots of buildings and concrete soaking up and releasing heat. Part of the reason that there are still climate skeptics is the doom and gloom predictions that get all the media attention that have not happened. Yet. There are periods in the recent past that I have yet to see conclusive proof of why the happened. The Little Ice Age when glaciers advance all over the world. Glacial advances that swallowed villages in the Alps. The Medieval Warm Period**. The climate downturn that occurred around 1200 BCE. The warm period the height of the Roman Empire. The climate downturn associated with the Dark Ages (which weren't dark). Is it changes in the Ocean Thermal Cycle. These events seem to be fairly regular. The overall temperature changes aren't that big. But they do have an impact. *The alarmists in many ways are their own worst enemies. And we all know they exist. **The climate was warm enough that vineyards and wineries existed in Britian which would not be seen again until fairly recently. And it's not the cold temperatures of winter that restrict wine grapes from flourishing it's the lack of the required summer temperatures and general conditions that do so. After all there are wineries in the Ginger Lakes of New York, the northern part of Michigans Lower Peninsula, Wisconsin's Door County and other places in the US that see temperatures in winter that can dip to -20°F in the winter.
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  1215.  @carta8399  I don't know if it still holds but if you wanted the best textile machinery you went to Italy. They also made very good machine tools. The oldest Industrial company is Beretta.
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  1216. Costly and difficult to build. Using an engine that nothing else used. No wonder it got cancelled. Too bad they didn't save one anyway. Now if they had been available during the BoB they would have cost the Luftwaffes bomber heavily. 4 20mm vs 8 .303s.
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  1217. ​  @andrewallason4530  Headlight switches that were labeled Dim, Flicker and Pray.
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  1218. Vent windows. I really miss vent windows. And foot well vents.
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  1219. Once the USAAC had the P-47 in service they had a better attack aircraft than the ones in development IMO.
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  1220. The trigger for the next major war IMO will be water resources. Potential hotspots include Turkey vs Iraq, Ethiopia vs Egypt and China vs India/Southern Asia. Also the possibility of a Civil war in the US if the Federal government attempts to divert water from the Mississippi River Basin or the Great Lakes to the Southwest and California.
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  1221.  @itatane  With Pvt Mackenzie from British Muzzleloaders being the Scottish branch of the clan. Bloke travelled to Alberta or BC to do a series of videos with him. One thing I enjoy about British Muzzleloaders is his historical approach not only to the particular firearm but also the context of its usage in both field exercises and training.
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  1222. And what became the United States would enter into status similiar to Canada possibly quicker. Although I do think that the political entity in that TL would still expand to the West Coast
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  1223. Or just run O2 tanks. It's been tried.
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  1224.  @yddub111  95% of the dialog is lifted straight out of the book. R B Parker knew how to write dialog. Wish th hey would of done a couple of sequels
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  1225. I've seen them last longer than the bodies they were in. But in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region that doesnt necessarily mean anything. If properly cared for they'll run a long time. If they aren't they're toast. The engines were built fairly tight from the factory. Oil leaks that's another matter. Plus the 232/258 with the electronic carbs and smog control.
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  1226.  @phoenixxxashez  There were actresses at the time. But yes I get what you mean.
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  1227.  @NoHomo1776  I've been saying that. And just as insulting.
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  1228.  Eric da' MAJ  To break it down to cost per taxpayer. For one million taxpayers that comes out to per head $.01. Plus one would think that the geniuses that designed the MK 14 and its cousins would have come up with a means of determining if their wonder exploder worked. I can think of one that does not involve firing them at a target. Moor them at the supposed running depth and sail a ship over them. Recover the warhead (it wouldn't even have to be the whole torpedoe) and see if the damn thing worked. Conduct these tests in various regions to see how the Earths magnetic field affected performance. Devise setting procedures for the torpedoes to be set just prior to firing. Even the depth setting system could have been tested by towing torpedoes behind behind various ships to see it it worked or tried to cause the fish to run shallow or deep. This isn't rocket science (I know the term wasn't in use then but it should really be rocket engineering). It non destructive testing. As I said above. With or without a blindfold. Another option for the fusing could have been a simple mechanical timer that worked off of revolutions of the screws. At full speed if the screws turn x number of revolutions per y distance adjust the settings acordingly.
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  1229. ​ @adriancauchi  Turbozilla
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  1230. The roots may have been in the production of bananas for export but the large numbers of Salvadorans being forcibly removed from Honduras didn't help.
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  1231. To be honest I think anything proposed by NASA or any of the aerospace companies feeding the federal government trough will never be anything more than pretty pictures and animations. NASA's track record in the recent past has been less than stellar with the exception of the stuff done at JPL. Why is this? First it is because of incoming administrations changing goals and policy. Second it is because certain individuals in Congress care more about the jobs related to NASA Centers than anything actually getting accomplished in terms of actual goals, hardware being built and flown or much of anything else. LockMart, Launch Alliance and others are willing to play the game. The Shuttle was retired over 8 years ago and we are still no where near having any man rated system. I suspect Musk will launch man rated Dragons or even the BFR before NASA and the rest of the trough feeders are close to having a flight ready vehicle.
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  1232.  @hobblesofkarth3943  Oh, you mean those formerly Irish immigrants 🤯
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  1233.  @hobblesofkarth3943  As would the residents of Kentucky and Tennessee. Only they'd run you over with their pickum-up trucks and got out the squirrel rifles
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  1234. Number one? I highly doubt that. Most common after cheese and sausage is probably onions. But in actuality the most common is tomato sauce of some type.
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  1235. Joy Reid wakes up in the morning. "Morning is Racist!"
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  1236. Nice to have a question responded to 👍
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  1237. What was the actor who said "Trump's an asshole, but he's my asshole". Dennis Quaid l think.
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  1238. No wnder she wanted the cops defunded
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  1239. Maybe I didn't hear but I would imagine that the turbine/generator here is set to operate at one speed. The most efficient output vs fuel burn ratio. What I'm wondering is whether the generator is running co-axial with the turbine or is driven off of a gear reduction set. And just what the exhaust temp is.
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  1240. That picture f the U-Boat being moved by a truck trailer combo reminds me of the pictures one sees of the road transport of oversized shipments. Large cranes etc. Imagine being a German or Austrian farmer cutting hay and seeing a U-Boat moving along a road. Wrecks of U-Boats ar scattered all over the world. The arctic, the Atlantic, Indian and Paific Oceans. The Med. Rivers in Canada. And Lake Michigan of all places. A captured WWI boat was on display in Chicago and then later towed out and sunk in a gunnery exercise by the former excursion steamer Eastland
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  1241. Now do map of Known Space including vectors gor the Fleet of Worlds and the Ringworld
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  1242. ​ @VeekerStudios  The painted B-17s were actually slightly faster at the same power settings. See Greg's Planes and Automobiles or Workd War ll Hombers for more info.
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  1243. Which makes the New York the only USN BB to sink something during WWI. Correct?
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  1244.  @jovand6606  That's kind of what I was thinking. The turbine runs only to charge the battery. Volvo had one around the same time frame running as a test bed show car. Batteries are still the electric cars Achilles Heel. Personally I would like to see more research put into flywheels.
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  1245.  @davidrees7978  Given that Republic had no experience in building for Naval Aviation it's not a surprise really. Plus given that the Jug was pretty large I wonder just how much room it would take up even with folding wings. Weight wise it's pretty close to the Avenger with more power though.
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  1246. As to the Bricklin is it the Ford powered or the AMC powered which is rarer iirc.
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  1247. I remember a show on the History Channel about the original ice road guys. One comment was, "-40's not bad, -50 is cold, -60 is damn cold".
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  1248. As Sallah said in Raiders of the Lost Ark. "Very Dangerous"
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  1249. Needs wheels
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  1250. Once launched Mr Torpedo is nobody's friend. The Mighty Jingles. Random WoWS videos. In WoWS I once got a same team kill driving USS St Louis at maximum range with one hit. 😮
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  1251. My father was in an artillery unit in Italy (173rd Field Artillery Group). An independent unit that got attached to various divisions as needed. He told us once about a Piper Cub that was dodging around to avoid getting shot down by a Bf-109. BS? Who knows. Plus that Piper Cub could also get a wandering group of P-47s or A-36 Apaches on the horn.
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  1252. Projecting the values of today onto the past is common enough in judging the morality of the actions of people and societies. And that is idiotic. Projecting the values of the fringes of society onto the past makes the first statement completely logical. One thing that frosts me as descendants of Scandinavian Southern Gentlemen (aka Danes) is calling the people who lived there Vikings. They were Norse and likely identified as their clan or tribal group first. And then possibly as Norwegian, Swedish or Danes. To go Viking was an activity.
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  1253. A low cost grocery store tried to open in a closed up Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck). The locals protested.
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  1254. At this point to get nominated you need a certain percentage of gay, POC, Trans in the cast crew and production staff. This film was brought to you by DEI Films.
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  1255. Anything like the Drake Equation begins with a set of assumptions. Change the assumptions, change the results.
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  1256.  @SpacePatrollerLaser  I knew the Elbonian Defense Minister had a funny sounding name. P something or other
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  1257. I thought there were P-38s stationed on Iceland prior to Pearl Harbor. Part of the US taking over the occupation from the British. I think I remember that a P-38 scored a kill against a Focke Wolf Condor.
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  1258. Dianne Abbott 2.0?
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  1259.  @clauricaune  Probably slot of academic papers are read by the peer reviewers and that's the last time. As Harlan Ellison once said "95% of science fiction is crap. But the 95% of everything is crap". There are a number of fields in academia where one would think that they have been so thoroughly mined out that coming up with a PhD* thesis would be impossible. Piled higher and Deeper as a professor with a PhD in Psychology i knew used to say.
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  1260. ​ @ianw0ng  Or Lizzo
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  1261.  @ohwellwhateverr  "Oh but I'll schedule a C section so my baby can be born on a special day". This whole idea is just sick. If they really need to be a parent just adopt if needed. Just don't try and make the kid be an alphabet soup person if they are not.
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  1262. I know you used to be able to order them from Gander Mountain. Look up Cattleman's Carbine. There are also repos of Remingtons
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  1263. Does it? No. But maybe I'm a purist. Cheese, sausage, onions and green peppers. Maybe pepperoni. Maybe black olives. No spam. No pineapple. And definitely no freaking anchovies.
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  1264. "Worked just fine" IJN, for a couple of years at least
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  1265. Given the geography of the Solomons one would expect smaller naval vessels could be useful. The E Boats certainly proved useful.
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  1266. Digital_Jedi, fusion is closer today than it was 20 years ago. I'm sure ITER will run at a +Q reaction cycle but I have serious doubts that ITER will pave the way for commercial reactors. The MIT proposal is a better bet IMO as far as Tokamak type reactors go. For several reason. It's designed to test maintenance issues for one. Second it is taking advantage of material sciences work that has led to the commercial production of higher temperature superconductors that can be used in the magnets that generate the containment fields. Plus the MIT design is reasonably small. But at the same time I would like to see some of my tax dollars used to fund some of the start-ups looking at more unconventional designs. Given the size of the US budget two or three billion is small change. Maybe they wouldn't work. But if they did the payoff is huge.
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  1267. Hydraulic or fluid clutch systems on superchargers go back to the 1930s with the DB-601 aero engines. Along with two stage systems. Two stage/two speed systems.
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  1268. I'm in the US and I understand the difference. I even understand the difference between Britian the island, Britian the nation state aka the UK.
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  1269. In 1654 the Danish Royal Guard used repeating flintlock rifles capable of firing 30 shots before reloading to defeat Swedish troops in Copenhagen. Don't ever let somebody tell you that such weapons did not exist until recently. Go to Forgotten Weapons for a video on this
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  1270. grammar., it should be. "How progressives* are ruining western society". *Progressive in terms of as it was described in the early 20th century had a positive connotation. Actively trying to build a working healthy society. Today in my opinion it is simply about enabling.
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  1271. Shhhhhhhhhhh, you're not allowed to talk about that,
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  1272. Invading armies? Hordes more likely. Just wait until Clan and Tribal fueds take hold.
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  1273. Americans tend to associate the word 'crayon' with the wax based crayons used by children in school or coloring books. In other countries the word is often associated with pencils too. In Europe what we called color pencils are sometimes referred to as crayons. I'm not sure but I think the crayons used by lithographers* are primarily oil based and are a whole different ball game than Crayolas *Traditional lithography involves drawing the scene in reverse on a porous stone (hence the litho) surface and then pressing the the paper under high pressure to transfer the image. A lot of the Currier and Ives prints were lithographs. The down side is you can only get a limited number of prints before the master image either needs to be refreshed or the surface prepped for a new image.
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  1274. It's not just Texas. Olympia is in pretty bad shape too.
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  1275. When I saw the oil resivore (sp) my first thought was it had an oil filled recoil mechanism. I wonder how a cylinder off a rear hatch on a car or gas cylinder for a hood would work. Small, light and they take a surprising amount of force to compress.
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  1276.  @craigwinter3792  The reference is "Wisdom According to Oddball". Another is "an FG-42 gives you a nice edge".
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  1277. I've seen the same done with 105 shell casings. My brother had a couple (still might) he wanted to turn into lamps. A common use.
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  1278. Would Upstate New York be finacially viable? Given the population it likely would. Upstate would also be in the top 20 States for population.
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  1279.  @mccrackenphillip  With all the smog equipment I'm not surprised. The 500 is becoming something of a cult motor given its huge size if you do some port work and let it breathe it will generate an incredible amount of torque.
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  1280. Personally I do not think any potential manned flight to Mars or the Asteriods sc should take place until we have propulsion systems that cut the travel time down to two or three months tops
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  1281. When the History Channel was still covered history they had an interview with a former Arado 234 pilot. In talking about the first version that used a trolley for takeoff that would be jettisoned and a skid for landing. His comment was is was a stupid idea. Literally done to reduce weight. The German aircraft manufactures had many proposals for advanced aircraft that were very successful. Successful in keeping the designers and engineers away from the Russian Front.
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  1282.  @VRichardsn  It seems a lot of people dismiss the Italians as much as the French. On an individual level they can be just as good as any other nations soldiers. But in WWII the Italians and the French in 1940 suffered from poor leadership and morale. Plus the Italians never should have gotten involved to start with. They simply did not have the resources to fight a major war with Britian and France. Bennie the Bozo smelled blood in the water with France on the ropes. I think he expected the Brits to cut their losses. But th hey gave the British a hard time in North Africa for a while. North Africa was a place that if you were kicked out of Benghazi and Tobruk as the British were by the Italians eventually the other side would outrun their supply lines.
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  1283. The place you move to might not think so.
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  1284. Armor proofed in units of Extreme Emotional Events.
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  1285. No. It's the guy that thinks he know everything
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  1286. If it is so cold why are they there?
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  1287. And if it's a comedy the captain should be a woman named von Blucher. With horses winnieing in the background of course.
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  1288. ​ @maryannekenny8874  Why aren't the "asylum seekers" not waiting for visas.
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  1289. Oh gravity's a fact. I'm not sure we quite know how it works but if one of these fools stepped off of a roof they'd see its effects.
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  1290. It used to be in winter if we had an Arctic cold snap it was always just the jet stream. It is only in the past several years we heard polar vortex
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  1291. Probably any of the fringe element long on speculation a d short on evidence.
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  1292. Somewhere in the world there's somebody screaming "he did what!". "It is sacrilegious putting some old Yankee wanker of motor in an MX-5."
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  1293. Take a good look at all of the recent V-6s Chrysler has built. Especially the DOHC and the SOHC 3.5 bottom ends. Forged cranks, four bolt mains with an extra two cross bolts. Very stiff cast windage trays and oil sumps. Yes there were some bad decisions. The 2.7 coolant pump for one. I for one wonder just the 4.7 would have been if it had gotten a 4 valve twin cam head.
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  1294. If any of them said they'd leave the country if Trump won. If they don't can we sue for breach of promise.
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  1295. For two oppressed hlack men I'll bet that Mercedes they were driving was worth more than whatever Peanut drove. Need a #Justice for Peanut.
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  1296. ​ @kathleennorton7913  That report that came out that a few hundred people in New York City were responsible for the vast majority of the shoplifting. Something like 60k total arrests. With multiple arrests PER DAY.
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  1297.  @Darrylizer1  Remember, someday you are going to be an old fart too. But by then I guess you all just volunteer to check out
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  1298.  @ObservationofLimits  Nodular cast iron cranks and rods were and are more than strong enough for most factory applications in reality. Scintered con rods are more than adequate for most applications as well. The higher output factory motors (Hellcats etc) are probably still using forged rods. Forged and billet rods in a high volume production run involve extra machining steps versus scintered rods (I used to work in an automotive engine facility). Cast iron rods require the same steps. The production process runs 1) Rough grind both faces 2) Rough and possibly semi finish the pin bore 3) Run the rod through a slitting operation to seperate the cap end. This may include roughing the bearing diameter depending on the operation used. 4) Perform all of the drilling and tapping operations along with cutting the bearing lock notch. 5) Finish grind or machine the mating faces 6) Assemble the rod and cap. At this point who knows were the original halves are. 7) Finish grind to width grinding both faces. 8) Semi Finish and finish the pin and bearing bore 9) Press in the pin bearing if a floating rod. 10) Bore and or hone pin bearing 11) Machine rod ends to match weight specs A scintered rod for a production engine has several production advantages 1) The rod and cap are never separated in that from the time the come out of the sintering process they are always a set. 2) A cracked scintered rod after cracking only requires a wire brushing of the mating faces and the rod can be re-assembled without any machining processes to the mating faces. The micro fractures of the surfaces provide a much better register surface. The facility I worked at over the years produced cast, forged and scintered rods. The cast and forged rods were labor intensive to produce. The scintered rods required maybe 10% or less man hours per part with less scrap. The reason the man hours were less was that the scintered rod once it entered the machining process never had to be handled until it was used on the engine assembly line. The cast or forged rods required handling for multiple operations. 3) The uniformity of the rods from one to another is such that the balance operation can pretty much be eliminated. Rods are checked for weight tolerance. Out of tolerance rods are scrapped. Eliminating operations reduces cost by eliminating handling, initial production machine tools cost and lower cutting tool costs
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  1299.  @martinfidel7086  I spent 40 plus years rebuilding industrial machinery, machining and doing Tool work. We had a guy who wanted to make his own trailer hitch balls in order to learn programming CNC lathes. The boss told him he could do it on one condition. That he throw the finished part in the scrap precisely because of liability issues.
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  1300. Joe, Chinese type or jigsaw?
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  1301. Rail works great for really long haul freight. Especially bulk cargo. But there are loads that are going long distance that are better moved by truck. Especially loads that may be time sensitive.
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  1302. ​ @Longshot762x51  A blacksmith/welder l worked with built his own smooth bore cannon. DOM steel tubing with a second section of tube heat shrunk onto the breech end. Breach end was threader with the plug screwed in and welded in place. Bore sized to use aluminum cans. He'd shoot into the hill behind his house.
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  1303. But in todays England, the English (and Welsh) bowman are only allowed arrrows with rubber suction cups and the bows are limited to a draw of 5 lbs. 😝
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  1304. Does Al Gore prefer to be addressed by A) Senator? B) Vice President? Or C) Wannabe President. OK. All joking aside. The main problem is too many people. Sure, the Earth could support a bigger population. But at what cost. So far the only things that can slow population growth besides draconian government policies is education and wealth. Better educated and wealthier societies tend to have lower birth rates. Sometimes tragically low that lead to demographic issues. See Japan. And don't ask me to give an answer for reducing population.
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  1305. By the standards of today Cecil Rhodes was not a nice man. So what. Neither were a lot of historical figures.
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  1306. Captain, rew and tactics make a big difference. Take out the helm and command staff right away helps a lot.
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  1307. I used to work for a company that manufactures machinery for waste treatment plants. The owner says it smells like money. Plus it's a growth industry. Every year there are more people. They all poop. And something has to be done with it.
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  1308. Nash used twin plugs for years
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  1309. Oh, don't worry. You will own something. Debt, the BLAME (for everything and anything) and the responsibility.
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  1310. While in concept the idea of common airframes across services to save money sounds great. In practice the needs of a land based versus the needs of a carrier based air force will result in vastly different versions of the same aircraft. Look at the F-35. Of course McNamara came out of the auto industry as a cost specialist. In the auto industry it is common for different models to share many common components. Amazingly though two very good aircraft did result in cross service use in the US. The F-4 and the A-7. Every other airframe used by both the USAF and the USN was a land based airframe.
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  1311. I believe Midshipman Fischer also makes an appearance in 1860 China in George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman and the Dragon
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  1312. At night, in black clothing, with protective gear. Maybe they're afraid they might stumble and fall.
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  1313. Since this about submarines. "Ahuoga*, ahuoga, Dive, Dive, Dive, All hands Man your diving stations!" *one of the best cell phone rings I have ever heard starts with that diving horn sounding followed by Warning, Warning, it's the wife!
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  1314. And 4 minutes and 59 seconds of that would be inane chatter.
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  1315. Put a Buick turbo V- unit and it would be a bu-shimi
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  1316. As someone who identifies as the lottery winner every week (all lotteries, everywhere) I demand that you respect my identity and show me the money.
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  1317. Nah, it was Ward Bond 🤠
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  1318. How does that old recipe for baked chicken go? Step one. Steal one chicken.
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  1319. Two things in my opinion that should be done with the welfare system. 1) Eliminate Food Stamps and EBT cards. Go back to local welfare offices issuing supplies of staples and canned meats, seafood etc. 2) If you are getting government assistance maybe you should do something to help the local community instead of sitting on your ass watching TV or texting on your phone.
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  1320. If it was an image of a Kardashian it would just be a big bum
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  1321. The Iranian experience with the F-14 proves two things. First is be careful who you sell front line equipment to. Second is never, ever assume that your now non friends are dummies.
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  1322. There is one aspect of the bombing of German cities in regards to strategic vs terror bombings. The factories producing war material unfortunately were surrounded by urban areas. The RAF was at least more honest th han the USAAF. They admitted as much as hitting a target was as much about trying to make the workforce homeless as anything else. The Americans tried to pay lip service to the idea of precision bombing in which they attempted to target industrial facilities. Yah, right. Maybe the lead bombardier in the first group of the bomber stream got a clear view of the target. The follow on groups in the bomber stream were mainly bombing into the smoke. They could be a couple of miles off of target. Precision bombing only came into it's own once guided bombs came of age. Even then unless your intelligence is accurate you can still hit targets you do not want to.
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  1323. Or desperate enough.
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  1324. There used to be a theater in the Chicago area where you could sit at a ta NJ le and actually served a meal during the movie.
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  1325. "He just wanted to get a loaf of bread." AOC
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  1326. Twice. Both in the 60s
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  1327.  Tararyze 11  Including YouTube comments.
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  1328. The Germans never really perfected sub-machine gun use and tactics. That was done by the mobs stenogaphy department in Chicago. The Germans lacked one essential piece of equipment. A Buick or Cadillac sedan.
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  1329. Remember, it could be worse. The History Channels universal answer could be "the Earth is flat"
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  1330.  @egobrain6826  Don't worry. We've got royalty in the US. Only we call them Kennedy's*, Hollywood celebrities etc. While I personally find the idea of a monarchy slightly absurd I'm not sure it would be worse than some of the people that get elected in the US. *How many of the Kennedy clan have gotten elected because if their name.
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  1331. Some of Beardmore's aviation engines look better installed in a tugboat.
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  1332. But it will be a Summer of Love. Or of Piece. As in get a piece.
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  1333. We all know that far too often the bully never faces consequences. Their victims on the other hand far too often do when they have been pushed too far. A good example is the kid in Virginia that got shot. A 6'5" bully who was never taught by his parents that his size does not give him a pass to bully, harass or intimidate others. For any reason.
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  1334. The following is my opinion only. 1) Hood survives the Denmark Straits heavily damaged. Bismarck and Prince Eugen escape and hit one or two convoys. The then reach port in Brest. 2) The Hood after hasty damage control at Rykievic (sp) attempts to limp home. 3) The Kriegsmarine sensing blood in the water have several wolf packs stationed on her probable route home. 4) Somewhere between Iceland and Belfast (imho her likely destination ) she is attacked and eats multiple torpedoes. Any where from four to six. She cannot dodge. She is entirely dependent on her escorts for protection. She begins to flood and the crew is taken off*. Within an hour she rolls on her side and suffers a massive detonation of her magazines. Her scattered wreckage litters the sea floor to this day *Aside from her surviving engine room personnel, AA gunners and ammunition handlers and others required to run the ship the rest of her surviving crew were taken off at Iceland. They return home with the British Army troops then stationed on Iceland after the 1st Marine division arrives. The reason I suggest Belfast as her likely destination is Harland and Wolfe. Plus there or along the Clyde in Scotland puts her as far from the Luftwaffe as possible. But until drydock space is available she's staying put.
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  1335. Go with what you know and are comfortable with. But in terms of the cool factor. Yeah Webers are way cool looking. The first engine I ever remember actually seeing them on was a 343 or 390 in an AMX. Homemade tube intake in a cross ram set up
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  1336. Extremely hard evidently
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  1337. Just needs a bit of polish.
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  1338. Not too many hockey players, luge riders (can't call them Lugers, it might cause somebody to have the vapors), speedskaters, ice skaters of any type really, ski jumpers, curlers doing curling (not to confused with hurling), cross country skiing or biathlon. Although I remember the US and Jamaican bobsled teams tried using Olympic Class sprinters in the four man bobsled teams. Yah, the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team. Heck they may still be doing it.
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  1339. The 2JZ enters the room, "hold my Sapporo"
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  1340. The 75 used in the B-25 was a lower velocity, hence lower pressure gun than the Pak 40.
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  1341. You wouldn't need to mic it. .020' to .030' will stand out like a sore thumb
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  1342.  @ScottKenny1978  When the 4.0 was introduced it was built using the same machining lines as the original 232 from 1964. Same machining lines for blocks, heads, pistons, cranks, cams and rods. Same oil pump*. Basically the same water pump. I ought to know. Worked there for 30+. * The pump used the same gear set as the 390 and 401. So the engine would supply plenty of oil.
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  1343.  @maklame3318  Unfortunately.
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  1344.  @effexon  One adjustment was the substitution of steel for copper in coinage. Another was the use of silver for wiring in the Manhattan Project. Another case of material substitution is replacing the cast iron surface plates used in industry for inspection purposes with granite and in some cases glass. Not because of a materials shortage. But because the production of high quality cast iron surface plates simply could not be rushed and the skilled hand scrapers who produced them were needed for other work.
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  1345. If they were annealing they were practicing a form of metalurgy. Copper alloys unlike iron is annealed by heating and quenching.
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  1346.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  That was the first thing I thought of.
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  1347. Just did these two bozos get that close in the first place.
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  1348. A year? More like three. Building time. Training time. And other factors.
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  1349. As Count Dakula would say. A true Mad Lad
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  1350.  @1977Yakko  The carrier naming convention in the US Navy has in my opinion fallen away from its roots. And become a political game. Return the naming convention to important ships in US naval history and important victories for the US. Ranger, Essex, Wasp, Constellation, Midway, Saratoga etc*. No disrespect to Dorie Miller but the US Navy already has a class of ship that employees the names of individuals. *If the names of important presidents is to be employed keep it to presidents that have a significant place in US history and at least have a naval connection. Both Roosevelt's qualify. But Gerald Ford? Admittedly a naval officer but he is a future Jeopardy question.
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  1351.  @AKATenn  As far as manufacturing or refining the fuel. Ship the the LH2 (1) and use CO2 from the Martian atmosphere to produce the LOX and LCH4. 1) Or use H2O feed stock.
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  1352. As a white European descended (Irish & Danish) l have met very few people opposed to immigration. I've met a few that have no issue with the current situation. But the overwhelming majority are totally opposed to the current situation. What people want is a clear policy that is followed. The details of that policy are open for discussion. Remember even when the US had (mostly) unrestricted immigration in the late 19th & early 20th centuries they did turn some immigrants away for political and health reasons. Of course if some of the dire Climate predictions come to pass the current situation will look like a walk in the park.
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  1353. When the Mayflour was broken up at the end of her useful life parts of her were used in the construction if a barn in England. Which is still standing.
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  1354.  @dennishilmas3423  Up until I retired in late 2019 I worked with a guy who wrenches for a racing team out of NE Illinois. They run sports racers (Daytona 24hr, Sebring etc) with Brian Hart designed 4 bangers. Pure race motors. Motors that parts are very hard to find for. Especially heads and blocks. They had a new head designed. The patterns 3D printed. Casting poured and machined. They obviously have pretty deep pockets. There is a very wide spread in terms of the cash that people in racing are willing spend. For the Mopar guy Uncle Tony offers insighta in how to do things on a relatively low budget.
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  1355. There was a lot of projects funded in the New Orleans area pre Katrina that money was used for other things. You build a major city below sea level and river level you have a recipe for disaster. Eventually the New River Control Structure will fail and the Mississippi River will take a different route to the Gulf. And that is when New Orleans really begins to die.
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  1356.  @johnbowkett80  Nor should you. Of any of the horrendous things that have been done by the English (1) over the course of time you are not personally responsible. Also while you can take pride in any of the good things done by the English or English government*. None of those good things actually reflect on you personally. *Why is it that in the UK, the English are the only component that do not have self rule? And yes as a Yank I know the difference between England, Britian and the UK 1) And face it, England and the English through the UK government over the centuries have done some pretty awful things. Some of the actions taken in Ireland come to mind. But then just about every nation has done things (and some still do) that would be beyond the pale in the past.
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  1357. But his wife Karen kept sticking her nose
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  1358. Yah, right after Marty and Doc Brown gave him a ride in the DeLorean
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  1359. Just a container with a lid will not necessarily do the job. This winter l had squirrels (I think) get into my bird seed. Chewed right through the lids of the buckets. Do not use plastic. You definitely need metal containers.
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  1360. Just print more money is the equivilant of declaring Charmin the US Mint.
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  1361. Short field landings I suppose
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  1362. The important part of the Y Job (1) isn't the styling. It's the motor. If the war hadn't started in 39 I think the V-8 revolution of the 50's would have come about earlier. Also the Y Job had an OHV hemi head long before another company in Detroit. 1) Good thing it wasn't called the B Job. Oops. My bad I'm thinking of the LeSabre probably
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  1363.  DaveCaresForYou  It's hard to believe but there is such a thing as too much power. If you can't t get it on the ground it's so much noise. Plus big t6 ires on a Miata aren't a really good idea unless it is always going to be on dry roads. Put too wide of tires on a Miata with the wrong tread pattern and compound and the car can be lethally dangerous. I know somebody who had a Miate and put wider tires on and one time driving in the rain was enough.
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  1364. Chicago mayor would blame the manufacturer for building a car too easy to steal.
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  1365. Everytime I hear the "record breaking" I know that people forget that good records haven't been kept all that long.
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  1366.  @stevechadwick85  We could call it KTM* if it wasn't as already taken *Kraut Transportation Machines
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  1367. Some people have just never heard of the law of unintended consequences
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  1368.  @willmfrank  "You'll knap your eye out kid!"
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  1369. My first digital camera was a Mavica that used floppies. I mainly bought for work to document jobs. My second was a Kodak. Still have it. Still works. Still use it occasionally.
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  1370.  @Lampwick-dz1zq  I meant 'move'. Either a typo or spell check. Already edited. Rule #1. Check spelling. Rule #2. See Rule #1.
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  1371. Not as well. They can be first. With all their assets. Let them go live on the street.
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  1372. And high diving. Not a lot of fencers too. And we must do something about th hose white fencing suits.
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  1373.  @AshleyPomeroy  I think that would be pretty much the case in most navies. The engineering path is not the usual path to ship command. The captain's real job is to fight the ship. In the days of sail you had something similiar with captains and sailing masters.
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  1374. As the Peruvia she sort of reminds me of a Great Lakes whaleback
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  1375. ​ @j.menapace625  They also use speech as violence. Allowing them (1) to label anyone they don't like as "-phobic" or "-ist". 1) Used in the proper way to discuss a group.
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  1376. Side note. Birthplace of Mario Andretti.
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  1377. So even in the Middle Ages people like Jeranism would still stand out as idiots.
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  1378.  @allangibson8494  Allison eventually did design and develop a mechanical second stage supercharger for the V-1710. Only too late to do any good. Plus the finished design was not to compact.
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  1379. I rebuild industrial centrifuges for waste treatment, oil recovery and other operations. During dis-assembly when we take the screws holding a component on they are cleaned immediately and then bagged with the bag labeled with the job #, which end of the unit, the related component, the size of the screw and how many screws. The same gets done with all the mechanical or electrical components. These then go into a parts box along with the related inspection paper work. Assembly drawings, inspection forms, damage reports
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  1380. ​ @neiloflongbeck5705  The ruins of these beacons can still be found in the American West. We have a bike trail locally that used to be an electric rail line. The footings for the canatary wiresare still there.
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  1381. I identify as the 1.3B Powerball winner. Show me the money!
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  1382. Even if Trump does win it's only going to delay things for four years, maybe eight.
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  1383. I wanted to become an architect but found l had a major problem with math. I just could not catch on to calculus. But then when introduced to Algebra l had lots of trouble with it. Until l explained to the instructor that a,b and c. X,y and z didn't mean anything to me. Then she plugged in values and the light went on. Regarding calculus. I have had others say they had a lot of trouble with it. It seems to be primarily an issue of the instructor than the subject matter.
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  1384. They have to wait for the Civil defense drill.
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  1385. I remember a quote about how on one side they would lose their freedom. On the other they would lose their souls.
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  1386.  @lelapinenterre  WTF. I hope her "therapist" has lost their license. Along with being in jail.
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  1387. Who thought this was a good idea? Woke idiots. That's who.
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  1388. ​ @jamescr101  The day I vote for somebody because a celebrity says l should.
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  1389.  @deadnorth86  Perhaps I should have said what they think farm animals are like.
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  1390.  @2dogsRichardnBryan  Plus having to fix the crater in the floor. Or if it hits somebody. 💀💀
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  1391. If the Navy had managed to work out a way to test live torpedoes against targets st sea the Mk14 and it cousins problems might have surfaced sooner.
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  1392. I blame the US for this.
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  1393. Wascally Wabbit?
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  1394. ​ @Randomequestrian-pm4hl  I would question the professionalism of any healthcare individual that would take her on.
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  1395. In an article in Analog Niven suggested a structure similiar to the one in the Bobiverse. With multitudes of loops. Name of the article was Bigger than Worlds iirc. Probably around 1979. No, 1974.
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  1396. Maybe the person was literate and read her papers. And then stumbled off and laughed himself to death.
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  1397. Does it come in pink for the female officers?
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  1398. Twice nothing is still nothing.
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  1399.  @dianalord5825  And beyond making the founders rich have accomplished what?
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  1400. ​ @LugusmaposUidugeni  And when it does not achieve its "goals" it will be rinse and repeat.
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  1401. You can only use them on shallow through holes. And you must reverse the spindle to get them out.
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  1402. If we can't get images of the lunar lander descent stages I think JWST isn't going to show much
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  1403. When they scream "will nobody think of the children" they're refering to themselves.
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  1404. They want the money yet do want to do any of the effort.
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  1405. I think she's been found https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.merlinburrows.com/found-hms-barham-1941/&ved=2ahUKEwj10tLaj93tAhVKbc0KHWsgASgQFjATegQIFBAE&usg=AOvVaw1IHg17hD4eaPN9e2MHHwke Interestingly her magazine explosion is believed to have been caused by a fire in the 4" magazine spreading to the 15" magazine. Sound familiar?
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  1406. ​ @Andrew-ep4kw  I agree. And l don't like it for the extra wear on the starter.
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  1407. ​ @thorstenjaspert9394  Ye big problem by far is too many current speakers of English think it is pronounced YEE
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  1408.  @ammitthedevourerofsouls  used to volunteer at a soup kitchen, meal center or what ever you choose to call it. Repeat "customers" included some people who have gone through repeated training and education programs. Yet never worked in any of those fields.
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  1409. Guilty on all counts.
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  1410. I used to belong to an Alternate History web site. One timeline l came up with was a wagon manufacturer getting into the truck business and merging with Jeffery Motors. Jeffery is the company Charlie Nash bought when he left GM. The wagon manufacturer was Bain Wagon. The company was Bain Motor Works. Yup, BMW. Bain and Jeffery were about two miles apart.
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  1411. ​ @phuckyu3383  But this time it will be "real" communism. Or "real" socialism.
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  1412. Road racing and ovals. Allows the car to be lower. The scavenge pumps send the oil to an external oil tank that holds a lot more oil. Oil is pumped out of that tank to supply the engine.
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  1413.  @jandavidson7093  It is from once you start paying the Dane how do you get rid of him. In modern terms once you pay protection money your stuck
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  1414. ​ @givemefreedom2359  And sue them for breach of promise if they don't.
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  1415. I'm sorry but I just see lots of drag.
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  1416. Say you live in an apartment block. You purchase an EV. Now tell me where you are going to charge it. If you expect the owners of the building to put chargers in for you, free of charge (no pun intended), you're dreaming. And those owners could be a private individual or corporation. Or a government body owned building. If its government owned you are expecting the rest of the country to pay for your convienence.
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  1417. Maybe Rose City Antifa could pitch in and do something useful.
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  1418. They could have built a completely new car from available parts and used that.
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  1419. Touché. But will they need gender affirming surgery?
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  1420. Poor Milwaukee. First they have a St Louis class named for the city. Then an Omaha. Only have it lent to the Russians*. Now there's a LCS class "ship" named after the city. At least the LCS looks like a ship. *I think the reason that the Milwaukee was the ship that got chosen for Lend Lease is because for quite awhile the mayor th here was a Scocialist. The only major city in the United States to ever elect one as mayor. But the Omaha Class Milwaukee does have one claim to fame. The deepest point in the Atlantic in the Puerto Rico Trench is named for her as she was the first to determine the depth there. https://www.britannica.com/place/Milwaukee-Depth
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  1421. I for one remember the No Nucs protests. "We've got enough coal for 600 years!" We know u po w that worked out.
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  1422. And you notice they only do this where they know that there is no chance of there being a negative consequence.
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  1423. Its either the crap in our food or social media. Or the combination of the two.
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  1424. Instead of Pearl Harbir the IJN sc should have bbn ombed the paper mills. The US war effort would have ground to a halt. 🙄
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  1425.  @losonsrenoster  Yes, the command staff were all finalists in the Upper Middle Class Twit of the Year.
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  1426. The hand held rock mk1
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  1427. They're stupor heroes.
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  1428. I retired from of an engine manufacturing facility. Freshly built engines were cold tested in test stands to check oil pressure, timing and other things. Cycle time 1/3rd or 1/4 the rate of production. This involved spinning the engine via an electric motor. They were not run. And we built both OHC and OHV engines. Cam wipeout was not an issue.
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  1429. ​ @thomasdaywalt7735  In my opinion myths have two origins. The first is an attempt to discribe why natural events happen. The second is a garbled retelling of actual events that have an actual kernel of truth. So yes in the distant past there may have been a person who inspired the stories of Hercules
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  1430.  @jocktamson6493  Or Black Prince
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  1431. Yippee Kayay
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  1432. Sea Combat Brutality! Oh my God! The kettle bell went to the bottom.
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  1433. No matter the score, did you find it enjoyable? That's the important part.
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  1434. All you need to see the effects of isostacy is the fossil shorelines of Hudson's Bay.
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  1435. ​ @rogerdewhurst5750  IIRC it's over 2000ft/609m in the Straits. Plus there are areas of the Med that go down to over 5000ft/1522m in depth. So no lakes except maybe in parts of the Aehean or Adriatic. There are the ruins of stone structures in the area of the Dardanelles thou. Discovered by Robert Ballard and his team from Woods Hole. At least 8000 years .old
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  1436. I was in Ft Lauderdale two three years ago. We were talking to a cop. He told that a lot of Lauderdale was bad. Drugs, gangs and shootings. Notice how three always seem related.
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  1437. if anyone truly thinks the German Army during WWII was noble or honorable they should watch this
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  1438.  @dmitrizorkin3851  Well I never assumed the USAAF were the only ones to do this. A lot of the trains shot up in France were actually crewed by French railway workers. Kind of tough on them. Damned if they did, damned if they didn't. The RAF was doing this with the Whrilwinds also
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  1439. In terms of production facilities run by the military building military designs the worst example I can think of is the US Navy and Navy's Board of Ordinance's MK-14 torpedo during WWIl. That is sad tale.
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  1440. ​ @KevinBalch-dt8ot  I remember in the 1970s or early Jerry Pournelle said nuclear proved to be a great way to generate electricity. However proved to be an even greater way to employ lawyers. It's the time factor that proved to be the biggest factor in increasing plant costs. Time spent in court.
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  1441. I wasn't.
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  1442. Its my opinion that there will be a movement to draft Michelle Obama. And yes it will be a Barak Obama shadow presidency.
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  1443. Sorry, I couldn't resist. The ex's. They all live in Texas?
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  1444. I haul or have the city pickup all of my yard waste, leaves, grass clippings etc. The city composts it all and next year ill go out and pickup tubs of compost for free.
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  1445.  @malibudolphin3109  It seems in an altercation between students it always the victim that gets punished.
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  1446.  @morewi  There used to be a completely different interurban that ran from Kenosha to Milwaukee paralleling the Cheap and Nothing Wasted Lakeshore Line.
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  1447. Biggus Dickus. Shagiator.
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  1448. Maybe she longs for the days when the Fatherland controlled the Ukrain
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  1449.  @goatface6602  The absolute policy decision the British government when under the Labour Party was to sell the Soviets 50 of their most advanced jet engines along with the manufacturing license. All with the assurance from the Soviets that it would only be used for commercial purposes. As in that great Soviet mail plane. The MIG-15
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  1450. other way around Mica
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  1451. Kodak nosedived due to their ignoring the digital camera industry. After one of their engineers invented the technology
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  1452. ​​ @possumfriend2335  Also one of the Three Strikes law sponsors. Plus Delaware was a slave state.
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  1453. I don't think so. Maybe she's a flattard
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  1454. Horrorifyingly wealthy? Why does this horrify you. Would you rather the US was a destitute third world nation. If you say yes because of geopolitical reasons just remember the replacement could be worse. A lot worse.
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  1455.  @waverleyjournalise5757  When Briggs said this I think the assumption was that Hood was penetrated either through the belt or deck armor.
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  1456.  @tarmaque  One time period where we might have seen a brass/paper rifle case is post ACW in black powder single shot rifles. Would a case in 45-XX have worked. I can see where water proofing would be an issue. Plus could the cases be treated so they are combustible leaving only the brass base for extraction. Denying any hostiles the possibility of reloaded cases. One issue I see is bottle mech cases. And yes I remember cellulose shot gun shells. And at the time people complained about the new fangled plastic shells.
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  1457.  @sledgehammerm29  I know. He also designed (or had a hand in) the design of the last saber considered by the Cavalry* for the US Army. Also loved to sail and was able to navigate to Hawaii himself. Chronometer and sextant. *I get Cavalry and Calvary mixed up all the time.
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  1458. ​ @kamespinosarojas9225  Just think. The customer could have been a trans fat is healthy activist. Then the customer would have expected free seats too.
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  1459. Interesting and absolutely beautiful piece of the gunsmiths art. I wonder just what the felt recoil is. More than makes up for not taking that dual. 50BMG water cooled mount to the range. Considering that shooting it would cost the equivilant of a small nation's GDP. Its understandable. 😉
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  1460. ​ @billmullins6833  How is that not a Contempt of Congress charge.
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  1461. The BRM was insane from the get go. You could have included the 3L V-16 from the Auto Union Type D. The valve train on that one is weird too
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  1462. ​ @EbenBransome  The harmonic range is usually somewhere in the 6k rpm range iirc. But inline sides will spin higher. People have even spun the Jeep 4.0 to 9k. And that's with the inefficient now non crossflow head. In Argentina they use a modified 4.0 with a twin cam 24v head for race purposes. Along with Chevy and Ford I6s.
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  1463. There's an interesting side story to the Gallipoli Campaign. In 2006 iirc National Geographic contracted with Robert Ballard (USNR, ret) to do a survey of the wrecks in Anzac Cove. They found the wrecks easily enough. In addition they also discovered a number of circular stone structures with a taller stone structure in the center. These were last above water either 8000 BCE or 8000 years ago.
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  1464. They hate him because he pointed out that the emperor truely has no clothes.
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  1465. ​ @Sargy18MPBDE  I'd have Nixon back in a heartbeat.
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  1466.  @TonboIV  Aside from the major cities a lot of the Eastern seaboard states are pretty sparsely settled. Farm kids from the midwest and the plains states most of them had been around machinery all their lives. Farms had been using machinery in the US for generations by WWII. A lot of it might have been horse drawn and almost all was pre internal combustion. The McCormick Reaper was the North's secret weapon in the American Civil War. All of this stuff had to be fixed if it broke. Which it would. And it generally broke when it was really needed. Types of machines in use on American farms (not all but alot) by 1940 included tractors, early combines, conveyors for moving feed, early potato planting machines etc.
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  1467. One of the best examples of using foreign language in an English language production or book was James Clavell's Shogun. In the begining everything in Japanese was followed by English in Italics. By the end of the book everything in Japanese is not followed by a translation and you are able to read it.
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  1468. ​ @Alondro77 No, there were three of them at least. Two confrontational individuals along with a person shooting video. If the owner of the video channel is making any money off of this l hope he's filed his taxes.
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  1469. Especially when the Pathfinders are the Spanish Inquisition
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  1470. The whole crux of the issue of Climate Change (yes it's real and we have a part in it, I don't happen to think we are all of it) is there are too many people. The Earth could potentially support a lot more. But at what cost. Are we willing to see every bit of wilderness turned into factory farms. I'm not. And in terms of population growth world wide the people having the most kids are for the most part the ones that can afford it least.
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  1471.  @iluvatar003  Actually it was Jerry Pournelle in the early 70s
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  1472. The Lancaster did not exist pre war. The Manchester did but that used 2 24 cylinder X layout Vulture aeroengine. Problems with the Vulture led to the Manchester's wing being redesigned to take two Merlins per side. In 1939 RR was tasked with engineering development work and production on the Merlin, Vulture and Perrigrine. Plus it was doing work on the X-24 cylinder aircooled sleeve valve Exe, Pennine, early work on the H-24 Eagle and the V-12 sleeve valve 2 stroke Crecy. Vulture was dropped due to operational issues. Perrigrine was dropped due to limited use (1) and HP potential. Plus RR was commited to supporting the establiding of Merlin production in non RR facilities.
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  1473. As I remember from reading 30 Seconds over Tokyo many years ago the bomb load was 3 HE and one incendiary.
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  1474.  @grahamstrouse1165  Oh I agree about the accuracy. The Doolittle raid was carried out pretty low altitude though.
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  1475. ​ @NormanF62  A meme that will live forever.
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  1476. The Soviet Union goes full Crimskinzy Skies
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  1477. Scrapped in Japan by the way. Some of the steel probably came back as Honda 50s
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  1478. Republicans will sell the country down the river. The Democrats will just give it away.
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  1479. Shameless book plug for a friend. November's Fury by Micheal Schumacher. No, not that Micheal Schumacher.
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  1480. They will enjoy winter.
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  1481. They easily could have had a motor driven test stand with an offset pin that engaged the trigger with the gun locked in place.
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  1482. That's fiery but most peaceful.
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  1483. She's handicapped. But it ain't physical.
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  1484.  @sarjim4381  1959 to 1975.
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  1485. The Soviets did execute large numbers numbers of Polish officers. That was done for political reasons. Not out of vengeance.
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  1486. Ideological agendas in films go back a long way. Birth of a Nation anyone. Dreadful message. Genius film making though. Another one is Triumph of the Will. In recent times I think the desire to one up the last ideological film goes to back All the Presidents Men.
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  1487. The Saturn engine components such as blocks and heads were produced on CNC machines instead of the more traditional dedicated transfer line machine tools. The same CNC machine that was machining an engine block could be machining a cylinder head or another part next. They had bar code readers to automatically bring up the required program depending on the bar code on the fixture. The up side is flexibility and not having the entire line down if there is a problem with one section (1). The down sides are higher cutting tool costs due to each machine being required to handle multiple operations. Inspection issues when something is out of tolerance and needs adjustment the problem must be traced to the individual fixture the parts came out of. Another thing about the Saturn blocks and heads. They used a lost foam casting process that had many features such as tapped holes and through holes already cast in the rough condition reducing needed metal removal. 1) Most times each individual section of a transfer line will have parts stockpiled so that if that section is down for a reason production can continue for a certain amount of time.
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  1488. The important parts of the missile are the electronics. As I understand it the control surfaces are either neutral or full over.
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  1489. BBC = Belittle Britian Continuously
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  1490. I have long been of the opinion that myths and legends come from three sources. The first is that they are a garbled retelling of actual events that as they were handed down from generation to generation they changed so much that little beyond the basic story remains. I would place things like Flood Legends in this group. The second is they were a way for people to give explanation to the world around them. Myths such as the Greek ones regarding the Cosmos. The third is they began as tall tales told around the fire. If our civilization fell could we our descendants have myths regarding a Niel of Ohio who journeyed to the Moon on a pillar of fire. Or would Paul Bunyan become a figure of myth rather than a tall tale. And if our civilization fell to the hunter gatherer stage so that the only traces of us would be Mount Rushmore and some of out larger dams by the time our children's, children's, children once more rose to the heights one of the few signatures left to them of our time would Richard M Nixon*. Tell that to a liberal and watch them explode. *His name is on the plaque attached to the Descent Stage of the Eagle sitting on the Lunar surface at Tranquillity Base
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  1491. ​ @johnholmes5674  And face it. Electric vehicles will get taxed extra to make up the revenue lost from decreasing tax revenue on liquid fuels. After all your EV is just as damaging to road surfaces. Plus all the other things the money junkies in London, Paris, Berlin, DC and numerous state governments love to spend it on.
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  1492. Which then allowed John Lennon to become truely unbearable.
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  1493. Well, the Rainbow Warrior sure scared the crap out of the French Secret Service.
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  1494. I think the idea of regularly operating catapult launched planes off of a capital ship or heavy cruiser for ASW work is rather silly. I can see their usefulness in reporting fall of shot for gunnery corrections but operating them at sea for regular patrols also means you need to stop at sea for recovery operations. ASW autogyros though? I'm a little surprised they weren't looked at more seriously by naval powers. They would never replace carrier strike aircraft but for patrols around the battle squadron they may have been useful. Station a squadron of perhaps 6 to 8 on board a lighter hull, perhaps an older light cruiser with her aft armament removed and hanger space provided. To me that sounds reasonable. The Kreigsmarine did make use of unpowered rotary wing kites for spotting. Of course it sucks to be the pilot if the sub has to crash dive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Achgelis_Fa_330
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  1495.  @73elephants  Just like they went after the Boy Scouts.
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  1496.  @oltch.  Source please. I'm just interested.
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  1497.  @riderstrano783  And I remember when they were round. 👍
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  1498. But they cheaped out on the interior. I once saw one of the retro T Birds that painted in teal. One of the few cars that could look good in that color.
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  1499. William Randolf Hearst. Hearst did not make his fortune selling newspapers. He made it selling newsprint (1) to other newspapers. The newsprint was made from pulp from trees that grew in forests he owned. He also backed the government regulation of hemp to protect his interests. During WWll the US government relaxed hemp production restrictions because the war effort required so much more rope. Hemp produces superior paper while using less land area. Also makes great fabric. Pulp acreage could then be left to grow as natural forest, used for growing commercial species needed for the building industry or used as orchards for the fruit industry. 1) It's called that probably because newspaper paper sounds redundant. It's is also one of the most widely recycled materials out there. I've reached my three score and ten and when l was a kid they had newspaper drives as fundraisers for Boy Scouts and such.
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  1500. That's a line that ranks tight up there with "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"
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  1501. A complete waste of steel, money and skilled manpower Basically the RN equivilant of the Alaska's
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  1502.  @gregraines1599  First Bricklin used AMC 360s. Then they used 351 Clevelands
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  1503. The only reason the US calls it Soccer is because of the whole Association Rules thing. Both sides using US equipment and uniforms. How could you know who was who?
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  1504. Machine shops on board naval vessels. Even on a carrier you're going to be limited to just what you can make and or repair. Plus large navies such as the USN and I suspect the RN to some degree today have tenders attached to destroyer and submarine squadrons. But even these larger vessels are going to be limited. They may gave stocks of material onboard. Copper alloys (Brass and Bronzes), Cast Iron and Steels but that does not mean they have the correct alloy needed for manufacturing a proper replacement part. Plus I suspect that their heat treating capabilities were also more limited than a shore based repair or manufacturing facility. One thing that was done to maximize machine shop spaces on some vessels was the development of machine tools that could be used for multiple purposes. Something that is almost never done in a land based facility. A lathe makes a poor milling machine no matter what some boodgerin garden shed thinks. One example http://www.lathes.co.uk/adcock&shipleycombination/index.html There are others. I've worked over the with numerous former US Navy Machine Repair ratings that worked in and out of these ship board facilities. None of them were Machinist Mates. One had an interesting tale. He was stationed on a sub tender. One job he had was to open up the hatch internal diameter of a nuclear dub to allow a piece of equipment to be brought on board. He only had to open the internal diameter .100"/2.5mm or so. But the crew was very interested in his going it right. It took longer to set up the portable boring equipment than it did to do the job. And that brings up a related subject. There are companies that specialize in doing on site machining involved in the repair and refurbishment on machinery no matter where. At sites on land or at sea.
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  1505.  @AnthonyHandcock  A four crankshaft layout can easily run with all the cracks rotating the same direction. A three crank engine simply can't.
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  1506. But Germany you can have as many warships s you can fit into a standard bathtub
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  1507. When a pilot ejects the plane and seat are going to come down somewhere.
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  1508. I'm glad my mother and father are no longer alive to see the s#/t show this country is turning into. My dad went the whole way up the Italian boot. Had more time in combat than later draftees had in uniform possibly. But he got lucky. He was NG. 32nd Infanrty Div. His artillery unit got detached when the Div went from a square to triangular set up. The 32nd went to the SW Pacific. More days in combat than any other US division. My father in law was in the 5th Marine Div slated to land on Iwo but got transferred to the 7th because they where sort communications personnel. Arrived in time for Okinawa.
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  1509. I never knew the Bakersfield City Council had that much of a reputation in the field of intrnational diplomacy.
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  1510. Robert, unless she was hot CV count it as a win.
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  1511. Something like Spin Launch might work on a body with low enough surface gravity and no atmosphere. See my comment above. As to a Starlink constellation in orbit around Mars. Any serious manned Mars missions will require an orbiting communications constellation between the orbiter and the surface back to Earth. When thinking about manned Mars missions one major mission goal in my opinion should be to Phobos or Diemos to explore the possible production of propellant and oxidizer. If fuel production is possible that could be ramped up to the eventual construction of a fuel storage and refueling facility. Pumping fluids in low and zero gee can be a nightmare. One possible solution to that is if the fluid is stored in a bladder contained in vessel that can be pressurized.
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  1512.  @davidkelly4210  I think it depends a lot on just how we define a "civilization". Was the culture that erected, carved and buried Golbecki Tepe a civilization? I'd say so. It may or may not of had agriculture as we define it. But they certainly had some sort of social cohesion. The National Geographic Society commissioned Robert Ballard and his group to do a survey of the wrecks of Allied warships lost around the Dardanelles during the Galipoli campaign in WWI. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://licensing.screenocean.com/record/215989&ved=2ahUKEwjOoJWn86PwAhXbQc0KHRSPCUUQFjAnegQIKxAC&usg=AOvVaw1OSX9LOKOL4kGud0JDVlcE Finding the wrecks was no problem. It was known pretty much where the were. In addition his team also found a number of circular stone structures with a taller stone structure in their center. One immediate conclusion was that they were religious structures of some sort. That seems, at least to a layman like me, to be one of the go to conclusions about ancient discoveries. To me they might have had a different purpose. Could they have been some form of communal dwelling for an extended family. They were up to about 30 meters in diameter and the central pillar could well have been used to support roof beams that extended from the outer circle to the center. Doing any extended od more thorough investigation would require an underwater survey but the whole problem is that the wrecks in the area are war graves which complicates the situation. The kicker here is the area was last above sea level at least 8,000 years ago. I suspect that there are a lot of archeological sites in areas that were dry land during the last glacial maximum. I'm not saying lost cities* I'm simply saying archeological sites. In terms of the earliest civilizations. As I said above it depends on just how we define it. I'd say if you have a common culture, social organization and way of making your living a society is most of the way there. *there may be some urban sites off of India's western coast southwest of Mumbai. If so just when did they go under the waves. Plus how long was the time frame from the first dwellings made of organic materials to the first mud brick structures to working with stone. There is a lot we do not know yet.
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  1513. Or bear the blame when things go south.
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  1514. Aside from the electric motor driven supercharger everything here was pretty much tried in the aviation world first. Only aviation piston engines were using hoost for two reasons. The first reason of course is to increase power out. The second is to maintain manifold pressure at altitude. Plus early on aero engine manufacturers settled on centrifugal type compressors as they offered the best power gain for the least mechanical losses. Even some radial type aero engines that really weren't supercharged often included a gear driven impeller section to provide a modest amount of boost in order to equalize the fuel/air mixture to all cylinders. And for the mechanically driven centrifugal type you really should have started with e Paxton. As aero engine supercharging heres a good video on the subject https://oldmachinepress.com/2012/11/23/rolls-royce-exe-boreas-and-pennine/ For the Paxton https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxton_Automotive&ved=2ahUKEwiK46_j7o_xAhVMj54KHSA0DoMQFjAAegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw2t86BLoqPHExJo6mhxunL1
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  1515. It's farcical that we have ZERO data on how lower g affects human physiology. We have enormous amounts of data for 1gee. And quite a bit for zero gee. But nothing for the in-between. Two points on a graph. And we could have had some data in the last 4 decades. If we had wanted to. NASA to could have cobbled together an orbital facility that would have allowed gathering some data. Using mostly existing hardware. But getting such a program past the US Congress would have been impossible. Yes here has been a few experiments in LEO using centrifuges and mice etc. Big freaking deal. I'm not saying we should put a ring shaped station in orbit for this purpose. But we could have done it using either tethers (1) or spent stages and a small hab module. My favorite would've been two Shuttle External Tanks docked nose to nose. Attach a Hab Module to the bottom of one ET. After crew transfer spinup the assembly for .17 gee. Later spin it up for .34 gee. When plotted on a graph are the effects from 0 gee to 1 gee a straight line. Or some sort of curve. If a curve does the data show a slow rise then steepen radily as we apptoach 1 gee. Or does the data rapidly rise and then flatten out. And yes l know about the spin gravity experiments that took place on Earth. Both the US and the Soviets did this. But the experiments were more to see if humans could adapt to spin gravity. Not what the effects would be at lower gee. 1) One of the earliest tether methods l remember was in a Harry Harrison novel.
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  1516. I bought a used XJ Wagoneer with the 2.5 (84) and the goofy electronic carb. I changed the fuel filter and I don't know what happened but it would not idle after that. Tore the curb apart. Ran wire through all the orifices. Still would not idle. Did it again. No luck. Finally got it to run by disconnecting the carb control module. Must of been one little piece of crap in the idle circuit some where.
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  1517. Yah, right. I will grant that during the last glacial maximum the total area above the waves would have been much larger.
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  1518.  @lafeelabriel  Probably one of Harry Turtledove Incorporated's contribution to deforestation. 😁
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  1519.  @zocki5053  Nothing is free. Somebody has to pay for it.
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  1520. ​ @michaelpiatkowskijr1045  The Oregon was gutted and used as an ammunition barge.
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  1521.  @michaelpiatkowskijr1045  The hull of the Oregon was used to transport ammunition during campaigns in the Pacific. During one typhoon is broke loose from its moorings and was later found drifting. Post war was sold for scrap to a breakers yard in Japan. In retrospect it just as well could have been left alone. Eventually I can see where a number of current museum ships will be scrapped. Iowa and Wisconsin among them. Along with a number of others. For two main reasons. Money being the first. In the overall scheme of things museum ships aren't that expensive compared to the amount of funny money various governments spend. But it is in competition with other needs. The second is gradual lack of interest on the part the general public. Gradually the public will have less and less connection to these artifacts.
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  1522. Just how far back do done states expect you to meet might emissions standards for the model year the vehicle was built. Where I'm at its 95 or 96 when the OB2 sensor hookup came into use. Anything older doesn't need to get checked. And to be honest there really isn't much around that's older.
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  1523. Like the Polish crop duster?
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  1524. The whole Pearl Harbor thing didnt work out so we got you with VCR's and Toyotas Do nationalistic Flat Earthers discuss their countries "plane" of infulence?
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  1525. What does on expect when decision makers are taught from early on about how the US is a "post industrial economy". Well a PIE is soon to be a PFWE. Post a First World Economy.
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  1526. Swap in a FE 390 and then it really would be a Ford 390 in a Rambler. 🙄 I you have a Classic or an Ambassador the FE should fit considering the the Gen l 287/327 are very similiar to an FE
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  1527. That could be said about a number of aircraft. Westland Welkin, Hughes XF-11, Martin P6M SeaMaster and others. But it's like museum ships. Not everything can be saved.
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  1528. Marilyn Manson? Heck, she upstaged Devine and RuPaul
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  1529. ​ @indianatarzan8001  Whole Foods aka Whole Paycheck.
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  1530. The H-16 was just one engine. Two cranks geared together.
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  1531. I had Polio when l was about one year old. Thankfully l recovered.
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  1532. Hancock does indeed go off the deep end. Carlson not so much. But there are some pretty intriqueing things around the world. Things that in a lot of ways don't make a lot of sense. Yonaguni (sp) off of Okinawa could well be partially worked by human hands. And just how long as it been underwater. Robert Ballard was working on a project for The National Geographic Society of the coast of Turkey looking for French and British warships lost during the Gallipoli Campaign. The ships weren't hard to find. But he found something else. Clearly artificial stone circles with stone piles/towers/altars at there center. This on the seabed that hadn't been above the waves for at least 8000 years. Right now the oldest constructions we know of besides the shelters built of mammoth bones and tusks is Gobekli Tepe and possibly the site in Indonesia on Java. These things just don't pop out of nowhere. There have to have been some precursor. I'm not saying cultures 13,000 years ago had technology as advanced as ours. But they weren't idiots either. Humans have been around for some 200K years at least. And in all that time nobody noticed that if we gather the seeds from this grass we like to eat and spread it in other spots we'll have another source. Or these roots are really tasty. Let's just try tossing some seeds around and see if they grow. I suspect that the traces of any "lost civilization" are out on the continental shelf's under 100 meters of water or more. There's another thing I find intriguing. And this is made possible with Google Earth. Look at ancient structures. Using the ruler tool draw a great circle through their main axis. You see it is quite common for them to be orientated towards the Poles. But not all. There is another group orientated towards a spot on Greenland at 47° West and about 83° North. And another group south of that. And a fourth group at about the southern tip of Greenland. And these are not structures in the same area. They are widely separated. And the number of them is more than just a few. Some individuals attribute this to the old idea of Crustal Displacement. I have a very hard time with that idea. One reason I have a very hard time imagining a mechanism that would initiate the process or stop it. Plus looking at the tracks of Hot Spot generated seamounts and islands to me it doesn't stand up. The odds that any random group of structures widely separated should be orientated to the same point seems to me to be highly unlikely. Is this the smoking gun for the Younger Dryas? I need to be convinced. If there is an impact that happened at that time I tend to think it would have been somewhere on the Laurentide Ice Sheet. One of the arguements against the Impact Theory is "where's the crater". Some of the arguements in favor are the nanodiamonds, sphericals etc. On top of that some of the non impact proponents point to the Younger Dryas being caused by the massive influx of melt water into the North Atlantic, the Arctic and Northern Pacific Oceans. The signs of massive floods is written in the landscape. The floods had to be meltwater. It had to have come off of the ice caps. What melted the ice. And does anyone seriously think that there ice caps would have been holding back the amounts of water needed. In many ways this can be thought of as a arguements between the Uniformitarianism school of gradual change. On the other side we gave the Catastrophism. When in reality they are both right. The Earth between Plate Tectonics and variations in it's orbit goes along moving continents. Going through Ice Ages. Building mountain ranges and wearing them away. And then the Earth has a bad day. A Mount Toba or Yellowstone erupts. A major igneous provinces spreads lava over a wide area miles thick like the Siberian or Decan Traps. Or like a bolt out of the blue a comet or an asteriod smacks us.
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  1533. This impact likely had nothing to do with the Quanatary Ice Age. But the Quanatary only has to with the Northern Hemisphere with minor glaciation in the south. The Southern Hemisphere has been in an Ica Age ever since around 30MYA. That's when the Circumpolar Current got established cutting off Antarctica from warm equatorial waters. The Quanatary likely got started with the rise of Panama cutting off Pacific/Atlantic circulation.
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  1534.  @thelopper43  Well, in defense of a business an old saying I'm fond of comes into play. "Its a business, not a charity." That does not mean that any business has an obligation to be petty or cruel.
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  1535. The only reason I can think of for a gear set that low is if the engine was packaged along with the transmission and final drive is for industrial applications. Think fork lifts or combines
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  1536.  @UncleTonysGarage  I used to work at an automotive plant that did engines, rear ends along with stamping and body, paint and final assembly. There were two Gleason Hypoid cutters gear set up in a closed off room seperate from the production machines. These were used strictly for special gear sets for engineering and gear sets out of the company special order program. Gear ratios up to at least 5:1* were available. The cutting process was amazing to watch. About the only noise you heard was the chips coming off of the cutter. *Rear end gears are always a ratio that does not divide to a whole number. In fact it is preferred that the gears both have prime numbers as the number of teeth if possible. That way you have the highest number of times the Pinion turns until the same two teeth mesh. Evens out tooth wear. Plus our gea sets were lapped to each other as matched pairs.
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  1537. ​ @1024Pete  Especially if it's for one of the approved "causes".
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  1538. I am not an aerospace engineer but l have a few opinions about lander built for bodies with no appreciable atmosphere. 1) Given possible uneven surface and debris (boulders, rocks) and craters tall spacecraft with a narrow pattern are not a good idea. 2) If the lander is to be used as a manned habitat and research base design it to land horizontally. With wheels instead of just landing pads. Screw the weight penalty. Put drive motors in too. 3) If you are establishing a permanent base one of the most important first things to land is an excavator/bull dozer. You will need yhe excavator to provide loose regolith to shield surface structures. Plus the bull dozer to prepare your primary landing site.
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  1539. One essential tool to extract parts from a car in the wrecking yard. A Gas Axe. But the yard might frown on it. Having had to work on machinery used for heat treating everything had anti sieze on it. Plus making sure the fasteners were new and any tapped holes were clean. One trick with penetrating oil. If possible heat the fastener with a torch and then spray it down with penetrating oil. The head of the fastener because it is a smaller volume than the surrounding part will absorb heat faster and expand. Spraying it down will cool the head faster than the surrounding part. It doesn't always work but it's worth a try. In the end you may need to cut the head of the fastener off and have to drill broken fastener out.
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  1540. The super duper pooper cruiser.
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  1541. Plus they would automatically clean themselves, stone out any dents and dings and in general be "schpick und schpan"
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  1542. All of Eco's novels are big and complex. It still amazes me that The Name of the Rose actually got turned into a film.
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  1543.  @TribuneAquila  The statement certainly was not from a Sears executive. It was Jerry Pournelle.
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  1544.  nightraven6303  More pollution than a Trabant too.
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  1545. I quit watching sports completely once they bowed to woke community.
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  1546. There is a photo of her looking stern in 3/4 view from her right front. The expression on her face reminds me of a photograph of a German noncom on the Eastern Front during WWll. And she complains about the people who stole her childhood. Her parents. They are the ones that stole her childhood.
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  1547. We had a mid 80s TBird for a few years. The brakes started giving us trouble. Took it to a "reputable" shop. Two days later the pedal is spongy and down on fluid. Take it back they bleed the system. Two days later its spongy again. This goes on for about a week and a half. Finally I pop the hood in the garage. As Nd start looking for leaks. Master cylinder was fine. Proportioning valve literally 12 inches away had a trail of fluid running down the inner fender. That explains the quotation marks around reputable. And I agree that a lot if people if they drove older cars as daily drivers would realize that a lot of older cars were junk when new.
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  1548. As a retired machinist I know what you mean. Plus you get the well meaning individual who offers to put in his 2 cents. After yuo are past the point of no return. We had a boss checking on what his people were doing on th heir jobs. One guy had a job in the lathe. Taking about .020 off. The boss steps in, stops the feed starts another cut after cranking the tool in and stepping up th he feed. "Thats how yo run a lathe". The reply was "that was my finish pass".
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  1549. The USS Pillsbury. The mind reels at the possible nicknames for the ship and crew.
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  1550. He should have had a NYPD patrol man's visored cap. Or a Chilean picklehelmet
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  1551.  @rodofiron100  Lockie? Late 1700s? Helped kick off the French Revolution. Which led to The Terror. Napolean as nd pretty much 20 years of non stop war. Yah the knock on effects can be things other than climate downturns and crop failures
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  1552. Sir Henry Ricardo wrote that complexity is only a poor design decision when the design is bad. Or a brilliant design is poorly assembled. 😖 When RR Merlin production was undertaken in the US by Packard they were actually able to make improvements that simplified production and assembly to a certain degree. Without compromising engine quality. Improvements that RR then adopted. But then Packard had considerable experience with aviation engines already. Possibly the best aviation V-12 in the 27 liter class never entered production or even flew. Ford's V-1650. The exact same bore and stroke as the Merlin it featured extensive use of cast steel parts instead of forgings. It also featured side by side connecting rods to simplify lubrication issues. Along with DOHCs and a pent roof combustion chamber. Shortened by four cylinders it went on to become the Ford GA used in some models of M4 Sherman's. M4's also used gas and diesel radials, Twin GMC inline 6 cylinder two stroke diesels (1) and the Multibank 30 cylinder Chrysler. Which the Brits loved. Most be that complexity thing again.
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  1553. Several factors can enter into the power rating. Displacement. Radials tend to be big and somewhat lazy. How much growth potential did the engine type have. How good was the Supercharger? All military aircraft engines of WW2 were supercharged (yes even Allison's). How much boost can the supercharger put out and how much can the engine take? Fuel quality. Higher octane fuel allows higher compression ratios. Largely thru higher boost.
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  1554. ​ @83piwo  It's not that they don't understand the signs. It's just that the signs can't mean them.
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  1555.  @slickbricknick123  They simply do not think that that it applies to them.
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  1556. I've pretty much had it with WoWS. 10 seconds into a match with no enemy team anywhere near and suddenly 50% of your health is gone and there a fire to boot. Lately I don't know how many times the system locks up. I can move. But everyone else is stationary. Guns blazing, torps hitting home only to run straight through the target. And then I fid out I've lost the maximum amount of points possible.
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  1557.  @KinkyLettuce  Why do they care so much about identity politics. Because it's all they have. If they no longer have identity politics they no longer have a reason to consider themselves special in any way. And face it. Most of us are not special in anyway. At least in terms being special to society.
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  1558. Let's be honest. Just how often do high RPM engines really get to wind out. Aside from sport bikes. Plus how often do they need to. In normal driving even on the highway frankly the need for high output does not happen very often. Don't misunderstand. I like this stuff too. There was a couple of things that GM tied but did not use. One was stacked camshafts. One for the intake. One for exhaust. One thing I think I would have tried Twin Cams. One for each cylinder block. Mount the cams high up along the bank and really shorten the valve train up
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  1559. The were some people working on a 24 valve DOHC head for the Poncho SOHC based on DOHC heads from the LQ-1 V-6
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  1560. Standing up for your country, your culture, your society and your traditions is "far right". At least according to the powers that be.
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  1561. We've had liquid batteries for over 100 years. They're called hydro-electric dams
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  1562. ​ @Hybris51129  Consider that a crude form of radar was demonstrated pre WWII.
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  1563. Can you expect any less when leftists and formerly colonized nations might have an axe to grind.
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  1564. The P-80 would have been great in 45. But the early jets, shall we say, aged rapidly.
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  1565.  @keenheat3335  The machine tool manufacturer Deckel Maho has a 5 axis combined 3D printer machining center. Only the 3D printer is a CNC controlled MIG welder.
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  1566. Given its ditching performance maybe it should have been called the Seaview. Interesting take on the invention of the afterburner. Although i would think it can be traced to experimental motorjets.
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  1567. Kaiser as IKA built older AMC models in Argentina. Power in some was supplied by Kaiser's Tornado inline six. This featured a hemi head with an OHC. The cam only had 6 cam lobes as the lobe operated both of the valves. One model the Torino was based off of the front and rear ends of the 64/65 American and the doors of 64/65 Classic. Produced into the 1980s IKA also built a version of the 66 Ambassador.
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  1568. By this time BLM (the organization) probably has cells in just about every city in the country in not more than one depending on the size. They most likely have items stockpiled that are useful in riots. These stockpiles need not have cost a lot of cash. They could have financed a lot of their activity through the sales of tee shirts alone over the past 5 or 6 years*. I drove through downtown Kenosha last week on Moday and you saw a lot of the usual slogans. Especially the ones about property is violence and the like. They have crews on the ground ready to go at short notice. It's all standard revolutionary operations right out of the anarchists handbook and other texts. One question I have is just how long before BLM stands for Black Liberation Movement. These people at the core of the organization are serious. They mean exactly what they say. And they are willing to hide behind and exploit not only the average well meaning American, black and white. But also the very political and business structures they seek to destroy. *I suspect that a certain amount of their financing that is non traceable comes from armed robbery etc.
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  1569. But, but, its COSCO, you know the socially woke version of PriceClub and Sam's. I wonder how the city or county would react if it was Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck) or Trader Joe's. Most likely a certificate of praise.
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  1570. The Mark 14's magnetic detonator likely could only be set off by Marvin the Martian.
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  1571. In the 80s iirc the military was looking at brass cased shotgun ammo with flachettes. The idea was for Embassy guards. The State Dept likely killed that.
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  1572. A lot of the forestry products used in the DeHaviland Mosquitos during WWII originated in Wisconsin forests.
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  1573. Depending on the light conditions I could see them being mistaken for JU-88s. Also i have a question. During the war did the RAF & USAAC/F have different areas of responsibility in terms where they were doing operations. I know UK air defense was strictly the RAFs job. I mean in combat missions over continental Europe.
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  1574. They're trying to find a way to blame Trump for the extinction of the dinosaurs. But even that's a little too much of a stretch. But give them time.
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  1575. Give Musk credit for one thing. At least he's trying. Is Starship a step too far? Possibly. As far as the 3 billion goes. Just how much has NASA spent on the SLS launch vehicle? Or Boeings Capsule?
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  1576. Yes the Chevrolet Small Block is huge by international standards. But in comparision to other US V-8s being produced at the time of its introduction it was "small". Especially in the weight department.
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  1577. AMC bought some components from all of the Big Three and their captive parts companies. Steering units from GM. Automatic transmissions from Chrysler. Brake components from Ford. Ignition system part from Ford and GM. The only engines they bought to my knowledge were Iron Dukes and 2.8 liter V-6 s from GM. The Iron Duke were used in Eagle S/X 4 and the 2.8 in early XJ Jeeps. And n. They did not buy 390s from Ford or 327s from Chevy. The 327 would have required time travel as the AMC 327 was introduced 5 years before the Chevy 327.
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  1578. Ships of Steel, Balls of Brass
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  1579. I've videos of the Japanese "Knee Mortar" being fired.
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  1580. Probably about as complicated as the operating diagram for the TurboEncapulator
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  1581. Remember. She was taught from childhood to hate political opponents.
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  1582. Prejudice, bigotry and racial hatred are perfectly acceptable when they do it.
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  1583. You probably would have seen a rethink about tactics. Really fast
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  1584. I asked someone I know what he thought about this incident. He hadn't even heard about it. At least he was shocked about it. But he never thought to examine way he had not heard about it in the first place. Any news organization that only presents one side of a story or only one political slant in my opinion is little better than a propaganda agency. No matter their political viewpoint. A news organization can be biased in their editorial opinions. But should never be biased in reporting events.
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  1585. ​ @Damien.D  Snow inline engines. Truely inline 😊
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  1586.  @ellenlyons4090  Expect a law banning the sale of pork products in Britian.
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  1587. I think for one reason or another Neanderthals were out competed by the new comers. Given the high amounts of injuries found amongst Neanderthals I suspect they were more of an ambush hunter. The H Sap's drifting in from the Levant or across the the Straights of Gibraltar or possibly through Italy would have been better suited to running prey down. If the H Saps put a serious dent in the Neanderthals primary prey species that could of led to a gradual population decline. After all the first H Saps in Europe could have been equipped with spear throwers and bows.
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  1588. I thought the Captain was supposed to go down with the ship. Not go down on the ship.
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  1589. I remember posting a comment on one of the home machining forums on how I thought turbochargers coulb be used to make a crude turbojet. I was told it would never work. Shortly afterwards I saw videos on YouTube.
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  1590.  @funkyalfonso  The one sunbathing on la plage. What sticks in my mind is the duel in balloons. With blunderbusses.
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  1591. The world is a shit show.
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  1592. ​ @kelleylolley8333  You're not sarcasm challenged are you?
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  1593. I have to wonder how many of them uttered the famous last words "hold mah beer" or "watch this"
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  1594. An industry that producing nothing
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  1595. The pros of using a SBF over a SBC. The Ford is lighter because it is smaller overall. Shorter deck height means a narrower engine. And less engine height. Not a lot but every little bit helps. The pros of using a SBC. Greater parts interchangeablity. One bolt pattern on the bell housing to engine and transmission to bell housing.
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  1596. When he was re-elected last fall he was the saner of the choices. That says something.
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  1597.  @mecimessiah  His opponent was an admitted Antifa supporter or member. Yah, I know Antifa doesn't exist blah blahs blah. But Anitfa in Portland has there own accounts as Rose City Antifa.
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  1598. Sir, today you get an A+ (or full marks) for your Japanese pronunciation. To my knowledge Japanese is normally pronounced just how it is spelled. And no l don't speak Japanese. But after reading Clavel's Shogun twice I understood the portions of the book that were in Japanese with no problems. The photo at the 5:40 mark. Now if somebody had just "accidently" fired the far left barrel of the 40mm Bofors. As an aside. I wonder if anyone ever gave thought to the use of the Bofors 400mm in the role of a direct fire support weapon for land use.
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  1599. Plus HMS HMS Dreadnought
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  1600.  @scmroman  Are you saying Ian is the new King of Cool.
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  1601. Pre war the Cavalry was not allowed to have tanks. So they had (in a stern voice) "Combat Cars".
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  1602. I'm wondering about wear issues on components
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  1603.  @chrisking1457  The longer you're in therapy the more the therapist makes. $$$$ Kaaaching $$$$!
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  1604. That's alright. Just take AOC's stuff.
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  1605. Ask her what would be expected of a Christian who immigrates to an Islamic country. If it would even be allowed. Maybe Britian should set up a reciprocal tax on Muslims like Islam has on Christians. Sauce for the Goose so to say.
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  1606.  Yar Nunya  The main reaso. The Fitz sank is she left Superior with only 1 of every four hatch cover clamps locked down. She left port on a Sunday a d McSorley was tight as far as overtime went. The weather turned bad Sunday night and the crew could not get on deck to finish the job. This allowed her to ship too much water and when she went down she nose dived into the bottom. The torque of the screw broke in half and flipped the stern upside down. On the bow section it was found that every fourth clamp on the hatches were broken when the hatch covers blow off. The rest were in good condition
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  1607. ​ @s6748-z5j  And read stories to them
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  1608. 2250 to 1700 BCE is a long time before Alexander.
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  1609. Dead end? Maybe not. I can see a point at which nuclear becomes viable for ship propulsion.
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  1610. What was the potential value of the painting? Sue her for damages.
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  1611. Hopefully in future they can recover Hubble and display the two of then together.
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  1612. There used to be a program that instead of food stamps they handed out actual food. Flour, beans, canned meats, etc from the government commodity program.
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  1613.  @magoid  The whole single speed mechanical supercharger issue has its roots in the mid 30s decision on the Army Air Corps to use turbosuperchargers for higher altitudes. Given the increased demand for turbos with bomber production soaring the Allison aside from the ones used in the P-38s were stuck. Should Allison have more effort earlier into a two speed two stage mechanical supercharger. In hindsight, yes they should have. Another thing that could have been done. And was done by the Australians flying P-40s was to increase the manifold pressure increasing power. This wouldn't solve all of the high altitude problems but it would help. When it came time for Bell to build the P-59 (now there's a real dog) sometimes I think that they just should have put 1 GE built version of the early jet engine in a modified P-39 airframe. Even though the P-59* was a dog it did provide valuable service for the USAAF in that it allowed for experience operating and maintaining jet aircraft without the added strain of combat operations. *Should have been named the Aerodog
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  1614. The best way to reduce demand is through increased efficiency. Telling or forcing people to reduce their standard of living can cause a certain amount of pushback. Plus this is a problem we need to solve. Energy usage in developing countries is going to increase. Or do we tell those people. Sorry its eternal poverty for you.
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  1615.  @31ofranz  The only reliable ways to decrease a societies energy usage in all forms is either through 1) an absolute dictatorship or 2) population reduction. There are ways we should be reducing our energy usage. Number one is efficiency. But there is only so much to gain there in terms of electricity use. And as more and more EVs get registered electricity needs will go up. If a region has rolling brownouts or blackouts now. It doesn't take a genius to understand what happens when you add EVs into the mix. The other major energy field where we can see reduced energy usage is in structure heating and or cooling. Any one who owns their own home or has rental property where they are paying the bill even if the renters covers covers the cost. They are foolish if they don't do more to weatherize their homes. Personally I think building codes should be changed to require new construction to be built to such standards that heating and cooling costs are reduced.
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  1616. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+lament+for+the+rohirrim&&view=detail&mid=0BA97035FF50019793060BA97035FF5001979306&&FORM=VRDGAR
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  1617. Prosecutor or persecutor. If they feel they have the evidence charge him or drop it. I did not vote for Donald Trump. And I do not think I would vote for him in the future. But if we want judicial and Congresdional witch hunts to stop oth sides need to agree to bring them to a halt.
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  1618. The only V-8 the Gremlin had from the factory was a 304. However from a 290 to a 401 externally the blocks are identical in terms of motor mounts and bell housing patterns
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  1619. You missed the Fiat 850 Spyder. That VW from Brazil actually looks pretty decent
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  1620. AMC never had the money to play with the OHC V-8 concepts. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the engineers played around with the idea. But actual running engines. No. I have heard that they did build OHC 232s for testing though. There is a DOHC 24V modification of the 4.0 used in Argentina for race purposes. Along with versions of the Ford and Chevy inlines. But not the Slant.
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  1621. I know the Hamilton has been found what about the Scourge?
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  1622. ​ @MISANTHROPE00  There was a short story in Analog years ago about a Martian geologist finding a Burgess Shale analog.
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  1623. If you look good you feel good.
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  1624.  @hydorah  Blame Nixon. And in part blame ourselves. Everybody loves a bargain. Also blame companies like WalMart. They kept pushing suppliers to reduce costs. In the end the only way companies could continue to sell to them was to chase ever cheaper production costs. But China's facing a couple of big problems. One is demographics brought on by the one child policy. Another is a badly skewed Male to female ration due to spouses choosing genders via abortions
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  1625.  @221b-l3t  SLS Stationary Launch System
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  1626. ​ @stumac869  Even in the US the Wrights had a hard time getting traction. The US government was funding Langley. A scale model of which had flown successfully. Shortly before the Wrights first flights (1) Langley tried and failed. Were their other machines that got into the air? Yes. But as stated by others it was controlled flight. In a later aviation meet in France where the Europeans were happy to get "flights" little more than hops. By that time the Wrights were flying literally for miles. 1) After going back to Ohio the Wrights had alot of trouble getting into the air. Turns out the flights at Kitty Hawk took place during a period of high pressure. Plus the Wrights had photographs.
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  1627.  @viviennedunbar3374  I'm wondering if "he" is a biological women who transitioned to pose as a man.
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  1628.  @idiotbuster8662  in the 1970s Jerry Pournelle (MS in Psychology and PhD in Political Science) coined the term the "Rubber Sciences"
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  1629. Hilless?
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  1630. The one DARPA program I would of liked to see move forward was the air launched proposal to be launched from an F-15
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  1631. The arguement between the two soldiers definitely involved two of the following teams. The Yankees, the Giants or the Dodgers. I'm wondering if the Starfire pilot could have used his landing lights.
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  1632. U-505. USS Cobia and USS Silversides (WWII fleet boats) are both about 3 hours or so depending on traffic. The Lake Express between Milwaukee and Muskegon passes the Silversides when entering or leaving Muskegon. Also Muskegon is close to Kalamazoo and the aviation museum. Manitowoc is close to Oshkosh. Plus when in the States I would think the Air and Space Museum would be on the list if in the area. There was a replay of sorts in 1947 of the Halifax disaster when a cargo ship full of ammonia nitrate fertilizer blow up in Texas City
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  1633.  @andrewgoodwin1473  I feel sorry for the fart inspector
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  1634. Beetlepiss
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  1635.  @MilitaryAviationHistory  I'm sure it's been pointed out but Truk Lagoon is no where near Rabual
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  1636. Hopefully Jada Smith had nothing to do with this.
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  1637.  @scottcantdance804  Generally the people immigrating to the US (legal or not) are doing so not for freebies but to better their lives. In their place I probably would too. And way is it that unemployment amongst illegals is so low compared to other groups. But what are the reasons they do so. Often it is because of the failure of their own governments to work for a prosperous and fair society that benefits their country as a whole rather than the clique that happens to be in power at the time. I'll blame the US for some of Latin Americas problem. But blaming the US for all of them is an excuse. The biggest single problem in Latin America I would blame the US for is drugs and the cartels they spawn. It's not the US governments policy but the American publics demand for the drugs that fuel the violence in these countries. Every single time someone is killed in the US or other countries in the Americas over the drug trade. Those people in the US (and to some extent Europe) that are purchasing and using these drugs are complicit in that murder.
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  1638.  @177SCmaro  Which will be eclipsed by some variation of FreeValve. It's all moot because in the end electric will win out.
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  1639. ​ @orwellboy1958  If time travel had been a thing one of these would have been named the De Gaulle.
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  1640. ​ @captainvladmir7535  Le Martian merde
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  1641. Was that debt for infrastructure built by/or under the Dutch administration? Also, Indonesia, the East Indies or whatever one choses to call them had the benefit of civilization for a considerable period. Some of the greatest works of civil engineering ever done with human and animal muscle power ever done in the region. I'm referring to the terraced rice fields.
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  1642. ​ @andrewallason4530  I remember Car and Driver doing a comparision test of three Honda Accords. As identical as possible. One from Ohio, one from Japan and one from the UK. The one from the UK the electrical system was strange.
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  1643. Conjoined peoples find this offensive.
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  1644. If l recall correctly the Russians had an inline V-12 aeroengine with intake valves and exhaust valves with one of each inboard and outboard in each cylinder. Unfortunately i cannot find the website right now.
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  1645.  @MrMartinSchou  I know I'm not opposed to Solar. But I do recognize that for baseload power there needs to be serious overcapacity built in order to accommodate the day night cycle. So far the only two Solar based power generation methods I know of are hydro and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. Hydro depends on rain and snow that originates as solar driven evaporation. OTEC and it's related OTMEC depend on the temperature differential between cold deep water and warm surface water. For solar (whatever type) and wind* we need ways of storing the required power needed for those times when one or the other isn't producing any power. Fortunately there are storage systems out there. And some of them do not require the large investment in battery farms. The first is pumped hydro. This is currently in place in a few locations. Excess power is used to pump water to a reservoir and the water is released to spin turbines. Enclose the system and you can keep evaporation to a minimum. We should be able to do the same thing with heavy weight raised to a height and allowed to fall at a controlled rate. The cable system that raises the weights does double duty as a generator set. And no I'm thinking of the stupid proposal the uses large numbers of weights that need to be lowered to mate precisely with the previous one. Build a tower with x number of lifting shafts in its core. In the shafts have a large steel container. Fill the container with sand, rock, gravel whatever. But don't use concrete. The goal is cut CO2 production after all. The lifting/generator system is at ground level. This makes any servicing easier. Then around the outside wrap the tower with residential apartments, office space etc. The building does double duty. How much energy could be generated by 1 MT falling 1 meter. Of course it's not going to be 100% efficient. Nothing really is. Raising the weights are going to take more energy than the system can put out. But then so does pumped hydro. A third method for large Solar Thermal facilities is to concentrate the sunlight to melt a heat sink. Molten salt. The molten salt as it cools it heat is used to vaporize a working fluid or gas to spin a turbine. A forth type would use large flywheels spinning in a vacuum chamber supported in magnetic bearings. Musk likes to promote the battery solution. Small wonder. He's in the battery production business. When it comes to small scale energy storage hopefully the iron/air batteries will reach the market. One estimate I've seen is that one battery the size of an average washing machine could store enough juice to run the average home for up to three days. Longer if you cut power usage. But not everybody who owns a home can afford to install Solar. Also what about renters? You think that property owners are going to install solar out of the goodness of their hearts. They're in business to make a profit. In reality we do not have a shortage of energy. We have a shortage of public and political will. For large wind farms I think we should be looking harder at the vertical axis machines. For several reasons. I know they are not as efficient as the conventional machines. But 1) While not as efficient they can be spaced closer together. 2) By they're very nature they allow the generator set to be placed on ground level on a solid foundation. Not up at the top of tower. The only mechanical system you should really need at the top is the rotor bearing 3) Being at ground level and mounted to a foundation you eliminate the requirement to rotate the turbine into the best orientation. 4) The generator set being at ground level is easier to service. 5) Without the loads placed on the tower by mounting the generator set at the top of the tower the tower should be able to be built lighter. 6) The tower being lighter and needing to withstand less wind loading the foundation should be smaller. Just how big of a foundation does the average commercial wind turbine need?
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  1646. Think about it. Be glad we don't.
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  1647. To make Michigan look like Detroit, or Flint, or ......
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  1648. The 917 Can Am car was not the first turbocharged car in the series. There was one team running a turbocharged GM big block around 1969 or 1970. But in the days of the Bruce and Denny show it was a futile effort.
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  1649. Who decides the residency requirement. The Federal Government or the States?
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  1650. And here I thought the Bren used flat nose silver bullets. Make the undead dead
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  1651.  @hermanman8235  I wonder sometimes just how well designers who worked on military arms slept. Pon one hand they could justify their work as attempting to help defend their nation. On the other hand some designers and manufacturers were in it strictly for the money. A man like John Garand could justify as working in the defense of his (adopted) country. Other like Hiram Maxim seemed willing to sell to all comers.
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  1652.  @davidmcguire6043  As I recall the ones that came with my MKII weren't.
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  1653. A BUFF (1) with a full load of laser guided bombs. "I look small?" 1) Big Ugly Fat Fellow
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  1654. These engines are just as distructable as any other engine. Neglect maintenance and it happens.
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  1655. The reason you don't see more of these. TOOLING costs. Pure and simple
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  1656. Some politicians take the term public servant to a whole new, or should I say original meaning. Meaning the public serve them.
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  1657. It doesn't look like the high point of Czech QC and construction. Pretty is nice but 1) Does it chamber a round : Sure does. 2) Does the round fire : it appears so. 3) Does the round clear the barrel and head down range : it would seem so. 4) Does it chamber another round and fire : 4 for 4. Remember, perfect is the enemy of good enough. That set-up for stripper clips is freakin" brilliant
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  1658. ​ @j0hny00s  The 49ers offense scored enough to win. But their defense won the game. Two stands in the red zone and two INTs in the fourth quarter. One led to a TD. The second sealed the deal.
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  1659. Like the song says Answer Ireland's Call
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  1660.  @UncleMikeDrop  People tend to think of "deadly weapons" as guns, knives and clubs. If you attempt to smother someone with a pillow. That pillow is now a deadly weapon. I once served on jury where one of the charges wa assault with a deadly weapon. The weapon was a cell phone. The attackers cell phone. Left at the scene. Two words that truely do not go together are criminal and mastermind.
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  1661.  @StefanMilo  I think we can agree that the oldest leather shoes go way back into what passes for human deep time. They may have been sections of skin wrapped around the foot and tied off. But they still qualify. Amongst the oldest crafts still practiced basket weaving has to be right up there. The natives of the interior PNW seem to have used primarily materials as you stated. The natives of the Eastern Woodlands it seems would have used more wood strips. In Europe I wonder about the use of fiber from Beech trees. I see it today used for linens. Of course there is flax. How about an article on the origins of silk production
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  1662. With more launch vehicle builders looking at Liquid Methane I am surprised Lockheed/Martin didn't go that route. Yes H2 has better performance but it also requires larger tankage. Plus the storage issues with LH2. Also if you use the Lunar Gateway as a fuel depot you could ship the fuel up as water and a dense hydro carbon or even solid graphite. and manufacture the fuel on site at the Gateway. I could see the Gateway being primarily a fuel depot and supply site. Personally I see Methane as a more likely future for chemical propulsion systems. As to the RCS system. Why not use H2O2 at about a 90 to 95% solution
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  1663. I am of the opinion that vertical axis wind turbine have certain advantages over the conventional ones we see. Even if they are not as efficent. 1) They can be placed in denser patterns. 2) The large mass of the generator set can be placed at ground level easing the servicing of the unit. 3) Without the heavy mass of the generator set being x number of meters in the air on top of a pylon it should require less concrete for the foundation
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  1664.  @michaelsommers2356  Arrogance or maybe better expressed as brashness is something that is not usually in short supply in the US. But the US Navy was willing to learn. Sometimes reluctantly. One thing the US Navy learned during the interwar period was just how to operate carriers at sea. Something the RN and IJN were learning at the same time. Something that China and India are still learning today. Pretty ships do not make a Navy. Sailors do.
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  1665. The absolutely most terrifying name for a warship would be (insert national initials) Mother-in-law. That or HMS PMS.
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  1666. What happens when they have to tear one of these down?
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  1667. Even in 2007 SF was turning into a dumpster fire. Everything was run down.
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  1668. In my opinion, which doesn't count for much, all you need to know about Twitter is the first four letters. The only social media l look at is YouTube. Far too much of Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok etc is self promotion from people whose personal pronouns might as well be "l" and "me".
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  1669. While CAD systems do make things easier in terms of doing the drawings and engineering calculations it doesn't take the place of imagination or intuition.
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  1670.  @Ulvetann  Whoever the seaman that was on the captain's s#!t list got the job. 😖 I'm thinking they had to have a procedure for it. Plus they should have had some sort of arming device for the fuse on the warheads. If the launch tube had a closed breach there could have been a provision to force high pressure steam or air into the tube to eject the rocket over the side. Now the welded on racks. That's a different problem. One thing I'm wondering is just how accurate the turret launched ones where.
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  1671.  @twotone3471  And the Japanese captain testified that it wouldn't have made any difference. The US Navy managing to loose track of Indy was criminal
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  1672.  @dougfoust117  Damned callous of the High Command is it not. On being assigned to U-boats any sailor from the Imperial German Navy or the Kreigsmarine immediately fills out his last will and testament. One of the worst duty assignments in both wars in terms of chances of surviving the war.
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  1673. One advantage the inline has is that the same machining lines can be used to build four or five cylinder inlines.
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  1674. Tony, in some countries it is illegal to modify street vehicles unless you are a tuning company and the modifications are figured out by a profesdional engineer. In case, in France, you cannot put different size tires on a car. In the 80s and early 90s l gad two different French cars. They both drove and rode very well. Under powered but what wasn't then. And they were both hemis.
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  1675. The original "stroker" motor for the 4.0 was simply the 258 with the cyliner bores opened up to 3.880 or 3.875. These engines along with 252 version of the 232 were built in Mexico. The main difference in the casting was the water jackets around the cylinders walls.
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  1676. Not in combat. Oklahoma was lost while under tow for scraping.
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  1677. @Some Guy That cuts both ways. Take this as a hypothetical case. An individual is elected to a position. Any position, dog catcher to president. And you do not care for him or by your standards he/she is doing a lousy job. But otherwise has a high approval rating. Should it be up to you to attempt to remove them from office.
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  1678. The proposed ship names should have been Targetu, Targetagi, Zunkagi, Reefgu..............
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  1679.  @JackHGUK  Let's see. Who's Speaker of the House? Oh yah, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat-California. Your not Speaker unless your party has a majority.
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  1680. I had a physical science book in the early 60s that discussed continental drift. The idea was out there. Nobody had a mechanism to describe it.
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  1681. IMO the DAs office in Manhattan began working on a case on January 20th, 2017. I have never been a fan of Trump as an individual. This goes back to the 80s. I find him to be a crass loud mouth. Ut l will give him credit for understanding tyhat the job of the President is to act in the interests of the United States.
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  1682. ​ @jacobhamilton2473  They already have East St Louis
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  1683. ​ @svr5423  Plus take apart the top end of the canister and clean that out. If that gets coated with crap it cuts performance big time.
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  1684. Achieving fusion isn't really that hard. People have built reactors in home work shops. Of course these fall far short of break even.
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  1685. If they kept going at this rate it would have been straight down.
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  1686. In the future Dawn along with various other space probes may be recovered and wind up in an equivilant of the Air & Space Museum
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  1687. ​ @pamelathomas8368  🤮 that sounds awful
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  1688. Who is more valuable to a functioning society? A plumber? Or an "influencer"?
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  1689. Elbonia
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  1690. So a Libertarian Hellscape is to be feared while a Woke Leftist one is fine.
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  1691.  @akatripclaymore.9679  Does K Mart even exist snymore?
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  1692. Nick Moran from the Chieftains, uhm, no.
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  1693. I will agree the Grumman was ugly. The Whirlwind however has an elegant simplicity in its lines. But ugly doesn't count. Performance does.
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  1694. Squirrels. Why did it have to be squirrels.
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  1695. What's worse is if you have the spray can version. And it goes off in your tool box 😮
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  1696. K for kalamity
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  1697.  @Tusk_Tact  I disagree. If not why would we see some family lines where there are more homosexual individuals than others where there are practically none or any or at all. We hat I do disagree with in todays society is the number of supposedly LGBTQXYZ+++---- people out there. There are and always have been a certain percentage of homosexuals in the population. And the trans issue being related to a timing issue between the development of the brain and other organs there have always been a small number of people with this condition. If there is an actual increase today I wonder if it is related to chemicicals in food preservation or things getting into the environment through the waste stream. Things like hormones, medications etc. I think Bill Maher's question about why is being trans a regional issue. The more left leaning the general population the higher the number of people claiming to be trans. For some Millennials and Gen Z'ers I think it's just trendy.
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  1698.  @SuperJayShin  You may experience reality subjectively. But reality does not care about your subjective perspective. Or mine. Or anybody else.
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  1699. One thing that could be done with the 4.0 is a head swap. The bore centers are exactly the same as the Ford Windsor and Cleveland. And only .020" less than the the Chevy Small Block/LS/LT family. Judicious cutting, welding and machine work would give you a cross flow head. A good place to start would be a 2.5 four banger used in the Jeeps. The 2.5 block was machined on a 232/258 block line converted over to the 2.5. When the machining line was installed the locator positions were already in the fixturtures for a 4, 5 or 6 cylinder block. The only problem might be bore to valve clearance on some heads. Some of the LS heads do have just about the same bore as a 4.0. Need a new cam though. I've seen where Ford 300s and Chevy 292s have been built with new heads from sectioned V-8 heads. So why not the 4.0.
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  1700. ​ @Gillymonster18  The steel use in cars today is thinner than it was 50 years ago. It is also probably of higher quality. Even so if you take a flat sheet sheet say 50 cm by 100 cm you would not believe just how flexible it is across the 100 cm length. The sheet metal used in a car gains a lot of its stiffness just from the shapes stamped into it. Traditionally from my experience a single fender could require a set of up to 5 seperate dies just to stamp that one body panel.
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  1701. I really think she'll get re-electecd. Due the complete lack of intelligence in her district. She won the primary because of one thing. Voter Apathy, pure and simple
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  1702.  @Duck-dp7mq  They can't for federal elections. Doesn't man they won't try it
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  1703. ​ @coolbreeze4576  As a Christian l recognize that all of us are sinners. Some may be greater sinners than others. Some may sin less. But we all sin. Any sin is an affront to God. All we can do is admit our sin and pray for forgiveness.
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  1704.  @randygentry2442  454, 455. I get confused with the GM big blocks. Given the corporate mentality I still find it amazing that GM let each h division develop their own engines
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  1705.  @randygentry2442  OK, I can understand that viewpoint. An Olds 307 to a 455 all share a common bore center. Like wise a Pontiac 265 to a 455 all share a common bore center. With only .005 between them can you put Pontiac heads on an Olds and vice versa
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  1706. If they don't. Sue for breach of promise.👍
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  1707. Every year prospective medical school students have several hurdles to jump. One is their MCat score. Think SAT for med school. The second is their GPA. Every year there's a different GPA required. The third is interviews at prospective schools. Plus there is a financial hurdle. Not the price of tuition. The medical schools charge you a fee to APPLY in the first place. The higher the schools reputation. The higher the fee.
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  1708. That depends on the degree. It usually the Humanities or Liberal Arts majors that swallow this stuff whole hog.
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  1709.  @jjj32801  And put them in the absolute crappiest places possible. And the employees are required to live there
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  1710. Plastics are often nade from the leftover "waste" product from refining crude oil.
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  1711. Add in the fact that the USSR operated their rail network on a different gauge
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  1712. Someone instigated this. There is most likely an electronic trail in the form of social media or cell phone records.
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  1713. ​ @missingno81  Why? Lack of usable locations for such? Refusal on the part of local or state governmental bodies to plan for such? Public opposition to any such plans? Public demand that existing dams and reservoirs be removed? Not pointing fingers. Just asking questions.
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  1714. I've wondered if accounts of ships blowing up while under air attack by strafing fighters are cases where a cannon shell or larger caliber bullet penetrated and detonated a depth charge or torpedo. I would think if a destroyer such as USS Johnston at Samar would jettison all of its depth charges. The idea of racing around with a number of what are effectively 500 pound bombs on your stern in the middle of a surface action is insane
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  1715. The one at the beginning of the video is a McDonnell Banshee I think. But yah Dark Skies has a habit of doing this. But an F-80 getting the better of a Mig-15 means the Mig pilot screwed up.
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  1716. Mel Brooks should have set the film High Anxiety in the UK.
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  1717. And then post war Cordell Hull had it shut down. He supposedly said "gentlemen do not read each others mail"
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  1718. Sir, thank you for your frank and honest appraisal of some academics. Academics are people just like everyone else. With all the attendant baggage. Pride, blindful or willful ignorance, arrogance and preconceptions. These go along with the admirable traits of honesty, humbleness and being able to concede when they are wrong. That said there are fair number of YouTube channels that deserve the ridicule that academics heap on them. Aside from the delusional Flat Earthers (aka flattards) a fair number of these seem to involve antiquity and some of the more outrageous ideas that have cropped from the minds of some people. Myself I do happen to think that some of these channels do bring up valid points. And ask interesting questions. But they can not seem to stop them selves and usually jump right off the cliff into the big steaming pile of woo at the bottom. The woo includes the usual suspects. I think you know who I mean. Also there are other factors in academia was well as other areas of society. Political correctness and the seeming refusal on the part of some people to even entertain ideas that they might find offensive. One example. The whole Solutrean Hypothesis. Were the original proponents and later on Dennis Stanford on to something? I'm not qualified to judge but on one hand it seemed the idea had to be rejected because it might offend some "First Peoples" groups. Also the seizure on the idea that some truely offensive people did latch on to the idea that "Europeans" were in the Americas first (1). I admit I do find Stanford's proposed methodology for how Solutrean hunters following seals along the edge of pack ice in the North Atlantic might have ended up in North America intriguing (2). But the first people in the Americas? I do not think so. We know people were in Alaska 40K years ago. There is one out of place artifact in that was found in th he Jamestown area as a surface find. So unfortunately dating it is pretty much impossible. This is a flint knife blade. When the flint was traced to its source it was found to be from a quarry in Southwestern France in the area the Solutrean Culture inhabited. Is the artifact genuine? A fake? An flint knife dropped by an English settler or farmer. 1) I suspect that in the end we will find that people have lived in the Americas longer than we think. How long is an open question. As to the origins of people in North America pre Columbus aside from a few Old World sailors or fishermen that somehow got driven across the Atlantic because of storms the evidence is overwhelming they originated in Northeastern Siberia. Which actually is part of the North American tectonic plate. The reason we give Columbus the credit or blame is that's when contact between the Old World and the New stuck. 2) Stanford never implied that the Solutreans were Europeans as we think of them today. It is my understanding that he felt they originated in Northwestern Africa.
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  1719. ​ @LionClanChief  I have serious doubts about the Roman's being able conquer farther down into Africa simply from the logistics standpoint. Besides the Roman Empire when possible preferred to rule through locals.
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  1720. And when they re-open you will find it is decorated to conform to one religious aesthetic. You can figure out which one. And it's not the one that wears small hats.
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  1721.  @nealmont  In 1982 I was at the June Spints at Elkart Lake and one of the D Sports Racers had a flat 6 made out of single cylinder two strokes
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  1722. Language beats them all.
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  1723. ​ @Andy_T79  We all know just what the big draw for space tourism will be.
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  1724. Sounds like just the thing for doing 24 Hours de Lemons
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  1725. Steak Schwaub?
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  1726.  @LoriNicolls  Fine come shovel my sidewalk.
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  1727. The Civilian Clinate Corps or the Civilian Climate Cops?
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  1728. God never intended the cam to be in the block. Or in the head. Or over the head. God merely meant it to be reliable. But if you are familiar with Dante's Inferno he does have a special circle of hell for the bean counters that foist really messed up designs on the customer. Another thing I really hate with the modern DOHC engines is when they are designed as interference engines.
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  1729. As I understand it when archeological digs are done on the middens of Pre-Columbian settlements the remains of Passenger Pigeons are for the most part missing. The PP may well of been a break out species
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  1730. Probably Stone Age quarterbacks or pitchers
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  1731. As Werner says "Vonce der rocket goez üp, who cares ver it cums down. That's not my department says Werner von Braun
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  1732. American politics work?
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  1733. The big strength of the F-15 lies in its radar support aircraft. No mistake the F-15 is a superb aircraft. Why else would we be seeing new airframes being delivered in 2024. Was the F-15 the best fighter of its era? In some ways it's an open question. Did the F-15 ever really meet peer aircraft and peer pilots in combat? For that matter the US Navy overmatched any opponent with the F-14. How well did Iranian F-14s do against the Iraqis. It amazes me that the Iranians are still able to keep at least some of them operational. But then l did still see a comment on YouTube the other day about how one person said some of the best mechanical and electrical engineers he had ever worked with came out of Iran.
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  1734. Did the Luftwaffe Falschrimjagers even make any combat jumps post Crete. Plus I am under the impression that they were primarily employed in Italy. Given Smiling Albert's service arm being Luftwaffe that makes a certain amount of sense. But I could be wrong. It's happened once or twice 🙄
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  1735. What about the real reasons. A completely unlikable candidate who also just happened to tell half the country try that they were despicable human beings. Yah, that's the way to win hearts and minds.
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  1736. The same applies to bridges etc.
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  1737. To paraphrase Harlan Ellison. 100% of everything on Amazon Prime is crap.
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  1738. The current record holder for a known wreck is the Sammy B. Her guns are inplace from what ive seen. It will be interesting to see just what condition any of the wrecks from Samar are in if they wound up falling all the way into the trench. They vould have fallen str as ight to the bottom or impacted th he trench wall on the way down.
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  1739. My wife wanted to she. Pre-ordered tickets. We walked out before the end.
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  1740. While l realize that many factors come into consideration when designing structures l really hate what l call the Blah Haus School. Ugly souless buildings designed and built as human habitation. It is just as bad as McMansions plopped onto undersized lots with tons of wasted space occupied by roof trusses.
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  1741. I used to work in an automotive plant body shop before I got my apprenticeship. Every once in a while there'd be a 3 door come off of the body bucks. Depends on the car and the short metal differences. Four door to two door hardtop? I'm not sure it would work as well. Four door to two door post? On a unit body the body structure is bound to be stronger. Does the two door use the same B pillar? I would think so simply from the economics of production. The rear quarter panels are different for sure. Sometimes the roofs are to but that probably more in the hardtops. If you want to go to a two door why not go pickup style. Can't be many Dart or Valiant pickups around. Although a wagon is usually a good starting point. In the past when the second generation Intrepid came out I did some sketches of a two door conversion with a mid engined drive train. Now that would be unusual. Like Hot Rod used to say 30 years ago DARE TO BE DIFFERENT
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  1742. Metric is no more or no less accurate than any other system of measurement. The accuracy lies in the standards, the instruments and traceability of the standard masters used in the field to calibrate sad instruments. But yes l agree Metric or SI is more logically consistent. As somebody who had to do inspection work on machine components designed using the Metric system and the associated tolerance bands for fits doing all the measurements with inch calibrated micrometers and having to do the conversions was a pain.
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  1743. Just claim asylum 😁 And don't move to the UK. Seriously as an American* to me it seems as though between the Quebecois and the southern portion of Ontario the rest of Canada is held hostage. *Yes I know its jingoistic on our part but it came into use really before any other modern state in the Americas came in to existence.
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  1744. ​ @RustOnWheels  Big Oil? That might be part of it. I think it has more to do with many city councils seeing their city as being bedroom communities.
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  1745. Artillery can engage tanks from way outside the range of the tanks main guns.
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  1746. In the golden age of piston aero engines this was common practice.
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  1747. Every once in a while some body would screw up on the line and a 3 door would come out of the framing bucks. 2dr uniside on the driver's and 4dr uniside on the passenger. They'd either get sent to the repair hole or the company would run them through assembly and use them to run back and forth between the Kenosha plant and Burlington Test Facility. Looked just strange
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  1748. Newcomer took a 4.0, punched it out to 4.00 bore, early 258 crank (heavier but stronger imo), poured the block about half full, blower and all the other stuff and got close to 700 on the dyno. There is no reason a new head made out of Ford small blocks could not be made to fit.
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  1749. Were the rings indicative of service time? 1812 to 1862 is 50 years. Only one star. I think the highest rank in the US Navy at the time was Admiral.
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  1750. The light carriers could well have been assigned nothing but fighter squadrons to act as committed air defense for the battle group or as having ready replacements for losses* *Not all losses were due to combat. Landing accidents, engine failures and other mechanical losses. Plus possible loses due to pilots getting lost.
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  1751. Imagine caring what any celebrity thinks.
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  1752. Looks like it needs some sort of dust cover on the bolt. Looks like a pretty slick piece of work.
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  1753. The lessons of Prohibition seemingly need to be learned over and over.
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  1754. USS Kersarge aka Crane Ship #1 was using its crane in active service quite a bit.
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  1755. There is another reason that white liberals embrace DEI. I allows them to lord it over their percieved inferiors. AKA hicks, hillbillies, Southern racists, blue collar uneducated morons etc. Without any backlash coming towards them for their own bigotry.
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  1756.  @andrewmueller9986  I must be living under a rock. 😬 l honestly did not know that the B1G was adding USC, UCLA, UW and Oregon. The UW vs UW game is gonna be confusing. 😖 One thing I like about the expansion is the 2 best Championship game setup. And it's one thing I don't like. It removes the possibility of an upset from the weaker division* knocking off OSU or UM. I remember in the first expansion (Nebaska and Penn St). They both came in thinking they were going to have easy pickings. It didn't quite work out that way. I never did get why Rutgers and Maryland though. *For far too many years it was the Big 2 and little 8. Then in the 90s Iowa and Wisconsin really shook things up.
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  1757. I had one and l liked it. I liked it because it was a useful small station wagon.
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  1758. The ones I would pick right off the top of my head. In no particular order. Early Road Runners. Coke bottle Super Bee. GTX any year. 70 Cuda AAR. 70 Challenger T/A. Second generation Chargers. 68 or 69 Dart with a 340 And the one that seems forgotten far too IMO, the 71 Road Runner. I just like that body style
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  1759. I don't care. As long as they are competent at their job.
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  1760. There actually is. It's just real hard to tap into the expansion of the universe. Fusion when we finally get it to work certainly will. The only thing is the designs being worked on will use a modulator to capture the heat to spin a turbine. If we could get the Proton Boron 11 cycle to work we could draw electricity directly off of the reaction products with Helium as the waste product. Building a fusion reactor that will fuse Duetritium is fairly simple. People have done it home workshops. Getting useful power out is 5hd hard part.
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  1761. The biggest problem is wokeness is so embedded in the universities.
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  1762. And cup, no make that Stein holders. With automatic attic lids for flying inverted
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  1763. R8 collets are terrible tool holding collets. They are notorious for tools slipping out of the collet. The ER series are far better tool holding collets. The best R8s are probably the ones with locking screws. In terms of lathe collets the 5C collets have their limitations. First is their small work holding range for each collet. Second is their problem in holding lengths. This is due to their geometry. If you are using a collet stop and you are attempting to hold a critical length and your work pieces vary by a couple of thousands you will have a .006" variance in length. There are ways around this though. The real value in the 5C collet family is the wide range of collet types available. Internal collets, emergency collets, steel collets, fixture plates, 5C mounted lathe chucks, extended nose collets and dead length collets. Along with various 5C work holding devises for use in milling machines and grinders. Hardinge has a very good description of these various collet types in one of their work holding catalogues. https://www.hardinge.com/workholding/ Granted a lot of these are outside the scope of the hobbiest or even a lot of small shops. But there is very useful information. Plus some of the solutions are easily made.
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  1764. Let me guess. King County instituted programs to "help" the homeless. So homelessness increased.
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  1765. They must of got the one back from the Kenosha impound yard
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  1766. An inline 8 is even smoother than an inline six. But it suffers from being even longer unless it is designed to be very undersquare. Plus they tend to be RPM limited unless certain things are done such as having a gear cut into the center of the crankshaft so that the power is taken off at the center of the engine. Mercedes did this with their race cars in the 50s. This is also why you tend not to see V-16s. One of the only V-16s I can think of was the Chrysler V-2250 aircraft engine they were developing during WWII. It took the power of the engine from a central reduction gear.
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  1767. All to the theme music from The Twilight Zone.
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  1768. It should be ready as well men are created equal before the law. But we know that is not true either. We all have different levels intelligence and physical abilities. It is just the way things are.
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  1769. ​ @spikefivefivefive  You wonder. I don't.
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  1770. Interjecting clips from Faulty Towers with the reviews was perfect.
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  1771. How's Project Blinky coming along. I'm wondering if it was intended for running in Lemons races.
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  1772. There was an Argentine twin engine fighter prototype. There's an article on Old Machine Press about it.
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  1773. The one that confuses me is Sloop of War. I think of a sloop as a smallish sailing vessel. Some USN Sloops of War around the Civil War period were not small for their time period.
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  1774. A typical Paleolithic family. H Sap strong mother figure. Dumbass H Denisovian father figure. Transgender daughter who identifies as male H Sap homosexual. Retarded Incel H Sap son who can't bang two rocks together. Source. The Guardian most likely.
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  1775. It's not the world. This primarily a First World problem.
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  1776. The IKA Torino was based on the 64/65 Rambler American. The Kaiser Tornado was a little weird. SOHC hemi head. The same cam lobe opened both valves.
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  1777. Of course there are more planets in the Solar System. Unfortunately most of them are likely dwarf planets similiar to known KBOs. I wonder if the KBOs we are seeing in these long elliptical orbits were ones that were perturbed by the close approach of another star. Or stars. And what lies between the Kueiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.
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  1778. I had a 3.8 in a T-Bird that ran just fine. When I heard FoMoCo (otherwise known as MFFoMOCo) had converted the newer 4.0 to SOHC with the cam drive taken of of the back of the block my first reaction was WTF. I figured they needed the jack shaft to drive the distributor and the oil pump.
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  1779. The majority of the Confederates who migrated to Brazil post ACW moved back to the US
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  1780. When USS Hornet was found there was a 5" shell still in the fuse setter of one of the 5" gun tubs.
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  1781. I thought Pride was last month? Or has been officially been expanded to 365 days a year.
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  1782. Just think how many homeless people could be sheltered in her clothes if she lost 100 pounds.
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  1783. The Unofficial History of the Pacific War has a video on Munro.
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  1784. Does anybody remember the 3 Stooges short where they are painting stuff with camouflage paint.
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  1785. Decent sword fights too. Far too many sword fights in movies are just waving the points at each other. For a great sabre duel watch Deluge.
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  1786. ​ @timl9724  Uphill both ways. Through eight foot snowdrifts. All while fighting off grizzly bears with your looseleaf folder.
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  1787.  @eizol568  Well, technically at least 1945. That's also the last time they lost a war too.
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  1788. Because the B-52 incorporates hefty bomb load, long loiter times and range.
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  1789. Just a thought on why Britian is the target of so much lslamic immigration. It is a backdoor strategy to gain an Islamic permanent seat on the UN Security Council. The Royal Navy better have a plan in place to have the Missile Subs defect to the US or Canada.
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  1790. Let's be honest here. They really meant to say "Orangeman killed RBG"
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  1791. And she'll probably be re-elected
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  1792. John Paul Jones enters the room.
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  1793. Pretty soon they will start claiming the group X isn't indigenous to the planet. And people will take it seriously.
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  1794. What is she complaining about. She got way more than her 15 minutes of fame
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  1795. Well, they could always turn it into homeless shelter. I would not be surprised if Tose City Antifa tries to take it over
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  1796. I wonder if the condition of the Milwaukee on her return from the Soviets was intentional. But I doubt it.
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  1797. From what I understand Wheeler's opponent in the coming election makes him look like a conservative
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  1798. Hopefully of the high ranking officers that may have been responsible for the poor quality of the ship involved.
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  1799. The old East German women's Olympic team has a new home.
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  1800.  @drrrrockzo  Well, his completely empty head helped hold everything off of the ground
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  1801. The tooling that the 199/232/258 blocks were machined on were built with the locating and extra machine spindles needed for 4 or 5 cylinder engines from day one in the early 60s
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  1802. Checkout the oldsmob455 channel on YouTube. They go though a oiling system modification on an AMC 401. Very similiar oiling system with the pump in the front cover.
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  1803. Not only the U-505 in the Museum of Science and Industry but there is another one out on the bottom of Lake Michigan. One from WWl that was displayed in Chicago as part of a Bond Drive. Later sunk by gunfire from a Naval Reserve training vessel that had formerly been the SS Eastland
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  1804. I've used both mechanical (Cincinatti's) and hydraulic (Rockford's) and while the hydraulic offers certain advantages the noise does get to you. Not as noisy as a large Mattison surface grinder though. The Rockfords we had featured a hydraulically operated pick feed on the compound slide for cutting angled faces. We had an engineer tell us once that shapers are obsolete because they only cut one way. They may not be as efficient as other machines but for a manual machine the only thing that removes more stock faster IMO is a band saw. Plus there are some jobs that only a shaping type operation can do.
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  1805. No one ever said you had to be intelligent to be on TV.
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  1806. One question regarding the bunker oil still present on wrecks. At great depths* just how well would that bunker fuel be able to be pumped due to both the environmental temperature and the problem of pumping up from the Abyssal Plains or worse in the areas of trenches along subduction zones. Plus it's not only the bunker fuel on warships you also have the oil on cargo and passenger vessels lost not only during the war but also from peacetime shipping losses. One place where we might see a first attempt at this is from a tanker that is being monitored off of Monterey on the California coast. I think that wreck is in relatively shallow water as compared to say Bismarck or Yorktown. Additionally we simply do not know where every wreck is. We still don't have highly detailed topographic maps of the sea floor as seen in the recent collision Connecticut suffered.
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  1807. If they just would have taken a few average riflemen and had them shoot these in front of the Ordinance Board we could have just skipped the whole M-14
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  1808. And they are shocked when they do!
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  1809. As these were type II boats were they üntersized boats
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  1810. In most states the majority of violent crime takes place in a few metros. And in those metros most crime takes place in a few areas.
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  1811.  @davidforce5617  I tried checking Wikipedia and it seems to be unavailable
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  1812.  @zodammit  That's an insult to Bozos
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  1813. The "Deluge" I suspect is a deep seated oral memory of the seawater rise at the end of the Ice Age with the breaching the natural dam and the flooding of the Black Sea Basin
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  1814. Things are never this simple. There may well have been some one worse.
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  1815. Well the USAAF did have North American Aviation install a 75mm plus ALL of the .50BMGs in B-25s. And yes the USAAF should have been using 20mm Hisso's sooner than they did.
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  1816. Doggerland will reappear. Just wait for the Ice to return.
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  1817.  @martinfidel7086  One of the early 3D print technologies was layers of paper where the layer would be profile cut and the waste cross cut. Then the next layer would be glued on and cut. The finished pieces were tough enough to be drill and tapped. I know the manufacturers were using them for prototype castings as it speeded up the prototyping a lot. You skip the pattern making process. Now flip this around. Design your finished part with shrinkage allowance. Now take your finished part and determine where your parting line is. Now do a slicing operation to mach your paper and glue layers. Cut out the layers with one of those crafting cutting machines like a Cricut. Now laminate the layers. Paint the finished lamination. Congratulations. Now you have your finished master casting for making your own Copes, Drags and Cores. I think that is just about the cheapest way one could do custom castings. There's actually a company (or was) that offers a 3D printer that uses regular paper where it produces the finished part in color. https://www.google.com/search?q=3d+paper+printer&oq=3d+paper+printer&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j0i22i30l3.13251j0j4&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#
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  1818. Or fly off to the Greek islands or the Amazon as eco tourists
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  1819. If she opened a restaurant the only thing on the menu would be word salad.
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  1820. Given Mahan's influence on naval (and national) strategies I think the US should name an important fleet replenishment vessel after him.
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  1821. Tony has nothing against fuel injection per se. It's all the electronics that go along with modern engine controls.
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  1822. Maybe 30 years ago Analog had an article about Henri Coadă. And the Coandă Effect. At the time they theorized that it would be possible to build a VTOL craft that utilized a large high bypass Turbofan engine to power it. And really that's how the Dyson fan works. It employs the Coandă Effect. And it's not the first device on the market to use the effect. There is a company that sells evaluators for confined space entry that are powered by compressed air. They run at up to 100 to 1 in terms of how many cubic unit of air moved for every cubic unit introduced.
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  1823. Everytime anyone is a victim of violence there are others besides the direct perpetrator that are guilty. If someone is killed over the distribution of drugs. It is my opinion the customers, whom ever they are. Are just as guilty as the person who pulls the trigger, wields the blade or swings the club. Also those who shield the perpetrators share the guilt.
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  1824. FAFO. Sadly they won't learn.
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  1825.  ZARDOZ HASPOKEN  Wheeler the Weasel
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  1826. A gentleman I once knew that was a professor at a local private college (PhD in Psychology) was a member of a fraternity (which one??). Anyway they had a lunch meeting laid on to discuss future charitable projects (mostly small scholarships). The guest speaker turned out to be Tom Selleck. Fraternities and sororities can do good. And they can be just as despicable as they get portrayed in the media. And unfortunately they can aid in opening doors and conferring advantages to someone over a better qualified individual. But then so can membership in organizations such as the Masons, Elks etc. Myself I used to belong to one of the more middle class fraternal organizations. The Moose. Until the local leadership wanted to blackball applicants based on race. I quit immediately. They later got in trouble with the national headquarters when they practically refused service to a lodge president from Hawaii.
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  1827. No matter how much people think small arms will become obsolete as long as humans fight wars small arms will still be here. Especially in conditions of asymmetrical warfare. The small arms may change* but as said boots on the ground matter. *any man portable weapon is small arms be it slings, assault rifles or lasers
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  1828. Fudge Rounds.
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  1829. I was so early that Kamchatka had yet to spot any torpedo boats being built. Much less at sea.
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  1830. I have to apologize for the stupid and ignorant comments some of my fellow Americans posted. You just have to remember that they, the commentators that is, do not have much education. They of course did not need it. 'Cause they already know everything". Just ask them. Now the bad news. I really hate to tell you this but you do not have the best aviation channel on YouTube. Yours has more humor but Greg's Planes and Automobiles beats you out. At least from the channels I've seen
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  1831.  Bussinyagirl Cheeks  Driving the wrong way? No, he wasn't. And even if the protesters blocked a few of the on ramps its I-5. It runs from San Yesidro in California to the Canadian border. The driver could have gotten on the freeway anywhere North or south of Seattle. Watching the video numerous times the driver swerves right to pass on the right hand side of the van. There are numerous individuals standing on the shoulder. As he passes the van he swi gs left to get back in the traffic lanes. Where the women were standing. He likely could not even see them until until he passed the van. I've actually been expecting something like this to happen for some time. The 1st Amendment affirms your right to peacefully protest and voice your grievances. It does not affirm your right to riot or impede others going about their lawful business. Nor does the 1st Amendment give anyone the right to silence others.
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  1832. Columbus actually came to America for the Ray Charles records. It's true. Just ask Flip Wilson 👍
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  1833. IE Massholes
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  1834.  @SlavicCelery  It would depend on the time and place the 105mm M4 Sherman's were built specifically for the infantry support. But then it is my understanding that they were usually mixed in with 75mm and 76mm M4's. But then a couple of rounds of 105 on a Mk IV or Stug would probably mission kill them. The Self Propelled 155mm was used in direct fire support against bunkers
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  1835. But " Reform School Girls" is a great movie
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  1836. Paint ball guns could very useful for IDing rioters. Load the paintballs with a clear UV sensitive dye. As suspects leave shine a UV light source at them and the light up like dayglow
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  1837. While this isn't a 'real' China Lake it does put paid to some of the myths. But then I suspect each one of the China Lakes had a lot of armorer time making sure they functioned correctly. If they cycled smoothly then the ability to lay 4 40mm rounds into an area in 3 or 4 seconds could make a big difference.
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  1838. The R-2800 was built under license by by Buick, Ford and Nash
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  1839. ​ @wakandaforever2401  When l joined the ELCA (1) in 2006 the assistant pastor asked me about how l felt on certain doctrinal issues. On the Trinity l told her that l felt the best way to describe it as being aspects of God. I also told her that IMO Christians need to come to together in a what l referred to as a Common Communion. The different flavors of Christianity need to remember what we have to in common. 1) In many ways Catholic Lite. The senior pastor was actually an admirer of the current Pope.
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  1840.  @littlekong7685  The Imperial Japanese Navy did the same thing with 18" shells for the Yamato class. The shells were all given serial numbers to ensure the order in which they needed to be fired.
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  1841.  @RMJTOOLS  Mabe initially but the production models along with the YB-60s had twin 20mm. The turrets were mounted on frames that swung down or up after the covering doors retracted out of the way. The Soviets actually kept dorsel mounted turret mounted defensive cannon in use longer than the USAF did.
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  1842. In the US Boy Scout Knives were ubiquitous.
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  1843. So basically they want to build a 21st century V-3. The last guy whowanted to build a launch gun got whacked by the Israelis. Do not go looking for funding in the Middle East.
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  1844.  @alanpennie8013  Also rather than reading the novels a better approach is to listen to them. It really gives you sense of Flashy "dining out" on his reminiscences. I still haven't been able to find library copies of all of the audio books. Plus I really mean to try the ones dealing with his "ancestors". In my reading interests I go through phases. Flashman and Jack Aubry are two recurring phases.
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  1845.  @spikebeans9563  Yes GPS can give wrong directions at times. But an emergency vehicle driver who does not know the area he is covering? There us an easy way for cities, especially those on a grid to solve a lot of these problems. Numbered streets and avenues. The streets all run one way. The avenues run the other. All streets and avenues have a common origin point. And if street names are used, they must be in alphabetical order. Ash St, Beech st, Cherry St, etc. And group streetnames by common groupings. Trees, presidents, states whatever. This isn't rocket science. The city l live once had all street names. Only they let the developers name the streets. The city wound up with multiple streets named the same same that did not connect or all run in the same way. It was so bad the Postal Office could not deliver mail. This forced a change to a numbered system. Only now the city planners want to get creative.
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  1846. How do you identify the ANTIFA types. Use uv sensitive paint balls fired only at those involved in throwing rocks, explosives and commiting arson. For those individuals intentionally lasing police in order to cause blindness. One round of 5.56 should work.
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  1847. The natives are restless. Does anyone hear "in the jungle, the mighty jungle......." There are places in the US where this is happening also.
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  1848. Well, being in a country where you don't have to worry about suicide bombers. I guess that makes a difference.
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  1849. Two aircraft designed to meet different requirements. The 109 is definitely the superior fighter. But it would have been an absolute failure as a carrier operated fighter. With its high accident rate due to its narrow undercarriage on land can you imagine it operating from ships. When your landing strip can be moving in three directions at any one time. Plus just how much would the 109 need to be beefed up to handle carrier operations. There is a reason almost all carrier aircraft were powered by radial engines during WWII. A better question should be. 109 vs Zero vs F4-U.
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  1850. The way some portions of Western and especially the US societies mistreat Christianity is really bothersome to anyone who really takes the teaching in the Gospels seriously. Far too often in my opinion "christians" in the west will cherry pick certain parts of the bible to support their contradictory views or beliefs. The biblical justification for slavery is but one example. Another is the treatment of certain version of the bible being treated as though they were handed down from the literal throne. I'm looking at the KJV version here. Yet by and large talking about about some of these things is taboo in American (1) society. Yes atheism (2) will criticize religion in general. But to me it seems not get to specific in terms actual points. Then we have the whole arena of Wokism. Wokism in my opinion and others is the newest religion on the block. It certainly has some of the trappings of religion. Certain core values and beliefs that are not open for debate. And if you do dare to disagree you can face being shunned or banished. Also known as cancelled. But by far the worst thing in Western societies today is there far too little civil discourse (3). The public conversation is dominated by the fringes with the majority in the center feeling their voice can not be heard simply because any rational debate is not allowed. And both sides are quilty. 1) Yes their are other countries in the Americas. And their citizens could lay claim to being called Americans. Tough luck. The US got there first. Live with it. After all it's not the most important thing in anyone's universe. 2) Can atheism be considered a "religion"? I think so. Any philosophy with a core number of beliefs can be as far as I'm concerned. 3) In some ways the media us to blame for this. As long as there has been media be it the town crier to todays broadcast and internet there has been bias in the media. In the era of print media some newspapers were literal organs of political parties. To the point the papers were literally called blank Democrat or Republican. But there were papers with a more centrist leaning. With today's media I see nothing in the center. And very little anything moderate from both sides. No wonder we hear discussion about a possible civil war.
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  1851. Why is it every single time a damn YouTube geographer decides to redraw the US state lines they decide to stick parts of eastern Wisconsin in with Chicago. Not only no but no freaking way.
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  1852. In 2020 l thought she was the best of all the Democrats running. They threw her under the bus because she would not get with the program. Democrats l knew turned against her because she did not vote for impeachment.
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  1853.  @fx-studio  Part of the reason that nuc plants wound up costing more to build is the initial projected construction cost usually doubled due to the 10 plus years they were tied up in court. One thing that France did right is their nuc plants are built to 2 set designs. Initially 1 design that was then upgraded.
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  1854.  @Salmon_Rush_Die  The New Guinea Campaign is a text book case post Buna-Gona of how to defeat enemy by fighting them as little as possible. Going into Buna the US Army really had no idea what they were facing. I do hold MacArthur responsible for one thing though. His insistence that Pelileu be secured. That was most likely an un-nessecary fight in hindsight. The US Navy pulled out of supporting a beachhead more than once. As to Nimitz. Tarawa was as bad as it was for a couple of reasons. One in planning staff officers really did not take into account the tidal conditions properly. That cost the Marine landing force badly. Second is the effect of naval gunfire support pre landing was vastly over estimated. The whole reason Tarawa and a number of other operations in the Central Pacific was those islands sat astride the line of advance. In reality the airfields on Tarawa could probably been neutralized with out taking the islands. But they really didn't know that then. Kewajilan and Ewientok were seized because they provided anchorages. The Marianas provided the site for airfields needed for the bombing campaign against the Home islands. Also Guam was US territory. The Marianas also were astride the lines of communications to the Phillipines. Iwo Jima was providing bases for Japanese interceptors attacking B-29s on both the outward and return portions of missions. Their were probably more aircrew that survived than Marines that were killed on Iwo. Because of the reduced fighter bases, the availability of an emergency field and P-51 escorts. In terms of the size of the forces involved a lot of the operations in the Pacific were not that large compared to Europe and the Eastern Front. In total I think the USMC suffered around 16K killed in action for the whole war.
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  1855. The rams. Why didn't they make them with neat bird's heads cast into them. If you're going to go Greco-Roman. Go full bore Greco-Roman.
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  1856. leadership. Bad a rap as the Buffalo gets it was in no way the worst air raft to see service during the war. That "honor" probably should go to either the Brewster Buccaneer or the Curtis Seemew.
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  1857.  @notme444  Simply spending the time on this nonsense acts to dilute the curriculum. IMO the history of the development of maths beyond basic maths is something that we will never really understand. I think one reason people like Euclid are considered amongst the greats of Mathematics is because they wrote down what they knew. I don't care who developed which type of Mathematics. I only care that it works.
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  1858. 50 years ago it would have been "take this bus to Cuba"
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  1859. Put the bear in the woods and see if yhe bear does what bears do.
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  1860.  @RunninUpThatHillh  They guy down the block from me is working on his own cars all the time. Does it bother me? Not really. As long as he doesn't fire up one up at 1 in the morning and starts rapping the exhaust notes. On the other hand another guy down the street likes to ride is Harley up and down the block every week end. That does bother me. Do I call the cops. No. It wouldn't do any good anyway. He'd gave the bike put away and be saying who me?
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  1861. The wing reminds me of the Handley Page Victor.
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  1862. One detail they missed. It snowed in Tombstone the night before the gunfight.
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  1863.  @AWMJoeyjoejoe  Politicians can only see as far as the next election. Most of them anyway
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  1864.  @ChillGamerLad  I didn't know. Thanks. 15k plus feet down
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  1865. Censorship by the media is nothing new. The NY Times likes to say All the News That's Fit to Print on their masthead. It should really be All the News We Think is Fit to Print. And truthfully the same applies to every other media outlet. Left, Right or Center. Some are worse than others but any media outlet with a political leaning does the it.
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  1866. Any shed on a RN ship in reserve would be for the middle aged bogger who has to knock up the odd new 15" breech block out of odd bits of scrap iron.
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  1867. As Drach explains wood has its limitations. And advantages too. One thing especially with large 1st through 3rd rates is you need to space for armament, gun crews, sail handlers, Marines, the skilled ratings (ships carpenter, sail maker etc, ships officers, any possible passengers and supernumeries. Plus their required stores. And spare spars, sails, cordage etc. And their required powder and shot. Wooden ships once they get long enough have a tendency to begin to hog. A condition where the bow and stern are drooping in relation to the middle of the ship along the length of the keel. Some ships tried to counter this with cables running for and aft that would put the hull under tension above the waterline. Probably the finest hulled large ships of the wooden era were the clippers. But they probably would have carried limited armament as war ships. In fact by the 1860s large ocean going wooden warships were able to carry less guns yet have a greater weight of metal. Another thing done on wooden ships to aid stability was the bottom of the ship could be filled with ballast. This could be pretty much permanent or could be part of the actual cargo. One thing I wonder is just how well a modern steel hulled warship up to frigate sized could be converted to sail. I know there have been a few instances where steam poweredvessels have had to jury rig sails due to mechanical break downs.
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  1868. All V type aero engines as a general rule use either fork and blade connecting rods or a master and slave rod system. Flat 12 and H-24 engines for aero use also use fork and blade. The main reason to use a boxer type on a 2, 4 or 8 cylinder is balancing.
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  1869. One reason I would think was demand on the part of the buyers or the lack of them. A second was the whole Craft System with Masters, Journeymen and Apprentices. This involved a whole different approach to production of every thing from cloth to metal working to cathedrals. Third was a preceived need. Another reason was the need of the State for the tools of the State. Ships and Arms. Edged weapons were made one at a time by blacksmiths and specialists in armor and blades. They did not need to be interchangeable. Once cannon with standardized bores and small arms became common it was required to produce ever increasing accuracy in manufacture. The first "machine tools" where most likely the ones made for boring cannon to the desired bore diameter. The first known industrial workshop for the production of interchangeable parts was in Southampton or Portsmouth. The Royal Navy set up an operation to make block and tackle for its ships. Before that things like Muskets (the Tower Pattern Musket, ie The Brown Bess) where made to a pattern but where not interchangeable. But once the screw cutting lathe made its appearance the world was changed forever. It brought the Industrial Age with all its benefits and problems. An industrial revolution could of happened 1500 to 2000 years before it did. The Romans are known to have large watermills with multiple mill wheels set up in series so that the water spilling from one mill would turn the wheel of the next. The principles of Gear Wheels were certainly known (that is one thing you need for a screw cutting lathe besides the leadscrew). For centuries the Chinese were the most technologically advanced society on Earth. But the social systems and conditions did not allow such a revolution to burst forth.
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  1870. The tennis players should have taken a cue from the Swedish cameraman.
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  1871. People whose job description is literally to pretend to be somebody else.
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  1872. And to think he thought himself presidemtial material.
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  1873. I'm only up to Anson's circumnavigation and Kamchatka isn't even the running.
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  1874. Catches payloads returning from orbit is nothing new. USAF in the 60s catching film canisters returned from Corona reconnaissance satellites in the pre digital imaging days. Instead of using a helicopter I think Rocket Lab might be better off using fixed wing. At the same time the US also developed a system to allow the pick-up of individuals from the ground by fixed wing aircraft in flight.
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  1875. As an American l do nothate my fellow countrymen or women. Sometimes some of them disgust me l will admit. But come election time l recognize that it is their country too. And l expect them to do likewise.
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  1876. One reason the DV was slower than the SE 5 and the SPAD was its thicker wing
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  1877. Don't they usually see themselves sitting at the top.
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  1878. ​ @PJRayment  Some "hearers" get to be more offended than others. I read it or something like it in a book once.
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  1879. In James Campbell's "The Ghost Mountain Boys" he tells the tale of a 32nd Infantry Division sargent recovering in a hospital somewhere in the Southwest Pacific. His fellow patients in the ward were all Marines fresh from Guadalcanal. When he was being discharged from the hospital and was getting dressed the Marines who had been talking about just how bad the 'Canal had been asked where he'd picked up the fruit salad. The Sargent who hadn't really talked at all in the hospital said on word "Buna". The Marines and later the 26th Infantry on Guadalcanal had no corner on the market when it came to misery and being out on a limb. http://www.ghostmountainboys.com/
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  1880.  @johnree6106  I know it's a joke but please do not give them any ideas. How long before the US Mail is attacked as sexist. But the Post Office does trans gender letter carriers. Mailwomen 🙄
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  1881. NYC get more rain per year than Seattle or Tacoma
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  1882. If Carlin was still among us I think he would be shocked by this type of behavior
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  1883.  @Damo-np7ul  Widely travelled. He's been to the Moon and had a famous pair of trousers. AKA Wallace.
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  1884. I am of the opinion that if brawn brass cases had proven to be a more difficult technology to master. Then there may have been composite cases. Especially in the single shot military rifles post ACW. The problem I see is in the production of bottle necked cases similiar the Martini Henry. The only real options available for composite cases at the time would have been cellulose based or possibly iron. Although i think iron might not have been a good choice due possible metallurgical issues between the case and the chamber. I'll give an example although not iron. I used to rebuild machine tools. One project was for a 6 spindle indexing lathe. The chucks were hydraulically operated. They had a rotating coupling on the back end. My boss decided to have the spool and coupling body chromed. Not a good idea. The coupling is would lock right up.
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  1885. While l despise the whole DEI concept of hiring a set percentage of "oppressed minorities or protected classes". I also despise how things could go the other way. Out and out racism or nepotism. Hiring and promotions need to be color blind, gender blind, sexual preference blind etc. The only thing that should count is qualifications and skills.
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  1886. Dont trust a 3 jaw*. Better to chuck up a piece of steel and turn up a center. The cams are ground between centers anyways. * As an old school Tool Room machinist all 3 jaw chucks are potential boat anchors
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  1887. Tail guns on a "civilian" airliner. Only in the Soviet Union.
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  1888. What l find hilarious about the whole they/them thing is the fact they are third person pronouns. And my pronouns are Your Majesty and Sire. Use them serfs.
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  1889. I wonder how many drag queen story hours took place in Gaza pre October 7th.
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  1890. What about habital moons orbiting Super Earths.
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  1891.  @philvanderlaan5942  Really he probably thought, "how nice of the Navy to drop this dud off right where I need to sit down and get this rock out of my boot". From the looks of the Marine he's had a rough time. I hope he survived. In reality it was a totally unnecessary operation
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  1892. Mama Mia, Soylenta Green 🤮
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  1893.  @davebignell773  Being put into a drydock and encased in concrete is something I think is going to be in the Texas's future. Also Olympia. The Oregon was used as an ammunition barge during WWII and scrapped in Japan in the 50s. If any warships from WWII deserved to be saved if possible it would be the Samuel B Robert's and the Johnston. At least the forward half of the Johnston has been located at over 21K/6400 meters down with her forward five inch mounts still trained to starboard.
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  1894. You should do a video on the Ilmor OHV V-8 that raced at Indianapolis one time. IMO the greatest example of here's the the rule book. And how can we break the rules while not breaking them.
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  1895. The Wildcat may appear stubby. But look at the profile of a raindrop. Or a bomb of the time period or earlier. Plus al of the fuselage dimensions of the F4F were driven by one thing. The rafial engine.
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  1896. The Upper Great Lakes is one of the earliest sites of metal working for tools and weapons* in the world. Was it the first? I think that's open for debate. But one th using I wonder about is even though the Lake Superior region is deficient in chert and flint shouldn't the be basalt or obsidian in the area. Given that the area was once a failed rift zone that saw extensive volcanism around 1.5 billion years ago. This was an era when the Earths tectonic processes proceeded at a faster rate than today due to the Earth's internal temperature being hotter than today. IIRC most of the major earthquake activity in the eastern half of North America are thought to be related to this failed rift zone that could have split the early core of North America. If you are interested in plate Tectonics at all take a look at Christopher Scortese's YouTube channel. He has a number of syop motion maps that trace plate movements back at least as far 1.5 million years ago. Beyond that things start to get much more difficult to puzzle out due to the amount of errosion, impacts etc. *Weapons are tools. They differ only in that are usually meant to serve a single purpose. To kill, injure or maim in defense of ones self, in hunting and unfortunately war. War if our chimp cousins are anything to go by is a part of the human condition.
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  1897. My vote goes to the coastal route for an earlier migration. People have suggested a southern route out of Australia or Polynesia (1). But l don't by it. Yes people were fully human but l question whether navigational techniques or blue water voyaging technology would have been up to it. One needs to remember that technological change was very slow at this time. Not because people were stupid and could not innovate. I suspect that the slow pace of technological change had to do with the mental agility of people in general. Technological change in the 20th and 21st Centuries has been the fastest it has ever been. I do not think that is because we are smarter or more capable. I think it has to do with in any society there are very few innovators. And the societies of the Paleo, Meso and Neolithic periods were not that large to start with. Even if a tool maker in one extended family group found a better way to knapp stone tools for a more efficent blade how long would it take for the knowledge of the technique to spread to other groups? The same would go for techniques for any other technology used by these peoples. And aside from any meteoric iron or native cooper they might have found everything they had was either stone or organic materials. There is another thing to consider. The single most important tools needed for people to inhabit the more extreme climates of the Northern Hemisphere were the needle and awl. The needle for sewing clothings and the awl for piercing skins and hides to facilitate that activity. Being able to sew hides allows the building of boats made from skins sewen over a frame. 1) I've heard people suggest Antarctica. But that has to be insane. As extreme as conditions are there today imagine what they were like 20 or 30 years ago.
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  1898. Typically referred to as an inverted type engine. It offers several advantages over a normally set V-12. Easier servicing by mechanics. Slightly better visibility for the pilot. This due to the prop centerline being below the centerline of the crankshaft de cause of the reduction drive. On the downside you could have the same issue as a radial with oil collecting in the cylinders.
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  1899. This video has the first time I have ever seen of the Vought Vindicator SB2U landing on a carrier.
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  1900. Probably the two major advantages to the DB-601 was its supercharger drive and fuel injection.
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  1901. ​ @kenstein  Different head casting on the passenger side means a whole second machining line. Or a forth depending in the situation.
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  1902.  @kmoecub  I think torpedoes are the only application they have ever really been used for.
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  1903.  @Mishn0  Rule #1 First liar never wins. See Monty Python's "We Were So Poor" skit
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  1904.  @googiegress  And uphill both ways through 1 meter of snow fighting off Grizzlies with our loose leaf folders
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  1905. It better pack a big lunch 'cause it's gonna be loooooooooong trip.
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  1906. I've seen connecting rods on presses for stamping out automotive body panels welded in situ. Heat with torch. Weld. Hammer. Repeat and repeat and repeat until done. Either cast iron or cast steel. Also worked on repairs requiring machining of repaired castings of same. Depending on the type of repair braze or silver solder works better. Easier to machine than the weld usually.
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  1907. This isn't so much somebody playing the race card as it is dome bu ody playing the celebrity card. Oh, the race card was played as well. But the celebrity card out trumps (1) the race card everytime. But if you can play bu oth at the same time. That's a twofer. 1) Will Hoyle's (2) book degining the rules of card games. Especially the ones that are played for tricks (Bridge, Skat, Pinenocale (sp), Eucher, Sheepshead, Canasta, Gin etc) and involve the use of either called or fixed suits of trump cards. Simply because calling them trump cards is "triggering" or a macro-micro-aggression (l claim credit for the term, send copyright payments to my Nigerian PayPal acct). What should we call them instead? BLM suits? They seem to out trump everything else these days. And does anyone play Canasta or Gin anymore? And its easy to tell the point of origin of trump type games. Typically the games ingolving the high cards being Queens are from Central Europe 2) lnterestingly the only card game with no known antecedent which sprung into being with the same rules today is cribbage.
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  1908. I remember pollen grains being found that were consistent with pollen from 1st Century Judea. I could be mistaken. But if true that in my mind rules out a 14th Century forgery
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  1909. There was this little thing called The Depression.
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  1910. Wasn't Brunnel's Great Western used as a hulk in Port Stanley?
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  1911.  @benwilson6145  I stand corrected sir.
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  1912. The lack of self dealing fuel tanks and the ability of leaking fuel to pool in the wing roots sounds like really poor engineering and design work. The reason the C-46s were used on the Hump is because they were pressurized aircraft capable of high altitude operations. Of all the aircraft to enter US service most of the bad ones were Curtiss's
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  1913. If somehow Yamato had gotten into position by running aground off of Okinawa she would have been pounded into scrap metal in fairly short order. I really don't think the Marines and Army troops on the beach were sad that she was sunk. Including my late father-in-law (1). 1) Was in the 5th Marine Div. And got transferred out shortly before Iwo.
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  1914. Believe it or not but in the early 1900 the Ampco Corporation which specialized in Aluminum Bronze alloys introduced an alloy intended for making cutting tools for machining steel. The tools produced from the alloy were superior to the carbon steel cutting tools common at the time. Of course once HSS cutting tools became common the need went away.
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  1915. What surprises me is that "advocates" interviewed for this project could be so stupid to willingly engage with someone that 5 minutes of searching on the internet would have shown to be diametrically opposed to them. And after the first interview not to be blaring on social media to talk to this man.
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  1916. To some degree Britian is a nation of immigrants. Only its been various waves, folk migrations, whatever you want to call them. Plus the waves weren't really that large. The Anglo-Saxons and the Normans didn't replace the native population. I doubt the Indo-Europeans totally replaced the Bell Beaker. But cultures changed. Today national pride in your nations past achievements must be ground out of existence while you drown in the collective guilt about things done in the past.
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  1917.  @grn1  One reason for using light colors is any leaks in hydraulic systems will show up like a neon sign. Personally I love hydraulics in the right application. Precise control and clamping pressures. The downside is leaks. Because all hydraulic systems will leak eventually. Be it through wear on hoses, seals or the connections. Often on the connections it is due to vibrations being transmitted through the system. Flared tube ends (flat or conical) are more prone to leaks. But systems using ferrules will leak also. One reason is any slight imperfection in the fit between the ferrule and the fitting body.
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  1918. The Commer was certainly different but it also seems to have had an extraordinary large amount of reciprocating mass with the large rocker arms
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  1919.  @freeautoinsurance365  Add 55 my child. The 2J has thicker walls wear you need ig, deck, better ribbing, a deeper crankcase, a shorter crank for better rigidity plus a tougher grade of cast iron. The Barra and the RB are both around 245 to 255 on the Brinell scale. The 2J comes in at 275 +. The Barra's a good engine. But the best ever. That would be a bold claim for a one eyed fat man*. In my opinion the 5 best inline 6's ever built are the 2J followed by the Barra, RB series, BMWs and the XK Jag in what ever order you choose. The only really modern inline six ever built in the US was the GM 4.2 from the early 2000s. It never left the factory at the power levels as some of the others. But it was never turned to be. It would be interesting to see just what it would be capable of. The rest of the American inlines are boat anchors in comparision. The Chevrolet, Pontiac, Chrysler Slant 6 and the AMC 232 family all have potential. But are saddled with cross flow heads, pushrods except the Pontiac, long twisty cranks and take up a whole bunch of room. The Ford small six led to the Barra. But it's more like the great grandfather. Slant Six fans like to claim the Aussies made it into a Hemi. First not really a Hemi. Plus it's a different motor. People have made new heads for the US online sixes with crossflow heads using a set of heads from a V-8. There are the usual problems matching water passages and head bolt/stud locations.one problem used to be the distributor location. It would be in the way of the intake manifold. Modern ignition sensors eliminate that issue. The main issue is the donor heads. For the Chevy and Pontiac it's not as much of an issue. Same bore spacing as the SBC and the GM twin cam 4 valve V-6s. The Small Ford, just get an Aussie head. The Slanty. The bore spacing is different but not much. A little over 101mm. A BMW, a Mitsubishi G series or an Aurora/Northstar. The AMC. Ford or Chevy Small Blocks. The B.C. for the SBF is dead on the SBC is 4.400 vs 4.380. Another option is the Infiity V-8. Any of these projects would need good machining and very good welding skills. Plus there are valve clearance issues to be taken into account. The reason we never really saw a good performance inline 6 in the US was cost. A Pontiac 326 V-8 cost less to make than the 230/250 OHC. US V-8s were inexpensive to build. Fit in a wide range of platforms. The I-6s were entry level economy engines. But I think they missed an opportunity here. Early Mustangs etc sold a lot more sixes than eights. If the SCCA had promoted a class in addition to A Sedan (the basis for the Trans Am 5 liter cars) that specified something around 3.75 liters. Call it the Trans Am 75. 75% of the cylinders, 75% of the displacement. The SCCA amateur class call it A/75 Sedan. As a "showroom stock" class it could have gone over quit well. * Classic movie reference
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  1920. Yes there is. No cell phones, no personal electronic devices, no news papers, no TV, no radio.
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  1921. To be honest I'm trying to look at this from both ways. I'm wondering if the big problem here is run off from farms winding up in the water. If they are worried about algae blooms that obviously is happening. And is part of what the farmers are pissed about being that they will have lower the amount that runs off by lowering the amount of stock they have or investing in waste control systems. Something farmers in the US have been dealing with for some time now. And if the big problem is urine and feces running off into water sources that are then being used for public drinking water. Should farmers be allowed to use those water sources as public sewers.
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  1922.  @themanformerlyknownascomme777  The blame for Scorpion imo should have been laid squarely at the feet of who ever was in command of the Subs in the Atlantic. Everything I've heard says she had no business being at sea. Even if none of the issues directly led to her loss.
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  1923. ​ @Oddball5.0  I have never really understood the rational behind this idea. There were definitely sources of copper much closer to the centers of Bronze Age culture in Europe and the Mediterranean. Now were the ships of the Bronze Age capable of making trans Atlantic voyages. Yes they probably were. Especially if Mediterranean societies were voyaging to Britian for Tin. Now Britian is not the only source of Tin available to these Bronze Age cultures. Spain and Afghanistan come to mind. There are likely others. As to voyaging to North America you are looking at either making a landing in the Gulf of St Lawrence or the mouth of the Mississippi. And then either trading for raw copper. Or forming expeditions to travel up river through the Great Lakes or the Mississippi and St Croix rivers. Just how long would these voyages be. 1 year? Two? Three? I think it likely there may have been occasional ships from the Old World that wound up in the Americas (1). The impact they may have made is negligible. And the number that could have found their way back home can probably be counted on one hand. 1) One every 50 years? And just how many of the crews would have been pretty much dead on arrival.
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  1924.  @Czechbound  Leaded fuel in the US was banned for street use in 73 or 74 iirc. Prior to being banned unleaded fuel was primarily sold as fuel for Coleman type lanterns. We always called it White Gas. Remember at one time gasoline aka petrol was a waste product from refining kerosene out of oil. Even if we stopped burning oil tomorrow the petroleum industry is not going to go away. The stuff is too useful to burn really.
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  1925. 30% cheese 30% beer 38% brats 2% Wisconsin distilled bourbon.
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  1926.  @Dorkyartist  OK, I did not realize they were E Bikes at first.
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  1927. What he said about education is more important than anything else said in this interview.
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  1928. There are cars you see in Lemons that in no way cost 500 bucks. Those teams get lap penalties. Plus you see some really crazy stuff. In terms of low cost racing it is about as cheap as you can get really. For really low cost racing there used to be a guy in Wisconsin that bracket raced a Renault Alliance. Don't laugh he won most races simply because he was extremely consistent plus his opposition would bust the bracket quite often. I mean when you see the other car 1/2 way or more down the track you gotta catch him. The guy who drove the Alliance. It was his daily driver.
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  1929. The horror, the horror. Just the idea of Jingles singing "Heart of Oak" is bad enough.
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  1930. How many vacant lots in urban areas used to have housing or other types of structures? Just about all of them.
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  1931. And everything made by the absolute lowest bidder.
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  1932. The US was the country least vulnerable to copper shortages. Even then they had to make adjustments. And this was with access to copper from mines in the western US, the Upper Great Lakes along with Chile. The much more critical shortages in metal were in the alloying elements such as molybdenum*, tungsten etc *aka Molly be damned
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  1933.  @markharrison2827  My father* was also in an artillery unit but they didn't have the issue of empty cases after each fire mission. His unit was equipped with 155mm Long Toms. Using seperate powder bags. I can see where there would be some effort made into recycling spent shell casings for artillery rounds using them. Even if it means shipping them all the way back to the US, UK or somewhere in the USSR to be re-used or melted down. After all your logistical train runs both ways. Instead of just running the ships, trucks or rail cars empty they might as well carry something. But there are limits. If attempting to recover and reuse spent casings puts your trained personnel at risk beyond those normally involved in combat operations then in my opinion it's not worth it. Let's say an artillery unit has been shooting and they need to move fast due to enemy action. First priority is the people, second is the guns, third is any excess ammunition you cannot destroy in place. At the very bottom of the list are mess kits, spent shell casings etc. *even being around things that made loud booms for around 4 plus years plus working in a loud industrial environment his hearing was quite good.
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  1934. Why is it that politicians never look at the examples from the past. Weimar Germany, Zim"Bob's"way and others. How long before the $1,000 bill is back in circulation. Much less the 10k
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  1935. Whoever bought should have a better lawyer
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  1936. Maybe she should be fighting against the patriarchy in India. Feminists in the West complain about the evil patriarchy yet never complain (or protest) against those societies that practice true patriarchies. That oppress women thru institutions such as child marriage etc.
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  1937. By and large the Left hates Christians
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  1938.  @penultimateh766  Short conversations at least. As the book progressed the amount of Japanese steadily increased.
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  1939.  @kaltaron1284  No. In Latinized spelling.
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  1940. My crystal ball tells me the Justice Brown very well could be Chief Justice in 15 years.
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  1941. I find truely ironic that someone who I am assuming is of Armenian descent is associated with a show calling itself The Young Turks
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  1942.  @jeremywatson9129  It does have kind of a Hi-Power vibe the way the frame and slide look on the front end.
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  1943.  @jonbon8598  1) In terms of sustained fire it really isn't much faster if any than a well trained soldier. 2) The pistol caliber ammunition they generally fired simply lacked the desired oomph. 3) As stated the fragility. Drop the weapon hard and theres a good chance of bending the magazine tube. 4) Ease of cleaning. Black powder is corrosive. There was a good number of relatively simple single shot actions that provided good service in militaries around the world. Actually the Winchester (a good English sounding name) did see action with the Royal Marines in WWI during the Zuckerbee Raid. See Drachinifel's channel for a video on Royal Navy small arms. Also on Bloke on the Range's channel The Chap has a series of Mad Minutes with various late 19th Century single shot small arms.
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  1944. I've seen sketches of a 49 Merc two door as a sport pick-up. I think that there have been some built as customs. Now for the wi9ldcard. In 59 AMC along with Rover both tried to buy BMW.
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  1945. There are certain manufactured items that laid the foundation for precision manufacturing. One of course is firearms. Another is clocks and watches once they became a mass produced item. A third surprisingly is wood cased pencils. Pencils are also related to one of the first government sponsored chemical research programs. Early pencil manufacture was centered in England due to a deposit of naturally occuring graphite. The graphite was also used to produce molds for cannon balls. The French, being cut off from a source of graphite started a program to come up with an artificial substitute. See, this was fire arms related
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  1946. Use a cylinder from a Pratt & Whitney R-2800. 155.5 cubic inches or 2.55 liters. Normally when aircraft engine builders were developing a new engine they built single cylinder test prototypes before building complete engines. In a way the radial engines were modular. By using different numbers of the same cylinder design they could achieve different power levels. In terms of combining components this one about this the crown. https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/03/24/fkfs-gruppen-flugmotor-a-c-and-d/ 48 cylinders arranged as 4 V-12s with four seperate crankshafts geared to a common output shaft. Of course it was German. Dah, keep it simple stupid ist für undermenschen 🙄.
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  1947.  @matthewfranklin8379  No, l don't sit and think about it. But it would not surprise me if a couple exist.
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  1948. Finesse? I think the word you are looking for is steal.
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  1949. It's good that they got to be used for something other than their intended prpose.
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  1950. Some of the clips of the Guppy feature turboprops.
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  1951. Maybe that's what Musk is up to.
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  1952. Yes and all the scenic spots that cater to sailors on shore leave. Saloons, cat houses etc.
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  1953. Am I the only one who finds this whole mascot thing a little creepy. Not as creepy as the Drag Queen story hours though. That crap just takes creepy to whole different level.
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  1954. But does Kamchatka spot torpedo boats? Naval history joke. See Drachinifel.
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  1955. Not only always torpedo boats. But ALL the torpedo boats.
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  1956. I keep a box of disposable gloves at home. They're great for mixing up meatballs 🥘 or when I have to pick up the dog crap 💩 in the back yard. Not the same pair of course. 😁
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  1957. I've always wondered how it would have worked out as an infantry support weapon. The project itself was a complete clusterfuck
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  1958. The feminists and their allies keep thinking that JP is going to be Custer and they're the Lakota. Nope Jordan is like the SAS. He Who Dares Wins
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  1959. Difficult for it to all be about class. When they have no class themselves. They believe they have courage. They have no understanding of what courage is. Courage is a firefighter running into burning building to rescue somebody. Knowing yhey might not come out alive. Courage is anyone acting to protect others we hen it might cost them their life or limbs. Courage is not being a bully. And that's what these children are.
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  1960. Plus at the time Drach mentions for Renown the US Navy was undergoing a rapid expansion due to the Two Ocean Navy Act.
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  1961. No. Let them have all the water they want. In fact make sure they drink a lot of water. "I need to use the WC." Let's see just how they solved that little problem
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  1962. ​ @collinlee5927  .08 is pretty much the national average.
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  1963. Cattle prods
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  1964. If Israel expelled the Arab residents why are there so many Arabs living in Israel.
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  1965. And spelling. Color vs colour.
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  1966. That Cougar is going to be slick when it's done. 👍 I admit I had my doubts but I like it. Now maybe if the nose could be chopped or shaved like a Talladega
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  1967. Iron Bottom Sound needed a booster infusion.
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  1968.  @jamoshotrod  Well, I did work in an engine manufacturing facility for 33 years
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  1969.  @matthayward7889  And do the design work needed to develop the tooling needed to produce them.
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  1970. To be honest having known a number of lawyers in the US in a social environment. A lot of them haven't really impressed me with their intelligence. I will give them credit for graduating from law school and passing the bar exam. It's not easy to get in. You have to have a high enough GPA (1) after all. But in terms of life skills and common sense they did not strike me as being any smarter than a lot of people I've met. 1) GPA is not the be all and end all. My stepson wanted to go to med school. To get accepted you need not only a high enough GPA. But also a BS in PreMed or BioChem. Not easy degrees. Plus you need to do well on the annual MCad. Think an SAT for Med School. He shot himself in the foot by taking all honors classes during the 5 years of his undergraduate studies (he had to drop a required class one year due an illness). This was at a Public University in the US (UW-Madison) that has a pretty good reputation. Because he took all honors courses he faced a tougher grading challenge. If he had taken the regular non honors courses he would most likely had a 4.0/3.9 GPA. Instead he had a 3.78. Below the Med School GPA for that year pay one point. He still applied to various medical schools (2). He got one interview and blew that one. I talked to my physician about it and his take was the kid shot himself in the ass by taking the honors courses. Because once you are in med school it doesn't mean squat. At the same time the local branch school of the UW system had a 100% placement of it its PreMed students into Medical School programs every year. And to my knowledge still does. All of which proves that sometimes really bright people, which the kid is. Do really dumb things overall. 2) Applying to Med Scool is a racket all in itself. To apply to med school you have to pay an application fee. Given that the majority of applicants are turned down. Especially in the top ranked med schools.
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  1971. By trans rights they their rights supercede everyone elses.
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  1972. If I'm not mistaken the Yugoslavs also operated P-80 Shooting Stars and "loaned" the USAF a Yak jet fighter for a quick evaluation.
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  1973. When the Schuttle was under development in the 70s one side project was something called the Beam Builder. A machine to take rolls of Aluminum/Aluminium and run them through a set of forming fies to make tubes and weld the parts into beams that would be similiar to the towers used in some areas for radio or television antennas. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19820002206&ved=2ahUKEwjjqbabqOjxAhVTaM0KHfYUDoEQFnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2UW1KUd5b20vnd1g-B1arD As a concept it never really went anywhere due to lack of application/need. Eventually I would expect a great deal of basic manufacturing of spacecraft meant for deep space applications to built primarily on the Moon or from lunar resources. One reason is the resources Aluminum/Aluminium, Iron, Titanium, Silicon etc area readily available along with the solar energy for processing the ores (regolith mostly). Some of the more complex systems may still be built on Earth especially life support but the basic structures, tankage etc is better built off Earth. Especially once space craft get large enough to where launching them in one piece is pretty much impossible. The idea of 3D printing the components would probably be better performed in a vacuum.
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  1974. Just ordered 5 gallon metal buckets with metal lids with locking rings
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  1975. Squadron Commander addressing his pilots. "Here we're issuing you this great "03 Springfield in case you get shot down behind the lines." "Sir, what about parachutes?" "Parachutes, why would you ever need parachutes? Real pilots don't need parachutes. All they let you do is abandon your airplane if its damaged." "But sir, what good is the "03 going to do us if the plane is burning and we can't abandon it and jump with a 'chute?" "Um, yes Lt Luke. I see you point." In my considered opinion, this was not one of the US Army Air Service's better ideas. And just where does Lt Luke or Capt Rickenbacker stow this thing in their Newport or Spad. That said the 25 round magazine combined with semi auto would of been a great idea.
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  1976. One lead to the expansion of the West. Being on the tail end of the spice trade Portugal sought to bypass the middle men. Be they the Islamic World or Venice. A world in which Europe never rose to dominance would likely be a far poorer and brutal one with technology maybe at the level of the early 17th century. The Americas would eventually be (re)discovered most likely by Basque or English fishing fleets. In fact either may well have known about New Foundland or Nova Scotia prior to Columbus. But kept the knowledge secret to prevent others from accessing fishing grounds. The most important weapons for the Spanish were their germs and allies
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  1977. The Soviet Lunar program was dependent on the success of the N-1 launch vehicle which turned out to be dismal failure.
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  1978. Did Africans reach the Americas before Columbus? Possibly. But then any number of other people have that distinction. In Africas case I think it most likely that there were instances of coastal fishermen getting swept out to sea and eventually winding up in Brazil. But they were most likely all males. Never tried or succeeded in getting back home and any trace of them simply disappeared. What surprises me is the lack of effort on the part of North Africans to attempt to sail out into the Atlantic.
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  1979. Around Cleveland?
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  1980. Sometimes it's good to go back to original source material? No. Its ALWAYS the best idea to go back to original source material. One reason for head on attacks IMHO is when fighter squadrons are getting vectored in on the bomber stream you want to intercept as far out from the potential target as possible. That in itself makes a head approach likely. Not in all cases but possible. You have limited fuel and ammunition. It might be cold blooded to say it but targeting the cockpit of the incoming bombers is going be one way to bring the Fortress down. If the pilots are killed or incapacitated the odds go way up. But sometimes due to course vectoring trailing and other attack options are needed. But once the G model became more prevalent the odds on a head on attack begin to go down. I wonder just how many rounds of .50 BMG were required for every damaged or destroyed Luftwaffe fighter that the bomber streams were responsible for. In the case of the B-24s the best area to target would be the cockpit and between the wings on the upper fuselage. Consolidated just had too many major systems etc running through the area
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  1981. Zipping the main bolts out it sounds like Space Invaders
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  1982.  @richardcolligan3821  That depends. Hydrogen fueled ICE vehicles still have pollution issues in terms of Nitrous Oxides. Hydrogen fueled vehicles using fuel cells and electric motors should be cleaner in use. Cleaner in manufacturing may or may not be equal. In my opinion for what it's worth the current best option for regular use is a hybrid
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  1983. Given who they just elected in a couple if years they might look back on her with nostalgia
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  1984.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  Richard Widmark was more into the shove the old lady in the wheel chair down the stairs type of thing.
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  1985.  @Regolith86  Remember the Nova (iirc) episode where the smith in Door County made one.
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  1986. I always thought the way as abortion was argued in Rod vs Wade was constitutionally suspect. Besides if we have a right to privacy as arqued in Roe then just what gives all these digital outlets and other companies to sell personal information about us like they do.
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  1987.  @kellmac  I've seen chocolate Humus 🤯🤯
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  1988. One note here. CitiBikes records should be checked to see if the bike with the first ID number is still in inventory. Or if it has been missing since May 12th.
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  1989.  @Otokichi786  I was thinking about the movie
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  1990. One would think the Woke would welcome a decline in birth rates.
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  1991. And move to a different state and vote for the same policies.
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  1992.  @ScottKenny1978  And the horn plays Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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  1993. As the man moved about the surface of the Earth is introduced a wobble in the Earth's rotation.
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  1994. F3 pilots might have scored numerous victories due the fits of laughter on the part of their opponents
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  1995. Queen Isabela of Spain was black. And so was Cristobal Colombo. He discovered America to find the Ray Charles records. It's true. Flip Wilson said so in the 60s
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  1996. Those were in some way a happy accident. The primary reason the 262s wings were swept as much as as the were simply to get the center of gravity correct. Swept wings were really nothing new. There had been aircraft built with swept wings before. Some of them even had higher sweep angles than the 262. Of course there was no way these aircraft could ever take advantage of the benefits of a swept wing. Look at a DC-3. The forward edge of the wing is swept back outside of the engine nacelles. Yet nobody ever says the Gooney Bird had swept wings
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  1997.  @Skiergold  You eat too much!
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  1998. The left over mash from corn based ethanol does not go to waste. The mash is used as animal feed.
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  1999. supposedly AMC was developing a 460ish CID version of the Gen 2/3 but then the fun was over.
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  2000. Parrots, Birds of Paradise, Cardinals, Teal, Widgeons etc, etc etc.
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  2001. How to become a millionaire. Start as a multimillionaire with a racing team.
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  2002. The AMX/3 would have been concurrent with the Pantera. Thanks UAW, you f<>@$÷d that up.
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  2003. One thing different is the early 199s and 232s had shaft mounted rockers.
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  2004. The really stupid thing about pronouns that refer to gender are in the third person. Generally used when the person isn't even there. Just call people by their name. Problem solved.
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  2005.  @benwilson6145  I think I stated it poorly. Double bottom and double hull to the waterline.
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  2006. The issues in the Northstar can be traced to one specific fault. And that issue in the Northstar is not the known ones. Its the one that cost cuts every single item line on the build sheet. I've seen i number of comments about what caused the head gasket failures. The wrong size headbolts and thread choice is one l have heard. Another I've heard is the alloy in the block. If the alloy was an issue this could be due to lowering the percentage of alloying elements in the aluminum. As l understand it most aluminum blocks have a high Silicon alloying content. High as in 3 to 5 %. Less alloying elements mean less cost. And GM is not the only one. Chrysler with the 4.7 choose a cheaper polymer material for the timing chain guides which led to problems (1). Their 2.7 issues with coolant in the oil due to the water pump placement and drive. I'm sure Ford has done similiar things. 1) The 4.7 was originally designed by AMC but l don't think they ever got to the production ready status and ordering tooling. I am kind of surprised that Chrysler never put DOHC 4 valve heads on it.
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  2007. ​ @Flies2FLL  Kind of like the Wisconsin or maybe Waukesha stationary V-8s
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  2008. So, we have Arabian Plate, the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabian Sea. Three isn't enough.
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  2009. Larry Niven's 1st rule of civil discourse. "Never throw shit at an armed man"
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  2010. I used to have access to large steel balls from ball bearings (1) and other applictions. I had some about 40 mm in diameter. I pulled them out at coffee one Saturday and started quoting Bogey. 1) A ball bearing is the complete assembly. By themselves the balls are just steel balls. Not to be confused with big brass balls
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  2011. And the same applies to non Americans judging the US.
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  2012. I love documentaries like this. History with a passion and a human touch. At the same time I also enjoy the reasoned videos that question the mainstream historical record. With the discovery of Golbeki Tepe in Turkey. The geologic analysis of the erosion of the Sphinx Enclosure and other areas at Giza. The sonar images of structures in the Arabian Sea off of Mumbai. The enigmatic Yunagami site. I'm not talking about the woo that's some spout about aliens, power generating crystals or a supposed high technology civilization. When the Ice Age ended humanity saw the rise of sea levels of 120 meters or more depending on location. The reason I say more is some areas due to isoclastic responses of the Earths crust actually remained at sea level due to this effect. If some areas remained effectively at sea level other areas should have seen more submergence. And others less. Another reason I give some credence to these videos is what cultures of the past said about themselves. That they were inheritors of older cultures. A good example the King's List at the Temple of Seti I. This list goes back through the kings of Dynastic Egypt. And then keeps going. The standard response of Egyptologists is these are mythical figures. Perhaps they are. But what is wrong with taking the core of it at face value. Analysis of Aboriginal Oral Histories reaching back into the Dream Time have uncovered that inside the stories are truths about the landscapes, and the routes the early Australians followed. I believe our history is far older in terms of civilization that Sumer or Egypt or the Indus or any other known culture. Another thing is boats go back along way into pre-history. The Polynesians were basically a Neolithic culture in terms of their tools. Tools and weapons of stone, wood, shell and bone. Yet at the same time they are perhaps the greatest sailors and navigators in human history. Who is to say there were no equals to them in the past. Any time acedemia or mainstream archeologists say this happened because we know it did and the analysis is based on things like "context" take it with a grain of salt. And the farther back the more it becomes conjecture. One thing I would prefer to see more of is experimental archeology. For much of Human history all we have are artifacts. Fine. Do experimental archeology to find out just how tools and artifacts were made. And if you can't replicate the items then adjust your thinking. Look at new approaches. Or if in the end you can't say, just be honest and say you can't.
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  2013.  @wbertie2604  See Greg's P-40 video that covers the Merlin vs Allison. I thought it was 60 inches. It may well have been 60 pounds.
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  2014. Women have every right to not like or even hate men. Just remember before commiting it goes both ways.
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  2015. I worked with a guy that claimed he could plop rounds in a ten foot circle at about 300 meters with an M-79. Note the word claimed.
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  2016.  @sawyerawr5783  Larger even than the Denver and Rio Grande's narrow gauge. Or the Rio Grande Southern. Or the East Broad Top?
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  2017. There is one "bombing" operation the USAAC carried out on US soil that I know of. Dropping food to isolated Navajo families after a very heavy blizzard. And Ed, if you're ever this side of the pond make three aviation museums must sees. The Air and Space in DC, the USAF at Wright-Patterson and the USN at Pensecola.
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  2018. Well, there is the one about a Gerbel and a famous Hollywood actor.
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  2019. Who'd a thought that might happen.
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  2020. We could have done artificial gravity testing in LEO if we had wanted to.
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  2021. ​ @Stevarooni  Curiously though. People still were building houses, buying cars etc. Not everybody was broke.
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  2022. "Well, l know we're not over Bedford because the only Pyramid I see is great bloody pile of stones."
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  2023. In 1970 the SCCA dropped the twin carbs allowance for the 5 liter cars. 71 at the latest.
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  2024. I sometimes wonder why either service bothered with accepting any proposals from Curtiss by that time. Although I do wonder just what would have happened if Curtiss had converted the XP-55 to jet power.
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  2025. Many moons ago I worked with a guy that was drafted in the 50s. Infantry. About 5,2. Naturally they handed him a BAR.
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  2026. Naval engineering disasters and Drac uses the phrase "floating around".
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  2027.  @AdamMGTF  First. I never implied they were British. Second. It Was A Joke. As much as I do admire the Royal Navy of the period there is also a lot to despise. Impressment of seamen for one.
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  2028. At least she's good for learning dive bombing tactics or recon. If the other teams got a Hosho or a destroyer get close she's toast. I don't know how many times I've sent her to the bottom only for WoWs to locate, raise and refit her
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  2029. San Crapcisco Like the song says, "l left my poop in a San Crapcisco".
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  2030. No, in their houses. All of them.
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  2031. Liz tried hanging on as long as she could.
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  2032. I can hear Carl in the background No you can not shoot thatat the next 2 gun match
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  2033.  @ForgottenWeapons  Range Officer. "Shooter will engage the two steel targets....." Shooter "What targets?"
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  2034. The #1 export of the United States is insanity.
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  2035. I wonder when the pro choice side will figure out that if they just would have not challenged the law in Mississippi this SC decision would not have happened. A law that was not as restrictive as in France by the way.
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  2036. The 232 introduced in 64 was a clean sheet completely new design. Later destroked to 199 and stroked to 258. 199 3.75 bore 3 stroke 232 3.5 inch stroke 258 3.9 stroke
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  2037. There is or was an old steel hulled wind jammer tied up in Honolulu harbor. There was discussion on what to do with her.
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  2038. You have no right to not be offended.
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  2039. Lawyer? Now these are lawyers!
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  2040. I can accept the multiverse. A new universe spawning off of everyday or cusp events? No. What is this? Multi Person Solipsism? Classical reference.
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  2041. Don't worry. We made up for that in spades.
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  2042.  @simonpetrikov3992  Plus there would be the likelyhood of a lynch mob stringing you up if you killed the wrong person. It's likely that the average handgun owner in the old west couldn't hit a barn from inside the barn. The cod th of ammunition. Plus with black powder having to clean to pistol immediately.
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  2043.  @anonb4632  It depends on the setting. In the middle of a Georgian/Victorian/ Edwardian city. No
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  2044.  @anonb4632  It may not have been the intent of the cities that built them. But it certainly was the architect's.
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  2045. Go metric. You never need a tap drill chart. M14x2. 14mm - 2mm = 12mm.
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  2046. Squirrels, why did it have to be squirrels.
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  2047. She had always envied the probes used by HMS Challenger to plumb the depths
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  2048. One thing I like to point out to people on astronomy and space videos. Earth is at the center of the Universe. The observable Universe.
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  2049. The true Native American revenge was tobacco.
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  2050.  @baigandinel7956  2 + 2 = a lot. Problem solved 👍
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  2051.  @craigcontofalsky4387  even with solid roller lifters I think I would still prefer to have an oil supply to the lifters rather than just rely on drain back. Just doesn't need to be as much as you need for hydraulic lifters. To be honest I think once the camless engines begin to hit the street it won't be long before people start getting their hands on the components.
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  2052.  @johnpossum556  And I absolutely guarantee that some Bevis will park right next to him and slam their drivers door into the Dart.
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  2053.  @deormanrobey892  I didn't know he was around long enough to get the price up that high. Oh, they so carefully masked off the trim and windows in the TV commercials. I think they also did a promotion where you got a Popiehl Pocket Fisherman thrown in for free 😝
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  2054.  @yepiratesworkshop7997  But one must time ones shot to match the spinning of the balloon 😁
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  2055. And to think they used to complain about English football enthusiasts
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  2056. Let's hope the medical staff had gotten past the "practice" stage.
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  2057.  @Mark-yy2py  A third? More like 1/2. Plus 1/3 regarded as Jehovah Witnesses
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  2058. How about the 30ft replica the guy in Maine used to putter around on lakes in http://twistedsifter.com/2012/08/30ft-model-replica-battleship-admiral-graf-spee-william-terra/
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  2059. The idea people have about the Super Corsair being proposed because of the Kamikaze threat can also be found in the Bearcat. Greg's channel had a nice video on that. Two of the US super props used or would have used the R-4360. The Corsair and the ultimate development of the P-47. The XP-73. I know P-47s were catapulted off of US carriers when being delivered at times in the Pacific. But I wonder if the P-47 was e er considered for naval service.
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  2060. I toured her during a Tall Ship event on Lake Michigan in the 2000s.
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  2061. Given the financial disaster hosting an Olympics can be plus cities or countries getting saddled with white elephant facilities why would any sane location want to host the Games. I have thought for a long time that there should be one permanent site constructed and used. And cut down the number of medal events. Syncronized swimming?
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  2062. Worked for company that builds and services centrifuges for waste treatment plants. Owner said when a ripe one came in. "Smells like money."
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  2063. An English literature course should be restricted to strictly English literature. Advanced courses could be Classic English Literature, Empire English Literature and Modern English Literature. If you want to have a diverse poetry course just call it World Poetry. I hated poetry in school although I did write some decent stuff.
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  2064. I would imagine so. Plus cleaning might be needed not only for powder residue but also for removal of any material left in the rifling from the driving band on the shells.
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  2065.  @ronschlorff7089  Around 15 years ago there was a lot of work being done on mechanical batteries. Also known as flywheels. Supported in magnetic bearings and spinning in a sealed vacuum casing. Made of carbon fiber they did have some problems with delamination. They could be spun up quickly. Only they needed to be installed in pairs spinning in opposite rotation. Otherwise the vehicle handling could be problamatical.
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  2066. France can also be credited with the first car. Unfortunately it was a Renault
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  2067. That's th he trouble with going through the drive through. You get Joe Pesci'd.
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  2068. ​ @scratch57  Well it does stand for Piled Higher and Deeper in some circles.
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  2069. No. She sounds like she's ill equipped to handle any of life's disappointments
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  2070.  @living2ndchildhood347  They finally get to home perhaps.
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  2071. Stones per go pedal
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  2072. One subset of the Roman setting in fiction is the Roman detective novel. I enjoy the ones I've read and listened to. Mostly listen. Audio books with a good narrator are a godsend. Ruth Downie and Lindsey Davis both produced some excellent work. The audio versions are heavily dependent on the narrator. Avoid anything done by the BBC. Downie's publisher has used Simon Vance to good effect while the narrators for Davis's works can put a London East End spin on things 👍. I need to check out more. But to me the gold standard of historical fiction is the Flashman series. The main character is thoroughly unlikable. CAD, coward, paltroon, today and philanderer Flashman always manages to save the day for the Empire or John Company. But the research GMF put into the actual events. The real people involved in the events have fooled people into thinking they were real memoirs.
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  2073.  @MarcusWu  Of all the YouTube machining channels the top 3 IMO are Clickspring, Stefan Gőtteswinter, and This Old Tony.
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  2074. You're not supposed to ask. This whole incident is very strange.
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  2075. Let's say Lockheed is close to bringing this online (I really doubt it) the market potential outside of aviation is huge. Power generation, shipping, desalination.
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  2076. First choice, The Eyed Needle. Second, textiles. Third, the spear thrower. Fourth, The Means to Preserve Food. This game is one that the player will never win. It will always devolve into "yah, but what if". The needle was required for fitted clothing required for humanity's expansion beyond our home range in Africa. Textiles which probably began as interwoven branches or foliage used for shelters meant that people no longer needed to rely on skins alone for clothing or to carry needed items. The Spear Thrower extended man's ability to kill game or deliver the same thrown shaft harder at a given distance. Preserving food. Drying foods in the sun. Salting etc. Pottery while critical IMO is only really useful once a band has a reasonably settled life. Pottery was not required to provide watertight containers for fluids. Skin bags and hollowed out gourds will suffice. Skin bags/pots can be used for cooking. The hafted axe or spear is a reasonable choice. Only spears do not absolutely require stone tips. Bone can work perfectly well. Besides how far back does the hafted tool go? 100KY? 200KY? More?
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  2077. In a peer or neer peer conflict just how many causalities are going to be caused by small arms. Versus artillery. Either conventional tube or rocket. Besides does any one expect the leadership of most countries to give a rats as about the troops on the ground.
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  2078.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  Just a guess but when at sea especially when conducting flight operations the head gear would have a hard time staying in place 😱 Aside from the Snoppy headgear the flight deck personnel wear.
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  2079. At least most of your new citizens are already used to the heat. As to reduced service. Well, it is Britian's responsibility to reach the same level of service that those new citizens were used to at home. No matter how close to the bottom of the barrel is required.
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  2080. In the not to distant future will the UKs national anthem have to be circus music played on a calliope.
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  2081. There must be two songs constantly running through her head. The Monty Python Spam song. Only the words are "me, me, me, me,....." and I Feel Pretty from West Side Story. Only the words are. "I'm so special, l'm so special" "So special in every way" "I'm so special every day!"
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  2082. I think of it as the Popular Machanics/Science effect. The futurist GHarry Stine once said that you should never believe the cover of Popular Mechanics. Magazine writers hear about the potential usefulness of a new material and then give the impression it ready for prime time.
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  2083. What if a crewed Dragon just should up?
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  2084. I predict in late November Micheal Moore will still be seething no matter how the mid terms come out. And he will still be fat.
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  2085.  @jaelwyn  More importantly. Has the worldwide production of binoculars kept up with future demand.
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  2086. The nautical mile makes as much sense in its eographic basis as does the kilometer.
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  2087. ​ @sabrinatscha2554  The Marine attack on Derna was pretty much run on a shoestring with very few Marines involved. Primarily mercenaries. Greek iirc. But I could be confusing the facts with a movie featuring John Payne and Maureen O'Hara. The Halls of Montezuma refers to Marine involvement in the Mexican War.
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  2088. The world owes so much to to early Mesoamerican and South American farmers. Squash (winter and summer), Maize, Tomatoes, Peppers, Avocados, Sweet Potato or Yams*, Pineapple, Turkeys and other crops that have enlivened the cuisines of other cultures world wide. *there are those pesky debates about their origin and how they spread
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  2089.  @theriotartist  Yah, with pushrod V-8s. Of course the last pushrod V-8 Toyota built was a hemi
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  2090. Because if nothing is about racism, or sexism, or --------- phobia. Then they have nothing to complain about and no grift to run. I honestly think that we should have some form of national service in this country. After high school* everybody spends a year or 18 months in a some sort of national service. Working with the Forest Service, doing work in inner cities. Something. Not so much to get work that benefits the whole country done but to teach kids self reliance. *do not get me going on the school systems in this country.
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  2091. Does Bannermen have it in stock!
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  2092. Ice fishing is the extreme fishing excuse to drink. The indoor version is bowling.
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  2093. Joe even gave up his seat at Ford's Theater. We know how that worked out.
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  2094. Everybody forgot the Judge Smails rule. "The world needs ditch diggers too."
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  2095.  @dutchdna  No what they are saying not everyone needs a college degree. Or should need one. I've known both HS and college graduates that are successful. And both that live hand to mouth.
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  2096. The most crowded river in the world is "da Nile"
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  2097. I've had Covid. Don't ask me which variant. It was like a bad chest cold for about 4 days. Plus I've had the three jabs. I do have several underlaying conditions. And that is where the real danger from Covid comes from. When I was diagnosed I was immediately put on Z-pac. The Z-pac didn't do anything about the Wuhan bug but it did knock down anything that was opportunistic. When I saw my cardio doc he asked if I was vaccinated. Told him yes and that I had it. He immediately took off his mask and told me I was good to go.
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  2098. A friend used to order Bud Extra Lite or what ever I was called. He called it Sex on the Beach.
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  2099. Shaka Zulu starring Dylan 'Bud Light" Mulvaney.
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  2100. The 65 & 66 Marlins were about the most misportioned cars of the 60s. The 67s look alright though. Surprisingly their are people starting to do stuff with the 65 & 66 cars. There's no real performance parts for the motors in terms of intake manifolds but the Gen-1 327 can be taken to well over 400 CID. The bores have enough meat to be opened up .250". The 4 barrel motors used a casting that had full webbing on the main bearing saddles. This would allow new main bearing caps that are cross bolted. The heads really suck though.
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  2101. ​ @q4fire  The back of a horse trailer. "Don't be what you see."
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  2102. Instead of morals I suspect that a lot of it had to do with simply being unwilling to share a women's space with a man. Personally I think this individual needs therapy or a visit from some of the girls fathers. Instead of trying to get into a sorority maybe the campus trans community (all two or three of them as opposed to the its trendy idiots) form there own Greek house. Just use the Greek letters for LGBT.
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  2103. That's usually the case isn't it.
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  2104. Remember. There are "car enthusiasts" who would willingly chop up the sole remaining model of a low production classic in order to build a hot rod.
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  2105. The UK could have had the 4th of July as independence day.
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  2106. I remember seeing the news reel footage years ago and she was refered to as Old Implaccable.
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  2107. ​ @Rom3_29  I worked with a couple of guys who just barely made it out of Bosnia in the early 90s. One of whom snuck onto an evacuation flight. He was warned by a neighbor to get out. Immediately. This was right before the massacre in Sebernecia (sp) iirc.
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  2108. ​ @shadowcrusader7208  The scramble for Empire didn't help. Its possible that Imperial Germany could match or gain supremacy over the Royal Navy locally but not globally. But even locally Imperial Germany was simply hampered by geography.
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  2109. I don't know about that. I've heard of some pretty awesome electrics out there.
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  2110.  @stanpotter7764  Hell, I don't want to get shot by a BB gun (might have my eye shot out). Is the .30 Carbine underpowered compared to an intermediate cartridge much less a full powered battle rifle cartridge? Of course it is. But as stated in the video it must be taken in context of what the rifle was designed to do. As to my original post maybe I was being swarmy or pendactic. But sometimes the others just bring it out in me. As to penetration Paul Harrel has a video using the "meat" target.
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  2111. ​ @sprinkz6187  And commiting societal suicide.
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  2112. Especially crappy 8 dollar coffee. I know a retired pilot from United. He had a copilot he flew with whose family had a coffee business in Columbia. Starbucks is known for buying the lowest grade coffee they can and over roasting it. At least that's what l heard.
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  2113.  @SeSeReRfRf  Then why are farmers under restrictions about what the amount of run off from their pastures can be. I don't want them driven out of business but I also don't want them treating everything like a public sewer. Let's leave that for San Francisco.
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  2114. ​I doubt he has that many years left.
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  2115. Well, to each his own.
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  2116. As Matt Walsh once said. "Do you know what a cat is?" "Are you a cat?"
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  2117. That would depend on a lot of things. First what is the manufacturer's recommended max overbore (1). Second is core shift at the foundry. The only way to really find that out is to have the block sound checked. Plus there's the metallurgy of the block itself. Third is something a lot of people might not think about. Bore size versus bore spread. A 350 Chevy at standard bore size has .400 of an inch between the cylinder walls. That .4" has to accommodate both cylinder walls and the water jacket. Plus how thick is the deck surface. The manufacturers in their engine design stage look at a number of factors in their casting designs. One is weight. Every ounce of cast iron they can take out of a casting over time adds up to a significant amount of money. Alloying elements add up. Plus with US castings at various times the industry went on a serious weight reduction program. One typical period would be the early 80s. 1) Depending on the manufacturer and engine casting maximum overbore can range from .030 to as much as .125. If you get up to the high end it requires a relatively small bore in comparision to the bore spread with a heavy casting. A good example of this would be an AMC 290 or 304. A 3.750 bore in a block with a 4.750 bore spread. The overbore max is .125. Which would give just about the same bore and stroke as a 5.3 LS iirc.
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  2118. When in development and testing over the clear desert air of the Southwest the Jorden performed well. Over Central Europe with variable wind conditions not so much.
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  2119. How long before one sees herds of goats in places like Hyde Park? Or New York's Central Park.
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  2120.  @garydflatt4904  Also given the human propensity for keeping pets.
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  2121. Without using archival footage I suspect that various nations would not appreciate the landscape re-arangement that would be involved.
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  2122. Only if you are Scotsman 😁
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  2123. Look at just about any V-6 produced in the last 30 years with an aluminum block. Deep skirts, 6 bolt main caps, windage trays cast or stamped, cast oil pans etc. One engine that amazed me it did not have cross bolt mains was the GM Atlas family. Simply to increase stiffness in the lower end.
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  2124. There are photographs of a P-40 with twin engines. Was Curtiss serious? I don't know. Twin engined prop driven heavy fighters IMO was kind of a stupid idea. Adaptations of fast twin engined bombers or attack aircraft acting as interceptors/night fighters is something else. After all just how many twin engined fighters were successful as fighters. Reasons not to build them. 1) Cost. Probably the most expensive thing on the aircraft is the engines. You've doubled that cost right off the bat. 2) Manhours. The most important thing a nation at war can ill afford to waste is the lives of its servicemen. Second is the time. A twin is going to cost more in man hours in construction time. If a single engine type can do the same job. Build that. Reasons to build them. 1) Armament. A twin engined aircraft offers the possibility of heavier firepower. And not just in the guns. More ammunition capacity. A good example might be the Whirlwind. It had its problems. Cost, manhours (1) and engine availability. But if it had been in service in the late summer and early autumn of 1940 German bomber (and crew killed, wounded or POW) losses would have been much higher. 4 20mm cannon versus 8 .303 machine guns. 2) The ability to carry airborne radar and the operator. Early radar sets were not exactly compact. Let the pilot do the flying and gunnery. Let the operator find the target and direct the pilot to it. But as engines got more powerful as the war progressed the rational for a twin faded. 1) The Whirlwind besides being powered by the Perigrine was also supposed to be more complex to build. Not so much systems wise but the airframe and wings. Somewhere there has to be chart on man hours to build in terms of the airframe its self for the various types. Turns out there is information out there. Just a quick dive gave BF-109-F 6k hours. Early P-51 10.5k down to 2.5k hours for later production. D model most likely. FW-190. Around 10.5k. Japanese figures tend to be high also. Spitfire. I saw one figure at 15k. Likely it came down during the war. Part of the process of reducing manhours lies in ease of construction. Look at the F-6-F Hellcat. Aside from the engine cowling and the base of the vertical stabilizer there are few if any compound curves. Ease of production starts early. On the drafting boards.
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  2125. It's not the CIS gender men. It's the WORK that scares the hell out of them
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  2126. They are either carrying .45s or 10mm. I vote for a really tight group. Every round through the same hole.
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  2127. Now then send her for anger management training
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  2128. I drive through Milwaukee occasionally. Traffic used to be pretty normal on the local expressways. 55 limit. Traffic did about 60. Now you have to do 70 in a 55 just so you don't get run over. Cops or State Troopers. I never see 'em. And l see cars regularly doing close to 80 in 55 zones. How much of this due to car thefts l wonder.
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  2129.  @noelpucarua2843  I have Irish ancestors but l do not consider myself to be ethnicly Irish. Nor do l consider myself to be ethnicly Danish. Even though my family tree is 50% Danish. I was merely observing the eventual result of a policy of basically unlimited immigration from other regions.
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  2130. Cultural appropriation only works one way
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  2131.  @annaclarafenyo8185  I do not mean to be flippant. Who's god?
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  2132. ​ @demnuts8392  Likely been a bully ever since he learned he could take another kids toy. The child still hasn't grown up.
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  2133. Ketchup on Hot Dogs. You bought it. You're the one eating it. If you want ketchup it's your freaking business!
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  2134. The Chinese did form a colonial empire. It just wasn't formed by the state and was very loosely organized. It is the network of merchants and craftsmen all over SouthEast Asia
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  2135. Do you mean Kamchatka showed up for no reason.
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  2136. ​ @errolab3872  Illium, Troy, Troad or what ever it was known by could well have grown rich by acting as a gate keeper on a choke point of trade. Similiar to how today the rebels in Yemen are trying to control access to the Red Sea and pirates operating in the Straits of Malacca. Possibly different motives but taking advantage of Geographic choke points all the same.
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  2137. Both are a public health hazard.
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  2138. Any body armor before being fielded should have to be used by the approving officers over a 30 day period for the amount of time it is expected to be used by troops in the field. And in the circumstances it is expected to used in
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  2139. And then the Internet via YouTube allow idiots to post videos of themselves doing really stupid stuff while there buddy carved their tombstone. Hence "hold my beer" and "watch this" became memes
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  2140.  @TheEvertw  Believe me, I've pushed a far amount of chips with scrapers. Both flat and bearing. Of course to do the castings you need wood to carve the patterns. Tools to carve with. Like the man said, first you need to make the tools to make the tools etc, etc. And to think it all started with a rock cracked to get a sharp edge.
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  2141. We need a time machine so we can go back and take the proponents of the Bauhaus School out in back of the woodshed. Most "modern" architecture is soulless.
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  2142. The usual inventor of any typically seems to get screwed. And then you have the Dr Seldon types. Never invent or build anything. Just file a patent so you can strong arm royalties out of people with lawyers.
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  2143. In the mid 70s AMC sold the tooling for the V-6 back to Buick after Jeep had bought it in the 60s.
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  2144. One difference between say going ashore on a hostile beach and doing damage control is with damage control the immediate danger is right in front of your face.
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  2145. The idea of workplace safety rules is great. Certain practices, lock out tag ought for instance. Crane lifting procedures, sling types, rigging angles (the strength of the lifting device basically decreases by 1 x sin of the angle from the verticle) are only common sense. The biggest safety problem is people how do unsafe things. Use grinders without eye protection etc.
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  2146. The flat tappet cams in the 4.0s never went through a 2000 RPM for 20 minutes break in run at the factory.
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  2147. Anyone who supports this should experience it.
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  2148.  @grifter3680  Taxes come in, government spends tax money plus more on other stuff
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  2149.  @KenjiMapes  Gotta get rid of those assault cars. The same applies to pillows. After dear old Aunt Gladys got suffocated with one.
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  2150. If the definition of insanity is that you keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. Then the IJN took it to a new level of expecting the same result always
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  2151. In today's society it used to be the comedians that were the Court Jesters. But far too many have been attacked by the Woke Mob. Mr Walsh refuses to be intimidated thankfully.
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  2152. The 80s mini series and Cosmos are what prompted me to buy my first VCR
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  2153. The first real precision industry is one most people wouldn't consider. The manufacturing of pencils required a high degree of precision to become as ubiquitous as the #2 pencil is today. The other thing that aided precision manufacturing was uniform systems of screw pitches and other mechanical components such as gears and splines. While some companies* continued to use their own size's of screws industry eventually settled into the screw systems we use today. In the world of precision machine tools there are some companies that got into the business simply because they needed machines with higher accuracy than were available it the time. Swiss watch companies are an example of this. * Brown and Sharpe were notorious for this
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  2154. Th Amphibious ship in the USN was taken by Liberty Ships and purpose built Amphibious ships (see Away all Boats). Plus the LSTs and LSMs. Which led to the LSMR. A lot of firepower in very short time period with a long reload.
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  2155. One major problem I can see with this. The Great Lakes may contain 21% if all the surface fresh water on Earth. But the Great Lakes themselves receive very little water in terms of their Drainage Basin. For the most part the southern shore line of the Great Lakes is a mere handful of miles or kilometers from the continental sub-divide with the Mississippi Drainage Basin. I'm currently sitting about 1 mile west of the Lake Michigan shoreline (SE Wisconsin). The sub-divide is around 4 miles west of me. The only US state that is entirely in the Great Lakes watershed is Michigan. Such a mega city would be relying heavily on what is in reality fossil water. If such a city where to be built perhaps a better location if water is the main concern is in Siberia surrounding Lake Baikal. Baikal contains more water than the Great Lakes combined. Granted winter weather might be a concern but in such a place I suspect the vast majority would never need to venture outside at all. Besides you could never have the entire population of Earth living there. You would need a certain percentage. Possibly less than 5% to provide all of the needed services. Food for one. The main attraction to such an idea would be the ability to return a lot of the Earth to a state of nature.
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  2156. I as going to say crooks not cooks. But this can in some ways be attributed to one branch of engineering not understanding another bronch or discipline of engineering. Firearms and say automotive engines are both machines. But that does not mean an engineer proficient in one would be competent in ths other. Some of this aslo sounds like over zealous cost controls on management's part. Substituting a casting for forged or machined from solid is not a decision to be made lightly. The same could be said for substituting one steel vs another or heat treatment's
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  2157.  @captslaq  The same could be said for just about any profession. One example I've lawyers smart enough to pass the bar but were seemingly dumber than a box of rocks in other areas.
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  2158. In any elementary school there are always bullies. And one reason is because they always get away with it. They bully their victim. The victim lashes out and the victim is the one that gets in trouble. Why? Because the teachers and the school systems refuse to stand up and hold the bully and his/her parents responsible. In this case its bullies taking a free gift from the system because they are being "anti racist".
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  2159. The D engine six has the same bore center as the Chevy OHV and Pontiac OHC 6's. 4.400. That opens up some interesting possibilities.
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  2160. Years ago the Discovery or History Channel (1) had an episode on the US gun factory at West Point. Once a nation loses the skills and knowledge of how to do these things it is very difficult to start such operations up again. It is not like opening up a law office. 1) When the History Channel covered actual history.
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  2161. We are a long way from practical mass 3d metal printing of high precision items in my opinion. Yes there are certain things that can and are being done. But if you need thousands of say engine blocks a day current technology of creating and machining does the job. I want to see ISO Class 2 or ABEC Class 7 bearings being 3d printed.
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  2162.  @groupb9420  Hey Tony, fix a the jeep. It not a run. Fix it again Tony until it a run right
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  2163. Reminds me of the old joke about the country boy that jeets two lesbians in a bar in New York.
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  2164.  @fastinradfordable  Of course it is along with mostly Nitrogen (about 75%), CO2, Water vapor, some noble gases, Neon, Xenon etc. Think of it like Nitrous Oxide. The Nitrous breaks down and provide more oxygen for the combustion process. Imagine a cylinder with a set of exhaust ports around the bottom. As the piston reaches the bottom of the stroke the exhaust gases exit the ports into an expansion chamber. As the piston rises injectors open to inject a fuel and an oxidizer. No valve train. No parasitic losses from camshafts, valve springs etc. For sure the damn thing would go through oxidizer like mad. Although injecting nearly pure Hydrogen Peroxide would provide both the fuel and oxidizer in one. The H2O2 is so unstable the heat of the compression would break it down resulting in combustion with H2O being the primary exhaust gas. Basically a rocket engine working with a piston instead of an expansion bell
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  2165. One big stumbling block was the dizzy and intake manifold would interfer. If you are going to bother just go to OHC and get all the benefits.
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  2166.  @gmanbo  First it was tongue in cheek sarcasm. It doesnt always work. 😖 Second most railway guns were repurposed naval rifles to start with. This YouTube channel actually had a video on a double barrel bolt action rifle in which one bolt handle cycled both barrels. The locking mechanism when I saw it immediately put me in mind of the interrupted thread breeches seen on larger naval rifles https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=duoble+barrel+bolt+action+rifle&&view=detail&mid=F56107935D258ADD732DF56107935D258ADD732D&&FORM=VRDGAR These interrupted thread breaches are in my opinion one of the high points of manual machining operations along with centrifugal turbine rotors prior to CNC technology. One thing most people probably do not know is that a lot of complicated forms that needed to be machined prior to CNC were actually achieved by means of tracing a hand made pattern. This is how the dies for stamping out automotive sheet metal or the tooling for plastic models were produced for just a couple of examples.
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  2167. Ah, 2.7 Sludge-o-Matic. The sludge problem is actually caused by the small draon holes the head gasket
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  2168. Every year we hear news stories out of Saudi Arabia about worshippersgetting trampled in stampedes at one of the pilgrimage sites. Something l have never heard about amongst Christians in Jerusalem during Holy Week. As Christians we may have a desire to visit the Holy Land. But we are not compelled to as requirement. IMO the requirement to make a pilgrimage to Mecca was more about ensuring Mecca's primacy than anything else.
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  2169. Now do one that uses the Hammer and Sickle. It would be accurate.
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  2170. It had be very, very fast. One can not drop a ship and run a one can a rifle
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  2171. In automotive engines the wrist pin is typically offset 1 to 1.5 mm with the offset trailing the crankshaft direction of rotation. As I understand it this is done to 1) help the piston to begin the downward stroke. And 2) to reduce piston slap. Piston slap can also be reduced with tighter clearances between the piston and cylinder walls.
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  2172. K for Kalamity
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  2173. What movie is more woke. Snow White (1) or Wicked. 1) Snow White loses simply hecause of the title.
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  2174. Respond "l" and "me". That will really mess with their heads if they try and use them in a conversation. And in reality this is what this whole "my pronouns" boils down to. All of the chosen pronouns are actually l and me in their heads. An attempt to get attention by bullying people into adapting to their fantasies. Because remember it's all about me!
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  2175.  VOID Interactive  No, it's about deconstructing and destroying language. Also a significant part of it IMO is just kids messing with people. Personally I could care less if you identify as a different gender, a wolf, or a rock. But if I do not know someone the only option is the standard 1st, 2nd and 3rd person pronouns. Besides the use of them and its derivatives is 3rd person. When you are talking about someone. Who may not even be present. As to Ze, Zim, Zer etc. They are made up words. And yes we make up or adapt new words into the the English language in all of its forms. But the words that we make up or adapt are for things or actions. The military in Canada was looking at going with this crap. Then someone wrote up a sample after action report in which the preferred pronouns were they and them. The report literally made no sense. If one read it you literally could not tell who did what
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  2176. If any questions come up during a Drydock about the Swedish Navy then it should when The Swedish Chef appears. Of course Drach becomes completely unintelligible.
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  2177. I remember a line from a Polish official in the 1930s regarding their geopolitical position. Something to the effect that "on one hand we will loose our freedom, on the other we will loose our souls". Hell of a spot to be in.
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  2178. Different USB ports 😖 Car chargers "hold my beer"
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  2179. ​ @jayhanson-hs5vg  I'm not sure it even qualified as word salad. I remember in 2004 telling people who complained about Bush's public speaking abilities. If you don't like the policies fine. But you are voting for president. Not a used car salesmanm
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  2180.  @RaphaelBraun  The energy required for mining and processing materials. One figure I've seen is for a 1000 lbs battery pack for an EV you need to process about 500,000 lbs of raw materials.
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  2181. Bruce Tucker And the people who really got the shaft were the San. Now known as the Bushman by some. The great Bantu migration brought herding and agriculture to Southern Africa at the expense of the San
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  2182. The Oscar's. Who gives a rats backside.
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  2183. Sir you hit the nail squarely on the head. Any time a politician of any stripe is critical of spending in one area that does not mean they simply want to eliminate that much spending from the budget. It usually means they fo want to spend that money (and likely more) on their bright idea.
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  2184. First, the Wisconsin river does not run through Madison. The river does define the county line in the NW corner. Second, if the Southern part of the State seems more like Illinois. Especially the Eastern half it's because of all the damn FIBs moving north.
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  2185. I don't know what is scarier. An indicated 145 in a unibody Chrysler or 1970 era tires at that speed. And brakes.
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  2186. Instead of the tea it should have been the customs inspectors.
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  2187.  @johnshepherd8687  Yes I know. Although I'm not sure just how much the word "combat" can be used with either type of LCS. Plus in WWII there were fair number of submarines and smaller vessels built in yards on the Lakes. Petersen Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay used to build for the US Navy until they finally got fed up with the Navy constantly changing specifications. They still might be doing some contract building for the Corp of Engineers but I'm not sure about that. I do wonder in the case of the LCS ships just how that relates to the treaty with Canada that has provisions limiting the size and capabilities of warships operating on the Great Lakes. Especially seeing as how any USN ships operating on the Great Lakes have to travel through Canada to get there.
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  2188.  @johnshepherd8687  There are probably provisions for special exceptions. As I understand it the treaty limitations mainly are in place concerning vessels actually stationed on the Great Lakes. Of course it's not like a Nimtz class is going to be making a port call in Chicago. Over the years a few groups in Wisconsin came up with the idea of trying to get BB-64 as a museum ship. The Navy basically told them OK. If you can figure out how to get it there you can have it. A few years back there was an effort by a group in Milwaukee to secure a cruiser but that went nowhere. They only actual combat museum ships I can think of of the Silversides in Muskegeon and the Cobia in Manitowoc. There may be others but I don't know. There are two German subs on the Great Lakes. The U-505 and the one WWI sub sitting on the bottom of Lake Michigan.
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  2189. The Met's own officers admitted why. "There's a lot more of them than us."
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  2190. Das Boot
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  2191. I dont care how many shells you put down range if you can't hit anything it's all pointless
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  2192. Do you seriously expect politicians of all stripes to really do what is needed to reform the VA? Thankfully I never had to go in (I was about a month from getting my draft notice when they stopped sending them out). Those that did serve and were scarred mentally or physically deserve better. But unfortunately it seems most politicians only care about one thing. The next election. And if they see something that seems better for their district in terms of possibly securing votes they will invariably it seems vote in favor of those programs instead of properly funding the VA and its programs. That's how we get bridges to nowhere. Thats how we get programs that just give money to local and state governments with no requirement that the money spent on those problems will change anything. Federal dollars shoveled into education that produce no results comes to mind. Would more dollars in the VAs budget cure everything? Probably not. Any issues that are administrative cannot be solved with money. That takes policy changes and the will of the VA chiefs officials to enforce them. The VA is not a jobs program after all. I will now get off my soapbox
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  2193.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  Well, there is this classic from Thunderf00t. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tunderf00t+anti+science+video&&view=detail&mid=7F27203CB453952A51257F27203CB453952A5125&&FORM=VRDGAR Note at the end the "enlightened" individual proceeds to pick up her Western designed and invented cell phone to probably check her social networks. And she is speaking in English too.
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  2194. I agree with Jordan Peterson's take on the patriarchy. The majority of men are victims of it also.
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  2195. One thing Napier never shied away from was complexity.
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  2196. @EbenBransome  A lighter crank can allow faster rpm increase. After all it takes energy to spin the mass up. And the 4.0s getting spun up to 9k. That was on a 6 cylinder dragster with a thoroughly modified 4.0. Definitely not the stock drive train. Or extended time periods.
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  2197. She probably figures the correct or fair tax rate is 100%
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  2198. Any state issued ID cards do have them.
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  2199.  @243SUGARCUBE  I don't see voter ID as big problem. I do see roadblocks that a State may erect in getting an ID a big problem. Get on a commercial flight in the US without one. You can't. Return something to a store without a receipt. You need an ID. Your right to vote in local, state and national elections is balanced by the need for those elections to fair, open and excempt from voter fraud. Voter ID is one way to prevent voter fraud.
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  2200. It is longer than 12,000 years previously as thought. How long would it have taken for modern humans* to have spread far enough to leave traces behind them. From Africa there are only three routes into Europe. Through Anatolia into Greece and the Balkans, Across Gibraltar and from Tunisia into Scilly and on into Italy. All of them imply at least rudimentary navigational skills depending the conditions around the Darndenells and Bosphorus. Of course 60k + years ago shorelines were very different in the Aegean and Adriatic. *I really don't care for that term. It implies that Neanderthals, Denisovians are possibly other lineages were somehow subhuman. At least that is how some people will interpret the term. The "caveman" idea still is around.
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  2201.  Joakim von Anka  Hey, thems fighting words. 😉 Both of my fathers parents were from Denmark. So I call myeslf a Scandahoovian Southern Gentleman 🙄
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  2202. "The outward looking Woodrow Wilson was repla....." Well replacing an outright bigot with a politician of questionable morals is a step up. "The Great War." Great as large not as in really cool. Given any Navy is a branch of its government thus the 16" armed ships would get 14" shells while the 14s would get the 16" shells and the 12s the 14".
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  2203. The only way I can think they can do this is with an eccentric sleeve between the rod and journal on the crank. The trick is to get the sleeve to maintain proper orientation relative to crank rotation.
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  2204.  @falcovg2  But do Tulip and other ornamental bulbs qualify really
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  2205.  @TonboIV  And just where do you think most of the latest technology in production aside from aircraft engines came from. The Northeast had lost its hold on the machine tool industry to companies in the area between Cincinnati and Rockford for the most part. As to the Midwest. It depends on just where you place the deviding line between the Midwest and the Great Lakes Basin industrial region. Let's just put this to rest
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  2206.  @andrewallen9993  Simply boughten or built to their specs?
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  2207.  @hubbsllc  Worth doing? Hell, I dont know. Can we realistically build enough actual battery storage facilities along with all of the batteries that would be required to replace all of the current ICE powered cars and trucks. Is society willing to accept the mining that might be needed to supply all the rare earth materials required. If we go full on renewables are we going to be willing to devote the required space to the Solaror wind farms needed. I suspect that if you proposed a very large Solar facility in the deserts of the American Southwest there would be some group willing to file lawsuits to stop it. In reality we do not suffer from a lack of available energy sources. I would prefer to see us move away from fossil fuels as it becomes feasible.
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  2208. The AMC Gen 2 and Buick Big Block are very similiar. The earlier AMC V-8 is a completely different animal. Plus the bore centers on the two blocks are 4.750.
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  2209. I cant believe she actually used the phrase "tribal leaders"
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  2210. The thumbnail for the video it looks like Ian is smoking a pipe.
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  2211. Actually U-505 is about equidistant from USS Silversides and USS Cobia in Manitowoc.
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  2212.  @jonprince3237  Almost every one that I asked on just why the volunteered jump out of perfectly good airplanes responded with two words. "JUMP PAY"
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  2213. This is what happens when you put an ideologue lawyer in charge of an agency
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  2214. And they probably aren't the highest taxed state.
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  2215. Sounds like extortion to me If gentrification is the issue. Ask yourself why were the properties in the area bought cheap? One reason is the properties may well have been in very poor condition. And now their owners have put equity (both cash and sweat) into them. Why didnt the people who lived there before do the same thing. There is also another reason behind all this. The influx of Californians drove up real estate prices. Which was good for the sellers. Not so good for the people already living in Seattle
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  2216. The Gunner of the M8 went on to go to college on the G I Bill becoming a surgeon doing hemriod surgeries. Got his start against a King Tiger 😙
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  2217. ​ @tomtom3889  I'm glad you stated almost impossible. As highly unlikely as that is l would never say impossible. I also would never say its impossible that the British monarchy doesn't fade away.
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  2218. ​ @Eunegin23  Imagine a restored Bavarian monarchy that devotes a significant percentage of the budget to building new castles ala Mad King Ludwick as a jobs program. 🤯 Probably as useful as something's goverments do.
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  2219. The Blackburn Roc would've been even more effective seeing as it was slower. 🥴
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  2220. Concorde was a failure economically due to its limited carrying capacity*. That was one thing that Boeing and Lockheed both got right. But in the end cancelling the program was the smart move given oil shocks of the 70s. Although the idea of 2.5 hours from Chicago to Hawaii sounds attractive. Especially given the seats in economy. *Something the Brits did more than once was to build aircraft with too small of a passenger capacity.
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  2221. Stacy Abrams has never seen a single thing that can not be described as being some kind of "ist".
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  2222. I don't feel sorry for them at all. Yet there were or are Japanese wrecks in Truk Lagoon with human remains on board that one could dive on as I understand it. What constitutes a War Grave. A sunken warship yes. What about a sunken merchant man sunk by submarine, air attack or surface action. The men aboard who died certainly died because of hostile action.
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  2223. If she had gotten the bow from Illinios they could have called her Big Willi.
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  2224. One of these hypothetical capital ships must be named HMS Thunderer.
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  2225.  @danweyant707  It's easy for us today to second guess Truman. There were three options to convince Japan to surrender 1) The bombs 2) Blockade by submarines. In other words starving them into surrender 3) Operation Downfall. In the case of options 2 and 3 B-29raids on Japan would have continued. Meaning both Hiroshima and Nagasaki* would be hit. Possibly more than once. If the fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa were anything like what the Fighting on Kyushu and Honsho would be when Olympic and Coronet went ashore the causalities would have been horrendous. If the blockade had been used the amount of Japanese deaths would have likely exceeded the total death toll from the bomb by at least twice. In my opinion probably 10 times. Truman was faced with three bad choices. He choose the one that most likely had the lowest total deaths. Plus if the US had chosen to invade the bombs would li,ely have been used tactically. In the planning for Operations Olympic (Kyushu) and Coronet (Honshu) the assault divisions were considered to be combat ineffective due to casualties after three days. *Both cities were legitimate military targets given the arsenals and war related industries they contained.
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  2226.  @gunner678  Modern historical revisionism IMO. Option 2 would likely of worked but at a higher death toll in the end. And yes Japan was a spent force by then. At least in terms of any offensive capability. Yet at the same time they still had something like 1 million plus men under arms in China, Indochina, and the Indonesian Archipelago. Plus how many at home. Letting the war drag on would have resulted in far more deaths than those caused by the bombs. Besides without the use of the bombs there would have been a far higher likelihood of their being used in any of the other conflicts that occurred post WWII. And if the bomb had never been developed I think it likely we would have seen a general World War sometime around 1960. If you have ever asked any vets that would have been tasked with Operation Olympic and Coronet they would all tell you Truman made the right call. Plus Truman knew that if the US (and its allies) did invade Japan without the bomb being used. And then suffered 100K casualties. Never mind the Japanese casualties. The political shitstorm that would have resulted. Today Truman would have be vilified for NOT using the bomb.
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  2227. ​ @blondequijote  I don't think any sane person likes paying taxes. But I think sane rational people also realize that taxes are needed for a functioning society. The problem is the "money junkies" in Washington or London or Aukland (?) Or Canberra or any other place where you have national, state or provincial legislatures can always justify in their minds a tax increase. As to sin taxes if all monies raised from said sin taxes went to combating social or public health issues caused by those "vices" it would be one thing. But alas such sin taxes just go into the general fund.
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  2228. ​Randy Andy has a pair. It's what got him in trouble.
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  2229. Just wait until leftist academia figures out a way to use these metrics to suck more money out of society to attempt to uplift various groups. But only if they can control the process
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  2230. ​ @tim9817  A lot of older inline that had 4 main bearings were low hp, low stress engines so they could get away with it. And once the V-8s took off in the US six cylinder development pretty much stalled for twenty years.
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  2231.  @WALTERBROADDUS  I don't think they were expected to do much physical damage. Especially to industrial facilities. In terms of attacking infrastructure they probably would have better off attacking the power grid. The main damage the Raiders did was to Japanese morale and defensive considerations as per the Home Islands. If the Doolittle Raid caused the Japanese to keep significant air or naval power in Home Waters it was a win. As to casualties caused by the raid. The overwhelming majority of those were the estimated 100k Chinese killed as the result of either sheltering the aircrew or the IJA killing civilians while searching for them.
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  2232. Who here remembers that Baltimore neighborhood with piles of garbage, rats and other issues. The one that caused Trump to refer to it as worse than a Third World shithole. Baltimore officials were outraged. Did they do anything? No. It was left to volunteers from outside the City of Baltimore to clean up the mess. Of their own volition. After that does anyone with the brains to pour piss out of a boot expect Baltimore to care about anything.
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  2233. I wonder how all the SJW types who seem to all use iPhones feel about this
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  2234.  @ericsalles3393  Yup. That ice had to be meters thick within 9° of the Equator. Even during the glacial maximum there were still tropical zones with jungles
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  2235. How the hell did that get missed in assembly? Was GM using cold test stands in the mid 80s. If so this would have been caught as an oil pressure issue.
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  2236. And at the conclusion of the landings large numbers if landing craft along with other amphibious ships needed to be sent to the Med for Operation Dragon. And the the Western Pacific for Leyte.
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  2237. Does this go back to Zoasterism? Or earlier? The mullahs might not like it but cultural traditions are hard to stamp out
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  2238. All enemies foreign and domestic
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  2239. High Speed Rail is fine in higher density areas of the country. There's actually a certain point distance wise where High Speed Rail is faster than flying with all the hassle at the airport. Outside that range flying takes less time. Maybe 20 years ago Car and Driver had 6 sets of travelers going from NYC to DC. The fastest was the person who I assume exceeded the speed limit by a considerable margin. Second took the Acxela. Third drove keep pace with traffic. Fourth place to the one who drove at the speed limit. Fifth was the one who flew. Last took the Greyhound. The journey was from one address in midtown Manhattan to a hotel in DC. The problem is when you get out into what is disparagingly called flyover country. Depending on where you live it may take two or three hours or more to get to an airport. As for HSR the passenger density simply isn't there.
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  2240. While some will consider this a landslide victory one also needs to remember that for every 52 votes Biden received nationwide 48 people thought differently. The US is still deeply divided on many issues. And the division is not so much on the issues at stake themselves but what to do about them. Yes there are the extremists and crazies. ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DIVIDE. Biden has said he wants to try and heal the divisions. I want them healed also. But to do it I also think he will wind up alienating the progressive wing of his own party. I personally would like to see the rise of a centrist party in the US that would leave both the Republicans and Democrats with just the extremists.
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  2241. Figures, a Frog is involved.
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  2242. Instead of mining the Belt maybe it would be more beneficial financially to not only surface mine the Moon but if we determine that the mass concentrations present in the Moon are the remnants of large bodies that buried themselves in the Moon's interior and are not too deep it might be possible to do resource extraction there. Just how deep could we mine on the moon using automated equipment. I think eve tually when people do live there in large numbers the ideal living spaces will excavated under the surface*. A lot of the materials could be used in expanding CIS space infrastructure while those destined for use on Earth could be delivered via a mass driver. And yes I understand that the Mass Driver is technically a weapon system. But then there is no such thing as an unarmed space ship. * are non CIS spaces treated prejudicial 🙄🙄 ** Future human habitation of the Moon depends on several things. 1) Reduced launch costs. 2) There has to the economic and social need to do so. 3) If long term living in a 1/6th G environment is not overly adverse to overall human health. We really have no data on just what low gee means. We have two data points. 1g and Zero g. Is the plot on a graph a straight line? A curve that rises rapidly and levels off? Or a curve that rises slowly and then shoot up close to one g. The only way to find the answers is to do the actual research with rotating labs that allow for research at 1/3rd and 1/6th g. We actually could have done this already using Shuttle hardware.
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  2243.  @fernbedek6302  The implication was if Sudbury and its rich iron nickel ores are the result of an Asteriod impact (and I think they are) there are likely other such sites on the Moon. And eventually mining operations on Earth will be drastically reduced. Either from over extraction of readily accessible ores. Excessive extraction costs. Or because of environmental concerns. Lunar resource extraction provided it proves economically feasible has the advantage of you have a launch window virtually every single day.
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  2244. ​ @jimskirtt5717  Data from the school systems run by the US military strongly suggests "race" has little if any thing to do with IQ or intellectual capacity. I would argue that culture has more to do with if two societies with equal starting points have different levels of development or prosperity
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  2245. I can accept the climate is waming. I'll even accept that human beings have something to do with it. I do not acept that it is ALL due to human activity. All through the current interglacial climate has varied on a seemingly regular pattern. The Roman and Medieval Warm periods are real things. As were the climate down turns durning the so called Dark Ages and the Little Ice Age. For one example of varying climate and its effectsthere is a mountain pass between Italy and Switzerland. It recently (2005 or so) opened to foot traffic. One early explorer on foot found an artifact that turned out to be a 4500 year old birch quiver. She turned the artifact over to archeologists in Bern. They conducted further searches that found artifacts dated to known warm periods. And none to known cold periods. Now this was before massive burning of fossil fuels (people have been burning coal and peat longer than you think). Just what caused the climate changes in the past. Could maybe the Sun be more variable than we think on a time scale of say 800 years between peaks.
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  2246.  @darksu6947  No, they did the hand wave
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  2247.  @Thunderous117  Yup, Yuppers and Trolls
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  2248. What always amazes me is if the USA is so messed up why would anyone want to immigrate here.
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  2249. She makes me yearn for the days of Dan Quayle
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  2250. Uphill both ways too I suppose. Hope you had your loose leaf folder to fight off the grizzly bears. 🙄 Sorry but 3 inches ain't jack.
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  2251. The oldest known boat. Boats/watercraft likely go back a long way. The first ship of multiple pieces of wood. An actual boat or ship. One place we might find a really old one is in the Black Sea. Below the Oxygen layer.
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  2252. When I was still playing WoW Blitz this type of vessel along with destroyers were actually the most fun.
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  2253. The guy at the 1:00 mark. He is going WTF, is she insane.
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  2254. The Olympics are about diversity. No "diversity" no matter it's perversity. Needs to be added. Suggestions for future Olympics 1) There needs to be a permanent site or sites for the Olympics. These sites can also be used for other major international sporting events 2) The Olympics are simply getting too big IMO. It seems every year that new "sports" get added. I would not be surprised if there is a competition this year for Lesbian Interpretive Aquatic Dance. Prune the elligable sports back to those of say the 76 Games. The same goes for the Winter Games. At least there a lot of the events can be used for commercial activities post Games. The same for the indoor events. But what do you use a luge or bobsled run for. How many nations that host the Summer Games have a use for a Softball or Baseball stadium. Events that should be pruned 1) Baseball and Softball. Reason is not enough nations play it. If fact all stick and ball games. Lacrosse, Field Hockey, Cricket, Golf etc. These sports already have major championships and tournaments. 2) Football aka Soccer. Already have the World Cup thank you. 3) Synchronized Swimming. It's a sporting event. Not an Ester Williams movie. 4) Sailing events. Set up separate championships if you want. And l say this knowing a good medal winner lived about 60 km from my home. See Wizard or Zenda 5) Shooting events with firearms. Set up separate championships. Some countries how would a person even begin to compete unless a police officer or in the military. The sole exception being the Biathlon in the Winter Games. Maybe a Summer Games equivalent. A half Marathon lugging a .22 or air rifle on your back. Most people do not realize that the hard part of the event is not the skiing or the shooting. It's the switching mental gears between the two. 6) Bowling, curling and similiar "sports". See Ernest Hemingway's opinion on sports versus games. I'm sure there others that could go. Eliminating some of these would lower the financial costs of hosting the Olympics. And sending full teams.
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  2255. As I replied to one of the above posts. Be it tanker, dogface, gunner or pilot. You are only as good as your last engagement. And your last engagement could very well be your last. And for how many they never saw it coming
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  2256. And even that isn't a complete vacuum
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  2257.  @cohcam2113  good point 👍
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  2258. The UN is not a world government. And was never intended to be.
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  2259.  @christopherconard2831  Plus a new administration every 4 to 8 years. The possibility of the Congress swinging. For an example just look at the history of the SLS (aka Senate Launch System). They recently launched a new Great Lakes bulk carrier in Sturgeon Bay. Took at least 2 years to build.
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  2260. At least Flechette rounds have a historical background.
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  2261. Multiply in your head by 2.2. Just 2 is close enough for most things you can pickup with one hand. By the way. How many stone do you weigh?
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  2262. The people who decry that the cathedrals, palaces and other state constructions were a waste of money when that same money could have just been given to the poor. They fail to understand just what the economic effect of those massive construction projects was. From the men working in quarries to cut the raw stone, to the carters that transported the stone. The stonemasons that cut it to size. The carpenters that built the scaffolding. The sculptures that carved staturay. The men and women who grew the flax or raised the sheep that provided the textiles that went into producing the textiles. The bee keepers who provided the wax for candles. Those in the glass industry. Gold and silversmiths. The artists and craftsmen who produced the furnishings or interiors. The money paid for their labor and produced something that can stand for centuries. The money paid for apprentices so that skills were passed down. Money just given to the poor produces nothing but future empty bellies. Which require more money to fill. Temporarily.
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  2263. And here l thought angels looked like Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
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  2264. It is a rather large target. Besides I think the movement yo shit on Cali started and reached its cultural peak on San Francisco sidewalks
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  2265. She should really be wearing a big yellow foam cheese wedge on her forecast 😂😂
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  2266.  @niichigary8609  I had a boss who literally put his two brothers through their first 4 years of college. Pre-med. Their medical and dental school was on them. His mother used to talk about my son the doctor or dentist. When she was asked about her other son she replied "oh, he just works in a factory".
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  2267. The original inhabitants of of post glacial Ireland were people who were already living in Ice Age Europe for thousands of years. Plus I wonder how much of Ireland was under the ice.
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  2268. ​ @AlexKarasev  Scheeech! Crash!
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  2269.  @SidheKnight  Yah, but it costs an arm and a leg
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  2270. The definition of children can be twisted by people with an agenda. Consider the gun control add that is popping up on YouTube in which they make a statement about guns being the leading cause of death for children. The children include 17 year old gang members in our inner cities getting shot and killed by other teen aged gang members.
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  2271. Depends on the type of palm tree on New Guenia in the low lands they eat part of Sago Palms iirc
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  2272. There's only one poll that counts. The one on election day
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  2273.  @DanDavisHistory  In regards to riding or as a beast of burden what came first? From the beast of burden being led on a halter it would be a short step to riding. Or was it the other way around.
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  2274. Any ship can be sunk. Some just take more effort than others
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  2275. Just what is the process of relining a ships gun barrel. And how tightly did the liner fit
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  2276. When it comes to scale model ships some of the largest are the size of speed boats. Some of them have been built for movie use (In Harms Way). Others for ship handling training. This was done for some earlier supertankers in anticipation of the re-opening of the Suez Canal. A d then their is the gentleman in I believe New Hampshire that built a Graf Spee he could drive around on small lakes. While sitting inside of it. Bits of ships. The USS Maine's mast is preserved at the cemetery for the ships crew. Plus one of her anchors is in Havana
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  2277. There are two very good reasons not to muzzle the speech of others. The first is allows you to really understand their viewpoint. The second is they may be right. And you may be wrong.
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  2278. There was probably somebody filming on board the Hood.
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  2279. Of course one could be completely different and swap in the "other" 360.
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  2280.  @yurimodin7333  The Red Headed Stepchild of course.
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  2281. In a twist on the EV future Germany has been testing electric semis that when on the Autobahn can raise a pantograph and pickup electricity to an 9verhead wire. The basic way most electric powered trains work.
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  2282. I've wondered about the idea of BUFFs or B-ONEs equiped with the Tomcats radar and armed with Phoenix missiles. And by missiles l mean 4 to 6 times the number of missiles carried by the F-14. If the Cold War had ever turned hot the ability to ambush Soviet Naval Aviation Badgers and Backfires before they could get into range of convoys would make a big difference. Provided the whole thing didn't go nuclear first. Open season on Bears too.
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  2283. ​ @marcelma  How long does it take a pulp tree to grow until it is harvested. Hemp depending on the location is multiple crops a year at much higher density. One good thing to use for timber production is areas with poor souls. I'm not going to call a timber plantation a forest because it isn't. But we do need to do a better job of forest management in this country. One thing that we could do and often don't is clean out dead fall and other "forest litter". Fires are going to happen. Some species actually need and benefit from fires. But by letting fuel accumulate on the forest floor it makes the situation worse.
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  2284. Ever heard of this bird. And given its complex construction I can see why it never made a mark for itself. Besides by the time it could have entered service the jet revolution was beginning. And while this at least reached the prototype stage work was being done on the Type C.
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  2285. My dad brought back a 98-K. My brother has it now. The only time it was fired since it came over was in the 60s when my other brother used it for deer hunting. Commercial 7.92 ammo was available. I'm not sure if the surplus ammo market existed yet. My dad said they had gotten their hands on some sub guns but their unit officers took them away from them and turned them over to what ever unit was collecting as much of the German and Italian small arms laying around in spring of 45 in Northern Italy. He told us that the Beretta 9mm sub gun shot really nice.
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  2286. Ian actually has four of these. He uses them as the turn signals on his daily driver
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  2287.  @bkjeong4302  In terms of fire support in most instances a heavy cruiser would have been as useful, probably. One needs to remember that the superiority of the carrier wasn't entirely clear yet circa 1940.
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  2288. Custom! Limited,! Landau!!! The salesmen must have had fun with that one 😂
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  2289. Drums on a car run on the strip can get away with drums simply because you aren't going to have repetitive hard breaking. A street car driven hard or a road racing car. No way. In '69 Penske experimented with power steering on their TransAm Camaros. Not because of weight but because of driver fatigue.
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  2290.  @Zakatak-mf4iq  Ivan Ivanovich
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  2291. Almost every State in the US is going to have a few or a lot of places names, lakes or rivers that can be tongue twisters for the non native.
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  2292. Seems to me the solution is something in the range of 30:06, 7mm Magnum, 7.62 x 51 on up to .50 BMG. Limit 20 @ $20 a day and a new box of shells when you bring in the snouts.
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  2293. Crappy build quality, shite electrical systems, tractor engines and rust. At least the 240s got the rust part down pat.
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  2294. The Deltic was a triangular layout opposed piston supercharged diesel. The top cylinders were horizontal with the other two rows 30° from vertical. All three crankshafts geared to a common output shaft. One crankshaft had to rotate in the opposite rotation to allow the engine to work. Much of Napier's basic knowledge about opposed piston diesels came from their license purchased from Junkers.
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  2295. Seems there were a number of such pilots. The overwhelming majority of them German https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviators_who_became_ace_in_a_day&ved=2ahUKEwj9q5qV57XxAhXMXM0KHXxvCIkQFjAAegQIBhAC&usg=AOvVaw0auQdSqxPGcfb73rkkODT9
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  2296. The Asterix in Britian reminds me of the Lindsey Davis novels featuring the Roman informer (detective) in Britian The Silver Pigs A Body in the Bathouse The Jupiter Myth The audio editions are highly entertaining due to the narrator
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  2297. Using the 4th measuring option works great for layout work.
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  2298. There's a video out there on a very high isp chemical rocket fuel/oxidizer combination that was looked at that makes this look safe as houses. The oxidizer was Fluorine. Scott Manley and Alexander the ok for channels
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  2299.  @douglastobor7718  Well tea tasting like shit is an improvement in my book. Maybe I just don't like tea.
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  2300. No matter how good your gun system is you still need to score hits. It would be interesting to see who had the best fire control systems
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  2301.  @davidtuttle7556  Damn, I don't think a quad .50 is going to fit under the tree.
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  2302.  @ScottKenny1978  Lower the floor or raise the ceiling. Or both
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  2303. The politics of envy.
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  2304. ​ @loganblackwood2922  Not women. That woman.
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  2305.  @thomasc5605  Loaning a ship named Royal Sovereign to a communist state seems a true slap in the face. Or a classic case of understated irony.
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  2306. Drac and the sword Matt Easton. As opposed to the woodworker Matt Easton. Also a brit. And now if everyone's favorite Irishman was present he could suggest attaching the sword to the bow. Row closer so I can hit them with my sword! And is the sword an Uthbert?
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  2307.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Which itself is just a rehash of Romro and Juliet. Better music though. If I had a choice I'd rather sit through the early 60s movie of West Side Story than DeCaprio's Romeo and Juliet.
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  2308.  @rcrawford42  I'm beginning to hate driving on the Interstate thru Milwaukee. Speed limits are mere suggestions. If its 55 you have to do 65 just to avoid getting rear ended. But when it bumps up to 70 heading south some people slow down. People changing lanes. Not just one lane. But multiple lanes. And then back.
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  2309. Flint is still used today by re-enactors, recreational shooters and hunters using flintlock firearms.
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  2310. In terms something being valued look no farther than the US Navy turning the Oregon into an ammunition hulk. Plus there are limits to just how many museum ships any nation can preserve.
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  2311. Every time someone mentions 1984 consider the irony of the line. "Some pigs are more equal than others."
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  2312.  @jamesplotkin4674  How does a mid-engined Pacer with the top chopped off and the windshield cut down like on a Porsche Speedster sound.
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  2313. Probably come out as "Feed Me!!"
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  2314. The Titanic also had provisions in her design to allow for the mounting of naval artillery so she could be employed as an auxiliary cruiser. Although in case of ar it would make more sense to employ her as either a transport or hospital ship. As hers sisters Olymic and Britanic were.
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  2315. It's the party line.
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  2316. I can just see Tony in a tweed cap and scarf.
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  2317. I can't say about the Italians but as yo the Sherman it was produced in multiple facilities. Not just the Detroit Arsenal. With multiple engine types. These ranged from the Chrysler Multibank (which for some reason the British liked, the Ford GA V-8 which was a cut down version of the Ford V-1650 aero engine. The twin GMC 2 stroke inline 6 cylinder diesels. Plus radial engines in both petrol and diesel. Plus the two main difficulties the US faced in WWII were named Atlantic and Pacific. Add in the tanks needed to be shipped by rail from the factories to the ports. The cranes on the ships needed to be taken into consideration for loading and unloading. Yes the US was developing the T-26 (M-26 Pershing) which was barely ready for deployment in early 1945. Was the Sherman perfect? Of course it wasn't. Compared to some of its opponents it was taller than it should have been. This was a result partly of the design being powered by a 9 cylinder radial. Infact the running gear and suspension were actually holdovers from the M-2 medium. And before the first Sherman's ever left the factories Ordinance Branch was already working on upgunning the design. By 1945 the Sherman's leaving the factories had hardly any commonality with the first versions.
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  2318.  @PatrickSBellSr  The X1/9 succumbed to slow iron fires. AKA rust.
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  2319. Are you serious. You can't expect people to be responsible for themselves. That's racist after all.
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  2320. Of course it was designed in Imperial units. It was for the Glory of the British Empire. Conversion from Imperial to metric can be done successfully. Including tolerances. One simply needs to be very careful picking the right tolerance bands between the two systems.
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  2321. Plus in use it is always (unless you're Wokd and failed English) when you are speaking about a group of people. Who may not even be present.
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  2322. Why is it liberals and others always seem to have the opinion that the US should enter into negotiations be it international trade, security and other fields where the US always gives away the store. I will give you one example. The Machine Tool Industry. Machine tool builders in the US have to pay taxes on assets including spare parts, finished but unsold machines and other items. Yet foreign builders could ship brand-new machines into the US. Put them in warehouses at the ports of entry. But the machinery was not considered "imported" until it was shipped. That meant the builders could stock machinery and have it delivered within weeks of the order being placed or quicker than that. They could ship the machinery as soon as the customer had the foundation in place. US builders had to build to order adding months to delivery times.
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  2323. Two routes to go on this. 1) Bite the bullet and go with the small hydraulic lash adjusters that sit under the fulcrum end. Plus put rollers in the follower for the cam lobe to ride on. 2) Adjustment screws on the actuating end of the finger.
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  2324. Pay them in Zimbabwean $$$$
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  2325. ​ @OtherDalfite  These engines were tested in cold test stands that checked all the sensors, oil pressure timing etc. About the only thing they couldn't check iirc was the O2 sensor.
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  2326. ​ @RightSideofLeft  As AOC found out to her dismay.
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  2327. It took Vought three tries to get a capable carrier based jet fighter.
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  2328. One thing I really never understood about the Omaha Class. The US shipbuilding industry had been building battleships with superfiring turrets since the South Carolinas. And they couldn't handle them in the Omaha's? Or was it a case of the BuShips not knowing what the it wanted. And of all the Omaha's the one with the most checkered service in some ways USS Milwaukee* (CL-5) which was lent to the Soviet Northern Fleet in Murmansk. At least her name lives on in charts of the Atlantic seafloor in the Milwaukee Deep off the north shore of Puerto Rico. The deepest spot in the Atlantic in the Puerto Rican Trench. But still around 8,000ft/2440m less than Challenger Deep. *A seemingly unlucky name for US Navy ships given what happened to her predecessor.
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  2329. Some are useless idiots. Some are genuinely concerned about the Palestinian people. And some really are pro Hamas, pro terrorists and pro genocide.
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  2330. Tolerant bunch aren't they.
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  2331. I can think of another badge engineered model. VW's use of the Chrysler Grand Caravan/Town and Country.
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  2332. If Desantis and Abbott were truely the evil people the Woke think them to be they'd be bussing illegals to places like Seattle and Portland.
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  2333.  @PixivityComputerSpecialists  Of course she's a victim. Of her own stupidity. But a victim non the less. I'd wager if she got the case moved to San Francisco she'd get off.
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  2334. With the advent of good and cheap 3D resin printers a lot of modeling hobbies will be changing.
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  2335. If the name was available from the Navy registrar I think it safe to assume that there would have been a battleship and possibly a CVN named Constitution.
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  2336. Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no stinkin' badges.
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  2337. If the US did ice cream. And the Brits did beer. Fid the French have Vineyard ships. In the 1960s there was a really bad Bob Hope service comedy where Hope is searching for a sunken transport full of "Milwaukee Holy Water"
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  2338. Tower Shafts and bevel gears were standard for inline aircraft engines. Gears also drove the magnetos, oil pumps, foolant pumps and mechanical superchargers. Botton end bearings could be plain or roller type. Radials it was common to use ball bearings on the crank. The cam rings were driven by external and internal spur gears. The cam ring in an 18 cylinder radial often turned wt 25% of crank speed. Props in all engines except low powered direct drive engines used speed reduction drives to keep prop tip blade speeds below the speed of sound.
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  2339.  @babboon5764  Now that's something I've never heard about.
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  2340. Better than a really high cyclic rate of fire that gets the muzzle pointing at the sky.
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  2341. And here I thought they were all Russel Crowe clones. Say that one 10 times as fast as you can. A new tongue twister 😂
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  2342. It doesn't hurt the level of general incompetence they faced in their opponents
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  2343. ​ @Aireck174  "You vill eat ze bugs" Klaus Schmidt, 2021
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  2344. The dump truck still requires energy input. From gravity and the energy expended to load the truck, mine the ore, get the workers up the mountain to work at the site. Robert Anson Heinlein said it best There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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  2345. Reminds of an otherwise forgettable film Logan's Run. In which 30 year olds get ritually snuffed.
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  2346. I used to use one for removing or tightening retaining nuts for bearings on spindles. SKF KM nuts
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  2347.  @icelemir3050  In the world of IC engines the BRM stands out for the shear insanity of it (1). A two stage centrifugal super charger designed by Rolls Royce. DOHC heads, Hemisphereical combustion chambers. The cam drive comes off of the center of the crank plus that drives the oil pump, fuel pump, coolant pump and the primary input gear for the supercharger running at 6 or 7:1 of the crank rpm. 93.75cc or 5.72 ci per cylinder. 14k to 16k rpm at full song. A magneto driven off of each camshaft. Looking at a cutaway drawing you think you are looking at a mid to late 40s aero engine scaled down. But then the designers came from Napier as I understand it. For creativity or insanity look no farther than Napier. The closing years of the piston aero engines saw some truly wild designs. 24 cylinder H-24, 42 cylinder inline radials etc. http://www.snaplap.net/brm-v16/ 1. The BRM H-16 from the mid 60s 3.0L F1 cars comes close. If you are interested in older engines etc check out Old Machine Press https://oldmachinepress.com/
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  2348. But spend it they will. Because if we don't it spend the whole budget next year the budget will be cut.
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  2349. They have a special cell waiting for everyone elected Governor. Call it the Executive Suite
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  2350. In 1:350th or 1:1? Although printing in 1:1 would likely lead to a world wide shortage of 3D printing materials 😁
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  2351. The oldest ship still serving a function purpose (or parts of her) is the Mayflower iirc. Parts of her were supposedly purchased from a ship breakers yard and used in the construction of a barn in Buckinghamshire
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  2352. Water craft in one form or another go a long way back.
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  2353. If eight were insufficient just think how bad four would have been. Granted one rifle caliber round in theright place will take down a single and possibly a twin engined bomber of the period. Specifically a hit on the engine coolant or oiling system. These fluids were being pumped at high volumes with a limited supply which would lead to engine failure. Radials are less susceptible to this being air cooled but also suffer from higher drag on the engine installation. That is until the FW-190 and a few other types proved otherwise.
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  2354.  @SuperAWaC  With .01KT nuclear warheads.
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  2355. There where Soviet merchant men sailing between the US west coast and the Rusdian far east during the war carrying lend lease material iirc. Australia? Haven't a clue.
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  2356. In the Martin the Martian voice of course.
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  2357. So Cleo was a backup singer to Sam the Sham and the Paroahs
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  2358. Never assume that the difference would be better. The world could wind up with someone just as evil and much more competent.
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  2359. And just how far back in the past did cities in Connecticut have trolley buses?
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  2360.  @billfioretti3013  I know that.
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  2361.  @randyrussell4331  One reason H2 is such a storage problem is it leaks through just about everything. 1) Store it as a gas you are looking at either thick walled steel or carbon fiber cylinders or spheres 2) Store at as a liquid it has to be damn cold. Below 33° Kelvin. 3) Storing as a metal hydrate. Effectively forcing the H2 under pressure into a metallic sponge as I understand it. Of the three I can possibly see #1 and #3 as a "self serve" option. But not #2.
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  2362. Kier Starmar could have calmed things down a great deal by saying we are going to act to protect all communities. But no. He had to cater to his solid block of supporters.
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  2363.  @bluemarlin8138  Plus Prince of Wales got lucky with the dud shell from Bismarck that was found deep inside the ship.
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  2364. The first engine with variable valve timing, lift or duration l can think of was Lycoming's R-7750 36 cylinder inline radial. Four rows of 9 cylinders with the cylinders inline. Think of it as 9 four cylinder engines wrapped around one crankshaft. It featured OHCs that shifted position between cruise and max power settings. At least one engine still exists held by the Smithsonian.
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  2365. First off. What CIS white man would apply anyway. Second the hiring form is likely to be. Nose Ring ✓ Blue Hair✓ Instead of the Flair from Office Space. Tats 25% of visible skn ✓50%✓✓ Gender Studies Major✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓ Multiple piercings ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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  2366. I have my doubts about a fully or nearly complete specimen of Neanderthal being preserved in the ice or permafrost. The areas they are known to have inhabited have not had permafrost for thousands of years. Unless there have been Neanderthal remains found near the Artic Ocean. Any glacial areas unless the subject is shelteted from ice movement as was Ötzi will have long been melted as the ice flows down hill. The only places with ice old enough is the Continental Ice Caps on Greenland and Antarctica.
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  2367. Live flamingos have been spotted this far north in the summer.
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  2368. Expert her to be running for Congress in a few years.
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  2369. Once their favorite group of voters no longer needs them they'll be shoved out of the way.
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  2370. This is a question that I would think comes up in art and archeology quite often. On the archeology side we see locals (often poor) looting archeology sites and selling artifacts to private collectors. Imagine if the artifacts were a new collection similar to the Dead Sea Scrolls. In the art world, should the Mona Lisa or Starry Night be on the wall of some egomaniac with a "mine, its mine, all mine" mentality? Or should they be where anyone, provided they can get to the museum, can see it. Firearms are a little different. Unique firearms, that are one of a kind. I think I would say museum. Rare and extremely rare, a combination of the two. The less common where there were only say 200 to 2000 produced and have maybe 10% of the total left. Unless the firearm is important from a historical aspect, I would be inclined private collectors is fine. In a way its like the surviving piston engine fighters of the WWII era. Do we keep flying all the P51's until the last one crashes and burns at Reno, or at the hands of an owner that is just maybe in a little over his head? Earlier this year the builder of the Bugatti Model 100 reproduction was making one last flight before turning the A/C over to the museum that bought it. Shortly after take-off it rolled to the left and went straight in killing the builder and totally destroying the aircraft. I know this kind of thing happens but at some point historical artifacts do become part of the shared history of all of us.
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  2371. Totalitarian are never as smart as the think they. The truth is no one is as smart as they think they are in all areas of intellectual endeavor. I know I'm not. But a successful totalitarian only needs to smarter than his opposition. But this a condition that never lasts.
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  2372. This reminds me of the people who developed the technology to find and recover artifacts (including gold) from the SS Central America only to get taken to court by an insurance company that did nothing. Or governments that sieze treasure salvaged from their territorial waters.
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  2373. I can think of another German leader that abstained from meat.
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  2374.  @raypurchase801  Or a defrocked priest.
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  2375. Even as an ignorant Yank l can say 'not bloody likely'. In my opinion one elderly homeless Englishman sleeping on a park bench somewhere in London will be one Englishman too many. To certain powers that be that is.
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  2376. At least in the breakers yard she could be turned into something useful.
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  2377. I'm surprised the FBI and Homeland Security didn't show up.
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  2378. I'd rather they look like classic furniture. Than flatpak IKEA crap. If they have to look like furniture at all.
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  2379. Only slightly less hilarious than the K class boats. Except for their crews of course. Of course todays nuclear boats are in fact steam powered vessels.
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  2380. Ted Briggs said it best. A beautiful ship with a glass jaw. She was built as a battle cruiser. A flawed concept. Too many people thought that simply because she had the same guns as a battleship that made her a battleship. Her armor and armor scheme simply weren't up to the job. Plus she had been built to fight at shorther ranges. At the range Bismark's fatal shell hit her she was extremely vulnerable. Plus the Bismark while they had better gunnery that morning also fired a golden BB. I also wonder if the Royal Navy had fallen into the old habit of poor discipline or safety practices in handling the propellant between the magazines and turrets.
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  2381. During the Apollo Program critics were known to say. "We sent people all the way to the Moon and they bring back rocks." What did they expect, aged green cheese?
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  2382. The whole world has not gone mad. Only a small subset of it. Unfortunately a very loud and vocal subset. Mainly in what we term the "West". There are societies in world that hate the "West" (1) and all it stands for. Part of the reasons are geopolitical. But part of it is the ideas thee see coming out of the "West". And people like this are too stupid in my opinion to realize it. Maybe we need to set aside an region for them. In the US we could call it the State of Woke. Just make sure its someplace where the climate really sucks. 1) The West. The US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Western and Central Europe. Eastern Europe seems to immune to this to a large degree IMO. At least they seem to have little tolerance for wokeness.
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  2383. While l agree with the right to protest there are things you do not have the "right" to do. One is preventing others from going about their lawful business.
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  2384. ​ @DarkElfLover  I have never understood why a move through the Ardennes was such a shock in 1940 and 44. It was only the 2nd and 3rd time's the Germans tried it.
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  2385. Still have mine at 70. Must be the Neanderthal genes.
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  2386. ​ @reedsawyer5704  If their stock tanks it might not be a bad buy. I doubt they are going to go out of business.
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  2387. Mayor Lori Lightfoot, aka Beetlejuice, aka Abe from Oddworld.
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  2388. Remember, the RAF, the Air Ministry did everything they could to block the sale and use of the Wright D-12 in the UK. The D-12 was likely the best aviation engine of its type at the time.
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  2389. Wegener's big problrm was he had no way to describe the means by which the plates move across the Earth's surface. In the 70s l had a paperback of popilar science columns that Issac Asimov had written. In one he commented on how deep ocean trenches were often flanked by volcanic islands. And nobody knew why. Dates the article. I think thre should be a major science prize for the people who come up with ideas that everybody says are wrong and turns out out to be right. Call it the Wegener Prize.
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  2390.  @awc9864  I don't know if she's the only one. But on a national level. Sounds about right. I may not agree with her on a lot of stuff but I think she's pretty up front and honest. What you see is what you get.
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  2391. And paying taxes.
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  2392. Round 5 hits Mars
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  2393.  @levi5459  It's always about control.
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  2394.  @BetaBuxDelux  They want abortion encouraged.
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  2395. I heard that Biden picked up an endorsement from Depends.
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  2396. It's the BBC. What else would you expect. Everything is racist.
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  2397. I know there are people in the US that would love to get their hands on some of the twin cam heads used on the TC Torinos
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  2398. Is it just me or would it make sense for the evaluators in the Board of Ordinance in the 1950s to have been actual combat riflemen with a CIB. There most likely were individuals on the Ordinance Board that did have combat experience but how many of them actually had experienced combat as riflemen. Plus did they do honest evaluations of after action reports and captured German weapons. Specifically the G42, the G43 and the G44. Controlability of these weapons on full auto would have or should have opened their eyes on the usefulness of a full powered cartridge in a full auto rifle. Hell, the test rifles built from M1's would have revealed the stupidity of the idea. Something like the G42 in a 7.62 x 40 or so. The later video firing the EM-2 in .280 shows that had a far amount of muzzle climb also. We've seen reproduction G-42s produced, has anybody tackled this rifle?
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  2399.  @lostalone9320  If the RN and the Marines absolutely needed a SVTOL airframe it's my opinion they really should have just upgraded the Harrier. Face it nobody is going to be putting an amphibious force ashore in the face of air superiority. If all that's really needed is a close support airframe a STOL version of the Turcano would probably do. I also happen to think that the Marine MAUs should have a better option for gun fire support. Let's say the US needs to put a MAU ashore in the Hormuz Straight region (I'm not advocating it. This is hypothetical). The first thing the US Navy is going to do is to eliminate any potential threat from Iranian aircraft and SSMs. Second is any sub threat. Once the MAU is ashore if they need fire support they need it now. Now in the 5 or 10 minutes it might take to get the air raft there. This is one thing the LCS might have been good for. It's also another thing modularity might have been good for. If the Freedom LCS class had been built with the modularity concept built in base the modules on 40 ft standard shipping containers. These containers could have different configurations. One of which could be an integrated 155mm gun with its accompanying ammunition load carried in the container. The gun system could be based on a navalized version of the M-203 or the German PZz1000 (?). Additional containers could be carried onboard the accompanying replenishment vessel. Another design option for the containers could be accomodation space for troops assigned to the vessel for shipping security such as off the East African Coast or the Straits of Malacca.
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  2400. I've got an idea for a combination heat shield/rocket engine. Fiscripyion below 1) Central combustion chamber/s feeding a ring of nozzles that are oriented at 45° from the forward axis. The nozzles basically point in the opposite direction as normal. 2) The exhaust gases flow over an arched surface towards the perimeter. In profile the arch would only be one half of a full arch. 3) At the perimeter have a series of flaps that extend below the perimeter of the arched arched surface. 4) As the engine functions the gas flow across the surface increases pressure across the surface. The flaps at the outer edge cause gases to build up increasing the pressure at the edge. Think of the engine as being similiar to a blown wing on an aircraft. In reality the engine could probably be tested with low temperature materials using steam or even water sprayed at high presdure across the surface. The idea isn't to achieve an engine capable of propelling the vehicle in the launch phase. But instead to have an engine that would use the same structure as the re-entry heat shield as it's working surface. This could be used in an orbital vehicle that re-entry tail first and lands vertically. And while rocket engines work by ejecting a gas at high velocity and pressure that pressure is acting on the engine bell or aerospike surfaces as it expands to produce thrust.
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  2401. Flapping, gee isn't the "woke" person practicing hand waving oppressing autistic persons Lying to ourselves. I used to use a signature line that went, "if we lie to ourselves what lies will we willingly tell to others"
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  2402. Lack of preparedness. Lack of awareness. And outright stupidity. These can kill you. If you live where there is any chance of cold weather always keep an old blanket in your car. At a minimum. If traveling in cold weather, especially on roads with little traffic you can be risking your life or a loved ones life. Warm coats. Mittens instead of gloves. And good footwear and socks. And something to cover your head.
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  2403.  @robertcook2572  Love crime could be stalking because someone is obsessed with another person. Indifferent could be ignoring someone bleeding to death on the sidewalk.
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  2404. 17th century kraut space magic
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  2405. The best sounding air cooled engines are a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 or R-4360
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  2406. One his best and brightest. Just ask Nancy. And Chuck.
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  2407. Or the Afgan Wars
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  2408. When they pull the Tiger l out of the garage at Bovington the crew should dress up as Oddball and company.
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  2409. For about 1-1/2 years everyday on the way to work I would see 2 68 or 9 Javelins parked outside a garage. From the road they both looked pretty straight. Same paint color even. One day they were just gone.
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  2410.  @MrJohnnyDistortion  Just be aware of what you are getting into. Do not go into a project car all dreamy eyed.
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  2411. Worchestershire sauce and cheese? Well, to each his own.
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  2412. Prior to this time it was quite difficult for a nation to organize a relief effort in the case of a natural disaster. Even inside of a nations own borders it could be difficult. The first major natural disaster that was reported in anything like real time was Krakatoa. Simply because of the number of telegraph cables that had been laid in the years prior.
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  2413. One question. Iz the goat being taken to a neaby park for grazing?
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  2414.  @b.atwater3904  That depends on the Packards
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  2415. Did the proto Vietnamese develop Bronze on their own? Possibly, possibly not. But we will never really know. The question is. What is the tin source? Or was it Arsenic based?
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  2416. The whole idea of 1 on 1 ship combats taking place between capital ships is ludicrous simply because these ships are not going to operating by themselves. The exception being the Kriegsmarine
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  2417. 67 and 68 Rambler American could be had with a 343.
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  2418. Hunger Games was a bad novel. Not a blueprint for society
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  2419. And in future news a protest will be held in support of the assailant
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  2420. Remember when they wanted to start a service from Kenosha to Milwaukee using the C&NW right of way.
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  2421.  @matapan08  Actually I can take Metra from Kenosha into Chigago. Only it runs as a local making every single stop.
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  2422. Commanding general of the PMS division
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  2423. When Captain Evan's and his crew were born the US suffered a massive brass shortage.
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  2424. You're just not tapping into your Norman roots 😁. It's not just the Canadians that tap trees for their sap. We Yanks do it also. Only we don't seem to have major maple syrup heists every couple of years. It is also done in other countries and regions. Often to make booze.
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  2425. One should never forget that in the 50s and 60s the US and Canada also deployed SAM batteries for point defense of major urban areas. The Nike and Nike Zues were housed in concrete bunkers that covered logical approach vectors. Part of this SAM reliance resulted in the cancellation of the CF-106 Arrow.
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  2426. @buffbeezer Well, it is a desert. The mana ammo from heaven
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  2427. Hush hush. I got think so. There was even a movie starring Kurt Jurgens.
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  2428.  @petesheppard1709  I'm not a Washington resident but l watch a lot of videos about PNW geology. Specifically Nick Zentner. A fellow Cheesehead.
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  2429. Let's be honest. The major reason people would want to go to an orbital hotel is they'd be able try every position in the Kama Sutra
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  2430. It all about self-esteem
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  2431.  @David-yo5ws  That's what I get for recalling something from the History Channel The Track Ball (which I prefer actually goes back to the late 40s)
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  2432. Sounds like per fu romance art to me!
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  2433. They use the word cis as an insult. Todays socially acceptable prejudice is against straight people.
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  2434. The brown on the intersectional flag stands for the Hershey Highway
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  2435. ​ @theminister1154  As Dr Jerry Pournelle called in the 70s. Rubber science.
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  2436. I was doing sketches of cars in the 70s that looked just like this. Show me the money! 😄
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  2437. Zer uze ist a var crime! Er, Hans, what about the mustard gas?
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  2438. The Biblical flood story IMO can be traced to either the flooding of the current Persian Gulf or the Black Sea. The basic event. Not the embellishments.
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  2439. It's all part of the plan to make sure Trump is re-elected so they have an excuse to riot the next four years
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  2440. There was also a pretty fair degree of isolationist feeling at the time. Prior to the Draft being introduced the US Army was actually quite small in comparision. And the Marines were very small in terms of manpower. And spread pretty thin commitment wise.
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  2441.  @rogersmith7396  If the shIps weren't useful as warships they at least had scrap value. Plus there is the fact that every single fitting, screw and nut on board them was manufactured to a different set of thread standards. UNC, UNF and NPT, NPS vs Whitworth and BSTP and BSSP.
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  2442. Now just where did the Frogs get ducked up from.
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  2443. Hacking as in terms of gaining unauthorized access to systems can also be traced to people hacking phone systems after touch tone phones came into use. Thus was done by playing back sequences of tones each corresponding to 0 through 9. The purpose to make free long distance phone calls. Also at MIT computer students used the schools computers to control the MIT Model Railroad Club's layout in the 50s.
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  2444. This is no secret.
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  2445. And wide white walls with Tennessee Go-Fasters (curb feelers and mud flaps)
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  2446. The problem is he's telling everyone the Emperor has no clothes but the idiots won't listen.
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  2447. There is a difference between areas on the continent talking shelf that is above or below sea level and islands that are formed and disappear through geological processes. Volcanic islands do undergo collapse over time but any thing recent would still show up on ocean bottom mapping. Personally I think most if not all early immigration into the Americas (1) took place along the coasts. 1) Aside from Alaska
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  2448. In my head I'm hearing Claude Raines "Round up the usual suspects"
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  2449. There was also a proposal for a cargo module at the bottom of the Extrnal Tank. This could be used for outsized cargo or an approximately 26 foot diameter habitation module. If this had been built an flown we could have docked two ETs nose on to a beam structure and spun the assembly to provide a research facility on the effects of reduced gravity. Specifically 1/3rd and 1/6th g. We know that long term zero g is bad. We have no real idea as to the effects of reduced gravity. Are the effects linear? An ascending curve. Or one that climbs rapidly and levels off. If we ever intend on becoming a space fairing civilization we need to know.
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  2450. Imagine Band of Brothers being made today. The Trans-men of Easy Company would be jumping into Normandy under rainbow parachutes and equipped with M-1s and M-1 Carbines that fire bouquets at the evil CIS Nazis. And grenades that explode into potpourri. All while wearing pink uniforms with corsages for camouflage.
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  2451. The only reason these bozos got away with this is because the volume of water provided a large enough heat sink to chill the aluminium and keep the steam from forming. I predict for their next trick they will drop a frozen turkey into a deep fryer. Filled to the top with oil
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  2452. Until arguments break out over fouls etc.
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  2453.  @AndreiTupolev  BRM loved their excessively complicated but powerful Formula I engines didn't they. In the past I've made the arguement that Napier's Sabre as good as it was, was in truth an excessive waste of skilled manhours when the job could just as well have been done by Rolls Royce Griffin. After WWII Napier developed one of the most advanced piston engines for aircraft use ever built. The Nomad. Just in time for jets.
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  2454. Anyone seen... Hey, I live there. As bad as things were for those few days the damage from arson and looting was no where near as bad as say Minneapolis. Bad enough though.
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  2455. The woman at the 4 minute mark appears to have been competing in the national trans buffet competition.
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  2456. ​Best not sing Rule Britainna
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  2457.  @AlexSalikan  The stone circles that Ballard found off of Galipoli in Anzac Cove (1) when foing a survey of the wrecks of Allied warships from WWI certainly show that things were being built. The area was last above sea level 8000 BCE or 8000 years ago. Then there are the structures found in the Bay of Mumbai. I'm not saying that there was some highly advanced technological civilization at that time. Simply there was more going on than we think. 1) entirely by accident.
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  2458. What's to say the the crew of any ship knew anything about metal working beyond basic blacksmithing.
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  2459. Plumridge's high stuff collar and neck cloth were totally unnecessary to hold his head up as the complete vacuum between his ears would do the job quite adequately. The Kriegsmarine destroyer at 14:40. Did the DKM actually have copies of the drawings for the Fletcher Class? A damaged rudder steaming in circles. Sounds familiar. The whole incident sounds like something if you wrote it as fiction the editor would throw the manuscript back at the author.
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  2460. And similar to any of a number of other slurs the Woke hurl at people. If they can label you ist that. Or phobic of some sort it allows them to dehumanize you in their minds.
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  2461. 304. A smogged down dog. But they can be woken up. An 1/8th overbore, 360 heads for bigger valves and a cam is a start. The 304 was not used for TransAm racing. In 68 and 69 they used a 290 opened up .094". From 70 on the Javelins used a Special Service Block. Basically a 360* with 390/401 coolant passages and main webs for 4 bolt mains. The motor was destroked to get under the 305 CID engine limit. No, not an LA 360.
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  2462. The Aereologists are never going to give in on the Carolina Bays. The big issue I see with them being wind generated is the gradual shift in orientation as they get farther south. One thing the Aereologists point to is the age of the sediments in the Bays. Along with the lack of impact proxies in the Bays themselves. If the Bays were formed by masses of ice lofted by an impact eventing wonder just how solid these masses would be at impact. Perhaps more on the order of slushy snowballs. Another thing that causes me to doubt the wind formation idea is amount of overlapping of the Bay structures. Plus some of them being visible below water courses in LIDAR and ground penetrating radar.
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  2463. Hence the expression. "Going at it hammer and tongs" Making the sheet stock would have been a crafts all in its own.
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  2464. In the Bush ll administration we had Bush Derangement Syndrome. I was with my morning coffee group one day and somebody was complaining about Bush's public speaking and how he sounds like an idiot. My response was if we want somebody who is a glib speaker lets just elect a used car salesman.
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  2465. If the WWF is truely concerned about over fishing why don't they single out the Chinese. Oh, OK move along nothing to see here.
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  2466. Cancel by the State. In the era of Stalin that could involve a 7.62 Tokarov
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  2467. Three ballistic gel blocks and hardly slowed down. And sounded about as loud as a pellet gun.
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  2468. Does anyone really write feminist reviews? Anyone who really does something useful?
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  2469. From the demographics Portland outweighs the rest of the state just like Chiraq in Illinois and NYC in New York state.
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  2470.  @DMH-bt2zo  North Carolina by itself is larger than Java.
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  2471. ​ @DaBriars  Every country? Probably most countries have some ethnic Irish living in their borders. But all? Aside from diplomatic staff and families l can't imagine any ethnically Irish immigrating to say North Korea. Or some African nations.
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  2472. And limit the number of plastic types used to improve the recycling system.
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  2473. Drach has done a series of videos on the War of 1812 on the Grest Lakes and Lake Champlain iirc
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  2474. Japan does face a major demographic problem of an aging population without enough young people entering the workforce. There are only two ways out of that problem. Increased automation. Or immigration of outsiders. If they are going to allow immigrants they would be better off allowing workers from SE Asian countries such as Vietnam, the Phillipines and not from South Asian countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan.
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  2475. Korean and Japanese industrial firms tend to be very diverse in what they build.
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  2476. It takes a special kind of low life to steal from Girl Scouts
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  2477. My go to over the years has always been Bondhaus. They will fail. Just about anything will after all. And for pipes we used ones that had a short section maybe 1/4 to 1/3 the the length of the main section welded on at a 45° angle. This allowed more angle to get into tight spots and afforded a better grip when just using the main section.
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  2478.  @xmbiedirt  One thing I always found to help on the smaller flat heads is to use a punch and hammer to put a shock load on them. I suspect the reason that flathead lock down so well is the slight mismatch between the tapped holes and the countersinks. Let's say the pass holes have a +/- tolerance of .004"/.1mm and now if you are dealing with countersinks that got machined in a drill press or by hand those could be all over the place. And they can give your hand a tingle when they break loose. The job I retired from first we had machines that put all the rings on a piston in one operation. They had arms that would carry all 5 components in to place which would be clamped in place. The arms swing out and you put the piston in. Clamp releases. You pull the piston out and the cycle repeats. The arms where separated by thin plates with socket head flat screws retaining them. 1/4-28 or 10-32 iirc. Any time you took the plates apart for any reason you threw the screws away. Trying to reuse them was asking for trouble.
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  2479. If the French and Britain had shown some balls they would of saved a lot of lives. Germany was not ready for war. Yes a lot of young men would of died if fighting broke out. But probably a lot less than did. Appeasement wound up handing the Germans a fully functioning arms industry producing small arms, tanks and motor vehicles. Way to go Neville.
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  2480.  peter murphy  And if you have an issue, be it vandalism, traffic accident or a store owner that got pistol whipped by a thief just who are you going to call. The freaking Ghostbusters. I'm all for getting rid of the bad apples. If a law enforcement officer is abusing his or her authority I expect action to be taken. But to expect perfection out of any organization made up of human beings is shear lunacy. I can just I imagine the type of organization that would be setup by some people. It would be staffed with social workers and conflict resolution councilors. If there was an situation that required a response first they would have to meet to reach a consensus.
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  2481. Why is just about everyplace in the US that resembles a third world crap hole are run by Democrats. And they just keep getting crappier by the minute
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  2482. One problem in Wisconsin is the way districts are drawn it will be very hard to break the current Republican stranglehold on the State Legislature. Not that l want to see a State Legislature dominated by the Democrats either. And l really do not want to see the State Legislature and the office of Governor held by a single party. Having at least one part of the state government controlled by the other other party at least puts the brakes on the fringes of both parties. I would also like to see the stranglehold that Madison has on the Democratic Party broken.
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  2483. Looking at the early swept wing jet fighters given the physics and aerodynamics involved it is no surprise that these planes tend to have similar characteristics. Some people think that various planes such as the MIG-15, the Lag-15, the SAAB 29, the F-86, the F-84 and others are all based off of Kurt Tanks Ta-183. Even if the designers even knew about the Hunchback it was the aerodynamics that drove the design solutions. In the end two basic jet designs appeared. Nose intakes and side intakes. The problem with nose intakes as the demand for greater air intake the designers where limited by the fuselage diameter. The history of the MIG-15 will forever be intertwined with the F-86. The aircraft while both fighters were designed with different from different philosophies. The MIG-15 was designed more as a point defense fighter. The Sabre had to be designed not only as a defensive fighter but for escort roles as well. This is one reason for the difference in size. The Sabre was slightly faster. The MIG had a higher ceiling. The Sabre carried more ammo. The guns on the MIG hit harder. In the end as stated it came down to the skill of the pilot, who saw who first. Another factor in the MIGs favor was it probably had better radar coverage especially deep in MIG Alley
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  2484. I agree. This is question of defending sanity vs pushing truely insane ideas. But (theres always a but) we also have to recognize that Gender Dysphoria really does exist. And in some cases the best option for some individuals is truely transition. And in those cases that is a decision best left to an adult after intense therapy. The absolutely last therapy should be the knife. Forcing children onto thus path is child abuse of the first order.
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  2485. And share a cell with the perverbial Bubba At least they wiil have a choice of being the husband or the wife
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  2486. At least it's not Yonkers as in Yonkers NY
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  2487. And Kamel's people kicking out all the customers at the place in Pennsylvania so they could bus in the special "customers".
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  2488. Thank the US Navy for the research. A lot of basic oceanic research was funded by the Navy for it's own purposes. One purpose involved detecting subs by magnetic sensors.
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  2489.  @metalema6  The location changes all the time. My father had a German military compass that had offsets on the case for directional corrections. By pole swapping is a whole different thing
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  2490. The DFV is one of the two greatest racing engines ever built. The other is the Miller/Offenhuaser.
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  2491. I for one would never make the mistake that they are. I worked with a guy that spent time in Iran in the mid 60s when American Motors set-up a production facility for what was basically the 1964 Rambler American at Pars Khodro.
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  2492. If he cannot put coherent sentences together he's a perfect replacement for Senator Fuddleman (D-PA)
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  2493. Maybe he actually meant incompetent.
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  2494. Just don't ask the Aussies for advice based on the Emu War (the Emus won)
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  2495. "So as not to obfuscate what is actually taking place." No Mr Mayor. That is exactly what you are doing.
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  2496.  @wonder-bred  Yup, socially acceptable rats
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  2497.  @charlescarter3867  I could name a few other places. Is slavery America's original sin? Possibly. But it sure didn't originate here.
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  2498. They fail to realize that if they can deny you a platform there is nothing to deny them a platform.
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  2499. The monitors the USN had built had centerline turrets.
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  2500. @l u l u We are all gradiants of the same color
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  2501. Plus all those West Virginia coal miners.
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  2502. Yamato. The worlds largest (one way) submersible.
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  2503. Some people will do anything yo try and revive a career. And if he is so concerned about the environment why is he supporting a chemical company by purchasing cyanoacrylate?
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  2504. On factory assembled press fit wrist pins the rod small end was typically induction heated.
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  2505. Everybody from the 60s knows the best kind of car to take a date to the drive-in was a Rambler. Reclining seats 💏👪👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Then again maybe not.
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  2506. I think the only way Cosworth can get around the cranktwist problem is small cylinder bores, fairly close cylinder spacing and newer high strength steel alloys for the crank forging. What's the car that is being developed with an X-16 or X-20 layout. Two narrow angle V-8s or V-10s on a common crankcase. Small displacement too.
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  2507. I take it Swordfish lacked the range to reach Taranto from Malta.
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  2508. There are some that will never be found or if found identified because they are either in deep ocean water or will simply be too far gone to be identifiable.
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  2509. There is a Jordan Peterson video where he is talking about the people who keep modern society running. Its not the urban professionals. Its the people, mostly men, mostly white at least in the West (1),that keep the lights on. The sewers and waste treatment facilities working. The water systems that deliver water to the faucet. Maintain the natural gas distribution systems. Without these systems and infrastructure society would quickly fall apart. 1) Its not race that sees these men in these jobs. Its a work ethic. Personally l don't care who is doing these jobs in terms of ethnic backround. What l care about is the jobs get done. What l care about is competence. If that makes me an ablist so be it.
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  2510. Proof once again that money and taste are not necessarily related.
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  2511. Its a Winkata
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  2512. The oil that feeds the crankpin first has to lubricate the pin and pin bearing in the slider. The it gets to lubricate the slider top and bottom. All this after the inevitable looses of oil from the main and pin bearings. If this is a better system overall it would have been in use by some automotive manufacturer
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  2513.  @washingtonradio  The US was a major exporter of wheat to Britian at the time. The Norths secret weapon in the ACW was the McCormick Reamer.
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  2514. So was I. Specifically I was thinking of his busting the M1 myths.
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  2515. I think he was referring to non ceremonial roles.
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  2516. Haven't had a root heer float since I was a kid about 60 years ago.
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  2517. ​ @Kio954b  Who the hell cares what A list celebrities and entertainers think. Their opinions or who they are going to vote for counts the same as anyone else. ONE VOTE. And that's all their opinion counts up as. Anyone who decides who to vote for because of a celebrities opinion, a political pundents opinion etc is lazy and easily led. Think for yourself. Listen to what candidates really say. Research their past history on voting for bills. And then vote for the next person running.
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  2518. What about instead of introducing the Kurz they just issued a reduced performance version if the 8x57mm. Although I can see the that might cause issues with existing weapons
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  2519. There will never a shortage of politicians in the US (or voters for that matter) yhat believe it is perfectly reasonable to bypass the US Constitution for what ever cause they advocate.
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  2520.  @Stay-xb9id  Try that with a men's club nowadays. The feminists battered down that door a long time ago.
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  2521. Note that they only judge past generations if they are Europeans. Every one else gets a pass.
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  2522. One wonders just could have been done in the North American market with the 4.2 liter Atlas from GM. I'd like to see a video on the TC racing series in Argentina. Inline 6's from Ford, Chevy and Jeep converted to 24 valve DOHC.
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  2523.  @Dave5843-d9m  The fuel used on the various railroads also was dependent on the local availsbility of coal or oil. With steam is just wasn't the overall efficiency it was also the maintenance requirements of steam engines vs diesels.
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  2524. Given a history of DUI, if the net is to be believed. He's not a danger to anyone unless he sees a bottle.
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  2525. Personally, I doubt it. The dead reliably vote Dem
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  2526. The domestic and the import cars all have this little thing called emissions they have to pass.
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  2527.  @modarkthemauler  Well the 120mm in the M1A1 uses semi combustible cases ammunition
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  2528. The problem there is the turret catapult was on top of turret 3. Unless Arizona still had a midship catapult.
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  2529. Just who the hell have the Irish oppressed in the last 1000 years?
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  2530. Actions have consequences after all.
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  2531.  @SteamCrane  Friend of mine has a number of books he's written on Great Lakes shipwrecks*. He's of the opinion that the ship might of grounded near Michipicoten Island. But he also thinks that th sinking had a number of contributing factors. Yet no one has ever found any evidence that the Fitz did ground. I think I will stick with the hatch cover clamps. Wave action might have put her underwater but she didnot have enough reserve bouancy to recover.
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  2532.  @MotoroidARFC  Submariners are also used to being cooped up in an enclosed environment for months at a time.
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  2533. What really sucked was the FIAT dealer didn't stock these. They wanted to sell you an 850 Spyder instead
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  2534.  @johannesmichaelalhaugthoma4215  I've seen that. I think Ian had video with it. Insane rate of fire
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  2535.  @samoldfield5220  The quad 50 or the quad 20mm would be very effective in forcing enemy infantry to ground.
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  2536. The US auto industry used millions, heck probably close to a billion or more flat tappet lifters over the years. And this was never a major problem no matter if the lifters were solid or hydraulic. For flat tappet lifters to function properly you need to have four manufacturing tolerances held in how the parts are assembled. 1) The tappet face needs to be ground so that the face is a shallow convex form 2) The lobe profile on the cam needs to be ground at a slight taper 3) The lifter bores need to be square to the pan rail of the block usually within .0001" per inch. 4) The cam bore needs to be parallel to the pan rail and the block main manufacturing* holes with in .003" or less over the length of the cam bores. Additionally the cam bore needs to be parallel to with .003" or less to the crankshaft main bearing bores. This needs to be done up to several 1000 times a day depending on manufacturing schedules. And all the companies manufacturing automotive engines were able to do this day in and day out. * The main manufacturing holes are the two large holes drilled and reamed into the pan rail that seem to serve no useful purpose. The locator holes are what is used to locate the block in the stations on the machining lines used.
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  2537. Dry sump
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  2538.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  All that was missing was the god Finagle and his prophet Murphy.
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  2539. Their exercising their right to protest does not give them the right to stop others from going about their lawful business.
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  2540.  @daieast6305  And often the heroes barely qualify as such. And some 'heroes' were in favor of gun control to some degree. But then firearms and alcohol really do not mix well.
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  2541. They went from the Leaper to the Larper.
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  2542. For decades Detroit has had Devil's Night. Oakland just wants to catch up.
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  2543. No but the funny farm called and was wondering just how you got out.
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  2544.  @joemontgomery6658  Film junkies love Eisenstein but I have always found his work pretentious although the Odessa Steps is a redeeming moment
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  2545. By taking three pieces and using them to match their surfaces to each other in a process that will produce 3 flat surfaces. Look into Scraping and Surface Plates. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=12&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjVl6Sy8pXeAhVGpFkKHSJfCSsQFjALegQICBAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fericweinhoffer.com%2Fblog%2F2017%2F7%2F30%2Fthe-whitworth-three-plates-method&usg=AOvVaw1EyJyVi-SijTwVGTuHnL6F https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjhvbLL8pXeAhUGrVkKHR23BD4QFjAEegQIDBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSurface_plate&usg=AOvVaw2qWJopr1PnI8fN1YJQit7d Once three flat surfaces have been established they can be used to produce master gages for scraping the ways and sliding elements of a machine. One note here. "Flat" does not mean "Level". "Flat" means the surface is as close to being in one plane as possible.
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  2546. Yes they have a voice. But no one has to listen to them.
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  2547. Oh, it can always get worse. I think l have finally figured out why Elon Musk wants to be able to go to Mars. He wants to offer all of the lunatics a free trip.
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  2548. ​ @SurfCityBill  Well hard time for the victim anyways. "Oh, your car was stolen and trashed. Here's a bus token."
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  2549. ​ @mason5540  "If you can't do the time. Don't do the crime." Beretta, sometimes in the 70s
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  2550. @OtakuLoki  I doubt PWRs will ever see use in commercial shipping again. But future reactor technology?
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  2551. Its more fun to blame the cows and Massholes.
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  2552. If you are referring to the Murmansk I think you are that is slightly confusing as she was the USS Milwaukee (CL-5).
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  2553. I wonder if that's related to the shear volume of shells that were expended. When you have multiple ships blazing away at the same target.
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  2554. Only not with her.
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  2555. Colors as related to US political parties. Democrats. Blue. Either depressed or mellowed out. Republicans. Red. Angry or reactionary. About thirty years ago the folors got switched by the media. Could it be the media realized that in many peoples minds red was associated with the USSR and communism. And many in the media leaned Democrat. And most still do Third parties. Greens. Self expanatory. Party symbol should be a watermelon. Green on the outside. Red on the inside. Fits as they are basically environmentally concerned Socialists Libertarians. Grey or mud colored. Fits as their positions are muddled IMO. LGBTQ+ABCDE........ Variable depending on what is the latest "victim" group. Unity Party. White. All colors combined
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  2556.  @Ushio01  That must be great comfort to their crews.
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  2557.  @josephsperrazza3082  The Spirit was also available with the 304. A real gutless wonder with a two barrel. It only had a 3.750 bore so the valves were small. But I did know one guy who snuck one out of the factory with a 360 and a 4 barrel.
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  2558. So I guess the East German Olympic team's women were just ahead of their time.
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  2559.  @MilitaryHistoryVisualized  Just look at the Sherman being called the "Ronson". I'll accept the Tommy Cooker. The Sherman was held up as being prone to fire due to its fuel. Yet nobody says anything about all the other tanks that u see d petrol. The Sherman's that burned early were usually burned because of ammunition fires. Wet stowage largely eliminated that problem. Was the Sherman inferior to the Panther. Tactically yes. Strategically no. Let's not forget the Panther weighed 10 tons more than the Sherman. A lot of that was in the frontal armour. Plus the Panther had arguably the best tank gun of WWII. But myths persist. As much are they are dispelled. They get to be resurrected.
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  2560. I'm actually surprised they did not upgraded the engines to a turboprop. Or were there gobs of new R-2800s sitting around in warehouses.
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  2561. Locally we have a trucking company that got its start hauling garbage. Named Zizzo's
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  2562. Is mathematics as we know it the creation of white civilization? I would not be so sure about that. Yes Euclid, Pythagoras and other contributed. But the roots of higher paths go back to into Mesopotamian and Indian subcontinent civilizations in my opinion. Is Newton the role inventor of calculus? Liebnitz was arriving at the same point a th the same time. I think we remember Newton more mainly because of his Mathematical Principles. In antiquity there was some working towards calculus. The point is normally nothing is developed or invented in a vacuum. But mathematics truely is a universal logically consistent* system of of finding answers to problems. At least those problems that can be defined by it. *I think to really crasp mathematics you need to understand cause and effect. If your world view is based on magic or mysticism then IMO you are going to have problems.
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  2563. The Titanic was originally designed with enough boats The Eastland was raised and converted to a US Navy Reserve traing ship. In the early 20s she was used to sink a U-boat in Lake Michigan
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  2564. Machinery for fast merchant ships taking a bite out of warship machinery production. Limited production capacity? Could this part of the reason that the US Navy was very seriously interested in electric drive for larger warships at one point? I would think that you would need minimal or even no speed reduction between the steam turbines and the generator sets. Also at reduced cruising speeds it might be possible to run the motors for two of the screws off of one generator set. As an aside just what is the normal running speed for a steam turbine in terms of RPM? If the turbine is running at say 10,000 rpm and your screws are turning 200 rpm that's a 50:1 reduction. A four step reduction is possible with the greatest difference being 20t/64t. This also allows smaller gears to be used. But in gear train design unless strictly required it is generally good practice to use at least one odd number of teeth in a gear ratio. Better yet use two prime numbers. An example of this can be found in automotive final drives which are often in the ranges of 3.08 to 1 which can be achieved with a 13 tooth pinion and a 40 tooth driven. In this case the same two teeth will mesh every 520 revolutions of the pinion. But lower numbers of teeth on the driven gear also mean the same two gears will mesh more often. Plus using multiple steps means more shafts. More bearings etc. More potential failure points. It may be outside the scope of this channel but to me it would be interesting to see just what the processes used to build the gear reduction sets for warships as well as such item as the interrupted screw breeches of larger naval guns. I'm a reasonably competent machinist and I've cut a large number of gears in my working life but the ones in say reduction sets for ships are way beyond anything I've ever done.
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  2565. ​ @richardmeineke8654  199 sleeved down to 183. Around 600 hp.
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  2566. Was this the last naval battle were prizes were taken
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  2567.  @leoamery  I stand corrected
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  2568. Yah, they had a bad year up in the mountains. The Sierras get a lot of snow. Now if you stored more of the spring runoff maybe your water problems wouldn't be so bad. Or it could be that most of your population lives in a desert?
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  2569. Scholars need snacks and munchies too.
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  2570.  @dave8599  Nothing says you can't run industrial power tools off of hydraulic systems. The advantages. Constant torque at all rpms. On the fly Infinity variable spindle speeds from zero to 100% with nothing more than a flow control valve. Variable pressure output via pressure relief valves that take the place of transformers and/or rheostats. The downsides. Running tubing or hoses from a central supply. Leaks. All, and I mean all hydraulic systems will leak. Did i mention leaks. Noise. Hydraulic systems can be noisy. The last place I worked built industrial centrifuges for a variety of uses. One model model used a hydraulic motor to spin the centrifuge. The machines already had hydraulics on them as they use a hydraulic motor with flow control valves to control both the rpms and power output in terms of torque for the internal augers used to move the dewaterin material out of the machine. One thing the Amish do is to convert woodworking machinery to hydraulic and run the hydraulic pump with a gas or diesel engine. Your already having to buy the fuel anyway so why not just run the equipment with electricity from the generator. Or put in a couple of vertical axis wind turbines and use those. As to the vertical axis wind turbines. The aren't as efficient as the horizontal axis ones (40% vs 50%) but they are more efficient in terms of how much area they take up plus they have certain other benefits. One is that all you have at the top of the mast is the bearing set. Second is the generator is down at base level. Third is you do not have to be able to rotate them into the wind. https://www.centrisys-cnp.com/videos
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  2571. So, they tested the idea with a golf ball. I want one. Just the thing for the back nine. What is truely amazing with the M79 is the US Army embraced the KISS principle.
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  2572. Computer was actually a job description
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  2573. The wack jobs will eat their heroes
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  2574.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  Moderation in all things. Including moderation. 😉
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  2575. One look at the NS Savannah should tell you something. If nuclear powered ships become a thing I can see ports being closed to them. Of course if compact fusion reactors ever become available.........
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  2576. Personally l have my doubts about oil on Mars. Mainly because l don't think Mars ever had enough active geology and erosion to bury organics at the depth needed to convert the organic matter into oil. Now if petroleum or natural gas is found on Mars it would be very valuable as feedstocks for various industries. Some people seem to think that if we go 100% renewables the petrochemical industry will just disappear. Sorry, it ain't gonna happen. The industry will shrink but it will still be around.
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  2577. Green Bay will be updated in the future. The possibility of an expanded upper deck exists along with converting to seats. Except for the lower bowl (1). Do not expect the distance of the front to seats to change. The Lambeau Leap is too much of a tradition. I could see where the upper deck could be enclosable. Or heated to some degree. Even a system to heat the bleacher seats at some point. But if the NFL or TV starts to demand all stadiums be enclosed let them pay for it. One thing you will not see in Green Bay is artificial turf. They will stay grass as long the team is there.
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  2578. Which one was carried on in frontline service into the 1950s. Even though it was more expensive to build. There's your answer.
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  2579. It's in a safe place. Being studied by "top men".
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  2580. The simplist way to check overall lobe height is put the cam in a lathe between centers. This of course is provided you have access to a lathe 🙄 this will also allow you to check the cam bearing run out. Cam are found between centers. In the old days many moons ago the cam lobes were ground using a master cam. Today it's all CNC And if you are going to use dial indicators. They give the most accurate reading if the axis of the indicator is 90°s to the diameter or surface being checked. And instead of using a mag base make up a set of posts that screw into the various tapped holes.
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  2581. This isn't the only time in history a politician has made things worse.
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  2582. This is the aspect of military firearms that one should always keep in mind. The service rifles, pistols and machine guns were developed with one function. And that is to inflict grievous bodily harm on another human being. Sometimes this is performed in the pursuit of a greater good. Unfortunately these circumstances are always necessitated by the aggression of one nation state against another. Rest in peace Major Fraser
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  2583. They've tried the same thing with golf balls. Unfortunately a yellow ball sitting 8n the fairway 200 plus yards away tends to just fade into the green of the grass.
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  2584. Streets of Fire, my God it's got the Blasters what more do you need
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  2585. ​ @chuckschillingvideos  Britian had guaranteed Belgium neutrality. What really amazes me is the Allies got suckered three times in thirty years for the same axis of attack by Gernany through the Ardennes. As to France wanting revenge. France declared war on Germany (Prusdia) in the 1870s.
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  2586. Many states still do. Where I live car dealerships (new and used) are closed on Sundays. Why? Who knows.
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  2587.  @jeffkearney2488  Only if you have a lawyer throwing
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  2588.  @physiocrat7143  Well, the plum brandy will liven any gathering up.
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  2589. As a dumb yank it seems to me that the SNP is not for Scotland or the Scots.
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  2590.  @finscreenname  Reroute from Pearl Harbor to the knackers yard on San Francisco Bay she sank in a storm.
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  2591. There are times when even if you win the victory is so costly that you may have been better off not fighting at all. Of course if your back is up against the proverbial wall there's not much choice.
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  2592. I remember reading some stuff about Robert Anson Heinlein. Raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Graduated from Annapolis. Medically retired from the US Navy due to respiratory problems (TB). The HS he graduated from required three languages including Greek and Latin iirc.
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  2593. Yah, but the ice fishing sucks.
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  2594. If they identify as a fluffy bunny. Identify as a coyote. Who are they to deny your inner self.
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  2595. One problem is with anti ship missiles that seriously out range naval gunfire support.
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  2596. I do know that the china for USS Illinois BB-65 or 66 is at the governor's mansion or the Statehouse in Springfield. The rest of the Iowa class l don't know.
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  2597. I recall seeing a photograph of the Lydia and her opponent building in a yard in a 1950s National Geographic. These were models in the sense that they were subscale. But they were also actual vessels. Definitely look bigger than the typical model ships in movies. They sure looked better than the ones that were used ln Harm's Way. I wonder if they still exist? Most likely not.
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  2598. A 15" armored piercing shell hitting an Age of Sail ship to the line is going to do more damage than simply punching a 15" hole on each side. Plus if the shell hit one of the cannon or shot in the shot locker that might set fuse off. Bismark vs any age of sail could simply rely of its AA batteries
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  2599.  @embalmed  Toxic too as I recall
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  2600.  @michaelweston4738  I used to rebuild seam welding heads. High copper content spindle. The bearing mou ring diameters and the area where the conta t shoes ran all had to be ground. Copper grinds like poop.
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  2601. Rolling Block or Martini-Henry? Herr Werder enters the room.
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  2602. Putting large numbers of offensive or defensive missiles into a few targets is very risky. One aspect of the concept is that arming a few hulls could pretty much take all of the missiles the US Navy had at the time. I still yhink the concept of a ship designed to take morular systems makes a certain amount of sense. The ships crew operates the ship and its organic helicopters. Crew asigned to the modules operate the modules. Most modules would be likely be air defense ones equipped with SM-1 missiles. Additional modules could be oriented towards ASW, drone operations or even to provide artillery support for Amphibious operations. If the ship pulls into port with an empty missile magazine off load the that module and swap it out for a full one. If the ship gets assigned to support an Amphibious goup replace two modules with modules equipped with 155mm guns
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  2603. And it's not like new processors can't be made.
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  2604. The Lycoming R-7755 aircraft radial of the mid 1940s had camshafts with two lobe for each valve. One for cruise. The other for maximum power https://oldmachinepress.com/2018/05/20/lycoming-xr-7755-35-cylinder-aircraft-engine/
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  2605. I'm not sure there is enough digital storage out there for that.
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  2606. 30 years or so ago our local PD went from .38 Special Revolvers (1) to semiauto. My brother in law headed up the selection process. They went to .45 ACP vs 9mm because they wanted to avoid over penetration.
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  2607.  @matapan08  there should be no reason you can't have both.
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  2608. ​ @michaelreilly1310esq  Extra weight? The 302 with thin wall casting technology probably weighs the same or less than that ancient cast iron six with non crossflow heads. With aluminum heads, intake and short heads it for sure does. Replace the original transmission w/overdrive with a T5 that's more weight savings. And you do not need a heavily modified 302. Plus this likely has better brakes (1). Better tires. Better shocks. Improved cooling. Not sure how much power the stock rear end could handle. As to the frame box any sections that are not boxed but only U shaped sections. I'm not sure l would want to drive it in the rain. It a car like this isn't meant as daily transportation. If rain is in the forecast leave it parked 1) Bigger brakes only increase stopping power to a point. If you don't have enough contact surface the bigger brakes will only lock up the wheels that !much faster.
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  2609. And yet it is my understanding that gay sex acts are common amongst youngmen in Muslim countries.
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  2610.  @RandomPlaceHolderName  Rather than labeling the earlier stuff far right I think a better term might be Eurocentric or Ethnocentric.
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  2611.  @RandomPlaceHolderName  No I'm not. I'm referring to the work and outlook that existed pre 1900. As to the use of left or right I think it's a far too simplistic way of looking at politics or social views. A far better method in my opinion is the dual axis method or even better a three axis method. Now just how you define the axis's is another matter.
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  2612. Once this is established just huh ow long well it be before Hamas or an allied organization decides to attack any of the following. Personnel, convoys or distribution sites. I for one remember when Somolia started as a humanitarian aid effort. Largely spurred due to news reports.
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  2613. The total amount of Solar energy the US gets per year is way more than what we use. And that's only the sun shine. Wind is nothing more than Solar at a second level. I'm all for us stopping to burn coal. After all why should we treat the atmosphere like an open sewer. We have options. 1) Solar and its second level uses. Those being wind and hydro. Another type of Solar is using the temperature between surface water and water at a depth to condense and heat a working gas to spin a turbine. Another Solar one step down would be to tap into the ocean currents. The annual flow of the Gulf Stream is way over what we produce every year. The big problem with renewables is storage for when the sun don't shine and the wind doesn't blow. There are options here as well. Compressed air, molten salt heat sinks, pumped hydro or gravity systems. Sure there are losses in each one. But coal and gas aren't exactly lose free. 2) Tidal. Sure it only works in certain areas. But a free source. The equipment costs but the energy is coming from tides generated by the Moon's gravity. 3) Geothermal. What if we could tap the heat in the Yellowstone Hot Spot. 3) Nuclear. The 4th generation plant and reactor designs are way different than the earlier plants like Fukishima or 3 Mile Island*. And a lot safer. Current designs are designed to be fail safe systems. Ultimately I expect fusion reactors to be practible in perhaps 15 years. Or maybe a little more. If I was making decisions we'd throw money into the most promising proposals that are not Tokamaks. The ultimate fusion reactor would run on the Proton-Boron 11 reaction. It offers the promise of direct generation of electricity with the reaction by product being Helium. We don't have a shortage of energy. We have a shortage of willpower and vision.
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  2614. Was your doctoral thesis on how any rock with a Mors hardness above 1 is suffering from Toxic Rockness.
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  2615. For today's progressives Gaza and the Palestinians are the new "cause". Do the Palestinians deserve to be victims. Of course not. But look at who victimizes them the most. And start there.
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  2616. It's my understand that even today the occasional fishing boat from West Africa drifts ashore along the Brazilian coast.
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  2617. I think sourdough l think San Francisco.
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  2618. Plus Smiling Albert had the luxury of fighting a defensive campaign in a country practically made for it.
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  2619.  @mattmcdonald7112  The US (and Canada) use 240V on the residential supply. Stepped down to 120V at the home (it's a legacy thing)*. Also at 60Hz. But the 240V is still available for electric hot water, heat and appliances. Most industrial facilities use 480V *Even the screw in base on light bulbs is a legacy thing. Going back to Edison.
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  2620. With your clearly evident Two Tier Policing I always think of the irony of 1984. Some pigs are more equal than others.
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  2621.  @unluckyirish2763  Beat me to it.
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  2622. The mayor complains about the stores closing. Not about the thieves. Also there was a low cost Supermarket chain that was going to open up in shut down Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck). Community "leaders" protested.
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  2623.  @TeddyG-y6s  I already l got the humor but the comment got deleted.
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  2624. ​ @frankkrunk  I would contend every single German engineer proposed and designed weapons from mid war on solely to keep themselves out of uniform
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  2625. Its Labor. I'm surprised they haven't adopted Palastinian Arabic.
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  2626. And here l thought it was East Anglia.
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  2627. The Spanish could well be from Armada sailors wrecked along the Irish coast trying to get back to Spain What about your Neanderthal addmix
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  2628. And likely dumped any shop classes they had.
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  2629. The secret is in the purple layout fluid.
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  2630. Well Ferrari's general attitude towards their customers did lead to Lamborghini starting to build cars as well as tractors. One thing I can see about refusing to sell to some customers. If you lack the skill set need to really drive one their cars or any number of other high performance vehicles. Then you have no business driving one on public roads
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  2631. There is also footage of the attack taken by an Army NCO from Hickam Field with his own 16mm camera. I'm wondering if the Navy or Army had ratings or technical personnel who were assigned specific duties to film or take still photos of stuff when the excrement hit the fan pre war. There were obviously photographic personnel whose job was to take photographs and shoot film during the war.
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  2632. The pressure wave was detected 6 or 7 times. Mostly by recording barometers. A useful arguement to use against those modern idiots. Flat Earthers
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  2633. ​ @truthnpaws3866  I bet to differ. There is nothing but deep water between Hawaii and Alaska The Hawaiian Chain extends to the West Northwest (approximately 300° true) to Midway. After that it's submerged seamounts until you reach about 172° East. Then the seamounts track makes an abrupt change to the North (say 355° true) heading toward the Western end of the Aleutian Islands and Trench. The change in direction of the seamounts is related to the Pacific Plate having changed direction in the distant past. The Plate has moved. Not the island generating Hot Spot.
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  2634. Jefferson's Gunboat Policy was perhaps the epitome of Defense on the Cheap. And Defense on the Cheap is always expensive in the long run. The US Navy at the time had no chance taking on the Royal Navy at sea beyond ship to ship actions. And those would always be of limited number and any losses could be shrugged off as being over matched. And any victories massive propaganda boosts. And realistically I would say the US Navy had no real chance at sea against the Royal Navy up through World War 1. The principle means of defense of any nation. Especially any nation acting on the world stage. And the US was acting on the world stage during the age of Nelson even if only in terms of being involved in world trade. That first line of defense is effective foreign policy. Even then that can not always prevent a nation finding itself at war. One issue that many people IMO fail to realize is it only takes one side to start a fight (or a war). Unless you totally eliminate the other side it takes both sides to end one.
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  2635. If governments really want to push EVs and reduce emissions I think they would be better off putting in place policies that encourage hybrids that can function as electric in in town driving at low speeds. But once you get outside the urban area z gas engine kicks in to either power the vehicle directly or provide electricity by spinning a generator. For top efficiency have the ICE tuned at one set RPM tuned to deliver the best HP/KW to fuel usage. A small gas turbine would be ideal for this.
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  2636. Any one who has to use a snow shovel should look at the thumbnail yo this video. If you have a shovel with a straight handle. Get rid of it and switch to one of these. Your back will thank you. Also the best shovel for clearing out driveway approaches after the plow goes by is a long handle shovel meant for shoveling dirt or stone from a pile.
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  2637. Remember a few years back when there was a major heist, of maple syrup
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  2638. And the Kurds
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  2639. I see you also thought of Drachinifel's French seagoing hotel video
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  2640.  @SudrianTales  And said committees went on to design the Pontiac Aztek 😁
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  2641.  @oldsguy354  No, wait. He couldn't appoint Stacy. That would be two appointments. 😄
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  2642. In the US if you are wounded enough to get sent home that's a Million Dollar Wound. Or was anyway. Given inflation it's more like a Billion.
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  2643. One thing I think that the Federal government should do is get rid of the FEMA trailer idea. If we are going to provide temporary housing I think a far better option would be to build the temporary housing out off the basic fourty foot shipping container. These would be much more robust. Plus they would be stackable. These could be prepositioned as unit trains in areas of low risk and possibly on shipping. Would they be luxurious? No, but they aren't meant to be. I wonder just how many of the FEMA trailers were usable post Katrina. Also I think it's high time we made changes in building codes in this country. You live in tornado alley and you build houses out of 2x4s? There has to be a better way.
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  2644.  @zenogias01  Add in the fact that NO is perhaps the most corrupt city in the country. Plus they repeatedly used funds meant for improving levees etc for other things. The pictures of all the school buses sitting in water up to their windows says a lot about the incompetence of the city government.
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  2645. JC Whitney suspension mods. They work extremely well with their Tennessee Go Fasters* and Curb feelers.
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  2646. Surplus ones were solid to the Galactic Emporer Marvin Martian for firing the Q-35 Space Modulator rounds. "Oh my"
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  2647. Arrange a ride for Eric Dubay, Flat Earth Asshole, Janerism (aka Jism). I'll bet they'd still say "its flat"
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  2648. I question as to whether or not the Roman's actually used Roman numerals for serious work or whether they had an informal system of signs for doing calculations that was used by people who actually used math in their profession. Bankers, surveyors, engineers etc. The formal system may simply have been used for official documents etc. And by an informal systems one individual may have his own symbology
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  2649.  @DanafoxyVixen  Their head lamp switches were labeled Dim, Flicker and Maybe🤞🤞
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  2650. As neat as this is Adam, you should check out two web sites. One is Upper Hudson Valley Gift Shop. The other is MicroArtworks. Sorry for no links but they feature card models. Insanely detailed card models. Hudson Valley has a 1/48th Saturn V along with a ton of other stuff for download. MicroArtworks has a Apollo Program Crawler Transporter in 1/96th scale. With tracks that get built up piece by piece. The designer is currently working on a model of the LUT togo with the crawler. He has the Swing Arm that matched up with the Command Module for download along with instructions in Adobe that you can view in 3D
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  2651.  @Minekeepout  If you think they might have a problem with a jury pool in this case just imagine the situation in Minneapolis with the George Floyd case
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  2652. Coronado is connected by land but it is a long drive south to Imperial Beach (aka Venereal Bitch). Last time I was in San Diego the bridge was free going to Coronado. The toll was for the return trip.
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  2653.  @veronika829  As to the public education system. It's the local school boards, the government (local, state and federal) along we with the teachers unions that have destroyed the public education system in the US.
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  2654.  @horsemumbler1  A lot depends on just were the attacking fighters are being vectored from. How many seconds of ammunition does the fighter have? Granted the the head on attack is a lower angle deflection. But it also has the highest closing speed. Hence the least amount of time for top turret and chin gunners. But once the Luftwaffe got hammered so badly in early to mid 44 pilot quality drastically
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  2655. The prototypes for an interstellar ark will be colonies similar to the O'Neil proposals in the 1970's. In fact it may well be that interstellar colonies if ever attempted may well be more interested in colonizing the target systems asteroids and other small bodies instead of going down to any habitable or semi-habitable planet. In reality we are a long way from even thinking about serious star ships being proposed. The technology needed will also be adaptable to improving life on Earth.
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  2656. I remember seeing concept art in the mid to late 70s of smaller passenger vans. Another idea that had some market success was the small but tall station wagon. Mistubishi had one. Then the PT Cruiser and the Chevy HHR dried up that market. The last US built stationwagon type vehicle I can think of was the Ford Flex.
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  2657. We shouldn't have any need to ban drag shows for kids. Any one with a modicum of common sense knows kids and drag shows do not mix.
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  2658. Just be glad the trial wasn't in Weyawega, Waushabawan or Oconomowac. Can you imagine just how they'd butcher those.
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  2659. One would think in the entertainment world the word would be out. Avoid her like the plague.
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  2660. I find I funny that some people complain about US inline 6s being non crossflow head designs. Yet look at the 240Z, Triumph Spitfire and TR-6 And none, absolutely none of thepse engines are reliable without proper maintenance
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  2661. I do not know all the nuances New York state law regarding this. As I understand it the cops asked the store clerk why didn't you run out the back. Which the clerk may have had a legal obligation under the law to do. This raises certain questions 1) He is 61 years old. His assailant is mid 20s to m as the 30. This begs the question could he even get away. 2) The victim here (the clerk imo) is involved in what he thinks he's in a fight for his life. He has no time to analyze the situation. 3) What is the agenda of the District Attorneys office of Manhattan (a)? Is the DA of Manhattan opinion on violent crime in his area of responsibility that it is not a major concern. 4) Just what is the concern regarding violent crime in New York state on the part of the State Legislature. a) Each borough of New York City is a seperate county
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  2662. If they want to do a sequel starring Ruseel Crowe. It should be a sequel to Master and Commander.
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  2663. In their minds hoeing an ID is "voter suppression". I've actually heard people who identify as Democrats say non Democrats should not be allowed to vote.
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  2664. Just what do you think the Jump Start Tax is for.
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  2665. ​ @LewisNuke92  Those are pride crossings.
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  2666. Oh, you have a way to remove him. Not the best name selection when you think about it.
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  2667. I have a theory as to the relative slow pace of innovation over the course of human history. I can't back it up but it makes sense to me. In any generation there are a relatively few numbers of innovators as a percentage. Way under 1%. This means when a new technique is developed coupled with limited communication that technique can die out or spread very slowly. As populations got larger the number innovators goes up. Increased communications help them spread. Even then new techniques or tools can get lost. Today the pace of innovation has increased expotentially. The same basic percentage of innovators are out there. But between population size and communications new techniques can spread rapidly. And these new techniques can inspire others. Consider the pace of technological change in the 19th century. Then compare it to the 20th century. What will it be in the 21st. Same percentage of innovators. Larger population with increased communications technology.
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  2668. ​ @iivin4233  Just the leap to deciding which seeds to plant had to be a big leap. Especially with hybrids. Acouple of years ago my brother got some excellent squash at the farmers market. Saved the seeds. The next year all they got were gourds. Which are useful but taste like crap. There are some types of apples where you need say four yellowdelicious trees and one tree of a different kind in order to get the apples you want.
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  2669. This was utterly predictable.
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  2670. Sugar beets would probably be a lot easier if they will grow there. Greatly reduced labour needed.
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  2671. Definitely one of the best looking handguns ever. Sure is purrty. Wonder if it would scale up say .380, 9 x 18 or even 9 x 19 safely
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  2672. Theres another comic book series that features a development of a plane that never flew*. I can't remember the name of the comic but the plane was the proposed fighter development of the Bugatti P100. *this was prior to the building of the P100 reproduction.
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  2673. Everybody knows that Shakespeare was black. Or stole all his ideas from African cultural stories.
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  2674.  @UICeinnselaig  Othello is described as a Moor. Moor does not necessarily equate to Sub-Saharan. My initial comment was sarcasm.
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  2675. When the wreck of the Fitz was surveyed most of the clamps for the hatch covers were found basically intact. But every fourth one was severely damaged. The ship left Superior on a Sunday afternoon in good weather. Its thought that they intended to finish clamping the hatch covers. What most likely sank her was water washing in through gaps between the hatch combing and the covers. She likely nosedived into the lake bottom in one piece and the loads of the screw on the ship twisted the stern causing her to rip into two major pieces. Storms on the lakes can brew up quite fast and one big problem is you dont have a lot of sea room.
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  2676. In the late 50s and early 60s AMC had profuction facilities in a lot of countries. When BMW was on the ropes in 1959 or so two companies tried to buy in. AMC and Rover. And l knew about Ramblers being built in Europe by Renailt in the early 80s.
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  2677. These facilities were not owned or run by AMC. Except for in Canada. The foreign assembly operations were building vehicles under license. Major assembly operations included Renault in Belgium and in Iran. Models built in Argentina were models no longer built in the US. The IKA models also used components from more than one model. Say doors and center section from the Classic and rear quarters from the American
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  2678. Well, I guess Ellie is gonna need a new radio telescope. Jokes aside. Nobody got injured or killed. What I'm wondering is would it have been possible to lower the reciever structure once they knew that a cable had failed I once had a steel cable part about 3 feet away from me. Happened so fast I didn't have time to be scared. I was thoroughly pissed off at the crane operator who was not paying attention to signals. I was 30 feet off the floor on top of a large stamping press and he was down on the floor.
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  2679. I'm absolutely sure they have no idea what they are talking about. They make it up as they go. This ensures that no one can argue with them. As ho one can ever predict just WTF they will say.
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  2680. Greta's parents should have been charged with child abuse.
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  2681. Little do they know they are trying yo inspiring people by using a tactic of Nathan Bedgord Forrest. Putting the "skere" into them".
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  2682. Myself I think or rather believe that life is pretty common in the Universe. With what we know today about the probable conditions on certain types of worlds (1) the idea that life has to huddle in the habital zone is almost laughable. One of the best or perhaps the most likely place that life exists is in the sub-surface oceans that we are reasonably sure exist on bodies such as Europa. If one star system in ten or even 100 harbors life then the number of life bearing worlds is literally beyond the regular persons comprehension. Note I said nothing about intelligence. Personally I do not think that there is anyone close enough in terms of distance, time or technology to communicate with. But even if we find evidence of a civilization of a civilization thousands of light years away that should lift our spirit simply because we would know that we are not alone. 1) I almost said planets but the definition seems to be pretty set in stone. I didn't get a vote but if Mercury can be a planet than what about Triton, or Titan, or Ganymede?
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  2683. One reason Freedom Class ship construction was continued was to keep the builder's yard active until they switch over to building the new Frigate design. But in a twist the yard in Marinette, WI were the Freedom Class is/was built is having problems hiring enough certified welders for construction to start.
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  2684. The big problem with VTOL is they suck fuel like nothing short of a rocket engine. Tail sitters might be practical today with digital flight controls. Another variation on VTOL is the tilt wing. The US came close to putting the XC-142 into production.
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  2685. Isn't Stste Represrntitive Wiener also the one responsible for the bills limiting legal culpability for intentionally spreading HIV and reducing penalties for sex with a minor?
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  2686. Where they at? No money in it. No getting on the news.
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  2687. Oil changes should be based on engine hours not milage.
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  2688. ​ @repro7780  Just consider this. A full time 40 hours a week job is around 2,080 hours.
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  2689. It's all part of the drive to lower costs to the absolute minimum. If possible manufacturers and parts stores would have the suppliers pay them to use or stock their parts.
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  2690. One type of tap drill chart you will never find for screw threads is for metric threads. Simply subtract the pitch of the thread from the OD of the thread. That's your tap drill size. The only people who have never broken a tap are those who have never tapped a hole. That absolute worst thread size to tap is 10-24. Tap wrenches have minimum sizes they will hold. The spiral flute taps that push the chip forward are only to be used in thru holes. If using regular straight flute taps always start with a starting tap or a taper tap. Bottom taps are only to be used to finish a blind hole. Helical flute taps are meant for power tapping in machine tools. Cheap taps do not last. The tips of the individual threads will go dull almost immediately if used on tougher materials. Different materials have very different tapping properties. Steels with a few exceptions* will form strings. This is the reason that taps with straight flutes need to be backed of to break the chips. Cast Iron the chips will break off on small pieces. These chips when manually tapping do need to be cleared from blind holes. Copper based alloys can be real nightmare. Bronzes as they are being tapped will expand due to heat towards the hole. *There is a range of tool steels that are called Graphitic Tools Steels. O-10 is one. It has a machinability of around 110. It forms chips like cast iron. It is extremely stable in heat treat with excellent wear characteristics. Originally developed for use in Timken tapered roller bearings by Latrobe Steel. A subsidiary of Timken.
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  2691. To be honest I had to look at the map to see if Eugene or Corvallis were in the county. Also ever since I've been wearing a mask I keep looking for a stage coach to hold up.
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  2692. It's time to stop doing business with China. This isn't about the Chinese people. This is about th Cinese Communist Party. Anyone who thinks you can do business in China with out the CCP's fingers in the pie somewhere is delusional. And it wouldn't matter if it was China governed by the CCP or the old Nationalists. Or an of the former imperial dynasties. The current government in China is just the latest dynasty to sit on the Dragon Throne. Maybe this virus came out of a research lab. Maybe it actually jumped from a wet market. But what matters in this case is the CCP's covering up of the situation in the first place. China had a two month lead on everybody else. Two months to allow everyone else to be better prepared. But no, they used that two months to bury the information and at the same time allow travel into and out of China. At the same time they used those two months to buy up as much of the worlds PPE as possible. Given those two months the world could have been much better prepared. Make no mistake. There were decisions taken in Western countries that were, shall we say less than ideal. These range from taking action late to "hug a Chinese person". We can point fingers all we want. But in the end they must point at Party Headquarters in Beijing
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  2693. I demand a multi million $ Congressional Committee investigation.
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  2694. Gen X'ers, Millenials, Zoomers all like to blame everything on the Boomers. Well in this case you can blame it on some of us. The subset of the Boomers that decided to go into politics.
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  2695. One of the best depictions of the event is G M Fraser's Flashman at the Charge
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  2696.  @janwitts2688  Other ones.
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  2697. The AMC inline 6s were easily killable. Usually the result of willfully neglected maintenance. The engines were actually built tighter than say a Ford inline. Unfortunately the carburation and intakes on the 199, 232, and 258 were tuned towards the economy end of the spectrum. I never understood why they did not go to fuel injection prior to the 4.0. The 4.0 is just begging for some brave soul to cut apart a set of Ford or Chevrolet small block V-8 heads for a cross flow head on the 4.0. The bore center is the same as the Ford Windsor and Cleveland at 4.380". And only .020" less than the Chevy SB and the LS/LT family.
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  2698. Hey, shes the best footballer in the world. Just ask her. 😖
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  2699. This just screams, "get off of my lawn!".
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  2700. In New York, Chicago or LA she would be charged.
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  2701. Personally l think we are closer to practical fusion today than 20 years ago. By 20 years anyways. In reality some of the reactor designs today are far better than 20 years ago. Why? Material Science and the efforts being put into developing products that can actually use some of the research into higher temperature Superconductors. This means smaller magnets as in the MIT design that use less power while generating stronger magnetic fields. But the only way fusion willbe a game changer is if reactors that can produce usable power is if they are small enough to be economically buildable. PS It is my opinion that some national fusion efforts are more focused on generating research papers than generating electricity.
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  2702. Oh, God. I remember that book.
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  2703.  @_-KR-_  Then they stole the title. The book was published about 1969 or 70. Oops 73. Also a 1999 docudrama.
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  2704. ​ @sandragray3951  Not finished doing damage. What the West needs is a muscular Christianity that stands up for itself and the West. Not a bunch of milksops.
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  2705.  @susanmitchell4744  Chucky actually do something.
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  2706.  @astraeapurest  And how much do you really need to know. That there are straights and queers* and they all should be treated with dignity Or a how to book. *Words are not the exclusive property on one "special" group.
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  2707.  @astraeapurest  Your comment about learning this in middle school. And the question is. That we all deserve to be treated with dignity. Or an illustrated how to guide.
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  2708. When I was still working I took an old 3 jaw about 15" in diameter eter, built a mounting bracket for it. And then mounted it to a steel work table. I was constantly working on the end walls for large centrifuges. Worked really handy for doing inspection work, removing bearing races etc.
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  2709. It's not just the UK.
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  2710. The Soviet fighter at 0:40. Not a MiG 15. Lavochkin LA-7?
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  2711. Sometimes l wonder why the RAF didn't go with something in the .50"/12.7mm* range prior to jumping to the 20mm. One 20mm in the right spot can take down a WWll sircraft. Something in the .50 BMG range will normally take more but you also get more rounds per minute. The Japanese tor a 20mm simply enlarged the M2 .50 BMG *Either the .50 BMG or the Breda being used in British tanks.
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  2712. At the same time this was being developed RR was also working on the X-24 Exe.
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  2713.  @andyharman3022  The Exe was an air cooled X-24 layout sleeve valve engine. You're thinking of the Vulture. While the idea of a 24 cylinder combining two V-12s on a common crankshaft sounds so reasonable I don't know of any to really enter service aside from the Vulture. And the Vulture was no prize. There were a number of proposed 24 cylinder engines based on using 4 banks of 6 cylinders from successful V-12s in H-24 layouts. But the jet was on the way. https://oldmachinepress.com/2012/11/23/rolls-royce-exe-boreas-and-pennine/
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  2714. The majority of the residents (that voted) of Seattle voted for these clowns. They deserve what they got. Unfortunately the minority of residents don't. If Seattle descends into complete anarchy the Council will discover real anarchy and theoretical anarchy are two e truely different things.
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  2715. One thing i can see wtong with this design. Any Scotch Yoke one piece piston/rod assembly will have to be installed from the crankcase side of the engine. This means that the block, crankshaft and camshaft will have to be much longer. For an example a Ford Windsor V-8 has a bore center of 4.380" and a bore of 4.000". With a Scotch Yoke setup this would only leave .380" of an inch (1) for the main bearing. 1) for metric you do the math.
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  2716. When Greta scowls yhe look on her face reminds me of a German soldier ready to invade Russia
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  2717.  @EuroScot2023  It's not grossly over ignored. It's just so super dooper secret that there has never even been a picture of it. Unless we accept the theory that Irwin Allen had film of it in the 1960s that he used on his TV show "Voyage to See What's at the Bottom" 😁. Classical Mad Magazine reference.
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  2718. One of those long runner intakes from the early sixties would be trick. I'm a little surprised at nobody welds up equal length intake manifolds similiar to shorty headers
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  2719. Once again the Arab and other Muslim countries have really stepped up.
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  2720. I'm surprised that the Navy did not adopt the P-26 Peashooter or the Curtis P-35. Or was it a matter of Beoing and Curtiss not wanting to due the required work to navalize the airframes. This is especially strange given the number of naval fighters and attack aircraft that Curtiss built over the years.
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  2721. The pandemic didn't seem to slow migration down did it.
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  2722. Dry Ice also is great for freezing parts to shrink them. If no dry ice is available a CO2 extinguisher will work.
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  2723. The increase in COVID-19 cases are probably related to both the protests and the social activities.
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  2724. Who besides Soy Boys and feminists cares about what the Guardian says.
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  2725.  @johnbenson4672  There are people who make a pretty good living doing this. I listen to a fair number of audio books and the narrator makes a big difference.
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  2726. Interesting video. Kill and damage claims on the part of pilots is something that absent gun camera footage needs to be taken with a grain of salt. The Hawker Typhons were given a lot of credit for the number of tanks knocked out with rockets in France. Later when Allied data collectors (what ever the official title is) got look at damaged and destroyed German tanks it was found that the claims by the Typhon pilots were off the mark by maybe an order of magnitude. This does not mean the pilots were lying. They were reporting what they saw and what they thought it meant. The unguided rockets proved to wildly inaccurate. I think this is a pretty general rule for most pilots. They are just reporting their impressions of what they saw. A similiar thing could be a gunner on a B-17 claiming to have shot down a BF-109 or FW-190. When there may have been ten other gunners shotting at him at the same time. It would also be interesting to see original source data on Soviet anti-armour air operations in terms of claims versus actual proven German losses. That is if you could get access to the archives.
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  2727. Given the number of malfunctions the best option seems to throw the damn thing at the target. Could this be on par with that amazing Zip 22
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  2728. One does need to remember that during WWl there were cargo ships built out of the stuff.
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  2729. ​ @patrickelliott-brennan8960  Especially on St Crispin's Day 😂
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  2730. As i listen to this i think about the average woke idiot who partots the party line as Maynard G Grebbs squeaking out "work!".
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  2731. ​ @mrbaab5932  I understand just why Pluto got demoted. Even before Senda was discovered we had a lot more "planets" in the solar system than just the classic nine. Try and tell me that Titan, or Ganymede, or Callisto, or Europa, or Io, or Triton aren't "planets" whether they orbit a gas or ice giant. What happens when we discover an exomoon that just happens to orbit a gas giant and is larger than Earth. Do we finally suck it up and admit the truth. PS New Horizons showed Pluto to be more than a dead ice ball.
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  2732. The funny thing about Chile's army celebrations is they have a distinctly Prussian flavor. Picklehaub and all.
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  2733.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  They also use the picklehaub for ceremonial. Not all but some. See Mark Felton Of course the Chileans were not the only country to adopt German military equipment, training and organization. Argentina comes to mind.
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  2734. So Hyabusa increased the amount of micrometers and small chunks of rock. Ok not that much in comparison to that generated by a tual impacts
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  2735. I hate to tell them but Mel Gibson isn't going to come rescue them. 🙄
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  2736. Had to rewatch this following Trump's Executive Order
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  2737. The exception to the rule in reproduction firearms is the Italian stuff
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  2738. The only Jag l have ever wanted is an E Type. And maybe an F.
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  2739. If a channels owner openly sponsors, encourages or approves of violent activity I have no problem with YouTube acting to censor said channel. Just so they do so with an unbiased policy. Social media should be apolitical platforms. Unfortunately that seems not to be the case.
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  2740. So, they were 100 years to early for pumpkin chucking
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  2741. In any democracy the attitudes of local elected offcials on matters outside the borders of their own constituency. Especially outside their own national borders. Have little or no effect on the polices and practices that actually matter inside their own district, town, city village etc. It has about as much effect as declaring your city a "nuclear free zone" as declaring solidarity with Gaza has on whether or not the potholes get repaired. Or public spaces such as parks are maintained. Or local water systems, sewers and other public services are managed properly. Local elected officials are elected to look after local matters. If your local elected officials do not look after these matters but instead use the position to posture in the local community they should be voted out in the next election. This applies to communities in any nation that has real elections. The practice of some local officials in any democracy to enrich themselves at the expense of the citizenry is another matter. (1) Otherwise you may as well hire professional city managers or revert to officials who find their office through appointment or heriditary means (2). 1) This is another factor of massive immigration into First World (mainly what is refered to as "The West") nations by immigrants from nations where graft and corruption are just the way things are done. Not that these things are not done in the First World. But in the First World everybody knows it is illegal. 2) l am not a fan of hereditary forms of government except for one possible aspect. In such a system it is possible to raise the next generation of rulers, local or national, with a sense of duty to their posisition and responsibilities. Note l said possible. Not that they always would have a sense of duty.
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  2742. Job requirement for all urban planners. Extensive experience playing city building games 🙄 One problem I see in a lot of urban planning is population growth out pacing existing services. At least that's my opinion.
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  2743. Just my opinion but the USAAF or the USN BuOrd should have put more effort into producing a domestic version of the 20mm Hisso autocannon. The effort on the part of GM (Buick iirc) was lacking. I was watching a video on Soviet efforts to develop first recoilless and then auto cannon for aircraft use starting in the prewar period. In various calibers. They really did develop so very good auto cannon in 23mm and 37mm. Their 37 had a much high muzzle energy than the M4 (1) used in the P-39. For ship board AA use the USN had the 20mm Orliken. Which was a little heavy for aircraft use. 1) Theres that pesky M4 again
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  2744. If the Ford 250 inline would fit no reason a Slant 6 wouldn't unless there are clearance issues with the heater box etc
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  2745. Two Englishmen go see Napoleon. Think it sucks. Well, that is utterly perdictable. Although they probably enjoyed the part about Waterloo 😉
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  2746.  @WALTERBROADDUS  You simply hire Frank Sinatra and crew as in Assualt on a Queen
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  2747.  @tomgucwa7319  After Eastland was raised her upper deck at least was removed and she eventually wound up being converted to a Naval Reserve training vessel. So Lake Michigan holds the record for the highest depth above sea level for a sunken German sub. The sub was found a few years back. But they are keeping the location secret as the wreck is very hazzardous to dive on.
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  2748. Well you can get liquor beer and wine at most drug stores. But the taverns were closed.
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  2749. I remember a discription of Abe Lincoln standing up from a chair. That he looked like one the folding rulers unfolding. Electric kettles are available. Lots of them on Amazon
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  2750. There's a guy in California that picked up a Kaiser Jeep Wagoneer for 2 bucks. That already had an engine swap done one it. Very ratty.
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  2751. Lambeau is a temple to football Gods. Along with a few other stadiums. Some college, some pro. Football is a fall to early winter sport. Weather, rain, snow, sleet, sun or wind is part of the game. Regarding weather. I have seen where games in December in Green Bay have been in the 60sF down to -10F. Average around 25 to 30F. I'm posting this on January 28th, 2024. Current temperature in Green Bay is 30F/-1C. 28F/-2C wind chill. Yesterday would have been in the same range. A week ago around the same. Clearly not to cold for football. Unless you're a wimp from Miami or LA. Also. Current cold weather clothing for football players is a lot better than it was 30 years ago. Even 20. The same goes for fans attending cold weather games in KC, Buffalo, Green Bay, Chicago, Cleveland, New Jersey, Philly, Foxborough etc. If you are too cold it is your damn fault. You dress for the weather. Not to make a fashion statement. And for all the complaints about cold weather what about when teams from northern cities go to Miami etc in a late heat wave.
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  2752. Baikal is the lake on Earth based on volume
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  2753. If it does not achieve the goal? Then what, Rinse and Repeat? And 15 or 20 years down the road. A new generation wanting to know where their reperations are.
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  2754. I think you are all being unfair to this future brain surgeon or nuclear physicist. It might take him 30 or 40 years to get through school but he'll get there
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  2755. But it's free speech! That will be their arguement
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  2756. The nose ornament. That's so it is easier to lead her around.
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  2757. Zazzaro, a whole truckload of "art"? If it wasn't for the whole Third Riech thing a certain Austrian hack would be lauded as the founder of the Austrian Primitivism Movement.
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  2758. In German the technical term for this is "Upgehfuckt".
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  2759. Good bread is available in the US. Is there a lot if crappy bread? Yah, there is. Why too much of it. One problem is the big commercial bakeries have killed a lot of the old neighborhood bakeries. Plus a lot of people who owned bakeries their kids didn't want to take over the business. One reason is the hours suck.
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  2760. Probably because it would never get aired.
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  2761. How do you say M1 ping in German?
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  2762. In the Russian version of Dr Strangelove Major Kongski rides the H-Bomb waving uis shashka.
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  2763. Trans rights. The same rights as everybody else. Equal justice before the law. Equal opportunity to stand on your own two feet.
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  2764. The round hatches just forward of the wings look like RAF roundels
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  2765. Many companies in the US will work multiple shifts. It depends on a number of things. First is demand. And even then companies will usually resort to overtime (voluntary or not) as it is usually cheap to pay OT than hire additional staff. But sometimes it makes sense from a production standpoint to work 24/7 with people working a variety of schedules. One example of this could be say a steel mill or foundry operation. Another might be refinery.
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  2766.  @ForgottenWeapons  And if you want to build your own reliable and robust mags it is probably going to cost you that much for the equipment to do it properly. Setting up a home metal working shop is not a cheap exercise.
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  2767.  @wingracer1614  Either you need the dies (not cheap, even if you have the skill when you buy the proper tool steels and then heat treat). The other rout is using brakes and shears doing one operation at a time. And you still need the welder. But for anybody handy that's pretty much a given. I suppose if you used say 4140 sheet and flame hardened the feed lips and drew it back just enough to take the stresses from the hardening process that might work. But then there was the guy in the UK that built a 9mm SMG completely out of items he bought at the UK equivalent of a hardware store. The gun ran. As I recall he built it to prove a point as to the politicians could ban whatever they wanted but if somebody was willing to put in the work. Ian had a video on it a few years back.
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  2768. The grift that keeps on giving
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  2769. Why couldn't the fuel and oxidizer be held inside bladders inside the tank the same way hydraulic accumaltors hold fluid under pressure
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  2770. I have never understood the love of western leftists for Islamic society. Especially those from the Alphabet Community. Is because if they oppose the ideas of the West they must embrace them? Never mind the ideas of the West. Tolerance, individual liberty, the freedom to embrace religious beliefs, or not embrace them, the freedom to express your opinions about anything has given them the voice to embrace their true enemy if they only thought about it.
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  2771. To paraphrase Edward Longshanks. The problem with England it is full of English.
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  2772. Ford just jumped on the bandwagon. I think this has more to do with ESG ratings than anything else. What i want to know is just who the hell came up with ESG and shoved down the developed worlds throat.
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  2773. Justin mod 0.0
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  2774.  @riskinhos  I wouldn't bet on it yet. The long haul trucks will go autonomously ous first. The local trucks making residential deliveries, that's a different story. What happens when they run into an issue their AI can't deal with.
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  2775. News item from the Onion* Lawmakers seek flatulence tax on baked beans producers *it should be.
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  2776. I think somebody should dig up the records of his school's performance during his tenure. No schools performance can be credited or blamed on its staff completely. We all know it starts in the home. Little to no respect for education in the home or your community is not going to end well. Redifine the sylabus to mostly the basics. Reading, writing, math and basic history (without the progressive bent) in grade school. Middle or Junior High you can begin to get into the deeper socialital reasons and consequences. High School for deeper investigation. Make a High School education at least as valuable as it was in the 60s or 70s. Saddly it is likely impossible. The rot is too deep. The ever increasing demand for more and more money in education. This has it's roots in the late 50s and the Sputnik Scare. But more money doesn't make Johnny or Jane smart. Nor does it make teachers better (1). All it really can do is improve facilities. And Baltimore (2) proves it can do neither. All too often more money in the schools means bigger pay increases and more staffing. 1) Teachers should be making a decent living. Its hard to attract some of the best and the brightest when the pay sucks. 2) Along with a certain amount of schools in every major city. There's that "racist" high school just north of Indianapolis that that people were bitching about in the last year. That district budgets less than half of what Baltimore does per student.
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  2777. Women stop having sex for four years. Just think of the abortion clinics that will have to close.
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  2778. A half way trip.
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  2779. They were probably too good looking to wear a nasal bar.
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  2780. How? By convincing them if they elect him he in concert with his/her party will solve all their problems.
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  2781. The car jacking took place in Kansas. The shoot in Missouri. Now that means interstate flight. Federal charges?
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  2782. Three different aircraft types made torpedo attacks at Midway that I know of. The TBD Devestators, the 6 Grumman TBF Avengers and 4 Martin B-26 Marauders equipped with torpedoes. Plus doing some checking a PBY also attacked the Japanese oiler Akebono Maru and scored the only hit and detonation during the battle. Almost all of the TBD's were lost, 5 of the 6 Avengers and 2 of the 4 B-26s. One of the Marauders after being damaged by AA fire narrowly missed hitting the bridge of Akagi. If it had hit Nagumo and most of his staff would have been killed. Given that the IJN carriers had been attacked by B-17s, B-26s, SBU-2s, TBFs and SBDs all from Midway. I find it remarkable that the Japanese were able to have any fighter aircraft in the air at all. The Japanese pilots must have been run fairly ragged. Only to get into a Turkey shoot with the TBDs and minutes later have three of their four decks damaged beyond repair.
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  2783. Out of all the DYI, tech, nerd channels on YouTube imo you're in the top 10.
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  2784. Everything is racist.
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  2785. With all of the Falcons faults.
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  2786. During WWll bright lights were actually used on Anti Submarine Patrol Aircraft. So that during the day at longer range it would be harder to see them as a dark spot against the bright sky. I don't think dazzle worked all that well anyway.
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  2787.  @christophpoll784  I thought every crossroads in Germany has a brewery.
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  2788. The title of the video says it all
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  2789. Yet nothing the Democrats ever do is a 'threat to democracy'.
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  2790. "The world needs ditch diggers too" Ted Knight, Caddyshack
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  2791.  @Canleaf08  Older people being spiteful towards millennials? It cuts both ways. Millenials (plus Gen X'ers etc) basically cheering because old people were dying of COVID-19? Yah I know it's not all young people doing it but the squeaky wheel is the one that gets noticed. The need for people who write code etc. What percentage of the workforce does that take? And how long before some bright group of people basically develop an AI to do it for you. You just tell it what you want. If they haven't already. We all can't be artists, or writers, or nurses, or doctors, or engineers, or any of a number of fields. When I was 10 years old just about every other 10 year old* wanted to either a baseball player** or an astronaut. Well not everybodies got the Right Stuff. In fact almost nobody does. A good example of somebody who does is Buzz Aldrin. Fighter pilot, PhD from MIT, astronaut, and a really good right uppercut. When I was looking to go to university I either wanted to be an architect or an engineer in some field. Preferably aeronautics. I envisioned myself the next Frank Lloyd Wright or Kelly Johnson then reality came crashing in. Wanting to save money for school (college was actually inexpensive then***) I began working g full time. While doing this I literally fell into a skilled trade where i was reasonably happy what was doing. It served me well, I was able to retire early. Plus it put me in demand for other job opportunities if I choose to pursue them. Not everyone can go to college. Or should they. Nor should they have their life doomed to barely scraping by as long as they are willing to apply them selves. *In the US at least **Subsitute what ever sport fits ***This is where the Boomers really screwed their kids. With the Boomers the number of people who went to college exploded for a variety of reasons. The education industry shoving it down their throats. And yes it is an industry. In the US young men who needed that draft deferment. And genuine opportunity in the economy. The result was a glut of people who had degrees in some fields. And of course some of the Boomers went into education. And then administration. And then to increase the number of students even more these administrators and educators developed new fields in which to earn a degree. All well and good. But these new disciplines needed administrative oversight. And they needed oversight. Colleges and universities began to become bloated on the administrative side. Just how many people employed at colleges and universities actually teach? And how many are literally doing nothing more than shuffling papers. Or electrons in actuality. This bloated overhead is one of the primary causes of the increase in the cost of college in comparision to the rate of inflation. The lowering of state support through tax dollars didnt help I will admit. But with the ever increasing cost of education in general it would eventually become impossible to support anyways
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  2792. The audio versions are read by Simon Vance. One of the best if not the best narrators of fiction out there. He not only brings Jack and the doctor to life but all the rest of the characters.
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  2793.  @WelshRabbit  I'll have to check
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  2794. Lang as Pickett chews up the scenery. Just as in Tombstone, and God's and Generals. Why they choose Sheen I will never understand. One part of God's and Generals and Gettysburg that got left out or paid little attention to was the role the Iron Brigade played on the first day. Buford picked the ground. The Iron Brigade's regiments bought the time with their very existence on McPherson's Ridge. After Gettysburg the Black Hats were never never the units they were
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  2795. Hell of a Fred Sanford imitation.
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  2796. Probably more likely the coin ended up there through various trading deals. A lot of Roman coinage had to have ended up in South Asia and SouthEast Asia simply due to the amount of spices the Romans imported. That drain on the Roman economy could be compared to the trade imbalances the US has seen with imported oil (1) and manufactured goods. 1) l remember a comment made by somebody in the 70s that having an energy policy that tied you to whims of Arab shieks. It wasn't a policy but willingly being the victim of an extortion racket
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  2797. And then the Essex's show up along with their new aircraft. The new cruisers. The new destroyers. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
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  2798. Upstream or Down?
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  2799. My opinion is she had a Cuba Gooding moment. "Show me the money!"
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  2800. I wonder if French naval ratings at the time included ones like Chief Bell Captain and Concierge Petty Officer. In reference to your when French Hotels went to War video
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  2801. Trump winning and Democrat Senate candidates winning means a lot of poeple splitting their ticket and not voting the straight party line. Face it. Harris was a lousy candidate. Also some of the Republican Senate candidates were no prize also.
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  2802. Even if the train which I am assuming (yes I know the one about "assume") runs down hill loaded and up hill empty it still requires energy input. In the form of the mass of the ore and its potential energy. And that ore takes energy in the form of the machinery and operations required to mine the ore, transport the ore to the loading site. Also in the form of the energy needed to transport the mine staff and any needed supplies (food,water, clerical supplies etc) up hill to the mine. Remember, as Robert Anson Heinlein said. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Probably the closest thing to a perpetual motion system on the Earth I can think of is the twice daily tides. But even that is not perfect as the Earth's rotation gradually slows and Luna moves further away. If we could harness the tides for power it would probably be the cleanest generating system in terms of operation. How much power could be generated if we could harness the tidal rise and fall of say the Bay of Fundy. And would harnessing that power reduce the total height of the tidal flow? Oh and the ore train. It has to generate more electricity and store than it would take in a perfect system due to frictional losses in the motors, the wheels on the rails, heat from current moving through the wires etc. That free lunch thing again.
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  2803. The first 4 engine jet bomber to fly was an Arado 234 model.
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  2804. I think Jordan Peterson beat him to the punch
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  2805. Myself if suburbs or new residential areas must be built l would prefer to see the front of housing (single, duplex and up to quadplex) face a pedestrian/cycling oriented single lane one way "street". Tree lined of course. (1) Enough to accommodate emergency vehicles. But with cars banned. With alleys on the back side of the lots. With the alleys also being one way and slightly wider. No housing facing the cross streets. Which are also one way. Every 6 or 8 blocks have short sections of cross streets reserved for multiuse buildings for small businesses. All neighborhoods centered around a park and elementary school. Every 16 blocks have a main arterial avenue with a secondary arterial in between. "Express" transit (trolleys, busses or trams") runs on main arterial avenues. These stop at cross streets with comercial use. Secondary avenues with transit stop at more regular stops. And all streets and avenues are numbered. All too often with naming streets their are outliers. An example would streets named for trees with a state name or president mixed in.
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  2806. I don't think the F-4U went into service before 1943. One thing about the F6F is that aside from the engine cowling there were very few if any compound curves used in the airframe panels. Made construction a lot easier.
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  2807. I've wondered if the Navy actually looked at a naval version of the P-47. The airframe was probably tough enough and P-47s were launched off of carriers using catapults.
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  2808. As to the Sedniods currently known if we are spotting them at their perihelion or close to it how many others are out there that are simply too dim to see by virtue of being farther out in their orbits
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  2809. Gravity always wins
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  2810. I have to wonder if any of these were ever fired beyond possible proofing at the factory. I can just imagine somebody building AKs in a hut in Afganistan and the customer wants one just like the one used by the Quatari Royal Guard.
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  2811.  @TwIsTeDxGuArDx  when was the last time you saw a square scuba tank. 🤬🤢
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  2812. Build new housing on prime British real estate. South Georgia Island
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  2813.  @matthewcarroll2533  I'd love to see this come about. Will it? Hell, I don't know. One thing imo is recharge time. The other is how long they hold a charge
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  2814. In any combat between the ME-262 and the P-80 IMHO would have been heavily dependent on who jumped who. Plus the 262 was much more heavily armed being equipped with 30mm cannon. The USAAF still being either in love with the Browning .50 or being held up by the lack of enough 20mm cannon. Also any combat between the 262 and the Meteor would be one sided.
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  2815.  @wintersbattleofbands1144  If you look at some of the Chrysler Australia models. Along with Ford's and Holden it really looks like there was some repurposing of body dies. The Australian Charger model has always reminded me to the 2nd generation Barracuda fastback. Also various AMC models were built in a number of countries. Usually as knock down kits for body and suspension. Sometimes they used AMC engines (and transmissions when they still made manuals*). Sometimes they used drivetrains sourced from other manufacturers. Countries with assembly operations included Iran, Belgium (Renault) and Australia. I remember seeing a RHD AMX at an AMC owners show. *I actually worked at Kenosha Engine and when we still built rear ends there were ranks of left over Barber-Coleman gear hobbing equipment from production of the three speed manuals.
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  2816. The key to reliability is doing the maintenance. Keeping up with oil changes and filters. Keeping the coolant system in top order. Using the proper lubricants and coolants. On older carb engines keeping the engine in a good state of tune. You can have the the most reliable engine in the world and if you neglect it it will fail. I know from the SAE Report on the AMC 232 when it came out production engines had to be able to run on the Dyno for 500 hours at maximum load at maximum horsepower output. Basically flat out. That's equal to about 50,000 miles given RPM. Yet a lot of them were junk at 50,000 miles due to one thing. Owner neglect. They'd still be building them if Chrysler had authorized a new cylinder head. Either a DOHC unit or a SOHC both with 4 valves per cylinder. There was also talk about a 4 valve pushrod head head. Alas the problem with inline sixes is packaging. They won't fit in a lot if today's vehicles
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  2817.  @rotwang2000  Well, it works out decently for the people working in the truck and drive train facilities 😉
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  2818. Remember Mercury Marine built the DOHC 32V V-8 used in the Corvette I the 90s. Plus they build a DOHC 32V V-8 based on the Chevrolet Big Block meant for off shore racing and high end hot rods. Plus a DOHC version of the LS7 https://www.hotrod.com/articles/mercury-racing-big-block/
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  2819. Well that's one way to say she's full if ..it.
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  2820. If you watched the clip of Pelosi of the Undead carefully the look on her face was "oh crap, how am I going to answer this one" Rand Paul vs Fuaci. Just once I wish somebody getting asked a question by a Congressional Committee member would give a straight answer
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  2821. "she's dressed normally". As long as there are three acres of fabric available.
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  2822. In terms of "garage kit" these may be the ultimate. http://www.microartwork.com The crawler may still be available. At 14000 parts not for these faint of heart. The LUT is in progress but has a free!! Download of the swing arm the Apollo crews used to access the vehicle on the pad. In 1/96th scale as a pdf but scalable easily. The instructions are a work of art in and of themselves.
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  2823.  @Karle94  Demonstrating just why the Canal existed. And it also demonstrates the overall ship dimension the US limited itself to.
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  2824.  @OpenMicRejects  Astronomical Events? Observed supernova? Possible Lunar or Earth impact events? There appear to be trace evidence of an impact event that happened in the Gulf of Carpinteria in the form of Chevron Dunes. Curiously these dunes do not appear in what should have been the 'shadow' created by islands in the gulf itself.
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  2825.  @zachjohnson6672  Likely the first human complaint about passing gas happened after dogs were domesticated. Dogs are much worse. And the are all SBDs. PS When everyone stinks. Nobody notices
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  2826.  @jrrarglblarg9241  The Pole Star not only changes through the Processional Cycle (1) but also due to changes over time in the distances and viewing relationships between the Sun and neighboring stars due to stellar motion. All the stars in the galaxy are orbiting the central black hole. While currently Alfa Centari is the closest star (2) this will change due the motion of the Sun and its neighbors. If a star passes close enough, say 1.5 LY or less, this can cause comet orbits in a small region if the Ort Cloud to be perturbed. This can cause comets to possibly leave the Sun's Ort Cloud for the passing star's Ort Cloud. Leave the Ort Cloud and not be bound to orbit any star. Or to loose enough orbital velocity that its orbit then takes it into the Solar System proper.
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  2827.  @eroelser  If you are refering to the Missoula Floods at the end of the last Glacial Advance there were other massive flood events. But some of these floods did not have the massive errosional effects of the Missoula Flood events due in part to the gradient, confinement of flood waters etc.the flood events that released water impounded around or under the Laurentide Ice Sheet were larger but spread over a far wider area. Massive flood events also are associated with the Finno-Scandanavian and Tibetan Ice Sheets. The English Channel was formed due Glacial Mega Floods. The largest known flood event to have taken place on Earth is the flooding of the Mediterranean Basin 6Ma. Mars in the distant past also suffered massive flood events.
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  2828.  @awolffromamongus875  If Burkle happened. Unless there has been confirmation of the impact event it's all based on inferred evidence. Primarily the presence of Chevron Dune structures on Madagascar and in Western Australia. There is one oral tradition about a boulder on a mountain on Sri Lanka at around 4500 ft/1,365M that was left there by a massive wave. Logically the vast majority of impact events should happen in the ocean basins simply because they are so much of the Earths surface. There was an atmospheric detonation of an object over the Bearing Sea a couple of years ago that went unnoticed due to cloud cover and time of year. It was only discovered when somebody examined photos from a weather satellite and found the debris trail from its passage through the atmosphere. Data from early warning satellites has shown that atmospheric detonations of objects is far more common than previously thought.
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  2829.  @AtomicDoorknob  Most of the oral traditions about a flood covering the whole world likely date to the end of the last Glacial Advance. Probably associated with two seperate pulses of melt water entering the World Ocean causing massive rises in sea levels. Or the floods of the melt water.
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  2830. Hopefully she'll get charged with asssult. But withthe thought police in the UK these days who knows.
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  2831. We have several mammoth butchering sites locally. The Schaefer site has been dated to 14,500 years ago and the Hebior site one mile to the north is 150 to 250 years older. Another site called the Mud Lake site to my knowledge has not been fully excavated in terms of finding any more remains of the mammoth involved. A total of 31 bones were gound in the original excavation. This site was discovered in 1936 during a drainage ditch project. All three sites are in Kenosha Co, Wisconsin. The Schaefer specimen is on Display at the Kenosha Public Museum. The Hebior specimen is on display at the Milwaukee Public Museum. The Hebior specimen is the largest to be found east of the Mississippi River. It was 90% complete. The Schaefer specimen was 80% complete. There is a fourth site SE of the Schaefer and Hebior site called the Fenske site. But l do not know much about that one as l only found out about it today. I believe the site was found in the 1920s https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.archaeology.org/issues/145-1409/features/2372-peopling-the-americas-schaefer-hebior&ved=2ahUKEwjzzO6EnbOEAxUjLdAFHST7DZoQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw024rAaaamoaZmhuOMZDEZm All three sites show evidence of butchering on the bones. There is another site to the southwest in Dupage Co, ll. IMO it is highly likely that there are other kill and/or butchering sites in the area.
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  2832. I get the symbolism of Juneteenth. But slavery did not truely end until the 13th Amendment was approved by the required amount of State Legislatures after the Civil War. I think Lincoln would have liked to see it earlier but I also think that it was a tactical decision to try and bring the South back into the Union. I also happen to think the Federal government and later administrations were too conciliatory with the South post Civil War. Hence the rise of Jim Crow. And it's not the after effects of slavery that American society is dealing with today. It's the effects of Jim Crow.
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  2833. The early Christian's certainly co-opted Saturnalia and other pagan Winter Soltice celebrations. The early church could have chosen any time of the year really. Look at Easter. The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. That's always sure to deliver a regular date. I was born on Ash Wednesday and a friend in school was born on Easter. It wasn't until a few years ago when I turned 62 that my birthday was on Ash Wednesday again. I will leave it as an exercise for you to figure out the respective dates
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  2834. The Kohler originally started out in the D Sports Racer class in the 1980s. I saw it run at Elkart Lake in 1982.
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  2835. Why do the French line their roads with trees. So the Germans can march in the shade
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  2836. I thought you needed leather balls to play rugby.
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  2837. Whether we choose to build new fision plants or not we still need to deal with the spent fuel and waste issue. Sometimes I think the reason that anti-nuclear activists seem to fight any proposed solution is to prevent nuclear from becoming an option.
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  2838. I owned an 84 XJ for about three years. Late 90s. 2.5 four banger (1). Biggest issue. It ate starters. Two in three years. Second biggest issue. When i changed the fuel filter somehow something got in the carb idle circuit. Went through the carb multiple times. Finally disconnected everything to get it to run decent. When the license was up for renewal sold to somebody because l knew it would never pass emissions. That aside l loved it for what it really was. A small station wagon. And that's what l used it for. 1) Electronic carb. What l would love to see is somebody stick a SBF, SBC or LS head on top of one of these. Same bore spacing as the Ford. Only .020" less than the Chevy. The SBC would be easiest as no need for a new cam due to head ports. Look as it like a proof of concept for a cross flow head on top of the 4.0
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  2839. One big problem on Maui is on the west shore there are only two ways out to evacuate. Both by the same road. Going north it is very curve with lots of elevation change. Going south it is pretty much straight until you reach McGregor Point and swing north. But its still one lane. If this fire had happened on the Southeast or East end of the island getting in or out is even worse. Not a long drive but a slow one.
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  2840. ​ @lyrebirdcyclesmarkkelly9874  And the Merlin is the same displacement as the Liberty V-12. Down to the same bore and stroke.
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  2841. The scariest scene in Jurassic World was the aviary.
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  2842. Vlad shows up as character in two SciFi books by David Weber. Out of the Dark and Into the Light
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  2843. I'm too old and don't have the room for a hobby car anymore. Fastest thing I ever had was a 68 AMX with a 390. Did some stupid stuff on the street when I was young. If I got back into the old car hobby I'd be perfectly happy with either a 2 door hardtop Dart/Valiant or a Chevy II/Nova. The Mopar either a 225sla t or a 273 would be fine. The Chevy II, a 230/250 or a 283 would be more than enough. Or maybe a 64 Classic hardtop with a 4.0 with a 5 speed dropped in. Just something you can cruise in or take a roadtrip in. The ideal choice would actually be a 67 Firebird Sprint with the OHC inline 6. Why you might ask. It would have enough power plus it would be a survivor. Most of the ones left between accidents and rust have most likely had a 326 or a 389 stuffed into them. Although there was a guy from Canada that actually managed to convince the SCCA that the Z/28 engine was an option on Firebirds in Canada.* As to engine swaps. I personally do not have an issue with somebody stuffing a Ford into a Chevy or a Mopar into whatever. As long as you are not chopping up the last one of something its your car. If someone doesnt like it, tough, they can go cry in the corner. Or bitch online which is the modern equivilant. *For something really unusual how about an early Tempest with the four Pontiac made out of chopping a V-8 in half. That engine in my mind is a true slant type engine. It's got the pan rail horizontal with the cylinder bank slanted. Cross flow heads. Only the displacement is too big for a four without balance shafts. Heck it was bigger than the standard Slant 6. I know it is called a slant 6 but all Chrysler really did was lean the motor over 30°, put an oil pan on to accommodate the lean and rotate the port face on the head. You could do the same thing to any other US built 6 of the time. Actually the most interesting US built 6 of the 60s was the Kaiser 230 ish ci Tornado. SOHC, hemispherical combustion chambers, cross flow head and only one cam lobe per cylinder. Only built in the US for a couple of years. Kaiser moved the tooling to Argentina were it was used to power various Kaiser built Ramblers using out of US production sheet metal. https://www.4wdmechanix.com/moses-ludels-4wd-mechanix-magazine-1964-jeep-cj-5-a-vintage-stroker-inline-six-swap/
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  2844. Well, there is no shortage of lampposts
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  2845. It's my opinion that we already could have had usable data on the effects of living in a reduced acceleration state. Provided we were willing to a) spend the money. And b) if there was the will to do so. This could have been done using Shuttle External Tanks for the core of the experimental habitat. Modify the ETs to have mounting points on their forward ends for a mating structure that could be carried in the Shuttle cargo bay. Mate two ETs nose on with an additional mating interface on the aft end. For the habitation/lab module use something like the inflatable TransHab with a counterweight on the opposite end. For power use the residual propellant in the ET to power fuel cells. Run test programs of sufficient time at 1/6th and 1/3rd gee. These being the logical choices for what crew would experience on the surface of logical desinations in the inner Solar System. We currently have two data points. Zero Gee and 1 Gee. With no knowledge of the effects in between. Do the effects on the human body track in a straight line on a graph? Or are they on a curve? And if so what is the shape of the curve. Does it rise rapidly and then level out. Or does it start gradually only to rise rapidly as it approaches 1 Gee.
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  2846. The big problem is the plunbing. But it seems an attractive idea.
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  2847. I'm glad to see we made the top 5. Wisconsin has its problems. But what state doesn't. The states economy took a big hit with losing a lot of industrial jobs and facilities along the Lake Michigan corridor. The reasons are varied. Older inefficient facilities, legacy costs, older employees and every bodies favorite whipping boy, unions. Plus a lot of smaller manufacturing statewide. On the plus side it's a great state for the outdoors. Some of the cheapest in terms of price golf in the country. City courses to world class. Water sports, fishing from Geat Lakes sport fishing to a cane pole for crappiest. Winter sports (ok, the downhill is skiing is pretty lame). Cross country, skiing, snowmobiling. A more than adequate state education system. Taxes are little on the high side but state and local services are good. States with low property or income tax often nail you on sales tax, vehicle registration etc. Away from Milwaukee it's pretty laid back. The bad side. Too many FIBs moving in. Complaining about new comers goes all the way back to the Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo and Chippewa. Plus there's one thing that the Great Lakes states have as an ace the sleeve. Water. Lots of water. And we aren't sharing.
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  2848.  @TylerB1723  That depends. A lot depends on what kind of skillset you have. That will have a major factor in where in the state. There are counties that are doing really well. And others not so much. Some parts of the state got really hammered in the 80 through 2000 with companies either closing or pulling up stakes. Some are still having a tough time. Probably the stables part of the state economically is Dane County. That's Madison. The State government and UW really help with its economic stability. The politics can be a little wacked. But it also has its rural areas too. The SE part of the state is a mixed bag. Probably the best areas are the SE corner in the not too far out in the boonies, the Fox Valley (Green Bay area down to Fondu Lac), Madison and La Cross.
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  2849. And they didn't include a camera.
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  2850. In traditional unibody or even body on frame the single largeststampings are going to be 1) the floorpan, 2) the trunk floor And 3) the rear quarters. Rivian tried to get smart by reducing the number of body panels and assembly tooling by making the rear quarter panels encompass pretty much the whole side of the vehicle. Tooling for that panel might be more expensive but you save money overall on tooling and labor. Just wait until somebody has to have the parts that come out of Tesla's gigspresses replaced.
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  2851. The problems with the whole JWST are a national embarrassment. From the ever changing requirements of the SLS in terms capabilities required to NASA's seeming mismanagement. I've come to the conclusion that certain members of Congress who happen to represent Alabama and districts in it who could care less if SLS ever flies as long as NASA facilities at Huntsville keep running and administrators at NASA who might find themselves out of a job if their program ever really finishes development. Add in the fact that NASA gets treated like a political football. Different administrations pushing different adgendas. Supporters and opponents getting elected or leaving office. Maybe its time to cut the agency up into seperate ones. That or give the agncyclear marching orders and let them get on with the job.
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  2852. Being a retired Tool Room machinist I wonder just how much of the initial rifle prototypes were actually machined by the designers.
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  2853. In my opinion the highest state of technological development of any lithic/wood/shell based culture. There were lithic/wood/shell based culture technologies that were superior in some areas. Think Dorset/Inuit in terms of clothing. But overall I think the Polynesian top them. The circumnavigation. Did they transit the Panama and Suez Canals ? I would hate to think of facing the Drake Passage in a voyaging canoe. Or the Cape of Good Hope.
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  2854. Damn right its embarassing But I'm willing to bet they know everything about TikTok.
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  2855. If we want to cut the cost of education I've got a couple of ideas. 1) Eliminate all athletic programs. If you want a school basketball team or football or soccer etc start a sports club. Public schools ehould not be the minor league farm teams for the NBA etc. Let the pro sports leages help support athletics. The quality of a schools sports teams have nothing to do with academic performance. 2) If "students" cannot cut it and are so far behind there has to be a way to cut them loose. Maybe if parents realize that their children have to perform they will get more involved. 3) Institute performance standards for teachers. I know that the basic skill levels of students is dependent in more than just the teachers performance. But if teachers have a personal financial stake in their students perfornance then maybe it will help. But ultimately if as a nation we want our kids to be better prepared it starts in the home. If the parents and far too often the PARENT do not care. And are not involved it is going to be hard.
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  2856.  @AlexSalikan  One needs to keep in mind that the areas of Eurasia that were in glacial conditions and the environments surrounding them only contained a small portion of hominids. The overwhelming majority of hominids would have lived in regions with far better climate. Also since Neanderthal fossils have been found in the Middle East just where did Neanderthal arise. I don't doubt that Neanderthal had adaptations to the cold in those areas. Part of the problem IMO is for far to long the study of early hominids was too Eurocentric while today is has become too Afrocentric. The whole story of our history is far more complicated than just the ones region.
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  2857. In the history of early self contained cartridges the case was often not of the best design. A classic example is of course the Allin Conversion of the Springfield Rifled Musket with the copper case cartridges. I wonder if there would have been a different path initially until the drawn brass cartridge case was practical. Would a compossite case consisting of a metalic base and primer with a heavy paper based case that was varnished or shellaced to make it relatively water resistant. The bullet could be fixed to the case either with a coating of the varnish or shellac. Something similiar to a shotgun shell but in say 45-70. I would think such ammunition would seal the breach decently, especially in comparision to the paper cartridges used in some rifles of the time. Making the paper based tubes by rolling muliple layers around a mandrel doesn't sound too complicated. This could even be a faily continous process. Plus the cost should be less than rolled brass or copper. The bases could be made from sheet copper or brass. Or did some bright individual go down this path 160 odd years ago
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  2858.  @SuperJayShin  First this me playing devils advocate. So do not get your undies in a twist. If gender dysphoria is related to development problem in the womb which is my understanding. Then isn't gender dysphoria actually a birth defect? Similiar to how a cleft palette or any other issue regarding the development of the fetus in the womb.
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  2859.  @lpsoldin3162  Agreed. Respect is earned. Common courtesy is a given.
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  2860.  @Tusk_Tact  In my first wife's family out of 13 children 3 or 4 are gay or lesbian. Common denominator between them. Their mothers are all sisters with one father being a brother. Plus the home situations and politics varied over a pretty wide margin. Does that sound like an nurture instead of nature issue to you?
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  2861. People have been thinking outside the box for twenty years or more. Robert Bussard was trying for p+B-11 twenty years ago.
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  2862. Just wait until they start wearing sashes like Latin American politicians, presidents and dictators.
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  2863. When was the last Labour was on the side of the working class
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  2864. Is the bias on the part of their leadership? On the part of the cop on the street? Or all the way across the board?
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  2865. I would think there were specialized work shops producing mail as long as there was a sufficient demand. Making it is a skill. The more skilled you are the faster and more efficient you can work. I would think scaled armor is actually faster to produce.
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  2866. In the US is really depended a lot what part of the country you were in. If you were in an area that used road salt. Everything rusted. That said certain makes or models rusted worse than others.
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  2867. Brunch can be an 'occasion'. Provided the food is really good.
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  2868. Can one get loads for trap and skeet
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  2869. I had two of the related 3.3 liter engines. I was very happy with the service l got out of them. Living in the northern tier of the US rust got the vehicles before l had any major or even minor issues. Replaced an intake cover gasket on one and zero repairs on the other. Never even had to change the serpentine. I always thought the related 3.5 with the transmission from the LH cars would make a decent drive train for a homebuilt mid engined car.
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  2870. They want regular people to be transphobic. They want to literally afraid to say anything they deem offensive lest your life be ruined. Yet they throw terms like CIS around as an insult.
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  2871.  @davidpearson1157  No I don't think they need a defensive remark. Personally I think most of these people could be termed "friends of Bevis". And yes they are offended by facts, reality, people of faith and anything else that doesn't fit into their "diverse and inclusive" world view.
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  2872. I wonder just how many parts on a Ferrari or any other exotic are pulled from parts bins. Things like suspension bushings, valve guide seals, fuel injectors, brake calipers, master cylinders, steering rack etc. Yes I expect the engine and transmission components to be from the manufacturer. But if there are parts that aredourced from another manufacturer or a third party source I wonder if Fereari or other manufacturers sell them with an added on price because they are Ferrari etc parts. And remember. Even a non exotic collector car can be expensive to repair. For some makes parts are readily available. It's been said that you can build a completely new Tri 5 Chevy, Mustang, Camaro and a few other cars from parts. But other brands or models. It's a different story.
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  2873. Wait a minute. I thought building walls was racist. The media has been telling us this for years.
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  2874. I'm surprised they didn't want to require a quota for "Asians"
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  2875. Should have had all tracers.
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  2876. These long ranged piston powered patrol aircraft would have been ideal for the use of the Napier Nomad.
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  2877. Weird engine layout. An Almost Overhead Cam. If you are not going to go OHC but intend on having as short a valve train as possible I think Renault cam up with a better solution. I had two Model 18s. Both had the 1600 OHV with the cam so high in the block the cam sprocket was partly in a cavity in the head. Aside from the cam the rest of the valve train, tappers and all were in the head. Plus the head was a hemi cross flow.
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  2878. If Rwanda has a booming economy why would tgeir be refugees fleeing yhe country.
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  2879. The only things l like pumpkin in is pumpkin pie and pumpkin breads. But then l have never tried them cooked as a winter squash. Time to start buying winter squash again.
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  2880. When I think of films set in Shanghai pre WWII The White Countess comes to mind
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  2881. Greta and her ilk simply want to see anything related to Western ideals and values destroyed.
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  2882. As if there are no poor white kids living in homes that exhibit a lot of the same dietary habits. And yes. People have it so good they have to invent problems so there is some struggle in their lives.
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  2883. Yes, but in one of the Nitro Express cartridges
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  2884. Judging by the seat arrangements in first class this was on an Embrea regional jet. First class isn't seperated and economy on these A/C is roomier than most Boeings or Airbus's. Please, somebody bring back Midwest Express.
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  2885. Uncle Tony in the US showed one very good reason EVs do not work for a lot of people. Just how do you charge the battery if you live in an apartment complex. With no garage space.
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  2886. In the US every so often we hear proposals to privitize the mail. Only in the US Constitution there is a requirement for the government to provide postal service to every resident (1)(2). It does not mean service to your mailbox necessarily but it does mean service. If your postal service does get sold off look to see unprofitable service areas to get reduced service or eliminated altogether. And higher rates. 1) Prior to the reforms of government service under President Chester A Arthur government jobs especially Post Master jobs were prime patronage jobs. Lincoln when he first became president and was besieged by office seekers is said to have commented about not enough teats for the pigs. 2) About the only things the US Constitution required the Federal Government to do was deliver the mail and provide for the common defense.
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  2887. I wonder just how much maintenance the torpedoes of the era of the vessel in question required. If kept in the tube would they need to be withdrawn periodically for said maintenance. Or would the tube only be loaded immediately before the vessel left its berth. Also requiring the dock side cradle to be loaded with a reload. And when in port would the torps be off loaded and put into a storage facility?
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  2888. I have been wondering just how long it is going to take for some enterprising refugee. I mean immigrant from Afghanistan, Somalia or another garden spot to look at all that grass in Hyde or Central Park and decide it needs a herd of goats. Then maybe the powers that be will wake up. Locally we banned keeping chickens in the back yard due to the stink and the noise decades ago. Now we have "progressives" that want to bring it back. And most of these progressives probably live in flats or apartments.
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  2889. If the boats could of been lowered with just the required crew and loaded from the boarding hatches it might have helped. IMO there were a number of people to blame for Titanics loss. 1) Bruce J Ismay. His pressuring Smith to make a fast passage contributed. 2) Smith not telling Ismay to stay out of operational decisions. 3) The nameless officer who locked up the binoculars for the lookouts. Also given the ice warnings if Titanic had searchlights it would make sense to use them. 4) Harland and Wolfe. They built Titanic with a double bottom but should have built her with a double hull at least up to her maximum draft waterline. 5) Harland and Wolfe again for not extending the watertight bulkheads up to at least above where they were. Given how many compartments were compromised it might not have made a difference in the end but she might have stayed afloat long enough for the transfer of some passengers and crew. 6) The captain of Californian. The failure of Californian to respond to the distress rockets falls on him. 7) The Board of Trade for not changing regulations in regards to passenger ships in order to keep up with technology.
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  2890. Starmer vowed to protect Muslim communities because he knows they are the reason Labour "won".
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  2891. In many areas we still have "corner stores". Only they are convienence or dollar stores. A corner store will generally have higher prices but you save money vs going to a grocery store for one ot two items.
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  2892. She has nothing to be ashamed of looks wise. She is still very attractive to older gentleman. And if she desires to play cougar I don't think that would be too much of an issue.
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  2893. Music at the 8 minute mark
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  2894.  @MajinOthinus  Well it sure didn't help German logistics. They either had to regauge the track, transfer the cargo or switch out the trucks on the rail cars. Probably easier to re-gauge the track
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  2895. The decision to design, develop and bring to market a new engine family is far more expensive than most people realize. Even the equipment to mass produce electric drive lines is not cheap. Tooling costs are not cheap either. Automotive comanies are not buying cutting tools at the local big box store or Harbor Freight. Then there is all fixturing, stamping dies, stamping equiment, assembly equipment. Just the last means everything from robots to hand held screwdivers.
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  2896. Sir, how dare you burn wood releasing CO2 just for your own comfort. Greta will be coming for you. 🙄
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  2897. The last time I was this late the Russo Japanese war was already over.
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  2898.  @admiraltiberius1989  And when one depth charge goes boom they all go Boom! Wouldn't the depth charges normally have their fuse depth setting set just prior to being dropped or fired from mount over the side. I would imagine that would be the normal procedure.
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  2899.  @philipallcock2036  most of the drawings and pictures I've seen of WWI/II sub mine layers definitely shows them being laid from the stern. What kind of idiot designer would have them come off the bow. Off course the subs today wouldn't have any other option
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  2900. That's not a traffic cone! It's a Turboencapulator!
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  2901. Now I'm starting to wonder if GM was responsible for all those unwound cassette tapes on the side of the road in the 70s and 80s.
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  2902. Just how long would a mail shirt last. I could see there being mail shirts in use that had been handed down through generations or multiple owners as long as they were taken care of
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  2903. Any Western politician that is sucking up to the Muslim vote should look at what happened in Hammatrack Michigan. The Alphabet community had their backs and when a majority Muslim City Council took over the knives came out.
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  2904. I remember when some otter were getting released back into the wild after getting crude oil cleaned off of them. As one one of the otters was swimming away, GULP, here comes an Orca Would you kill an animal. If the answer is no you better not ever use an antibiotic. You better not ever sterilize something. You have better not ever simply breath because your immune system is gonna kill germs for you It's too expensive to eat healthy. Grow some of your own freaking food then
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  2905. There are Graffiti artists whose work has been seen by millions. Usually at railroad crossings.
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  2906. Henry Ford's Greenfield Village is another "theme park" that harken back to an earlier time that predates Disneyland. In the US I would think of the living history prototype as being Williamsburg in Virginia. For all of the nostalgia involved in the "classic" (1) car industry (2). I personally think that a lot of people if faced with a choice of a daily driver would not choose one of the cars of their youth. 1) The only car that can truely be called a classic is a Rambler Classic 😏 2) And it is an industry to the point that for certain popular models one can literally build a completely new car from parts ordered from catalogs minus perhaps the running gear. All you really need is a VIN plate and its "restored". Much like my grandfather's axe. Something similiar happens in the aviation world in that completely new airframes have been built around surviving bits of historic aircraft. Spitfires and Mosquitoes come to mind.
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  2907. That TV reporter deserves to get kicked in the rear end for describing it as an "accident".
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  2908. I don't know what you call them but the guys that kept the torches lit in abandoned tunnels
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  2909.  @jamescollins3647  No, the Toyota's are used as war chariots. AKA "technicals"
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  2910. What, no Boss 302. And I'm not a Ford guy.
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  2911. Did the citizens of Chicago not realize you don't call for Beetlejuice.
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  2912. Progressive press operations are fascinating to watch. What you can see of it that is. Iretired out of an automotive plant. And no l won't say which one. At one time we did engine machining and assembly. Sheet metal stamping and body assembly. Rear axles and differentials. We had the stamped rocker arms that were fairly common at one time. There was one Tool and Die Maker whose job assignment was refurbishing the punches and dies for the rockers. One thing that impressed me was after going through the progressive operation the rocker arms ot a hole about .040/1mm punched through the pushrod seat. Bang, all the way through the seat in one operation. The seat was about 1/8th of an inch thick iirc.
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  2913. I think a person can be or meet a certain definition of being valid. If a person is fully qualified in their profession or trade then they be considered a valid, heart surgeon, or plumber. And that's as far as I'm willing to go.
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  2914.  @orenmontgomery8250  That's another way of expressing it.
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  2915. WHO. About as reliable as the UN Human Rights Organization. If this individual wants reduced power demands he should be fighting against unchecked immigration.
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  2916. At first I thought this was about the water in Jackson Mississippi. Where they have passed the buck on their water utility being upgraded for decades. Tun by the Democrats of course.
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  2917. Do you mean like Wally Booth with the siamesed heads on his pro stock Hornet
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  2918. As rare as intelligence may be in the UN(multi)verse technological civilization will be even rarer. Plus for every species stuck in a perpetual Stone Age how many intelligent species due to environmental or biological constraints will never develop any sort of technology.
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  2919.  @panzermacher  I'm not saying that ancient miners or Smith's could identify different metal beyond the classic ones known. I was merely pointing out that there are different varieties of copper alloys. Also the first production of bronze had to be an accident. I suspect that in the early Bronze Age the casting and alloying of the metal was closely held secrets. The art was entirely empiric in its practice. And if a group or family if smiths accidently stumbled on something that produced a superior product. Maybe somebody was casting bronze in to clay forms. Clay that just may have been rich in Aluminum/Aluminium that was able to leach some of the Aluminum/Aluminum/Aluminium into the bronze improving its wear resistance or hardness. Plus Bauxite isn't the only "ore" that Aluminum/Aluminum/Aluminium is extracted from.
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  2920. It was the elites and their servants in Western countries that pushed increased immigration from foreign nations by peoples that share little no measure of any cultural commonality. If the experience of the United States concerning immigration in the last half of the 19th and early 20th Centuries is anything to go by. These immigrants will largely settle into urban ghettos. Where they will to some degree attempt to recreate the society they came from. St least the United States had three things largely working in its favor during this time period. The first was the immigrants were largely European in origin. Second there was by and large some common religous backround even with the Protestant/Catholic divide. The third thing is there was enough open land for the establishment of new farming communities. Largely by Central and Northern Europeans. Today Europe is facing an immigration wave of people wio share none of Western Europes values. Social, religious or even tolerance. These people by and large seem to dispise not only the West but their own hosts. What these immigrants seemingly refuse to understand is that tolerance (1) is a two way street. If your host is expected to be tolerant towards you. Then you should be tolerant towards the society that you have CHOSEN to immigrate to and live amongst. 1) It seems the elites and certain politicians in West have forgotten about the idea of tolerance towards their own people if they hold opposing points of view.
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  2921. There used to be a piece of shareware that was named Its Full of Stars. Stellar cartography in rotatable 3d. Plus it had the ability to connect stars in flight paths and save the results as Empires, trade routes etc. Apparently may still be available on Steam.
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  2922. The most powerful general of WWII has to be George Marshall when you consider the forces and industrial base st his command.
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  2923. This contraption almost looks like it could be one of the monstrosities that graced the magazine covers of the 20s or 30s.
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  2924. Now we know who to blame for HOAs 😁
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  2925. That would have driven the Toy Safety Gestapo nuts
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  2926. I knew about the Italians having concessions in China along with other countries but I honestly never gave a thought to what their fate during WWII. One reason I remembered is they turn up as a plot device in one of WEB Griffins books* although that only refreshes my memory. The countries with concessions that fought together were the UK, US, Japan, Russia, France, Italy, Germany and Austro-Hungry. I wonder what happened to the French Foreign Service and military personnel still in China in 1940 following Japanese seizure of French Indochina. Nothing good I suppose. *The Corps, Book One. The main character kills three Italian Marines in a knife fight . At best a readable hack. Recycled plots, recycled characters (same characters, different names). But he sold a lot of books and made a pile of cash so I suppose it worked for him. But then writers have been doing it for a long time. Raymond Chandler, Eric Stanley Gardener, Robert B Parker, Larry Niven to name a few off the top of my head.
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  2927. I think in general most of the "X Studies" programs aren't about research or even any academics but about political ideology. Can you imagine the outrage if a college somewhere started a "Straight, White Male" studies that affirmed being a straight white male.
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  2928. ​ @jrgen7261  I agree with banning smoking in public places. Restaurants, pubs etc. Banning the practice is something else.
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  2929. Just my opinion. Taranto and Pearl Harbor really did not offer any lessons to the operation of capital ships at sea beyond the fact that they truely were vulnerable to aircraft launched torpedoes. At both Taranto and PH* the ships sunk by torpedoes were basically sitting ducks at anchor/tied up in harbor. A more important the lesson the British (and the USN) should have learned from Bismarck is capital ships operating at sea unsupported are exposed to attack by determined torpedo bombers**. The main reason that the US Navy thought the Anchorage at Pearl Harbor was safe at least from torpedo attack was the depth of the harbor. Just be ause you think an air dropped torpedoe will bury itself in the mud iz no reason that a potential adversary can't come up with a solution to the problem. One important lesson that the US Navy probably did learn is that the standard battleships were extremely vulnerable to plunging fire and armor piercing bombs. Especially if they were converted 16" armor piercing shells from the Nagato. The really important lesson from Force Z is do not operate capital ships without either aircover or adequate anti aircraft capabilities either through your own ship board AA or escorting destroyers. *Another over looked factor is the repeated warnings that had come out of Washington due either to over reaction or miss read intelligence. **And yes I realize that the AA shells from the Bismarck should have been able to shoot the Stringbags down had they hit anything to set their fuses off
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  2930. Pretty much everywhere in the ancient world was terrible.
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  2931. I've said this before (and even used the idea in unpublished short stories). Mount these in a watertight container capable of submerging to a depth of 60 feet. Mount said container(s) on the decks of say US Gato class subs. The containers possess neutral buoyancy. Use these subs to attack island airfields. After the attack release the container and go do what subs do. Far more efficient in terms of manpower and resources than sending out a carrier task force. The KreigsMarine did mount Nebelweffer (?) rockets on U-boats for test purposes after all.
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  2932. And this was the simple design
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  2933. Lets hope Mizzie gets his comupance two
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  2934. Rednecks and hillbies. In other words people beneath their contempt. And they make sure you know it.
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  2935. This is today's version of the Popeil Pocket Fisherman
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  2936. The prize for instability in a ship goes to the SS Eastland. Capsized when tied up in the Chicago River with the loss of 844 souls. After being raised she was sold to the Illinios Naval Reserve. She then served as a training ship. Post WWl she sank a U Boat by gunfire in a training exercise. The U Boat lies on the bottom of Lake Michigan and to this day.
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  2937. Santa went to work for Amazon years ago. For some humor go to The Mighty Jingles channel for his Christmas greeting
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  2938. The Upper Great Lakes may have been rich in native copper and rich iron ores. But they were sadly deficient in other areas. Domesticatable food stuffs for one. Aside from Wild Rice and Cattails I really can not think of anything else. Plus there are no readily domesticatable animals in the region. Never mind the winters. Summers are short.
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  2939. There's another thing about the lairs of movie supervillians. They build this huge underground complex of tunnels etc. And nobody. I mean nobody notices all the dump trucks hauling away the spoil. And the hundreds of cement trucks delivering load after load of cement. Or the electric company running power into the complex. OK, its a movie. I get it. Or am l the only one that ever thinks about this.
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  2940. Foes anyone 4lse remrmber that big piece of tooling Elon had made when they were still looking at doing CarbonFiber for BIG F'ing Rocket. Could that be used for producing modules? Cool video from the Falcon fairing re-entry.
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  2941. The Left do not give a rats backside for the working stiff. The Left sees the need for immigration because they can justify it by saying we need the immigrants to do the jobs that Britians, or Americans, or Australians, or Canadians won't do. When what they are really saying is they would never do those jobs and they know no one in their Upper Middle Class Uni educated bubble who would do those jobs.
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  2942. The media all the way back to the founding of the Republic has always engaged in censorship. Only they call it editing. The New York Times likes say All the News That's Fit to Print. When in reality it All the News They Think You Should Get. I dont object to any news outlet having an opinion on politics. But it belongs in the Editorial Pages. Not infused into the way a news outlet reports the news. And that applies to all news outlets. Liberal and Conservative. A biased press is almost as dangerous as a press controlled by the State
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  2943. Which 327. The small block or the Rambler. By the way the Rambler 327 was first.
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  2944.  @robertcardon5402  The Victor's also.
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  2945.  @rhekman  I think he identifies as Muhammad Ali
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  2946. And all of them that threaten to move to Canada, Paris or where ever if X wins and an election. Well, I'm waiting. When are you going to leave. Ain't nobody stopping them.
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  2947. It's called weather. Nothing new.
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  2948. First rule of Pancor, is you don't talk about Pancor The thing I find really ironic about this whole thin is the guns were built in the Peoples Republic of Austin
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  2949. In terms of horned helmets being used in actual combat it sounds silly. First it would be far too easy for the horns to deflect an overhead strike that might be shed to the side onto the top of the head. Secondly a blow from side to side would catch either tearing the helmet off or shoving the warrior so badly that it leaves him open to a follow up strike.
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  2950. I remember seeing the adds for this in the mid 60s. The add featured a guy out trapping in the rain or snow.
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  2951. ​ @Navy_Army305  I'll give her credit for getting in the ring though.
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  2952. The bigger fools are the people in her district that voted for her.
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  2953. Pretty bird. Watching your video on The Old Implaccable and her being scuttled in the channel* because it would have cost 200K you do to save her and then thinking about the money the British government just pissed away in the late 40s through the mid 60s on aviation projects that went nowhere or were complete duds. Much less the other bottomless pits they poured money into. *If she had to go to the bottom sink her with naval gunfire.
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  2954. The border between Hatia and the Dominican Republic is on of the very few easily seen ftom orbit.
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  2955. Why would anyone really have to ask this.
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  2956.  @ulfosterberg9116  60 & 64 Dems, 68 & 72 Repb, 76 Dem, 80, 84 & 88 Repb. That's just the White House. House and Senate yah that's a different story. But a lot of the Dems then would've liberal Republicans now if they have the same views.
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  2957. ​ @governmentcalamari9785  Look at one of the most maligned V-6s out there. The Chrysler 2.7 Sludge-o-Matic. Aside from the decision to drive the coolant pump off of the timing chains and mount it internally the rest of the engine is pretty impressive (1). 6 bolts on the steel main bearing caps. 4 vertically and two cross ways. Generous enough bore spacing to allow good coolant flow. Forged crank. The sintered rods were forged post sintering. Pistons I'm not sure what material. Internal gearotor oil pump mounted on the crank snout. Cast aluminum windage tray. Cast aluminum oil pan. The head bolts have 3 to 4 times the bold diameter threaded into the block. Same for the main bearing bolts. All threaded holes are thread formed for stronger threads. High Silicon Aluminum alloy for increased strength. Stellite valve seats and guides. The chain tensioners might be a problem. I never understood why designers just don't use a sprocket. 1) l suspect the coolant pump location was retained from the 3.5 V-6 whether pump is driven off of the timing belt. When the belt needs servicing (115k miles) just change the pump.
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  2958. Im guessing the alcohol was involved
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  2959. You annealed copper by heating and quenching. Iron alloys are annealed be heating and cooling gradually. Some copper alloys will work harden during machining. Aluminum Bronzes aka Ampco bronzes are one. They can also be difficult to machine due to their ability to absorb heat very fast. Drills can get stuck in holes that heat up and actually cause the hole to get smaller because the material surrounding it gives it no where else to go. The company Ampco (where the term comes from) initial bronze alloy product was actually a cutting tool grade Bronze used for machining steel. It was superior to the carbon steel cutting tools of the time.
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  2960. Well she said the buck stop here didn't she. She should have offered her resignation over a week ago. Instead she tried to waffle her way out of it.
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  2961. We are going to have to have 100% reliability in launch vehicles for any nuclear type of propulsion system to be used. Not bcause l oppose such an engine type. But because the Luddites will oppose anything with the N word attached to it.
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  2962.  @Flip-Da-Script  Conflict resolution in this case. Get a grip. The officer named literally had no time to even learn what was going on when things went South. Things went South because of the girl who was killed. It's easy after the fact to play the "he should have done this" or he could have done that". The tragedy here one young girl is dead over what most likely some petty bullcrap.
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  2963. Has anybody ever heard the one about "the manufacturer has to stock parts for seven years". The manufacturers were NEVER legally required to stock parts period. They stocked parts because it was a revenue stream. The up side of some of the new car parts. I have not changed a headlight or a tail light bulb in at least 25 years. I have not had exhaust work done on a vehicle since the 90s. Its been 15 years since l had a vehicle fail emissions. Even car brands that get poor marks for reliability are much more reliable on average than they were 30 years ago much less 50 or 60. Everybody who waxes about how cars were more liable in the good old days should remember the good old days were never that good. Valve jobs were common. Tune ups were required. The only thing that has not changed from the past is maintenance. Do it and you'll have a lot less trouble. Oh, one other thing. If you own a classic vehicle. And need a body panel. For which there is no replacements available. Technology has come to the rescue. New panels can be made without dies. Without English Wheels. Without planishing hammers. From sheet metal. Look into videos on the new CNC panel forming machines. It wont be cheap. But it is possible.
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  2964. Every few years it seems there is report about a huge maple syrup heist in Canada.
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  2965. Varsity may have been the Commando's first combat operation but it had seen service in the CIB (China, India, Burma) theater flying supplies over the Hump into China.
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  2966. Two solutions. 1) Start your own media outlet. Just be sure to hire a diverse team of employees. 2) Immigrate to where you feel comfortable.
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  2967. If a political party forms in the UK or any other Western country that identifies as Muslim IMO odds are that lagally the elected officials of that country will be hands off. But if a political party formed that promoted the interests of a particular Protestant denomination (1), Roman Catholics or any other Christian sect they would come down on them like a ton of bricks. 1) The Southern Baptists in the US come to mind.
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  2968. At the time I wondered. How did the kids get in the car to start with? Nothing was ever said one way or the other.
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  2969. Just check your bag at the gate. If it's a bag qualified for the overhead it will be available when you deplane. Board from the back of the plane and enforce the rules about carryons. Plus switch back to ticket includes x many kg/lbs of baggage check.
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  2970. To quote the old Lone Ranger and Tonto joke. What do you mean WE white man.
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  2971. The Yugo of Shotguns
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  2972. Meaningless? As opposed to "going backwards".
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  2973. I demand they pay by weight. And fly in the cargo hold. Or give an extra seat on top of the wing
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  2974. About four years ago my wife and l went to Maui. The Kiwis at the beach side condo we stayed st were telling us how the week before there was 15 footers coming ashore. Just before we flew out th here were 40 yo 45 footers hitting Duluth Superior. Glad I don't live there.
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  2975. It's the special rock camouflage hut model.
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  2976. ​ @Sion_Revan  20 or 50 gees iirc
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  2977. When the Wrangler got redsigned around 2006 the 4.0 didnt fit anything. Plus the engine needed a major redesign, new head etc.
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  2978. Yep, old Anne most definitely is showing her African heritage in that portrait. I hope this historical drama tanks. Maybe it will drive the "get woke, go brpke" lesson home. But I doubt it. Next time they'll just say it wasn't woke enough last time. Sound familiar. Seriously if this was Shakespeare I could care less. Then it's all about the lines and the delivery
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  2979. And a lot of them are fat
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  2980. You actually expect the people who push this stuff to let it apply to them. It's just like the Wokesters who fly on bizjets expecting the commoners to give up ever flying somewhere.
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  2981. I can just see a new video game. GTH* Houston *Grand Theft House
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  2982. In terms of ship handling in combat the edge should go to the RN. While there were of course exceptions to the conditions was to when they were built the battle cruiser analogy is a decent one. They worried Nelson. That's enough for me
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  2983. Buick sold the tooling for for the V-6 to Kaiser Jeep. AMC bought Jeep. Then around 75 they sold the tooling back to GM.
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  2984. Lesson No.2: See Lesson No. 1
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  2985. ​ @prowlus  If the insurance company is on the ball he probably cannot get life insurance. And that's what he really needs. Something that insures he survives.
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  2986. They may not have been lowkey on enjoying her misey. Notice when the brother stated that he and his sister always sit next to each other. I suspect by buying seats with one in the middle because they know they will overflow into the seat between them. Also from the pictures I suspect the lardasses are Aftican American and American Airlines was afraid of the race card being played.
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  2987. The first two on this list should be Korngold's score for The Sea Hawk and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Followed by Amadeus.
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  2988. The adage about the grass and the snake that hides there in comes to mind. And it can be applied to just about ethnicity or religious group. One Christian denomination that comes to mind is Southern Baptists and the KKK members that sheltered in it and called themselves Christian.
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  2989. That's The Anti-History Channel folks.
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  2990. I only have one issue with shows like this that feature celebrity quests. Just because they may be famous that does not mean they speak for us, the great unwashed. I remenber l qoute l saw this year. I think it was post election. In my life l have needed a physician. I have needed a lawyer. I have needed a plumber. Ihave needed an automotive mechanic. I have needed a roofer. Ihave needed landscape service. Ihave needed a teacher. Ihave needed a priest. I have needed a friend. I have never needed a professional entertainer. I have never needed an actor. l have never needed a professional athlete. I have never needed any"celebrity to tell me who l should vote for. What political party l should embrace. Celebrities are entitled to their own opinions. I have no problems with that. Their celebrity "status" does not entitle them to shove their opinions on everybody else. Entertainers, this includes singers, actors, athletes and authors of fiction,earn their living by using a skill to give we the great unwashed a few minutes or hours of pleasure and escape from our daily problems. For which we pay. If any of us owes anybody. It is them. Not we.
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  2991. Like Gutfeld said. More butts than a Kardashian reunion.
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  2992. Of course she is a liar. She's a lawyer and a politician. It's a twofer
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  2993. The pushrods have a manufacturing tolerance on length. + or - .010"? .005"? Also the valve seats gave a manufacturing tolerance from a certain feature on the head. Usually the face. This can be established by a specified spherical diameter set in the valve seat as the distance from the head face to the top of the sphere with the head set up on a surface plate so that the head face is parallel to the surface plate. That's an old school way. Now it's all done with CMMs. As to how the valve seat depths are controlled that can vary. The tooling set-up will specify the seat cutter at a certain distance from the mounting face of the cutter. The cutter body also carriers a carbide bushing to guide the valve guide reamer. But the cutter face where it bolts on to the spindle face can be vary. The spindle assembly drawings will specify a set distance from the spindle face to a control feature. It can be to the rear end of the front set of bearings on the spindle shaft (1) or it can be to a keyway in the bottom of the spindle body. It depends on how the machining equipment was designed. Another factor that can creep in is wear on the clamping surfaces in the fixture holding the head during machining. This can cause a slight twist in the head during clamping. Plus there are multiple machining stations being used to cut the valve seats and guides. In the old days the stations being used to the transfer lines used to do this type of manufacturing had solid stops to control depth. Run into the stop a couple of hundred thousand times and you will have wear. Today things are controlled with ball screws and encoders. Too shallow or deep. Edit the numbers. Each machining station is a dedicated CNC machine. The point is all of these tolerances stack up on top of one another. And they usually add up the wrong way. I used to work in an engine manufacturing facility (30+ years). Inline OHV 4s. 6s (2), V-8s and OHC V-6s. So I'm pretty familiar with engine manufacturing. Its possible that a couple of new techniques have shown up but I doubt it. I worked maintaining part tolerances and repairing machines and fixtures on the manufacturing floor plus in the plant Tool Room (3) rebuilding machines, repairing machine components, fixture work, machining replacement parts for machines and fixtures. My last four years there I rebuilt precision spindles and workheads. 1) A spindle consists of the entire rotating group 2) Kenosha Engine 3) Prevision machine shop. Not where they keep the tools.
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  2994.  @mikesr3407  Doing a mid-engined car would be a lot easier now given all of the front wheel drives out there. Heck use the AWD from a Charger or 300 just leave off the drive shaft. Can you get the AWD with a hemi?
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  2995.  @danielturner9832  The use of the term 'flyover country' is pretty much equal with the use of 'cis' by the woke mob IMO
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  2996. The Republican and Democrat convention are only some 85 miles apart.
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  2997. Seeing as its Swedish it could be worse. They could have named it Vasa.
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  2998. In concept the "15 minute" city in terms of having things close to hand is perfectly fine. The problem comes when local, state or national governments attempt to control the movements of the residents. I'm old enough to remember when there were local grocery stores, pharmacies, bakeries and schools within easy walking distance. And I mean grocery stores that carried more than the gas station convienence store. Yes the prices might have been a little more than one of the chain supermarkets. But you also did not have take the car to get there most of the time. A lot of time l would be perfectly willing to use public transit if it was easy to use. Look at it this way. Every rider on public transit takes pretty much one car out of the total traffic load. I would rather have the car for those times when it makes more sense.
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  2999. Lizzo probably, Golden Corral, it's not just a buffet. It's a lifestyle.
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  3000. Compound words, gotta love them German compound words
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  3001. Shows who is valued. And who is not by the powers that be.
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  3002. Antifa are the new brown shirts
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  3003. A muzzle loading 6 pounder?
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  3004. ​ @JohnDavidson-qu4eo  It later turned into the Pratorian Guard. Gladiators, actors and prostitutes were at the bottom of society. Today's equivalent would be pro athletes, actors and press agents.
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  3005. And who pray tell will have to clean up the mess. And pay for it. The Chazistas should be made to clean it up themselves preferably with toothbrushes and make whole out of their own pockets any damages incurred by individuals or businesses.
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  3006. Their ghosts must still haunt the Pentagon as witnessed by the XM-8 and the current new rifle program
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  3007. Anyone who willingly chooses to regularly drive themselves in lower Manhattan is in my opinion an idiot. Sitting in traffic congestion is not conducite to ones mental health. But what bothers me about this is the number of other major cities that will latch on to this idea and run with it. They willdo so for couple of reasons. One is they have never met a tax or fee they did not like. Another is atempting to control populations.
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  3008.  @Tevildo  Rear Admiral. I just hope San Francisco never has a Navy.
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  3009. ​​ @afmo500  And his party dues were like 10,001 rubles. Easy come, easy go
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  3010. I doubt this is an issue in factory parts. Although the bad cams in GMs past sould act as a reminder. There are very few engines being produced today that use cam in block technology. And those that do are using roller cams. Probably the last flat tappet cam engine produced in the US was the inline 4.0 used in the Jeeps. Cam issues with both the LS and the New Hemis do point out that there can be issues. But from the information I've seen this is more of a lubrication problem involving a different issues. Primarily high amounts of idling. Run anything without oil and it will fail. The SOHC & DOHC engines I've seen in production* use small roller cam followers that rest against a small hydraulic flash adjusters on one end. *both no longer in production.
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  3011. I'm sorry, but this is a dog and pony show. Pure and simple. Even if the Senate approves this does exactly what. Besides removing Trump from potentially running for office. His reputation is in in the toilet. I seriously doubt his health would take a run in 2024.
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  3012. The bit about armor and firearms. Tell it to the Polish Winged Hussars. Or French Curriasers (sp) in Napoleon's Grand Army.
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  3013. Why is it the Left always fail to understand just what democracy means. Sometimes they seem to think democracy in a representative government means the people have a direct voice in government. A modestly sized city much less a nation state are far too large for such a system to work. The Representative of a district, region or whatever it is called is empowered to act in the interests of the people in that district. All the people. Not just the ones that voted for him or her. And sometimes that representative has to vote on issues in a way that is best for the whole city/region/state/nation even if that nay go against the percieved interests of the people they represent. The modern Left (1) percieve democracy as being a one party state controling legeslative, executive and judicial powers with only minor opposition represtation allowed to maintain the illusion of "democracy". Just look at the post WWll nations that embraced communism. And the titles of those nations. The German Democratic Republic. The only non lie in that name was German. It was neither a Republic or Democratic. And that is just one example. Another issue here is the term Far Right. The Left bandies the term and the label with so little regard for reality it has lost all meaning. Basically anyone to the right if their position on anything is labeled Far Right. This does not mean that Far Right elements do not exist in many societies. But not to the extent that Far Left elements seem to do. Both in my opinion should be shunned as extremists. 1) Personally I have a great deal of distain for the idea that a simple Left or Right label can be used to discribe anyone. Just as Liberal or Conservative can be used to discribe anyone. It is entirely possible for an individual to hold views on different subjects that can be both Left or Right. But far too often the extremists demand ideological purity.
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  3014. The sinking of HMS Barnham. Was the film originally in color? Or was the B&W colorized.
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  3015. She should be grateful that DJT won. His win gives four years of not having to put any effort into spewing her bile.
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  3016. Ian goes chipmunk hunting. They charge when wounded you know. He gets home and the wife says "Hard day at the office dear?" "You don't know the half of it"
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  3017. Unfortunately when commercial fusion finally becomes possible I fully expect the Luddites and Anti Nuclear Power activists to oppose it with all of the might.
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  3018. Ben and Jerry's should come out with a Doggy Doo flavor. Seeing as how they stepped in it.
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  3019. Tax the rich feed, feed the poor, until there are no rich no more. The end result is everybodies poor. The woman from Norway is an idiot. But its free!" There is no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody has to pay.
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  3020. How to ID rioters throwing molotov cocktails, rocks, chunks of masonry etc? Shoot them with a paint ball gun were the paint ball is filled with a clear UV sensitive fluid. You can run but you can't hide.
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  3021. The Chief of Police in Milwaukee was allowing the use of tear gas to disperse rioters. There was eventually enough political pressure to have him fired. Just in time for whatever will pass for the Democratic Convention
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  3022. I question whether the steam engine brought about the industrial revolution. Its more complex than that. Start with water power and line shafts in mills. Early steam engines were so inefficent the only thing they were good for was pumping out mines. Especially coal mines as the fuelwas basically free. Where Watt was able toget more efficent steam engines was having the cylinders bored to greater precision (0.1"). If you haven't read it look into Simon Winchester's book Precision. The machine tool industry and the related precision measuring industry are the real foundation of the modern technological world. One thing the steam engine did do was allow manufacturing plants to no longer be dependent on water power for siting manufacturing plants.
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  3023. ​As if 20% were a vast majority.
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  3024. I really don't think the US Army Ordinance Board did not realize the benefits of a smaller round able to do the job required of it. Frankly to kill or wound a human being by means of massive wound trauma. I think what happened is that having read the after action reports regarding the ranges at which most combat took place they did a "what about" in regards to those actions that took place at longer range. It is my opinion that they really did not to give up the capability of troops to engage the enemy at longer ranges. I also do not think the Ordinance Department expected the average rifleman to engage and hit targets at ranges out past 600 yards or meters. Just how many rounds were fired on average during WWII to one casualty (1). If you can force the enemy to take cover and stop him from doing what he wants but rather force him to react to what you do you are a fair way there to winning the fight. I really do think the Ordinance Board screwed up though. A smaller round that can do the job required of it that weighs less means a larger ammunition load per man for the same weight. It means lower recoil, potentially better shooting on the part of the rifleman (2) and other benefits to the infantry. (1) This also might have played into Ordinance Department thinking. Increased volumes of fire means increased strain on logistical system, the production system, costs (the increased costs are mainly going to be in the materials area. There will be a slight increase in costs man hours but mainly it's in the materials. Do you sufficient supply of copper and zinc for brass etc) Plys for the US you are looking at everything has to be produced, transported to a port, loaded on a ship, sailed across potentially hostile seas, unloaded and moved through the logistical system. (2) In reality just how many of the members of the average infantry squad, platoon or company really engaged the enemy with useful fire? 20%, 25%, more or was it less?
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  3025. ​Let me guess. Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Utah
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  3026. Well, they made it to orbit and deployed a payload. Now how long before they launch again? Where is BO's launch vehicle factory? These things are getting so big moving them cross country is getting absurb. Yes l now the Shuttle ET and boosters were shipped but that was Congerssional districts getting the jobs.
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  3027. Being part Irish I want cash from King Chuck and the Danes. Oh wait, half Danish. Never mind.
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  3028. Why not just copy the MG-42 and be done with it.
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  3029. I remember a TV movie from the '70s that had a high school teacher recruiting students for a movement. The day that the leader of the movement is supposed to give a talk the teacher drops the bomb that the leader is Hitler.
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  3030. Well I guess those aluminum 427 Fords didn't do much good because until Mark and Rodger showed up with the 917 Can Am car. The aluminum big block Chevys owned the series.
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  3031. Looks like they are playing 6 games in conference. They play less in conference than they used to.
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  3032.  @edmandziuk3858  Ohio State plays 8 conference games in 2024. UM and Penn State play 6 Wisconsin gets Alabama, @ USC and Oregon plus Penn State. Oh joy 😬
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  3033. I'm talking about games against B1G opponents.  @andrewmueller9986 
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  3034. There has also been work done on using Aluminum/Aluminium and LOX as a rocket fuel. If l recall correctly one fuel was a LOX/Aluminum slurry for a monopropellant. Aluminum Oxide is also very arbrasive. Lots of grinding wheels are made from it. Engines using this fuel would have pretty low ISP but if the use is restricted to operations from the Lunar surface to orbit and back down it is also dirt cheaper.
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  3035. What the Woke activists do not seem to realize when they protest and scream about "their rights" is they have the exact same rights as everybody else. No less. And NO MORE than anyone else.
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  3036. Would a Chrysler Australia Hemi Head off of a 245 or 215 work on a Slant 6. The bore size size is .360 bigger. So there may be a bore spread issue. The Slant is very close to a Mitsubishi 2.4 liter 4 cylinder that has a 3.406 bore. So for the creative idividual
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  3037. Yes, humans will go to Mars eventually. Not as soon as these people and Elon think. Any Mars research facility will require a water source that's a granted. The other other thing is such a facility will require power. Lots of it. But such a facility will be small cramped and limited. In all likelyhood the first item you need to ship to Mars is a small nuclear powered excavator. Then use that to dig a trench to put the facility in. The excavator can then be used to power facility. The facility could be based off of the same technology in the Bigelow inflatable modules. Crew would need to be rotated. But I don't hinkan maned missions to Ars should be undertaken until trip time is down to around sixty days. Another factor is how much gravity is needed to maintain health. We have two data points. 1 gee and zero gee. Shouldn't we know more about that. One way would be a small satellite with small animals. Mice for instance. Tethered to the booster and spun up to 1/6th gee. Fly another mission at 1/3rd gee. Return the mice to Earth and find out how they did. After while try it with a human crew. If lower gee is not a problem the transfer vehicle from Earth to Mars and back should have spin gravity on the way out gradually reduce the spin rate to 1/3rd gee. On the return build up to 1 gee. One other thing. If Phobos is a type of asteroid fairly rich in water a refueling feed facility will be needed to be built. The point is won't be easy. Or cheap.
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  3038.  @Armoredcompany  since when does France syare a border with the Netherlands. I think you mean the Belgians
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  3039. If its valve float because the springs are too weak I don't think it would free rev to 6500. The spring rate is going to be what it is.
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  3040. I believe one of these was used by Rolls Royce as a test airframe for the Exe and possibly the Vulture 24 cylinder engines
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  3041. I know its beyond the ability of the museum ship foundations money wise but it's too bad that they cannot restore say an Essex or one of the Iowa's to their appearance as built in the Forty's.
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  3042. Just remember each of us is at the center of the Universe. The observable Universe. 😉
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  3043. Start a competitor that pays more and only takes enough to cover any costs.
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  3044. How about the man that survived the "Hiroshima Heatwave" only to be evacuated to his home town. You guessed it. Nagasaki. And survived that heat wave too.
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  3045. I always wonder where the maintenance people are who tend all the burning torches and put oily into the lamps. The only trap I could see still being effective after centuries are deadfalls.
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  3046. Covid will continue to mutate into new strains. We need to institute travel bans no matter how much it may offend some people.
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  3047. I'm still waiting to be told just what Trump has done that's racist.
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  3048. If Evers resigns he better take his Lt Governor with him. The LG is far more liberal and has his head much farther up his ass. The only reason Evers got elected is the rest of the State outside of the Southeast area was extremely pissed about the Foxcon deal. There are number of things I'm not happy with in Wisconsin right now beyond the situation here in Kenosha. One is the way the Republicans gerrymandered state and federal districts to favor themselves in attempting to give themselves a permanent majority in the State Legislature. I'd be just as pissed if the Democrats did the same thing. Another thing I am not happy about is the refusal on the part of the majority leadership in the State Legislature to take any action on medical marijuana.
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  3049. I've seen guys doing in videos using plate glass. A granite counter top isn't flat enough. You really should use a surface plate if you're doing this. But one of the bids I saw the guy was lapping a set of aluminum heads for a V-6 that were warped because of over heating. When he went around with a feeler gage he had somewhere around .020" or more in the center of the head. So OK, he lapped the head face flat. It was a DOHC or a SOHC engine. Guess what. That warpage is still there in the head. Your cam bearings are no where near in alignment. Typically out of the factory the cam bearing alignment be it an OHC or a OHV is around .002 end to end with a location tolerance from the measuring datum surface and the locator holes machined into the datum surface of the block or head that is on the order of +/- .002. Plus on an OHV engine you have a tolerance from the Crankshaft centerline to the Camshaft* centerline. I worked 30+ years in an engine manufacturing facility. We made 4 cylinder, inline 6 cylinder, V-8s and two different 24 valve V-6s. Keeping these and all other machining operations and their related fixturing was one of our primary responsibilities. In my experience the cam bearings are always bored in the engine block in the same operation as the final bore on the crankshaft main bearing saddles and caps on OHV engines
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  3050. ​ @slipknottin  Thankfully we have never really "used" them. I'm sceptical of the fusion rocket working out. A lot depends on just how power it takes to run and where the power comes from. Solar arrays? That limits just how far from the Sun you can get and still run the system. Run it off of a fission reactor?
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  3051. And Korngold preceeded them all. I'll put up Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood against anything the moderns have done. Especially given the recording technology of the day. Plus his scores matched the mood of the scene.
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  3052. She could even claim to be "The Thin Man"
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  3053.  @cleobean8723  I'm sure it took two or three months to drive the POS all the way back.
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  3054.  @wanyelewis9667  There are a couple of other factors why the inline 8 is dead. One is the are "out-of-fashion". Another compared to let's say an inline 6 of the same displacement or even a V-8 of equal displacement is their is more machining operations involved to a certain extent. Granted any OHC V-has more operations than an inline would. Depending on design the OHC can also require two seperate sets of head and cam machining equipment. As far as inline 6s today to the best of my knowledge only BMW has stuck with the layout. Partly I think because it is part of their corporate indentity. As far as a modern inline 8 for a sporting application the best place two start might be one of the inline four motorcycle engines with the power takeoff at the center
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  3055. Why can't the OP just have them arrested because his feelings are hurt or he feels threatened. Oh, right.
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  3056. I come from the land of ice and snow Of the midnight sun and where the hot springs flow
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  3057. BBC = Brits Being Communists.
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  3058. Please, somebody bring back Midwest Express.
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  3059. What are the odds that a court would rule that a woman that identifies as a man and has not undergone any surgery should be housed in male prison? Just asking.
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  3060. Oh, they care. If youre having coffee during covid. If you are even remotely suspected of offending someone on social media. If you hold any opinion not sanctioned by the state.
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  3061. Yes the Big 10 Championship Game is pretty much guaranteed to be a two power house game under the 2 best. But I admit I really liked the idea of the possibility of a team from the weaker division* coming in and knocking off OSU or Michigan in an upset. The current setup also allow for really good teams to finish the years with 3 or more losses if they draw a schedule that is flush with the powerhouses. Two teams l don't see slipping from that position are OSU and Michigan. *Let's face it the division without USO and Michigan was the weaker division even if Iowa, Nebraska or Wisconsin were having great years.
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  3062.  @edmandziuk3858  With the two best Championship Game format we could easily see a situation where for the next decade it could be two from the same 4 or 5 teams playing in Indianapolis every year. The likely suspects are Michigan, OSU, USC, Oregon and possibly Washington. With Washington a lot depends on their recruiting success. One thing we won't see anymore are games like the 50some to nothing bitch slap OSU put on Wisconsin. The way it stands right now the B1G and the SEC look to be the two premier college football conferences. That's just my opinion. One thing I do hope is that with Nick Sabban's retirement the luster will start to come off of Alabama somewhat. Michigan and OSU will continue to have strong programs. I suspect USC will be back as will some others. The Big 10 used to be the Big 2 and the little 8. I'd hate yo see the B1G* turn into the Big 4 (or 5) and the little 13 or 14 for decades. The weaker** programs such as Iowa, Wisconsin and Penn St are going to have to compete even harder for top recruits. Plus they face the possibility of promising players being headhunted by other programs. *Is it even legitimate to call it the Big 10 anymore? **Weaker in the sense they aren't in the same class as OSU, Michigan etc. When Wisconsin brought in Alvarez and Pat Richter in the 90s they really did establish a legitimate poseible top 10 program every year. Since then IMO they have slipped. Not quite to the level of the 70 and 80s though. When Nebraska and Penn St entered the conference I suspect they thought they were going to clean up in conference play. It hasn't quite worked out that way has it. Rutgers and Maryland? I have never figured that one out.
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  3063. Look up how huckster, grifter or panderer. You will see her picture.
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  3064. Can you imagine the Left in the US or the UK reacting to something like this? Oh wait. That's OK it's our Socialist Comraden.
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  3065. Well, there is an unofficial official white Southern anthem. It's called Dixie. Catchy tune though. I vote we change it to of three choices. Battlehymn of Republic, The Star Spangled Banner with new words or America the Beautiful. And ditch that unsingable song with a tune stolen from the British
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  3066. Let's say in an alternate universe or timeline Cascadia is an independent country. One thing to keep in mind is that there is absolutely no guarantee that it would still be the economic powerhouse it is today. Besides including Eastern Washington and Oregon is foolish IMO given the differences between the area west of the Cascades vs east of them. In this alternate Cascadia it is likely that companies like Boeing, Microsoft etc would not exist. Cascadia could well be a resource extraction economy with little to no manufacturing or high tech st all. I'm not saying it would be. Just that it would most likely be different. Inside the lower 48 of the United States there are certain areas that were likely to be major areas of economic activity. Detroit. It rose to prominence due to it being close to water transportation and raw materials. And fell due to market forces. Chicago. Its location even if an analog Chicago became a major city simply because of its location. It would not have to be in the same location. It could be where Gary is. Pittsburg. River access, coal and iron ore. New York. Probably the best deepwater port on the East Coast.
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  3067.  @Drachinifel  Also appears to be a tug to me judging by the mass attached to the bow.
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  3068. A 12th historical misconception. The Woodrow Wilson is responsible for every evil in the world today. Even that's a little much for the devil incarnate
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  3069.  @ramal5708  Hence when a P-47 takes off its "tits up"
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  3070. Personally I never thought it was 2nd or 1st degree murder. I do think that the officers and by extension the Minneapolis PD bear a responsibility for Floyd's death simply because he was in police custody.
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  3071. I used Kurt's for years. Th hen when we went to CNC on our Bridgeports we tried out a different style vise. The fixed jaw is in the front. They can be used conventionally or stood on their sides. The fixed jaw is mounted with screws from the bottom and the end. The screw and thrust bearing mount in the solid jaw. The solid jaw has for all intense and purposes no flex when you tighten the vise. The vise is safer to use because when you put parts in and position them against the solid jaw you pulling the piece towards you. If you slip you are not going towards the cutter. For CNC operations you are always working in the +/+ quadrant. For the same opening the vise takes up less room than a regular Kurt. Sad thing is these vices didn't take off in the market. Kurt now makes a similiar type of pull vise but they ain't cheap
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  3072. The only "attractive" parking lot I have ever seen was in San Jose. It had islands seperating lanes with parking spaces. In the islands were tall pines or cedars that were about 60 ft tall.
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  3073. If one must order a burger instead of making it yourself I've found the best ones are pretty much always to be had at bars. And the meat makes a difference. BK metal are using the cheapest crap they can get. You might as well eat a freaking hot dog
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  3074. Well, the bad guys are clearly Nazis
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  3075. Why indeed. The British government and elites may have committed sins in the past but that does not mean that Brits today should pay the price.
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  3076. This what happens when college campuses are dominated and run by the Humanities Departments.
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  3077. I have one question for the Democrats. Why is it that everytime a prominent White (1) or Hispanic Democrat addresses a primarily African-American (2) audience they try to adopt the Black Preacher manner of speaking. I'm thinking of Hillary. I'm thinking of AOC. 1) If everything else can be capitalized then why not this 2) I really do not like the use of hyphenated labels for discribing so called communities in the US.
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  3078. Substitute Donald Trump for Megan and the applause would bring the house down.
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  3079. The next rung on the ladder of gender/sexual politics as we descend into the depths of social hell is man/boy relationships.
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  3080. The whole Decisive Battle Theory was born on Saki Ration Wednesday
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  3081. We have bolt action rifles and we have bolt barrel rifles. This thing just seems like a back asswards bolt action
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  3082. It's obvious. If you can afford to go on holiday you are danger to the health and safety of those less economically advantaged. Now if you gather in a large group for Friday prayers. Well, that's alright. And yes the world has gone slightly mad. No one with half a brain really thinks the current health/medical/contagion crisis is not real. But we should see that it seems no matter what governments try and do nothing will stop it. People are reacting with shock it seems when they find out this edition of a Carona virus has mutated. That's what viruses do. Or they panic when they hear that the current vaccines might be effective against the new strains. Well guess what. The only thing that is a absolutely assured when you are born is YOU WILL DIE AT SOME POINT. Not even taxes are required provided you are creative enough. Even people on welfare, public assistance or what ever you call it pay taxes. Sales tax, VAT etc. The only thing we can say about when we die is we have some choice over the matter. I say some because there things beyond our control. One can live a healthy life style, eat wholesome foods, partake of other things in moderate amounts and still get hit by a bus. None of us physically are immortal. I'll leave the philosophical discussions to others. Accept that you are mortal. Take reasonable precautions for your safety and the safety of others. If you are sick stay home. No one else wants your common cold, Covid or flu. It's yours you get to keep it. Odds are you will be just fine.
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  3083. Chrysler had AWD available on their minivans in 2000. The long wherlbase versions met the gold standard for US cargo haulers. A flat load floor capable of hitting a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood etc. With the hatch closed.
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  3084. Is the Rove a gear pump or the type shown here.
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  3085. I've been thinking the proper response is to just let them stew in their own bodily fluids for a while. I really nice touch would have been to let the sound of water running in the backround. But in reality they got what they wanted. Public exposure. As idiots, but exposure none the less.
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  3086. Maybe they should form an April 18th committee
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  3087. Trade Wars and tarrifs rarely work. If a nation wants to protect its own industry and agriculture the best way to do it is ensure your own homegrown products are as good as anything else built in the world or better. But with US businesses its not the next ten years its this quarterly report.
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  3088.  @vidcas1711  Let alone Oconomowac
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  3089. If the manhole covers (both of them) got blown into space they may well of exceeded Solar escape velocity and are now on their way to the stars. Now we just need to figure out the vector
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  3090. There were models of the A-12 available in the 1960s. Pre 67 for sure. The box art shoed the aircraft at altitude with the curve of the Earth in the background. Take that flattards
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  3091. Came close to buying one of these in 73. But I took a look at some 70 cars in the the area. These were not a car that held up well in winters were road salt is used.
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  3092. And then they missed a 19 mile diameter hole
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  3093. The British did take the Hill. More of a pyrphic victory.
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  3094. Of all know supervolcanoes there are more of them in Western North America than any where else*. I suspect this has a lot to do with the remnant of the Jaun de Fuca plate and perhaps other subducted Pacific Seafloor Plates that are still in the process of being absorbed back into the Mantle. But Yellowstone is a whole different ballgame. The hotspot that feeds Yellowstone has been active for a very long time. As North America has moved slowly to the Southwest due to its Plate motion the hot spot has repeatedly burned through the overlaying North American Plate leaving a trail of old caldera. Plus the hot spot likely fed the great Flood Basalts that buried parts of Washington. The only reason that the trail of old caldera fo not trace a fairly straight line to the Southwest is that the Pacific Northwest is rotating slowly in a clock wise motion. Approximently 50 million years ago the west coast of North America was in Eastern Eastern Washington. Various chunks of continental crust and island arcs have slowly been acreated to the western edge of the continent as the North Ametican Plate over ran the subducting Juan de Fuca Plate. One of the largest of these was a large volcanic province known as Siletzia. Portions of which comprise the Olympic Olympic Peninsula of Washington. For a good channel one PNW geology visit Nick Zentner's channel. He's a geology professor at UW Ellensburg *Yellowstone, Long Valley in California and Valles Calderas are just three. Some of the known North American supervolcanoes are likely extinct. Although there has been some activity in historic times. The various cinder cones in areas of the American West are evidence of this.
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  3095. About the mice. It sounds as if Bret Wienstien is a voice in the Wilderness. Reminds me of another guy who's last name began with W. Alfred Wegener
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  3096. Was HMS TOG a land battleship or a land battlecruiser 😖 l can not believe yhat it was not scrapped during the war just for the steel.
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  3097. Once they start talking they never STFU. Plus every third word out of their pie holes is we or our
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  3098. imagine doing cube roots with Roman numerals. Which leads me to think that the so called Arabic numerals or something similar go back farther than we think. I seem to remember that the Arabs got the numeric symbold from the Indian subcontinent.
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  3099. Implosion. We know that now. Wreckage about 1200 ft from the bow.
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  3100.  @FablesTold  Every elected federal official takes an oath the defend and protect the Constitution. And they all subvert it.
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  3101. ​ @marem3038  That involves actual work.
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  3102. The design of this engine was actually begun by AMC prior to its aquisition by Chrysler. How much further work was done by Chrysler post aquisition before the decision to bring to production l don't know. I know l did see machining lines under construction at Ingersoll in Rockford, ll. I'm not sure if it was for the 4.7 or the Hemi. One thing I'm surprised was not done was developing the 4.7 along the lines of Ford and their original model modular V-8.
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  3103. Its my understanding that the school district that Carmel is in spends 9k a year per student. How much does the school districts in shit holes like Baltimore spend. I've heard up yo 21k. That's what you need to ask. How much are you spending? And on what?
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  3104. Well Congress and the public at large will tend to get a little bit mad once the We regret to inform you telegrams start going out. And just what were the Standards shooting at. Towed targets?
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  3105. If Transwomen want to compete as "women" require them to get "de-junked".
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  3106. Or a Jahovah's Witness.
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  3107. You mean she practices the "monkey at the zoo" school of journalism.
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  3108. Has anyone noticed we don't see transwomen competing in womens gymnastics
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  3109. Sometimes people who want to build low rise multi unit housing with business space on the ground floor can't not just because of zoning laws. Sometimes it's about opposition froor area residents and city politicians. Before you think I'm going off about it being single family homes bias being the opponents. There is a owner of a coin operated laundry in San Francisco* that has wanted to demolish the single story structure and build new housing. With business space on the ground floor. He has met opposition from local residents and the city council. This is in a city with a severe housing shortage. *Any city that refers to itself as "The City" really needs a collective slap upside the head. I like SF. But I won't go back again. They're letting the inmates run the asylum
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  3110. Just imagine what could be done today with precision guidance. A 16" laser guided shell. Just look at what is being done with 57 mm naval ammunition today.
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  3111. The only times I have been subjeted to Friends is when my wife decided to watch a rerun. Seemed to be about a bunch of narcissists
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  3112. One potential benefit to an operational spaceplane. Even if it could only carry a pilot and say 6 passengers. It would require a lot less infrastructure than even a system like Starship. Research a proposal called Black Horse. Small spaceplane takes off from a runway with a partial fuel load. Meets up withan airborne tanker. Tops off and heads for orbit.
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  3113. One think here. Has everyone tripped to the fact that somebody else likely had a phone out shooting video of this. You want discipline in the schools. Put nuns in the schools. 😖
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  3114. The first duty of a novelist is to entertain the reader. If there are no engaging characters the reader can find empathy with. What is the point. If the writer wants to write about a world where everything is a shade of grey write history or biography. But even then there are peoples and individuals who may have thought themselves moral but who truly were evil.
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  3115. If it wasn't for papa he would never be in the position he is in.
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  3116. He can only do this because he has somebody shooting video and plus a couple of homies backing him up.
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  3117. They are more than happy to accept illegals in NYC. They just want their arrival out of sight out of mind. After all. Who is going to make their lattes
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  3118. To me its not they are reporting her being involved in looting. She was dumb enough to live stream herself being involved.
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  3119. The only reason l can see for the timing chain set-up is it allowed Ford to use tye same heads on both sides. GM did that with the LQ-1 but got around it by using a belt drive with a longer cam carrier and cams on the passenger side. Depending on how many machining lines you have the cycle times on the lines can ge equal between blocks and heads or twice as fast on the heads.
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  3120. The Queen has decided to live just long enough that Charles precedes her in death.
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  3121. ​ @guidedmeditation2396  To which she will pay not the slightest attention. IMO trying to attach yourself to the achievements of people 2000 years or more dead is dumb. No matter who you are. You can be proud of your ancestors achievements. But they are NOT YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS. If Jada wants an epic tale involving ethnic Bantu how about one involving the Bantu kingdoms of West Africa or the great migration of Bantu peoples from West Aftica into Southeast and Southern Africa. But that might smack of colonialism.
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  3122. Pilots claimng the same plane. How common was flying without film in the gun camera. I would think as the war progressed it became less common for for certain airforces. Germany in particular. And for others, the US in particular, it became rarer to fly sans film.
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  3123. The Years of Rice and Salt immediately came to mind. Plus on AlternateHistory.com this gets you a Vlad Tepes Award
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  3124.  @davidpeters6536  Plus they had superchargers.
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  3125. Of course the Auto Union V-16 Gran Prixcars from the 1930s only had a a redline of 5000 revs or so. The engine had one of the most unusual valve trains in racing history. The intake valves were opened by a single centerly located camshaft in a SOHC configuration. The same camshaft opened the exhaust valves via pushrods.
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  3126. It appears the government reaction to wokeness has begun in France. I'm not advocating it but I wonder if we will see a return of Madam Guillotine
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  3127. If possible a better way to this job would have been in the lathe. But you have to be able to set-up an angle plate on the cross slide. Plus the angle plate plate needs to be big enough. Another option if you must bore the hole in the mill is to feed up with the kner if the knee has a Servo type feed unit on it. They are well worth it if you are constantly running the knee up and down
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  3128. If there are no geologic markers (shocked quartz grains etc) present. Then no. The Mediterranean basins are likely the remnants of the Tethys Ocean that have not yet been closed by Plate Tectonics as Africa and Eurasia close on each other. As to whether these chevrons are the result of water or wind depends a lot on elevation and distance from the sea. The farther into the interior the more likely that winds over a long time periods are responsible. Sustained winds Dan also be responsible for dome of the Chevron formations along coast lines. The real indicator in my mind for chevrons formed due to tsunamis originating from Ocean Basin impacts is the presence of deep sea micro fossils. And yes I do think some of the chevrons we see along coast lines are the results of ocean impacts.
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  3129.  @OzGeologyOfficial  And if it happened anytime in the last million years we wouldn't be here. And one other left over portion of the Tethys Ocean Basin is probably the Black Sea. As to Chevron Formations. One place that resistance to the idea that seashore Chevron Formations can be caused by impact tsunamis comes from researchers whose field is the effects of long term wind patterns. Also I doubt the Mediterranean Basins hold enough water to form all of the chevrons seen.
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  3130. These companies are probably swimming in so much cash the accountants are telling them. You better hire a bunch of drones otherwise Uncle Sugar gonna screw us on taxes. These are the people who should have their "jobs" outsourced to freaking India.
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  3131. GPM offers a 1:200 model of Saratoga. Printed in A3 format in book form. A much cheaper option than plastic. Plus get the sheets scanned and if required you can just print extra for when you screw up. In some ways modeling in card is similar to scratch building in that there is forming work that needs to be done. Some card modelers when doing ships fill the hull framing with foam and then sand and fill to get smooth hull forms.
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  3132.  @elgatofelix8917  Read a book by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle called Inferno. An update of Dante's Inferno. It has sins that Dante never imagined. The circle of Hell with filled with politicians and advertising people. They circle eternally wading in shit that spews forth when ever they en their mouths.
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  3133. The three most machinery intensive parts of an IC engine are the Block, Cank and Heads in that order. For a normal street engine nodular cast iron is just fine. I worked at an engine manufacturing facility for 30+ years. We built 4s, 6s (v & inline) and v8s. Cast iron and forged. One of the V-6s actually was pre balanced as its first operation. Which was drilling the central holes. Plus on both V-6s we built the pins were offset for smooth running purposes. The cranks were forge flat and then twisted and their centerline to get the angular offset needed. As to the strength of cast crankshaft. In the 60s there was an AMC 199 sleeved down to meet USAC Indy rules that made a reported 800 HP as max boost. Another thing with flat plane cranks in V-8s. Using a flat plane actually makes it easier to build a V-8 with an angle other than 90° between the banks. Such an engine is effectively two 4 cylinder engines on a common crankcase
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  3134. If it wasn't flat within the specified range it wasn't set up properly. The head would need to be clamped directly over the riser blocks the head was sitting on. Plus if the head is rocking on the riser blocks then this needs to be eliminated by the either the use of shims between the riser block or the use of Jack Screws in place of the block or blocks. Even then you still need to make sure that each end of the head is at the same height. The valve cover gasket surface is NEVER used by the manufacturer as a locating surface during manufacturing.
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  3135. Blue hair must be a get out of jail free card.
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  3136. In reality there are only a few solutions to designing a single seat single engine jet fighter
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  3137. No, this isn't the future or the present in all cities. But if your city is run purely on feelings and having to be seen as caring about the disadvantaged (but not really doing anything about it)(1). Yes, then this is your future. 1) The best thing any city (or state or country) fighting the problems of poverty is encouraging actual jobs that can give people a chance. That and actually promote an educated citizen.
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  3138. ​ @AUDHDlucy  4 miles an hour on level terrain is a very fast walking speed. A normal walking gait. Not a race walking gate.
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  3139. They won't starve. Their moment of choice will come about t ng e time they need to use the WC.
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  3140. Rampant mental illness. Especially on election day.
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  3141. I was waiting for the "good" reverend to mske an appearance.
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  3142. In my life I've walked, biked, took the bus and drove to work*. It usually boiled down to what was easier, more convienent and if i had plans after work would require me to drive. So I think I've seen things from both sides. There are buttheads who drive cars. There are also buttheads who cycle. The worst behavior I think I've ever seen by cyclists has been groups of cyclists on road bikes riding as groups taking up the whole road when they have dedicated bike lanes. Blowing through stop signs and red lights. The stop signs usually without even slowing down. If i have to obey the rules of the road (and I do mostly, yes I will drive over the speed limit often in self defense) so do they. This also applies to people walking. *The facility i worked at had a private commuter railroad that run through the facility. There were people who who ride to work on and they would let them off even though there was no station.
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  3143.  @yeoshenghong4802  They want photo ops. Mug shots seem fine for me.
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  3144. The Treaty restrictions regarding German submarines and aircraft development also reached down to small arms. So a lot of that work was done by Swiss based subsidiaries.
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  3145. ​ @eugene9000pro  Do you know why plastics were developed in the first place? Or why the chemical industry started. The chemical industry started because of coal tar. First major products dyes. Once we stated using kerosene for lighting the petrochemical industry was born. And once we have a 100% renewable energy sector or cheap fusion the petrochemical industry is not going to disappear. Let's just admit what the real core problem is. Too damn many people. How do you solve that?
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  3146. Is there any oral tradition from native Australian peoples on this event. E know oral traditions and stories that have been passed down can be traced back a long way. Or did any one who witnessed the event die. Also have any human remains ever been found in these deposits.
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  3147. I remember a panel discussion a few years back. Same basic subject IIRC Kasin was on and definitely Ash. She made a smug comment about immigration and population growth. It ended with her saying "and we're winning".
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  3148. I remember the first one of these I saw in 73 or 74. Broke down on the side of road.
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  3149. Can you make a space suit* out of Duct Tape? Only if you're Red Green *Space Suit is a stupid name.
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  3150. What was that tailess biplane used for anti submarine patrols during WWI?. The wings had what appeared to be 15 or 20 degrees of sweep with the rudders mounted at the outboard end of the wings.
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  3151. In ancient Rome actors were considered on par with prostitutes.
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  3152. The sights marked steps of 10💩💩💩💩, 20💩💩💩, 30💩💩, 40💩, 50, 100🙏, 150🙏🙏, 200🙏🙏🙏 and 250🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 yards The designer was inspired by an errant in his sofa
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  3153. I don't care how good the optics are*. It's only gonna get so much light down the tube *and I'm willing to bet the optics are shit
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  3154. Congratulations, you re-invented the Motor Jet. Still cool though. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorjet&ved=2ahUKEwi8-oWwh97yAhXtQ98KHZryBz0QFnoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1EJ0rvxGhZzrd5x9vjz6l3
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  3155.  @bobroberts2371  They used to run Slant Sixes in a professional road racing series in Argentina. Up against Ford and Chevy inline 6s. Now the Slants have been replaced by the AMC/Jeep 4.0. But these are full race prepped motors with structural main bearing girrdles, dry sumps plus all new DOHC 24 valve heads made especially for the race series. 500+ ponies using 2 Weber downdraft 2 barrels. Wet sump engines have been road raced for years.
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  3156.  @bobroberts2371  Not saying a dry sump isn't better. But what if the rules do not allow them?
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  3157. The pitching talent is stretched thin as it is.
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  3158. What the host should have when shaking this nutters hand was jerk him forward and plant a facer in his mouth.
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  3159. In your best Leonidas voice "This is a COMIC BOOK!!!!!!!!!!"
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  3160. I'm not that familiar with Jaguar engines. Is this engine basically an updated version of the XK?
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  3161. I'm surprised that some scavanger is picking the stuff up.
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  3162. Nate, just imagine one of these individuls getting assigned to a seat in the row with the emergency exit.
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  3163. First afterburner equiped US fighter? No. That's yhe Vought F6-U Pirate. First operational fighter with A/B? Yah, I'll ho with that.
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  3164. So Wheeler the Weasel is going to move. I feel sorry for the people in the area he moves to.
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  3165. Never.
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  3166. LS or Ford Windsor and Cleveland heads could also be put on top of the Jeep 4.0. Bore spacing dead nuts for the Fords. Only .020" off for the Chebbies. Might require some modifications to close up the head face and pushrod angles though. Aluminum heads are likely easier for this as CI heads likely need to be furnace brazed. The Ford 240/300 has a bore spacing of 4.480. A while back there were some people working on swapping DOHC 4 Valve heads from the GM LQ-1 onto the Poncho OHC inline six. There are some creative people out there. Oh, and down in Argentina they race heavily modified Ford, Chevy and AMC/JEEP 4.0s fitted out with specially made twin cam 4 valve heads. Around 500 horse using twin Weber 2bbls.
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  3167.  @Project-gr6zy  The ones in gaucho land are reduced to 3 liters iirc. And yah, I've heard of the ones with Cleveland heads.
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  3168. Montana to my knowledge has "reasonable and prudent" speed laws on the books. So if you are driving your clapped 73 Maverick at 95 with bald tires you can and should get tagged.
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  3169. I suspect he is going to have a long wait.
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  3170. The title of this video is slightly misleading. But in the future you might actually see a tunnel between Sweden and Finland. I think Sweden and Denmark is likely.
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  3171. It would be interesting to see just what the actual forces are that the rifle is subjected to with and with out the compensator when measured with accelerometers. In terms of design (I'm not a firearms designer by any means) I'm wondering if it is really required to have both parts of the system gas driven. Unless they want to reduce wear on the gear system by not using the two gears to drive the counter mass forward.
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  3172. ​ @nancyseery2213 plus almost all the States are red and blue (1). Red is urban mostly and blue rural and some suburban. 1) I'm old enough to remember when the media used red for Democrats and blue for Republicans. I wonder why they switched?
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  3173.  @brianmclaughlin4419  No, not confused. Just distracted at the time.
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  3174. If you are done as a nation ask yourself why. Is it because your generation is so selfish large numbers of you refuse to start a family? Is it because you are too good to do work that you consider beneath you? Is it because you continue to elect politicians who care more about what the rest of the world thinks than what the residents of your country care about. None of what l said is racist, bigoted or jingoistic. I said nothing that made a statement about the white British, Americans, French or any other country. If you think l did or see it that way. That's your problem. If you think this is anti immigration. Its not. Any nation should be able to control immigration to a reasonable amount that its workforce needs can accommodate. That will not overburden its social systems. The US even the days of unlimited immigration (1) was still able to reject immigrants for health, criminal history or political views. If a person was an avowed terrorist would you happily let him into your country. In the past immigrants realized that to a large degree they would have to assimilate. If you wanted to participate in the larger economy you would need to learn the language. That you would need to learn to be tolerant of others views. No one ever said you had to give up your language, culture or religious beliefs if any. Today the Woke segment of society demands that illegal immigrants (2) and members of "protected classes" do not have to be tolerant of others and those that they refuse to be tolerant of must be tolerant on anything they demand. 1) Yes the US in the past had immigration exclusion laws. That's in the past. 2) All illegal immigration means that you have entered a country disregarding its immigration laws.
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  3175. The turbosupercharging system in the P-47 is the primary reason that the aircraft was so large. A lot of the fuselage between the engine and the turbo was taken up with ducting and the intercooler. On the P-38 the landing gear in the booms was basically behind the engine and its accessory drives. The only place for the turbos was behind the gear. Along with the radiators. The intercoolers where actually in the outer wings. The P-38 actually had a lot of parasitic drag.
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  3176. British gets their butts kicked in Afghanistan twice. Brit helps them re-arm. Or is this a case of The Great Game.
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  3177. One can produce a flat surface by hand. Only you have to produce three flat surfaces at the same time constantly checking the three surfac s against one another. This is how the tirst surface plates were made.
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  3178. The engine was based off of the small block V-8
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  3179. This would make a wonderful yard ornament. I wonder what the HOA would say. 🤔
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  3180. ​ @davidb9531  Did you miss the part about "a new and ever lasting covenant"
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  3181. HOA boards are populated with little tin gods.
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  3182. I don't understand why thses nutters have not been physically assaulted.
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  3183. I've seen videos of ones about the size of a Ma Duece that can pretty much shred a car. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DKMT97bqaOdM&ved=2ahUKEwihqM325qrzAhWxc98KHabFBMwQjjh6BAgWEAI&usg=AOvVaw1mdyfhhe8vdwlMFy7dOp-R
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  3184.  @chrisreed5463  I love the Box of Frogs (amphibians or Frenchmen?). Tight up there with Box of Rocks, Bag of Hammers
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  3185. Well if she is whoring out the DAs office it fits
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  3186. The Luftwaffe losses would also include paratroopers KIA
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  3187. Road & Track. I doooooon't think so. Not their thing.
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  3188. All of the genderists who want to be referred to by their pronouns should actually be using "I" and "Me". Because it is all about them. What if I want to refer to them by the genders I indentify them as. Butthead and Asshat.
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  3189. Another thing that needs to be remembered here. Anti-friction or rolling element bearings, which includes Ball Bearings, Tapered Roller Bearings, Cylindrical Roller Bearings, Thrust Bearings, Angular Contact Bearing have standard sizes that can be broken down into various series, groups and classes. As an example. A common 6210 ball bearing. The 6 means it is a radial type design. It carries the load at right angles to the axis of rotation, the 2 means it is a 200 series bearing. This means the OD and width are drawn from a set of dimensional standards in relation to the ID. The 10 means it has a 50mm ID. It doesnt matter who made the bearing they are interchangeable. Another thing. While a ball bearing has balls in it. The balls themselves are not called ball bearings. The are simply steel balls manufactured to a certain tolerance. Once the balls, the cage that holds the balls and the inner and out races are combined into an assembly does it become a ball bearing.
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  3190.  @garethbaus5471  I wonder what the proof was 🤔
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  3191. For an analysis of Superman's* sexuality find a copy of Man of Steel, Women of Kleenex by Larry Niven *Today's Woke Culture sees him as Simperman
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  3192. ​ @sjb3460  The hard part of cutting Whitworth threads on a lathe is grinding the tools. Not the 55° included angle. But grinding the proper tip radius and the radii that form the proper crown on the top of the thread. Plus some of the Whitworth pitches are not normally found in the Quick Change Gear Boxes of non British lathes. 19 tpi for one. Also it was very common for machine tool builders to have their own special thread pitches. Brown and Sharpe used to use things like 1/4-22 or 1/4-32 (1) for the screws used in their screw machines. Also those really nice Swiss MultiFlex tool posts use things like 7mm, 9mm or other odd sizes not normally found even in the catalogs of industrial supply houses. It's called "buy our parts". 1) I've got a tap for that one
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  3193. ​ @tonywilson4713  In the US the standard reference book is Machinery's Handbook. Mine is close to 50 years old and is still useful. In fact it probably has info that is no longer listed in newer editions. We used to make a lot of replacement parts eith gear teeth cut to the Fellows Stub Tooth system. The Pitch Diameter was based on one Diametral Pitch while the overall height of the gear tooth and the OD was derived from the next smaller gear tooth profile. A gear would be expressed as 48T-10/12DP.
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  3194. My unfinished kits are in a smallish storage bin, a number of CDs and packages of card stock still at the office supply store. Card models take up so much less room. Unbuilt ones anyways.
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  3195. So the threats from Dear Leader didn't work. Pasta and bugs must not sound attractive.
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  3196. The best "western" GPMG? The biggest production numbers? How does it compare to the MG-42/G3? Just asking. Shooting video tomorrow?
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  3197. One question. How does the Eastern Front deaths per day correspond to the average number of deaths per day in the German population pre war? There has to be data on that somewhere.
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  3198. If the women on The View were not complaining about something every single show. They would have no show. Period. Face it. Trump getting re-elected is the best thing that ever happened to them. It assures them of four more years of things to complain about.
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  3199. ​The MSM say they hate censorship. Yet they do it 24/7/365.
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  3200. A sideline for shaft mining of copper in the UP and Northern Wisconsin was noth gold and silver. It wasn't a major sideline but it was there.
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  3201. I for one have never understood sports teams or a certain birth control item being named for the Trojans. After all. They were losers.
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  3202. There are cases when adapting a literary work set in one social environment to another with ethnically appropriate actors to that environment work. A lot of Shakespeare can be done this way. The Scottish Play (1) could be adapted to just about any society. The Film Ran by Kurosawa is a good example. West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet to New York City's housing projects. Forbidden Planet is just The Tempest. But if you do the adapting to really be believable IMO it needs to be set in that ethnic environment. Personally I'd like to see the BBC adapt a non European work into a project set in a ethnically appropriate Britian for its time period. Just to see if they have the guts to do so. But no, the BBC (2) will continue to blackwash other works while likely trying to insist they portray an accurate image of the period. The individuals that insist on continueing to do this should remember one thing. Just because you have the freedom to do this. Everyone else has the freedom not to watch or buy into it. 1) Macbeth for those who do not get the reference 2) Along with other production companies. Netflix comes to mind.
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  3203. Not so funny now.
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  3204. One template for space colonization could well be what happens on the Moon. To prevent squabbling over potential resources we may well see the lunar surface partitioned off into "Zones of Influence". Even then minor countries who have no potential to expand into space operations will attempt to short circuit any attempts to benefit from resource extraction thru the UN Treaty on Space.
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  3205. Hire based on qualifications and experience. If two applicants are equally qualified flip a coin. Firing based on job performance only.
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  3206. Bore sized for golf balls on a par 3 course. There used to be a "driver" that took a blank round that when fired shot the club face forward against springs. The Bloop Tube makes more sense in my opinion.
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  3207. Just crank up the printing presses. Because that always works.
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  3208. The concept in and of itself is fine. It's been seen in various forms since around 1950, and possibly earlier. The issue here is who gets to define the question. A better option is one that uses three axis and presents the results in a 3D image that shows a volume. As an example one can be very socially liberal, fiscally conservative and an isolationist on foreign policy. On a 3D axis you well have a volume that displays your stance that also has lobes reaching out to seemingly different opinions
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  3209. Granted the Hurricane puts out great power. And if driven to were it is putting out that power constantly l would question its reliability. But the fact is the overwhelming majority of owners will never stress the engine to 80% much less 100%. Now as to owners paying attention to maintenance schedules. Thats another matter. Also oil changes the most common scheduled maintenance item are getting insane in their cost. What was a 80 dollar expense is now pushing 140 around me. Yes cheaper than an engine renuild. But for some a definite shock. And not everyone has the option of doing their own oil changes.
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  3210. It was certainly fast "a" dive.
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  3211. The de-industialization of many urban areas are also part of the problem. The causes are many. Competion from overseas. Companies seeking lower labor costs. Poor domestic quanity (1). Buyers of consumer goods for major retailers seeking ever lower costs. This can result in a company moving off shore just to be able to turn a profit and stay in husiness (2). The loss of jobs that might have supported a family has not helped. Maybe not supported a family in style but still put food on the table. The second major problem is the destruction of the American family. The number of children born out of wedlock is out of control. All over the country. Children need a father figure in their lives. If they do not have one at home they will seek one elsewhere. Where do young boys in Chicago's hoods have to look for a father figure? 1) Some of the issues with US manufacturing can be laid squarely at the feet of organized labor. Some simply were too successful at working to improve their memberships lives. A prime example is the UAW. But the people who blame everything on the unions forget that management carries a lot of the blame to. Possibly the most. Pursuing cost cutting so much it destroys the quality of your product. Product decisions made by corporations that result in producing an inferior product. Decisions made that change a companies culture that ultimately destroys the companies reputation. Look at Boeing for that one. 2) Look into WalMart and Rubbermaid. Every body loves a bargin. But if that bargin buys you a cheaper poor quality product. That does not last what have you saved.
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  3212. I remember an episode of Lovejoy where he searching for one of a set of dueling pistols. The Judas Pair iirc.
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  3213. I had seen stuff about this before and when I posted I had a brain poof and used Popeye. Then went back and edited.
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  3214. Why am I thinking the SP2 with a L24/26/28 or an RB or a 2JZ up front. A 6 speed transaxle the back. Fully IRS. Four wheel discs. Ok, maybe an RB or 2JZ is a little much. A good choice also might be a BMW 2002 drive train.
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  3215. They need the 'systemic racism' to maintain the GRIFT.
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  3216. I'm not going to claim I could easily cycle to IKEA. My question is why would want to go to IKEA at all. If I'm going to by furniture I'd rather by furniture made locally
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  3217. Your graduation is only about you to you and you family.
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  3218. I really do not know what caused the gang violence problem in El Salvador. But i will say one thing. If it is in any way related to drugs. Then every person in the drug using countries that uses these drugs. And funds the gangs by purchasing these drugs. Is an accessory to each and every murder the gangs committed.
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  3219. Let me hazard a guess. These same people are also supportive of increased immigration from certain regions in the name of diversity.
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  3220. 9mm Parabelum
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  3221. PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals.
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  3222.  @Peanutdenver  Porsche has dabbled in the aviation market before. Their flat 6 was certified for A/C use but I dont think it really went anywhere
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  3223. ​ @benjaminlarson6717  Had 5 ships. Fixed it for you.
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  3224. Pulled over for what? Speeding? Trump stickers? If they are pulling people over for violations l really don't have a problem with that.
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  3225.  @BarryAllen-no9nj  I know. The recommended torque ratings for A4-70 and A4-80 are around 50 to 55% of a grade 12.8. Plus over tighten SS in a SS tapped hole you've got a significant change of gauling and sizing the screw. In the industry I was working in normal procedure called for chucking the screws if they were used more than 3 times
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  3226.  @BarryAllen-no9nj  Fortunately the major components for the centrifuges we built (bowls, headwalls and scrolls) are all a magnetic stainless alloy that are cast centrifugally. https://www.centrisys-cnp.com/ https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=centrisys&&view=detail&mid=B57FF007809EE2311266B57FF007809EE2311266&&FORM=VRDGAR
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  3227.  @martinfidel7086  that's an option too. No matter what you do there's going to be significant machining involved. Plus there's always the option of a two piece layered cylinder head machined from solid.
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  3228. On bone to pick. A fia caliper is not a micrometer. Plus dial (or digital) caliper can measure 4 ways. 1) Across the width or diameter of the piece. 2) An internal measurement a in an ID or the width of a slot. 3) Depth with the rod. 4) Depth or step over with the head end of the unit. 1 and 2 are reasonably accurate. 3 is a guess at best. 4 is reasonably accurate. Plus #4 is a great way to layout parts. The basic idea of the screw micrometer has been around for a long time. It took advances in machining technology to reach the point to where it became practible. Prior to that it was all vernier calipers.
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  3229.  @assertivekarma1909  Oh, I've seen that locally. The concerned want to open a halfway house. But always in somebody else's neighborhood. Never near them.
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  3230. I notice a certain element linking all of these. I just cant seem to put my finger on it. I know! Orange man bad!
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  3231. Certainly not the first time an exosolar object has passed through the Solar System. Just the first one we noticed. Has anybody tracked it's path back to which star it may have passed by before us?
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  3232. 1) Reduce the number of blades being replaced annually per unit in the future by developing, designing and manufacturing new blade designs that simply last longer. Hopefully as long as the generator set in the individual turbine. 2) Develop, design and manufacture blades that use more easily recycled materials. Aluminum/Aluminium would work although I suspect the weight penalty would be huge. 3) Education. Everyone needs to have an understanding that no matter how "green" the technology every technology has an environmental cost. Both at the front end in manufacturing, resource extraction for raw materials and transportation to the installation site. And decommissioning costs involved in removal, transportation to recycling facilities. Add in the costs incurred in maintenance of the equipment over its life. Even rooftop Solar has maintenance costs. Even if you do it yourself how much is your time worth?
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  3233. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. To quote Joe Pesci. They ef you at the drive thru.
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  3234. At least franchise films are honest in their recycling old plot lines. If we are honest aside from biopics all plots have been recycled countless times.
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  3235. While the Long House is of course well known and wide spread. I wonder about the circular stone structures found by Bob Ballard off of the Dardanelles in around 2005. These stone circles have to my knowledge not investigated due to issues with sunken WWI warships being in the vicinity. The take I've heard is that these were some type of religious structure. Which seems to me to be almost a default position. My thought is could these structurescould well have been communal living structures for an extended family or clan depending on size. The largest is about 50 meters in diameter. The structures have a perimeter wall with a central stone structure that is taller. These stone circles were last above water circa 8000 BCE
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  3236. Book that has not been turned into a film. "The Mote in Gods Eye" Book trilogy turns into a series. "The Nuetronium Alchemist" Heist film. "The Hot Rock"
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  3237. If masks cut the risk of infection by an appreciable amount it's worth it. If you dont think it makes a difference consider that they might help prevent somebody else from contracting it if you have it.
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  3238. As I understand it the only troops equipped with the Trapdoor were state militia troops. The Navy Lee was developed in the 1880s
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  3239.  @giovannifontana1433  The USArmy actually had Springfield Armory build some Trapdoors in .30-40 Krag for cartridge evaluation. Ian had a video on them. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=.30+caliber+trapdoor&&view=detail&mid=C98375C0AF65E6C1E4B7C98375C0AF65E6C1E4B7&&FORM=VRDGAR
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  3240. I always laugh to myself when the media talks about free speech. The media always practices censorship. Only they call it "editing". Along with their bias. And all media outlets do it.
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  3241. This landmass will become one. Until rifting happens.
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  3242. Wait, l thought Sleepy Joe said Antifa doesn't exist. And didn't this anarchist think of all the pollution and CO2 released into atmospere. Oh no! The polar bears are gonns die!
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  3243. The part where the mushroom head is complaining about Disney being told what they can and cannot do. I thought the ABC...XYZ+-×÷ Progressives loved to tell what businesses can andcannot do.
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  3244. It is time to admit that some politicians see the flood of immigrants as new potential voters. For them and their party of course. These are Democrats mainly. And then there are people on the other side who see people they can pay low wages driving real wages down for the average working person. As usual, the blue collar workers who keep this country going in many ways will get screwed.
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  3245. Fritters, orange fritters 😋 Best modern doughnuts I've had were in Portland ME. Must be the potatoes. Beignets. Might be heresey but Eli'sTable in Charleston. With a berry dipping sauce. 😋😋
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  3246. I saw one on GarandThumb's channel a while back that used washers for projectiles. Plus it fire in full auto.
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  3247. Over the years l've had Snap On, Craftsman, S-K, Greenlee, and others. I think my favorites are some Greenlee and Craftsman with the rubber handles.
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  3248. We are not the center of the Universe. But we are the center of the VISIBLE universe
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  3249. I can just see the currency having a meltdown.
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  3250. I guess that no no space isn't working out so well.
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  3251. An exception that proves the rule that two words that do not go together are criminal and mastermind
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  3252. Glad l didn't move there 30 years ago.
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  3253. Would? Or could?
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  3254.  @80krauser  Maybe it was a poor way to state it but s long as we fight wars* small arms will be around. Be it 2021 or 4021. And who knows what will be available then. *the exceptions is arfare that takes place in 3 dimensions to control sea lanes. Or space for that matter. For a modern analogy to the classic space opera simply look at submarine vs submarine
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  3255.  William Mulvaney  Maybe if we had just funded the local warlords selling opium and then destroyed the amount not needed for medical usage it probably would have been cheaper in money and lives. The only reason we sent troops into Afghanistan in the first place is because the Taliban told the US to go piss up a rope about bin Laden.
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  3256.  @baneofbanes  you're right. Unfortunately they aren't obsolete because humans still fight amongst themselves. We've been doing it as long as we've been around.
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  3257. Logically he most likely looked like a generic Jew born to Jewish parents (we'll leave aside the divinity of his birth) who were of Jewish ethnicity. In the end it does not matter one iota. What matters is the message.
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  3258.  Billy William  as stated in the video skeletal remains from 1st century judea most closely resemble modern Jews in Iraq. But in the end does it matter.
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  3259. There are a number of mistakes that were made in the passenger rail business in the US over the last 60 years. Some of them were due to business practices. Others were due to policy decisions. The biggest policy decisions IMO were the cutting up of abandoned right-of-ways after local or regional rail lines shut down. As to routes it all comes down to traffic density and travel time. In my mind the travel time breaks down around three hours total trip time. Yes by air the fight might be less than an hour but the whole hassle of getting to the airport. Going through TSA. And then travel time to your destination. Besides it's not just HSR. Non motor vehicle or flying travel is also heavily dependent on just how you arrive at the departure point. And what is available at your destinstion. Another factor with HSR in urban areas is grade crossings. Lets say you want to operate HSR out of a major urban center. Is there an existing rail corridor? If so does it have a majority of surface grade crossings? In my opinion the best place to run a HSR route in urban areas is as elevated routes using existing expressway corridors where ever practicable.
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  3260. Next thing you know Ian will be collecting French spear guns. Now if somebody would just find a use for Zebra Mussels infesting the Great Lakes Next time I go to Florida or the Gulf Coast I'll have try eating some. Don't dive though.
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  3261. Even if we get away from hydrocarbons being the primary transport energy source the petrochemical industry is not going away completely.
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  3262. Nick should sic his lawyer on the ACLU
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  3263.  @prometheanevent  It's interesting the way in the US people either use Apollo as a why to ask "if we could put a man on the Moon why can't we (insert cause here). Yet minutes later expound on how it was all a complete waste of money. Never mind the money was spent infrastructure, engineering research, materials research etc. Plus at the same time the crew of Apollo 11 was headed home there were already people claiming it was all done in a movie studio. In terms what the United States will be remembered for 1,000 or 2,000 years from now I think it will be two things. The Constitution and how we butchered it for appealing to the masses. And Apollo. Also regarding returning to the Moon people say we've already been there we know all about it. That's like saying six cars stopped at Rest Areas in the American Southwest so we know all about it.
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  3264. No engine is indistructable. Fail to do your maintenance. The engine will fail.
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  3265. If a BFR crashes it makes a BFH. Big Freaking Hole.
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  3266. I wonder if the sponsors of the bill even are parents. 🤡we are living in clown world🤡
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  3267. Blue hair has a substance abuse problem. The substance us food.
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  3268. She's likely on a See Food Diet. See's food. Eats it. If you think there is not an epidemic of obesity go to a hospital. Any hospital. Or clinic and see the number of extra wide chairs and wheel chairs in evidence. Im overweight and have struggled with it for years. And the older we get in many ways the harder it is too lose weight.
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  3269. Torrey Canyon was a huge media story world wide.
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  3270. I like the 58 over the 57 Chevy. But then a like the 54 Bel Aire vs the 55
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  3271. ​ @forestcampbell8962  If it's the Taboo I'm thinking of it had two sequels.
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  3272. I sometimes think the early church leaders had certain, hangups shall we say.
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  3273. They should have stopped after the first three films.
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  3274. I have a gut feeling the world's most likely to have life are the ice shell moons in terms the percentage of life bearing worlds. These world's will far out number life bearing worlds in stars habitable zone
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  3275. Its way past the point that us normmies have had enough. It is not our responsibility to live your life. Or lifestyle.
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  3276. Probably due to total weight of the shell and handling it. I expect the shell weighed probably twice as much.
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  3277. And most of us can't count past 1.
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  3278. Just how did they get to the protest site?
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  3279. In the period after WWII one of the early people in the California hot rod scene was Barney Navarro. One thing he messed around with was using compressed O2 or LOX being fed into the mixture to increase power through better combustion
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  3280.  @argh1989  I want implying that he was successful. Just that he tried it looking for more power. I suspect he was introducing the O2 at really low pressure trying to get the atmospheric percentage up slightly. He was trying this stuff out on the dry lakes.
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  3281. The media has ALWAYS practiced censorship. Censorship in terms of what they think you should hear or read. And the context in which you hear it or read it.
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  3282. The carrier to the right of centr is likely Saratoga. @39:00 A real world demonstration of suction my be observed in the near future depending on just what happens to SS United States The ship sinking @1:02:30 l believe is the salvaged wreck of USS Maine.
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  3283. Chevrolet built V-8s before Ford.
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  3284. Also it is my understanding that when Abrams are upgraded or in need of really major repairs they are sent back to the factory.
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  3285. The nose piercings. Mb akes it easier fir them to be led around.
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  3286. The 4 valve pentroof combustion chamber predates Cosworth by decades. The 4 valve Offy's. The Allison V-1710 aircraft engine. And others.
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  3287. I wonder when they're going to take down the statue of Lenin in Seattle. Nope, that ain't gonna happen
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  3288. Trudeau 0.0
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  3289. All the offices closed on a week day? But l bet they're getting paid.
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  3290. I have no problem with you calling them thugs. Snd don't stop there.
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  3291. Can you imagine the uproar if someone talked about the "rights" of the heterosexual community.
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  3292.  @Lilac21248  She's too busy making appearances with drag queens. Drag Queens are the gender equivilant of Black Face.
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  3293. Personally I think a lot of this is not enough drain back capacity designed into the engine in the first place. AMC V-8s feed the cam and crank bearing from the passenger side oil galley. The drivers and passengers side are both 1/2". At high rpm in racing applications they were notorious for pumping up the drivers side top end. Unless the flow path to the drivers side was restricted somewhat to only flow the amount of oil needed to properly lubricate the valves through the pushrods. The oiling system was perfectly fine for street use. But when designed in 64 or 65 race use wasn't on the table. Actually very few production engines are designed with race use in mind.
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  3294. One really nasty thing about chrome is if you have two mating parts that are spinning the chrome will have tendency to adhere the parts together. We had screw machines with hydraulic chucks on the spindles. The back of the spindle had a rotary hydraulic coupling. Even with high pressure going to the coupling the spool would sieze up when the chrome surfaces picked up locking the whole machine. What actually locked up the machine were the hydraulic lines which were bent out of copper tubing.
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  3295. I blame anime.
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  3296. We know which part of the Alphabet Community to blame.
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  3297. The ultimate oxymoron is 'criminal mastermind'
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  3298. Kids playing with toy guns is nothing new. As a child of the 50s we played "Cowboys and Indians" and or violence inspired activities. But we also had a moral upbringing centered on family and church. Our schools were orderly. One teacher often had class of 40 kids. We did not dare get in trouble at school. Because the trouble in school was nothing compared to what you got at home. This all started to change in the late 60s. That's when the slow at that time explosion of births by single mothers happened. That's when the family started to fall apart in all segments and demographics of society. Saddly for the Black "community" (1) they went into free fall faster than other demographics. Personally I blame three things. First, LBJ's Great Society which greatly expanded the governments role in the lives of the poor (2). Second, The Voting Rights Act which wedded the Black community to the Democratic Party ever since (3). LBJ was quoted on this in the 60s. And thirdly. And most important. The decline of manufacturing jobs in the US starting in the 1970s. Plus their re-location first to the South and then overseas. How many lower income families, Black, White or Hispanic, depended on the income that a father brought home from such employment? How much of those communities indirectly relied on that income as it got spread around to different businesses? This hit the inner cities of places like Chicago, Philidephia, Detroit, Milwaukee and others especially hard. 1) How can anyone call a demographic that large a "community". 2) Well intentioned or not we all know what the road to hell is paved with. 3) Saddly the Democratic Party on the national level seems more concerned with the social safety net than doing things to expand economic opportunities. The poor saddly will likely always be with us. Some us, Black, White, Hispanic, just do not seem to be able to handle money. It burns a hole in our pockets and drifts away. But the best way to ensure economic opportunity is through education. And it starts with schools that do not have to put up with the crap that goes on today.
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  3299. The absolute worst disaster that North America will experience* in my opinion is the mega tsunami that will be generated when the island of Hawaii undergoes a flank collapse on it's north to eastern shore. Look a Google Earth. The seabed around the Hawaiian Islands is littered with the debris of past collapses. As we other volcanic islands. *The absolute worst possible one outside of a major asteroid strike at least.
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  3300. One question. Just how much does the California State DNR or Forest Service do to clear out undergrowth and scrup to limit the fuel supply to these fires. Or is this prevented rue to policy or legal actions on the part of "environmentists". There are multiple parts of the problem. 1) Fires are likely part of the lifecycle of the ecosystems. Also fires resulting from dry summers 2) Overdevelopment and people living in areas at risk to wildfires. 3) Under or complete lack of management by state and county agencies. I hate to say this but paying to manage wild fire risks nay take tax dollars but is most likely cheaper than just trying to stop fires once they start. If people with homes had to pay an extra surcharge n their property taxes to manage that risk. Well. They choose to live there. 4) The Human Factor. Idiots who are careless with smoking materials, campfires etc. That is one thing that you can try and educate people about. But nature keeps creating a worse model of idiot.
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  3301. Mentions the '57 Chevy. While a Ford is on screen
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  3302. This is strictly my opinion. The early 60s cars produced by Chrysler Corporation are some of the butt ugliest automobiles ever produced in the United States. The two worst offenders to the eye being the Valiant and the Imperial. On par with the Pontiac Atzek (or is that the Azwreck). Of all the early to mid 60s US compacts the best looking were probably the first generation Pontiac/Olds/Buick 2 door hardtops followed by the 61 to 64 Falcon 2 door hardtop and the 64/65 Rambler American 2 foot hardtop. The last two had very similiar lines. Especially the rear glass. But then a lot of cars then did. Of the late 60s compacts the best looking were the Chevy II, the Dodge Dart and the AMC Rogue. All in their 2 door hardtop forms. In terms of sheet metal quality in terms of stampings probably the worst US built vehicle of the 60s was the early Mustangs. Especially as the stamping dies wore out rapidly due to there not being properly heat treated. Ford had to execute a crash program to manufacture new tooling. I mean the next time you see a 64-1/2 or 65 Mustang look at it critically. The sheet metal looks about as tinny as a cheap toy wind up car.
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  3303. Well they had to use all those surplus jodpurs
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  3304. @TheFastAndThe Dead As I look at the flat tires.
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  3305. People say voting Dem is the problem. It may be part of the problem. But it is not the whole problem. The big problem is cultural. Starting with single family households. And that is not just a problem in the black "community" (1). That is a problem in just about every demographic in the US. Change has to start somewhere. Maybe if certain behaivors be they drug use or promiscuous sexual activity. Just one thing starts to become not cool. Then maybe fhange can take root. 1) How can that many people be referred to as a community.
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  3306.  @eclipsemercx3687  Dont you mean Chazcago?
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  3307. Does it start with a K or a C. I agree she has nothing to stand on for over the last four years. And her previous record isn't much to talk about IMO. Being the first Black female Senator from Cali isn't an accomplishment. Her record of putting lots of people in the slammer when she was Cali AG can be a liability in some circles. But Joe's co-sponsoring every crime bill that came down the pike didn't seem to hurt him.
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  3308.  @warrendesonia7924  The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and the Messabi Range of Minnesota would have been reduced to craters to provide all the steel required.
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  3309. Yes, even the US did not have unlimited steel production.
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  3310. Can anyone say XM-8. Just my opinion. Design a modernized FG-42. Caseless ammo. It's been tried before. Didn't work then. But the M1A2 uses 120mm semi caseless ammunition in its main gun. Maybe this time it will work. Whatever round or rifle is picked, let's not have any screwups like when the M-16 was introduced.
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  3311. Mt Saint Helens was a job by the Deep, Deep State. Like 40 miles deep.
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  3312. My father (167th FA, 5th Army) would allow this to be served in the house occasionally for a lunch or dinner. I really have no idea if he liked it. The food he absolutely refused to be served was Spam.
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  3313. Rare too many people are terrified of being vilified by the Woke Socail Media mob. Of being labeled racist or ---------- phobic. Everyone in our society has equal rights. No one should have special rights. No matter what racial*, ethnic, gender or sexual orientation they belong to. The sole exceptions I am willing to grant are to children and the elderly in regards to violence directed against them. But in today's society we are seeing various ethnicities, racial groups etc being granted "protected status". Personally it is my opinion that such "protected status" is unconstitutional. No person be they a WASP Male in the Deep South to a flaming Drag Queen living in San Francisco** has rights that are superior to anyone else. Anyone who argues that a certain group should have a status of elevated rights. No matter which end of the political and social spectrum they are arqueing for is nothing more than a hateful bigot.
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  3314. I knew that observation car was from the Hiawatha's right off the bat. It really is too bad one of the steamers from the Hiawatha's were not preserved.
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  3315.  @1pcfred  Every time I hear an archeologist say we know how they did this. Egypt for example. Copper chisels and saws. Copper tube drills and dolomite pounders I say to myself. OK, now duplicate it. Not just cut a shallow groove with a copper saw or drill a shallow hole. That doesn't mean I think aliens did it or that they had the equivilant of modern machine tools. I just dont think we know the whole story. And don't discount copper tools. There's a company named Ampco. They specialize in copper alloys. Aluminum Bronze specifically. Their first product brought to market in the early 1900s was a copper based alloy used for tools to cut steel.
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  3316. I'm wondering if he was concerned with manufacturing issues. A good carb design isn't simple. But the machining techniques are basically simple milling and drilling operations. Direct injection is on a whole different level. Not only the injectors them selves but the injector pump needs very tight tolerances to produce the pressures needed. But if Britisn could produce diesels they certainly should have been able to produce injector pumps for aero engines.
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  3317. I wonder how often somebody has contemplated converting either a 1911 or a Hi-Power into a machine pistol aka the Broomhandle Well at least twice
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  3318. Like they said in The Right Stuff. "No Bucks, no Buck Rodgers."
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  3319. These debates really aren't going to affect most voters. Most people made up their minds a long time ago. There are people on both sides that could care less about the candidate as long as they have an R or a D behind their name on the ballot. It's the 5% or so of independents that will swing the election one way or the other. That's who the candidates need to focus on. Those people are pretty much centrists. They want rational policies out of Washington. They want solutions that work. And they pretty much don't care where they come from. If Trump is re-elected policy wise I expect things to be pretty much the same. If Biden wins I also expect the Democrats to pull a sweep. House, Senate and the Presidency. In the House they will pick up seats and the new freshperson Congresscritters will be to the left or far left of the Democratic Party spectrum. AOC and others will continue to push regressive policies aimed at "achieving justice". If they really want to achieve justice they need to realize people need real jobs. Not the government being their daddy.
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  3320. I've wondered of late just how well the US 5" Mk-102 rocket launcher system would have worked as an AA weapon if equipped with proximity fuses. In the shore bombardment role it had ranges of up to 10,000 iirc yards with the lightest explosive load. The Mk-102's mount was based on the dual 40mm Bofors mount so it had elevation and azimuth control. The mount was fed from below decks with a rate of 16 projectiles per tube. The shore bombardment vessels built on LST hulls could put out 320 or more shots per minute. Mark Felton has a good video on the shore bombardment vessels and covers this system. Some of these ships served up into the 60s
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  3321. And here I thought the never ending box of ammo would .30 French Long.
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  3322. Let's see, four movies with or directed by Mel Gibson. Looks like he's batting .250
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  3323. Well, the idea of a turbine engine as a range extender is not really new. The big benefit is small and run it one speed. The speed that gives the most output per unit of fuel. And if somebodies tailgating you. Just light the blowtorch (1). 1) back in the early 70s one of the Nascar teams ran their exhausts straight to the back of the car versus side exhausts like everyone else. The exhaust heat would cause anybody drafting behind them to overheat.
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  3324. Probably. And with social media it will continue to get worse.
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  3325. The first time I ever ran across a Tolkien pun was in Heinlein's The Glory Road where the hero Oscar Gordon says don't make a Hobbit of it.
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  3326. His work of blaming others for the issues in Chicago never ends. If he wants to blame any politician for todays problems blame LBJ. The Great Society may have been well intended. But we all know what the road to hell is paved with.
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  3327. ​ @darksuns7384  That should be couldn't do anything. Not didn't do anything. I'm all for divided government. Preferably the two houses being split. It keeps the wingnuts under control.
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  3328. The Leftists and Islamists riot and it is not an insurrection.
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  3329. Nadler and others fo give a rats ass about the average American. The only people they care about are the fringe groups and Get Trump.
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  3330. The biggest gift the Democrats got in this election cycle was the Abortion issue. Without that they probably would get completely buried. The lifelong dyed in the wool Democrats and Republicans are pretty much going to stay loyal. But I see the independents swinging majority Red. Nationwide. There is something any political party in any nation with free elections needs. And that's a serious kick in the ass in one or more major elections in a row. And it's something the Democrats seriously need. The party as whole has been infected by the mental infirmity of Wokeism. One would think the party is being run by the story tellers from Drag Queen story hours.
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  3331. There is also the possibility that the styles evolved independently. Also were the styles in use at the same time.
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  3332.  @alanpennie8013  In the books the only Victorians Flashman is interested in meeting are willing Victorian ladies. Victorian men, especially politicos and soldiers usually results in Flashman being exposed to losing life or limb. With both comedic and historic results. IMO Flashy, while GMF lifted the basic character from Tom Brown's Schooldays he is more based on people such as Sir Richard Burton. Burton sure seems to have inspired Flashy's ability to blend into a culture and pick up languages. Unfortunately if GMF were still writing today none of Flashman's adventures would get published due to Flashy's Anglocentric, racist and sexist attitudes.
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  3333.  @johnprattley945  Oh the Flashman papers are pure historical fiction (1). In Flashman and the Dragon Flashie is running what he thinks is opium into China when he opens one of the crates and finds they are contraband Spencer Carbines. He later gets boarded by a Royal Navy small craft under the command of Midshipman Fisher. 1) Flashies part in events is fiction. Fraser paid pretty close attention to actual events
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  3334.  @TeleportRush  Never said they didn't. I just happen to think that everybody should acknowledge the fact.
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  3335. The bayonet was intended to keep the enemy out of rifle range
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  3336. First off. A grocery store is a business. NOT A CHARITY. Plus grocery stores typically run on a low profit margin. Usually around 2 maybe 3 percent. And the 3% is for stores that carry higher end product or possibly Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck). Expect this pattern to repeat itself in more communities nation wide. Higher loss rates to shop lifting. Followed by limited product access. Followed by closing self checkouts. Eventually if this continues we will see more order and pay online. The store will fill your order and load it when you arrive. If stores go the delivery route expect the shop lifters to switch to hitting the delivery trucks. And does anyone really think that the shoplifters are just "trying to feed their family" 😭😭 I know and you know the majority of these items are getting sold out the trunks of cars for pure profit. In reality stuff like this has been going on for decades.
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  3337. Please. Do NOT give them any ideas.
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  3338. Such a very oh so posh accent on that girl. I'll bet mommy and daddy are so proud.
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  3339. I stopped playing WoW a couple years ago. Was never that serious about anyway. I actually preferred the Blittz version.
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  3340. Sargon of Akahd is alive and well and living in Swindon 😊
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  3341.  @Skyl3t0n  Well, my ego isn't quite big enough to claim to be THE center of the Universe.
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  3342. Don't know if it's true or not but I've heard that FDR pushed hard for these ships.
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  3343. ​ @EH-jq1st  Your king Chucky may not have much real power but one thing he does have access to is what Teddy Roosevelt called the Bully Pulpit. One thing he should be using the Bully Pulpit for is the current unrest in the UK. That unrest is being driven by the UK's government policy on immigration (1). The UK simply cannot continue to absorb waves of immigrants. Especially waves of immigrants, legal or illegal, that are men in their early 20's. There aren't enough employment opportunities available. Your manufacturing sector was destroyed by a number of factors. Competition from aboard. Mainly from low cost nations. Poor management, government meddling and overly aggressive unions. They all share part of the blame. The US has seen some of the same effects minus government nationalizing companies. Somehow Germany despite high labor costs remains a strong manufacturing economy. All of these young men you are "absorbing". If they cannot find legitimate work they are either going to remain being supported by the state or turn to criminal activity. Possibly both. Maybe it is time to return to limited immigration. And simply having a thick enough hide to tell the critics that will call you racist or immigrant phobic to shut the hell up. Because if you don't, the Britain you know will be gone in 30 years tops. The English, Scots, Welsh and Irish will be disposed minorities in their own homelands. 1) More a lack of a policy from my viewpoint.
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  3344. ​ @EH-jq1st  Another thing that limited their potential marriage pool is the limiting of their prospects to only supposed God fearing Protestants.
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  3345. A firearm can look 'cool', or it can function. Occasionally you get both. But first and foremost it has to function in the parameters of the specification is is/was built for.
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  3346. The deep skirted block was in no way unusual on US built engines. Everybody, and I mean everybody used them a variety of V-8s or inline sixes. Today I dont think there's much out there that isn't deep skirted. Of course the aluminum block engines today have bottom ends that resemble full designed from the ground up racing engines with 6 bolt mains, cast aluminum wind age trays and structural oil pans.
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  3347. 70 may be the new 60 but there are too damn many old farts in office in the US. On both sides of the aisle
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  3348. I'm still of the opinion that short of graphene battery technology the better option for electric vehicles is mechanical or flywheel batteries. Flywheel systems sc should offer faster charging times
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  3349. We got rid of the commodities program because it denied people choices. How about this choice. Work or go hungry.
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  3350.  @michaal105  We are all sinners. If at work you stand around talking you are stealing the companies time. Who amongst us has never spoken ill of someone. Especially people of opposing political views.
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  3351. Oscar Meier bolanga has nothing to do with Mortadella. The worst Ametican pronunciation of as n Itslian word is Eyetalian
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  3352. A treasured family heirloom to be sure.
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  3353. Early? I thought he was still command destroyers.
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  3354. I see multiple cats in her future.
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  3355. Plus sadly in today's world resume inflation does exist. I am not saying that it is done by everyone. But it does happen.
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  3356. Plus sadly in today's world resume inflation does exist. I am not saying that it is done by everyone. But it does happen.
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  3357. Organized through social media of course.
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  3358. Where I used to work before I retired they use POR for a number items on equipment that is in some pretty abusive environments. The only thing I saw that was tougher in terms of standing up to impacts or abrasion was a 3M ceramic epoxy paint
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  3359. So the second prototype used a different prop from the production aircraft? And nobody ever thought it might be an issue? In the end the Whirlwind was let down by its engine*. RR was focused on devrlopment and production of the Merlin plus the teething issues with the Vulture. The Perrigrine simply did not have the engineering support or the production capacity needed in the engine production system set up during the war. *While the development of the Perrigrine lagged RR was also able to work on projects such as the Exe. Also the continued support worldwide for engines in the 18 liter range when clearly larger engines (27L and up) were clearly needed is puzzling. And now for another what if. The Whirlwind's airframe gets selected for an early turbojet application. SAAB proved a conversion could be done. Admittedly the SAAB 21 was less than satisfactory. Another aircraft that could have lent its self to such a conversion IMO is the XP-55.
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  3360.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  If (a big word "if") the Whirlwind had been available in service in September of '40 I suspect that it would have been valuable engaging the bombers. Four 20mm cannon versus 8 .303 Brownings. What altitude did the Germans bomb from? I wish the Whirlwind Project has better luck in the end than the Bugatti P100 reproduction had. I've never really heard of a cause for the crash of the P100 but I suspect it had to do with a failure of one of the driveshafts to the prop gear box.
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  3361. ​ @robertkubrick3738  Old joke but it still works. But komrade. The plumber appointment is canceled. State is building new Roman style communal latrines. Only two blocks away.
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  3362. ​ @composedlight6850  We must impose a bike tax!
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  3363. ​ @fx-studio  That was nuclear plants. I knew several people who worked maintenance at a nuke plant. They spent more time doing paperwork than actually working. Multiple forms to record anything they did. Including things that had nothing to do with anything nuclear.
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  3364. Great thumbnail. Just what Beetlejuice is going to have to do.
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  3365. The only "protected classes" any society should be childern and the elderly
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  3366. We are all a minority of 1.
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  3367. Its not that people wanted the Womans National team to loss. People are just happy that the Purple Queen blew it. Maybe they needed some trans women on the team.
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  3368. All valuable information. Now I'm gonna say my bit. There comes a time when a street car can be too powerful. Some might think it heresy but if so you are wrong. Also IMO it is criminally irresponsible to fail to upgrade the braking system on a car that is driven on the street if the engine power is raised to insane levels. The reason for this every time you get behind the wheel of a car or truck being driven on public roads you are not only putting your own life at risk. But those of others as well. Stuff happens. Things break. Somebody isn't paying attention. Somebody makes a mistake. It might be someone else. Or it might be me or you. It not only does happen it will happen. Skill of the individual driver aside when things go south chaos can and will ensue. The comment about too much power. Frankly the thought of somebody with more money than brains. Somebody with more balls than the skill to back it up. These types of people betting behind the wheel of a vehicle that is out of their league scares me. And to be honest I'm surprised the government hasn't taken action at some point. I'm not talking about competition vehicles. I'm talking about street vehicles. Does anybody really need an 800 hp Challenger Hellcat that can get close to 200?
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  3369. Know your customers!
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  3370. The tang on the distributor shaft is for driving the oil pump.
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  3371.  @UncleTonysGarage  Tony, I worked where they built the 4.0.
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  3372. I'm surprised they weren't complaining about the Menorah in the classroom. Oh, nevermind it's just a coat or hat stand. Organic Chemistry is a required course for both BioChem and PreMed. Both majors are the course for getting into Med school programs. Do we really want dumb doctors. Off course not. What these whiners are really complaining about is it might drag down their GPA as Nd hurt their getting into any med school.
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  3373. But,but,but......that's oppression by competence
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  3374.  @tristane7513  Vien would work pretty good too.
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  3375.  @jtpenman  AKA the "Hell on Hooves"
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  3376.  @tristane7513  Only if they have ships dressed in the appropriate armor, helms and the masts looking like wings.
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  3377. It is my opinion that there is only one time it is socially acceptable to loot or steal. And that is in a major disaster (Katrina for example) and the looting of grocery stores or warehouses if there is no other option.
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  3378. As I understand it the Mayor is also the chief of police in all but name
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  3379. The Woke have two anthems. The first is from "The Wizard of Oz". You know, the one song by the Scarecrow. The second goes to the tune from I Feel Pretty "I'm so special, I'm so special". "I'm so special, I'm so special". "I'm so special and witty and Gay*" (or trans, queer, Woke, LGBTQ+XYZABC yadda yadda yadda) "I'm so special and everything is about me!" *I really hate the way words get there meaning appropriated and there meanings changed to suit one special interest. In the future there are bound to people confused when they learn about the "Gay 90s'. Does that mean that's when everybody came out of the closet.
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  3380.  @stanleyrogouski  At least Illinois got a set of China for the governors mansion.
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  3381.  @Xander1Sheridan  In the days of print media often newspapers were owned by one political party or as another. And displayed a bias towards that party. Supporting the parties aims and candidates. And if opponents would dare to set up shop their supporters felt free to smash the presses. I suspect in the days of the town crier there was bias th hey reported.
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  3382. Be carefull. they will snap at the thin area next to the ball end. They have there limits. Myself, I've got two sets. One with the ball lopped off. In the past I've also had custom Tee Handles that were made from 1/2 diameter round stock with a section of Allen Wrench one side of the handle and on the long end.
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  3383. Explain to me why any group needs a whole fricking month.
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  3384. Where this logically ends. The mob somewhere, somewhere. They will come for someone. They will break down that persons or family's door and attempt to drag them from their home. For the simple crime of being different. Maybe after the first time or second time it happens someone will decide it is not happening. Their will be blood shed. The resident may die also but they will decide not now, not here and not me. If the mob attempts to drag him from his or her home and they retreat leaving several dead, dieing or wounded in their wake. You can be assured it is the home owner that will get arrested.
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  3385. Cali is not eliminating gas vehicles. They are banning the sales of new ones starting in 2030 or whenever. This will cause several things. 1) Prices of used gas cars will go through the roof. 2) Yearly registration fees will increase dramatically over time as the State loses money from State fuel tax. Anyone who thinks that owning an electric vehicle will save them this are standing in a river in Egypt. 3) Where is Cali going to get the power for this? The last several years have already seen the State institute rolling blackouts or brownouts.
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  3386. Now you know how the AMC guys feel
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  3387. NPR was founded with the intent of being non biased. They have already violated their charter
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  3388. Tax policy is how you reward your friends and punish your enemies. And those 87k new IRS employees are the enforcement agents. And 5 bucks says they will all be diversity hires.
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  3389. An ideal use for one of these sold as surplus. Add a stern wheel, replace armament with a gingerbread deck house and a steam calliope. Is an armored showboat. The hull form really reminds me of a Mississippi river boat
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  3390. @Dog Drapes Curtains. Pretty much interchangable.
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  3391.  @dalecomer5951  Did any of the land based aircraft get a hit?
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  3392. I would argue that potatoes are far more important.
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  3393. The Avanti wasn't cheap. And was built in pretty small numbers.
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  3394. I have to admit that I think you can blame this one on my generation. The Boomers. At least the start of it. People of my generation who became radicalized. And then pursued careers in academia. Where they passed on their views to others.
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  3395. They only look to be radials. Jumo inverted V-12s using a circular radiator.
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  3396. Don't worry about it. Ursula Andress balances it all out
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  3397. Never throw shit at an armed man
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  3398. What the Cowboys need is a new owner. But thankfully they won't get one. I hope Jerry lives to be 200.
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  3399.  @mrjones2721  The estimates I believe are based off of what is known about sea level rise at the end of the last Glacial Advance, current depth of water etc. One question that should be answered is if there has been significant geologic vertical movement in the area. Due the sunken warships the whole area is off limits to diving because of war graves issues. I think limited diving on the specific sites in the area should be allowed. Another issue may be unexploded ordinance. If there is any datable organic material is another matter.
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  3400. Charlie never had SeaMasters because Charlie DOESN'T SURF There's a good reason we don't use flying boats that much any more. We have alot of run ways. Plus just because you have a flat stretch of water does not mean it's safe. Floating debris can be a real hazard
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  3401. I'll believe it when they have a working prototype. Just don't let anybody named Epstien near it.
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  3402. As an aside. My wife was watching a Dutch detective/crime show on one of the streaming services and there was a bad guy (1) that is a dead ringer for Drach. 1) Anyone who decapitated a dead body with a chain saw qualifies. The show was Batiste iir
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  3403. I'm not sure the lifter is necessarily going to spin if it's just the cam lobe and the lifter. Without any load from th ed rest of the valve train th he lifter just might skate.
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  3404.  @robertbedsole8682  Yes with the valve train in place once the lobe starts to raise the lifter and compress the spring you will have a load on the interface between the lobe and lifter. What would worry me is with out any load the spinning force on the lifter from the high side of the lobe being unable to overcome any stiction the assembly lube might present between the lifter and the wall of the lifter bore. I think if I were to be building an OHV engine today with any serious performance increases I would go with a roller cam no matter the cost increase. Roller lifter are available for a wide variety of engines and it really should not cost more for a cam ground to meet a roller application than a flat tappet as far as the aftermarket cam producers are concerned. The lifters themselves. Yes they will cost more. More parts more machining.
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  3405. Reading this on October 28, 2023.
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  3406. What are the odds that these politicians will ever vote for housing them in their own neighhorhoods? The same applies t6 o things like halfway houses etc.
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  3407. One solution. Mandatory school uniforms. Then if they still insist on this "look at me" behaivor mandatory litter boxes or walks outside for doing their duty. If that doesn't work maybe other kids start identifying as mountain lions, coyotes or other predators.
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  3408. If the body is in good shape swap in a different drive train.
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  3409. If you do move just do not pack the attitudes with your belongings. I live next to Illinois and far too many FIBs (1) are moving in with FIB attitudes. 1) Massachusetts has Massholes. Illinois has Fucking Illinois Bastards.
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  3410. I can see where the pile of empty boxes could be used to display meaning. To make a statement. But that statement or meaning have absolutely nothing to do with art. A child's coloring book has more to do with art than z pile of empty boxes does.
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  3411. I think the reason for cooking the #5 & #6 pistons is stagnant coolant flow in the back end of the block on higher milage engines. One the AMXJ channel the drivetrain engineer they interview talks about adding coolant lines that would shoot extra coolant into the block the #5 whelch plug.
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  3412. I deplore political violence no matter who does. No matter their political beliefs. But this is what happens when for months we see politically related violent behavior and actions in support of a cause which many can easily support. Abstractly is the Capital campus in DC really any different than a district police station in Minneapolis, Portland or Seattle? A federal building in Portland that also houses a Federal Coury House? Political violence that has taken place with practically no repercussions for those involved.
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  3413. The wing has the same sweep angle as the Me-262.
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  3414. And how would these stand up compared to Casemite.
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  3415. If we do it will be our own hand likely.
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  3416.  @zlirren  If we are to hold the leaders of Western nations accountable then it should be all of the leaders. From heads of government all the way down to mayors and the local health authorities.
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  3417. All l can say is when l found out Labour sent people to help Harris's campaign l was pissed.
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  3418. In reality if the balloon had ever gone up there is no way that every single bomber would be intercepted. Plus once nucs started going off just how much havoc to electronic systems due to EMP. Thankfully we never had face the reality.
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  3419.  @donaldstraitiff7827  The video description says one of only two. But I question that if there were any P-40s still in combat units in 45. I'm thinking they may have still been used in the Aleutians
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  3420. This may piss some people off but. 1) Since when did working for the government insure lifetime employment with no risk of getting terminated or laid off? 2) Have Federal agencies or departments become bloated with additional layers of management? If so to whose benefit besides those employed there? 3) If government agencies have become bloated has the bloat affected the agencies/departments primary mission. At what point does the agency/department primary function become purpetuating the agency. I think most people can agree that government has grown too big. But they cannot agree on which part of government to cut.
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  3421. While it is attractive to think of sentient species being common in the Galaxy (much less the Universe) in reality l think sentient life is pretty rare. Plus there are the possible gases where there may be a sentient species that has no possibility to ever reach a stage of a technological civilization. A sentient species in the world ocean of a Europa analog. Even on planets roughly analogous to Earth a sentient species could be trapped in a Stone Age never getting far beyond it. That said l think it likely that there are other sentient species in our Galaxy. Only they may be living in a situation that limits their "progress" technologically. Europa analogs, Water Worlds, Gas Giant atmospheres or species physically limited by lacking suitable appendages. Plus there is another possibility. Let's say there is a sentient species within 10 or 100 light years. Unless they are at a stage where they have a technology that allows us to eavesdrop on them we will never know.
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  3422. ​ @MakerInMotion  Yes the "just following orders" does have an ugly history. But in this case this is clearly senior officers or government officials making policy. The response of the police also depends on the situation. The police responded right quick during King Chucky's coronation didn't they.
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  3423. Evil? By who's standards. By our standards yes they were. By the standards of their time? Slavery wasn't uncommon. It was more the norm. If they were evil I think it comes out in their entertainment. IE the Games. When it comes to entertainment concerning Rome I think my favorite are Lindsay Davis's series of detective stories set in late 1st century Rome. These feature Marcus Didius Falco and his adoptive daughter Flavia as the main protagonists. While the print editions are worth reading the audio editions are great. Aside from the British accents.
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  3424. I'm getting the feeling it is going to take the lower ranks of the police to say not only no but Hell No.
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  3425. IMO it is highly likely that the Just Stop Oil nutters also support unlimited immigration. Which will add to the power requirements for you in the UK. Which will further wtrain your public utilities such as water and waste. And 8ncrease your total food requirements while at the same time your government seems hell bent on putting farmers out of business. I'm surprised we are not seeing them in the US.
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  3426. So what's slicker? The Stoner or the FG-42?
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  3427. With all of the architects, engineers, scientists and doctors recently immigrating back to their ethnic homeland. One would think that Britain wouldbe expetiencing a scientific and cultural blossoming. New and brilliant structures, revivalised High Speed Rail, a NHS with no waiting periods for appointments and other wonderful things. If you are not perhaps the PM can explaine why. Must all because of those imaginary far right extremist.
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  3428. Well Sorbo was in deep dodo in Hollywood right from the start. CIS White Male to start with. Conservative is just icing on the cake.
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  3429. What are the odds that environmental groups will do everything possible to prevent any mining.
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  3430. Doing the box art on model kits was a pretty lucrative gig for a small group of artists. The ones that always impressed me the most were Revell's Cutty Sark, Flying Cloud and Thyrmopoli iirc.
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  3431. Now we need you or The Chieftain to do a review of the Polish Lancers Anti-Tank Sabre and Lance. 😂 Yes l know it's a myth.
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  3432. I wonder just how many cavalry the US Army and the British Army had sitting in warehouses in 1939. I know the US still had horse calvary in the late 30s. The last US Army cavalry was in the Philippines in late 41 or early 42. PS If I misspelled cavalry I always get them and the Mount outside of the walls of Jerusalem confused.
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  3433. But the "rich Corinthian leather" was reserved for the Borado
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  3434. Hopefully once fusion comes on line a better solution is either flywheels supported by magnetic bearings in a vacuum bottle (in pairs with opposite rotation) for vehicles or a low pollution liquid fuel cycle that operates at a net zero CO2 output. For electric vehicles one possible solution to the range issue might be an induction pickup on the underside that picks up power from a grid or wires in the roadway. You have a system that reports your energy usage at the end of the month and you get a bill.
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  3435. Joe should have Jordan Peterson, Sargon and ThunderfOOt on together
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  3436. Wow. It's a.009 caliber POS.
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  3437. Imagine a situation were some of these were built. The battleline steams into an engagement and barrages of Mk 14s are launched. None of which work as advertised.
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  3438. I'm surprised it's not a Tanker MAS 36 or 49
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  3439. Wilfeord Laurier University. That's sums it very succinctly. That's the institution that Jordan Peterson sued. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jordan+peterson+wilfrid+laurier&docid=608000621576652185&mid=D46FC7E101E1B8C3C5DAD46FC7E101E1B8C3C5DA&view=detail&FORM=VIRE The administrators and teaching staff are literally crazy.
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  3440. Arrrrrrg. National Talk like a Pirate Day (1). The thing is most of these "Hallmark Holidays" do not have elected officials proclaiming them. 1) September 19th
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  3441. Well she's got the corruption part down pat it looks like
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  3442. Not only was Robert Todd Linclon present t but also was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin. AKA the Lion of the Union. Chamberlin was also likely the last man to die because of wounds received in the ACW.
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  3443. Any pastor that lives better than his flock is a fraud
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  3444. As they said in The Right Stuff. "You know what makes this bird go up? Funding son, funding."
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  3445. Looks like poor pilot visibility forward to the sides to me.
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  3446.  Boredpersons55  If this truely was the facist state you seem to think it is these "peaceful" protesters would be lieing in unmarked shallow graves. I have no problem with peaceful protests. But peaceful protests do involve incendiary devices, low grade explosives, intentional use of lasers to attempt to blind people, wrist rockets for shooting ball bearings or thrown rocks.
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  3447. The Swiss design an assault rock. It has 47 pieces and a 17 page operating manual.
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  3448.  @simongeard4824  Surplus C-130 or equivilant. Winch system in the cargo bay.
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  3449. I wonder what happened to all of the wood paneling, trim and furnishings?
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  3450. Im beginning to wonder if large or even significant numbers of government, police and other ofhicials have secretly to converted to Islam. If theyhave, wt leastbe open about it.
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  3451.  @anitamaguire7640  5? I suspect they have the next 25 planned out. The words and issues are simply fill in the blanks
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  3452. Once the Woodland period is reached I can see some trade in Native Copper (either artifacts or raw material) and hoods from other regions being conducted bl ot just in short distance trade over long periods of time. But in trips of one year or shorter directly between peoples from the Lake Superior area to the area they were looking for materials from. West to areas rich in Obsidian. East or South for shells. The only possible impediments being the existence of tribes sitting on choke points trying to extract excessive tolls. Similiar as to how the city we commonly call Troy may have done in the Bronze Age controlling trade through the Dardanelles. I can see a trade expedition setting out down the St Croix or the Wisconsin Rivers by canoe in late summer bound for the Gulf Coast. Then wintering over and heading north in the Spring. Perhaps places like Poverty Point served not just as ceremonial centers but also as trade nexis.
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  3453. Riot Kitchen. When they showed up in Wisconsin they immediately got busted
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  3454. But they've got insurance! Which never makes you whole.
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  3455. I hear the once a month on the second or third Saturday of month at 10:30 in the morning. Testing the system.
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  3456. But these knife fights are just ways for teenagers to let off excess energy. In case anybody can't recognize that it is called SARCASM. To the Left they only thing us "normies" are good for is to pay taxes to support their fantasy world.
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  3457. In the cases of medical professionals. The vast majority IMO truely mean to do no harm. But as in any other profession there are some truely bad apples. The pediatrician puts me mind of another one. Josef Mengele. The only difference being one of scale and opportunity.
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  3458. It's almost a certainty that as soon as a lunar mining or asteroid mining operation starts somebody will seek to stop it because we need to "preserve" space. In fact some individuals were violently opposed to this back in the 70s because it would destroy the history of the early Solar system. Jerry Pournelle used to say about resources extraction in space the "it's raining soup and they won't let us have buckets".
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  3459. Tim, Wisconsin does have a castle law. If someone enters your house illegally and you fear for your life you can use lethal force. Stand your ground I think is different. I think, so do not quote me, but lethal force is only allowed if you have no option to retreat. You are right. This will escalate. Somewhere, some when, before long a mob will come for somebody and they will either attempt to break into their home or burn it to the ground with them inside. That individual will decide not here, not today and not me or my family. People think this unrest will calm down after the election. I don't think so. If Trump is re-elected it will be seen as a form of resistence. If Harris, I mean Biden, wins it will be seen as a green light for activity to continue or escalate.
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  3460. Ben & Jerry's need to come out with a new flavor. Call it Doggy Doo seeing as they've stepped in it big time.
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  3461. Complains about an extremely long drive. After having rented an RV in the States.
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  3462. I think I will take competence or inclusion any day of the week. No make that l know l will. Usually when an experimental vehicle. Submarine, aircraft etc is lost at least there aren't any paying customers onboard. And this thing was experimental with a big X.
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  3463. If the clerk said he had the knife in case he was attacked that might be held against him.
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  3464. Zimbabwe has a game show called Who Wants to be a Gazillionaire
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  3465. The family in Chiraq is Hispanic.
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  3466. Media Matters doesnt want the truth. They want Pravda. A journalistic mouth piece.
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  3467. The one that included Syria and Iraq?
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  3468. Don't worry. In 30 years yhere will only be one text that is taught.
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  3469. I have a question. Why is it that everytime a liberal politician statement or a speech anywhere there always to have hanger ons in the backround?
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  3470. That or the cyanide
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  3471. I personally would not care if a person of African, Asian, Austronesisn or any other ethnicity plays a character in a play by Shakespeare, a Broadway musical*, a film adaptation of a work of fiction etc that one would originally perceive the character as European. As long as nobody intentionally thrusts any political message into the production. And no one else should complain when a person of non Asian descent plays a role in a story taking place in an Asian setting. It's the story that matters. Except for one provisio. And that is when the production is attempting to be an accurate historical representation of actual events. *The Japanese language version of Les Miserables comes to mind.
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  3472. Do not be surprised if the police on orders from their superiors knock on your door to arrest you on a charge of interfering with the police in the performance of their duties (1) if you object to or find it offensive to be called straight, CIS or normal. 1) Those duties appear to be dancing in Pride parades and supporting "asylum seeker".
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  3473. The people who take this position never seem to realize they could be next. Petty little tyrants.
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  3474. God, I hope Robin DeAngelo doesn't live there
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  3475. One name you could give it is Pork Belled Pig.
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  3476. Next it will be Steampunk Weapons
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  3477. I click on this and an add for Mud Water pops up. 😖 One revolution in growing coffee has taken place on Hawaii. One grower instead of raising coffee in the normal shrub system has taken to cultivating it similiar to grapes. Easier to harvest with a better yield iirc
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  3478. STOL is one thing. VTOL burns a lot of fuel very quickly.
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  3479. Yes Siamesed intake and exhaust ports
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  3480. When it comes taxes a lot people think "Fair" means they dont pay any taxes and everybody else pays through the nose. That's not what "fair" means. Fair in this case should mean equal. I'm all for a flat tax system. Up to a certain amount you dont pay anything. But once you hit that amount every body pays a flat percentage. No deductions, no dependents. Every other tax structure aside from state or local income taxes in the United States is a flat system. What's worse is Social Seurity is a regressive flat tax system that you stop paying when you reach a certain income for the year. Be it sales tax, property tax or federal excise tax. If I have ten times the taxable income as someone else I pay ten times as much. But it will never happen. The tax code is how politicians reward their friends and punish their enemies. I hear people complaining because Trump only paid so much in taxes. Do these people really think he sat down at the kitchen table and did them himself? No, his lawyers and accountants did them using every legal deduction and write off they could. They used a system put in place by politicians. The corporate tax structure is a different matter. Not all businesses are equal in terms of their costs of doing business. What business would make capial improvements if they couldn't write it off. I am in favor of business paying the same rate as individuals on profits. Some would say why not just tax them on the total amount they take in. I you have 100M in sales and you get taxed 10% on that and it actually cost you 95M to run the business just how long do you think your business will survive. And if government raises the Federal corporate tax those businesses will simply increase their prices to cover those costs to whatever extent they can.
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  3481. When the Navy was looking for an aircraft to carry the AIM-6 Phoenix Douglas proposed another airframe very similar to their earlier one.
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  3482. This PSA as usual from the left did not discusd other options. If you as a father do not want to sire anymore children. You have an option that eliminates abortion. Get a vasectomy. I did. And I only said ouch twice. True story.
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  3483. How much of this is due to the atmospheric conditions on any given day.
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  3484.  @lucarod8877  It is my understanding that the Romans tried as much as possible to rule through locals. Yes the legions were always present as Rome's fist but as long as you paid your taxes, trade flowed and nobody caused any trouble it was no problem. If Jesus posed any kind of threat to Roman rule in Judea it was as a potential focal point for rebellion. Which one does not see in the Gospels
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  3485.  @ThxGod_ItsOver  Arctic peoples in Asia and North America have higher menilen levels that Europeans and are almost always clothed year round. Yet they have no problems with vitamin deficiencies (in the normal cultural diet) due to that diets inclusion of organ meats and fat.
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  3486. He never answers a question.
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  3487. The Left. Especially the Woke Left does not believe in Childhood. They consider children to be merely little adults. That can be molded into whatever is required.
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  3488. Two men help each other take off their mail shirts. Makes sense to me.
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  3489. Those Awesome Cobra valve covers must add like a whole Zero horses. Look nice though. A 289 or 302 with alluminum heads, intake and shorty headers weighs less than the stock 2.5 liter cast iron inline six. If it has a T5 tranny that cuts more weight.
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  3490. The pronouns they really should be using when addressing themselves ae "l" and "ME". As loudly as pissible. Because it truely is all about them and how extra special they are.
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  3491. That time Bernie got shoved off the stage he would have got more respect if he just told the XX chromosome person to "Fuck off lady"
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  3492. Just wait until we get like the UK. Letting rapists off as long as they apologize to their victims. We are not on the slippery slope. We are in free fall.
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  3493. ​ @MatthewDouglas-n5w  No matter who wins the election one thing we all have to realize is that our political opponents. Be they Democrats or Republicans are Americans. It's their country too. They are free to hold their own opinions and express them. They are free to live their lives in peace and free of political harassment. And that includes lawfare.
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  3494. ​ @paulqueripel3493  Napier seems to have believed that the path to success was paved with complexity.
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  3495. The US Navy used rocket equipped LSTs for shore bombardment duties during amphibious operations. I wonder if there was ever any thought to equipping fleet submarines with multiple rocket launchers for use against island airfields in the Pacific. Instead of commiting a carrier or surface ships to attack these islands deploy a sub with say up to 120 rockets in a waterproof container with neutral buoyancy. The sub arrives at the target at night surfaces with decks awash. It then fires the rockets off. The container can then be cast off with a small charge to allow it to be sunk once discarded. The sub the goes on about its business.
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  3496. Just wait until they use the term "Far Right Centrists" with a straight face.
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  3497. I look at these ships and l immediately think of that French hotel situated right at a 180° turn in the mountains.
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  3498. 850 bucks. It better be impressive. I wonder how many they need to sell just to pay for the tooling. Much less the design and development. Just looking at the shot of the first stage one can see it is not completely accurate. The F-1s were wrapped in foil for heat control.
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  3499.  @colonelsmith7757  One aspect about US tank production vs Germany or even Britian. When parts gog to the assembly station for those assembly operations they fit. No filing or grinding required. The main US tank, the M4 in all of its various guises was pretty much a world beater when introduced. By '45 it was showing its age but still doing the job for the most part. But even when the M26 finally got to Europe it proved to be vulnerable to the 8.8 cm. But as Col Moran has pointed out in his own videos there were other factors involved in building the M4. Mainly shipping the damn things from the factories to the ports and overseas. Too bad there weren't more Roll On Roll Off type bulls available. Plus you have to add in the bridging equipment the engineers had.
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  3500. The radar absorbing material was likely plywood.
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  3501. Let's face it. The biggest draw for space tourism is going to be the sex.
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  3502. ​ @michaelgregory9929  Even if Cheddar Man was dark skinned that does not mean he was culturally Sub Saharan African. And Sub Saharan does not automatically mean heavily melanated skin tone. Witness the San. Who used to live all over Southern Africa. When are they going to get reparations from the Bantu?
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  3503. I'm not going to say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What I will say is that property, especially in Urban Centers is expensive. Add in construction costs. Full masonary structures top out at around 14 or 15 floors. Unless you want the lower floors totally useless for anything. Steel framed buildings can of course go much higher. Early steel frames buildings were able to be clad in stone, brick or terracotta cotta. Ornamental work could be cast iron or terra cotta. But once you get so high just how practical is that. Especially if the building has no set backs. With set backs if the attachment of the ornamental work suffers a failure due to weathering at least it has some chance of landing on one of the lower set backs than street level. The Prudential building in Boston had a lot of trouble with losing widows. As to most glass boxes I agree they are soulless and depressing. The one exception I can think of is the Pan Am building on Manhatten. At least it's not a square box. Trump's recent Executive order requiring classical style architecture for federal buildings has of course met with disdain from the "art community". In reality the requirement for classical architecture has problems. Two buildings i can think of in DC that shouldn't be in a classical style are the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum (one of the most visited museums in the world) and Nation Museum of Modern Art. Current architecture need not be joyless. Calatavara's Milwaukee Art Museum is one example. Built as an annex to the original Lake Front structure (a soulless box). The new building if one watches the sunshade opening looks like a bird taking flight. It may not be to everybody's taste. But it is striking. At least the glass box isn't as bad as brutalism
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  3504. At some point, someone is going to dream big. And have the finances to do it. That said we should have doing artificial gravity research for a long time. And we could have.
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  3505. Everyone needs to understand these young scholars are just trying to get in touch with their inner hunter gatherer. Yeah, right.
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  3506.  @bigboreracing356  The higher the spring pressure and likely the total lift combined with how rapidly the lift happens is going to contribute to camshaft flexing in situ. A perfect example of camshaft flex could well be an inline OHV six. Typically 4 cam bearings.
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  3507.  @bigboreracing356  It's not just the size of the bearing journals. It's also the diameter of the shaft between the lobes and bearings. Also the type of material and the overall heat treatment of the shafts.
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  3508. Gary still produces a lot of steel. Maybe not as much as in its peak but a lot. Between increased automation and newer processes the needed employees are way lower. Instead of US Steel the mills are now owned by Mittal. Based in India.
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  3509.  @travtotheworld  There is that. The single biggest problem in the world today is population growth in all the wrong places. Regions that are facing poor economic prospects, water shortages, unstable or autocratic regimes and other problems. The only real thing that seems to slow or stop population growth beyond major wars, plagues or famines is wealth. Wealth can lead to lower birth rates. But once birth rates fall beyond a certain point combined with rising life expectancy demographic problems raise their ugly head in terms of aging populations.
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  3510. The protesters pouring milk on the floor have no idea about the life of a farmer. Especially a dairy farmer.
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  3511.  @frankg123  Pay? Surely you just. Everything in their little Communist utopia free don't ya know.
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  3512. ​ @PlanetGuy901  As big as the universe is it has to have happened. Even more unlikely is intelligent tool making species on both planets at the same time.
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  3513. ​ @PlanetGuy901  Just using the Earth-Moon system is working from a sample of One. I expect that habitual (1) moons are more common around Gas Giants than Super Earths. But still not common. 1) Define "habitual" first. I suspect the most common life bearing worlds will be a water world of some sort. Either moons either ice covered oceans or worlds lacking in appreciable land or lacking it. Even if life bearing worlds occur at a rate of 1 every thousand star systems thats a lot of life bearing worlds in the galaxy much less the universe.
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  3514. That's only 9 cubic inches smaller than the Ford GAA DOHC V -8 used in M-4 Sherman Tanks
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  3515. The Greeks certainly had some very sophisticated workshop techniques in the period a couple of hundred years either way of the founding of Christianity (I refuse to get into the "did Christ really exist" arguement). The Antikythera Mechanism proves that aside from what else it may have been. Those corroded lumps of bronze didnt just spring from the inventors imagination with no background in terms of geared mechanisms. The question here in my mind is were those craftsman free craftsman or highly trained slaves. There in lies the rub. For the Greeks, or Roman's or any other ancient culture that depended economically on slavery their simply isn't the societal push to develop industrial technology.
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  3516. This is not only an issue that can be solved. It must be solved
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  3517. Treated on both ends. Maybe 25 years ago there was an experimental program in the US that used a very strong UV light source to break down chemicals in the water. But then that takes power.
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  3518. Talgo was set to open a train set manufacturing facility in Milwaukee. The Scott Walker said no to expanded rail service.
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  3519. Go further than that. Legalized discrimination against CIS white males. Employing one wrong to correct another wrong does not make things right. All it will do is either perpetuate existing racism in some poeple or create new racists in others.
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  3520. Didn't we just have a whole month of parades and celebrations some of which featured plenty of kink. And now they need another special time? What's next MAP fest. On another channel where this was brought up I jokingly suggested that somebody should develop a city building game where you start with a fully functional scenic city and they challenge is to turn it into a third world disaster. Call it Craptopia.
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  3521.  @UnintentionalSubmarine  I guess I forgot to spell check. My bad. In addition to dudes there are also 'dudettes'
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  3522. Not enough to account for 55 centimeters.
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  3523. Tim, it's like when some kid gets taunted, shoved and hit on the school playground. He hits back and he gets in trouble
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  3524. This is a hell of a lot more important than some snowflakes pronouns
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  3525. They should have sent out a social worker. Better yet. Put her on hold. Indefinitely.
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  3526. Let's say this happens. The best place to run the pipelines on the surface is going to be along railroad right of ways. Railroads have always done everything they can to reduce extra costs involved in moving freight over grades. The lower the percentage of grade the more efficient it is. To get over really high areas. The best option might be tunneling machines.
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  3527. Nuclear was far more efficient at employing lawyers.
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  3528. One good sign is Detroit is sueing BLM
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  3529. When it comes to YouTube channels that deal with actual living history or with historical artifacts I prefer to that everyone, from the presenter to those who comment check their political views at the door. I find I enjoy your channel because of the emphasis on the day to day aspects of late 18th and early 19th Century America*. Its focus on what people actually had to do in their lives not only to survive but prosper. There are a few other historical channels l find I enjoy. Some have to do with historical firearms. One of these specifically is Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons. I dont remember him ever making a political comment on his channel as his focus is on the development and mechanical features of the artifact in question. Another is British Muzzleloaders. His focus there is on not just the historic firearms but also on the drill and shooting practices of British military arms from the Brown Bess through to the Enfield MK IV. Included in this is also the web harness, uniforms and equipment. Plus he throws in a bit of humor too. If I want politics I'll go to a politically oriented channel. *America in terms of what today is the US. I am well aware that there other countries in the Americas.
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  3530. And here I thought this was somehow going to be about the Mauser factory's train sets 🙄🙄
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  3531. Typical Seattle resident. Pink hair. Pink glasses. Pink ensom. Overweight. Odds are she (1) has a Harris sticker on her car. Plus a ☪️☮️✡️🪯🕉️✝️ (2) one. 1) l assume anyways 2) Notice the first one never seems to coexist with the others.
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  3532. If it's such a great thing why don't they have it done to themselves
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  3533. An engine on this list can last a long time. Or be junk in 30,000m/50,000. It al depends on service by the owner. The biggest single contributor to good engine life is an engine that is not over stressed and has a good oil system.
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  3534. I know l will not be around to see it but it would be interesting to see a comparison of the rate of decay of ships at different depths. Say between Titanic and the Samuel B Roberts. Or wrecks that might lie below 30,000 ft in the deep ocean trenchs. Perhaps one of the wrecks off of Samar fell all the way to bottom of the trench.
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  3535. In the eternal struggle between armor and warhead, warhead always wins in the end.
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  3536. Just reading the header to the video my first thought was that Labour thinks they have fome up with a way to punish JK Rowling. And a man who believes he is a woman. No matter how many surgeries. No matter how many hormones. No matter how much makeup. No matter how much he insists. He is still not a woman. And the same applies to women trying to be men.
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  3537. First. The bucket should have been filled with a different liquid. Sevond. Yhese protesters are the same old pinkos that have protested everything else for the last 50 years.
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  3538. Are you Trans Fat? 😕 I self identify as a $500M lottery winner. Show me the money!
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  3539. The Blackhack war was primarily in the Wisconsin Territory. One of the principle US Army officers involved was John Anderson who would later command Fort Sumter. At the time Wisconsin was also spelled Ouisconsin.
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  3540. It's my understanding that during the heyday of the TransAm series just about all the teams used Ford 9" rear ends. The rules didn't stipulate that the rear ends had to be of the same make. The teams had carriers set up with different gear ratios for different tracks.
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  3541. One of the Soviet aeroengine manufacturers went down this path in the late 30 early 40s. Electronically operated valve train would make this a lot easier to manufacture.
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  3542. People don't realize just how dangerous Black Powder can be. This is what happens to an improperly loaded muzzle loader. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DgmsBF6CXs18&ved=2ahUKEwiE6pWLks3xAhVVbs0KHWxBAi4Qxa8BegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw2gR3mM7lgz0lZzUi1YdEaQ I have no idea how many times I dragged my ass into work on the 5th of July bleary eyed from lack of sleep because there was always some idiot who insisted on setting off M-80s until 4 AM.
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  3543. While panelization and greibles create visual interest actual interplanetary spacecraft when we build them will not look anything like the movies. While styrene is the go to materisl for a lot of scratchbuilders. There are other options. Matte board, card stock, bass wood, balsa etc. The nice thing about the later is the PVA glue is no where near as nasty. Another source for styrene sheet can be an industrial plastic supply house or a commercial sign shop. For industrial shapes Plastruct offers tons of items.
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  3544. It was a "peaceful bullet"
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  3545. The styling on the Valiant was controversial? Buttfreaking ugly is what it was. People who call Pacers* ugly need to look at the Valient. At last the Valient was powered by the Slanty. If credit is given at least GM tried to be innovative. Most of the Corvairs handling problems were caused by people (and service station) over inflating the tires. Besides, by the time Nadar's exposae (sp) came ut the issues of th Corvair haven fixed. *there was an Edsel model, trim level whatever called Pacer. Should have been a hint.
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  3546. He hasn't even been sworn in as Mayor yet. And he wants yo add another 800M in tax burden on the city to "solve problems" or help people. If he wanted to help people he'd work to bring productive businesses into Chicago. But what does one es expect from an admitted Socialist.
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  3547.  @lgv3051  Yah, they all need a redimix plant. 😁
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  3548. The factory sure as hell doesn't pump up the lifters when assembling engines. Today I dont think anybody builds an OHV engine new from the factory with flat tappet lifters. Aside from some possible crate engines. The last flat tappet engine built in the US to my knowledge was the 4.0 used in Jeeps.
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  3549. I'm wondering if this was the basis for that movie with John Wayne and Lana Turner
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  3550.  @alswann2702  The Sea Chase
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  3551. The new government mandate is "thou shalt not have fun". Unless of course it is government mandated fun.
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  3552. Airships are a really bad idea imo aside from one thing. Time on station.
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  3553. I can think of one idea that might apply to a performance engine or even a street engine. Run a supply line up into the valley with metered distribution lines that feed directly on to each lobe and into each lifter bore. Feeding oil to the lifters from the pushrods is just plain stupid. I can't believe the engineers designed this engine without oil galleys intercepting the lifter bores. Let me guess. The same guys were involved in the 2.7 Sludge-o-Matic. Gen II/III AMC V-8s suffered a lubrication issue at high rpms on the number 7 or 8 rod bearing and the number 5 main bearing due to oil starvation problems. A solution to this was to drill and tap two 1/8 -27NPT holes. One into main oil galley. The other to intercept the rear main bearing feed line. The point being there are always solutions.
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  3554. Night carrier ops. Or is it Opps. Initial pilot training. 1) It's dark. "Bloody likely." 2) You can't see shite. "No, really" instructees mutter. 3) RDF, we don't need no stinkin' RDF. * "They wouldn't bloody issue it if they had it." 4) Did l mention its dark. I mean really, really dark. Like three yards up a hogs arse dark. "This keeps getting better and better". 5) And your landing "field" may be going up and down vertically too. "Sir?" "Yes Smythe." "Sir, I'd like to apply for a transfer." "Where Smythe?" "Anywhere, anywhere but bloody here." * But they have time travel as the Treasure of Sierra Madre was made in 1948.
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  3555. If the situation was reversed all hell would be breaking loose.
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  3556. I'm always amazed at self appointed "community leaders".
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  3557. It's one thing to not discount them. It is another thing to accept all of them as literal truth. Myths IMO either have a basis in a historical event. Or an attempt to explain things beyond the human experience.
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  3558. E-Bike license? KaaChingg! More money in the states pocket. Whats next? Tricycle licenses for 4 year olds.
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  3559. It's not a family car. It's a boomer cruiser. Admit I always liked the way these looked. Cheesy interior though. How many did they sell. 60,000 units. Christ on a crutch. AMC sold over 100K Pacers
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  3560. Is it naned the Depuy de Lomé or the Herbert Lom
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  3561. I'm old school. Go back to the old style boting machines with the levers.
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  3562. I remember seeing a documentary on the German mountain divisions on the Hitler, I mean History Channel. One of them wound up as an MD in California IIRC
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  3563. It doesn't matter how much power the motor puts out if you cant get the car to hook up. It may be heresy but you can have too much power as well as too much tire. An example of too much tire. I knew a guy with an early Miata. He put wider tires on the rear end. After the first time he drove it in the rain. It scared him so much he put the stock rims and tires back on. On a wet road there was simply not enough weight on the ass end to squeeze the water into the tread pattern. It just wanted to hydroplane. Too much power. Power is only part of the equation. Burn outside might be fun and look impressive but I'd rather have a car that puts every bit of power through the drive train to the pavement. It's the engine, transmission, suspension and tires all working together as a system. If all you can do is smoke the tires you're just quoting Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5. "Sound and fury signifying nothing"
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  3564. She is almost as dense as the US Congressman who suggested that Guam might capsize. The island, not the Amphib
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  3565. In today's Royal Navy* they might have to use Embarrassed in comparision to its former glory *I'm implying anything in regards to the quality and professionalism of today's RN, but it has shall we say, shrunk.
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  3566. At the price it should be a smooth action and shoot damn good. Ideally it should be more accurate than the user. Never fight fair.
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  3567.  @ROBERTNABORNEY-f3k  So Montana did have a "capital ship" named for it before the advent of missile boats. One that got built anyway. But you can see how a ship named New York can be confusing.
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  3568. The only difference would be the former USS USS Alaska/Hawaii would be sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic
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  3569. In the 60s there was a Tom Leher song about this.
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  3570. IIRC In Range did a test on the shotgun shell loaded with dimes as in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Total BS.
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  3571. The numeric system we use today was one of the greatest inventions human history. I find it hard to believe that no other society that was using math did not do the same thing. Not the same symbols. But the use of a smallset of symbols that can be combined in ways to represent trillions upon trillions of numbers. PS Glad to see you credit the Indians.
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  3572. Is it just me or does the female officer sound black.
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  3573. Unfortunately the true believers will continue to believe in the peaceful protest lie. The stormtrooper lie. The MSM lie.
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  3574. DILLIGAF. Do l Look Like l Give A Fuck
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  3575. It may not distract from my enjoyment in watching a western movie but when the film has its characters using firearms from a later period than the film takes place in. That to me shows a complete lack of historical research on the part of the producers. As to how side arms were carried in Old West (or Real West as opposed to the Hollywood West) there were a variety of rigs. The side carry was generally much higher on the side than the fast draw we see in the movies. Other rigs included the reverse draw style holster. This is the typical carry style for the New Model Remmington that was the standard US Army side arm prior to the adoption of the Colt Single Action Army (aka Peacemaker or Model 1873) and the Smith & Wesson Scholfield. There were also side draw rigs with the pistol carried in front on the opposite side of the dominant hand. And lastly shoulder holsters. The fast draw rig is entirely a creation of Hollywood as far as I know. The "bullet impact" as shown in the movies is purely for cinematic drama. But one thing to consider. The bullets used in the period had far different terminal characteristics than say a jacketed full powered battle rifle round of WWII. The bullets of the 1850 to 1890 Real West were lead with no jacketing. These will have a tendency to deliver all of their energy to the target*. Just not enough to throw somebody across the room. The rope trick was used in the John Wayne movie Rio Lobo on Grorge Plimpton. *As an aside in the 1980s the local police department was looking to change service weapons. The choices were between 9mm and .45ACP. The department went with .45ACP. The round used in the Colt 1911. My brother-in-law was in charge of the program. I asked him why they went with the .45ACP versus the 9x19. After all the 9mm offered higher capacity. His said that first they looked at data for all police reports in which an officer had to fire his weapon. It came out to two or three rounds per incident. Second was the possibility of innocent civilians being hit by rounds that over penetrated. This was a big problem with the 9mm. The .45ACP had a much lower chance of over penetration.
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  3576. "There are only three sports. Mountain climbing, bull fighting and automobile racing. The rest are all games." Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s or 30s iirc. The implication being that every time you you picked up your cape or ice axe. Or climbed into the race car there was a significant chance of death.
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  3577. Plus I'll bet they declared themselves handicapped do they got to board first and exceeded the carry on limit.
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  3578. I saw that. I can't recall just what they sealed the hulls with. Dipped wax? Shellac?
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  3579. Well, even as an American I just know Kipling and Tennyson are out as far as the UK goes.
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  3580. ​ @Noble713  It's a miracle that Mikasa survived at all.
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  3581. The channel is called Real Engineering and he says something as stupid as Dark Side of the Moon.
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  3582. 3d printed sand molds are great for limited production parts. After all it saves having to make the patterns. But if you are going to be producing thousands of castings a day traditional methods still work best. And with advances in 3d printing of metal alloys you can skip the casting process entirely. And go straight to finish machining.
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  3583. As Smokey Yunick once said, and I slightly misquote here. Basically "Anything, even a lawn mower engine, can make big power it you can stuff enough air and fuel in it". Engine life. That's a matter of good design. Remember in the 1960s a guy named Barney Navarro got 600+, maybe 800 horsepower out of a AMC 199 pushrod straight six. I think he was running around 3 bar boost.
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  3584. The convention is going to be a real s√πtshow.
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  3585. And when we solve those problems then there will be other ones. The amount of money spent on all space activities is a drop in the bucket compared to the global economy.
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  3586. What both the US and Canada need is a new political party. The Party of Common Sense
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  3587. Anyone to the political right of Mao or Pol Pot is pretty much Far Right these days it seems.
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  3588. Not just the added complexity. Also the added reciprocating mass.
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  3589. Plus the Army operates ships and boats.
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  3590.  @PTRRanger951  USMC Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.
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  3591. We have both styles. My wife uses the pierce the top kind. I always use the side type. The side type is definitely superior. And l notice that there are a lot of cans today with no seperate bottom piece.
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  3592. Unelected, nonaccountable officials.
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  3593. Remember when Obi Wan looks at the groups from weapons fire when they find the Sand Crawler. And says nobody hits targets as well s the Impeial Storm Troopers. And then they can't hit the broad side of a Death Star. Plus the ideas of dome dort of HUD for the individual infantryman goes back to at least Starship Troopers
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  3594. People have speculated that the German government benefited in its aviation engine sector from the racing support. Not so according to one of the Mercedes engineers.
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  3595. I wonder if this explains the legendary Berserker behavior?
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  3596. Designed and manufactured correctly quite a few rounds probably. But eventually the spring will soften or break.
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  3597. Feministas and their war on men and maleness did more than as anything else to create the large number of incels in the Male population today. There were always some men that fit that profile. But today from childhood to becoming adults all a Male hears is that he and the rest of his gender are nothing but misogynistic abusers then no wonder these men have no idea how to talk to women without being subservient to the gender as a whole.
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  3598. Just plain old nucs. Not thermonucs.
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  3599. This reeks of either incompetence. Or collusion. One of the two.
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  3600. The builders last words were probably "watch this!".
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  3601. People have been saying for years this is nothing more than wealth redistribution. The masters are finally admitting it.
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  3602. Bismarck had holes in his watertight integrity. Took on water. Lost bouancy and sank. Even if the crew scuttled the ship and that was the major cause of his sinking the Royal Navy was still getting their revenge.
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  3603. Ultralarge Heavily Armored Huge Gun Bomb Torpedo Targets. The Beehive shells came with warning labels. "Offload before Capsizing"
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  3604. The real question is "what did the Italians think of James Mason" 🙄
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  3605. Plus the indecision on what to arm their aircraft with
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  3606. I do some writing myself. Purely for my own enjoyment. I do not consider myself good. But l am better than some stuff I have read. But one thing l can not understand is when modern "experts" can not believe that Shakespeare could have produced so much when the total word count is less than many modern potboilers
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  3607. Deadliest? Has ABC News never heard of Peshtigo. Anywhere from 1200 to 2500 deaths. Happened the same time as the Chicago Fire.
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  3608. A thousand years ago it was New Anglish. 😊
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  3609. Movie supervillains just have more style. Plus they can threaten the architect into what they want.
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  3610. I hope she winds up owning NBC. The irony is she's probably a registered Democrat
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  3611. ​ @charliedee9276  Supposedly one of the Jeep powertrain engineers was working on adapting the 3.5 V-6s 4 head design valve to the 4.0. Until ordered to stop. AMC was supposed to have run OHC versions of the 232 on test stands in the 60s. Plus there were rumors of a reduced displacement diesel with a heavier block and bottom end.
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  3612. Yah that Mustang had a "Bullit" moment As I understand it the 917 CanAm is the only car that scared Donahue. I've heard stories of him coming from qualifying and just sitting in the car until his heart rate slowed enough.
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  3613. Shocking. But utterly predictable. And I'll bet if the homeless try and leave they will be "encouraged" to remain.
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  3614. Quit calling the prey "game". The prey were both a food and material resource. Also I'd be willing to bet prior to domesticating canids Humans hunted wolves both for fur and to eliminate a competitor.
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  3615. @gurugurukuma  To me people calling species that are hunted game sounds more like modern sport hunting. I don't have anything against hunting as long as the animal is used for food. But hunting just for a trophy to hang on the wall. No, l don't like that at all And in my life I've eaten Pheasant, Rabbit, Ducks, Goose, Venison, Racoons, Elk, Moose, Bear and lots of fish.
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  3616. IMO Wright designed some truely beautiful buildings. Homes, houses of worship, etc. But in my opinion he was hamstrung by the materials available at the time. Plus you could not pay me to live in one of his designs. A normal American home takes enough work to maintain on the inside. A FLW home you would need staff. But then he was not designing for the average home buyer. Post war l personally think he should have focused on designing quality homes designed for the emerging market of the time. Homes designed around using factory produced elements such as walls that could be combined on site.
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  3617. It kind of looks like the ground force adaptation of the aircraft mg the Luftwaffe had
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  3618. Scott, Now you to can have a Crawler Transporter of your very own http://www.microartwork.com/html/crawler_transporter_1-96_model.html Price is 130EUR plus shipping (14.30EUR to the UK and 19.50 to the US The designer also has a 1/96th scale model of the #9 Swing Arm that served as the access bridge to the Apollo Command Module as a free download. As it a digital file it is possible to print at a larger scale. Yah I said print. Its made of card stock. And it isn't easy http://www.microartwork.com/html/command_module_service_arm_-_download.html If you want your own Saturn V then try this. This is just the first stage http://jleslie48.com/s1_96ok.zip About 8.5"/213mm in diameter. There's one guy that was scaling up this to 1/12th scale
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  3619. Let's not forget than truely wondrous version of coffee. Coffee Cake.
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  3620. Now if they would have dumped the Allison for a turbojet. One of these is at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo
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  3621.  @bobroberts2371  I'm not sure. It's been a long time. What I do know is he was very consistent. He'd get to the track and drain the tank and put in exactly so much gas. Myself I think it was funny as hell. And that I think was the point.
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  3622. Two things. 1) l wonder why BRM just didn't scale up their V-8. 2) l also wonder if BRM employed former engine designers from Napier. The clip around 3:20. I would swear its from Grand Prix
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  3623. Another that I have seen used (1) is "the rubber sciences" 1) Used by Dr Jerry Pournelle. MS Socialogy, PhD Political Science. This was in the 70s.
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  3624. ​ @TransoceanicOutreach  See comment above. Eventually someone is going to get seriously injured. I just hope no one gets killed. Personally l would prefer to see clean power production and cleaner vehicles. But as much as l may desire that we are not there yet in terms being able to produce the power and supply the systems needed to support that. Plus l predict in the west if and when deposits of elements critical elements are discovered certain groups will move to block their extraction.
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  3625. Also Nash. Straight 8s generally suffer from the tendency of the crankshaft to twist under load.
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  3626. George RR Martin maybe a Socialist. But if he continues to churn out books he continues to sell books. Being a boomer has nothing to do with it.
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  3627. Five young scholars only trying to feed their families by performing as street acrobats as the Amazing Five Dudes on a Bicycle. I could care less if the 5 men are white, black or green. The whole logic of the situation does not make sense from the "she was trying to steal the bike" idea. And as soon as this started rightway somebody is ready to video the incident. IMO she was targeted as a supposedly easy mark.
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  3628.  @josefstalin4532  Even though 4th generation nucs should be orders of magnitude safer the odds of overcoming political and public opinion/pressure is probably impossible.
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  3629.  @jommeissner  OK, but you still have to build enough capacity to replace the existing fossil fuel infrastructure plus the capacity needed to support a completely electrical transportation sector. This includes not only the generating capacity* but the transmission lines along with the storage capacity for when your renewables aren't generating power. Little things like that inconvienent period between dawn and sunset along with periods when the wind doesn't blow. Another factor is the NIMBY effect concerning large scale wind or solar farms. The people in say Chicago might not care but the ones in bumfuck Iowa probably will. *we can probably afford to build the generating capacity in the West but what about in the so called Third World. Nations with lower economic resources, growing populations and severely strained public services now. I personally dont care if the generating capacity comes from advanced nucs (thorium or pebble beds), rooftop solar, ocean thermal (there was a pilot generating station off of Hawaii), wind, solar thermal or dust bunnies. We as a global society need to make a decision. As to energy storage rather than huge banks of batteries that use resources that might be better used in devices for base line power I really like the idea of molten metal or salt thermal batteries. Use your excess generating capacity to heat the storage medium and then when needed use that hot medium to heat a working fluid (water, nitrogen, CO2 etc) to run a turbine generator set. It might not be as sexy as a large bank of lithium ion batteries but it's probably cheaper in the long run. I'm not saying all of this is cheap. Or easy. Plus while all this is going on I personally think we should be putting more funding into research on fusion reactors. The DOE seems wedded to the Tokamak type of reactor. The current one under construction in France might achieve break even or excess power potential but in no way would lead to a working reactor. MIT has a design that is much smaller than ITER in France but has a design spec of a Q ratio of 2. That means twice as much energy out as going in. Plus MIT is designing the test reactor to be serviceable in that elements can be replaced if needed. Even if MITs test reactor cost $1B it would still be only 5% or less than cost of ITER. Besides the MIT program we should also be investing smaller amounts of money in alternative reactor designs that while they have a higher chance of failure also have a huge potential payoff. Think of them as the PowerBall of fusion research. Also a successful small fusion reactor would hand the Human Race the Solar System on a platter.
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  3630.  @rogerstarkey5390  That energy figure for one gallon (US, Imperial, metric equivilant) is available right at the refinery. For power on the grid you still need actual generating, transmission and storage capacity. Maybe the UK isn't worried but it will probably be an issue in say the US. And please do not go down the road of public transportation vs private vehicle ownership. That's another issue. Besides the UK is 250k square miles. That's smaller than Texas with a much higher population density.
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  3631. Everybody who thinks windjammers are romantic should have to go up into the rigging when rounding the Horn.
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  3632. Its Big Government, Big Business and Big Media all working together.
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  3633. The RAF using biplanes in the BoB? Its only fair considering the Italians used some too.
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  3634. Or personally involved reproduction
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  3635. Or non personally involved reproduction
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  3636. Go woke, go broke
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  3637. The only difference in this engine and every other barrel type engine is the opposed pistons. But that is probably been done before.
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  3638. Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving
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  3639. Repeat after me. "It's a business, not a charity."
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  3640. Should have used the jet setting.
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  3641. Pete Buttgag
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  3642. Didn't they spin a turbine instead of a piston engine. There's stuff on the web
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  3643. During the Battle of Berlin I suspect these used primarily against Red Army targets. Probably trying to engage infantry support weapons and possibly artillery firing in direct support. And once you start firing you are exposed for 4.5 seconds minimum.
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  3644. I know one of the people there is doing sign language. Just what the hell does the rest of the posse do.
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  3645. There are no muscles in your hand. But you can build up calluses on the flat of your hand. The absolute worst screws to remove are the flat head cap screws. Commonly referred to as Unbrakos. This is commonly due to the slight misalignment between the tapped hole, the treads on the screw, the countersink in the part being held an the taper on the screw head. I've seen small screws crack almost as loud as a .22 when they break loose.
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  3646. I've seen a video off an OHC conversion of a OHV V-8 with a similiar system.
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  3647. Now that l think back on it they had a shaft with eccentrics on it mounted above the valves with miniature connecting rods
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  3648. I once knew a gentleman who owns ed a 69 T-Bird. It had every conceivable option. Including the ultra rare ARD. Also known as the Automatic Rubber Dispenser
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  3649. the two most important infrastructure technologies in modern society are potable water and waste water treatment.
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  3650. In some ways this reminds me of when Hillary Clinton made the suggestion that any tool that can be used to modify a firearm should be banned. In other words files and hack saws.
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  3651. I know a retired airline pilot. One of his co-pilots he flew with is from Columbia. His family is in the coffee business. Acvording to him Starbucks buys the worst coffee beans they can get amd then over roasts them. And then ghey have the gall to overcharge for their crap coffee.
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  3652. Slander implies that the slanderer has a certain level of intelligence. Something that Occasional Cortex seems not to possess.
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  3653. AOC is really supposed to be bonding with the community. As a barista
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  3654. ​ @lVlagnificentGaming7  Probably one of the people on the jury that set the judgement on Alex Jones.
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  3655. ​ @PyroShields  Sounds like "what the definition of 'isn't, is". Right then l really knew Slick Willy was the right nickname. For one of two reasons.
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  3656. ​ @rosemaryus-ct6151  What's that old George Carlin line about how stupid the average person is.
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  3657. During Korea Skyraiders conducted torpedo attacks on hydroelectric dams in North Korea. See Mark Felton for American Dambusters
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  3658. How do I justify eating meat? My metabolism is built for it.
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  3659. Milwaukee before the 1860s was dominated politically by the Irish. Yhat all changed when the steamer Elgin was rammed and sank off of Northbrook Illinois.
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  3660. Go Woke. GO BROKE!
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  3661. If available. More popular models there are a wider variety of parts, wiring harnesses etc available. Either NOS or repos. Less popular models or orphan brands it may not be the case. You know the old "they have to have parts available for seven years". No, they didn't. It was good business to do so. But it was never the law.
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  3662. I must be a Philistine. I hated this when it came out.
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  3663. Try some Limousin from Dancing Goat Distillery
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  3664. HMS Pansy
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  3665. Does anyone really think that in 1948 when Egypt,Saudi Arabia, Jodan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq attacked the new State of Israel they had any intention of creating a state of Palestine. It as the Arab States that instructed the Arab residents of the region o evacuate. Some did. Some didn't. Those that didn't today there decendants enjoy all of the rights of an Israeli citizen. Imagine if post WWll the Arabs states had welcomed Jewish immigration. Especially immigration of educated professionals.
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  3666. I had a Pacer in the 70s. I regularly got 25mpg on the interstate. 25 mpg for the time was decent milage.
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  3667. Due to launch on the SLS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,someday.
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  3668. Once they etart talking basic rules apply 1) Never stop, never let anyone else say a thing 2) If asked a question, never give an answer. 3) If an answer is abeolutely required. Answer by changing the subject.
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  3669. They do not virtue signal. It's more like I've got this great big freaking virtue LIGHTHOUSE.
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  3670. Everytime we have one of those mid 70s to low 80sF days with a light breeze and low humidity my wife will say l wish it could be like this all the time. And l tell that then everybody would want to live here.
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  3671. The wild cards in any prediction of the future is emerging technologies. Be they energy, digital or biological. Unless we see a global collapse of civilization the technologies of 2600 will likely be almost unrecognizable to us today. Our descendants could be subsistence farmers or living in a true Post Scarcity Economy.
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  3672. Double bagging at Walmart. If the bags have any weight in them at all they will tear. Levels of consumption and potion size. I have to agree
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  3673.  @SpecialEDy  I've heard the idea rod to stroke ratio is 1.75. Oddly the only engine I've found that fits is the AMC 232. But for most engines I don't think it matters that much
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  3674. They don't care. Period.
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  3675. I'm surprised he didn't say "look Uncle Kathy, a Slant will fit right in".
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  3676. Cooling passages.
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  3677. ​ @matthewklein9225  The oil.
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  3678. ​ @jeromethiel4323  There are similiar systems that are used to evacuate contaminated air from enclosed workspaces. Basically centuries that bleed compressed air through a slot at the wide end of the venturi. The better ones will move 100 cm for every cm introduced at operating pressure (typically around 6.5 Bar). Operate on the Conada Effect. Another product that uses the same effect is a Dyson fan.
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  3679. With all the really obscene stuff we see on the news we could balance the budget really fast wink wink
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  3680. Not being familiar with who Captain Tom was I googled his memorial. The first three pages were related to this crappy incident. Nothing about him. While thats sad. What's even sadder is that this will be the high point of this young women's life. If she tries to do this again pour the contents on her.
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  3681. Starship is a loooong way from being human rated. But as a heavy lift vehicle it's pretty close.
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  3682. What's even worse is the serving officers who I would think had at least served at sea or even worse aboard submarines acting not to fix the problem but to act cover their own asses by insisting there was no problem. Not only not fixing the problem criminal denying it was worse. I see it as giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. Add in the declaring the maintenance manual of the Mk14's explorer top secret and locking it up. Too bad some submariner didn't have an uncle in Murder Inc. If the torpedoes cost about what a single seat fighter did and the Navy could not justify the cost of a testing program. How did the Navy justify all of the aircraft lost in accidents in the 20s and 30s. One would think that with the TDC on board US submarines the Board of Ordinance would want the best weapons on board to take advantage of the TDC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Data_Computer Discussing cost, just how much did the TDC cost to develop and build. I know money was tight for all the services. After all the US had just fought "The War to End All Wars". So they could say "ain't gonna study war no more"*. The only problem with that is it only takes one side to start a war. It takes both to end it. Unless of course no one is left on the losing side. But of all the tight money it was probably spent more freely on the Navy than anyone else. The Army got the seconds with the Marines getting the scraps from the Navy and equipment the Army didn't want anymore. In one area the Army wasn't too bad off considering the state of budgets. That was in aviation. Because of funding provided by the Army and Navy Wright Aeronautical, Pratt &Whitney, Allison and Packard were able to develop the power plants used in WWII. Along with airframe manufacturers Douglas, Boeing, Lockheed, Martin, Grumman and Curtiss The Army itself has it's own Board of Ordinance debacle. During WWI the US Army issued far more M1917 Enfield rifles in 30.06 than it did Springfield M1903's. About three or four to one IIRC. After the war the Army had to decide which rifles to keep in service. Seeing as the Springfield Armory was a government owned and run facility and the '03 was a better target rifle and so out performed the Enfield at long range. It was decided to keep the Springfield. The Army, and its Board of Ordinance was wedded to idea of "Everyman a rifleman". So due to this and the 600 yard range qualification and National Match Events the better battle rifle was shown the door. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1917_Enfield Of course the mid 1920s is when the the US Army began the development of what would become the M-1 Garand *A continuing pattern in US history. It gets in a scrap and after it's over tells the military thanks very much and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. A good example of this is the basic scrapping of the US Navy post ACW at least in terms of blue water operations. Another is the adoption of the M-1873 Trapdoor Springfield which began as converted Springfield Fifle Muskets from the ACW. Arguably among the worst of single shot breech loading service rifles to enter service in the 1860s & 1870s. It was kept in service faaaaaaar toooooooo long only being replaced in the 1890s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_model_1873 Never mind the US had a perfectly serviceable bolt action magazine fed rifle in the 1880s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1885_Remington%E2%80%93Lee
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  3683. What are the odds some dollar chasing lawyer will start smelling $$ signs.
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  3684. Even more effective than the fire raids was the strangulation of Japan by US submarines.
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  3685. It's my understanding that we have the crash of the Model 299 for aircraft checklists
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  3686. ​ @cosmicdjinn1743  There is nothing stopping you from creating a political party. If you are talking about going to a proportional type of system that could potentially be a disaster. The leading party in an election in order to form a government finds itself making a deal with a very minor party that pressures the government for their wish list or just general support. Or you have too many parties that trying to do anything is almost impossible.
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  3687. Sounds like a Red Rider BB gun version of the Sten. I can just imagine Ralphie asking Santa for a scilinced Sten.
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  3688. I've wondered about this stuff as I've had an idea for awhile about ways to convert an inline OHV 6 with non-crossflow heads to either cross flow using two Ford or Chevy heads. Or converting to DOHC using either two GM LQ1 heads or two Nissan heads. Either the VQ V-6 or the VK 55 V-8. If you have to get the heads to that high a temperature then maybe uts just as well to just tig weld them together. Such projects have been done in the past so it can be done
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  3689. Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and atomic weapons. I suspect in a full on nuclear exchange Soviet bomber formations would seperate long before they could be intercepted by US or Canadian aircraft. In the 50s and 60s the bomber and missile gap was for the most part a misread of intelligence. If the Cuban Missile Crisis had gone hot (1) the US would have been hurt. But the USSR and Western to Eastern Europe would have been shattered. In terms of the percentage of GDP the Soviets far outstripped the US during the Cold War. In almost every type of weapons system be it armor, aircraft, SAM systems etc the Soviets by far out produced the US. By the early 70s the Soviets had by far more missiles and warheads than the US and its Allies in the UK and France. 1) The most likely cause would have been a Soviet commander in Cuba authorizing a launch or a submarine using a nuclear armed torpedo of a US carrier group.
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  3690. Justin Trudeau 0.0
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  3691. Chicago. Way am l not surprised.
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  3692. Even if you get a dro. DO NOT DITCH THE TRAV-A-DIAL.
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  3693. Just as there were multiple versions of the 109.
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  3694.  @yaguut  So are organic muscles. You have to keep recharging the system. AKA eating.
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  3695. Botched? I think not.
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  3696. Like in the old Ten Years After song. Tax the rich feed the poor. There are no rich no more. The problem is the definition of rich will be changed until everyone is poor.
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  3697. ​ @SilverFoxHotTakes  Talking about Islamists and the equality of pigs is ironic.
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  3698. SE Wisconsin ain't great either. It seems like the air patterns dump all the ragweed pollen from the rest of the state plus lowa and Minnesota on US when they run into the cool air over Lake Michigan. And then I see idiots who plant it in their yard as an ornamental.
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  3699. I'm shocked and surprised. Not that it's happened. But that it hadn't happened earlier. But not to worry. Ted Wheeler and Antifa will save the day. 🙄🙄
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  3700. Are convicted sex offenders criminals? Damn straight they are. Prior to conviction there is presumption of innocence. In 1982 l served on jury in regards to two counts of 1st degree sexual assault. My mind was made up until the state brought the "victims" room mate to the stand. The upset the whole case. It turned out after the trial one of the jurors knew a baliff. The baliff told him that the same women had cried rape with 5 or 6 guys previously.
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  3701. The US is not a democracy. And it never has as been. It's a representative republic. Once you get over a certain size population a full on democracy simply does not work. Sometimes in the interests of the nation a member of Congress or a sitting president has to do things that are opposite of what they expouse. A full on democracy by and large is going to focus on the immediate issue right now and never consider the future IMO.
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  3702. The Democrats want potential voters. The Republicans (handsome Dems) want cheap labor. And people expect a solution.
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  3703. Aside from a minor amount of water that goes out through the Chicago River* very little if any of the water in the Great Lakes goes to the Mississippi Basin. Any communities along Lake Michigan that are partially on the Mississippi side of the Continental SubDivide are required to pump waste water back over the divide for treatment and release back into the Lake. The Continental SubDivide is only 4 to 5 miles if that from Lake Michigan in Southeast Wisconsin. Basically the same for Illinois and Indiana. Believe me. They'd have to guard every foot of such a pipeline 24 hours a day. The only state in the Great Lakes region I can see agreeing to this is Indiana. When stocks of certain commercial fish species had become depleted due to over fishing and environmental issues due to non native species. Indiana was the only state to refuse to put limits on commercial and recreational fishing. *the only reason that Chicago gets away with doing this it predates the Great Lakes Compact. This also allows Chicago to send its waste water down the Chicago and Illinois rivers.
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  3704.  @daieast6305  All media is censored. It's censorship in that they are deciding what you should see. As long as you have choices in regards to media outlets you can always parse between liberal and conservative viewpoints. But if the far left gets it's way you will be living in a one party state with state controlled and sponsored media
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  3705. Does anybody want to bet that this NYT reporter voted for this.
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  3706. Who actually sits in Lambo anyway.
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  3707. Should of had their scalping knives out. OK, maybe just their coup sticks.
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  3708. Turn about is fair play.
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  3709. All machine tools start with the lathe. Not the metal working lathes we know today but more akin to a woodturners lathe. Clickspring has a video on just what the first precision lathe may have been like. I would love to see a video on just how the multiple step and possibly multiple lead interrupted threads of the naval rifles like the 16"50 on the Iowa's for example where cut.
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  3710. Turn this into a movie. Call it The Bicycle Thieves
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  3711. Bret, the problem with running and winning as an independent is a significant portion of both parties will stymie you. What we need is a new party that unites the center
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  3712. What would you expect from individuals who flippantly use the term "flyover states" AOC likely believes the old New Yorker cover is an accurate map of the US
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  3713. IMO life is pretty common. Civilizations much less technological civilizations are a whole different ball game.
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  3714. The tee-shirt gets it wrong. As do the Black Lives Matter ones. In truth All Lives Matter. At least until the individual in question may undertake actions that may remove that protection.
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  3715. Bring back cow catchers! In the early 20th Century safety devices that would scoop up pedestrians were developed for electric street cars.
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  3716. Pvt Ivanovich. You have been selected by our units political officer to carry the glorious PTRS anti tank rifle. Poor Pvt Ivanovich weighes all of 65 kilos.
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  3717. There might be microbial life on Mars right now. Only it was imported from Earth. After all, Apollo 12 brought back microbial life from the Moon. Only it was microbes that were on the camera the Astronauts removed from the Surveyor spacecraft.
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  3718. For all the people considering themselves "Pansexual" (1). Do they consider themselves pitchers or catchers. 1) The whole concept just has me thinking of a Zamphir CD playing in the backround
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  3719. In the past we saw both Hollywood and British movies produced that used caucasian actors in the leads. Not because they were being racist about it but because thats what they had to work with primarily. There where some actors and actresses working in these film studios that were from other etnic backrounds but not a lot. When the Hollywood studios tried to be more ethnicly correct they often turned to Hispanic players. Matia Montez was known as yhe Queen of Technicolor in the 40s. When Gunga Din was made in the late 30s there weren't a lot if skinny Indian actors around to play the role. But all these movies were made to do two things. Make money and be entertaining. But this farce from what l hear fails on the second account. The make money part I will leave up to the book keepers. Maybe if they do triple entry.....🤔. Personally l wouldn't want to watch this tripe even with earplugs in and blinders on. Having JPS involved is enough to ensure that.
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  3720. He most likely could not have poured piss out of a boot with instructions on the sole
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  3721. I wonder if the Chicago Piano was designed by the same people that designed the Mk14 torpedo. For maximum rate of fire the MG-42 wins 😖
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  3722. I wonder if gunpowder originally came from either alchemists or magicians messing around with fast burning powders to create smoke effects.
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  3723. In terms of the we hole antipodal effect. Where was the tectonic plate that the Siberian Traps eruption took place at the time of the impact. Large Igneous Provinces are almost cetaimly fed from Magma Plumes rising from deep in the mantle. There are large numbers of LIPS scattered over the face of the Earth. These likely have more to do with major extintion events than impacts. Plus the number of LIPs located on oceanic plates present another problem linking them to impact events. The oldest oceanic crust is around 200MY old. And on oceanic crust the LIPs present include the Kregulen Plateau, Orang Java along with several smaller LIPs that may have formed with it and srperated due to plate movements. The North Atlantic Igneous Province. Plus the number of LIPs on continental margibs that are likely related to the rifting events of the breakup of Pangea.
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  3724. Facism took a while to die out. And can raise its ugly head again. The regime's of Portugal and Spain took until the 70s to pass a way. Today Latin America seems to be the last possible bastion of facism. Another might be Africa but there it seems hide behind the Socialist label. In reality it is just rule by dictatorship.
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  3725. The same people that will support the Islamic states fail to understand is they are part of the reason these same states hate the West. (Yoda voice) Weak is the logic with these ones
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  3726. One thing l don't trust is any of the studies that are for or against.
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  3727. As some of my ancestors immigrated into Eastern Britain and went on to become the Anglo Saxons l encourage you to tell these pompous "intellecuals" to get stuffed.
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  3728. The magazines that seem to be holding their own are the special interest hobbiest magazines. So far.
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  3729. The P-59 sucked as a fighter. And the Army Air Force knew it. But it performed a very valuable service that the Luftwaffe and RAF did not have. Operating squadrons of aircraft and learning the lessons of how to keep jet aircraft working without the pressure of combat.
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  3730. Compared to Chicago these guys are amateurs
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  3731. How many Heisman winners have been a bust in the pros.
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  3732. When the last person leaves Detroit they can unscrew the lightbulb
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  3733. How the hell can a state tax you on moving out of state.
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  3734.  @mre4u422  One of the former govs of Wisconsin wanted to try and tax the pensions of former residents if they had earned that pension while living and working in the state. Sometimes the money junkies will stop at nothing.
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  3735. Tim, the media has always practiced censorship. Censorship in terms of what they print or present. Censorship in how they present what they print or present. Censorship in their placement of just where they present news. The press or media if you will can have an institutional or editorial bias. They can approve or disapprove of political, economic or social issues. They can endorse political candidates as long as this does not interfere with the news. If an event happens and critical facts involving the story are left out. That's censorship. Some will argue that one can always get their news from the another source that may have a different view or slant on that particular news item. But when most of the major journalists are all coming out of the same few schools. When the media displays an overwhelming political bias and seems to firmly believe that the media serves to act as force for social change. Then to say you can always get your news from another source is in my opinion hipocracy. The NYT used to say "all the news that's fit to print". Today "it's all the news we think you are fit see". I have actually had liberals tell me that people who disagree with them do not have a right to their opinion. These same people fervently wish for a one party state run by the far left of the Democratic Party. These same people have forgotten the old adage about being careful what you wish for.
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  3736. Talk Like a Pirate Day started as a joke. And I be Iron Jack Bonney. Arrrrrrg.
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  3737. I live about a mile from where this took place. Was it a justifiable? I do not know because I do not know the complete story (OK, double negative, so sue me). There is supposedly other video that shows the victim in the shooting wrestling with the officers just prior to the shooting. The video of the shooting has content that has obviously been edited out. Did the officer fire his weapon too many times? Probably. But aderinaline and an semi-auto make that easy. No matter what someone's opinion is on this I fully support your right to hold that opinion and voice it. Voicing that opinion does not give one the right to commit acts of looting and arson. Numerous businesses have been looted and burned. Some of those structures had apartments on second or third floors. People have lost the homes. There were reports last night of a caravan of approximately 200 vehicles which drove north on I-94 and entered the city from the north. Thieves looted one large combination box store and attempted to loot another one plus a sporting goods store. I think what the object there was we can figure out. One of the structures that people attempted to set fire was the main public library. I fully expect another night of looting
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  3738. Did any Roman ships reach the Americas? Or any of the other classical cultures? I suspect that occasionally one storm tossed vessel did. Perhaps one or two a century. But as others have stated the crews and passengers were likely dead. But some of the odd finds over the years could have come from other sources. IMO the first Europeans that reached the Americas and made it stick after the Norse were either Basque or British cod fishermen from Bristol
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  3739. Minneapolis probably needs 100M for damage and 400M to add to the funding taken from the Police to pay for "crisis response councilors", "societal relationship councilors", "property disbursement managers" and the like. Never mind all of these positions will require a Masters Degree at a minimum.
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  3740. ​I'm American (1) and l know of no one who is against immigrants coming to the US through the legally established process. What is going on now is a farce simply because we as a nation have no idea who is coming in. 1) l know it pisses people in Latin America off but you come up with a convenient name. Besides America is in the name of the country.
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  3741. The ACLU has long been anti 2nd amendment
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  3742. It is not societies responsibility to adapt to or accept your delusions.
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  3743. The current Torino race version is powered by a DOHC 24 V version of the AMC/Jeep 4.0. About as "stock"as NASCAR is.
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  3744. I remember in the 70s one of the Military History magazines had a reasonably complete analysis of just what happened. Absent some sort of magical time viewer or a visitation from an eyewitness from the beyond we most likely will never know exactly what happened. In the end it was a golden BB. What was it Ted Briggs said. She was a beautiful ship. But she had a glass jaw. A very clear analysis sir. An incredibly lucky, or unlucky depending on which ship you were on, shell hit in exactly the right place at exactly the right time, in the right place.
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  3745. Paris 1740 So Francois what iz it you du? I build miniatures for ze cinema. What is ze cinema?
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  3746. Having lost a wife to lung cancer l hate cigarettes with a passion. But l also refuse to preach to people to quit smoking. That is one practice that never seems to work.
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  3747.  @RextheRebel  That worked so well with Prohibition didn't it.
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  3748. When the USAF conducted their operations were they using general purpose bombs or the T-10 Tarzon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-A-1_Tarzon
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  3749. Having lost my first wife to cancer my condolences.
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  3750. These vital minerals will not be mined, refined and used due to one thing. Regulation.
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  3751. Cost, complexity.
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  3752. They just wanted the graph of electricity prices to match the climate change graph
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  3753. While the Milankovich Cycles are important the critical thing to get Ice Ages going is Plate Tectonics. The Glacial Age in the Southern Hemisphere know cked off with South America and Antarctica seperating and the Circumpolar Current getting established 30 plus million years ago. The Northern Hemisphere's Glacial Age was enabled by the formation of the Ismuths of Panama. This blocked the exchange of warm water between the Pacific and Atlantic.
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  3754. I may not of agreed with everything she said when she ran in 2020 but of all the Dems she would have been my choice. The Dems dumped on her over one thing. Because she would not sign off on the impeachment bill. And remember what else was going on at the time. But for Nancy and Chuck the dog and pony show was more important. From the night of the election in 2016 the sole mission of the Democratic Party was to get Trump.
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  3755. If it was a nuc then South Africa followed by Israel are the likely suspects. Myself I think the incident was an impact of a bolide
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  3756. While the Milankovich Cycles certainly have a major effect on whether or not the Earth slips into a Glacial Period there is another factor that needs to be addressed. The arrangement of the Earth's tectonic plates and the continental landmasses have a major effect. The way they effect this is how they shape the global ocean currents. It is thought that the rise of the southern part of Central America shutting off of the circulation between the Pacific and Atlantic Basins is what tripped the Northern Hemisphere into the current Glacial Age 2.5 million years ago. The Southern Hemisphere has been in a Glacial Age for around 30 million years when South America seperated from Antarctica and the circum polar current became established. This shut off the transfer of warmer water to the higher latitudes surrounding Antarctica. There also has to be cyclical pattern in the shift between known warm and cold periods. These are periods that are far too short to be the result of orbital or axial changes. These almost have to be related to changes in Solar output.
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  3757. As long as Portland, Eugene and a couple other areas vote for them the rest of Oregon can go whistle.
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  3758. @Life Taught It's just not people from California. The states surrounding Illinios especially Indianna and Wisconsin are suffering the same thing. FIBs (fucking Illinois bastards) are moving out of Chiraq and trying to bring Chiraq with them
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  3759. Look up the ge crash of a Soviet passenger aircraft caused by being over weight.
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  3760. ​ @AzzKicker-bz1cb  Plus the cotton, hemp, linen or any other natural fibers used have to be totally processed by hand.
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  3761. Never do a Wiley Coyote imitation when playing with fireworks. It would be even better if they were Acme Brand
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  3762. If each one came with an Emma Peel in her leathers from the Avengers they'd be perfect.
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  3763. The reason the lights are on. The reason that the water comes out of the faucet. The reason the sewers work and the sewage gets treated. The reason is not the politicians. It is not the liberal arts majors. It is not the professors at Harvard. It is not the liberal media. It is because the blue collar men and women who go into work at jobs they probably don't really like. But go in none the less. And do their jobs. Day in and day out. Who is more important to a functioning society? The guy that picks up your garbage? Or an Art History major with a PhD. The guy at the water department that is out at midnight in subzero temperatures repairing a watermain break or the talking heads on TV?
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  3764. The Archimedes Screw was the first thing that came to mind
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  3765. If we were playing the game of "how would you design a lunar lander" there's a couple of things I would do. 1) I like the idea of a "horizontal" lander but i have other reasons for this. 2) The lander would not have pads on the legs. The lander would have wheels with electric motors in them. The crew explores and takes samples from a certain area. The crew then drives the lander to a new spot. More mass for sure but i still like this idea. 3) The horizontal layout is more functional in terms of the crew spaces in my opinion. Look it as landing an RV. 4) Unmanned cargo vehicles could be prepositioned at an area meant for a permanent research facility. These would carry needed equipment. The purpose of such a facility would be research in a number of fields. Lunar construction using lunar resources. Lunar manufacturing. Lunar resource extraction for minerals, oxygen etc.
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  3766. Camp Randall. The name predates the stadium. Named for a Civil War military training camp.
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  3767. There is another aspect of cylinder wall thickness that a lot of people miss. Well maybe two. The first is bore spacing. I'm not going to get into the whole Japanese, Euro, US thing. Another is whether or not you are dealing with siamesed cylinder walls. Adequate bore spacing allows one to maintain coolant passages between the cylinders. Going with siamesed bores allows a shorter block and crank. At the potential cost of excessie heat building up in the area between the cylinders. If one looks up the bore center distance of most 500cc per cylinder engines most fall into a range from 90 to 100mm. With the average being round 95mm. But there are exceptions to the bore center distance. The heads from a Porsche V-8 will fit on a big block Chevy. It's been done.
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  3768. I think there was time that the Poles did execute a cavalry charge in 1939. A Polish unit caught a German supply unit unawares and cut them up badly. The Polish 7.92 antitank rifles were actually very effective against Panzer ls and lls. Firing a slandard Lead core Copper Jacketed bullet at over 4000 feet per second. It was capable of causing the armor of early tanks to spawl off sending the material bouncing around the interior. Forgotten Weapons just did a video on them. The picture of the Polish Lancer shows him carrying one.
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  3769. I really wish they would have made a follow-up
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  3770. ​ @seaskimmer9071  Not quite my grandfather's axe. If I remember correctly a Spitfire was restored around an elevator or a rudder. Glacier Girl as pretty much a new aircraft when done.
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  3771. At least this time the reporter knew he wasn't to get his ass handed to him by the interviewee
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  3772. Islands are racist
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  3773. Try doing one of the old City Builder Series such as Rome or Pharaoh
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  3774. Just at the countries that have sat on the UN Human Rights Commission
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  3775. Fair fights are for suckers. The immediate objective is survival The tactical objective is to destroy the enemy or make them combat ineffective The strategic objective is victory.
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  3776.  @snakes3425  I got the joke.
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  3777. Well, better Peanut Butter than Marmite or Vegemite. And it has to be chunky.
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  3778. Dust off the plans for Pluto Express! IMO if we are going to build probes design a basic probe chassis that is series built. Instead of one or two build 10. Have a set of experiment packages. The main reason is for reasonably fast response time.
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  3779. I've got a 2011 Town & Country. The side hazard sensors went bad. Also on the same circuit as the backup camera. Also on the same fuse. 😖
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  3780. The people who are even dumber are the people who voted for her.
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  3781. You don't have to really on purchases collet holders. 5C or ER. They aren't hard to make. Heck, I've even got 5C collet blocks with 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 sides in addition I'l on to my 4 and 6 sided ones. Heres how to make your own. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/forum/general/9251-collets-blocks-redux-long-post&ved=2ahUKEwjan_qpxsbuAhXIVN8KHRfJDGAQFjAAegQIDhAB&usg=AOvVaw0pT_0aRdfRgxoWzonFKpNl
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  3782. Celebrate Equal Pay Day by eating a Payday bar. 👍
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  3783. I definitely agree about the grammar and the whole Male, female and neuter. I never could get my head around it. I should have taken Spanish or Latin.
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  3784. The nudity in saunas is common in parts of the Upper Midwest a d Great Lakes. Regions that have a heavy Norwegian, Swedish and Finnlander population. But it's mostly family saunas at home.
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  3785. "Lost in the woodwork" great line 👍
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  3786.  DaveCaresForYou  Sure as long as the two elements on each end are perfectly centered.
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  3787.  @StuSaville  Yah, Guy Gibson's dog will need to be renamed
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  3788. Well I guess we better change the signs on the Urgent Care health clinics to the "You'll Recieve Care Whenever"
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  3789. Electric cars. Electric stoves (1). Electric everything. Water heaters are next to be followed by heating systems. Expand the electric grid and generation capacity? No can do. 1) They probably want you not cook all and just microwave prepared foods. Or shop organic at Whole Foods. AKA Whole Paycheck.
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  3790. The short answer. Money. The reasons. Greed on the part of the medical industry. Distrust about letting the government run it and being able to keep costs under control (1). Citizens not wanting to pay for other peoples healthcare. 1) You can often hear comparisions to the public education system.
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  3791. Quality German engineering. Until it breaks.
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  3792. I sometimes find it ironic that one of the best voices for British values is an immigrant from the Russian "Republic". The speaker coukd have immigrated to anywhere in the world. He choose a nation whose core values were values he embraced. Now large numbers of Britons as l see it from outside of Britian (1) have abandoned those values not because they reject them through independent thought. But because they have been told to by their government. Their "educators". And their media. And l have a question. Let's say Hamas gets their hearts desire. Israel ceases to exist. Lets ask the question. Where do the Israelis go? What if other nations refuse to accept them? And lets face it. If there was one elderly homeless Jew sleeping on a park bench in what used to be called Tel Aviv it would be one too many for Hamas. 1) l am in the Great Lakes region of the US. As l see it we are about 10 to 15 years behind the UK and France. Biden wants to bring in as many Palestinians as he can. As a total of the electorate they will not matter so much. But their effect on the current Muslim communities will be huge.
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  3793. While I have serious doubts about the Shrouds authenticity as I understand one of the inquiries in to it found pollen grains consistent with 1st century Judea.
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  3794. ​ @AncientAmericas  Hueyatlaco sounds like a real can of worms. Given the extremely wide range in dates derived l wonder if the site is contaminated with material that washed in at some time. Some of the dated material is evidently volcanic ash deposits. The tools were "found" in the ash layer. I use the quotes because the dates just seem to extreme. I would not accuse anyone of planting the artifacts but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Another site could be Cerutti near Dan Diego. This was dated at 130Ka. If there was an earlier presence of human, archaic human, denisovans or other member of the extended family in the Americas could they possibly arrived during the last Interglacial. Which was warmer as l understand it. Still if they arrived during the last Interglacial then that implies watercraft. Just how far back do "boats" go?
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  3795. Time stamp 4:42. I see you lifted the map from "The Nina Nations of North America". Their is one thing that the Great Lake states have in their favor that will pay off in the end. Access to cheap water. And if the South and West think they can get their hands on it good luck.
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  3796. These ships were designed gned to get inflict unfontrolable laughing fits in the Admirals of possible enemy navies. These laughing fits would cause death by heart attacks. Maybe.
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  3797. I like to say I have a common ancestor on my mother's and fathers sides of the family. I imagine there was some young Irish lass on my mother's side. who was raped and made pregnant by some raiding Dane on my fathers side. I really don't care about any ones ancestry. I don't care if they were famous or unknown farmers (most likely). I don't care of they were slaves. Or owned slaves. I don't care if they were saints. Or sinners. What I care about is the quality of the personal character of people today. We are judged by our actions. Not those of our ancestors.
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  3798. Now l can't get the tune out of my head. 🎶 Big Iton, Big Iron 🎶
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  3799.  @akmurf7429  Fairbanks Morse along with Napier's in Britian purchased manufacturing rights from Junkers for opposed piston diesels. F-M did development work on an diamond layout 24 cylinder diesel intended for submarines and small patrol vessels. The D-24 was cancelled. As usual for anything related to unusual engines the Old Machine Press web site is the place to go.
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  3800. In terms of movies the .44 magnum and most likely the Smith & Wesson model 29 actually in all likely hood made its film debut in 1967's Point Blank. Carried by Lee Marvin. Of course the best guns in the movies are Angie Dickinson's :)
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  3801. A lot of this I blame on the airlines. Once th hey started buying Airbus's (1) and saw the narrower seats they decided we'll make more money by making all the seats narrower. And to think, you got to go through TSA first. 1) I remember when flying was fairly glamorous. Now its like taking the frigging Greyhound.
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  3802. State maybe. I hope.
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  3803. Subject her to squatters.
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  3804. The city council will probably try to decriminalize all sorts of things. "See, the crime rate dropped!" If there are no crimes to commit then there are no crimes to investigate.
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  3805. Arizona goat ropers. I love it
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  3806. Who remembers the Nova episode where they got a Door County. WI blacksmith to make one.
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  3807. The fruit cake at the start. A qualified VP candidate if one goes by the John Nance Garner quote.
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  3808. In the end we need either practical fusion (yah I know line) that is affordable. We are seeing some breakthroughs. Preferably the Proton-Boron 11 reaction. Or we need Space Based Solar that is built utilizing off Earth resources. But putting money into scientific and engineering research isn't touchy feely.
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  3809. To stal a line from fusion research. NASA's return to the Moon will be in ten years and ALWAYS WILL
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  3810. I know the several manufacturers have played around with twin cam pushrod layouts. Only they stacked the cams on above the other. I've wondered why they hadn't tried a twin cam layout with one cam for each bank high on the side of the cylinder bank. In the past l owned a couple of Renaults that were OHV with the cam mounted so high the cam sprocket was partially above the deck of the block. Hemispherical combustion chambers with very short pushrods. The tappets were actually in bores inside the head. One 4 valve engine I can think of with fork rockers is the 3.5 V-6 with SOHC and 4 valve heads. Each intake had its own rocker arm while both exhaust valves were operated by a single cam lobe and forked rocker arm.
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  3811. So what is thicker?
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  3812.  @kellmac  at least it's dark chocolate. Supposedly
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  3813.  OreosmitMilch  Does the Guinness thin the Humus or the Humus the Guinness
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  3814. Another YouTuber interviewed some of the Kia Boyz in Milwaukee. Ha asked them what if you hit somebody when driving recklessly. Their response. "Well, it's their fault. They should have gotten out of the way."
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  3815. Who remembers when the prankster got shot by the food delivery guy.
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  3816. If they made one trip it was likely worth it.
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  3817. For the colleges thtstruggleto fill the stadiums. Drop the ticket prices 25% and quit gouging alumni for season tickets. Iused to get Badger tickets from two guys l worked with and they both gave up season tickets because they were just getting stupid high. Tcket price plus alum donation. But they keep selling out Camp Randall. PS. I hate the "sponsor" names on stadiums. One example. Miller Park switching to American Family. Everybody just calls it Miller Park anyway.
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  3818. Except for the fold down seats 🤪
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  3819. ​ @JackHaveman52  Sometimes l think turning the other cheek means when you draw back to deliver a Right Cross. I am not advocating violence. But not do l think you should be a punching bag.
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  3820. ​ @lucid227  Mixed race or multiracial society. And we already are. And l don't care as long as people act responsibly.
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  3821. They'll leave the countryjust as quickly as Barbara Striesand did in 2000, 2004, 2016. Blah, blah, blah. Yada, yada, yada.
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  3822. A lot also has to do with the machining processes being used by the manufacture. If an engine block is going to be broached as its initial operation its has to be cast iron* and is most likely better to be a closed deck design. Aluminum blocks are better suited to milling operations. * At least I've never heard of an aluminum block being broached. This puts an incredible amount of load on the block due to the clamping forces required and the tool pressure. The machining is being done with what basically amount to a huge file that is cutting the full width of the head face with the finish cutting tools. On the bottom end the top half of the bearing diameter is getting cut across it's full radius.
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  3823. I'm going to throw out why aren't we using more geothermal. Pretty much inexhaustable on a geologic timeline. Also in terms of Solar what about Ocean Thermal facilities that use the temperature differential between surface and deeper water to generate power. If we don't use them for onshore power what about using it for desalination plants?
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  3824. So a weapon built for the US Navy in the 60s has "intellectual property rights". The IPR should of been held by the Dept of the Navy if anyone. When I was working if I developed something at work for my employer they owned the rights.
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  3825. ​ @Aunt_Bee4738  Lots of wineries in parts of Michigan. Wisconsin too. Generally along the Lake Michigan shoreline and inland maybe 15 miles. Door County is lousy with them. The Lakes act to moderate the climate.
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  3826. Weebles Wabl.....Somebody had to say it.
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  3827.  @Lampwick-dz1zq  A sense of humor. Something the Woke lack.
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  3828. Technology was changing so fast at the time. Plus airframes, especially military ones only have so much development potential before you are better off with a new design.
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  3829. ​ @AdamCrowe-b6m  Most districts would just vote in the same type of personality. Or worse. And it goes both ways.
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  3830. When leaded gas was phased out the automakers had to add extra sections to their head machining lines in order to induction harden the valve seats.
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  3831. But did they catch Beowulf Schaeffer's Skydiver in orbit?
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  3832. Nah, he's most of the way there with the busted Cherokee name plate. CHEERIOS preceded by Don't piss on my.
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  3833. How long before Sheik Charles is declared.
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  3834. Leftists have to weaponize everything. Because the struggle is eternal
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  3835. The Type 93 . The original MkII Space Modulator
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  3836. The word BUFFET is an acronym that stands for Big Ugly Fat Folks Eating Together.
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  3837. Plus add all the beans, bullets, fuel, artillery shells, guns, butter, uniforms etc for Army and Marine units. Plus the USAAF requirements which includes fighter and medium bomber aircraft, aviation fuel, servicing vehicles, spare parts etc. Plus the equipment supplied to allied nations. Plus food shipped to help feed refugees. Plus any number of things I can't think of right now the amount of shipping supplied by the US and Britian including merchant vessels built during the war to replace losses the total effort is staggering. Just returning troops home post war was a major undertaking. And then consider this was being shipped to the Med, across the Atlantic, the South, Central and Southwest Pacific, India, China and God knows where else.
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  3838.  @trentbyington5957  Leaves port. Circumnavigates
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  3839. In Cornwall's trilogy the narrator is a Saxon orphan who is raised in Merlin's household. He becomes a warrior in Celtic Britian. Arthur is not a king but a war leader. The book series is excellent as much of Cornwall's historical fiction is. While the series is a work of fiction it takes place during the period when Celtic Britian was undergoing colonization by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from what is today northern Germany and Denmark.
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  3840. These wre crimes for which there should be no bail period.
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  3841.  @alasarcher400  In all fairness, yes that would have to apply given the charges filed. I will leave whether said charges or all of them should have been filed for another discussion. The primary charge of the three mentioned in the title of this video that l feel should be ineligible for bail is kidnapping. Another discussion is the inequality and economic hardship bail can effect on various economic portions of society. I also know someone who was held without bail on murder charges in Kenosha County. And that was a rush to judgement on the District Attorney's office.
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  3842. Is this all about the "adults" and not the kids? Damn straight it is. Ten years ago this would have been child abuse. What's next? Public acceptance of pedophilia? And I use the term adults with a certain irony here.
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  3843. I've always wondered why if paper served so well for shotguns none of the early cartridge firearms did not use it until drawn brass was worked out.
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  3844. ​ @felixthecat265  I certainly remember the days of paper shotgun shells. The brass base acts as the gas seal at the breach. The actual wall of the chamber is what withstands the pressure of the expanding gases from the powder burning. Composite brass and paper shells would only have been a stopgap in any case. The rapid advance in the technology of drawing brass not just for firearms cartridges but avariety of other consumer uses at the time negated the necessity. Look at the recent rifle designs submitted for the US Army and Marines to replace the M-16 and M-4. Two used traditional drawn brass cartridges. One used a composite steel and plastic case. The plastic certainly would not with stand the pressues developed allby itself. Now a composite case that featured a small metallic base with a combustible case would be interesting. Less chance of stuck cases on extraction. One potential problem to solve would be possible chamber fouling by residue from the combustible case. I'm certainly no chemist although l can still do basic equations for simple chemical reactions.
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  3845. There is the Cerutti site near San Diego. 130K years old. Plus there have been other sites with usually old dates. One that comes to mind is one site in Mexico with an extremely wide range of dates. 300Ka+ to 20Ka.
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  3846. Nancy, the Hubble Space Telescope called. He, she, they want their telescope lenses back. Based on her headdress I think I can make certain assumptions about her affliations.
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  3847. Well given that the engineers at Oldsmobile* iirc totally messed up the Hisso 20mm when redesigning to fit US manufacturing methods reliance on the .50 caliber makes sense. I never understood why they simply did not scale the .50 BMG up to take the same 20mm shell as the Orliken. If you have armorers trained on the .50 caliber then a twenty mm version of the same gun would make sense. Of which the US produced in the thousands with no issues (the Orlikens that is). But the Orliken is to heavy for fighter use. *Similarly to how the MG-42 was botched when trying to convert to 30:06. When you finally get to the US you must visit three aviation museums. The USAF's at Wright-Patterson AFB. The USN's at Pensecola. And the Simthsonian's Air and Space Museum. Just dont plan on doing it on consequetive days even if you fly. A round trip by car is about 2250 miles. Give or take. Best to finally get your license. 😊 Thumbs up on the video 👍 excellent and about as unbiased as always. One additional note. Mounting a centerline 20mm firing through the propeller hub would have been difficult on Allison powered fighters due to the overall design of the engine. The intake manifold has a central chamber low in the V between the cylinder banks that feeds upwards into each cylinder bank's intake.
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  3848. I wonder if the "people of African Descent" includes non Bantu peoples from Africa. The pronouns bullshit. He, him, her, they, etc are THIRD PERSON PRONOUNS. Used when talking or writing about someone. If speaking in the first person it either their or name. Or a first person pronoun such as you or yours.
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  3849. ​ @AncientAmericas  The hard rock copper and iron mines of the UP and Northen Wisconsin are all pretty much closed now. These mines were started in the last half of the 19th century. They were almost all closed by the end of the 1950s not because there was no ore left. They were closed because they were economically uncompetitive with iron and copper from surface mines. Plus they had to be pumped continuously due to water intruding from aquifers largely fed from Lake Superior.
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  3850.  @dans2971  It isn't any athlete in any sport I have any issue with. It's the crybabies either in any sport that get upset publicly when they don't win. Along with the whiners that cry when they do not see people that happen to belong to a a genetic group similiar to them.
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  3851. Went to see Where the Crawdads Sing last Friday. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes. 34%👍Audience. 98.5% 👍 The audience was right.
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  3852. First do no harm
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  3853.  @thejeepdoctor  Here to there. Definitely a non metric unit of measure.
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  3854. No tomatoes, no pizza. 🤔 At least no late deliveries, cold pizza and snotty drivers.
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  3855. If the Ice Cap over Greenland melts completely by that time humanity will have moved away from fossil fuels to provide energy. Between renewables and fusion finally coming on line there simply will be no need. There will likely still be some petrochemical industry around. The stuff is simply too useful for other stuff. What I wonder about is just what caused Greenland to freeze over in the first place.
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  3856. The main issues I have with the Starship being chosen are the current landing leg system along with just how well it would tolerate re-entry temperatures. The landing legs can of course be changed. Any landing area will have to be carefully chosen for slope, and obstacles (aka rocks). Of course any future permanent base could or should have a designated landing area that is sufficiently smoothed.
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  3857. I have a 2011 Town and Country. Overall its been pretty good. One mechanical problem with a bad alternator. Otherwise its been brakes and tires. Oh, and the blind soot detectors. I had thought they had failed. The fuse would blow immediately. Back-uo camera on the same circuit. I finally found the problem. The wiring harness was broken next to the sensor. It would short out. The cause. Made the mistake of parking overnight on the street and the van got scratched by something. Keyed? Scraped by a bike? Whatever. Get the paint work done. If you take a vehicle into the body shop makesure they understand if there are any sensors or other items on the otherside of body panels. Finally crawled underneath and found the broken wire. Just touched it and it fell apart. Changed the blown fuse and at least the back up camera works now. And those blind spot detectors. 600 bucks a pop.
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  3858. I think I'd stay away from ceramic on anything where ceramic chipping or flaking off can get into moving parts. Porsche did ceramic coat the exhaust ports on the heads of the 944 Turbo. They do make ceramic coating you apply like paint. Not sure of the temperature rating though.
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  3859. Dieppe was not meant as an invasion. It was meant as a raid to attempt to take certain targets and destroy them and the extract the forces involved.
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  3860. In a lot of residential areas l think l would prefer the front of the housing (1) face a more pedestrian oriented lane with any vehicle access being an alley in back. The adresses are oriented to the pedestian lane. Cross streets would have no housing facing them. Setup every 6th or 8th cross street for small business. Have a major street every 16 blocks running parallel to the residential "streets" with a minor one every 8 blocks (2). Transit running every four cross streets with express lines running on the major streets stopping only at cross streets with transit service. Plus all single family or duplexes required to have an actual front porch. I really think front porches help build a more sociable neighborhood. 1) Single family up to possibly 6 unit. 2) Based on the block size where l live thats about 1 mile apart. Alley to alley being one block.
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  3861. Several factors here 1) No Iowa Class would of been cruising solo. But the neither would the Yamato. Two Iowas would rapidly maul the Yamato due to superior fire control, speed which they would use to control the engagement and rate of fire 2) Escorting vessels. IJN destroyers and cruisers equipped with Long Lance torpedoes might be a significant factor. These may be offset by USN escorts depending on type. If the Iowas are escorted by US cruisers with high rates of fire then the IJN escorts are toast 3) The USN is reading the IJN's mail. It will know when the Yamato sails unless all orders are delivered by currier. Damage control in terms of fire etc is in the USN's favor. 4) Luck. The Bismark hitting the Hood in just the right spot was a true golden BB. One estimate I've seen was if the range had dropped a little more things may have turned out a little different. 5) And this is most important. In reality both the Yamato and the Iowa's were to valuable an asset to be risked cruising alone.
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  3862. Vertigo has nothing to do with heights.
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  3863.  @letsgowalk  I figured that. I was just being picky. And yes there are structures that have far steeper slopes with seating on them than they should have. Usually referred to as the "nose bleed" or "Uecker seats" (1). IMO one solution could be a series of balconies stacked on top of each other. Limited to two or three rows. 1) The game stems from a series of Miller Lite TV commercials that featured Bob Uecher. In one he says "l must be in the front row". And winds up in the last row of the upper deck in the last seat. Uke actually has two statues at Miller Park in Milwaukee. One in front of the stadium. The other in the "Uecker Seat".
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  3864. So OK you've got a highly excited rapidly expanding gas by heating it with microwaves. Now just how do you either generate enough electricity or store it to build a viable system. Yah I thought so. Call me when you've got a compact working auneutronic fusion reactor producing direct electricity at a high enough output.
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  3865.  @raybrensike42  I've seen actual and pictures of some really nicely done pick-ups/utes. One was late 60s Rambler American station wagon with the roof from a two door hardtop. There was or is a BMW dealer in Cali that did one out of a 320 that they use for a parts chaser. http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/cool-trucks.292207/page-657
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  3866.  @raybrensike42  A mid century Merc would look good too
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  3867. And announcing that they captured U-505 he almost spilled the beans that the Allies had copies of U-boat codes and Enigma. Typical Chicagoan. Just can't keep their mouth shut. The nickname, the Windy City, stems not from the weather or winds blowing off of the lake. It comes from Eastern newspapers writing about the inseccant bragging on the part of people in Chicago.
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  3868. Actually I think I'd pick the Beaufighter. During the Channel Dash the Swordfish really showed its age and vulnerability. The Swordfish did perform extremely valuable service in the Convoy Escort role flying off of the small carriers. Plus the two brilliant moments being the attack on the Italian Anchorage at Taranto. And crippling Bismarcks steering gear.
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  3869. Let me guess. The vast majority took a flight to get there
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  3870. One suggestion for the Pentagon. It should be illegal for any ex government employee above a certain GS rating or ex military officer above the grade of Colonel to be employed by goverment contractor for a period of ten years on leaving government service. And l mean any government contractor. Even if all they do is make socks or underwear. I would allow some exceptions to this. Test pilots at aviation companies could be one example.
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  3871. Hey, a flag biking is the perfect display of the flag
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  3872. And the only residents left will be the ones too lazy to move.
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  3873.  @hckykrt91  Buffet, noun, definition 1) Serve yourself dinner featuring a large selection of foods 2) Type of chest of drawers 3) Big Ugly Fat Folks Eating Together
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  3874. Given the position his ship wound up in maybe he wanted to play Naval Lawn Darts.
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  3875. In the novel Guns of the South about time travelers interfering in the American Civil War Robert E Lee and others upon seizing the headquarters of the bad guys discover an Apple computer. One of them suggests that it called a Qwerty after looking at the keyboard.
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  3876. I want to know when Portland got teleported to Oz
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  3877. I find the majority of modern vehicles hideously ugly. I prefer clean simple lines. Not as simple as the 4 door compact of the 60s. But more elegant than that. Saddly l doubt we will never see 2 door hardtops make their appearance again in sedans (1). Rollover standards have seen to that. One company that seems to have avoided this trend is VW. Saw a Passat wagon the other day. Striking for the amount of greenhouse. 1) IMO one of the most elegantly designed cars of the 60s in terms of cleanliness of line along with elegant simplicity was the 2nd generation Corvair 2 door hardtop. Some of Chryslers cab forward designs were also elegant of line.
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  3878. I wonder if the Deltic was the inspiration for Bill Lear's abortive Indianapolis 500 steam car. https://www.steamcarnetwork.com/blog/4153969
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  3879. I do not agree with everything Shapiro says. I don't expect to. Shapiro in my opinion is mostly a common sense liberal. Who got shoved out of the liberal left not by his views changing so much but by the constant shift of the Left in this country. We didn't leave the Democrats. They left us.
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  3880. As to mass deportations. First you have the problem of finding them. One place you won't find them is in the homes of people supporting mass illegal immigration. Lord knows they aren't sleeping on their sofas. A second thing is seperating the wheat from the chaff. The biggest scam over the last four years was the claim "that you're seeking asylum". There are genuine asylum seekers out there. Those wre the ones fleeing repressive governments. But if we're going to want to stop illegal immigration one way to do it is to help improve the economic situations in some of the countries these people are fleeing. The President of El asalvador in an interview when questioned about illegal immigration said that nations in Central and South America that see large numbers of immigrants trying to enter the US bear part of the blame. They bear part of the blame because they by and large have not put their own houses in order. Granted in the past the US did not help with interventionist policies designed to help certain companies. United Fruit being one of them. The point is if people have a chance of improving their lives. They are more likely to stay at home. I do not expect that the US can fix all of the problems these nations face. I'm not sure we can fix some of our problems. The war on drugs proves that. The US appetite for narcotics has caused a great deal of the issues nations in Central and South America face. One thing l point out to people is a Cartel in say Mexico or a criminal gang in the US murders a rival or opponen. The drug users in the US that are customers of that gang or Cartel are accessories to the crime in my opinion. People don't like hearing that.
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  3881. With EVs they will have to. ICE vehicle drivers are already paying by mileage at the pump.
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  3882. The old life boats on the Titanic. IMO even if she had been built with the original number of boats she was designed with it would not have made a difference. Given the design flaw of not building the watertight compartments up to a common surface she was doomed. She also should have had the double bottom extended up to the water line. Damn the cost.
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  3883. ​ @donaldgeorge3717  That's disrespectful to the delusional
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  3884. ​ @brianestrada1993  They already have.
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  3885. ​ @ReverendDr.Thomas  Something that illegal immigrants do not want to do is adapt their attitudes to the country they immigrate to. They expect that country to adapt to them.
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  3886. All I can say is after listening to this I need a drink. Make it a double.
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  3887. You can take a certain amount of pride in things your ancestors accomplished. Just as you can admit to the wrongs they may have done (1). But remember. They are not your personal accomplishments. Nor are the wrongs they may have done your personal responsibilty. 1) Never fall into the trap of judging the past entirely by your own person morals or the standards of your time. Or of your society. There are things that were done in the past by societies and individuals that may well have been seen as morally right by their standards.
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  3888. If Soyattle* erects a CHAZ memorial it should be one made by Kohler or American Standard. Preferably a high capacity flush model. *that's classic 👍
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  3889. If that 196 gets tired, hank it out and drop on a 4.0 from a jeep. If I could get any 60s car it would be a 64 Classic 2dr hardtop.
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  3890. This tells you just who certain elected officials value.
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  3891. The return of the magazine cut off.
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  3892. Look at the bright side. If we get rid of gender we can get rid of gender studies.
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  3893. While I agree that Venice makes sense as the worst placed European city in the immediate term. Long term no. That honor goes to Napoli. Building a city right next to a supervolcano site. Hard to beat that one.
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  3894. If polled I suspect they all support unlimited immigration. No matter what country (1). Which logically increases the total energy usage. Plus puts extra strain on the water and waste services. Plus increases total food denands. Including distribution systems. 1) I live in the US and l am surprised we haven't seen our own home grown nutters doing this. But then they have other causes of the month or year to get excited about.
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  3895. While l seriously doubt these people are doing anything related to actual firearms production turning metal with cutting fluid just brushed on the material will result in "smoke". Flood coolant is of course the better choice. The lathe shown might not even gave coolant. And "gun drilling" is a whole different ball game than drilling with a twist drill. No pun intended. Needs high pressure coolant to flush the chips out and the hole actually acts as the support to keep the gun drill steady.
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  3896. If he's a member of Labour he'll likely be the only working class Labour member.
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  3897. As to how long it takes yo get charges filed. It does rake time to build a case. Especially in corruption cases. Even if charged this is no slam dunk conviction. Not in today's world. But if she is convicted maybe she can spend her sentence in the Illinios Governors Suite in the pen.
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  3898. At six weeks Stacy was ordering Krispy Kremes
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  3899. Grow your own food. Yet now backyard gardens and even the gardens of yhose trying to be self sufficent are labeled as being bad for the environment.
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  3900. The creme puff shooting Tommy Guns. And the pedal cars.
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  3901. Now let's here his opinion on American lasagna. It's all what you're used to.
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  3902. An old three jaw actually does make a really nice vise when mounted to a work table. Very handy for holding larger round parts. In my opinion about the only use for a non adjustable 3 jaw is as a boat anchor. I was trained during my apprenticeship to do everything in a four jaw.
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  3903. There's always F cubed. Fast and Furious Fucking
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  3904. Its also a good idea to start with a block that has enough rigidity designed in. A block that was never designed with higher horsepower/kw output in mind is not going to take well to forced induction. One good reason for align honing the main bearing bores is to ensure that they have a common centerline. Your bearing bores may be in spec size wise but there is also a tolerance for alignment.
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  3905. When it comes to late WWll naval anti aircraft weaponry I wonder if the US Navy ever gave any consideration to employing the spin stabilized rockets employed on the last generation of LSM(R) bombardment ships. Equipped with proximity fuses.
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  3906. Seeing as he was an evil SOB. That would fit the wonk narative
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  3907. I suspect that word came down from on high that the DAs office would not prosecute. Did the cops on the scene like it. I suspect not.
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  3908. One reason government agencies have a problem building anything other than roads is they can not pull the trigger and freeze the design. A new upgrade is on the horizon and they wait. And as they wait the cost goes up. And then we have California's High Speed Rail. Multiple jurisdictions, municipalities, lobbying to be one of the stations etc. Personally l think High Speed Rail is a good investment in the long run. But expecting the Federal or State governments to manage it in a fiscally responsible manor is insane. One mistake the US made with the Interstates was the not including right-of-way corridors for HSR rail lines in the plans. The best possible advertising for HSR between major metropolitan areas is when you're sitting in traffic and the train goes by at 150mph.
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  3909. I never knew cowboy boots came with laces and waffle stomper soles. 😖
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  3910. This one excellent example of why a nation needs a written Constitution and an independent judiary to tule whether such laws violate said constitution. Sometimes free speech is in some peoples opinion hateful and hurtful. To bad, so sad. We do not get to live our life cushioned in bubble wrap only hearing those thoughts expressed we completely agree with. There are other aspects to free speech and being willing to listen to just what your opponents say. One is so that you understand what they are saying. Not what you think they are saying. The second is they may be right (1) and you are wrong. 1) Right as correct on the issue what ever it is. I hate the Left Right political view of the world. Labeling someone as Left or Right much less Far Left or Right on a particular issue causes people to assume that the persons views on all issues line up as that side of the political spectrum. A far better way of discribing a persons or groups political, social and economic leanings is a two or even three axis system. Even then seperate issues may need their own charts. One example could be foreign policy. The X or horizontal axis might be interventionist on one side and non involvement on the other. The Y axis would be the response. Say a nation or NGO interfers with your countries trade. The response could be anything from bowing to any demands to full on war with negotiations in the middle. And yes l was thinking of the Houthis in Yemen. One reason is even Gaza is resolved tomorrow the Houthis are not going away. They realize that they are sitting on a major choke point in world trade. If they make demands and cause enough inconvienence there will be nations that are willing to agree. Say they demand a "toll" of a certain percentage of the value of the ship and cargo. If such a "toll" is paid theship can pass freely. If not. Well this sure us a nice ship you have here. It would be a shame if something happened to it. The legal term is Protection Racket.
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  3911.  @beefy1212  Just how does one manage to get lost in a city with a grid system? Especially in todays day and age.
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  3912. This will only be replaced once there's a .50 equivilant phaser available
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  3913. Did this come with at least a Farrah Fawcett poster.
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  3914. When, oh when is some organization finally going to build an orbital facility that features a spin section. As a species we have a total data set of zero as to the effects of reduced gravity on human physiology. Another orbital facility that would benefit from spin gravity is an orbital fuel depot.
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  3915. When "rights" advocates are willing to trample on the rights of the many fir the "rights" of one individual. That tells you it is not about their actual rights. It is about power and ego. Their actual rights they share with everybody else. I will agree that trans individuals have the right to live free of abuse and fear. They have the right to exercise the same rights as anyone else. Well, the rest of us gave to rights too. We have the right to Express our opinion. We have the right not to associate with people if we choose not to. We have to right not to be subjected to their opinions if we choose not to.The Alphabet activists* do not have the right to force us to listen to them. They do not have the right to try and muzzle the free speech of others. And they certainly do not have the right to enlist the government/s to enforce their opinions. *And just who elected them to be advocates or the spokesmen/women for their community's in the first place.
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  3916. The lowliest Private who is a MOH winner does not have to salute any officer up to and including a 5 star general. The officer salutes HIM.
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  3917. How about a video on the incidents in northwest Yugoslavia that involved mistaken identity between US and Soviet forces
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  3918. The four barrel most likely works a lot better. But triple Webers would look way cooler
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  3919. The Chattering Classes. I much prefer The Nattering Nabobs of Negativity The decline of reality in the face of insane beliefs. Beliefs that probably strike the overwhelmingly majority of humanity as insane. A good example is some of the insane things that supposedly intelligent people have been saying about gender over the last few years. The latest is that men can become pregnant and have abortions. Sorry. An individual can take all the hormones they want. Have as many surgeries as they want. Can believe with all of their will. But if you are born with two X chromosomes. Have female genitals. Experience menstrual cycles. You are biologically female. The same applies to individuals born with XY chromosomes. Male genitals etc. You can never become a biological woman. The whole transgender issue has probably started to begin a cultural pushback that may not end well.
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  3920. I always wondered were the O2 in the atmosphere comes from on desert planets.
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  3921. I can think of a use for at least some of these facilities. Rent the spaces out as workshops for hobbiests that lack the room due to living arrangements. Potters, hobbiest machinists etc.
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  3922. One advantage of the layout was the shorter hence stiffer crankshaft. An inline 6 or V-12 are really about the practical length for a high performance engine. An inline 8 or V-16 are vulnerable to crantwist. The straight 8 used in the Mercedes race cars of the mid 50s used a straight 8 with the power taken off from a gear between the #4 and #5 cylinders. This also where the cam and accessories were driven from.
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  3923. NASA, one of the perennial political footballs of the US Federal Government
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  3924. At the RPM range most engines opperate at it really doesn't matter that much
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  3925. Just what does this fool expect when she (she hope's anyways) graduates. And she moves out into the world. And gets a job. But I am assuming here* that her degree will be in a basically useless degree in some sort of Social Justice field that any same society would say, oh that's fine, but can you actually DO? She will find herself in situations be it at her job (if she gets one), or in public where she will realize that "I don't feel comfortable because there's too many white faces around. What will she do then. Cry about how she needs a safe space to crawl into. Demand all black theaters? Demand black, oh excuse me POC, only shopping areas? What's next? Bathrooms? Neighborhoods? Drinking fountains for God's sake? In your personal life you can associate with whomever you choose. If you choose to go to a majority black church. Or nightclub, or live in a majority black neighborhood (majority by choice not color bars) that is your business. Just don't expect the majority of people to coddle you. Respect is earned. It is not right. Act or be a fool, you will get exactly the amount of respect you deserve. Little if any. *Yes I know the old old saying that assume makes an ass out u and me. But something's can be assumed on first sight. If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and flies like a duck. Mostly likely it is a duck.
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  3926. One thing all Elbonian firearms have in common is they self field strip after 10 rounds
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  3927.  @Plainview200  Also the Kalamazoo Air Zoo and others. Too bad you could not just wander around the Davis Mathin (?) boneyard.
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  3928. If someone objects to hot cross buns. They do not have to buy them. Problem solved.
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  3929.  @burned357waffles  Ask yourself. Does that say more about him or about potential critics.
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  3930. Just the thought makes my teeth hurt
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  3931.  @ebuzek3648  Not the problem. I simply find pecan pie too sweet.
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  3932. Coil feeder, progressive die, heat treat furnace to bring link up to Austenizing temperature (1) and quench. Then into the draw furnace to bring the hardness down to I'm guessing around 50RC or so. I wonder what the alloy is and the quench solution. 1) The temperature at which steel changes from a face centered cubic structure where the alloying element (carbon, chrome, molybdenum (2), vanadium whatever is centered in the faces of of a cube of iron atoms to a body centered structure where the alloying elements are in the center of the cubic structure. If the steel is quenched fast enough the alloying elements will stay inside the cubic structure. Drawing or tempering allows a certain percentage of the alloying elements to migrate back into a face centered grain structure. This gives the steel enough of its ductility back while still maintaining enough of the body centered material to provide toughness and resistance to impact and wear. Heat treating steels and any other metal is at once both a science and a black art depending on the scale it's being done at. A similiar manufacturing process is used to produce stamped rocker arms for engines. Although in that case the heat treatment is likely done in a seperate area. Plus the stamping presses are much larger.
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  3933. The single biggest mistake this country made as far as nuclear power plants was not using standardized plant designs.
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  3934. I don't think anyone really knows Bong's total number of Japenese planes. When he was "freelancing" he often came back with his ammunition expended. No proof, no claims.
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  3935. When I worked production the frame rail that has the arch over the rear end was referred to as a "sill"
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  3936. All l can say is discribing yourself as a Jag in the States doesn't end well. The E Type. Quite simply one of the most beautiful cars ever built.
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  3937.  @grayhantzell1957  Yah, he might of been an Arizona Ranger but he sure weren't carrying that on his hip. Of course with this he wouldn't even have had to ride to Agua Fria
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  3938. In 2007 l was on unemployment for a while. I drew the short straw and had to go to "training". The women running the the "training" told us with a straight face ace that in a city of under 100k there were 8k homeless. Their difinition was if 4 guys share a house and the lease is in one yuys name. 3 of them were homeless.
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  3939. If you want to smell the progress in California just walk past a homeless rncampnrnt or down a street in Frisco* And yes I know they hate to hear it called Frisco.
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  3940. While it had potential for being a great military transport in all likely hood it was too big too soon. Plus the big Douglas transports had the clamshell front cargo doors. Even the USAF in the 50s did not have unlimited funds. As to any civilian use. The civil aviation market simply was not large enough.
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  3941. When l was a kid we played a variation of baseball that consisted of a pitcher, one batter and one or two outfielders. Usually using tennis or rubber balls. The backstop was a school's outside wall. Lots of balls ended up on the roofs. And could you throw a wicked curve ball.
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  3942. Follow the money. Who benefited. For the most part Western steel plants cannot compete against foreign producers in the low end sheet steel or structural steel markets. On the alloy or tool steel ends of things the economics do get a little bit better. And in the alloy and tool steel business quality really counts. I know that steel plants in the US producing steel from raw materials are still able to operate (1). I'm not sure that they are US owned anymore though. The former US Steel (?) operation in Gary, Indiana is now owned by Mittal. 1) One sure way to tell is the ore boats are still carrying Taconite ore from Northern Minnesota on the Great Lakes.
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  3943. It wasn't just that the Japanese planned to fight to death of the last Japanese. There were also an additional 3.5 million Japanese still under arms in China, what is now Indonesia, Formosa, Malaya, Singapore, Indochina and Burma. Transportating all of these men home following the war had to have been a logistical nightmare. The Japanese certainly didn't have the required shipping anymore. There were still Japanese garrisons on islands in the Pacific that had been cut off for two or more years whose only means of supply had been submarines. Wake Island, which fell, in December 1941 was still under Japanese control at the end of the war.
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  3944. You expect Coumo to call out the Guard? Ain't gonna happen
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  3945. I had my Van in theshop last week. Told theshop owner I'd just as soon drive a 69 American or Dart if l could find one that was clean.
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  3946. Easiest way to increase your mileage. Keep your foot out of the gas pedal.
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  3947.  @awmperry  Damn right. The San used to be all over Southern Africa until the Bantu pushed them into the marginal areas. The Bantu were colonizers.
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  3948. WWll Bombers does deep dives actually going into source data. Bringing up graphs and reports. Chris from Military Aviation History and History not Visualized are top notch too.
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  3949.  @pauldillingham6316  She may be running for governor now. I think in 2024 or 2028 she's going to run for President.
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  3950. We don't have tornadoes due to a city ordinance that banned trailer parks.
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  3951. The idea of pressing the button on a channel involving the Cold War is chilling in and of itself
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  3952.  @morelanmn  Hence Ford's reason for developing that Autolite Inline 4 barrel carb for 1970 iirc. Basically think a 4 barrel Weber DFE with the carb throats spaced to match the intake port spacing on the Boss 302 heads. And small motors only in terms of how you perceive it. When the TA series started the the 2 Liter cars actually dominated due to none of the A Sedan (the 5 liter class) cars really being ready. Under the rules pre 1970 the only displacement modification you could do was overboring the motor to get up to the displacement limit. Ford and Chevy just happened to get lucky in that they had engines it was easy enough to just swap parts around. The 283 crank and the 327 block for example. Chrysler was SOOL in that the 270 just couldn't be stretched that far. AMC took the 290 block and cast it with thick walls on the cylinders. The block has a really wide bore center at 4.750. The race motors when built were punched out considerably. .078" would get you 302 CID while .098" gets you 305 right on the nut. The block had a factory rated overbore allowance of .125". Whether they did this intending to increase displacement for race purposes I don't know. But the previous AMC V-8s (250, 287 & 327) (1) all had .125" overbore allowance. In 1970 there was a rules change (probably due to lobbying from Chrysler) to allow destroking of motors for racing purposes from larger production displacement. This is what allowed Dodge, Pylmouth and Pontiac (2) to get into the game. The 1970 TransAm was in my opinion the best single racing season for any racing series in the US. Period. All the teams were competitive. Top talent at the wheel with good solid teams doing the prep. 1) Completely different beast than the Chevy 327. Came out 5 years earlier. Only thing in common is the bore and stroke. 2) Dodge and Plymouth destroked the 340. Pontiac destroked the 400 while AMC/Penske destroked the 360. The Pontiac had a massive bore for a five liter motor at 4.120" with a stroke of 2.840". A bore to stroke ratio of 1.45. The TA series really brought out any of the basic deficiencies of all of these engines. Especially the oiling systems. In 71 there was another rules change to allow dry sumps. Remember none of these engines with the possible exception of the Boss 302 were ever designed with racing primarily in mind.
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  3953. Teenagers can be especially cruel. There have always been the socially awkward and those that don't "fit in". All of us as adults have seen it. Teens as a group will turn on the outcast. And at that point in your life when you are trying to just get a handle on life to start with bullying about gender. Schools talk about being against bullying but what happens when the target lashes out his tormentors. It is always the target that gets punished. Never the one who pushes the target over the edge. In the case of kids and gender issues it's the people on line who are the bullies. And some health care providers and politicians who are their facilitators. Does anyone think that a "healthcare provider" that is onboard with transitioning is ever going to advise somebody that they should not fo this.
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  3954. What are the odds she gets a promotion.
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  3955.  @MrArtbv  The PBY Catalina was being operated by Coastsl Command,. The co-pilot was US Navy.
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  3956.  @tsopmocful1958  Or anthiest. What the blazes ever happened to being responsible for your own actions
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  3957. She was qualified by the minimum standards set by the Constitution. But so am l.
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  3958. BBC= Bolsheviik Broadcasting System.
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  3959. There gas to be someplace that makes Chiraq look good.
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  3960. All debts, public and private.
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  3961. Blowouts have been a fact of life in college football for decades.
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  3962. As I recall the Westland Welkin was developed specifically to counter high altitude German recon flights
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  3963. A submarine is a boat. A ship is a target
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  3964.  @FacelessMan777  It's a line I've seen often enough. I see your point though. After a certain point the U-boat force was just plain out gunned so to speak vs the convoy escorts and hunter killer groups. Plus with losses the overall quality of crews and boat commanders had to decline. Even today I think a modern sub would have a hard time of it against determined opposition. Plus if the escorts or hunter killer groups succeed at driving you off or even preventing an attack in the first place that's a mission kill. For the day anyways.
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  3965. When it comes to masts the IJN takes win, place and show Metacentric Height. Try duck hunting from a canoe
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  3966. When AMC first offered seat belts as either optional or standard equipment in the US critics replied the cars were designed to crash. There are numerous automotive museums in the US.
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  3967. @Aubame Pierre banned after 12 weeks. Mississippi was 15 weeks
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  3968. I suspect the reason the NYPD bought them is because Auto Ordinance wanted twice as much for a Thompson. The NYPD probably has their's sitting in storage some place in a police armory the storage boxes gathering dust. It would be interesting to see just what the price difference vs a Thompson was
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  3969. I think you are refering to awning windows in the US. Have them in our bedrooms. High enough for privacy but will open to about 85° from vertical. In that position virtually the whole window is open to the breeze. Crank open just like a casement window.
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  3970. I do remember that the fire made the evening nation TV news. Lots of paper to burn. Anyone know the cause?
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  3971.  @marklittle8805  Well there is the Antonov AN-2. Probably the biggest engine ever put in a biplane.
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  3972.  @michaelpiatkowskijr1045  Given just how many torpedoes hit Oklahoma I'm not sure it would have mattered. The AA fire at Pearl Harbor. A lot of that boils down to defective or improperly set fuses. All of the damage caused to civilian areas surrounding Pearl (Honolulu and Pearl City) was done by impacting 5 inch AA shells. War warnings. Several war warnings had gone out in November. The US knew war was likely coming. Did the US know just what the Japanese had planned? Highly unlikely. The IJN had to stretch their logistics to the limit to carry out the attack on Pearl Harbor. The USN assumed, wrongly, that the IJN could not carry out such a plan. The US thought that the Japanese would attack the Phillipines and the Dutch East Indies. The DEI and the oil was the goal. The Phillipines were in the way. The defense of the Pacific Fleet when in port was not the responsibility of the Navy. It was the responsibility of the Army. The timing of the attack on a Sunday morning was perfect for the Japanese. Just how many US enlisted personnel had spent Saturday night in the bars and whorehouses of Honolulu? How many officers had had a late night at the O club. Going from peacetime to a war footing in minutes versus the likely expected days or weeks that was probably expected.
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  3973. I seen info that the ideal stroke to rod length ratio is 1.75. How true that actually is I'm not sure. Stan Wiess has a web site with data on rod ratios, bore and stroke etc. A Chevy 327 is 1.7538. A Buick V-6 or 300 SB is 1.7529. A lot of Hondas are around 1.5. The only engine I can find data on that is right at 1.75 is an AMC 232. There's another factor that enters into this. And that's deck height. Plus with a really small bore and long stroke you start running into clearance issues unless the bore is noted or the deck height gets really tall. Big bores raise another issue. Unless you siamese the cylinders the crank gets really long. A good example of the effect on deck height is the Boss 302 vs the 302 in the Z-28. Both 4" bore with a 3.0 stroke. But the Chevy rod 5.700 while the Ford is 5.150. The rod to stoke ratios are 1.8968 vs 1.7166 respectively. The Ford could actually accommodate a longer rod by the use of a piston with the wrist pin higher in the piston. There are a large number of factors involved in the design of any engine. Longer rods, more reciprocating mass. Short deck height, smaller packaging. Plus on a OHV engine lower deck height, shorter pushrods*. Yes I know OHV is practically prehistoric technology. But ask yourself. Just how many drivers really make use of all the engine power they have any way *Another way to shorten push rods is to make the rocker arms so the pushrod seat is below the pivot point of the rocker. Another way is to place the camshaft much higher in the block so that the lifters are pretty much even with the deck face. Renault actually built a 1.6 liter with this set-up. Very short pushrods, cross flow head and a hemispherical combustion chamber. I've often wondered just how a V-8 with 2 camshafts mounted high in the block would be like. I don't know if it's ever been done.
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  3974.  @wclark3196  Well I can see one way to change those statistics. We can force people to move where there "betters" tell them to. Betters as in those oh so superior SJW types. Do we really want to go down that route. If people choose to move somewhere else that's one thing. The idea that government* should play a role in ensuring that every city or small town have a population demographic that perfectly matches the national make-up would not go over well. Besides have you ever even been anywhere near Sturgeon Bay? From what I've seen of the area it's nice enough. But I would not want to live there. During the summer the population of Door County is probably 3 to 4 times higher because of summer people who own a country house. And people taking a vacation. Mostly Flatlanders *and that's what it would take.
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  3975.  @careytitan9097  In reference to the last part of your reply. If it refers to my post concerning doctors and engineers. Truly you really need to learn how to recognize sarcasm. I am not opposed to immigration in of its self. What l am opposed to the free for all we are seeing in the UK, the US, Canada and other places.
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  3976. responsibility. Is a human.
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  3977. If Mazda had a linkage from the differential you had a ready made location to tie the rear end housing to the transmission. The two cast ears on the transmission. Mazda's suspension engineers knew what they were doing and why they were doing it. Live and learn. To fix it either find a used rear end housing in the bone yard. Weld the housing to repair the broken casting. Or find another way to attach the rear end in place. I for one see no reason why the rear end cannot be mounted rigidly to the underbody sills. Unless it would cause an issue due to the motor being mounted rigidly in the engine bay.
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  3978. Even if the Developed World, First World, whatever you choose to pursue a zero growth economy the World as a whole is still going to be an economic growth economy. Does any one really think that the poor in Africa, India, Central and South America and elsewhere are going to be willing to remain that way.
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  3979. I remember reading about the Ferrari mechanics having a wistful look on their faces when the Matra V-12s would go by at full tilt.
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  3980. ​ @gamera5160  Come June expect them to be painted in a 🌈
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  3981. A film company has an absolute right to race swap or gender swap roles if they want to. We the viewer have an absolute right not to purchase tickets to see or pay for a subscription service showing the film.
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  3982. Who appointed him a bishop? Himself?
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  3983. Yah, 40 plus years on Commonaro's and Musturds. Dare to be different. It's like the philosophy of 24 Hours of Lemons. Some former SCCA drivers got fed up with the prissy attitude and started a race series with fun as the first priority.
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  3984. I didn't know that RN pilots trained on the Fresh Water Carriers but it makes sense.
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  3985. I knew that German military police were used to help maintain some order under the chaotic conditions in postwar Germany. I never knew they retained their arms.
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  3986. They will spout the line a primary vote for Joe was a vote for her. I think back to 2020 when she was an automatic has been. Figure the DNC did not want her running in primaries and convinced Joe to just hang in there until right before the convention.
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  3987. @molokoplus0612  She talks about going after banks. Never says anything about young black males.
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  3988. Was it the Kaiser (1) or the Tsar that when presented with the posdibility that mobilization could be stopped either was told it would totally upset the railway timetables. Orsaid that to effect. Even if the WWI that took place IMO a European war would have broken out at some point. What the flashpoint would have been is open for debate. One possible cause would be a different flash point involving Russia and either Germany or Austria-Hungry. Perhaps an attempt by Hungry to breakaway. Also remember that the crisis in Northwest Africa in 1905 or 06 came close to lighting the fuse. Another potential spark could have been when Venezuela defaulted in the early 1900s. The technologies that changed the face of war prior to WWl were the imptovements in artillery and automatic weapons. The threat that automatic weapons posed to infantry was clear or should have been clear to everyone since Omdurman. The threat that quick firing artillery such as the French 75 should have vern as well. What no one on either side in WWI forsaw was the stalemate of trench warfare.
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  3989. Why was this predictable
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  3990. If we ever do this l suggest that amount of debt cancelled equals the absolute worth of the degree. If the degree is worthless, tough titties.
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  3991. They do not seem to understand the concept of cause and effect
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  3992. Perhaps Jess may come to realize just who the most mysognistic of her constituents are.
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  3993. I worked for a funeral home in the early 2000s. I saw a few hearses based off of Cadilac and Lincoln SUVs
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  3994. ​Another factor in all of this is social media and the rumor mill. Take the Jacob Blake incident. It immediately came out on social media that the police were there to deal with a fight at a block party. No. They were there because the ex girl friend had called 911 because she had a restraining order against Mr Blake. Plus there was an arrest warrant issued against Mr Blake on a 3rd degree sexual assault charge. City officials knew all of this within hours at most. Probably much less. I wonder who spread the block party rumor. I wonder what their motivations were. The initial video recorded from across the street was clearly edited. Context and content matter. For good or I'll. Did Mr Blake deserve to get shot? I doubt it. The number of shots fired? I have my own ideas on that. Adrenaline and the type of weapon involved in my opinion had something to do with it. A semiauto pistol takes a lot less effort to fire multiple rounds than a double action revolver.
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  3995. Nah, they should have named the Acme Telescope and used Willy Coyote peering through a telescope as the logo. 😉
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  3996.  @Justwantahover  At some time in the future I foresee telescopes built in space on the order of a kilometer or more. Light gathering and images capable of seeing weather patterns in the atmospheres of planets circling other sun's. I don't expect them to be easy to build or operate. The imaging and focusing will be challenging. I would also expect them to very slow to change from one target star to another.
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  3997.  @atlantic_love  Counterbalanced by the Giganticus Spheriods of Brassicus
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  3998. Thanks. Now I've got Ren and Stimpy running through my head. Log, log........
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  3999. Solosexualists
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  4000. I will give Musk credit for getting Tesla and SpaceX off the ground in terms of actual products to their market place.
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  4001.  @toomanyaccounts  Tesla actually builds and sells cars. SpaceX actually operates a commercial launch service. Musk seems to generate enough crazy ideas but at least one of the has worked. When SpaceX set out to develop reusable launch vehicles (boosters at least) I doubt any body really took them seriously. On the plus side also look at the development pace that SpaceX has had with Starship vs the SLS* being developed by NASA. Now I agree that Musk generates a lot of hot air and some or most of his ideas are crazy. But he is actually doing things. I'm surprised he hasn't started a fusion program. *Supposedly SLS stands for Senate Launch System.
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  4002. "It" seems pretty accurate.
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  4003. Don't worry, that burnt dry look will return soon.
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  4004. So, is Blinky gonna go to?
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  4005. SR-71
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  4006. @JoshuaTootell  What about the proposed interceptor version
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  4007. The problem here is shipping companies and their customers are always going to try to reduce operating costs. Hence some nations that have little to no maritime tradition being the registry of the vessels in question. Add in the ever increasing size of cargo ships and their specialization into certain trade patterns. Roll on Roll offs, container ships etc the loss of one or two ships to enemy action could severely hamper the ability to project power or support operations over seas. The loss of a Liberty Ship carrying a cargo of Sherman's in 1944 would in no way compare to the loss of a RoRo carrying brigades worth of Abrams, Bradley's and supporting vehicles in terms combat power.
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  4008. Raising propellers. My first thought was salvage.
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  4009. One thing that works better when boring deep holes on a Bridgeport is using a boring head that has an extension between the head itself and the R8 taper. And then use the shortest boring bar possible. Also when possible use the biggest boring bar you can
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  4010.  @stevovimy  I don't care if they're shaken. Just as long as they don't get to stir the pot.
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  4011. I really didnt expect this test to go as well as it did. To paraphrase the old Tom Lehrer song. "Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down. That's OUR department Herr von Braun."
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  4012. It does not matter what Jesus looked like. What is important is the message.
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  4013. If they had an urban planning system that worked for them why not stick with it. At least they have to be better than places like Cabrini Green. Don't misunderstand. I'm no fan of of the Soviet Union. Maybe because I know I lived a good portion of my life in the crosshairs of an ICBM (1). In many ways I blame the Cold War more on the USSR than the US (2). I understand that the Soviet Union had legitimate security concerns. Instead of turning the countries of Eastern Europe into copies of itself requiring them to be neutral would have ratcheted tensions down a lot. 1) And I expect that the feeling is reciprocated. But then the Russian, OK Soviet, citizens were not the real enemy of the US and the West. The CPSU was. 2) Some actions the US undertook did not help either. Overflights for one. The Soviets had several big advantage over the US intelligence wise. The US and by extension Western Europe offers much more freedom of movement for the individual even foreign nationals. Plus the press in the US and Western Europe because there is always some portion of it in opposition to the sitting government. Simply can not keep their mouths shut about major national security issues. And this goes for more conservative or liberal portions of the media (3). 3) At various times the media likes to complain about censorship. And rightly so. Yet at the same time the Media constantly practices censorship. Only they call it editing. If a major story happens and a media outlet only prints or broadcasts certain aspects of the story. Or intentionally leaves out certain things that are important parts of the event. Not only is that censorship it is also a disservice to public as a whole.
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  4014. No Tony does not need to do a Jeep. If his kid wants a jeep let him do the work. Tony's got enough on his plate. Get the Slamiata done first. The Miste should be posted on Engine Swap
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  4015. Stammer and his ilk probably think once they get complete control they can control the radicals. They should look at what happened to the left in Iran.
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  4016. The Bell P-59 may have been a dog. But it performed a valuable service in that it gave the USAAF valuable experience in operating turbojet aircraft on the squadron workgroup level. So when the P-80 arrived on the scene they had a cadre of people with jet experience.
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  4017. Looks wise my favorite "pony cars" are the 69 Cuda fastback, the 70 Mustang fastback and the 70 Javelin. I for one have never seen the attractiveness of the 64.5 Mustang. The bodies just look tinny. Part of this comes from the car was selling at much higher rates than Ford expected and the dies for the body panels were out incredibly fast.
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  4018. If Biden wins how long after the inauguration does either resign or get forced out due to mental infirmities
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  4019.  @satyakisil4289  Not really. You can be friends with no one and still hate others. Or be more biased towards one person or nation than another.
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  4020. Within 5 years they'll probably be talking about the rights of MAPs. That will be their death as a movement.
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  4021. I want to know just what the five gentlemen with smug faces standing there with the mayor actually do.
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  4022. Sounds similiar to the oiling issue with AMC Gen2 and 3 V-8s. The oil galley on the right side of the block feeds the lifters, cam and crank bearings. The back two crank and cam bearings can suffer from low oil pressure at sustained high RPM. There are two ways around this problem (three if you go dry sump). Drill new oil supply lines to feed from the left side oil galley. More commonly is to drill and tap for two 1/8th or 1/4 NPT holes. One at the front, the other towards the rear. Plus the porting on the lube system should be polished and gasket matched. Oldsmob455 has a video series on it https://www.google.com/search?q=amc+oil+pump+rebuild&oq=amc+oil+pump+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i457j0l3.6161j0j9&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#
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  4023. Or the Major and the Enlisted
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  4024. Compared to Buffalo and other Snow Belt (1) areas around the Great Lakes most of Oregon doesn't get enough snow to qualify. And there are places in the Snow Belts that get way more snow than Buffalo in a winter. Or see the temperatures that a lot if the Northern Tier of the US sees. 1) the North Shore of the UP, Eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan, around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario depending on where the winds are coming from. Warm winds pick up moisture from the lake surface and dump it as snow over land. I live on the west side of Lake Michigan and it is not uncommon when we have clear skys in the winter for large banks of clouds to build up to the east over the lake.
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  4025. My father refered to them as a whorehouse on wheels Was that the venerable Pinto. Or the vulnerable Pinto
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  4026. The Democrats kicked working class Americans to the curb when NAFTA passed.
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  4027.  @alganhar1  Thank the deity of your choice. Plus remember that every merchant man sunk was one that had to be replaced. Either in UK or US yards. I've heard it suggested that if every Liberty ship built that made it to the UK was scrapped after one or two trips in UK yards it would have greatly eased the UKs issues with steel production.
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  4028.  @gregorywright4918  I never heard the rational. I really did not understand the point of the idea. Even if you scrap the ship you still have to turn that steel into some other form you can use. I'm sure hull plating could be used for unarmored hulls such as destroyers. If you are going to scrap existing vessels better to scrap older less efficient hulls with machinery pretty much worn out. By the end of 42 much less 43 just how many Liberty Ships were US yards turning out a month. Plus even the US had to prioritize steel usage to some point. Every ton used on A meant a ton not being available to use on B, C, D......... One thing a lot of people do not seem to know is that a fair percentage of US wartime ship building did not take place on the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf coasts. A lot of smaller vessels such as LSTs and submarines were built in yards on the Great Lakes or on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
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  4029.  @londonalicante  When I was younger I messed around with drawing a triangular IC engine. At the time I really didn't know anything about gear trains and couldn't figure out how to get the third crankshaft to phase properly. Inspired by Bill Lear's proposed steam engine for Indy racing. I suppose Lear saw a performance advantage in the USAC rule book of the time. Just as Granitelli did with ths turbine (Granitelli was not the first to show up with a turbine). And later Penske and Ilmor did with their specialized OHV V-8. Ilmor at the time were very secretive about the engine design. One thing they did was to reduce valve train weight as much as possible. No lifters or tappets. Finger followers instead.
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  4030.  @sandervanderkammen9230  The Royal Aircraft Establishment mined the documentation on German aviation engine research extensively. As did the US and the Soviets. But the British and the Soviets were the ones to develop new aviation and ac aviation related piston power pla ts post war. The Soviets went on to develop a version of the Jumo 222. A 24 cylinder inline radial with 6 banks of 4 cylinders. The US felt with the R-4360 reaching production status and jets coming in further aviation piston development was unneeded.
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  4031.  @markbeale7390  The Sabre was certainly a great engine. But in war time the second most valuable thing a nation can least afford to waste is time (1). I wonder just how many manhours was required to build each Sabre vs RR Griffon. One thing to consider is each cylinder had three sliding fit surfaces that needed to be finish machined. Plus the US built Norton grinding machinery needed for Sabre production eat into critical machine tool production the US needed itself. Today the finishes needed would be able to be done with boring and turning operations due to advances in cutting tool technology (2). At that time it had to be done with grinding and honing operations. 1) The most valuable is the lives of it's people 2) I worked with a gentleman that owned a Grinding, Honing and Lapping shop. He told me in the 90s that hard turning operations were killing the cylindrical grinding shops.
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  4032.  @sandervanderkammen9230  Side by side rods on V-8 engines share the same crank throw. The benefit of fork and blade rods is the cylinders share a common plane for their centerlines.
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  4033. The first time I heard of this concept was in the 70s in a science fiction story by Larry Niven. Oh, and the incident mentioned was about 8 miles from me.
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  4034. Packaging killed the inline six mostly.
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  4035. BBC stands for Black Broadcasting Corp. I have no doubt that there was the occasional person of African descent living in Britian prior to the period of empire. But that they played an ever increasing role and were pivotal players in majors events. Sorry, I do not think so. Nor do I think the odd European who found himself in Africa played a major role in those societies. Britian in job way had a labour shortage post WWII. If anything it had a job shortage. If British industry was short of labor then why did the government sponsor immigration to Australia and I presume New Zealand and possibly Canada. Plus looking at the demographic picture in the period from 1945 to 1960 one could see that if anything the situation would get worse.
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  4036. As I understand it Kroil is ATF and acetone. At an old job we used it seized stainless threads. Spray, leave over night and spin apart by hand the next morning.
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  4037. Babaylon Bee did a video about university admissions. First applicant. Exceptional academic record. Numerous extracricular actual vities. Captain of his high school tennis team. Very WASP sounding name. They turn him down while winking at each other. Video ends with black kid reading his rejection letter.
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  4038.  @romgl4513  Wendell Wilke
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  4039.  @paulfeste6904  Only today a lot employers would rather hire people who wer trained somebody else
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  4040.  @greyngreyer5  Well, yes. When you aren't speaking or writing about a specific "he", but a singular male in general.
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  4041. You never buy a cup of coffee. You only rent it.
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  4042. Acid rain reduction can be attributed to reduced coal use and the burning of low sulfur coal. Ozone issue to the banning of CFCs.
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  4043. I thought Tammy Baldwin was openly Alphabet. Yup. So much for first. Governors always appoint political allies to vacant seats
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  4044. At some point in the future when regular flights to a permanent fa CV ability are taking place would it be advantageous to have the spacecraft land horizontally with some degree of horizontal motion with wheeled landing gear. Then "taxi" the spacecraft over to the airlock.
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  4045. But one that does need to be talked about. And talked about by all sides. In terms of terror bombings perhaps the two most notorious were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet both of these cities were not simply cities empty of military targets. Both of them had significant military facilities and industrial targets.
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  4046. Never open a business in an area inhabited by Hunter Gatherers.
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  4047. ​ @stevebett4947  Also that day the barometric pressure was abnormally high for the altitude.
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  4048. The most "generic" looking cars in the US were Plymouth Valliant and the Rambler American
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  4049. Look on the bright side. At least the Aztecs aren't a thing anymore.
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  4050. Im in SE Wisconsin. Dinosaur fossils in this region are basically non existent to my knowledge. Why? Ice sheets one mile thick have something to do with it strip off the top soil and glacial deposits and you hit limestone laid down in tropical oceans when this part of North America was south of the Equator. My location was on the Equator around 300MY.
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  4051. In a way this debate over what initiated the Younger Dryas 12,800 years ago reminds me of when Wegner and his publishing of first Continental Drift. He was vilified. His career ruined. One because he really couldn't come up with an explanation for the process. The other because he wasn't a geologist. Sometimes the experts in a field cannot see the trees for the forrest. Sometimes it takes somebody from the outside. Another example is J Harlin Brett's. His work on the massive floods in the Columbia River Basin at the end of the Ice Age was rejected out of had. In the end he was vindicated. In the end I think the people working on the impact will be too. It seems that some people just can't grasp the idea that the Earth's environment doesn't stop at the edge of the atmosphere. Earth orbits in a cosmic shooting gallery. Most times it's grains of dust and stuff like bird shot. But sometimes it's flying mountains. I don't think every climate downturn or major tsunami event is caused by an impact event. Or even most of them. But to think it never happens or it happens on the frequency of tens of millions of years is IMO either being blindly ignorant or will fully optimistic.
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  4052. The Hindustan Ambassador. Not to be confused with the Nash/Rambler/AMC Ambassador Let me guess. The "license raj" employed more Indians than the actual Indian automobile industry.
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  4053. I think he's trying to be sarcastic. And not doing very well with it.
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  4054. Chryslers Slant Six was nothing more than a normal inline six leaned over at a 30° angle from the vertical. This was done for no other reason than to lower hood lines on the 1961 Valiant (1). And Chrysler was not the only manufacturer to lean an inline over. In my mind a true Slant would be an engine th hat has a horizontal pan rail with the cylinder bores at an angle. Two examples would be the Pontiac Trophy Four and the International fours used in the Scout. The first being 1/2 of a 389 and the other 1/2 of the IH 304 (2). 1) The butt ugliest car ever built in the US. 2) No relation to the AMC 304.
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  4055. ​ @lkearney7299  At least "far wrong". The term "far right" is the lefts dog whistle".
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  4056. Just think if a restaurant banned a Democrat that wasrunning for national office. The MSM would go nuts.
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  4057. It's going over the side. Who cares. A weighted canvas bag would be more than adequate for the task.
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  4058. Seems the Biden Administration is supporting an insurrection. 🤔
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  4059. Remember, zer vill be anger. Fuck Claus Schwabe
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  4060. I want to put a few things into perspective. In 2018 Italy had a mortality rate of about 1100 per day. This was from all causes. On Sunday Italy suffered 700+ deaths related to Covid-19. It may actually have been higher if people died in the homes and were not known at the time (they soon will be). I wonder how many total deaths occurred in Italy that day. I'm assuming that the total number of deaths on Sunday was higher than normal but how much higher. And how many of those deaths were amongst individuals who were at risk due to other medical conditions. I would assume other causes of death are lower. Fatal accidents should be down as an example. Don't misunderstand I am not down playing the Covid-19 crisis. This is serious. In my mind the real crisis here has several factors. One is the fact that the health care systems got caught flatfooted to a degree. Part of this budgets. Another part is just what level of crisis do you prepare for. The second is the varying response of governments. From China's cover-up to disbelief on the part of some governments. Some of this comes from the attitude or belief that "things like this don't happen anymore". Well they can and do. The third factor is the attitude that I am invulnerable. That I'm not going to get sick. In the future I think there are several things I think we will see. Governments building stockpiles of protective gear above what they have now. If we see food shortages governments will also be building up food stockpiles. This is something I also think more people will do. One thing the Italians have shown that will happen in the future is the items needed for ventilators are being 3D printed. As 3D printing gets faster it will allow the production of these types of devices to have that production supplemented (until you get to the Star Trek level of technology 3D printing is not going to compete in mass production imo). Another thing that may come out of this is in the West we already see more people wearing masks out in public. This is something you previously only saw in hospitals and occasionally on planes. In Asian countries this has been common for years. Does it help? It probably doesnt hurt. Ultimately viral threats will be able to be dealt with faster as we learn to take the virus apart to find out weaknesses in its structure and how to attack it by tailoring vaccines. This unfortunately also opens the door to really nasty weaponized viruses. Another thing to think about. I seriously doubt that this is going to get to Black Death levels of mortality. Or the Justinian Plauge. Or when Measles first hit the Roman Empire in the 3rd Century. But let's say 1% of the population dies. In the US alone that's 3.5 million people. China and India it could be 10 million each. And if it gets bad certain areas will get hurt worse. One place I can think of is the Inner Cities of the US. Another is Third World countries whose health care systems are not as robust. Oh, one more thing. If you are infected with this and still go out in public infecting others. SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE MAY DIE. AND IF THEY DO YOU ARE IMO GUILTY OF RECKLESS HOMICIDE AT LEAST.
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  4061. This is just my opinions. 1) The majority of these carjacking are likely being committed by a small group of individuals. 2) If this had happened to a Republican the View, MSNBC and the NYT would be pissing their pants from laughing so hard
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  4062. Dead men (and women) tell no tales
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  4063. If it's a firewall it catches fire doesn't it.
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  4064. So if it started in Milan would we be calling it the Drop Dead Dago? Sometimes I agree with Maher. Sometimes I don't. At least he seems willing to listen to the other side.
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  4065. Just about any of the factory TransAm cars from late 60s & 70s. Deep and throaty at full throttle with a very crackly sound at idle and low RPM
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  4066. I seem to remember somebody saying "until black lives matter, no lives matter". Sounds like a threat to me
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  4067. Sounds like an Olds part
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  4068. Never bring a knife to a machete fight.
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  4069.  @void6752  Give a man a fish. He eat today. Teach him to fish and he can eat for the rest of his life.
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  4070. Milo and the clan are tracking a herd of reindeer. The clan is short on flint for spear points. The nearest quality flint source they know about is days away. It all comes done to a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Besides bone or antler points should be adequate and I'm thinking they'd have more range
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  4071. I'm surprised in a way a capital ship say did not have a sailor or sailors (or possibly someone really useless like a junior Lt) detailed to take pictures during surface actions. Look at all the film and still photographs we have of USN naval operations in the Pacific.
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  4072.  @happydaze7386  The new ethnic/racist/genderist slurs. CIS, heteronormative, straight, white, Male. The tosser gets bonus points for using double or triple combos.
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  4073. This thing so Steampunk.
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  4074. I had a 74 Hornet Hatchback with the Levi interior. Purchase price about 3K
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  4075. Peer cities? My God, just how many other Portlands are out there. P J Watson was right. Portland is a shithole.
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  4076. Add in the potential for a revolution at home. Be an interesting timeline. Resulting in a possible British Republic in 1870. Just what was Victoria's position vis a vi slavery and the CSA
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  4077. Blame it on Plate Tectonics. The Drake Passage opened and that allowed the Circumpolar Current to become established.
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  4078. I'll bet they were at the top of their game at donuts.
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  4079. Wasn't there German factory still in the process of producing G-43s when GIs came through the doors.
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  4080.  @ForgottenWeapons  If you were producing nobody was handing you a rifle or anti tank weapon (can't recall the name). Same with the aircraft industry. All those wonderwaffe aircraft were very successful. At keeping the engineers out of uniform.
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  4081. I had my Town and Country in the shop for misfires. The guy at the desk told there's a complete kit for these to do the timing chains.
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  4082. One of them is beached in the Mediterranean Alps as a hotel in the center of a hairpin turn 🙄
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  4083. When I was serving my apprenticeship in the 70s we were not allowed to use a three jaw. One reason was all the ones we had were wore out. The other is if the boss saw us using a three jaw we got our butt reamed. Plus slot of the work we were doing required turning the work around and having to indictate the work back in anyway. Plus if the jaws are sprung open it is easier for the part to shift under cutting forces. The only carbide we had was the ones with the carbide grazed on.
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  4084. My wire and l went to register at a hotel one time and walked in on a Furry convention. She thought it was cute. I had a clue and didn't.
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  4085. One thing that needs to be stated. Not all antique or just old cars are "collectable" or "classics" (1). That does not mean that you can't own and enjoy one. Just don't expect a non classic to be worth big bucks. 1) I often jokingly make the statement that the only car that can legitimently be called classic is a Rambler Classic.
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  4086. So if travels bans are OK now. Why was it racist for Trump to institute a travel ban from China?
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  4087. The non crossflow head wasn't that unusual in inline 6 sorts cars at the time. The TR-6 had one and the Pontiac OHC was also a non crossflow. The Tr-6 was a pushrod iirc while the Po tiac had a lot of potential it was never properly developed. Infact looking at the Pontiac it bears a startling resemblance to the Vega 4. Not a relationship one would admit to
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  4088. Sorry Madcow. You aren't going to loose your freedoms. You're not going to become a Handmaiden. You're not going to rounded up and put into camps. Four years from now you'll still be beating about how you have been oppressed. I just hope your ratings and MSNBC's in general tank so bad you go off of the air. If the American public do not like how things are in two years you may take back the House. In the mean time Democracy will be safe and the Republic will survive.
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  4089. He'd never get past tech inspection
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  4090. SBDs, who cut the cheese,
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  4091. Something tells me that when these people are arrested it is the same individuals over and over. A small group if people are involved. Last year in the UK it was Insulate Britian (1). This year it's just stop oil. Next year who knows. 1) They would also likely protest manufacturing insulation.
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  4092. Disinformation on social media. We saw it in the US in 2020. The people who spread videos or misinformation deliberately to the regular news media or online are just as culpable for any violence that happened as anyone else.
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  4093. Monaco actually has fair bit of high tech manufacturing. Its all underground.
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  4094. vz-52. The Czech equivilant of M1
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  4095. Golden
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  4096. Well I wasn't expecting to see the Danes.
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  4097. ​ @thetruthchannel349  Doesn't need one. He's got it memmorized
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  4098.  @thetruthchannel349  Not you. Reverend Al.
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  4099. The biggest "modern"* inline 4 I can think of in a gasoline engined passenger vehicle was Pontiacs 3.3 liter from the early 60s. But then that was basically a 389 with one bank lopped off. This really does sound like smoke and mirrors to a point. The only way I can think of to get the piston at 50% of the stroke at 90° of crank rotation is if there's some sort of eccentric sleeve that fits between the crank and the connecting rod. The trick is to maintain the relationship of the sleeve to crank angle. The reason for the eccentric is to allow the connecting rod to get longer and shorter for each engine rotation. Over the years there have been a lot of unusual engine layouts. After WWII there was a company in Milwaukee that built and sold 11 and twelve cylinder radial stationary engines. All of these engines had no master rod. The 11 cylinder was a geared rod carrier. The 12 cylinder had a completely novel arrangement that used two link rods. Once Freevalve engines begin to hit the market place expect to see aftermarket heads begin to appear that will allow the conversion of older engine designs to more modern valve train layouts. * By modern I mean any engine produced in mass volume after WWII irregardless of whether it is iron or aluminum, OHV or OHC. https://oldmachinepress.com/2014/01/12/nordberg-stationary-radial-engine/
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  4100. IIRC there was someone who had started on design work of a scale R-4360. 1/5th scale I think. There is a company called Ageless Engines who sell drawings and castings for scale aircooled radial engines. In 7, 9, 14 and 18 cylinders. Loosely based on either Curtiss or P&W designs they are all based on a common cylinder design. Ageless Engines actually recommends that if you were to want to build one of their engines you start with a 9 cylinder. The 9 and 18 actually offer some easier machining challenges over the 7 or 14 due to indexing issues. The engines are able to be built with the use of a lathe and vertical milling machine. In this case a 9 or 10 inch Southbend and and early Bridgeport. The plans include drawing for all of the fixtures needed to complete machining of the cylinders, master rod, slave rods etc. The 9 cylinder requires fixturing with 40° angles. The 7 cylinder requires angles of 51.428571°. To do this properly you really need either a rotary table with division plates. Or a surface grinder, angle plate, sine bar and Jo Blocks. When I was working I made special tooling for indexing parts without a rotary table in 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 units. The 5, 7 and 10 unit indexing blocks required specially ground angle blocks produced with a surface grinder.
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  4101.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  In a situation where the 20mm, 40mm and 5'38s are pumping out as many shells as possible it would take a truely chickenshit officer to worry about whether anybody had on their cover unless helmets were required.
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  4102. The word "computer" actually used to be a job discription.
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  4103. And just who will Starmer recruit from?
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  4104. Instead of actively trying to come up with solutions. They just throw temper tantrums. They truely seem to believe that if the UK just lives in peace and harmony powering everything with pixie dust it will save the planet. It won't. The vast majority of the world wants a better life tor theirthemselves and their children. No matter the cost.
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  4105. There is only one poll that matters. The one on election day.
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  4106. ​ @RighteousRage  Standard practice.
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  4107. Well said. We may never escape the specter of racism (1) on the individual level. But on a sociatal level we largely have (2). Yes some people do have privilege to a greater or lesser degree. But in todays societies in the West l would argue that is more a factor of wealth and or familial backround. Wealth can open doors. As can familial backround. Your father knows somebody at X firm, organizstion or company. A quiet word is said and and son or daughter finds a position. The son or daughter fall slightly short of the needed academic standards to enter Y university. A donation is made and the individual is admitted. Any one who thinks this does not happen is willfully ignorant. This is the privilege we here so much about. This privilege exists in all societies. And always has. 1) l think a better term for this is colorism. We are all of one species. Homo Sapiens. We are all capable of breeding with one another. The sooner we all accept this the better. This does not mean that we should or will. Personal tastes enter into this. That is preference. Not prejudice. An example is the old question about Ginger or Mary Ann. 2) On the societal level culture enters into things. If your birth culture values education aboveall things chances are you will do well academically. If it does not. Odds are you will not. Please do not ask me how to change cultural problems. The only answers l can come up with involve very totalitarian solutions. But there is another issue that needs to be faced. If everyone recieves at least the equivilant of a four year degree soon washing dishes or sweeping floors will require a degree. Not everybody is suited for higher education. What do we do about those at the bottom. Put them on a life of endless welfare benefits. I yhink we have found that does not end well.
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  4108. ​ @builder396  The P-39 was designed with a single 37mm autocannon and a mix of two .30 and .50 MGs to start with. Fairly hard hitting but lower velocity. The P-400s built for the RAF were re-designed with to take the 20mm. They tried some Airacobras and said politely. Not only no, but bloody NO. The saga of the US production of 20mm Hipano cannon is a sad one. From what I understand the fault lay not with the manufacturer so much as the Board of Ordinance. They screwed up when converting the drawings to inches from metric. Not in the as print dimensions. But in the tolerancing system being used. When the British inspected some of the early ones they commented on just how beautifully made they were *. They just couldn't use them. Also the first US fighters equipped with cannon (P-38 and P-39) were also built with with a system to clear jams. The P-38 had 20mm right from the start. *Oldsmobile was the contractor iirc. The BoO also messed up with the drawings for the MG-42 when they tried to copy it. I'm not sure just what type of tolerancing system the that HS used but even so converting the values should not have been a problem. I guess the designer at BoO wasn't allowed to take his shoes off that day to do higher mathematics.
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  4109. Not me. It never ends well for the villian.
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  4110. General advice when disassembling anything for repair work or other reasons. Get some plastic bags like those sold for food storage etc. Place all of the fasteners and related hardware in labeled bags. For example Left Bank Exhaust Manifold Screws and Washers. Also it is a good idea to write the fastener size, type and grade on the bag. In the US we used bags for U-Line in various sizes. Also on this engine I would imagine the head should probably be replaced due to being torqued to a certain setting and then being stretched. Say 70nm + x°
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  4111. With the pilot that far back and the upper wing shoulder mounted no wonder he had lousy visibility.
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  4112.  @Lonewolf6565  Dynastic Communism. What a concept
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  4113. And the remakes of Deep Impacted and Deep Throat. Or Night of the Living Dildos. The reason we some much LBGTABCDEF...... agenda in entertainment is because who ro you think runs it.
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  4114. What's potentially more fuel efficient. An ecnobox getting 40 mpg while carrying two people or a minivan getting 20 mpg while carrying 6 people. Answer the minivan because it is getting more passenger miles per gallon. 120 vs 80. Granted it doesnt always work this way due to differing passenger loads. Honestly a minivan is the most useful vehicle overall I've ever owned.
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  4115. One comment here. No technology is ever truely obsolete. It may be surpassed. It may be outmoded. But it is never truely obsolete. If it can still be used in some form it is not obsolete. Ever since the 70s and the first oil embargo we've been hearing about the return of commercial sailing or wind powered vessels. Hasn't really happened yet with the exception of some limited use. I have a hard time imagining a wind powered container ship. Eventually if one of the non mainstream fusion programs is successful then we will see electrically driven fusion powered vessels. One of these fusion projects was actually funded by the US Navy as a potential means to both free ships from fueling constraints on range and operating costs. And also to provide the required power for advanced weapons systems. Lasers and kenetic energy rail guns
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  4116. If they ban AfD l think it likely they will get a party that is really Right Wing.
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  4117. Corporal Stein. Brass ones, great big huge fricking brass ones. Notice he also had parachutists wings
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  4118. Shooting video with the Bloke and Chap with the rifle https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=werder+rifle&&view=detail&mid=2526B777C2A91A0389B12526B777C2A91A0389B1&&FORM=VRDGAR I have a hard time understanding why someone would develop a single shot pistol when revolvers had been around for 25+ years. As trick as the Werder is that doesnt make sense to me. The only thing that would have made the action even slicker* is to have just one trigger that would drop the hammer at one stage and then open the breech and eject the shell when pulled farther back. *And the Werder is about as slick as a single action gets
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  4119. That depends on if the publisher sees a potential trial market for an audio version. There is software that will render text into speech but an actual narrator is far superior. Some of the best non fiction I have listened to was narrated by the author themselves. Any of Simon Winchester's audio books narrated by him are out standing. As are Rick Atkinson's works on WWII.
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  4120.  @ZGryphon  When arguing with flat Earthers I have referenced Winchester's Krakatoa. Specifically the section on the aftermath of the eruption when the shock waves circled the multiple times and were recorded on recording barometers. And the only way it works out is if the Earth is a globe.
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  4121.  @harbl99  Or libraries
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  4122. If you think Anti Sieze makes a mess try Dykem HiSpot Prussian Blue. At work we used reguar Anti Sieze and Food Grade Anti Sieze. The Food Grade is more user friendly. 😁
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  4123. National suicide by will full stupidity
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  4124. Cornholio!
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  4125. Sadly this was inevitable. The US went into Afghanistan for one reason. The friend of my enemy is my enemy. The Taliban sheltered the elements of Al Qaeda that planned and supported the attacks on 9-11. Once the Taliban and Al Qaeda in country were broken we should have left. You can't build a nation were there is no sense of nation to start with. If the society is based on extended family, clan, tribe and ethnicity before anything like a nation enters into it any one who tries nation building will fail. The situation in Afghanistan right now is a national embarrassment for the US. I simply hope every US national currently in the country manages together out. If they don't the blame lies in the Biden Administration. In the future I hope and pray the Armed Services of the United States are never again as missued as they were in Afghanistan. And that the Joint Chiefs have the balls to tell a sitting president that if we don't have an exit policy in place for after the mission is completed then not only no Mr/Mrs/Ms President but hell no. The lives and futures of the men and women who would have to carry out the mission are far too valuable to risk simply because of policy. Actually I think the US should seriously reconsider its responsibilities in terms of our treaty obligations. We can't be everywhere. We can't defend everyone. And if any nation we have a security agreement with isn't willing to step up for it's own security then fine. Then we won't step up for them. This does not mean the US should completely retreat behind it's own borders in isolationism.
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  4126. So, we will be seeing blasters in a two gun match. Honestly the only blasters I care about are The Blasters.
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  4127. Opposed piston diesels generally require a supercharger.
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  4128. Modern art is souless. And has been for decades
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  4129. What wre the odds she gets promoted.
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  4130. And no mention of the Barra.
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  4131. Look for an appeal based on inadequate consul.
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  4132. Did it have one of the Pontiac motors from the early 60s?
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  4133.  @charlesangell_bulmtl  AMC did something similiar with one of their V-8s (327 iirc) one half operated as a 4 cylinder while the other functioned as a compressor on natural gas pipelines. The engine ran on gas dawn off of the pipeline. Pontiac's 196 CID 4 cylinder* was in actuality one bank of the 389. People make a big deal out of Chryslers Slant Six but the Slant Six is a completely normal inline OHV six. They just leaned it over 30°. The Pontiac was what I would consider a true slant as the cylinder bank is slanted while the pan rail is horizontal. AMC (again) looked into producing a 4 cylinder based off of their V-8. *Might have been the largest inline 4 installed in any car post WWII
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  4134. The thing I'm curious about is just how did Pluto aquire its family of moons given the distance between objects that far out and the weak gravitation field.
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  4135. No nation has an unlimited pool of manpower.
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  4136. With the USS Milwaukee also accomplishing the same thing.
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  4137. So Ford built a Sludge-o-Matic too.
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  4138. ​ @Gillby47  Is this an adaptation of Cornwell's Winter King? If so listen to the audio version.
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  4139. What are the odds the salesman got canned. The guy who really who screwed up was the sales manager
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  4140. What should we expect of a language built by stealing elements from other languages
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  4141. Splicing the Mainbrace. Not in the US Navy sir.
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  4142. In reality just about any inline can be leaned over. Plus how many of these "slant" engines have the deck face and bottom end pan face parallel to each other. In my mind when I think slant I think the panface horizontal with the cylinder bank tilted to some angle. The Pontiac is an example of this even if it is grossly overweight
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  4143. Destroying a factory building is one thing. Destroying the heart of the factory, the Machine Tools, is an entirely different matter.
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  4144. Three major reasons for the difference in block lengths. 1) The 232 was designed around a 3.750 bore. 2) The bore center distance is 4.380". Same as the Windsor and Cleveland. And .020" less than the SBC/LS/LT. Ideas anyone. 3) With .630 between cylinder walls plenty of room for coolant passages.
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  4145. The woke mob will never be satisfied. The only way they will ever understand is when they get attacked by a worker mob
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  4146. I'm not glad Jordan Neeley is dead. I highly doubt the former Marine is glad is he's dead. The one thing that really surprises me is the Barr hasn't charged him .
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  4147. His dead pan reaction in What is a Woman made that also. The loony tunes in that one got hung by their own petards.
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  4148.  @gabriel7664  Is that with a K or a C.
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  4149. Perhaps a video on the labor use of Italian and German POWs on farms in the US. When I was young in the 60s a friend's father was a guard at a POW camp for Japanese POWs. The camp was on Christmas Island iirc
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  4150. Too bad the other American V-8 engined car of the time never really went beyond the prototype stage. The still born AMX/3. A much better looking car than than the Pantera. There was or is an ongoing project to produce replicas.
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  4151. Given the speeds exhibited by current America's Cup sailing craft and even some of the other smaller catamarans or hydrofoil equipped vessels. Could such speeds be approached by small craft in the Age of Sail.
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  4152. Right up there with the "when did you stop beating your wife" question.
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  4153. Given that the small number of China Lakes built were basically custom built guns cost wise yes. Even a mass produced version would be expensive. How many rounds of 40mm did the grenadeir carry? How many were carried by the other men in the squad? How much would the weight of the pump action cut into the ammo load vs the M-79?
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  4154. Sideways launches have been noted for some large wave events. When the Edmund Fitzgerald was launched the wave event was large enough that on of the people at the launch suffered a fatal heart attack.
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  4155. I take it you mean the ones like Opel used to build. I had a Renault that was OHV but had the cam placed so high in the block the tappets were in the head. Plus it was a hemi.
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  4156. With the ice melting back and revealing artifacts from this period ask yourself some questions. Where was the ice when the artifacts were lost? What was the climate like when the artifacts were dropped? What were average temperatures? There is another area where yhis has happened. The current warming has opened up a formerly iced over pass between Switzerland and Italy to foot traffic. Artifacts have been found in the pass that can be traced to various known warm periods when the climate was warmer. With gaps in the ages of the artifacts that matchip with known periods of colder temperatures. Clearly this pass has opened and closed in the past multiple times. The question is why. And what has caused the climate swings.
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  4157. In the course of human affairs there is rarely anything truely new. I do find it curious that the Swastika is seen as a benevolent symbol both in Asia and amongst North American Native Peoples. It may be strictly co-incidence* or it may relate to the symbol being used for this type of use from a time before the Native Peoples migrated into the Americas. In terms of the symbol itself it is a pretty basic geometric construction as are crosses and other long used symbols. *there are other things in the archeological record that may show that there were cross cultural influences between east and west. Whether such influences really happened or not I don't think we will ever truely know with absolute certainty.
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  4158. The next time they make a film about Shaka Zulu I want either a blond blue eyed Swede or a redhead Irish woman to get the role. If any historical film, or even a fantasy film is to have any level of consistency it needs to be on all levels. The only exception to this in my opinion is on the stage. If one is producing one of the Bard's plays it is more about the devilery of the lines as an example
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  4159.  @crowdpleaser1036  From an outsider's perspective it seems a lot of the initial push for more immigration arose out of labor shortages and a supposed jobs (insert nationality) are willing to do. Much of Western Europeis going through a demographic crisis. An aging population with a falling birth rate amongst the native population. Some of the aging population is due to longer life spans. Another part of it in my opinion is the relatively large number of people starting with the Boomers but hot li ited to them that actively decided to not have children. Or stop at one. No matter the reasons stated in my opinion it stems more from selfishness. The I'm not going to put my life on hold for kids attitude.
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  4160. Locally we tried a pedestrian mall in our downtown in the 70s. Killed almost every downtown business. The biggest promoter was the first to close shop.
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  4161. My wife likes to comment on especially nice days that she wishes it could be like that every day. My response is but then everybody would want to live here. I remember an old SF short story about some of the downsides of cheap teleportation. One was placed like Tahiti were turned into slums.
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  4162. She almost makes Cynthia McKinney look same. And that's a tall order
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  4163.  @denisrhodes54  Good luck finding that.
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  4164. I always thought it would make a good engine/tranny for a kit car with mid engine layout. Dodge built a prototype Sport Racer trying to get the SCCA interested in a type specific class IIRC
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  4165. The new Scottish anthem. Scotland the Timid.
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  4166. I really do like that shirt. I'm curious what make and pattern
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  4167. ​ @KevinBowden-f3f  Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving
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  4168. ​ @Patrick_Cooper  If you have to ask. You can't afford it. 😂
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  4169.  @bigjon120  Well, it would mar the paint. If the armor is rated to resist penetration from armor piercing ammunition of 120 or 125mm guns. Yah that 4 bore is just going to go BONNNNNGGGG!
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  4170. The Italians seem to have been at a huge disadvantage in terms of engine output. Their most powerful production engine of the war after was a DB-600 series built under license. Now just what rational reason the Italian government had declaring war on Britian, France plus later the US is another matter. The funny thing is, if the Italians or Germans had know just what was sitting under Lybia l suspect they would have put a lot more effort into the North African campaign.
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  4171. Told the White Savior to Eff off.
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  4172. So much for a floor fight over the nomination.
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  4173. Any future orbital facility should be designed to have a rotating component. The main reason is we have a data base on 1g and Zero G. We have no idea on the effects of 1/6th or 1/3rd G on the human body. I have to think there are some but if it is graphed out is a straight line? A curve that starts shallow and rises rapidly as the G increases*. Or is it a curve that rises rapidly and then flattens out? In reality we could have done this anytime in the last 40 years if we really wanted to. There have to major benefits from using spin "gravity" even if a fairly low acceleration is acceptable simply from the housekeeping and sanitary side of things.
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  4174. No more Paddingtons. Darkest Peru is suffering a shortage And if the Left doesn't like being censored. Well, what goes around comes around
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  4175.  @smithcas86  There's such a thing as high quality tea? Amazing, you here something new everyday. Now coffee. That's a different subject altogether. And no I don't mean Starbucks
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  4176. Oblivious Cortex perhaps
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  4177. When you act as transit point and manufacture war material plus act as the banker for a regime like the Third Reich the gloves come off. The Swiss got off pretty light
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  4178. Watch for any trials to be conducted in areas with majority Muslim populations. The justfcation being that it is a hate crime and the complaint was files there. Tame police. Tame prosecuters. And Tame juries.
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  4179. A computer as we think of one today. No it isn't. It's more of a predictive device than anything else. But for every body who thinks it's just a rich man's toy. But for everybody who thinks it's ",not rocket science". But for everybody who thinks it isn't impressive. I challenge you build one. I challenge you to make the tools needed to build this. I challenge you to figure out how to lay out just one of the gears and file it by hand. That is after you make your own files. Given what we know about the technology and technological processes of the day this was a tour de force of the makers skills
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  4180. And Rob from British Muzzleloaders can provide the required comedy and uniforms. Private Mackenzie in a sailor suit Sargent enters "And just what do you think you're doing?" Pvt Mackenzie "I've been transferred to the Navy sargent." Sargent replies "Good, well they have plenty of spuds to peel onboard ships too."
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  4181. You're stranded alone in the middle of the Sahara. You die. And not pleasantly.
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  4182. I'd be willing to bet he has a key.
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  4183. Ted Wheeler (aka Wheeler the Weasel) should have been brought up on Civil Rights charges regarding 1st Amendment issues and conservatives. The 1st Amendment protects your right to free speech. It does not protect your right to interfere with others right to free speech. You may not like what someone else says You may find it offensive. But that does not give you the right to muzzle them. Or they you.
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  4184. I can't recall who but there is an aftermarket engine based on Harley cylinders that is a 3 cylinder fan type. Anazi built 3 cylinder fan engines before WWl.
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  4185. F*<> the NYT. New York. The bastion of loyalists during the revolution. A bastion of pro slavery Northerners during the Civil War. The home of the Dutch that introduced slavery to what would become the United States.
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  4186. One problem with SETl in my opinion is it is predicated on a civilization using technology basically not too dissimilar to ours. Any civilization sufficiently ahead of ours technologically may simply not bleed enough wasted communications technology to be detectable. And just how far from Earth does our elcetromagnetic signature fade into the backround of the radio noise of the Universe. In the past I've heard that the first possible detectable radio signature was not radio or television signals but radar emissions put out by the DEW line stations and their Soviet counterparts.
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  4187. Given chimps engage in raids against other groups I'd say war is a trait of humanity embedded in our gene's. But as society becomes more urban the chances of an individual dieing in war has actually gone down
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  4188.  @neilkurzman4907  Note l didn't say that. For certain professions a bachelor's or post graduate degree is definetly required. Other paths in life are better served with an associate's or an apprenticeship. The sad thing in society today at least as far as the education industry (1) is that by their estimation is that those not suited for any occupation requiring training should be doomed to a life of ever decreasing expectations. That said education is always valuable to the individual. If you have an interest in a certain field anywhere from astronomy to zoology have at it. Just realize that the job market may not be large enough to allow you to find a position in that field. And unless one is independently wealthy gainful employment is always good as one does need to eat. 1) Don't kid yourself. It is an industry. They sell a product and dreams. They produce a finished good. They constantly seek to increase the income and profitability of their "industry".
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  4189.  @missylks1239  There are a lot of Boomers who went to college simply to get draft deferments
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  4190. Soon to be known as "Noble Savage Firearms"
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  4191. It's always bloody summer. Johnson has t6 o bone of the worst mayors policy wise ever elected in the US.
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  4192. Aliens only wish to vi sf it dtar systems eith intelligent life. Leaves us out.
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  4193. Presstitites = MSNBC, CNN, MSM and the unfortunately sometimes FOX.
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  4194. Socialist Workers. None of whom are actual workers.
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  4195. What I find most ironic about these people that DeSantis had flown in. They are from Venezuela. One of the Socialist paradises that the left loves.
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  4196. Yes, but we speak it properly in (insert country of choice)
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  4197. As the climate cooled the great tropical rain forests would shrink greatly speeding the millennium long Bantu migration from westrn into southern Africa
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  4198. I'm not a fan of the Israeli government but when someone literally wants to destroy you. How do you think they would react. IMO if the Arab governments had been smart post WWII they would have welcomed Jewish immigration and allowed the Jews of Europe to set up flourishing communities. Just how much would their nations have benefited from the talent those communities represented.
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  4199. One of the ironies of Germany and their junior partners invading the USSR for living space, racial obsessions and oil is Italy was sitting on an ocean of it in Lybia and didnt have a clue
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  4200. I hope that CalBear from AH.com hasn't seen this
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  4201. The differences in pronunciation between various English speaking countries is one thing. Then you get the differences between different regions in the same county.
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  4202. I've as always heard as 10,000 lawyers
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  4203. Where do castles come from? Castles are Us.
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  4204. Yes, but he supposed to be proficient with the sword. Plus a katana really isn't a magic sword.
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  4205. Pratt & Whitney took a page from Franklin Motors. Franklin found that placing the valves 45° from the centerline of the cylinder improved cooling.
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  4206. Popeyes has the best side dishes in the fast food world. The only sides that come close are Culvers cole slaw and cheese curds. Plus their chicken is better than everybody national. Browns is close. Of course the chicken sandwich is good.
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  4207. One would think this type of failure would have been discovered and corrected in the development phase. Any engine known to have major usage in emergency and police ve gu icles is going to have high amou ts of idle time. The same applies to taxis in major metro areas. Small weep holes in the base end of lifter body would have gone along way to prevent these failures if they were not present to start with.
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  4208. But he so brave and stunning. And should be openly laughed at.
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  4209. All you needed to hear was entitled.
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  4210. Little Boxes was an urbanist rage about suburbia.
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  4211. The 4.0 and its 3.3, 3.8 and 4.2 liter relstives are all easily killable. Just neglect maintenance. Like oil changes and keeping up with coolant. The earlier versions had issues with water pump failures. Not uncommon on many engines from the Vee Belt era. The failures were usually caused by belts being too tight. The 4.0 does have an overheating problem caused by stagnant coolant flow around the #6 cylinder. One cure for this routing a coolant line from the Heater Core Line to a fitting installed in the last core plug in the block. The 4.0 has untapped potential that untortunately requires replacing the cylinder head. The bore spread on the 4.0 (1) is the same as the Ford Windsor and Cleveland small blocks. And only .020" less than the SBC, LS and LT. In Argentina they have gone one step further. For the TC race series (2) the 4.0, Ford and Chevy inline OHV sixes have been re-equipped DOHC 24V heads. One YouTube channel (AMXJ) has an extensive series of interviews with a retired development engineer about things that were done concerning porting etc. The same engineer was involved in building a 4.0 powered dragster that was setting class records while spinning 9k through the traps. 1) The 2.5 shares the same block architecture, oil pump, coolant pump, rods, pistons, lifters etc. 2) The oldest racing series on the planet.
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  4212. As I keep saying about Greta. The only people who stole her childhood were her nutjob parents.
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  4213. Even on a Niven Ringworld the structure needs to spin at 770 miles per second
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  4214. Too bad she wouldn't fit through St Lawrence Seaway
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  4215. The Muslims in Britain can switch their "alliagence" to another political party in an instant. The state employees will always align themselves with politicians who support maintaining or expanding the organs of the state. As to workers. The Labour Party abandoned the working class in Britain twenty to twenty five years ago.
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  4216. Yah, right.
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  4217. The idea that one has to be paying to simply use a product they already paid for. Its quite simply continual petty theft.
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  4218. Of course contrails have chemicals in them. Chemicals like H2O, CO2 and NO2
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  4219. If only Allison had put the development effort into a two stage/two speed supercharger sooner.
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  4220. The Slanty while damn near bullet proof is nothing more than a conventional pushrod inline 6 with an oil pan set-up to allow it to be leaned over 30°.
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  4221. Well I approve of you being offended by Greta
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  4222. Ask yourself just how many environmentalists take vacations every year in eco tourism areas. Just how do you think they get there
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  4223. OK cobber. I greeted Armstrong as he stepped off of the landing pad. And yes I stole the line.
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  4224. I saw something weird for my locale the other day. A Holden Ute. In Wisconsin.
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  4225. If you increase pump output you can run into the issue of sucking the sump dry because you have too much oil in the upper engine and it can't drain back fast enough. But definitely the pulp output pressure should be higher. I wonder how much the relief valve in the pump opening reduces pump output.
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  4226. One thing I expect to come out of this further FAA rules regarding displays at airshow.
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  4227. ​ @jandavidson7093  How do you get rid of the Dane
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  4228. OK, they played a little fast and loose with the facts. But it appears they got the feel of the time right
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  4229. Douglas also looked at a civilian version of the prop version. Probably a case of we've spent the time engineering this new airframe. Is there anything else we could use it for.
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  4230. If only King had been placed in charge of the Naval Torpedo Tinkerers
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  4231. A lot of this can be blamed on EPA regulations that caused changes to paint formulations. Also where was the truck built.
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  4232. Forever is a long time. Who knew "The Old Dog" was a prophesy.
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  4233. ​ @jvh22a  The reason we have become a weak culture is because we have had it too good as a society overall.
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  4234. ​ @typingcat  From what I have seen online Blacks in Africa (1) do not have much use for Blacks from the US. 1) It seems there are certain members of the Afro-American community that believe everybody in in Africa is Black. No they aren't. And I really do not care for the term Afro-American the way it is used. In reality isn't some one whose forebears came from North Africa Afro-American.
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  4235. I worked in the automotive industry for over 30 years. Been retired for 20. The manufacturing processes were vastly improved by 2005. And I'm sure that many processes have seen further improvements. Todays engines run cleaner. Make more power and are capable of better milage. But that comes at a cost. Mainly complexity. Today's engines are almost entirely DOHC 4 valve designs. They are all interference engines. If properly maintained they are very reliable. Oil changes at proper intervals with the correct lubricants. Replacing the coolant are the correct interval. Ignore this at your own peril. The engines from the 60s. How many engines were junk at 100k miles? Partially from owner neglect. Partly from engine oils that were not as good. Partly from inferior machining techniques that allowed parts that would not pass today. Partly from poorer quality materials.
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  4236. I can imagine C-130s coming in low and slow in the second dtop would get the schies shot out if them too. And with more paras on board each plane as well.
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  4237. Definitely drill stop holes plus vee the crack out as much as possible.
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  4238. They want you to be transphobic. They want you to be afraid of them and live your life in fear if you do not bow down to every last bit of their delusions.
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  4239. There is one aspect of nuclear that does raise concern. The weapons side. But as North Korea, Pakiland and soon Iran prove. If you want them nobody is going to stop you. With the possible exception of Israel. The list of nations that have started and stopped developing nuclear weapons is a long one. It is suspected that if push came to shove the country that could have nukes the fastest is ironically Japan.
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  4240. One thing a lot of people seem to forget every incoming president swears uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. The other part of the job is to protect American interests. Not the interests of France, Mongolia, China or any other nation. Trump what ever his faults seemed to understand that.
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  4241. I think the criticism is valid. It doesn't meet the Sagan level of proof. The one about extraordinary claims needing extraordinary evidence. But as more evidence dribbles in worldwide our picture of the peopling of not only America but the world in general will get both clearer and murkier at the same time. I suspect that one of the reasons for human expansion has been population pressures. Hunter gatherers need more area than farmers in general. A clan or tribe gets so large and part splits off to find new ranges. Another thing that may have happened is a chain reaction of migration. Group A pushes Group B who pushes Group C etc. One thing that bothers me about any seeming reasonable idea is that these ideas can attract the people on the fringe. Look at the Solutrean Hypothesis. Yes its controversial. Predictably certain racist groups latched on to it. Never mind that Dennis Stanford has never said the Solutreans were what today we call Europeans. This idea of course gets attacked from the other side as racist because it seeks to dispossess Native Americans. But what if it's true. Also what if there were a series of waves of migration. Not only into the Americas but world wide. How much has the topography of North America changed because of the Wisconsin and Illinois glacial periods and the flooding that would have accompanied the retreating of the ice sheets. All it takes is one solid site to cause a complete rethinking of what we think we know. If I were a graduate student in archeology or anthropology I would seriously consider looking at sites with known ash layers that can be traced to known and dated eruptions. And start looking under those layers.
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  4242.  @imachunt653  Their version of science also confirms the existence of unicorns. But the unicorns can only be seen by "special" people
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  4243. ​ @mrbig7718  How much of a tax break or subsidy did they get for installation paid for by the public at large.
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  4244. ​ @lesliewelch6551  No. They'll have the monster cruise ships on retainer.
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  4245. Lets not forget the things that really made the steam engine practical. The increasing sophistication of machine tools to work to ever increasing accuracy. And advances in metalurgy.
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  4246. And at the end of the mission use their communicator to tell their base base to "beam us back home Hiro"
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  4247. They're probably pissed at the Elk's Club Instead of barbed wire use claymores
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  4248. But if it's a Dodge. Has it got a Hemi? 😁
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  4249. Dollars to donuts. They will find a way to blame Trump.
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  4250. It's pretty common for machinists to squirrel away the odd pieces metal. The reason is they will use it for what are termed "government jobs". As in "by the people and for the people". The jobs that one might squeeze in for ones self
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  4251. What the hell ever happened to common courtesy. I don't want you listening to my conversations. And l sure don't want to listen to yours.
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  4252. ​ @paulbeesley8283  Or a British or an American Private from another viewpoint. Which can also be expanded to a number of other national viewpoints. Just how far back in history do the family/clan/tribe/nation/religous blood fueds go.
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  4253.  @kmech3rd  I know I heard of the concept somewhere. They say great minds tend to think alike. But one great mind always gets there first 😉
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  4254. There's one thing every movie about the Earps gets wrong. It snowed in Tombstone the night before.
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  4255. Damn. It seems the British will do anything to try and reclaim a colony. 😏 One thing under the rubble may be tons of Mammoth and Mastadon tusks reputedly dumped into the East River by the Natural History Museum.
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  4256. Everyone who states the round is ineffectual should volunteer to get shot by one. Oh, no takers I see.
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  4257. Makes a nice backip to your speargun when going after Lionfish. 😁
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  4258. ​ @procrastinator41  Larson's cave men are smarter.
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  4259. If you had people demonstrating and holding up sign that said "justice for Peanut" the media would be saying it's a white supremacist hate crime.
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  4260. The only things missing are the showers and the ovens
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  4261. The operations in the Philippines may not have been strategically necessary but one could argue that they were morally necessary. In fact scattered combat operations were still taking place on Luzon after the Japanese capitulated in August 45. One thing that would have been avoided if the invasions of the Philippines had not taken place was Battle of Manila. That along with the combat on Okinawa, Iwo Jima and Siapan IMO contributed the thinking that any invasion of the the Japanese Home Islands would be bloodbath.
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  4262. Changing plugs on my Town and Country van. Have to take the upper plenum off plus other stuff on the intake. The fun part is l found oil in the throttle body. Time to change out the PCV valve.
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  4263. One thing about platninum or iridium plugs is 100k service life. Had random misfires. If you're changing plugs might as well change the plug coils too. Just wish l hadn't sold my torque wrenches when l retired.
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  4264. US and State criminal codes. I mean they are just so restrictive on individual expression.
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  4265. The thumbnail reminds me of the movie Dogma.
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  4266. Pick-up trucks with bumper stickers (1). Or V-8 and V-12 Mercedes, M Series BMWs or high output Porsches going flat out on the Autobahn. 1) And i do think that there are far too many people driving full size pick-ups that have zero use for them.
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  4267. Looks like something you tap a beer barrel with.
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  4268. The 4k lb bomb was actually 4100 lbs and was rocket equipped. Know as the Disney. When entering the nose you didn't get to do the grab the hatch frame and swing your legs ip through the hatch.
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  4269. 2TK must have listened to Ten Years After too much. Tax the rich until there are no rich no more. Logical conclusion. Universal poverty.
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  4270. Yah, the UN Human Rights Council. A body dominated by oppressive regimes. I'm waiting for somebody on the Left to bring suit in the US Supreme Court that the Electoral College is unconstitutional. Dont forget the interstate compact in where the various states have pledged to allocate their electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote no matter how their state goes. I wonder how that will work if their state goes for Biden but Trump wins the popular vote.
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  4271. ​ @johng4093  Last there in 07. It was already run down. Went in 83, seemed fine then.
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  4272. ​ @johng4093  Yah, they like to call it "the City". As if it's the only one. The 💩y
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  4273. I am always amazed at the idiots that think if we just stop burning foseil fuels the petroleum industry will just go away.
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  4274.  @dn82180  And all the equipment will run on Windows 😱😱
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  4275. ​As Everett Dirkson once said. Billion here, a billion there. Then you're talking real money. I suspect Elon's wealth goes up and down a billion on a monthly basis.
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  4276. ​If a UK citizen entered the US illegally and requested asylum they would likely be sent back by the Obama, I mean Biden administration.
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  4277. Now imagine this in .45ACP, or .40S&W, or 10mm or .357. Or one in .44 Automag
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  4278. In the early days of the automobile there were no gas stations. You had to buy fuel at the dealer, a hardware store or a pharmacy iirc. In the early 1900s you basically had three choices. Gas, steam or electric. All had their downsides. Electric was range. But they were great in town. Steam was the amount if time it took to get up steam pressure. Improved boiler technology solved a lot of that. Gas was the hard starting. In the end ICE technology just developed faster.
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  4279. Cue the Haliluah Chorus! 🎶🎶🎶
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  4280. Around 20 years a local business bought three properties so they could expand. They sold off the houses to anyone that wanted them cheap as long as the buyer mover the house. Fast forward to one of the houses on the trailer being "ready" to move to it's new home. The crew was pulling the trailer over the curb into the street when the house fell off of the trailer. We're outta here was the order of the day.
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  4281. There are three or four locally where I live.
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  4282. It was also the basis for the Repco Formula 1 engine in the early 60s
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  4283. The basic idea of having local shops, schools etc allwithin easy walking ristance has a lot of merit. But the idea of shoving it down peoples throats while restricting their movement has no merit what so ever.
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  4284. Censorshipship in a free society is always a touchy subject. It is never to be embraced but sometimes necessary. I could imagine today's NYT or Washington Post in early 1944 getting a copy of the overall plan for Overlord. Would they publish. Hell yes they'd publish. With visions of Pulitzers in their heads. And yet these news organizations practice censorship all the time. For the NYT and others it's not "All the News That's Fit to Print. It is "All the News WE THINK That's Fit to Print"
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  4285. That great humanitarian Joseph Stalin
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  4286. Diversity is only a strength for those whose goal is a balkanized society. Those who only see the oppressed. And the oppressors. In their future not only will you own nothing and be happy. You will do so while freezing in the cold and the dark. While starving. In Dante's version of Hell the circle where the inventors of ideas like Facism are confined they are joined by those who developed the ideas of CRT.
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  4287. The DA is just playing to her voter base. I don't know which one is worse. The one I Chicago or the one in Oakland.
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  4288.  @peppereggfuk  One of the first things done with a batch of castings when they were shipped in was to inspect random castings by slicing them up in a large bandsaw. The only way to really check casting or core shift is cut the casting up.
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  4289.  @peppereggfuk  Random blocks, heads etc would be cut up do that cross sections could be measured and compared to the print dimensions.
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  4290.  @jed-henrywitkowski6470  Given your last name I am assuming you have some Polish or similiar ancestry. Should the Polish women have to give up babushkas.
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  4291. I pretty much don't drink anymore. But when I do have a brew it sure ain't gonna be a Budweiser version of Sex on the Beach. As for movies I really couldn't name the last one I watched.
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  4292. ​ @jakesmith4884  There's nothing wrong with elementary kids learning that institutions such as slavery are evil. But what is evil about teaching these institutions is brainwashing those elementary kids that they either gain "victimhood" or collective guilt from th he past. The people that preach this crap have obviously never heard the bit about Sins of the Fathers.
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  4293. ​ @daisyfaye3630  Sequel #9. How original.
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  4294. Certainly protesting at Packers home game is a sin. Unless it's against "da Bears".
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  4295. FAFO
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  4296. But not necessarily torpedo armament on cruisers unless you are the USN.
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  4297. When driving where there may be a "protest" make sure to borrow Mr Bond's Aston Martin DB-6.
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  4298. Well, one equation I can prove is 1 + 1 = 3. Just anybody who has childern
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  4299. BLM supporter fires 5 rounds from AK type rifle at vehicle. Gets shot dead by driver for poor aim. Austin, Texas
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  4300. I think there is one reason we do not have a plan in place for disposing of or eliminating nuclear waste. Because if we have a viable waste disposal/elimination process in place that makes nuclear more viable. And that is something opponents of nuclear do not want.
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  4301. And in the middle of all this the USN and industry managed to build a couple of Alaskas just to keep FDR happy. About the only naval theater where the USN was not heavily involved I can think of would probably be the Induan Ocean. And even there I would expect that they were still doing convoy work.
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  4302. And caught taggers just got to clean it up with a tooth brush
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  4303. Testing could be done with current technology if needed. Simply by using tethers
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  4304. If there is any major portion of the wreck it lays a lot deeper than what was found. The scattered debris is pretty much right on the edge of the drop off to the bottom of the trench. Possibly up to 10,000ft/3,000 meters. The deepest spot in the trench is 35000 feet.
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  4305.  @robertyoung3992  Given the distribution of debris and that evidence of something sliding across the bottom at the edge of the Trench I had thought she might have been much farther down. And I noticed I missed the depth in my figures. I would not be surprised if there are wrecks laying in some of the trenches at the edges of subduction zones
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  4306. Polls depend on a number of variables 1) Who they contact 2) And just how many of those people tell the pollsters its none of your damn business
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  4307. All one needs to say are two words. "NUCLEAR" and "RADIATION" and the average person is going to go bonkers. Don't misunderstand me. Chernobyl was bad. Plus it was compounded by poor reactor design, really stupid decision making and a plant staff that as I understand it were trying to boost power levels beyond design levels. I remember the hysteria over Three Mile Island. Carter went to do an onsite inspection and was subjected to more radiation on the flight than when he was there. Plus when the Congressional hearing on the accident were held the radiation levels in the room where the hearing was held was at least an order of magnitude higher than at the plant simply due to the naturally occurring radiation in the granite and other stone used in the building. The average coal plant puts out far more radiation than a nuclear plant due to radioactive trace elements in the coal
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  4308. I wanna be a activist!
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  4309. Now we know why you can't find 9mm ammo. Ian was shooting it all.
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  4310. The biggest hurdle small reactors would have is regulatory. At least in the US. Imagine 50 different states having different regulations and then municipalities getting into n on the act.
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  4311. Also part of the Navy's nuclear strike plans was the Martin Sea Master PBM-6. At least l think that's the designation. But an aircraft that's more in Rex's Hanger sphere. Although it was a flying BOAT. 😊
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  4312. If Trump takes California then maybe the Democrats will finally get the message. The vast majority of people who have "left" the Democratic Party really did not leave. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, the party left us. It has become the party of the blue haired freaks. It wants to be so inclusive it caters to the fringes of society. It labels anyone with any common sense right wing extremists.
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  4313. One sad thing about the SJW's. There is real injustice in the society. But the nut jobs and wing nuts generate so much backlash that issues that be getting attention dont
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  4314. In the 70s I used to frequent a watering hole owned by a retired US Navy CPO. Over the bar was a painting (print probably) of one of the British battlecruirsers at the Falklands Also in the 70s Ballantine published a series of art books featuring the work of one artist in each book and the type of art he was most noted for. Some were naval subjects. I have no idea what happened to the ones I had.
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  4315. The main reason we use base 10 is simple. Look at your hands. Base 12 or 8 would work just as well. We're just not used to thinking that way. The two major technological developments that made the modern world of precision mechanical measurement possible were the ability to make precise screw threads needed for micrometers and Jo blocks.
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  4316.  @michaelroberts5290  Didnt the Sumarians use a system that wasn't based on 10. It seems likely given that to my knowledge a lot of angular measurements originated with them (maybe). I know there is another system of angular measurements (radians) but in reality most people never use it. I worked in Tool Rooms for 30 plus years and I never had to use it practically. And then there's the whole time keeping system.
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  4317.  @jonwallace6204  Still the method to make surface plates from scratch*. I never had to scrape a surface plate but I've scraped enough ways on machines. I had a large cast iron plate that was originally used to layout sheet metal stampings. So it was just a machined surface done on a planer. I was rebuilding machine tool spindles and moving component bodies around on it could be difficult. So I broke it up with a power scraper in two directions. That took close to a day. After stoning to knock off any burrs things moved around a lot easier.
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  4318. No, it's the backup gun to the 76mm recoiless rifle Ian shot a few months back.
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  4319.  @は私です彼の名前  But that works out so well for the educators. Anytime the largest and or best paid portion of a societies work force is employed by the government that society is headed for a comeuppance. Government for the most part produces nothing. I'm not saying some level of government isn't needed. Only a fool says that. But I do think that those who believe ever expanding government is the solution is even more delusional than the first type of fool. The first will eventually lead to the strong crushing the weak. The second leads eventually to the weak crushing g everyone. Remember that line from the Ten Years after song. "Tax the rich, feed the poor". Eventually that will lead to an ever changing definition of rich. What was once defined as a rich millionaire will eventually become, oh, you own your house? The end result is everyone is poor and starving. Except for those in charge of course.
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  4320.  DarkEternal6  Workers that belong to industrial or construction unions has been on the decline ever since the 60s. Even without moving production off shore the move by industry to states that actively discourage unions would have only continued. Every company that is unionized in the US that has problems its is always the union the gets the brunt of the blame. Yes they share in the blame but most of the blame should be laid at the feet of the management of these companies. In the end quality of the product is not only a function of the factory floor and workforce. It is also a function of management making decisions about just what the level of quality is needed. This can be as simple as the allowable tolerances in a product to the overall build quality that management sets. In the 1980s the build quality of US automobiles was terrible compared to the Japanese when looking at the fits of body panels etc. What most people do not understand is almost all cars left the factory with the fit of the various body parts (doors, hoods, trunks etc) inrelationship to the body as whole in tolerance. The Japanese simply set a tighter tolerance. As to the quality of interior pieces a lot of that can be placed on the cost cutting attitude that if the part is really good when it costs a dollar and crappy at 98 cents we will use the 98 cent part. In the 1980s Ford contracted AMC to manufacture final drive gears for certain vehicles. The finished Ford parts made to Ford specifications howled like a banshee. The ones AMC made for themselves ran at least 10 decibels or more quieter. Remember the decibel scale is a log scale. Every ten points is a factor of ten. Its these types of decisions made by management that greatly effect quality. And in terms of industrial workers represented by unions Japan and Germany far outstrip the US. The vast majority of union membership in the US is in the public sector today.
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  4321. Are you sure that isn't a 'big fat slob SOB story
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  4322. ​ @HenrySomeone  Took my van in for an oil change a couple of weeks ago. 6 quarts of Mobile 1 and filter. 140 bucks. Cheaper than a new or rebuilt. But that's getting insane.
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  4323. They got changed to was/were
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  4324. I remember when Harrison Ford was on a Late Night show and they asked him a political question. His answer was I'm just an actor. Why should my opinion matter. Things have changed. For the worse.
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  4325. This seems to be just about as slick as the Werder
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  4326. ​ @kellismith4329  The Chevy inline six went through three or four generations that saw improvements. I believe it started out as a three main bearing engine with splash oiling on the rods. Complete with rod dippers. Later updated to 4 main bearings and then seven main bearings. Nash had four and seven main bearing sixes. One way to tell is the use of a different bore center distance between the cylinders with a bearing in between versus the ones that didn't. I believe the Toyota sixes started out as a license built version of the Chevy. Nissan l believe licensed a copy of a Mercedes design. The Holden in Australia was slightly scaled down version of the Chevy. The Chevy started out as a 4.400 bore center and stayed that way until the end. This probably why the SBC had a 4.400 bore center.
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  4327. The obvious answers on where to start are the Constitution and the court case cited.
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  4328. Islamophobia is real. Typically exhibited by those in positions of authority afraid that Muslims might get mad if they say sonething critical.
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  4329. The producers of this dumpster fire (and a few others) have an agenda. That's my opinion. Of course prople who disagree can always point to films made in the past that feature almost exclusively actors of European origins as trying to push a narrative. But l don't remember anybody trying to claim Cleopatra, The Egyptian, Land of the Pharohs etc are documentaries.
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  4330. Dunces Employed by Idiots.
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  4331. Pronounciations. When I was a wee lad in school syllable was pronounced sil-la-bul. Now I hear some people use sy-la-bol. Also I've never heard anyone say in lieu of as in lef of. Torpedo caught in the Torpedo Nets. I would imagine the procedure starts with one huge sigh of relief
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  4332. Buying tickets for a basketball game is not mandatory.
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  4333. String Theory has been unified into the Ball of String Theory 😖
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  4334. For years christmas trees would wash up on the beaches of Lake Michigan. The location of the wreck was generally known do to damage to fishing nets. There are a lot more wrecks in Lake Michigan than most people realize. But not all wrecks wound up on the bottom permanently. Quite often they would be salvaged and returned to service.
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  4335. These same nutters are doing the same thing as Just Stop Oil. Next year it will be a new cause.
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  4336. Well, Cynthia McKinney was a tough act to follow. Along with the "won't that cause the island to capsize" guy
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  4337. Maybe if they had some transwomen on the team.
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  4338. The child committing harassment did not learn a damn thing. All one heeds to do is see the news clip where is mom is interviewed outside the court house. The child is acting like a fool and the mother just gives him a pat on the shoulder likes he's being cute.
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  4339. I had an 84 model in the late 90s with the 4 cylinder. Only issue l ever had with it was when l changed the fuel filter a fhunk of something got into the carb. Took a lot of messing around to get the crap out so it would run right. I didn't buy it to be a Jeep. I bought it as a small station wagon. For which it served well.
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  4340. To quote Mel Brooks. "We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs!".
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  4341. We've seen the same thing in the US. Especially in the real estate market. Houses are no longer being described as having a "master suite". Never mind nobody would advertise a home with "slave quarters" for the other rooms. I wonder what they must think of "masterbation". Let alone Master Craftsman (racist and sexist that one), "Master of Ceremonies", The Masters (the might have a point there). Plus you need "master" tapes to "re-master" recordings. All of this nonsense reminds me of the old joke about the various parts of the body trying to decide who should be in charge. Constant turmoil until the rectum goes on strike.
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  4342. Yah, and you need to be Arnold Schwarzenegger to shoulder it. The China Lake pump action grenade launcher would beat it hands down.
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  4343.  @Doomsday_Report  Time to failure being inverse of cost I assume.
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  4344.  @socksleeve  With modern materials the weight could be reduced somewhat. Polymer receiver, magazine tube and stock. The parts that really need the strength are the bolt and chamber/barrel. But wasn't there also an issue with possible chambering of the high pressure rounds from the crew served weapon. The big problem is probably the weight of the ammunition when the tube is full. What I could not figure out is the whole intellectual property thing. The originals were produced by Marine armourers iirc. Hence any intellectual rights should have belonged to the government. The attempted re-incarnation was being done under contract with the DOD if I recall correctly.
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  4345. The spice trade. The real societal driver behind the Age of European Exploration
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  4346. And no one noticed the smell
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  4347.  @obadiahspong2300  Don't you know the Vatican Secret Archives hold all the secrets of the Illuminati, conclusive proof of UFOs and Aliens (along with complete engineering specs), the recovered treasure of Oak Island, Willian DeVere's outlines for Shakespeare's plays or anything else the conspiracy whack jobs can dream up.
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  4348.  @obadiahspong2300  Well, they can't really read their own language really.
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  4349. What if it was an English class and they were discussing Huckleberry Finn. A novel set in pre Civil War Missouri. Twain (Sam Clemmons) wrote in the vernacular of his youth. The word appears repeatedly. We read it in High School in the 60s. Not because the school wanted us to use racial slurs. But so that we were exposed to a great piece of literature written from the view point of a youth of the time. And that so we learned the great literature does not always need to be written in oh so polite language. Of course the book burners probably want Twain canceled.
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  4350. Ah yes. The days when 8 tracks and cassettes littered the side of the road after the player ate the tape. Now you can't get a CD player from the factory. I use recorded audio in the car all the time. But I do not listen to music. Audio books all the way. I only had one car with an 8 track. Hated the 8 track. Wish I would have kept the car. Worth serious money today.
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  4351. Bean counters, shall we ever be rid of them
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  4352. I for one never understood yow the Woke ever thought this would work.
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  4353. The War in the Pacific yes. The war in Europe, the Sovieg Union bled the Germans white.
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  4354. And here on the chart showing possible formation processes Byrliium and Boron are stuck with only one way of forming.
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  4355. Why doesn't he just admit he is Muslim. 25, 30 years maximum and the UK is an Islamic Republic. Between immigration and being outbred the native and assimilated British will be swamped. Why? Because the "kind" are too blind.
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  4356. ​ @thomasdaywalt7735  House Atredies? Didn't Frank Herbert cover that? 🙄
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  4357.  @errolab3872  Was it food? Or perhaps the Greeks were trading in Eastern Anatolia to be closer to Tin coming out of what is now Afghanistan. Trying to cut out one of some of the middlemen. The, let's call them Greeks for convienence, had no source cfg lose to hand. The nearest to my knowledge was in what today would be Germany or the Czech Republic. After that its Western Iberia, Britiany or Cornwall. All involving long journeys by sea or overland. The deposits in Britainy or Cornwall either involve by sea into the Atlantic and thru the Bay of Biscay. Or up rivers flowing into either the Mediterranean or Black Seas. Up the Danube overland to the Rhine thence across the North Sea. Or through modern France. Up the Danube either requires running the Dardenelles or overland into the Balkans. Either way long risky journeys (1). And just how much tin did Bronze age kingdoms require? How effective was Bronze and Copper recycling at this time. I would imagine being quite valuable it was recycled pretty effectively. And once you have the alloy remelting and casting is alot easier than processing new ores. 1) l suspect that if one of the "Greek" kingdoms sent an expedition to Liberia or Cornwall it might be expected to take the better part of a year. Possibly laying over for the winter. I some ways their ships may have been better than some think. After all a reproduction of the wreck discovered off of Southest Turkey did manage to sail to North America. And a reproduction of a sowen ship did make a voyage over the monsoon routes of the Indian Ocean. How far back do plank hulled vessels go vs dugout canoes.
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  4358. If you're gonna be bracket racing this consistency is key. In the 90s there was a guy bracket racing an Alliance of all things at Great Lakes in Union Grove, WI. He was extremely consistent. Quite often faster cars lost to him because they went too fast. With his handicap he'd be so far down the track the other guy would blow out of his bracket because he was worried about catching him.
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  4359. With Max Sennet as director.
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  4360. In the Midwest is just a hose. The tap on the house is a sill cock. And where I live a drinking fountain is called a bubbler. My first wife and I had friends in San Diego. In the early 80s they had a campaign. "If its yellow its mellow. If its brown it's down."
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  4361. Double bonus. New Mark Felton and Drachinifel videos in a row. Maybe the next one up will be The Chieftain for a hat trick. And after that a maybe AviationHistory. Plus Greg's Planes and Automobiles uploaded his last in a series of 8 videos on the P-47 yesterday
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  4362. Look at the mating face of the bottom half of the turbine housing. That surface along with the upper half. WAS FINISHED BY HAND. BY SKILLED CRAFTSMAN using hand tools called scrapers. The surfaces could be matched so closely that no gasket would be required between two halves of the turbine housing. Steam turbines were first used in the power houses of generating stations to spin dynamos. The steam turbine and reduction gear sets used in marine applications make Swiss watches look like Walmart specials
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  4363.  @TheOleHermit  So I had it reversed. The point is technology has made it possible for idiots to show their idiocy to the world. The most dangerous thing in the world today is somebody who live streams something with no context as to what is actually going on.
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  4364.  @alexs1640  I'll give you that one But just how many Congressional Representatives did to. You want real tax reform go with either a Flat Tax or a Graduated Flat Tax. Either no taxes paid until you reach so much and then a straight percentage or on taxes until x and you pay a%, when you hit y b% kicks in, at z c%kicks in. And no you do not pay the new higher rate on money already earned. No deductions, no accountants, no lawyers, no audits. Plus it would greatly diminish the IRS. And their unemployment would not cause me to loose one bit of sleep. Business taxes are a whole different matter.
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  4365. A lathe can never really be used to build a true copy of itself. A smaller version sure. All or most of the major mechanical components, but the structural parts, bed, ways etc no. 45 + years of turning solid metal into little curly cues. There is a lot you can do on a lathe. But sometimes I gets pretty cumbersome. Using the slides with a third slide mounted vertically on the cross slide gives you a boring mill, sort off. The problem comes in that the ways on the bed of a lathe are designed to take forces in a different direction.
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  4366. You missed one 3D printing technology that has largely fallen by the wayside. 3D printing using layers of paper that are bonded together and cut one layer at a time. This was fairly widespread 20 to 25 years ago in industry as it could be used to rapidly produce prototypes for cast products without going thru the requirement of making patterns to produce one of or short run castings. Such a printer could also be used to produce items using other sheet material such as thin plywood. The method can have a high waste to product rate. Maybe 4 years ago there was a company in Ireland that introduced a desktop printer that combined an inkjet with a 3D printer. And people have been using additive manufacturing in home offices for decades now. Only it is on sheet at a time using ink or toner.
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  4367. In a high threat environment a turbo prop is going to be toast. But then an A-10 most likely is too. The most expensive military aircraft is the one that gets shot down or becomes incapable of fulling its mission. I never understood why the US got rid of the OV-10. The Skyraider I can understand. The engine supply just wasn't there. Pratt & Whitney most likely didn't even have the required tooling and fixtures any more. The attempt to develop a turbo prop version in the 50's failed. Mainly because of the engines. One point in favor of the A-10 versus the Turcano is the amount of ordinance carried. Plus if you really want to suppress the bad guys, just ring up an AC-130
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  4368. Not only a 5th column but a 6th and likely a 7th one too. The same applies to New York, LA and other places.
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  4369. Subtractive manufacturing (stamping, machining) really doesn't produce waste. The processes produce high value scrap materials with very high recovery rates. Plus the different materials are segregated to a large degree. Scrap steel from stamping operations typically will get run thru a compactor to reduce volume resulting denser scrap that gets sold on to steel plants. Steel is still one of the largest recycled items worldwide
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  4370. Tulsi experienced the same thing Ronald Reagan experienced. They did not leave the Democratic Party. The Party left us.
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  4371. Joy Behar does not understand what it means to be an American. It's not a race (1). It's not a political affiliation. It's an attitude. 1) God, I hate that term. Last I looked we are all Human Beings.
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  4372. Given a needed requirement I'm sure the US could have built a comparable airframe. The internal transportation network of the US made the requirement unnecessary. The C-97's converted into the Guppy versions proved adequate for any need.
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  4373. How to avoid the problem of filters on Instagram etc. Do not use Instagram, Twitter, TicTok etc.
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  4374. It's too bad there wasn't a racing series in ths US restricted to domestic six cylinder engines and chassis. Think of it as a companion series to say the Trans Am series. Let's call it the TA 75. 75 as in the maximum displacement is 75% of the Trans Am 5 liters. This could have lead to manufacturers building performance versions of their inline sixes. Imagine an inline six with a 4.00 bore and a 3 inch stroke. With a "factory" crossflow head (it is possible)*. Think of of such an engine as a six cylinder version of a Boss 302 or Z-28. Of course Mopar would have been stuck with the 225 with that loooong stroke. The only people who really tried to build a performance oriented six in the US at the time was Pontiac with the OHC. *there have been people who have put V8 heads on inline sixes.
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  4375. I think the last bit was intended as sarcasm.
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  4376. I remember during the CF hype there were academics claimng that cheap Cold Fusion would be one of the worst things in the world as it would actually make it possible to raise living standards world wide
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  4377. Is anyone really surprised that this could happen in Illinois
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  4378. Why 5 vs 33. Given the tech at the time it had to be far easir to control the flow of fuel and oxider to the engines with just 5 engines
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  4379. In 1979/80 when the US autoindsry was trying to reduce weight in their engines they all went to lightweight thi wall castings. The problems came in when they attempted to macie these blocks and heads. The conventional machining approach at the time was to perform the initial machining operations on a machine called a broach. These had two fixtures that swung up and down to first machine the top deck and side pads. The second would cut the pan rail, beaing cap seats and half rounds. The cutters resembled nothing more than a very large file. I know the AMC blocks and heads initially could not be machined simply because to much material had been removed. Eventually we solved the problems. All during ths process we had engineers from Ford, GM and Chrysler show up. Everyone was working on the same problem. This is one reason the first year Eagles have a heavier engine than the subsequent years
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  4380. As someone else suggested it could be the surfaces could have been dirty or there was a serious issue of war page or damage. Cast iron will flex. But not much. I'm also wondering if the torque wasn't high enough.
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  4381. All lawyers are SOBs. And l want my lawyer to be the biggest SOB of all. Car salesmen Real estate agents Not a profession but HOA board members Activists Politicians Journalists
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  4382. For the budget minded modeler there is (or was) a free (can't get much cheaper than that) model of the hound from hell available at https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.papershipwright.co.uk/product/hmvs-cerberus/&ved=2ahUKEwj5x6ecsd3wAhUCr54KHa1GBkUQFjAhegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw1cqlK-A72r_qCnR4Coru5k. In 250th scale she is easily scalable up in size.
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  4383. One thing I've always been curious about. For years I've heard people on the Left bitch about Wyoming having 2 senators and only one representative in the House. But I never hear a word about Vermont. I wonder why?😕😕
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  4384.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Oh I'm reasonably sure the general statement has been in use in form or another sense, oh I don't know. The Neolithic probably.
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  4385.  @daieast6305  Plus he used his white privilege to contract polio. Polio is racist. Liberate polio for all! 😖😖 PS I'm a polio survivor
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  4386. They say because a major component of their supporters are that stupid. Add in the Blue no matter who is usually enough for them. Not that aren't any Red no matter who out there. George Washington for dreaded the rise of political parties.
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  4387. ​ @ironphill911  And he probably supports assisted suicide.
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  4388. Could the war have been ended without dropping the bombs? Yes. And it certainly would have cost more lives. Say the US attempted to starve and blockade Japan into surrender. 6 months minimum. 3 million, 4 million deaths in Japan. Plus the dead in China.
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  4389. Did any German subs ever try to penetrate Neh York harbour ? Or any other US ports. I would assume that the USN had pretty active patrols
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  4390. Well we grow enough corn and have plenty of fresh water. Surprising amount of wineries have popped up.
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  4391. Could one reason the Toba Volcanic Complex along with the great number of volcanoes in Indonesia have something to do with the rate of movement northward of the Australian Plate? If so this makes me wonder about the volcanic situation slong the southern margin of the Asian Plate when India was charging north.
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  4392. If the critics love it. I generally find I hate it. If the critics hate it. I enjoy it.
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  4393. Rube Goldberg designs a machine gun. Although this looks fairly same next to JMBs Potato Digger
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  4394. I'm from Wisconsin. When these asshats had their fun my first thought was "man I wish the 2nd and 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry along with the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry were on hand"
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  4395. One thing to keep in mind here. The F1 examples. These are typically engines that are using bore to stroke ratios that can approach 2:1. In the past I have heard the ideal stroke to rod ratio is around 1.75. Looking at data on the Stan Weiss engine data site the only engine I can find that hits that is an AMC 232. Looking at V-8s the Ford Boss 302 had R/S ratio of 1.7162. The Chevy DZ 302 was 1.8968. Two engines with essentially the same bore and stroke. The other Ford 302 was in the 1.6's. One reason the Fords had the lower ration was the significantly shorter deck height of the Fords
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  4396. What really caused a lot of water pump failures comes down to two things. One is the mechanical seal failing between the impeller and the bearings. Second is the belts start to slip and idiots overtighten the belts putting a heavy side load on the bearings. The material in the housing itself gas little to do with it. I've seen guys build minature drill presses using water pump bearing assemblies (1) as the spindle. Turn or grind a taper on one end to mount the chuck. 1) The shaft and bearing assembly came in from the manufacturer as a unit. Sealed bearings. The weep hole in the pump should keep coolant away from the bearings but shit happens.
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  4397. They forgot the Pratorians used to pick new emporers
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  4398. And how many of these "elites" are employing illegals and just where do they stay.
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  4399. Judging by the foliage I think this one was in the can for a while.
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  4400. And neither one of those dogs were trans. Or likely have green hair
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  4401. Plus to run the toxic charity programs they get to hire all their friends with worthless degrees at 60k a year.
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  4402. God knows Jess would never identify the likely problem. It might cost a few votes.
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  4403. We can guess. Even make educated guesses. But they are still guesses. Here's my guess. Older hunter talks to young men just getting ready for their first big hunt. The older hunter points to the skull of an aurochs. Then at himself and the others of his generation. And tells the youths. We did that. We killed a bull. We lived. The bull died. We ate. We got the hide. Now can you striplings live up to that. Trophies and motivational tools.
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  4404. ​ @jme104  French Polynesia also saw above ground nuclear testing after the US and USSR signed the first Test Ban Treaty. While l could support New Caledonian independence in the real world they are going to need some sort of "sponsor" on the international scene to avoid getting exploited by somebody. And the most likely suspect would be China.
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  4405. I'm surprised Scott didn't call the trunk the "Boot".
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  4406. Why did I know HMS Barnham would make a (dis)appearance Your enemy if sunk, everything Your ally if sunk, dumb luck
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  4407. 120,000 years ago just what were the climatic conditions world wide. Was the Earth in period of Glacial Advance or an Interglacial. This factors into just how humans (1) would have reached Australia/Sahul and when. And this is important because people would not just have sprinted south. One of the big factors is sea crossings. Some obiviously along the Wallace Line appear to have been deep water channels even at glacial maximums. Others would have been dry land. Any deep water crossing implies one of two things. Either accidental drifting of small groups clinging to vegetation swept out to sea. Or the existence of some sort of water craft ranging from rafts to dugout canoes. Just how far bavk do water craft go? 1) How do we define human. Homo Sapiens? Inluding Neanderthals, Denisovans and Erectus?
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  4408.  @HighlyCompelling  I was thinking the time period was around an interglacial. Tue one between the Illinios and Wisconsin (1). I have seen there is speculation about just how far back the use of watercraft goes. The definition of watercraft can vary from someone hanging on to a log to actual boats. One thing that raises questions about the use of watercraft is the finds of early Homo on the Philippines. I'm pretty sure there is at least on deep water passage between the Philippines and the islands of Indonesia. Another is just how did Homo Florienses arrive on Flores. 1) The terms really are not used anymore but do provide a useful place holder for eras of glacial advances. But the periods of advances include pauses, meltbacks and advances.
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  4409. I have thought for a long time this is a far better option for an electric vehicle than chemical batteries. Just make sure they operate in pairs that spin in opposite directions. But if solid state batteries come on line maybe not. To me the major advantage for flywheel systems has always been recharge time. If you could pull into a charging station and plug in then spinning up in about the same amount of time it takes to fill your fuel tank that would convince a lot of people right there
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  4410. Ironically l have card model kits of two of the classes of ships in this video. The USS Oregon of the Massachusetts Class and double kit of the SMS Wespe and Natter. The Oregon is by Digital Navy and the Wespe is by HMV. Both are 1/250th scale
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  4411. In my mind this purely a case of Presentism. Judging the past solely by the standards of today.
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  4412. Of course the Grmans would have produced this. There aren't enough parts!
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  4413. There is a Scottish survivalist channel Fandobi Bozi iirc that has a recipe for sonething similiar.
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  4414. Uncle Tony, if you ever have to pull the engine out of one of your Jeeps. The block and head are powder coated. Done at the fo dry prior to machining.
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  4415. Forgotten Weapons suggested turning golf courses into recreational mortar ranges during a 50 mm mortar video
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  4416. Imagine a world were certain resources are no longer a source of potential conflict. But humans will likely find some thing else to fight about.
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  4417. Yes Metra still runs from Kenosha to Union Station. Only thing is you stop at every single station. Still it is convenient if you work in Downtown or you are going down for an event. I worked with a guy that lives in Padock Lake. When he had to travel for work he would take the Metra from Antioch to O'Hara. I think he had to switch trains once.
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  4418. From the 70 season the Mopar, Pontiac and AMCs all ran motors in TransAm that featured shorter strokes than the Fords and Chevies. Pontiac was shorter than everybody else. In fact the short deck Pontiac 303 came out in the first generation Trans Am
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  4419. Damn straight. Putting pineapple or spam on pizza is just soooooo wrong.
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  4420. AWD & 4WD (not the same thing) are nice. But they are not a cure all. They can engender a false sense of security. I had an XJ for a few years. Bought it used and I loved it in winter weather (1). Only had the 4 cylinder so it wasn't overpowered. 1) Except for the heater. Took forever to warm up in zero F and below weather.
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  4421. Remember in the debate they asked Trump who he wanted to win the war in Ukraine. He answered he just wanted the war to end.
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  4422.  @donjones4719  There was that actor who killed himself in the 1980s by firing a blank loaded pistol against his head. Also I've heard the term "rubber gun squad" used in relation to police officers that were put on administrative duty to keep them off of the streets. And CGI guns are entirely PC.
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  4423.  @donjones4719  There is one thing that any one who is not familiar with firearms in the entertainment industry who us working on a filmor TV production should be for ed to learn is just how dangerous a blank round can be. True there is no bullet involved but there is still an explosion. Plus film and TV production companies have long had prop men who where responsible for any firearms being used.
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  4424. I know the Germans messed around with test launching bombardment rockets from U-Boats. I wonder if the US Navy ever thought about mounting racks of these types of rockets on their fleet boats for hit and run attacks on isolated Japanese held islands. Rather than devote a carrier task force to the purpose. Even have the launch racks for the rockets detachable after expending the ordinance. Surface and shoot up target. Likely airfields. Submerge and dump the racks which then sink and continue with the patrol. Or is a dumb idea.
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  4425. Some of our best shipyards are in France. Every British captain during the Napoleonic Wars
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  4426. I remember the article in Road & Track on the Jerrai. For weird uses of a Ferrari in a mid engined location theres the 59 or 61 Rambler Ametican 2 door wagon Ferambo
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  4427. To sink them, one of them anyway. Tow it to Chicago, exhibit to the public, moor it in the Chicago River and then tow it out into Lake Michigan and sink it with naval gunfire from the former steamer Eastland
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  4428. Steel cases?
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  4429. And from those pockets of leftism in all states. Primarily communities with state run colleges and universities.
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  4430. I cant believe he wanted Oregon for the coast. Great spot for water sports.
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  4431. For anyone looking to getting into ship modeling an inexpensive way to start is with Card Models. Available in printed book form or digitally. Formated in either A4 or A3 with a few in US Letter. Subjects rank from rowed galleys to modern vessels. Scales range from around 1:1000 up to 1:100. Digital Navy in the US used to offer their models in CD format. But I'm not sure on just how active the Website still is. They have a very nice kit of the Fletcher Class in 1:200. Other publishers are European. Polish for a lot of them plus German. The common scales are 1:200 and 1:250. Size wise a 1:250 scale model of USS Arizona is around 29"/725mm long. One major benefit of modeling in card. No painting unless one goes nuts. Plus since you are printing your own parts if you mess up. Just print more. The link has a subforum for ship modeling. Actual subjects range from figure/animal to ships, aircraft, buildings, locomotives or anything else you could imagine. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.papermodelers.com/&ved=2ahUKEwil9a6F6euKAxUTq4kEHWGzDn0QFnoECCUQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw0CRIB-O00eFbFB9BRT2Ryg Also people have been known to use card model kitsas the basis for scratchbuilds.
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  4432.  @themeatpopsicle  STP!
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  4433. Competition for the screaming woman meme from the first administration
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  4434.  @anthonyxuereb792  Or sleeve valves 😁 It was learned in the 1930s that once a cylinder got so large normal poppet valves just didn't do the job. This mainly affects aircraft and large stationary engines. Hence engines such as the Napier Sabre, the Rolls Royce Eagle, the Bristol Centaurus. US manufacturers aside from Pratt & Whitney tended to avoid them. They involve increased manufacturing problems. P & W was developing two H-24 cylinder sleeve valve liquid cooled engines for the Navy and Air Corps. These where dropped in favor of the R-4360 28 cylinder radial. A true Hemi with the valves rotated around the axis of the cylinder to improve cooling. Not a bad idea on a 4 row radial
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  4435.  @nerd1000ify  Yes I know about the limitations of sleeve valves in automotive use. Between variable lift, valve timing, intake management, direct injection etc today's automotive engine is far superior to the engines of 40 years ago. In aircraft engines it was found that once you get above a certain bore size poppet valves simply cannot provide enough fuel/air mixture into the cylinder. Plus with larger valves you get into the problem of higher and higher spring rates and other issues. And yes I know about the centerless grinder issue. Although I thought they were Nortons. The Sabre may have been a fantastic engine but was it really more effective than a Griffon. I am of the opinion the best A/C engines of the period were the Merlin, the DB-601, the BMW 804 (?) And the P&W R-2800.
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  4436. Aside from driving the car when it had issues. They were dumb enough to post the video afterwards? A true Forrest Gump moment.
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  4437. Hennipin County is in Minnesota. The county seat is Minneapolis.
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  4438. ​ @dannysdailys  My 2011 T&C still puts out 90psi when cold. Now I'm getting misfires. Time to change plugs.
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  4439.  @magneticpulseengine3605  I remember the first time l saw one of the 2.7s. 6 bolt mains. Forged crank. Floating wrist pins. Oil squirters on the rods. Cast pan and windage tray. Deep skirt block. And then they put the water pump internally. 😞
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  4440.  @kurumachikuroe442  And here I thought you meant a railway gun
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  4441.  @hexazalea  Stop dropping asteroids on my ship!
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  4442. Maybe she can get that recruiter who put out the toxic TikToc post to come to her aid.
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  4443. Arguements against flat roofs 1) Leaks if water can settle against perimeter walls. 2) Snow build up and having no where to go. In the wrong climate can lead to structural issues. 3) Esthetic reasons. This is mainly a residential and climate reason. Arguements for flat roofs. 1) Cost of construction. 2) The mounting of air handling machinery and electrical equipment. The second is more an industrial issue. 3) Use of roofspace for social reasons. This can also be accomplished by means of a deck over a sloping roof. In reality in any climate with significant percipitation no builds truely flat roofs.
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  4444. The woman driving in the thumbnail is going to replace the wailing woman from the inauguration as a meme
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  4445. As much as you fly has this caused you any issue with airport security.
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  4446. What ever pistol Bond carries it can not spoil the cut of his tuxedo.
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  4447. Spelling Bee in the Marvelverse. How do you spell Gotham. P-O-R-T-L-A...........
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  4448. Instead of the multi position cam just go to a Freevalve style set-up.
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  4449. I don't blame Hanks one bit. In fact it surprises me that numerous paparazzi haven't been punched out over the years.
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  4450. Wow! They had rocket turbos in 1862. Who'd a thought 😖
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  4451. I want the money got scammed out of once.
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  4452. Better 50 Starships.
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  4453. I think they have plenty of other slurs they can throw around.
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  4454. And he liked chocolate. How could anybody who likes chocolate be a bad guy
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  4455. In addition to the X layout there is the inline radial. Another early X is the Allison X-4520
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  4456. Massively overweight contributing to food shortages.
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  4457.  @carllinden533  Side load wear and piston slap are two different things. Piston slap is the piston rocking side to side as it goes up and down. The amount of rocking is directly related to the side clearance between the piston skirt and the cylinder walls. Piston skirts actually are not round. they are slightly elliptical with the major axis of the ellipse at 90 degrees to the wrist pin. Also since the advent of modern cnc controled turning equipment the skirt may also be barrel shaped top to bottom. The turning machines i was familiar with used an amplifier to control the tool when cutting the skirt. The service engineer when in house during install had a special tool that he could load in. After machining the skirt would have G & L on one side and Giddings and Lewis on the other.
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  4458. If a medieval meal has lentils in it. It sucks totally IMO.
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  4459. The Chrysler Big Block only weighed around 35 lbs/16kg more than the 4.2 liter Jag
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  4460. Notice they are not going to countries that are dominated by a certain religion.
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  4461. And now shooting is Ian with the Tiny Cricket
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  4462. Edwin. The third has the potential to feed the first two. Anyone who fails to understand that isn't a cretin. They give cretins a bad reputation. Is every "asylum seeker" going to be a potential criminal? Probably not. Personally l wonder how many already have relatives in the UK or US or Ireland. Or any other nation state they flock to. But if one in ten. Or one in twenty will turn to illegal activity. Then that's too many. They used to sell immigrants a song and dance about the streets paved with gold. Now it's a song about EBT cards, government support and housing. And once your settled in bring the family. In my opinion the US, UK, Ireland, Iceland, Oz, NZ, and other countries are being played for suckers. Being a genuine asylum seeker used to be pretty rare. Now the globalists and open borders advocates have turned it into a universal "get out of jail free card".
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  4463. There was one other production OHC engine in production in the 60s in the US. Willys built a 230cid inline 6 with SOHC, a hemisperical combustion chamber and only 6 lobes on the cam. One lobe operated both the intake and exhaust.
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  4464. Well horses and camels did exist in North America pre the mega fauna extinction (1) event at some point. I cant recall the current accepted date for their disappearance right now though. Don't get me started on the whole Atlantis thing. OK, maybe I will. Plato imo used the tale as a morality play to display the effects of societal hubris. The whole supposed date coincidence with the YD is nothing more than accidental. That does not mean I do not think that civilization (2) does not go back that far in some form. 1) As to what caused the mega fauna extinction at the YD I think it's a combination of things. A sudden shift in climate, the truely massive floods that happened when melt water was released, and human predation on the serving prey species. As to whether or not an impact event happened I think I will let the experts hammer that out. 2) First we have to define just what "civilization" is. If nothing else Golbeki Tepe and other sites show something was going on. The stone circles that Bob Ballard found in Anzac Cove off of Galipoli clearly show that there sites now underwater that have the potential to have a major effect on our view of pre-history.
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  4465.  @TieYourLaurenDown  I dont think they were either. I think Plato was creating a fictional society for his morality play. Does that mean Plato didn't have some knowledge of the disaster that swamped the Minoans? He may well of had some knowledge that a society had existed. After all the oral tales that were turned into The Illiad and The Odessy were certainly around. There were probably others that we don't know about simply because the oral tradition died out and any surviving written copies were lost. I'm highly skeptical of the fringe. Even the ones like Dunn who do raise reasonable questions about how certain artifacts were made tend to go off the deep end. When it comes to artifacts my response is, OK, if the Egyptians* had nothing but copper or copper alloy chisels, saws, sand and dolorite pounders use those tools and reproduce the artifacts in question to the same standard. That in my opinion is not fringe. That falls into the range of experimental archeology. *just the common standard go to for the fringe
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  4466. Could sedentary agriculture develop multiple times. Definitely. Seeing as it likely did in the Middle East, Asia, New Guinea, Meso and South America. Now define agricuture.
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  4467.  @Great_Olaf5  I never said they were domesticated. The horse evidently went extinct in North America 10k years ago plus or minus. Camels went extinct about 13k years ago.
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  4468. The reason the early Martini-Henry .577-450 cartridges look like brass foil is because they are brass foil.
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  4469. I will give Musk and SpaceX their due for their accomplishments. I also realize that or ideas of his are around. HyperLoop anyone. I also think is Mars plans are an example of idiocy. Its not that l think humans will never explore Mars or utilize its resources. Provided its a deadrock. Its just the idea that it can be done with SpaceX StarShips is a problem. SpaceX has a number of hurdles to get over. And l know that StarShips have yet to achieve LEO. None of the flights so far were planned to reach orbit. The hurdles. 1) The resuablity goal. It will be a long time before spacecraft begin to approach the turnaround time that commercial aircraft have. And by approach l mean an order of magnitude. Or two orders. 2) Engine reusability. How much inspection and checkout do the Merlin engines on Falcon and Falcon Heavy require between flights. So far no Raptors have been reused unless the next flight intends to reuse anything from the booster that was caught. Setup a Raptor on a test stand and run it through repeated cycles of flight regimens. And proposed ispections inbetween flights. Test it until it breaks. Rememder the engines are also seeing stresses from the booster returning assend first at supersonic speeds. 3) Refueling on orbit. This is big deal maker or breaker. I suspect that having the vehicles mated side to side will be a problem. How are you going to transfer the fuel and oxidizer? Both of which are cryogenic. I'm not an aerospace engineer. But it seems to me once StarShip is operational it would be worthwhile to develop a pure cargo lifter version. The cargo version launches and docks to structure that can take say eight cargo versions. The structure is then spun up to provide just enough spin gravity to make pumping fuel and oxidizer easier. House the cargo versions engines in a seperate pod that can perform a balistic re-entry for reuse. 4) The Life Support System. Just how much work has SpaceX done in this field. Probably more than we realize. And there are other hurdles.
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  4470. ​ @anthonycooper3072  Snowmen are racists. Until they get stained by exhaust fumes etc
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  4471. That s thing looks as chunky as Beoing's JSF entry.
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  4472. Well, l guess I'll just go to Door County instead for my cherry products. Saves me a trip on the ferry.
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  4473. When she gives her talks and workshops. Everyone should just be late, be disriptive and leave early.
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  4474. All I'm gonna say is I know I wouldn't want to do it. Plus it probably really wasn't all that good when new. How much lead is still on the car from when it was new.
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  4475. This is just stuff we know about. I suspect in early farming villages the path in front or leading to something had a name relating to it.
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  4476. When Wisconsin gained statehood they lost territory to the north, south and northwest. Thankfully th he area to the south included Chicago.
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  4477. I've been to a number of Brazilian style steak houses. Generally they aren't cheap. Drinks are pricey. But if you go away hungry it's your own damn fault. Last one I was at was in downtown Charleston SC. Can't remember the name but it was glorious. Excellent salad bar for some starters. Various cuts of beef, pork, chicken and sausages. Along with seafood. The baked pineapple is great.
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  4478. I hope he loses his son because he deserves to. But one thing for sure he has lost his mind.
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  4479. These cars should have been sold with boating clothes And standard A/C did not start with Lincoln, Cadillac or Chrysler. Lowly little AMC in the Ambassador. Nash also offered the first A/C with all the mechanicals under the hood
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  4480. Right up there with Planned Parenthood posting "How to wear a Strap-on"
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  4481. When l was about five l had a toy clock with a complete gear train. Been fascinated with gear trains ever since.
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  4482. The only thing on the Monitor that should or could be salvaged IMO is the engine. I it hasn't been already. The main things that were revolutionary about Monitor were its turret and the engine is really compact for its day. I know theres a running model of it on YouTube out there. Beautiful piece of work by the way. Kreigsmarine AA. 20mm in dual or quad mounts. 40mm Bofors in twin mounts. Heavy AA 88mm in turreted mounts. Semi-submercible warship. In combat we're going to get shot at. I know let's partially sink the ship! 😖
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  4483. Protesters
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  4484. No ammo shortage there I see.
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  4485. The XP-55 shows Curtis could think outside the box. The P-40Q 18 months earlier with a good version of the Merlin or a two stage/two speed Allison. Who knows.
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  4486. So for slightly more than the price of a decent chocolate bar from CVS you got a crappy 🔭. Now I know just what the initials CVS stand for. Crappy Vivitar 'Scope. And for those overseas drug stores in the US sell not only medication, perscription and over the counter, but damn near anything else. Including liquor
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  4487.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Where did you find them? Aeroplane Modeler or a cereal box
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  4488. And when the grid collapses thheir solution will be to let us freeze in the cold and the dark.
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  4489. Defund, Disband, yadda, yadda, yadda. Look forward to 2021.
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  4490. This is tragic. Target is making shop(lifting) so inconvenient
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  4491. IDing rioter commiting crimes under the cover of a peaceful protest. Simple. As long as the officers are using paintball guns to shoot pepper balls. Equip them with paint balls that contain a UV sensitive dye. Shine UV on them and they will light right up.
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  4492. The guy that did this probably would have chopped and channeled a Bugatti Royale. I seriously doubt that was the only motor in existence. Any other ones were probably either cobbled together engineering mules or development motors to test manufacturing processes. I wonder what happened to the patterns for the castings
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  4493. Let's be honest. There isn't one politician, newsreader etc that failed to look well groomed since March. Nancy on the other hand most likely gets touched up at the funeral home.
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  4494. She never really had to run a competitive campaign. The one time she came up against real competition in 2020 she was the first or one of the first to drop out. In 2020 the Democrats had a viable female candidate but knew cked her under the bus because she would not toe the party line. That was Gabbard.
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  4495. That the USAF, DARPA, USN and the US Army expend money on black projects is nothing new. That some of this money goes to the aviation sector is nothing new either. It's a given or shou,d b that some of these projects go nowhere, some get into the actually building hardware or sub scale prototypes and some actually get to building real testable aircraft. Which may or may not actually have a chance of seeing service. Let's just hope if this aircraft has any chance of seeing service the program isn't as big a clusterf<>k as the F-35
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  4496. As to the question of keeping naval weapons manufacturing facilities active so you don't lose the skill sets. The machinery you can mothballed and put into storage. It's the skilled workers you really need to keep. On that note maybe a video in the future on just how naval artillery, especially battleship main armament was manufactured. In my mind the machining of the interrupted threads on the breach is a work of mechanical art.
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  4497.  @michelguevara151  Depending on the quality lathes can be had relatively cheap. High quality Tool Room or Instrument Shop. Not so much. But it's not so much the lathe. It's all the tooling.
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  4498. Well, at least in a monarchy there is the chance that the future monarch can be properly trained for the job. Rather than the immoral incompetent political whores we are getting now.
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  4499.  @malusignatius  The Canadian Armed Forces fell prey to this nonsense. It renders after action reports unreadable.
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  4500.  @rbebeabucay9356  Probably
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  4501. If it was necessary to clear space in the anchorage Arizona would likely have been raised enough to allow it to be towed out and sunk. Utah is still where she sank also.
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  4502. In a previous life he identified as a Greek chorus
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  4503.  @andysamet4554  St one time it was one of the most corrupt cities in the US. Then the Socialists got elected and and it went to being one of the best run and corruption free cities in the US. It's been on a downhill slide since the mid 70s.
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  4504. Can l assume that a contributer to this video was Francois Fooph, the Famous French Farter. Classical reference.
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  4505. FAFO.
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  4506. This is what happens when a major political party is run by the extreme fringe.
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  4507. Spoiled brats. They want to be one with nature. Drop them naked in the jungle. They'll be one with nature in a couple of weeks.
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  4508. CNC machines controlled by punch tape can trace their origins to Jacquard Looms used in the textile industry for weaving complex repeating patterns.
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  4509. Watch for any trials to have tame judges, tame prosecuters and tame juries.
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  4510. One proble i can see with this system is variable valve timing could be an issue.
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  4511. I hope you saw the infographic from the Smithsonian's African American museum.
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  4512. An intriguing piece of machinery. But one asks why? It seems overly complex for the job. Just my opinion.
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  4513. ​ @dow9386  Then work to find ways of doing things better. Instead of just bitching about it.
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  4514. Communists hate the West. Islam hates the West. That does not mean they are natural allies. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
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  4515. If hate speech laws are applied equally against any person that calls for violence that is one thing. In this case l suspect there will be no equal application of the law. The rank and file police officers may or may not approve. Enforcement policy will be their superiors. But the excuse of l was only following oeders has not worked since early May 1945.
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  4516. There is a drawing in one of DaVinci's notebooks that appear to be a concept for a reflector
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  4517. The Red Zones also excluded "low class whites". So it was kind of inclusive. We are making some progress locally. Not so much in seeing true mixed use (1) but in some mixture of single and mult iunit housing. The multi unit is usually side by side or upper and lower duplex. In fact we have older areas that feature large numbers of upper and lower unit duplexes that were built as multi generational homes. 1) We had large numbers of local bakeries, grocery stores, butcher shops and pharmacies at one time. Then the supermarkets came in and slowly one by one the small independents went under. They simply could not compete in terms of cost and product choice. We had an IGA store a block from the house, phamacies 3 or 6 blocks. Real city blocks not the 500 meter monsters now. And 3 bakeries with in 6 blocks. This was in a R1 zoned area. Plus parks no mater what part of the city were never more than 3 blocks away. Most of which were big enough to allow kids to play baseball.
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  4518.  @j_taylor  I didn't know about her.
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  4519.  @josephdedrick9337  Hence why the Navy said if you can figure out how to get there
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  4520. Just my opinion, the gen 2 Corvair 2dr hardtop was one of the best looking American cars of the 60s
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  4521. How many kids over the years have had models, art projects, baseball card collections etc tossed by somebody tidying up. Can you imagine just how much trouble you would get into now for building one of these in school.
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  4522. I'd consider one but then i would also have to put in a a high voltage charging system in my garage. Plus all EVs should be required to use the same style charginging port. Its bad enough with USB ports.
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  4523.  @Diogenerate  And assault isn't a crime?
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  4524. Some of these are the same nutters that have been involved in every protest movement since the 80s.
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  4525. Even a graze could wind up killing you. Infection was no joke.
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  4526. ​Blameless? No I don't think the US is blameless. Sometimes it was blatant pseudo colonialism. The US government using political and military power in the interests of companies such as United Fruit. Thankfully those days are past. But l think far more damage has been done by the residents of the US by those residents who use illegal drugs provided by criminal organizations in certain countries in Central and South America. As far as l am concerned any violence, any governmental instability or social instability that can be attributed to these cartels is partly the responsibility of their customers. Be they in the US, Canada or anywhere else.
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  4527. I remember a line from Last of the Mohicans about making the World England. Today its Make The West the World
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  4528.  @sledgehammerm29  Same Olympics team as Jim Thorpe iirc 1912
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  4529. Diversity is your strength. 😱
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  4530. Rioting for me but not for thee. Sounds about right.
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  4531. Just about any bolt action conversion is going to be a kludge to a certain amount. This looks like it would be expensive to mass produce. The bolt action conversion that really looked slick was the Manlicher (sp) straight pull Ian looked at in the Beretta factory collection
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  4532.  @bipolarflatbedder6622  I surprised the local cops, sheriff's deputies or state troopers let it sit that long.
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  4533. Rasputin and Christopher Lee. 2 degrees of seperation.
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  4534. Just think how peaceful the Middle East could be today if post WWll the nations there had welcomed Jewish refugees seeking a safe haven following the experience of the Holocaust (1). Welcoming a population of educated and skilled individuals could have done wonders for their economies. 1) l say could instead of would because playing that game is little more than wishful thinking.
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  4535. Future Darwin Award winners. These same activists who want the end to fossil fuel extraction will probably also want to block any major direct or secondary solar projects.
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  4536. Of the four major vessels at the Denmark Strait that morning only one would survive the year. Much less the war. Bismarck was sunk days later anout 1000 kilometers west of France. Prince of Wales would be sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers off the Malaya Pennisula along with HMS Repluse. The Japanese bombers were operating out of Saigon.
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  4537. To be honest it sometimes felt as though she was determined to outlive her son. As I am as American it is not my place to comment one way or the other on the institution. But I do think that one thing the United States screwed up on is the concept of honors for service to the nation. As long as the honors were not hereditary.
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  4538. I'm suffering from PTTS Syndrome. Post Traumatic Tayor Swift Syndrome. 😂
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  4539. Once the USAAC had the P-47 in service they had a better attack aircraft than the ones in development IMO.
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  4540.  @ganymeade5151  Just like people building homes in areas sussipable to wildfires out West. I for one still do not understand why we allow stick built structures in areas prone to tornadoes.
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  4541. A far different outcome than GM's parts bin special. The Fiero.
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  4542. Wisconsin is two states in one. The SE lakeshore corridor, Green Bay, Madison, LaCrosse* and Superior in one. Everything else in the other. The state is extremely schizophrenic politically. After all we produced Joe McCarthy and Milwaukee electing three Socialist mayors in a row. Plus Wisconsin is the only state in the country to lose a war they did not participate in. When the Trolls* in Michigan and the Ohioans almost came to blows over the Toledo Strip Congress award the Strip to Ohio. And gave the entirety of the UP to Michigan hence screwing Wisconsin out of vast mineral wealth in iron and copper. Along with Isle Royal. But it was a fair trade. They got the Lions. *Mighaganders are grouped into two tribes. The Yuppers in the UP of course. And the Trolls or Mittenites down south. Trolls, Three Billy Goats Gruff, the Troll lived under the bridge.
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  4543. When conducting training both of these were accompanied by rescue boats ready to pluck flegling aviators from the water. I wonder if you put your plane in the drink and were fished out you were washed out of carrier training and transfered into flying some sort of land based aircraft. So as not to waste the training alreafy invested in you.
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  4544. This assumes she had a grip on reality to start with.
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  4545. To the tune of "the Ballad of Davy Crockett" "Teddy, Teddy Wheeler!" "Wimp of the wild frontier."
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  4546. For years in SE Wisconsin we've seen an influx of people from Illinios fleeing high taxes. That's right they are moving to Wisconsin because their tax burden will be lower. Mainly property taxes. Plus a lot of them shop in Wisconsin because of sales taxes. The only thing is when they move here they start pushing for things they left behind. Sidewalks in areas that have never had them to start with
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  4547. There has long been a decree from the French Ministry of Industry that all French firearms, aircraft, weapons systems and automobiles have to have a certain amount of "weirdness" to them. Hence the LeClerc MBT has a main gun in 120mm Baugette.
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  4548. I can go into the local Menards and buy basically the same tool. And at the same time buy a crapload of shafts for polearms.
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  4549. Nancy's hubby is too damn old to be driving a Porsche. I'm 69 and I wouldn't drive one. Even if I could afford it. He's 82 freaking years old. No way he should be driving a high performance vehicle. It may be considered un-American by dome people but I happen to think that there should be licensing requirements for high performance street vehicles. We do it for aircraft. I know some states do it for motorcycles. The idea of people who have no idea of how to handle a car with some of the horsepower outputs sold today frankly scares me. If this is first chargeable offense (1). Then he deserves to be handled in the court system just like anybody else. He won't be going to jail. But he should be losing his license for the time period required under California law. With his money (2) the fines won't hurt him. I am assuming that California has mandatory counseling to determine if you have a drinking problem. If he is determined to have one he should be put into a counseling program (3) and be approved by said program before any chance of getting his driving privileges back. 1) Practially a 100% sure thing this is not the first time he's been under the influence behind the wheel. I think that it's pretty much assured if you drink and drive at some point you've done it. Has he ever been pulled over and let off? 2) How much is he going to bank on the chip stocks ge bought after Nancy helped get that subsidy bill passed? 3) I worked with a guy who got a DUI. When he had his interview he admitted he had a problem. The counseling agency finally decided that he no longer had a problem until after they had drained his bank account from +30K to zero. Thus was in the late 80s.
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  4550. That's a multigenerational thing it's the Simpsons. There are kids today whose grandparents watched the Simpsons.
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  4551. The Barra descends from the 144 CID Thriftmaster 6 in the 1960 Falcon. Uch changed of course but the same bore spacing (4.080"/103.68mm). The 240/300 are a completely different animal. There is a .400"/10mm difference in bore spacing getween the two designs.
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  4552.  @sandervanderkammen9230  Consider that BMW got their start in radials building P&W Wasps under license. Wright sold licenses to multiple engine builders and nations including the USSR and Japan. As did the British builders and the French. Plus a lot of aircraft builders shamelessly used airfoil profiles developed by the US's NACA.
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  4553.  @sandervanderkammen9230  I know that. I was merely pointing out the BMWs started on radials by building Wasps under license. Plus BMW along with the Italians stuck with seperate cylinder inlines long after cast block engines became not just cutting edge but pretty much standard.
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  4554.  @systemsproceed248  Add 20
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  4555. Almost every flight I've ever been on there is always one Friend of Bevis that will do anything it seems to get off of the plane first.
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  4556. ​ @TheOriginalFishPond  If it has sufficient mass to pull itself into a sphere it's a planet. I don't care what the IAU says. It may be small planet. But it's a planet. Besides it appears to have some sort of active cryovolcanism going on. Tidal flexing from Charon maybe? And there are "moons" that are planets. Titan, Ganymede, Europa, Luna etc. Same criteria. Again, the IAU can shove it.
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  4557. ​ @JamalGinsberg-HasidicHomeboy  It's a Transplanet! 😂
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  4558. Without the Bugs hopefully
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  4559. I do remember seeing videos of tests on Titanic's steel. Plates and rivets. The ductility test with the swinging weight they where anything but ductile. This was on the old real history History channel.
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  4560. What war is. We often seem to forget that the word great has multiple uses. One being of course the positive one. It can also be used to express a meaning of being large. Hence the Great or Large War. In the US we normally just call The First World War or WWI. Although I think its debatable whether or not it was the first. The first may actually have been the American Revolutionary War* or the prolonged Nepoleonic War(s) * the American Revolutionary War eventually involved all of the major European powers with the conflict involving action in theaters far removed from the Eastern Seaboard of North America
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  4561. But the rotary just sounds so freaking glorious 👍👍
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  4562. And here I thought it meant being "a chosen man"
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  4563. One reason I could see for the dovetails on top of the receiver is not only for an optical sighting system but to give the individual soldier optics for longer ranged observation purposes.
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  4564. Renewables, as clean as they can be (1) still have environmental costs. Anyone who doesn't recognize that is an idiot in my opinion. That said what costs are we willing to bear as a society. The costs of course are land use, any mining required for necessary minerals, manufacturing facilities, transmission lines etc. Of course some of these environmental costs are minor compared to some things we are doing today. As Iron Air batteries one big use l can see for them is units sized to support anything from single family homes to multiunit appartment buildings. A better option in my opinion than backup generators. If l were making the financial decisions we would be putting more money into renewable technologies as well as putting a lot more money into fusion research. Eventually fusion will come online. And when it does renewables may well become old fashioned. 1) Even the cleanest renewable etill is going to generate waste heat.
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  4565. My initial thought was the actor Kenneth Moore
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  4566. There is another issue with any potentially water tight compartments. They all would have been the absolute worst shape to stand up to pressure. Basically square or rectangular boxes. With flat sides.
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  4567. Now you need soft jaws 🙄
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  4568. What's amazing about it. The P-38 Glacier Girl was pretty much built new using some original parts. There are shops in the UK that will build you a brand new Spitfire around an original part and call it a restoration. The big problem in getting a flying completely accurate restoration might be in acquiring original instrumentation. There are rebuilt and possibly some new original engines available and they are only going to get in shorter supply.
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  4569.  @sidefx996  My restorations were rebuilding industrial machinery. Machine tools, stamping presses. Industrial centrifuges etc. Sometimes from the castings up. Re-machine and scrape the ways. Scrape bearing diameters in order to maintain center to line relationships. Repair or make new parts as needed within the capability of the equipment we had.
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  4570. Toyota's 2JZ. It may out of production but it is absolutely bullet proof
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  4571. My thoughts 1) The Graf Zeppelin would have been extremely effective at being an artificial reef. Provided she was sunk in shallow water. Given the loss rate of 109s from accidents I doubt they would last very long. A far better air group for her had she gone into service in my opinion would have been all FW-190 A4s with some possible torpedo bomber. The A4 coul have handled the dive bomber role better than the Stuka at sea. The only real problem I see with the 190 is it's relatively high wing loading iirc. Now I'll have to go back and go through Jerry's FW-190 series. 2) In terms of a cost benefit analysis the Bouge and Casablancas may have been the most effective ships built in WWII 3) The first "cruiser". Well I would consider the ACW Kearsage a cruiser. As for Battlecruisers I'll go with the Constitution. Outrun what you can't fight. Outright anything else. If we get into battle axes well that's highly subjective. 4) Building x ships instead of y ship. It's not just the hulls and dockyard space. It's the other stuff that goes into those hills. If the Kreigsmarine decided to build a bunch of destroyers instead of Bismarck and Tirpitz it would have been a better use of the steel (nothing Germany does affects the overall outcome of the war after 1941). But then you need to compete with sub production for power plants etc. 5) Carriers getting involved in a surface action. Unless they blunder into one there is no excuse for a carrier captain to allow his ship to get into a surface action with an enemy warship. Plus nobody really operated carriers all by themselves. If a carrier does get into a gun surface action with say a cruiser the two vessels early in the war up to say the end of 42 that would have had the best chance to survive would be Lexington and Saratoga given their 8" cruiser guns. Late war the Essex's might have a chance given their high rate of fire from their 5"38s. Glorious' captain if he survived should have been given a locked room and a pistol. 6) Shimano would have been a decently effective fleet carrier provided she was being used by the US Navy or the Royal Navy. The IJN simply didn't have the depth of pilot pool the US and Britian did. 7) Hydrofoils. I can see their use as missile boats possibly but as attractive as their speed capability is once radars and surface to surface or air launched surface missiles come on line they simply have no protection from these beyond dodging. Plus there operating costs at high speed I would imagine are rather high. Looking at the current Aimerica's Cup boats i am amazed just how much hull and effective sail area they can support and maintain on two foils much less the three. 8) Naval small arms. One advantage Navies have over Armies in this field is the small arms requirements for a Navy tend to be much lower in terms of the number of weapons needed. The US Navy was able to field the Lee while the US Army was still fielding Trapdoor Springfields (the US Army was not ignorant of the capability of repeating rifles, they had tested numerous trials guns). Today we see US Navy ships still carrying M14s in their arms lockers. The Goast Guard might have M16s or M4s inboard the cutters involved in drug interdiction. The Royal Navy probably still has L1A1 SLRs.
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  4572. Never play cards with him. You know which cards he's going to get.
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  4573. Take your skateboard to the protest. Transportation and weapon all in one! 👍
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  4574. Its a business. Not a CHARITY
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  4575. It's my understanding that French aircraft production policy in the 1930s was truely bizarre. Airframes would leave the factory in fly able condition minus armament and radios. They would then be flown to one location to have the armament fitted and then flown to another to have their radios installed. All meant to keep politicians happy I suppose.
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  4576. The most impressive thing is the autonomous docking. Just how much does the sample mass?
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  4577. A publicly owned museum whose exhibits are owned by the public decides on who get intellectual property? In a democracy the government is a servant of the people. Not people a servant of the goverment.
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  4578. Pumped hydro is great in the right setting. In reality is nothing but a hydro electric facility were you fill it during low demand hours. But you need the right topography (and the water). In some settings it might require enclosed basins. In areas along sea coasts or even large inland bodies of water water is not an issue. I think the idea of gravity batteries has merit. And that's what pumped hydro is. A gravity battery. While the idea of massive banks of chemical batteries sounds elegant. To me it sounds like an environmental disaster from the production and recycling standpoint. Plus what would the operating life be? Myself I would rather see a brute force approach using simple technologies. Using standardized designs would allow a gravity battery employing large masses. Say 500 metric tons of sand. Doing so would mean we could build these basically on an assembly line using modular components. 500 metric tons of sand is a cube roughly 8.55 meters on a side (1). Sand is cheap (any readily available mass could used). Steel is relatively cheap. Enclose the box containing the sand in basically an elevator shaft. Group four shafts together. Install the lifting motor and generators at ground level. It makes servicing easier. The four shafts form a square say 20 meters on a side. If built in or near an urban area wrap the exterior with office space, shops or living space. This provides an extra revenue source. Is this the most efficient thing we could do. Maybe not. But what would the potential operating life of such a system be.
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  4579. The Flower Class Corvette. HMS Pansy. Renamed before launching
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  4580. In the interest of diversity perhaps the Commonwealth of Mass could relocate 500 families living in the Boston area on public assistance to Martha's Whineyard. And if any of the families younger members are gang bangers so much the better. Let the Whinyard share in the strength.
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  4581. I wonder just how many people who consider themselves "woke" will vote for him simply to show their "support" for diversity. After all. Without diversity how will they get their next trendy restaurant.
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  4582. So just what was th conviction rate? 100% Or more
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  4583. And Epstein didn't commit suicide. Dead men tell no tales (or get any tail either)
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  4584.  @TonboIV  Oh, like the Quad Cities, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St Paul, Cinncinatti, St Louis. Not to mention Flint, Saginaw, Jackson, Racine, Kenosha, Gary, Joliet, Elgin, Green Bay, Duluth-Superior, the Copper and Iron region of the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin, Manitowoc, La Crosse, Janesville, Rockford and probably around 100 other cities.
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  4585. Maybe the Bee does surveys to find out what crazy ideas they're saying now.
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  4586.  @rogersmith7396  Lucas lighting. Dim, flicker and off.
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  4587.  @hubbsllc  The main point I was driving at (poorly) was if we were to use gravity batteries include them into structures we are already building. Or could be building.
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  4588. Burglarize Large Mansions
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  4589. Depending on the alloy used in the receivers the heat treating process would involve heating to the Austenizing temperature (1200 to 1400 degrees F depending on the alloy if memory serves and then quenched in either water or oil). This is the temperature at which the steel undergoes a phase change and goes from a face centered cubic structure to a body centered cubic structure. What this means is the alloying elements (the Carbon, Vandium, Chrome or what ever is in the specific alloy) go from being on the faces of a cube made up of 8 iron atoms to being inside the cube of 8 iron atoms. The quenching process drives the temperature down fast enough that the steel is unable to go through the phase change back to the face centered structure. However this process also introduces stress into the structure of the steel. This were the second part of the heat treating process becomes involved. The tempering or drawing back of the steel that reduces its overall hardness but also decreases its brittleness and increases its resistance to shock loads. And this is where I suspect the heat treatment process of the steel in the receivers was flawed. The temperatures involved in the tempering process vary by alloy but often also involve bring the steel to a prescribed temperature and holding it at that temperature for a certain period of time. And then letting the steel cool slowly. Over heating the temper will make the steel too soft for the intended use. And under heating will leave the steel harder and more brittle than the specification call for. Unfortunately the Rockwell Hardness tester was not invented until well after the Springfield '03 production started which would of allowed for spotting the problem early on.
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  4590. Heating systems for homes in the US vary by region to a large degree. Using natural gas in many areas is often the most economical means of getting the needed BTUs. Just how that heat is delivered can be forced air, radiant floor or baseboard radiators. The old cast iron radiators aren't used to much in new construction due to cost. In some areas electric baseboard is used but that will only be in those areas with cheap electricity. In the Northeast many homes still use oil. Generally I think today's homes built in the US are built as cheaply as possible.
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  4591. It appears to me that this book's target audience is members of the L&G community that are married* and have kids that are either adopted or that one of the partners is the father or mother. If there is any justice in this world their kids will grow up to be heteronormative. IE straight. One reason I have no problem with gay marriage is they should be able to have to go through possible bitter devorcises just like straight people.
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  4592. To quote Bull Halsey. "When we are through with them the Japanese language will only be spoken in Hell." Or words to that effect.
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  4593.  @rankoorovic7904  Yah, the 9th is definitely proto Dixieland Jazz. 😖
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  4594. The 3 year old that was killed in Chicago it is my understanding that his father refuses to co-operate with detectives.
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  4595. One of the reasons we are in this mess IMO is Russia wanting to stop the possible exports of natural gas to Eutope in the first place.
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  4596. It depends on who is involved. The Yemenis simply aren't worth their hate.
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  4597.  @gillian-n2s  Whose hate. The "progressives". The 'antifacists". The usual suspects that hate everything the West has ever done*. I use quotation marks because they do not want progress. What they define as progress will only result in universal poverty**. And they act like fascists when they seek to restrict the right of free speech of others. If they want to protest or chant. Fine. They have that right. What they do not have the right to do is. 1) Limit the freedom of movement of other people involved in their lawful business. 2) Shut down the speech of others because they judge it hateful, racist, transphobic, homophobic or any other excuse they can dream up. *l am not saying the West gets off Scot free. There are people and nations in the West that have done despicable things. Yet these "progressives" would ignore everything good the West has given humanity. And toss it in the trash bin for a failed political philosophy. A philosophy that fails because it ignores the very nature of human beings. **Tax the rich will become a sliding scale. Once the billionaires are taxed out of existence they will set their sights on the millionaires. Until they eventually get down to anyone who has any savings period.
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  4598. I suspect some of these protesters would have been rallying in support of Japan on Dec 8th 1941
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  4599. I drove by the area just before or after thi incident happened. I'm pretty sure they airlifted him out of the parking lot at Badford HS.
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  4600. The worst military aircraft ever ordered into production probably was built by Brewster
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  4601. Yes, that I find incredibly stupid. I'm sure that somebody had a good reason. Something like we must have the men used to handling the proper weights sounds likely. Ok fine. The ships spent a large portion of their time in port. Do the drills in port if at all possible with dummy powder charges set to the same weight with dummy shells. Plus if you are using actual charges and shells and then have to draw the unfired charges from the gun doesn't that sort of negate the purpose of the drill to being used to replicate combat conditions?
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  4602.  @PrototypeSpaceMonkey  And if those are unavailable they substitute diving boards from the Elbonian Olympic Diving team
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  4603. The days of the cheap barn find are pretty much long gone.
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  4604. No. Any car that finishes the race and makes back to the pits is too heavy. I don't car how far you are out in front if it breaks on the last lap you still get a dnf. Granitelli and the 67 Indy are th ed perfect example.
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  4605. The use of night vision by other nation states and even non state actors was going to happen eventually. Once one nations armed forces had the ability it was going to spread. Eventually I think we will see night vision HUDs that project on to a ballistic face shield proof against some or most shrapnel from hand grenades and mortars. For all I know they are already in the lab or on testing status. Plus the HUD would not be visible to anyone but the user.
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  4606. Another point of how long an actual duel with swords would last is just how much is required to meet honors sake. Unarmored vs armored. The unarmored individual can run a lot faster. Feet don't fail me now!
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  4607. just watch a flat earth video. Dunning Kruger plus Cognitive Dissonance
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  4608. ​ @peterkilbridge6523  Well if Kuffu was entombed in the Great Pyramid he was never buried either.
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  4609.  @samclark8468  When Boeing was developing the Dash 80 into the KC-135/707 they had to actually increase the diameter of the fuselage. The Dash 80 would have only seated 5 across. Of course Douglas was watching al, of this and designed the DC-8 to have a larger passenger capacity th as n the 707. But then Convair decided to go for speed. I'm not sure but the Convair 880 might still be the fastest subsonic civil aircraft to enter passenger service. Today it's all about how much fuel it takes to move x amount of weight x amount of distance unit (km or miles, your preference). The longest flights I've taken have been Chicago to Honolulu. Going there it is usually about 8 to 9 hours depending on headwinds. Coming back its usually faster.
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  4610. The abhore the use of slang or demeaning words yet they throw out words such as "racist" and "white supremacist " at the drop of a hat.
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  4611. And they will always scream get off our streets. Did they construct them? Do they hold title to them? Did they pay for them?
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  4612. ​ @ganjaericco  Marx was a dunce and a leach who lived off of rich relatives.
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  4613. In the meantime Chevy knocked it out of the park with the C8
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  4614. There's a gentleman in Green Bay, Wisconsin that built a running model of the Monitors engine. https://www.google.com/search?q=uss+monitor+steam+engine+model&oq=uss+mintor+engine&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0i13l2j0i22i30.13380j0j4&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8# Monitors engine not only had to be of low overall height. It had to be narrow enough to fit into the fairly narrow hull. Also in terms of a fairly small steam engine with a good power to weight ration one needs to look at the Doble steam cars. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doble_steam_car&ved=2ahUKEwjFkujcxI_wAhUCWs0KHWcDD1IQFjAAegQICRAC&usg=AOvVaw2oGS36VjpaQ3domemBTQZq. Plus the concept of double acting engines is not limited to steam power https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.gasenginemagazine.com/gas-engines/1907-snow-zm0z16jjzhur&ved=2ahUKEwjqlo6Vx4_wAhXaKM0KHcocC9IQFjAFegQIBBAC&usg=AOvVaw3PLTKQTvOY7unnd_excDxF And a minature version https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.artisanideas.com/product/9780941653411/Build-the-Snow-by-Doug-Kelley-a-Tandem,-Double-Acting-Engine.html&ved=2ahUKEwjqlo6Vx4_wAhXaKM0KHcocC9IQFjAHegQICRAC&usg=AOvVaw13Qiun_DQMM-ik1_YhK8se&cshid=1619015861650
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  4615. One advantage herringbone gears have over plane helical gears is they produced no axial thrust on the gear shafts. Th hey are often used in heavy industrial machinery such as stamping presses.
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  4616. My wife used to teach in Ashland. She hated it.
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  4617. ​ @arianwinanto6299  A friend is an author. He was doing a book tour in Germany and Austria. He was checking into his hotel in Vienna. The desk clerk asked his name and expression on his face went flat. They were expecting the other Michael Schumacher.
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  4618. And here I thought Illinois was pronounced "Sha-kaa-go"
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  4619. New mike's, good whiskey. New mikes, good whiskey. Whiskey, definitely whiskey.
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  4620. Is Oakland the Baltimore of the West Coast?
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  4621. As much as l dread a nuclear war even a limited one the thing that really scares me is the use of EMPs. Just how hardened is our power grid. Our communications systems. Very few cities in the United States would have running water much less functioning potable water. And then there is the waste treatment plants. All of which require electricity to power the pumps needed. Plus the electronics that control everything would likely be fried. And then there is the transportation networks. How many cars, trucks or trains would be functional. The lucky ones would be the dead. Even without EMPs consider a "limited" nuclear war between the US and Russia. Seattle and Charleston are toast. Sub bases for boomers. How many other military bases are close to fair sized military bases. How many vital Air Force Reserve units are based at major or secondary airports. Even non combat units such as transport or refueling units are targets. Honolulu is screwed with Pearl and Hickham right next door. San Diego. The Chesapeake Bay region. That's just what i can think of for the US of the top of my head. And now for the bad news. How many nations could or will have nuclear weapons in the next ten or twenty years? IMO Iran will. Anyone who thinks they won't is delusional. The coulds. Japan. If push comes to shove they could probably have functional weapons in a year from the time they make the decision. Tiawan. They have the industrial base. They have the capability. Just making the decision could force China's hand though. Brazil. Again the industrial base. The desire. That's another matter. The EU. Even though France has nucs would the EU pursue them. They certainly have the technology base. A lot depends on if the EU holds together. Saudi Arabia. If (when imo) Iran has an arsenal its on the table. Indonesia. That I'm not sure. I'm sure there are others. The point is even in the face of sanctions and agreements North Korea got the bomb.
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  4622. Given some of the past history of the area the comment about it being between two groups smells like gang violence to me.
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  4623. The slippery slope has gone over the edge into free fall. Without a parachute. Now we have a push beginning to convert pedophiles into MAPs. Minor Attracted Persons. Maybe all those allegations on Quorn were true. I'm really thinking Epstien did not commit suicide. He simply knew too much.
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  4624. Even with old machinery it's no excuse. The lifter bores should be perpindicular to the center line of the cam to around .0001 per inch.
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  4625. The GAA was 2/3rds of the still born V-1650 aero engine. The flat 180° crankshaft was needed because of the 60° Vee angle.
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  4626. Everybody needs to realize that EVs are the future. We may not be there yet. But it is coming. It depends on two or three things that need to happen. The first is battery cost and range. The second is charging time. The third is places to plug in. In terms of #1 there is a lot of research going on. Personally I would like to see more effort towards flywheel batteries running in vacuum vessels supported by magnetic bearings. These might beat the issue with #2. Ideally we want the ability to charge in about the same amount of time as it currently takes to fill with any hydrocarbon fuel. If we can beat #2 then #3 just might be a lot easier. Then it should be possible to convert existing gas stations to recharging stations. As it stands right now an EV is completely impractical if you live in an apartment. Being able to pull into a charging station and recharge the battery in about the same time as filling the tank eliminates the inability to charge the EV in the apartment situation. Theres also the political aspect. I can see the possibility of some locales banning ICE powered personal vehicles. I'm not saying I like the idea just that I realize it can happen. As to supplying sufficient electricity from clean sources (would you want to live next to a coal plant?). That is more a matter of political will than anything else. We could do it with renewables if we really want to. A better option IMO is modern nuclear plants using reactor vessels that can be built basically on an assembly line. There are several companies overseas that have plans to build nuclear power plants in ship yards. These are modern designs nothing like the current plants running today.
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  4627. I think this was the Duetch version of "please Mr Custer, I don't wanna go"
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  4628. I must be an oddity. In the past year I have bought three shirts to replace two shirts that I know I bought in 2002 or 2003. And one shirt that was at least 12 years old. The only items of clothing I ever replace on anywhere near a regular basis are the items that typically see the most wear. Socks and jeans. And the jeans typically last three to four years as they go from good to knock around to yard work* to painting. If you want to clothing to last. Insist on good quality. Plus if it is an item of dress wear. High quality with classic style never goes out of style. *we have dogs and my wife likes to garden. So sue me.
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  4629. For viewers living outside of the US (l won't speak for Canada or Australia) you need to remember that the US basically consists of 48 competing "nations" with different tax policies, labour laws etc (1). I'm not forgetting Alaska or Hawaii here but say a company is looking to build a new headquaters in the Chicago area and instead decides to relocate to SE Wisconsin (2). That company will be able to retain a lot of its corporate staff while benefiting from certain economic benefits. I'm generally opposed to corporate "welfare" but l also realize that states and municipalities will go out of their way to attract jobs especially if they have seen massive jobs loss in another economic sector. I've seen it happen. I've also witnessed one of the worst examples of corporate "welfare" in the Foxcon deal. Locally I've also seen Amazon build and expand a local distribution center. Sure its brought in a lot of jobs but most of them have very high turnover. There are also situations were private citizens can take advatage of differences in state tax policies. Live in one state that has no income tax, shop in the one next door that has no sales tax. Oregon and Washington come to mind. 1) Look at the number of corporations that are organizied as a corporation in Delaware due to the advantages Delaware's laws regarding corporations. 2) This actually happened with Uline.
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  4630.  @danweyant707  My father was in Italy and North Africa for over two years so he had enough points that he was safe. One thing people should remember is that even after Hiroshima B-29 raids continued right up until the cessation of hostilities. And there was some ground combat that occurred after the cessation. Units of the 32nd Division were in combat with Japanese units up u till the 16th of August. To my knowledge they were the last US forces to be involved in combat in the Pacific. The same division was also the first Army division deployed from the US to the Pacific commited to combat operations. More days in combat than any other US division.
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  4631. My understanding is that a liquid monopropellant* can also be a liquid that has the fuel and oxidizer combined in one. One such fuel/oxidizer mix that has been proposed is a Liquid Oxygen/Aluminum/Aluminium slurry for operations on the Moon that only involve to and from lunar orbit. Its specific impulse isn't great but the rare materials for the fuel are all around you. Both elements are extremely abundant in the lunar regolith. *Solid rockets are also an example of monpropellants that have their oxidizer mixed in. Another example is gunpowder.
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  4632. Remember. This will only be applied against one ethnic/gender group.
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  4633. I always wonder if any of these people pushing this have any children of their own. There have to be some that do. But you have no right to force your delusions on our children. Much less the rest of society.
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  4634. I know it probably requires a lift but does the engine and transmission in this car when it was built get installed from underneath mounted on an engine cradle?
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  4635. Similiar to SpaeceX's RUD. Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
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  4636. El Paso.
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  4637. Better you than me firing that cannon.
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  4638. Better a school spends money on new educational facilities than Astana ft I'm imo.
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  4639. From their viewpoint why should they. They were told they were welcome. Basically they heard "come on down" as was said on the old game show. Maybe now people in the so called sancuary cities will realize the idiocy of their position. This is not about cutting off imigration entirely. It is about managing immigration. The people wjo support the idea of unlimited immigration will never have to be subjected to the effects until everything has gone down the tubes. And then they will wonder just what the hell happened.
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  4640. The quality of "ice cream" varies widely in the US. In reality you can get just about anything from low grade ice cream to very good quality gelato without too much trouble. In addition their are also frozen yogurt and custard options. I don't even bring up the soft crap that Dairy Queen and others sell. You get what you pay for.
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  4641.  @dakkadakka9189  Until that German investor stepped forward BMW would either have been bought out by Mercedes, Rover or AMC. Or gone under. Yah, AMC. Actually at the time AMC was lightyears ahead of BMW and Rover in terms of body technology. Engine technology they were a pretty average US manufacture. AMC at the time was looking for European partner for assembly to break into the European market. Producing cars that were smaller than the average American car IMO they would have been well placed to be a major factor in the European taxi market. The reason that BMW was in such deep trouble was their insistence on being upscale. Such an arrangement would have been beneficial to both parties. BMW would have benefited from production technology. AMC from BMWs engineering expertise. This would have gained BMW an established US dealer network and AMC access to the European market. Remember this was at the time that AMC was developing their aluminum block inline six". They had tested OHC versions of the 196 and would test OHC versions of the later big bore short stroke 199/232. These were rejected for further development for cost reasons. OHC engines may or may not have fewer parts. Plus they may or may not be less expensive to manufacture. "The ultimate failure of the aluminum block engine in the market place had more to do with owner neglect than poor engineering. The engine required the head to be re-torqued every 6 or 8 thousand miles due to thermal expansion issues that nobody really had a handle on at the time. Plus due to the aluminum block it required proper coolant mixes. Typically most owners never read the owner's manual.
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  4642. Auxileries can be one of the most important types of vessels in any Navy. Colliers and oilers can keep your fleet at sea. What's the point of steaming X number of units of choice if once there you have to immediately turn around to refuel. (1) Replenishment ships providing food or munitions. Repair ships for the breakage/damage your own crew cannot handle for a variety of reason that can save a trip to a major yard. And having a forward basing option cannot work with out them. 1) It wasn't until nuclear became an option that cruising range could once again could approach Age of Sail ranges. Limited by food and water. When or if one of the smaller non Tokamak Fusion designs prove workable almost all new ships wouls likely be built using them. Lest you think that sounds like a pipe dream the US Navy was funding non Tokamak fusion research earlier this century. Funding was limited to a certain amount due their being a cutoff point above which all research funding had to go through the Dept of Energy. The DOE at the time was deadset (and likely still is) against all non Tokamak reactor designs. Contrary to what we hear it is actually fairly easy to build a reactor that achieves fusion. People have built them in home workshops. The difficult parts is getting power back out.
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  4643. Someday, someone will go to Mars and other places in the Solar System. But I don't think anyone should go until several things happen. The first is travel times have to come down to 60 days maximum. Second is some form of magnetic shielding needs to be developed to help protect crew and passengers. Third is more advanced pressure suits. The best option here IMO is the Mechanical Counterpressure Suit. Or the Space Activity Suit as some call it. These should allow a far greater degree of mobility and dexterity for the user. Fourth is some sort of reliable and safe nuclear power unit. This is pretty much a given for the faster trip times mentioned in #1. Fifth is a source of propellant that can be obtained at Mars. The best source for this may actually be the Martian moons. Sixth is a Mars SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) re-usable lander. And #7. Ships designed to provide spin gravity. This would allow mission personnel to adapt to 1/3rd gee on the trip out. On the return trip the spin rate could gradually be increased to 1 gee to adapt the crew to returning to Earths gravity. This would also negate the effects of prolonged weightlessness. Why there hasn't been research into spin gravity in the past is beyond me. It almost seems as if NASA is fixated on zero gee. One way to make ships with spin gravity is through the use of tethers
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  4644. My 1st wife died because of lung cancer. What actually killed her was an aneurism followed by a possible heart attack and pneumonia. But the DC says "lung cancer". I think this is what is happening with covid. Except the box gets checked covid.
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  4645. I can tell you one other thing. No Oscar nomination for you.
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  4646. I used to work for a company here in the US that builds and services machinery and systems for dealing with "waste" (1). The primary side of the business was dewatering machinery for "sludge". Sludge is what is left after sewage plants are finished with the bio side of treatment. If you want to get the solids (poop once it goes through the digesters) you need to dewater it. There are a number of ways to do this. One of the most efficient are large industrial centrifuges. That is what we built. Since I retired l think they are currently building machines with a diameter of around 1 meter on their spin axis. We also built machines for the oil recovery industry, various food and meat processing applications etc. The owner and founder had two sayings. If we had a job that came in that did not smell of roses. The saying for that was "it smells like money". The other was. "lt's a growth industry. Every year there are more people and they all poop. And somebody has to do something with it." 1) There us no such thing as "waste". What most call waste is simply a resource that no one has found a use for. Or is looking for an economical process to employ to that use. The chemical side of the PetroChrmical industry largely derives from research into finding uses for the gunk left over from refining petroleum. The problem comes from the people and governments that just look at "waste" and decide the cheapest option is to just dump it somewhere.
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  4647. ​ @phildavies6020  Especially in San Francisco.
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  4648. One more reason I do not watch the NFL anymore. National Foolball League
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  4649. I would think the magazine/ammunition hopper/qizmo latch on the side would be subject to accidental opening
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  4650.  @bellakaldera3305  It's possible there was a dry land connection with points west, possibly even Timor to the Southeast. It all depends on just how deep the channels are between the islands. For the you need a depth chart. Even then Indonesia is one of the most geological active areas on the planet. The may have been uplift and subsidence. During the Glacial Maximum the sea levels where so much lower that there was a large area of dry land in the region
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  4651. For those in the US old enough to remember there used to be TIMEX commercials that featured John Cameron Sweazey. The commercials were all about how rugged the watches were. Volvo ran a commercial that went. "We strapped this John Cameron Sweazey inside this Volvo......"
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  4652. In an alternate history. The thumbnail shows East End mob boss "Winnie the Pooh" Churchill arming himself with a Tommy Gun prior to a raid on the headquarters of "The Mustache" during the London beer wars of the 1940s
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  4653. I'd say the one crucial thing it lacks is a soul. Far too much belongs to the Blah House School. As to some of the organic structures. Most of which seem to be museums. I don't think they will age well.
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  4654. @@allaboutbritain3367 The problem isn't about restricting traffic in city centers in favor of pedestrians. The problem is authorities telling you that you can only travel outside of a certain area do many times in a certain period. What if the only job you can find requires you to travel daily? Is the state going to tell you that you have to sell your home? And move? Is the state going to tell you that you can not work in that field? Or you cannot work at all. If you answer yes to any of those questions then maybe you should question why.
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  4655.  YouTube Censors me!!!  No. The abolishment of capital punishment was due to a pretty much botched hanging in............Kenosha. Circa 1855
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  4656.  YouTube Censors me!!!  Normally when a person is hanged in an execution for a capital crime* the noose is supposed to be placed so that it breaks the neck basically causing death to instantaneous. In that case it wasn't. That's why it was botched. *In this case the condemned killed his wife and stuffed her down a well.
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  4657. I have no idea if it is not on the schedule but I'd really like to see a repeat of the Hubble Deep Field image.
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  4658. When we hear total production numbers for the Gooney Bird does it include the license built copied built in the Soviet Union?
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  4659. Nay sayers line up over here. What no volunteers?
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  4660. No. He was dumber than a box with no rocks.
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  4661. I am surprised in todays Woke world Christianity has not been declared 1) An organized hate group. 2) A terrorist organization.
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  4662. This world would be so different from our own its impossible to speculate on just what that world would look like
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  4663. I can just see this in wet freezing conditions.
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  4664. Probably the best kit car ever built
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  4665. I would assume that in any French village, town or city if they had a municipal water system that system would be damaged due to combat. Either from shelling or bombs. And if the mains were undamaged they sure would not have power to maintain the pressure in the mains. And as a result would be unable to supply water under pressure. Drawing water by means of pumper trucks would only be practible if there was access to a water course* or decent sized pond. Also given that none of the Allied beaches reached planned objectives on D-Day (I believe Utah came closest) these civilian fire brigades would gave been under threat of German artillery or possibly even small arms fire. That said I have to give them credit for thinking about it. *I can not see a pumper truck drawing from a well as it would likely drain the well faster the natural flow from the aquafir could fill the well
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  4666.  @chipsramek3868  Yes sink holes. Big enough to swallow Paris.
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  4667. And change the round to French .30 Long
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  4668. When drilling deep holes in copper use milk.
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  4669. Why not to buy one? Well in the States I highly doubt it would be road legal. You would be reduced to track days. Which might not be bad.
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  4670. If you're going to acquire a project car first and foremost find one with a straight and as rust free body as possible. Even for orphans there is still some NOS parts around. But the farther back you go the less there is. For some orphans the best thing is possibly to go the modified route. Especially if you can't find body panels, doors, hoods, trunk lids, glass etc. Let alone trim parts. An example would be if you find a 30 something Hupmodile coupe. Time to go street rod. 350 with a 350 trans. Mustang 2 front suspension*. A big three rear end. Then you can find mechanical parts anywhere. In terms of post war orphan brands your location might matter. Studeies might have more available in Indiana. The really prime Studebakers aside from Avanti's are going to be the Hawks. Kaiser's? I honestly have no idea. I haven't seen one in 50 years. Packard's. Good luck. Ramblers/AMC. There's more parts available but they have their oddities. Torque tube drive shafts and trunnion front ends. Even among the GM orphans there's going to be more available imo. For the really popular GM and Ford products you could practically build a completely new car from the parts available. But in the end it's what trips your trigger. It's about what you want. Not about what every body else wants. I worked with a guy who had a '37 Chevy with the standard 350/350 combo. He sold it to his nephew. The nephew pulled out the 350 and put in an Atlas 4.2 inline. When one guy asked him why his response was "any idiot can stick an LS in". Another factor is just how active local municipalities are in getting rid of salvage yards. A lot of usable parts and bodies have gone into the crushers. *for a few years there was a trend to use Pacer front ends in Street Rods. Everything mounted to the cross member. Rack and pinion steering Everything in one package.
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  4671. The steering. I have no idea what shape the bushngs etc are in but the steering box is the same type used by GM (1). So a much tighter steering ratio is possible. 1) Some people claim that AMC (All Makes Combined) bought everything. They did buy a lot of components but for the most part engines, suspensions, rear ends were all built in house. There are persstent geniuses online that are positive that AMC bought 327s from Chevy and 390s from Ford. Or 304s from IH. The 327 they would have needed a time machine snce the AMC 327 came out 5 years before Chevy's.
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  4672. That thumbnail reminds me of a still from Triumph of the Will
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  4673. She's sucking money off of her audience. Most of whom likely can not afford it. Just as bad as the TV preacher's "send me money".
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  4674.  @hikelfin  Any evidence for this nonsense ideology? 20 genders? 50 genders? Or is it just 3 this week. If an Adult Human Male (aka a MAN) decides to have multiple surgeries, takes hormone regimens and dress and act like a woman (aka as an adult female human). He can do all of this but he still can not be a woman. The same applies to a woman going the other way.
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  4675. You have no "right to be offended" when we where children it was "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me". Today with TDS, the Twitter mob etc even being unintentionally offensive so mortally wound the ego's of some people that they go for the social media guns immediately
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  4676.  @C7Bang_Bangladesh  It's as confusing as "Who's on First"
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  4677. Volcanic activity effects the climate in different ways. Large Stratovolcanoes, Krakatoa, Tambora, Pinatubo, Mazama etc can erupt explosively sending not only gas but ash into the upper atmosphere. Shield Volcanoes and Large Igneous Provinces, the Deccan Traps, the Siberian Traps, the Columbia River Basalts, Iceland, the North Atlantic Igneous Province, Kerguelan Plateau, Ontong-Jave Plateau and others over time do not erupt explosively as a general rule. There are exceptions. A major explosive eruption on Iceland in the late 1700s is one. In general a large explosive eruption results in a cooling period. This can be a year or two with minor cooling. In the case of an extremely large explosive eruption such as Toba or Yellowstone the effects can last decades. Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) erupt in the form of flood basalts. These affect the climate differently. They expel large volumes of CO2, H2O and other gases. These gases will increase CO2 to much higher levels than today. 2000 ppm or higher. During the Miocene palm trees flourished in the Arctic. The whole of Earth had a tropical to sub-tropical climate. At this time there was a LIP in the Pacific Ocean that was sitting on a spreading center between the Fallaron and the now abducted Kula Plate. This LIP, called Siletzia , was formed by the Hot Spot currently under Yellowstone. Siletzia was active during the Miocene. This LIP was eventually over run by the North American Plate as an exotic terrane. It forms part of the Olympic Penisula of Washington. The Ontong-Java Plateau associated with the Louisville Hot Spot was active 120MYA with addition activity 90MYA. The Louisville Hot Spot is located approximately 140D West, 50D South. The Ontung-Java Plateau is currently in the area of 160D East, 5D North having moved East 60D and 55D North in the past 120MY. All of these LIPs can probably be related to periods of warm climate and the largest to extinction events.
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  4678. Pretty much all cars built in the '70s with the exception of some German and Japanese were crap
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  4679. 240Zs if driven year round in the northern tier of the US rusted completely away in about three years.
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  4680. Plus there is the old "we have no enemies on the Left". At least until the revolution is won. And then the knives really come out.
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  4681. Asian. Serve them some rice. Or is that cultural appropriation?
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  4682. Slip and slide with Powerglide.
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  4683. Live in an apartment building. Buy an electric vehicle. Now what do you do?
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  4684. In terms of man years the metal age is probably a lot more time.
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  4685. Would a Roman Embassy count as a outpost. Or private trading groups. I could easily see some Romans having reached India
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  4686.  @jefferyindorf699  That was the Oklahoma
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  4687.  @UncleTonysGarage  It would totally unbalance the handling. I worked with a guy whose stepson bought a Miata and put wider street tires on it. Was great when the roads were dry but very dicey on wet roads. Just not enough weight for the tires to make decent road contact in the wet. Although it could have been the tread pattern.
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  4688. Who pays attention to the critics anyway. They lost me at Conan the Barbarian. Stilted acting, great story and score. You know the score is good when symphonies are playing it 40 years later.
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  4689. ​ @skylarlambert1271  I expect most political candidates to try and tar their opponents with something. And l tune it out. One thing l do not want is for one party to be in control of the House, the Senate and the Presidency. Ever. Because having a divided government keeps the crazies on both ends of the spectrum in check. I hate to think what this country could become if either party ever gets a supermajority in Congress and holds the Presidency at the same time. I lived through that in 60s and 70s somewhat. Luckily most of the Democrats then by today's standards would considered liberal or moderate Republicans.
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  4690. ​ @DjHatZnBfan  It's been the goal of some Democrats.
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  4691. I wonder if John Moses Browning ever sat down and thought. "What if we extend the magazine and barrel, add a front hand grip. Put a stock on the frame and let the hammer fall automatically"
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  4692. The best pizza is what you like personally.
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  4693. Scuttled at sea surplus to requirements. The proper way to scuttle a naval vessel in deep water is via naval gunfire IMO. I think it is reasonable to assume the US Navy had large surpluses of 5", 6", and 8" shells on hand in 1946
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  4694. It will take a while to get competitive cost wise. One thing SpaceX has done with Starship is streamlining their build process due to their iteration test flight developing process. I doubt BO is anywhere near that mindset. Test,retest and test again.
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  4695. The idea that we exist in a simulation to me is naval gazing taken to ultimate extreme. And if are living in a simulation then just WHO'S simulation is it.
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  4696. What's that mechanical click after each shot.
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  4697. And the 1st Sgt carried a bull pup 2 pounder
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  4698. I still think if this is real and not snake oil it involves a sleeve with an eccentric bore. This eccentric sleeve rotates in the big end of the con rod allowing the connecting rod to have a longer effective length at various points in the rotation of the crankshaft And the this pops up in my infeed
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  4699. The phrase "far right" is the lefts current dog whistle. Racist and name a phobic having worn out their welcome.
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  4700. Can we say Self Canceled.
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  4701. Is it Portland? Or Port-a-Potty?
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  4702. Its assualt. Plain and simple.
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  4703. One ironic thing is that hair dye is probably made from petroleum 😅 All talk no solutions.
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  4704. What is the engine designed to do? What RPM range is it expected to operate in. Lower RPM OHV is perfectly acceptable. High output low displacement. DOHC w/4 valves per cylinder.
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  4705.  Dan Smulders  I fully believe in the future of the electric car when you can drive one in Alaska, Canada or Siberia. In the winter. At -40C/F (same thing). Or colder. Until then the IC engine will continue to be used. Besides, there are other areas where the IC engine will continue to rule. Racing for one. A major part of racing for spectators IS the sound. Somehow a 700KW electric motor just doesnt cut it.
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  4706. I worry about Antifa showing up in Milwaukee for the 2020 Democratic convention
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  4707. I literally just finished hearing Benjiman Boyce go through this
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  4708. Midnight basketball 2.0
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  4709. Restricting bombing to military targets sounds great. The problem is bombing accuracy simply was not up to the task. Also if you have a legitimate military target . Say a factory or factories producing war material in the middle of a city just how do you propose to hit the target and not have damage to civilian areas and housing. Another legitimate military target often in the middle of cities especially in the 1940s are railroad sorting and classification yards. These yards were critical to the war effort of every major country in WWII.
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  4710. I'll stick with Farm and Barn
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  4711. Once we have a decent industrial capacity off of the Earth we could be able to construct really big telescopes with mirrors that will dwarf the proposed ones. These could possily be a side benefit of the production of Solar Power Satellites that use a large thin mirror to concentrate sunlight either onto advanced solar cells or the heat exchanger of a thermal type of generator. Of course some in the science community and the general public will complain about destroying pristine examples of the early Solar System or "polluting" space. Yah right. Pristine examples of the early Solar System that have been blasted by impacts. A major impact on an asteroid distributes more "pollution" into the Solar System than most people could imagine.
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  4712. One good thing at least. The odds of either of these self absorbed individuals every raising a child is close to zero.
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  4713.  @tweakypoppy  Lucky you
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  4714.  @tweakypoppy  No, I just meant that at least he didn't have to bear the shame so to speak. I don't mind if celebrities are out spoken. As long as they have a clue what they are talking about. But their opinion isn't worth more than anybody else. And often less imo.
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  4715. The only fighters I remember seeing as a kid were F-86s at Truax Field outside of Madison WI. Deeper inside North America there was more SAM based point defense around major urban areas. In the 50s the Air Force started building Bong Air Force Base about 15 miles west of us. Cancelled before they even started pouring concrete for the runways. Now the site of a state recreation area and county golf course.
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  4716. How many military aircraft in WW2 were done in by engines that either arrived to late, failed to pan out or had their development abandoned. The US fighter proposals using Hyper engines come to mind.
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  4717. @@cancermcaids7688 Witnessed the by the licensed production of various designs by foreign governments. Primarily radials from Curtiss, Pratt & Whitney, Bristol and Armstrong it seems. Although the Russians did build an awful lot of inline V-12s. Primarily based on licensed built Hisso's iirc. They also bought licenses for the Curtiss D-12 and Conqueror if my source is correct. The Conqueror in US service was done in by the USAAC technical branch insisting on a 300°F/149°C operating temperature.
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  4718. They don't. The Small block has a 4.240 bore center. The Big Block is 4.750. The 350 Small block is a direct descendant of the 215.
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  4719. There should also be other casting marks on the heads. Some castings will have some sort of date stamp. There may be casting numbers. A lot depends on just what system the factory used to track parts.
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  4720. A mill is always better than a drill press. Inch versus metric. What ever floats your boat. Just be consistent. Limitations of drill presses vs mills 1) Bearings. A Drill Press is designed to take axial loads. A mill is designed to take axial and radial loads. 2) Table size. This is a major problem. Most drill presses have far too small of a table. One reason auxiliary tables are so popular. 3) Positioning the work. Unless you are using accurate positioning systems. It all comes down to good layout and eyesight. 4) Speed Control. Very few drill presses have variable speed. Belts are PITA on most drill presses to get the speed you want and the pulleys are small. With cheap belts difficult to get proper belt tension. 5) Table stability. A lot of floor and bench top drill presses secure the table with one screw about which the table rotates. Drill press srengths 1) Floor Space. They do not take up a lot if room. But do require room to the side. 2) The ability to swing the head or table around the column. This means you build a vertical workholding system for drilling into the end of long work. 3) The ability to change chucks. This requires a spindle with an internal morse taper. Also allows the use of other Morse Taper tooling. All that said l have one of the best imo benchtop drill presses ever sold. Variable speed 500 to 3000 rpm. Solid base with a tilting table. The table isn't the best but it fairly large. Conventional and dial type depth stop. It lacks a Morse Taper but l changed out the chuck to a decent quality keyless. The big down side is they do not make them anymore. Ryobi WDP 1850, don't laugh. Really deep throat capacity for a bench top. This was accomplished by putting the motor between the column and the spindle. Unfortunately they did not sell well. Price most likely. When it was dropped they destroyed the tooling. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://woodgears.ca/drillpress/ryobi.html&ved=2ahUKEwi3kerD94CCAxVgADQIHerZBFMQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3pJHN9EnWNrU6OYhjrOOpy
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  4721. Agreed. Desperate to the last man defenses. Plus anyone with any brains was likely trying to get as far West as possible.
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  4722.  @nightshade4186  I don't think it does. Actually in terms of the title number of deaths per year should also include civilian deaths.
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  4723. What is that old saying. "We have no enemies on the Left." Well, they are starting to find out that some of their supposed allies aren't.
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  4724. Looks like they do wonders for your vision. 😣
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  4725. Public schools exist for the benefit of the students and society. They do not exist to benefit teachers and administrators.
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  4726. Better that than the BorgWarner AMC used then. My 68 390 AMX (red on red with white stripes, #1215) had one. The only good thing it was a lot easier to drive in traffic. And I mostly drove sticks up to about 83.
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  4727. You won't get much compression with a 4.2 (258) piston in a 4.0L block. The bore is .125" bigger. This may be outrageous to some but if I were starting with a 4.0 I'd go the other way. Open the bore up as much as possible*. And destroke the motor by going to a 199 crank. Appropriate rods and piston. Custom cam. Need the custom cam because the head would get replaced with a new head built from two donor aluminum Windsor, Cleveland or LS heads for a crossflow head. Use a cam profile similiar to the Boss 302. The object would be to build a high rpm screamer. Back it up with a six speed transmission. Drop it in say a Rogue hardtop with IRS, new front suspension and a few other tricks and go hunting Beemers. Or use it for autocrossing. *take one block to the maximum overbore and another to 4.0" using sleeves welded or silver soldered in place.
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  4728. Da Mayor had his eagle eyes out for racists and anybody "disrespecting young scholars"
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  4729. DOHC engines go back to the 19 teens. Peugeot built the first one. The first American built DOHC to my knowlege was the Curtiss D-12 aero engine. Plus the Miller's and their Offy/Drake offshoots. The first Ford built DOHC was the GA series of engines. The 1650 ci V-12 aero engine that was still born and its 60° V-8 1100 ci brother used in Sherman tanks. From the early 60s up until about 71 is when the US automakers let the engineering departments play. All of the BigThree were making money hand over fist so they could afford it. In my cottage I find I am of two minds about the American performance cars of the 60s and early 70s. Big loud engines, crappy suspensions, crappy brakes, crappy handling, crappier tires. Built to do one thing for the most part. Go fast in a straight line. At least fast cars today have good handling and brakes. Along with better tires. But the idea of a 16 year old behind the wheel of a 396 Chevelle much less a modern Camaro, Mustang or Hellcat Challenger fills me with dread.
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  4730. What about multiple personalities.
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  4731. To be honest no elected representative can do what they "promise". Not all by themselves. Far too many people simply get their ballot and either check for a full slate or just check off for the party they favor. I swear in some solid districts or states Hitler could be on the ballot and win as long as he was running in the solid parties slate. I refuse to vote the way I did when I was younger. I much prefer to vote for the better candidate no matter what party they belong to. I also prefer to have decided government. If one party holds say the White House and the House I really want the Senate held by the other party. This helps keep the extreme fringe under control. Also I think in the US we need a new major political party. One that can draw from the moderate portions of both parties. Let the nutjobs in both the Democrat and the Republican parties stew in their own juices.
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  4732. Iceland actually had extensive forest coverage when the Norse arrived. Don't call them Vikings. To go viking was an action. After the Norse settled they gradually cut trees for fuel and timber until the island was stripped of its trees. And the Norse were probably not the first people to settle on Iceland. It is thought that there was a small population of Irish monks living there.
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  4733. Ian would have been SOL in the 1920s in terms of left handed shooting Rube Goldberg is still around to some degree in the Maker community today. Some of the useless contraptions that are made (marble machines come to mind) that still look cool in operation. One place you can see a very large collection of mechanical masterpieces from the late 19th and early 20th centuries is The House on the Rock in Spring Green WI Southwest of Madison. Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen is in the same area.
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  4734. Just how far back does one go. Far enough and we're all African.
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  4735. If one truely does not like hearing aircraft hold true true to your beliefs and never fly at all.
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  4736. The worst plague to ever strike humanity is stupidity
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  4737. Now it would be interesting when the game warden pulls alongside.
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  4738. I had one. And thought of it as a small station wagon.
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  4739. ​ @Occident.  Only they left out the frame, seat, chain, pneumatic tires etc.
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  4740. The Ferarri 312B/T was also used in a sports racer. A number of years ago a gentleman in France built a 1/3rd scale model. A fully functional running 1/3rd scale model https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DSeUMDY01uUA&ved=2ahUKEwinnMbZq4fyAhXaHM0KHaUKBzMQwqsBMAB6BAgIEAE&usg=AOvVaw3UJID8SJ300QA8bf0R0aTE
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  4741. The first "muscle car" is hard to define. A 63 Chevy with a 409? The 58 Rambler with a 327 (and no note the SBC) that was quicker than everything else in the US aside from the fuelie 'vette. Plus dropping a 389 in the Tempest was a no brainer as Pontiac only had one block size. All with a common 4.620" bore centers. Plus Pontiac had already been half of the way there with the first generation Tempest. That car had a 194.5 CID four cylinder that was a 389 with the left hand bank lopped off. The engine was even a true slant as the cylinders were played over 45° to the pan rail. But the first car marketed as one. Yah the GTO is it.
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  4742.  @zxggwrt  And Tattoo to do the grunt work. Plus it's "rich Corinthian leather"
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  4743. And it comes in a nice tin you can put cookies in. Does anyone who sees this remember the Revel Visible V-8 On actual car engines the pistons are 8nstalled from the top with the crank already in place.
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  4744. Yup, the same country that police brag about backing inclusivity and tolerance but in the next sentence actively say they will aggressively pursue 'hate crimes'. I am so glad I do not live in the UK. But if the idiots in the US have their way we'll get it too.
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  4745. Omar just missed Somalia
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  4746. Get really creative and weld up a new head using two SBF heads. Samd bore centers and the head bolts aren't too different. SBC is close also. As is the DOHC heads f ru om the GM V-6. There's actually a twin cam 4 valve head for the 4.0 used in an Argentine race series.
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  4747.  @josephfigueroa3527  Cost effective? No it's not. Different? Damn right. As to say putting in an LS. Boring. Let's say two XJs are parked with their hoods open. One has an LS. Th other has a 4.0 with a cross flow head set up. What's more interesting? The engines they run in Argentina based on the 4.0 block are actually 3.0 liters and put out around 500hp.
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  4748. G is for gibberish. Because in these pages is were it's at
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  4749. After all banks were to blame for Willy Sutton robbing banks.
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  4750. If you have a constant diameter roller on the piston pushing against the output plate that rollers surface speed per minute will not match up to the surface speed per minute across the radius of the cam track on the output plate. The roller will be sliding or skidding at some point along its length. This is simply one more attempt at a barrel engine.
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  4751. The only rifle to have a film named after it.
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  4752. Given that 1051 members of the London Fire Service died during the Blitz (1027 men and 24 women) it was a pretty hazardous job to start with. The total for the UK I'm having trouble finding a number for that. I would also think that a large number of German firefighters also died during the war.
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  4753.  @caw25sha  Oh I'm sure the I formation is out there. The problem in finding it online is built in bias* in search engines. * Bias may not be the best way to describe it but try doing a specific search for say British firefighters killed during the Blitz and you wind up getting links to all kinds of other things concerning British firefighters. Including Covid deaths.
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  4754. Some women hunters were better than some men. And some weren't. And one learned how to ride a horse and tame a wolf. It's true. There was a whole series of books about it 😂
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  4755. This isn't just at pride events. Clothes for young girls that my first wife called hooker clothes. Beauty pageants for 6 and 7 year olds. And kink is nothing new at pride events. We hear the question why can't you just accept us as we are? Well, because we find some of what you do disgusting.
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  4756. You share a birthday with Albert. I share a birthday with Enzo. As in Enzo Ferrari
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  4757. The mother is likely in a lot of trouble also. It was her car. As fast as he gained access it appears to have been unlocked. The firearm was readily accessible to the 11 year old. And a posdible thief. I am assuming (yes l know the saying) that it was her firearm. She is the one legally responsible for its storage, location etc. And that's the point. REPSONSIBILITY. An aspect of firearms ownership that l do not hear some owners admit too.
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  4758. At the same time the media is screaming about this "security breach" they would be falling all over themselves if an "unnamed source" if handed any of these documents over to the press.
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  4759. Corruption and Na'Leans go together like bisquits and gravy. It's not so much that she's a Democrat. It"s just that she's from The Big Sleezy.
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  4760. ​ @mayankexodus  Money.
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  4761.  @TheEDFLegacy  Tugs most likely. And temporary internal communications can always be run after the action if you have the equipment and the needed skill sets aboard.
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  4762.  @robertohlweiler8463  That's one thing I have never been able to figure out. It would make sense if only from a common shell size in the production system.
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  4763. Who else remembers the "Fighting Whites" tee shirts that were being sold by an intermural basketball team at South Dakota State iirc about twenty years ago. I wasn't offended. And by all means bring back Aunt Jimima, Uncle's Ben. Provided it is actually honoring the founders of the brand. Market it as FUBU's Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix. Just so we ban the High Fructose Corn Syrup pretending to be real maple syrup.
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  4764.  @seasirocco3063  The only payload an auto gyro would really need is a radio set.
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  4765. What it means is anyone who holds views or opinions slightly to the right of themselves.
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  4766. I was on board the Bounty at a Tall Ship event in a port city on Lake Michigan.
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  4767. Weasely mouthed. That's one way to discribe it. I suppose they could always get jobs selling used cars.
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  4768.  @Charon-5582  Must be Big Electricity! If this gets better milage it's the high grade snake oil.
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  4769. The VAM 282 was a 258 with a .125" larger cylinder bore to compensate for lower octane fuel. In many way it can be thought of as the original 4.0 stroker. There was also a 252 CID version of the 232.
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  4770. As a 69 year old boomer I for one have never figured out why most pickup owners even have a pickup. Or have a real use for one. Pickups originally were meant as work trucks for farmers and other occupations that needed to be able to haul the materials and tools needed. By extensions vans fall into the same category. The van added in delivery services. Today about the only thing a truck bed of the average pickup owner is going to see is the occasional item used in yard maintenance or a piece of furniture. That's if they even have a yard. What is a pickup truck useful for 1) Hauling bulky items. Hopefully items you need to move often* 2) Towing. This I can see if someone has a boat that needs to be trailered. Or does a lot of camping at different camp grounds. If you have a trailer parked at campground all season just rent a truck to move it st the start and end of the season. I cringe when I see somebody with an extended cab with dualies using it as as daily driver. And i do not feel sorry for them when fuel prices spike. *For a lot of people a minivan is actually more useful.
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  4771. Aside from the title, the names of characters and the bugs there is no similarity between the book and the movie. Was Heinlein a facist? I doubt it. Certainly a Libertarian, even a fairly right leaning one. Remember he went from writing Starship Troopers to Stranger in a Strange Land. For an insight into Heinlein l would suggest Grumbles from the Grave. Published from his letters, papers etc after his death. I do have reservations regarding some of his personal attitudes. There were things that showed up more than once in his work. Especially in the Lazarus Long books. Specifically insest and possible phedofilia. See Time Enough for Love and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. Regarding the possibility that he and his third wife (1) had an open marriage werein they agreed to let the other engage in affairs. That was their business. As long as no one was hurt. Physically or emotionally. Who cares. 1) He married shortly after graduating from the Naval Academy and the marraige was a disaster from the start. His second wife was an alcoholic which lead to divorce. It might be an open question whether or not possible activities outside of his first two marraiges contributed to there ending. Regarding the US Naval Academy. It was founded following a scandal which saw the son of a US Congressman hanged iirc. Prior to its founding the US Navy had followed the old midshipman practice of training young boys at sea to be naval officers.
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  4772. The US Navy was funding research by Dr Robert Bussard on Inertial and Electrostatic confinement reactors circa 1995-2000. Bussard's test reactors were getting better results than projected. Still way short of working reactors that produce net power though. The Navy was restricted to the amount of money they could invest due to the DOE being the primary designated agency in charge of fusion research. And the DOE is strictly focused on Tokamaks. Ideally I would think that a reactor running the Boron11/Proton cycle would be ideal as it has the potential to generate electricity directly with no heat exchangers, coolant and steam turbines.
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  4773. I think one reason the abuse problem in the church as far as the US broke the way it did was because the RCC in the US was pervieved to gave deep pockets. As an aside at one time the RCC was the largest charitable organization on Earth
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  4774. Of course you have noticed that Far Right always gets combined with terms that include X phobic, racist, fascist etc.
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  4775. Yup, every damned day. Flu, no flu. COVID-19, no COVID-19. I didn't care for Ruthie but nobody should go that way.
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  4776. The appearance of Jesus. For all we know he could have looked like bin Laden. But he for sure didnt look like Jeffery Hunter. But it isn't important what he looked like. It's what he said.
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  4777. The hate Illinois gets stems mainly from the behaivor of Chicagoans and the surrounding counties when they leave Illinois. They seem to think neighboring states are Illinois's largest state parks.
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  4778. And Woodstock.
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  4779. Cancel culture is not new. Just think how children will bully their peers. Church groups who shun individuals. The major problem now social media.
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  4780. Fired by the HMS Monty Python no doubt.
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  4781. I've had genuine style Italian pizza here in the US. The way it was explained to me is true homemade pizza is simply a way to use what you might have on hand. But that was Calabrese as most of the Italians in our area have roots in Calabria. Mainly Cozenza. The pizza in the US I really like but can not get anymore is one without sauce.
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  4782. One of my teachers in High School told his father was a conductor on the Santa Fe railroad and he saw the flash from the Trinity Test light up the clouds. BS? Don't know.
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  4783. Watching the videos of from the guys who organize these events. I get the impression they have a serious Jones on for the SCCA.
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  4784. Nice idea, but it will never happen without a revolution. The problem with revolutions is generally they get hijacked. Taxes. If an income tax is necessary make a simple flat tax. There are two ways to do it. A single percentage that everybody pays. Or a system where from 0 to X you pay no taxes. X to Y say 5%. Y to Z say 8%. Above Z 10%. And you do not have to pay on previously earned income when you move up to a higher bracket. And there are no personal deductions. Period. Businesses are a different matter. It's not just income taxes people pay. Its excise taxes on gas, tires etc. Its State, County and sometimes City Sales taxes. Go on vacation and you'll pay an extra room tax and possibly extra taxes on food. One could argue that at least they're fair in that you used it. One thing that would lessen regulation and make it easier on business is to reduce the number of fuel blends the EPA mandates for cars that burn gasoline. Summer blends, winter blends. Region A gets a different blend than B. Either outlaw government worker unions or eliminate any say they have in firing and hiring. There are areas where government oversight may need to be increased or maintain the same level. Clean water for one. Sewage districts for another. Air quality. Personally I'm in favor of banning coal burning power plants after a certain date. But I'm also in favor of increased government sponsored research into fusion power. I'm not talking about the money pit in France the Dept of Energy is involved in. I'm talking about some of the start-ups that are looking at alternatives to the extremely large projects. Building a reactor that can achieve fusion is actually pretty easy. People have done it in their basements. Getting usable power out is something else. One thing that goes along with fusion research is materials research especially high temp superconductors. Increased medical research that focuses on improved public health.
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  4785. The problem with re calling Evers is his Lt Govenor is farther to the left than he is.
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  4786. Keeping them fed is another thing to keep in mind.
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  4787.  @toddwebb7521  There used to be* plans available for a minature in .22LR. IIRC the plans specified using a barrel suited for blanks to avoid legal issues. *still may be
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  4788. Wine or olive screw presses existed in the 1st century CE. The Roman's used them. The printing press was an idea just sitting there waiting in the wings. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_press&ved=2ahUKEwjbrOjE0KvwAhUTAZ0JHTT4BMoQmhMwDXoECAYQAg&usg=AOvVaw34Twd3-D6HFAEhDC0tzDhC
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  4789. If it works (1) it sure cut out the requirement for any spin gravity. 1) l look at any stuff like this with a variation of the G Harry Stine Law. Never believe what yousee on the cover of Popular Mechanics.
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  4790.  @Khan.WrathOf  It's not just the krauts. I had a Renault 18i wagon that you had to take the splash panel off to access just about anything from underneath. Other than that it was comfortable and actually drove really nice.
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  4791.  @ZOMBYMARIO  Plus all the parts are made to an insanely tight tolerance. Which doesnt mean they don't work. It means they just cost more to make. An old saying in tool rooms and machine shops is for every decimal place the price goes up*. Especially considering the state of machine tools at the time. In reality it took the British to show the world just how simple a sub-gun could be. *If a feature on the part is specified as 8mm +/- .1mm you can spit them out like popcorn. Especially if there is no milling or shaping involved. Just turning operations. It's what screw machines are really good at. But change that to 8mm +/- .01mm or even +/- .05 mm things get dicier. Tool wear shows its effects that much faster. These were the days of high carbon or maybe high speed steel cutting tools.
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  4792.  @Khan.WrathOf  Yah, the French do things their own way. But the few French cars I've been in were very comfortable. Aside from a Dalphine I got a ride in once.
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  4793. There are parts of the UP that are in zone 5 on the USDA climate maps.
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  4794. I can just see Uncle Tony's* son at birth. A beard and a cigarette in one hand. * Not to be confused with This Old Tony https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony/videos&ved=2ahUKEwjcsvTTxbjxAhXCds0KHR_HBkQQjjgwC3oECAMQAg&usg=AOvVaw0Swcwc_9PgYQBQ4_qPoFYD
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  4795. ​ @antoniobranderas  You're looking at least an 85% failure rate. Have you seen Selma Hyack lately? She still hot? 😮
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  4796. Or the Evan's. Although there's nothing wrong with another Enterprise.
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  4797. Smaller should be better, right? Marvin the Martians space modulator. 🤔🤔
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  4798. OK, an AMC 360 😊
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  4799. That picture of Winnie the Widowmaker was taken of him getting ready to rub out the competition in the bootleg booze business. One Adolf the Artiste.
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  4800. Watercraft of some type have to go way back. I suspect that Homo Erectus was paddling around canoes of one form or another
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  4801.  @christophermills7693  Read a modern take on Dante. Inferno by Nivenand Pournelle. It's from the 70s but a lot of it rings true today
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  4802. I wonder what Maxine Waters, Reverend Al etal think about this one. Even better. What does Joe think?
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  4803. That sir is a classic handle
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  4804. She was picked for VP for one reason. OK maybe two. Female and Black. Never mind as a Black DA in LA and Attorney General in Calipornia she put a lot of effort into putting black drug offenders in the slammer.
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  4805. If you ever move back to New York do not apply for a job as a translator at the UN* CLC, Crumby Lubrication Crapola But if it gets rid of the cloud the skeeters will be back *If you habae Espanol check this out. The Asociacion Corresderes Tursimo Caraterra in Argentina commissioned new DOHC 4 valve heads for the Chevy, Ford and Jeep 4.0 for use in the Turismo Caraterra racing series. It's the oldest race series still in existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZsyTgEXIH8
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  4806. They want you to be transphobic. They want to you to live your life in fear of ever disagreeing with their delusions
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  4807. Some Imperial German Navy destroyer classes had one kind of forward firing torpedo tube on each side in addition to their centerline mount(s). The tubes would launch the torpedoes at a slight angle to the centerline. Similiar to a torpedo boats.
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  4808. With 12 cylinders the balance issues you would have with a an opposed* 4 or 6 simply don't apply. Yes, I know that a true opposed engine has a crankshaft on each side with two pistons in each cylinder. Opposed in the aviation world simply means cylinders 180° apart. Also with the exception of opposed engines such as the air cooled Lycomings liquid cooled multi bank aero engines almost always featured cylinders who's centerlines were in the same plane *V-8s, V-12s, O-12s, H-24s plus the inline radials such as the Jumo 222, Wright Tornado and others. Except for a few Russian produced inline radials none of the others went into service. Look here. Fascinating web site https://oldmachinepress.com/
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  4809. The width to height ratio doesn't look that bad. I wonder just what the maximum angle it can land or stand on. Did the two vehicles land on the rim of craters? Ejecta boulders?
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  4810.  John Matrix  Seriously? Really?
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  4811.  @buckmclean8391  Maybe 30 or 25 years ago Car and Driver (US car magazine) did a comparison test of three Honda Accords. One built in Japan, one US and one British. Performance, build quality etc were all equal. But the Brit built one the electrical system was weird.
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  4812. I can see why someone living in Pakistan etc might want to immigrate. But being willing to immigrate should mean being willing to adapt to the society of the country you immigrate to. This does not mean that someone from Pakistan or Afghanistan needs to become a three piece suit bowler wearing Englishman or Western cowboy if they immigrate to Wyoming. It also does not mean that England or Wyoming have to change their society to accommodate the immigrant. When in Rome after all. In times past cousin marriages were likely common in some societies simply due to isolation. That should not be a problem in any society today simply because of the greater degree of mobility we enjoy. Unless of course someone immigrates and then chooses to recreate the society they fled.
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  4813. How long before the bureaucrats is come after the poeple with a lathe or milling machine in the home workshop because it might be used to do something "evil". Hillary Clinton once wanted to ban private ownership of any tool that could be used to modify a firearm (1). It had to be explainded to her that would include any tool down to files and hacksaws. It frosts my backside whenever the oh so morally superior take it upon themselves to judge or belittle anothers persons interests, hobbies or pastimes (2). Just because you or l may think their interest is silly does not give us the right to judge them. As long as they hurt no one it is no the bodies business. Of course if someone does cause physical harm with a pefectly legal object then the government will step in to save us from ouselves. Overstep more likely. 1) We will leave aside the question of whether someone believes that a private individual should be allowed to own firearms. 2) One prime example is "grown men playing with trains" for model railroaders or as you call them in the UK model railways.
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  4814. ​ @shaunpatrick8345  Why don't we just say it out loud. A Birth Defect.
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  4815. A variation on the "we are the elder civilization". The universe in terms of its potential life span is still very young. In order to seed stellar nurseries with not just Carbon and Oxygen but all the other elements required for life as we know it just how many 1st and 2nd generation stars had to run through their life cycles. Or how many neutron stars had to collide to provide all the elements heavier than iron. Provided that's true.
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  4816. Km to miles. 100km = 62 miles. 1kg = 2.2 lbs
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  4817. The Sunderland is one of those aircraft that looks like it should have a grand staircase inside it.
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  4818. It literally is not worth it engaging any of these individuals. They are so mean spirited that they cannot bear the idea that you even exist.
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  4819. Personally I have no sympathy for anyone who has massive student debt and graduated with zero marketable skills or zero chance of finding a job in that field. If you want a degree in a field that has limited job* opportunities you really need to be told upfront about the employment prospects. You want a degree in Art History. Fine, just don't expect a job related to that. *OK. Professional career opportunities.
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  4820.  @kramnull8962  Why would you owe the railroad company? As l stated they are or were testing electric semis. These also have battery packs to handle off highway delivery sites. Will they go ahead with this? Who knows.
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  4821. There was an American hoodlum in the 30s that had a full auto conversion done by a Texas gunsmith. Standard magazines would empty anout 1 second.
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  4822. Hey, what about Milwaukee
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  4823. ​ @georgethepatriot2785  The Polish Winged Hussars save Vienna and a few decades later get stabbed in the back by Austria, Prussia and the Rookies.
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  4824. At a guess this "proposal" was probably dreamed up by a market analysis expert., AKA Con Man I would be interested in your opinion of the Liquid Metal Battery idea https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=liquid+metal+battery&view=detail&mid=614BEBBD80EE91433B50614BEBBD80EE91433B50&FORM=VIRE
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  4825. When Hizzoner Richard Daley was alive Chicago was known as "the City that works". Corrupt? Yes. But stuff got done.
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  4826. They only good thing about the super yachts is at least it provided employment for the working stiffs who built it. If these Hollywood a-holes really cared and still wanted a big yacht they'd be sailing yachts.
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  4827. Caseless ammunition has been under development for how long. I'm sure that someone will get there eventually. I'm wondering if a case based on cellulose is possible. A base similar to current ammunition with a comustable case. The extractor will still have to remove the spent baseplate. But there would be no possibility of cases getting stuck in the chamber. Workable? I really dont know. But if the military go with a fairly radical ammunition type it had better have been tested in all possible conditions. As an aside. Since when has Textron been in the small arms business?
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  4828.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  The reason I know about it was a film starting Richard Widmark about a UDT team. Maybe that was it.
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  4829. Every EV vehicle owner who thought they were going to get off of having to pay for road infrastructure was dreaming or smoking something. The downside of this is how long is hoing to take for either a politician proposing this for all vehicles (1). Or a court case finds it discriminatory resulting in it applying to all vehicles. Off course applying extra fees and taxes on vehicles and then using that funding to cover transit costs is pretty discriminatory too. 1) Politicians of all stripes are money/spending junkies willing run up everybody elses credit card. The rare elected official who even thinks about a balanced budget or reduced spending is the exception that proves the rule.
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  4830. The Bell was built as part of Operation Glöckenspiel. The special space suits were modeled on Lederhosen. All the files on this are stored in a super top secret Army warehouse along with the Arc of the Covenant. Being studied by Top Men.
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  4831.  @leifewald5117  I'm sure he knew that. I know that I recognize sarcasm when I see/hear it
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  4832. The W-43 program would have been interesting if the Fun Police hadn't raised their ugly heads. Really any mass produced ICE is going to have a number of compromises in its design and construction. And where a lot of these compromises show up is in racing applications.
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  4833. ​ @SteichenFamily  Their big problem is two things. One is McDonnelDouglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money. The other is the management becoming obsessed with the bottom line over everything else. They are an engineering company that builds aviation and aerospace systems. You cannot run a company like that as if it is a money laundering storefront.
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  4834. Idiocracy has arrived
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  4835. Surprising how intolerant the Progressive Left is.
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  4836. What's the point of arresting them. The DA will just cut them loose anyway.
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  4837. That should not have happened as the bodies were e-dipped for the primer
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  4838. On the verge of being the Second Coming of Christ, Buddha and Father Christmas all in one.
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  4839. With the demise of Wingnut Wings due to Covid. The best source for WWI models out there is likely those published by the Polish card model publishers. And I do mean publishers. The "kits" come in a booklet. The great thing about card models is if you scan them into the computer you can always reprint the parts if you have a major screw up.
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  4840. I live there. The overwhelming majority of individuals that were arrested for violence in the Kenosha riots were not residents. When I first saw the video of when Jacob Blake was shot my first reaction was "oh shit". Then there were reports that he had merely been trying to break up a fight at a neighborhood block party. This was reported by the media. No. Mr Blake's girlfriend called 911 because there was a restraint order on file against him. Plus the Kenosha County DAs office had filed charges against Mr Blake and there was a warrant issued for his arrest on Third Degree Sexual Assault. That is why the Police where there. They attempted to arrest Mr Blake (1) and Mr Blake resisted arrest. Does this mean that he should have been shot seven times in the back. IMO the officer in question was at least guilty of excessive force. Why were there seven shots fired. I think that has to do with the equipping police officers with semi-automatic pistols. When police departments carried revolers I doubt they had issues with officers when they did have to fire a weapon firing more than two or three rounds. For those unfamiliar with firearms a revolver, even if it is a double action, takes significantly more physical effort. A semiauto the process of ejecting the fired round loads the next round into the chamber and cocks the hammer. All it takes to fire that round is squeezing the trigger. When the police department in Kenosha first looked into switching over from .38 caliber revolvers (2) to semiautos a lot of police agencies were adopting high capacity 9mms. My brother in law was in charge of the procurement process. Kenosha specifically choose to adopt .45 ACP. Because data showed that 9mm caused significant over penetration and increased the likelihood that a bullet could carry on down range to posdibly go through the wall of house. Or a car door. Or another person. Plus looking at the data on how many rounds an officer fired when they did have to employ their service weapon the data showed the average number of rounds fired was 2 or 3. Well with in the range of a 7 or 8 round capacity of a pistol chambered in .45 ACP. 1) When Mr Blake was interviewed by Don Lemon on CNN he stated that he had to accept his responsibility for the events of that day. Plus he admitted that has was carrying a knife and it was in his hand. 2) Officers were allowed to carry personal side arms and some did. Amongst those who did some carried revolvers chambered in .357 Magnum. But they were restricted to using .38 Special ammunition. A .357 will fire .38s and .357 rounds. The difference between the two rounds is the length of the case (4 or 5 mm) and the amount of propellant used. .38 Special and .357 are basically 9mm in diameter. 9mm equals .354.
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  4841. Follow the money Who was the architect Who specified the building materials Who approved the plans Who was the contractor Who inspected the construction If there problems reported by residents who was responsible for investigating them.
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  4842. Talk about Dragon Ladies.
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  4843. At the time Major may have been his permanent rank.
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  4844.  @MarkJones-ji8fd  No. Just couldn't be bothered to look up the correct spelling. There is a video on BoobTube about it.
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  4845. We have multiple Little Ceasers running federal and state beuracrcacies.
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  4846. Charon is much larger relative to Pluto the the Earth-Moon System. Large enough and close enough that both are tidally locked
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  4847. A politician uttering nonsense should be eligible for the Biden Award*. *Given for service above and beyond the Twilight Zone. Related to but not to be confused with the Darwin Award. This award is to be available for politicians of any political viewpoint. For professional public servants I suppose we could also have the Box of Rocks or Bag of Hammers.
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  4848. The problem with pumped hydro is places like Kansas. I can see a lot of issues with this whole idea but also possible uses. The first thing is get rid of the ridiculous small blocks. When building a tall structure in an area building it simply to act as a battery is an economic loss. Instead build the structure with say four large vertical shafts in the center. In the shafts place really large steel boxes. Till the boxes with something cheap. Like gravel maybe. Place the motor/generator set st ground level. Maintenance will be easier. Now wrap the shafts with rentable floor space. Commercial, residential whatever. Workable. Maybe not. But in my opinion it makes more sense than the silly crane idea. One of the storage solutions for renewables that has been proposed is air batteries that involved pumping high pressure compressed air into natural underground reservoirs. If you think fracking is bad.
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  4849. The primary reason that castings are better today is lost foam casting technology. I wonder if the Hemi head from Chrysler Australia fits.
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  4850. Facts are sexist, racist, facist and oppressive! No, theyre not.
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  4851. The only engines l can think of that can literally be considered 1 stroke in that every stroke is a power stroke are those that rely on an expanding gas with an external heat source. IE steam engines which typically have work done by both sides of the piston. As well as double or triple expansion.
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  4852. Look photograph of the US Special Forces Sargent sure makes it look like the FG-42 was being looked at or even being used in weapons familiarization in the 50s or later.
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  4853.  @Salty_Balls  The USS Jimmy Carter. Actively engaged in deploying Habitat for Humanity carpenters. I really can't see the Biden Administration pulling this one off.
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  4854. I have a question. Just what the hell do the people that stand up behind Democrat politicians when they make a statement do?
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  4855. About the only thing I see new in this concept is the ability to change the phase angle on the two Cam Plates. Barrel Engines of one form or another have been around for over 100 years. A lot of the proposed ones were in the aviation industry.
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  4856. Ferrari FUV. Yah I think I know what that stands for.
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  4857. The 215 was the first US cast aluminum V8. BMW was building an aluminum V-8 in the late 50s. Everybody with the possible exception of Ford and Studebaker came out with aluminum block engines circa 1960. Some were cast. The AMC was actually diecast. GM came up with 4 different solutions for their early 60s "compacts". The 215 Buick, the Corvair flat six, the Pontiac 196.5* four and the four in the Chevy II. *I consider the 196.5 a true slant as the cylinder bank is at 45° to the pan rail. The Slanty is basically a normal run of the mill inline six merely laid over 30°
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  4858.  @mazambane286  Yes there were. Also forged aluminum on some of the higher power radials. Inline aero engines are built differently than automotive engines. The crankcase is one casting while the cylinder banks are a seperate casting. Often with the cylinder head part of the casting. On radial engines the heads are screwed on to the cylinder. Connecting rods are fork and blade on inlines. A 400 horsepower aircraft engine is built completely different than a 400 horsepower car engine. The car engine will never be able to do the job of the aircraft engine.
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  4859. Who was the guy that ran a Maverick with a 300 inline that had a head built up out of sectioned Boss 351 heads. I think Drag Boss Garage has vids on it.
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  4860. The Democrats started abandoning the working class (1) in the 1970s. Mainly because of the rapid increase in college degrees. Then with NAFTA they kicked them to the curb completely. They bought into the whole Post Industrial Society bullshit. The elites seem to think that a modern society can just purchase all of those things that require dirty hands to make from overseas. Maybe for a small wealthy country you can. But for a country the size of the USA with its internal and foreign security needs you need a national steel industry. You need a national Semi Conductor industry. You need a national energy sector. Plus not everyone is suited to a University education. What do we tell that portion of society. That they aren't allowed to have a dream of a better future? That they'll have to work for minimum wage for the rest of their life? Just take the welfare check and watch TV? For all the idiots who say we can just purchase everything from China what do you do when they say. Sorry, we're not selling. 1) For a supposedly classes society how come we have a working class
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  4861. Mules also proved very valuable in Italy
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  4862. All in all l think I would prefer one of the German or Swiss style vises with the fixed front jaw. Linen is one brand. But then l always preferred a milling machine vise with a fixed front jaw too. One reason was with a stop biased to the left side of the vise x and y were always positive values. Also the vises we used the front jaws were secured with bolt horizontally and vertically. And all clamping forces were applied to the front jaw. Not the vise body. Do a search for Quad 1 CNC mill vise.
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  4863. This and the range video make up for it. Shooting that dual .50BMG would likely take the GDP of a small country. Full mag dump on both guns = a small mountain of brass.
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  4864. Oh my God, we're all gonna die! Sometimes when it snows you have to go out in it. But if it isn't needed. STAY THE F@#/ HOME!.
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  4865.  @dozergames2395  Seems as though the newsies are never ready for any amount of snow.
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  4866. The US used to have the commodities program. Now we have EBT cards
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  4867. When saw the title my to first thought was "Pull!".
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  4868.  @Eidolon1andOnly  If they have glaze on the pottery they've got kilns. One thing I think societies need to make the jump to metals is a readily accessible and workable source of metal. And that really only works with things like float copper and iron nickel meteors without smelting.
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  4869. I cannot imagine the BBC doing anything else.
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  4870.  @glennsimpson7659  Once radar really came on line probably. I'm more interested in the optical side
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  4871.  @davidtuttle7556  To be honest all I ever wanted to find under the tree was Ertha Kitt in her scanties singing Santa Baby
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  4872. Let's be honest. Columbus was a complete asshole. But he was probably one of the five most important historical figures of the last 2000 years. Along with Christ, Mohammed, Jefferson and Paul of Tarsus. The only reason he's important is that he bridged the gap between the so called old and new worlds. If it hadn't been him it would have been someone else. But he's the guy. Get over it.
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  4873. Well, it's not like they loaned the Soviets a really modern one.
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  4874. 21sr Century Janasarries
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  4875. I for one object to the "far right archeology" definition. I'm not saying fringe groups can't or won't latch on too certain ideas. That does not mean the original idea proposed is far right. And as to the wack nut job proponents. They already have a big enough platform. But one of the best things (1) that has come out of the fringe element is the challenge to conventional archeology is that if you say that this is how something was done or this is how they performed the work needed to create certain artifacts that the archeologists should prove it by using those methods to recreate the works. And to the finish and level of precision seen in those artifacts. If that's considered far right then the definition of right and left have changed radically. (1) Maybe the only good thing. In a way it's funny. Questioning authority is often seen as a good thing. Except in the field of archeology. And especially Egyptology.
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  4876. The first torpedoes used compressed air to power their engines.
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  4877. Trivia time. State Street, Madison.
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  4878. There is talk on YouTube by an archeologist from Texas. Dub Wilson iirc. He mentions one thing that hascommonly been found on n early sites has been tutles. He had a thought that if caught live they could just be set on there backs as a way of keeping fresh meat around. Early inhabitants of the Americas were likely opportunists as much as anything else. I think certain high risk game such as Mammoth and Giant Bison may have been hunted more for their uses as hides for clothing and shelters than their meat. What would a small extended family group do with a whole Mammoth(1). How large were groups of people 10k years ago on the Plains. 1) A Mammoth kill must have attracted scavengers from miles around the kill site.
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  4879.  @Br3ttM  Then it's up to citizens of those counties to Elect DAs and Judges that do their job. The justice system is made up of 4 parts. The law enforcement dpts. The DAs office. The courts and the juries. I want law enforcement to be professional. I want the DAs office to do their job. And courts to do the same. I've been on juries and l have seen the automatically guilty or innocent jurors. Last jury l was on the judge came in and talked to us after the jury. One reason is because the accused (found guilty) was actually worse than we knew as there was a lot we didn't see. Assault with deadly weapon the same day he got out of prison from another offense. One problem they have in Milwaukee is the County Correctional Facility (1) is overcrowded so the DAs office is constantly doing plea deals. 1) Correctional my ass.
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  4880. ​ @jonvonboatman7062  That definitely deserves a three blind and deaf monkeys meme
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  4881. What do the Hellcat, Corsair and Jug all have in common? The mighty Pratt & Whitney R-2800.
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  4882.  @AThousandYoung  Zippos!
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  4883. Apophis on hearing that Aricebo had collapsed laughs maniacally. That aside, it would seem to me the the time frames during which Earths orbit has a greater amount of eccentricity the odds of a near Earth asteroid impact should be marginally higher. But then again maybe not.
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  4884. Look at Night Shift's channel he's got a couple of really good videos on creating brick and stone surfaces with a high density foam.
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  4885. That little girl is gonna have the hottest bike in the neighborhood.
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  4886. Gai-Jin was the last one written by Clavell. I think he was starting to slip. In order of publication. King Rat, Tai-Pan, Noble House, Shogun, Whirlwind and Gai-Jin. Clavell was actually a POW in Changi Prison in Singapore. His novels have had mixed success as films or television productions. King Rat and Shogun are good to very good. Tai-Pan was atrocious. Killed Brian Browns career pretty much.
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  4887. Maybe we can get people in Portland to move to Baltimore. They deserve each other.
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  4888. This could be a domestic situation.
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  4889. And when communities attempt to provide jousing for the homeless they often will not use it. And if a private group attempts to do anything the cities will stand in the way.
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  4890. It was also the introduction of the Small Block V-8 that had a great deal to do with it. But sometimes I wonder what would have happened if GM had pursued a DOHC 6
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  4891. The question used to be "Is Paris Burning". Now the statement is "Paris is Burning".
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  4892. At the time of the building of the fort near Astoria the US extended up into the Rocky Mountains to the headwaters of the Missouri River and its tributaries. Part of the reason Louis and Clark were sent West to give some credit to US claims in the Oregon country. Did you forget about the Corps of Discovery. In fact Merriweather Louis tried to get backing to explore th he West before 1800.
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  4893. Another case of young scholars getting in touch with their inner hunter gatherer. Time for leaders like Al Sharpton et al to step up.
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  4894. The French warships of the pre Dreadnought Era remind me of that French hotel inside a hairpin turn.
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  4895. I can just see it now. A new caste, um class of pedal pushers
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  4896. Lighter and lighter cars? Look at the weight of a new Mustang or Challenger vs a 1970 model. Some of this due to extra equipment. That equipment being safety equipment, larger tires and wheels, creature comforts etc. Engines produced today for passenger cars tend to be all aluminum aside from some V-8s and V-6s. One thing engines have a tendency to do is be bulkier. Especially in width given the general adoption of DOHC 4 valve heads aside from LS/LT and New Hemi. One major contributor to vehicle weight gain is wiring harnesses.
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  4897. Just remember what George Carlin said about how stupid the average person was. These are below average.
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  4898.  @lunatikk1967  Which is exactly what this case was all about. You have X number of openings you take the X most qualified applicants with no regard for race etc.
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  4899. One practical use. When NASA detects an incoming doomsday asteroid one round from this puppy will do the job. Only they'll need to start building Saturn V's again to get it into orbit
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  4900. In 1942 SF likely had a lot of younger cops going into the service. Plus they had the Shore Patrol and MPs to lean on.
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  4901.  @HectorGonzalez-fz6ws  Because none of these countries want them. Yet when they come to Western countries that have a tradition of freedom and tolerance what do they seek their host to do. That the host should change their own society to accommodate them. That they seek to recreate the society they left. The UK is commiting slow suicide. One day the Ethnic British will wake up a minority in their own country. Now let's get to the origin of the Palestinian refugees. In 1948 when the UN created Israel and Palestine out of the British Mandate the first thing the Arab states in the region did was attack Israel. At the same time they asked all the Palestinians in the region to evacuate. With the promise that they would be back home in days. It didn't quite work out that way did it. Instead of absorbing the refugees they kept them in squalid refugee camps. Refusing to give them citizenship.
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  4902.  @413x398  No, but those cute leather driving gloves they used to advertise in Road & Track. A car, excuse me, an automotive enthusiast periodical that I'm pretty sure Uncle Tony never authored any monographs for.
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  4903. See my comment above
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  4904. Please don't shoot the car Uncle Tony. We've already had enough riots and unrest. Oh, you mean you're going to paint it. Never mind, carry on The Dart with the 170. If you started to baby it you'd probably blow the motor or transmission. I ran across something interesting when watching a video about Newcomer Racing build a 4.0 stroker motor. In Argentina there's a long running racing series that at one time was using Chevy, Ford, Dodge and Kaiser* inline sixes. These were all getting long in the tooth so they had a new DOHC head developed for the different motors to fit Ford, Chevy and the AMC/Jeep 4.0 blocks. Different casting but the same combustion chamber design I think. All the motors have a valve cover that looks basically the same. The thumb nail on the first video shows one of the engines on an assembly stand. The block sure looks like a 4.0. The second video is one of the engines running. Output is around d 500 hp The 4.0 was homogolated for use in Dodge and Torino models. The Torino is actually a reworked Rambler American/Classic hybrid with new front sheet metal designed by Pinifarina. *The Kaiser inline six is the Tornado 230 CID undersquare SOHC six that Kaiser developed in the early 60s. It has a cross flow head with hemispherical combustion chambers. The cam is weird. The same lobe operates the intake and exhaust valves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKA-Renault_Torino https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=pedersoli+y+el+nueva+motor&docid=608052294253807256&mid=A3B333AF6CCF91B35831A3B333AF6CCF91B35831&view=detail&FORM=VIRE https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=en+el+aire+sports&&view=detail&mid=95637A1512C8C1354F2895637A1512C8C1354F28&&FORM=VRDGAR
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  4905. I'm surprised it wasn't 94%.
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  4906. In the 60s Tom Leher had a song "Send in the Marines". Now we need one the is called "Send in the Social Workers".
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  4907. Yah, call the electorate stupid. Ask Hillary how well that tactic worked out
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  4908. Maybe we should go back to shaft driven OHC with spiral bevel gears. But that was more an aeroengine thing.
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  4909. This ones for Uncle Tony https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DV4RIBmM2ZF0&ved=2ahUKEwjSxOK1mdrxAhWHZs0KHVRlDuQQxa8BegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw3jgY1EHniUIehaG7iHUTar And the one he showed is a toy compared to a Big Boy.
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  4910. Words and controlling their use and more importantly their meaning has long been part of the Leftist playbook
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  4911. Mr Bond wants his pistol back. Ian really should have been wearing a tuxedo, smoking a Dunhill, a martini in one hand (shaken not stirred) and a hot sultry blond hanging off of shoulder. RIP Sean.
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  4912. I plan to but l fear it will only delay the fall of not only the US but the West in general. The Long March Through the Institutions has closed in on its goal. Starting in academia it spread institution to institution. Department to Department. Field of study to field of study. Starting in the humanities it has now begun to capture the STEM fields. How many millions of graduates have already been poisoned. How many more will graduate just this year with minds that are poisoned. It is not a liberal vs conservative narrative. It is literally a poison that teaches them to hate everything in their culture. Its traditions, its music, its food, its literature, its spiritual values, everything. And these people are not going away. The only thing that will wake them up is a hard dose of reality. And that hard dose is likely going to be a severe economic downturn. What's in the future? One thing l fear is dictatorship from the Left. Far too many young people today are not only willing but eager to give Socialism or worse Communism a chance. The one thing Socialist or Communist societies are good at is making almost everyone economically equal (1). Equally poor. And they are also equally good at becoming police states. How do we fix things? A big part of the problem is the few getting richer while everyone else stagnates or slips. Real wages adjusted for inflation haven't gone up for far too many Americans. Plus in the last 30 or 40 years far too many jobs that could support a family have disappeared. Maybe not all of those jobs could support a family in style. But they put food on the table. I'm not saying all of those jobs could have been saved. A lot of those jobs were lost for various reasons. Companies that couldn't compete or adapt to the market always go under. Some employees bargained their way out of being competitive. I'm thinking about the UAW mainly. But their industry's problems are equally shared by management. Poor product decisions mainly. Some other industries have been done wrong by their own government. The US used to have the largest machine tool industry in the world. Then the Federal government allowed foreign manufacturers to warehouse new machines in US ports prior to going through customs. A Japanese manufacturer could deliver a new CNC or manual machine tool from stock. In a minimum amount of time. The equipment only went through customs when shipped. With no inventory taxes paid while the machines sat in the warehouse. Meanwhile US manufacturers had to pay inventory taxes on everything. Any completed machines, spare parts, unfinished machinery and of course their facilities. Almost all of these companies are gone now. Or a mere shadow of themselves. And that is just one industry. And the machine tool industry is the bedrock on which any manufacturing enterprise is built.
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  4913. ​ @matthewatwood8641  The last Americans that were employed as slave labor were so employed in the 1940s. By the Japanese.
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  4914. Or a video of Drach firing historic firearms mentioned in works of fiction. Starting with that Victorian cad, today, coward, montebank and philanderer Brigader Sir Harry Flashman VC, retired. 1st Afgahn War to Balaklava and beyond.
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  4915. Myself I'd rather have a spacer that seats in the back of the hole with a shoulder to seat against the block. Another disc that holds against the bearing shell. This should have a diameter that matches the actual cam gearing diameter. Press it in with a screw and nuts. In the factory these were all pressed in at once hydraulically. In some engines the bearings were bored after install to ensure concentricity.
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  4916. One example of an internal combustion engine using a turbine for energy recovery from exhaust gases was the Wright R-3350 turbo compound. The turbine fed the recovered power back through a fluid clutch set and reduction gearing. Naiper Nomad. Same deal. In terms of steam power the Dooble Brothers had the best system I've heard off. The amount of water in the system was only about one gallon. No transmission needed.
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  4917. It's also an old slang term in the US. Joe Crocker was described as spastic when performing on stage. Was it polite? No, it wasn't. But a great many slang terms are. Is it acceptable in the UK to use the old slang term for a cigarette? Or can we call a burning stick by the word that used to be common? Not likely.
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  4918. He's as real as we make him
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  4919. Africa's a big place. Aside from Egypt probably the most significant cultures would be the Askum in Ethiopia and the East African Swahili.
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  4920. @Lucy Bubz The African continent is home to resident populations of most of what people call the human races/breeds/genotypes. Only in the US the term African refers specifically to people descended from Bantu ethnic groups. The church I used to attend had an assistant pastor whose husband was from Tanzania. He really didn't think much of most African-Americans he came into contact with.
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  4921. @Lucy Bubz Plus large areas of Sub-Saharan Africa used to be populated by the San people. The great Bantu migration wound up pushing whatsxleft of them into places like the Kalahari. In addition East Africa is not populated by ethnic Zulus. I find it mildly amusing when African-Americans want to learn Swahili when it's an East African lingua franca used as a trade language and their descended from slaves from West Africa.
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  4922. I admit that I initially found algebra to make absolutely no sense. This was because it was being taught as theory using only symbols*. The instructor did not understand why I could not get it. Once I explained that I saw no relation to reality and all I saw was a, b, c, x, y etc. She took a problem and punched numbers into it. Immediately the light went one. From then on math was never an issue until I got to calculus. If you have an instructor that cant teach you have a real problem *yes I understand that numbers themselves are merely symbols
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  4923. You can not make it up. But it can be created and encouraged.
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  4924. Telling a hormone addlled kid where the Playboys were was like a bee to pollen. At least when l was a kid. If one does a search on YouTube you can turn up a surprising amount of 50s and 60s nudist films. Do a search for Pussycats Paradise.
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  4925.  @wktodd  Or an R-2800
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  4926. The retoric has all been on the side of the Democrats. At least as far as national politicians anyway. They label everything that opposes them Right Wing when they wre feeling generous. If they aren't feeling generous its Far Right Extremism. When a well known national Democrat. A former Senator and Secretary of State can call for political opponents to placed in re-education camps and the media doesn't bat an eye you know we have a serious problem. I'm not so blind as not realize we have people on the political right that are extremists. But they are far out numbered by the extremists on the other end.
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  4927. At what sea state would carrier opps be suspended?
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  4928. I really did not expect perfect results but this actually went better than I expected. NASA would still working on the preliminary artwork.
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  4929. When we see the majority of cars on the road are electric guess what will happen. They will no longer be as cheap to operate due to the fact that because of gas taxes not being collected at as high a rate as now. The feds and the states will make it up somehow. Probably through a surcharge in the plates for electric cars.
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  4930. I'll get behind H2 when its used in fusion plants. We can use it right now in Solar applications.
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  4931. Lack of lubrication destroys more machinery than any other thing. Routing the oil for the hydraulic lifters thru the valve train was just plain stupid
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  4932. Who gets to be the BoB Speaking of the Miata. When does Blinky get some track time
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  4933. Ford knew far more about actually building cars than Jaguar ever did. If that bruises any egos. Tough.
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  4934. I may be mistaken* but I remember something about the first successful attack being carried out by a USN submarine was actually in the Inland Sea within a couple of days after Pearl Harbor. I can't find anything on the web though. *As much as I hate to admit it does happen. But I'm working on it. Soon I'll be mistaken all the time.
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  4935. Why does this whole idea require a Jeff Goldblum meme. Plus where does "first do no harm" enter into this. And where are the donors coming from? What's next. Artificial wombs? A clone to carry the fetus to term?
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  4936. What about the temples in India hewn from solid rock.
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  4937.  @shelleyking8450  Good point. The issue I pointed out only serves to show just how close the machining had to be done on machining lines that may have been putting out say 1500 blocks per day. Day in day out. Actually looking for original machining defects is looking at the wrong end. The lack of cam lobe taper does sound reasonable. In a way this reminds me of another save money by DIYing repair. The one where people re-surface heads using a glass plate and Emery paper. Now think about if the head is an OHC. Single or double. Let's say the warped head is .020 out of flat. We now have a cam here that when originally built that was with in say .002 end to end. The DIY home mechanic now has a cam bore that is bowed in relation to the head surface.
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  4938. A lot of these cars the "mileage" is probably in kilometers. So it's even less
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  4939. Three possible things occurred 1) Incompetence. Pretty easily demonstrated IMO. 2) Collusion. Much harder to prove if it exists. If it did happen. The evidence is probably gone*. 3) A combination of the two. What is plainly evident is the ever more bitter calls on the part of prominent Democrats and members of the media calling for Donald Trump's destruction. While l am reasonably sure they can claim they did not want him shot by somebody. The constant retoric to take him out, eliminate him, put him in the bullseye and put a bullet in him did send a message. A message that could worm its way into the mind of a certain type of individual. The calls and comments from other prominent Democrats also show the contempt that they hold a vast number of Americans in. In 2016 Hillary lost the election due to one statement. The use of the term deplorables. She has since gone on to state that MAGA Republicans should be put into re-edication camps. What types of regimes have made use of those. *Never attribute to malice that which can more easily be explained by sheer stupidity.
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  4940. @bbartky  It would be a lot cheaper to do the research in LEO than on the Moon or Mars. Another area where spin "gravity" should be useful is on orbit refueling. Unless we could develop a fuel bladder one could pump fuel out off using gas pressure spin "gravity" should make it a lot simpler to pump fuel and oxidizer around.
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  4941. It sure ain't no FG-42. A really doubt the Ordinance Board had any idea just wtf they were thinking about. IMO all they would have had to do is have a fairly average infantryman of circa 1954 shoot one of the experimental fully automatic M1s and they would have seen it was a bad idea. From the prone position with a bipod. Maybe not so bad. Sometimes I have the idea that if the stock wasn't Walnut or some other hardwood the Ordinance Board automatically rejected it.
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  4942.  @rickstrada804  I dont think it had one. It was a 1984 model.
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  4943. Use the power of the ballot box. Ireland for the indigenous Irish. And if you immigrate somewhere assimilate.
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  4944. Expect to see a push for Mrs Obama by some delegates. Harris got destroyed in the Primary debates of 2020.
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  4945. The nose to ring. If that does not yive you a clue l don't know ht will.
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  4946. Carl, expect the Democrats to throw sand into the gears at every opportunity. Also expect the Deep State to fight tooth and nail any and all efforts to improve their efficiency. Far too many in the bureaucracy see their mission not to serve the nation or the people. But rather to serve themselves and the bureaucracy in my opinion. And the Deep State is not just in DC. It reaches all the way down to the petty town clerk that will drag his feet issuing a permit to do minor work.
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  4947.  @michaelsorensen7567  I really think one reason the "Woke" generation or the "Woke" segment of society is so pro immigration is that they plan on never having s family and figure they are going to need somebody to take care of them. Oh, and they also need somebody to serve them their lattes.
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  4948.  @bridgettlacotta7792  Went part time for a while. Going nights I got the worst instructors.
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  4949. I wonder if a full stainless case would actually be cheaper. I can see using stainless from the possible corrosion standpoint. But stainless in general is actually weaker than carbon steel. Especially the non magnetic 300 series stainless steels. Recommended torque values for Grade 8 SAE or Grade 12 ISO fasteners is around 60 or 70 % higher than stainless fasteners.
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  4950. And the liberals did not want WalMart to open stores in Chicago at all.
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  4951.  @MRVISTA-wz7vj  To me!
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  4952. While the casting of primarily caucasian actors in older films about the ancient world happened. To my knowledge nobody ever tried to actively convey the message that all Egyptians looked like British or Hollywood film actors from the 40s, 50s or 60s. Besides they had to work with what they had available.
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  4953. Nice Springsteen reference.
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  4954.  @JoshuaTootell  I was thinking Seeger and Springsteen popped out.
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  4955. Don't worry, the nutjobs will just migrate to another platform.
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  4956. The Irish probably have the most field use of these given the number of times elements of the Irish Army have been deployed on UN peacekeeping missions.
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  4957.  @danackerson8231  He didn't say all. He said most. I'm to the point I despise the profession. It's a toss up between which profession I despise more. Journalists, Lawyers or career Politicians. There are good people in all three of those professions. Far too few though in my opinion. And it is not just the domain of people to the left side of the political spectrum. It applies to people in those professions on the right side as well. It just seems that journalism today is dominated by the Left more than it ever has been.
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  4958. If the DA refuses to prosecute rioters she should be arrested and charged with public endangerment
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  4959. The Fairy Fox, powered by the Curtiss D-12 which Fairy had bought a manufacturing license for. But the Air Ministry was having none of that*. Fairy would continue to try to get ministry support for engine designs but to no avail. *the D-12/Felix did play some part in moving Rolls Ryce in the direction of the cast block engine resulting in the Kestrel, Merlin, Griffon and R type. As to the D-12 and the Air Ministry. Well, we can't have the sodding Yanks mucking about in our patch old boy. And yes Rolls would of moved to cast block designs sooner or later after all.
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  4960.  @AsbestosMuffins  For now I agree. But 50 years or 100?
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  4961. Simon, lets not forget the discriminatory past of English law. Part of which Guy Fawlkes Night is rooted in. Specifically anti Catholic policies and laws. Regardless of how one feels about various religous sects within Cristianity or other religions. If one does believe in individual freedom then one must respect the rights of those other individuals. There are a couple of buts here of course. The first is those individuals must respect your rights. The second is those other beliefs, political persuasions etc cannot infringe on the rights of others. PS Given Labour's policies Guy Fawlke might be held up as a hero.
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  4962.  @hillaryclinton1314  And YOU. To quote the old evil Nazi line. "Und you vill enjoy it."
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  4963. It's true. Califuckedup truly is the land of fruits and nuts. If he/she/it identifies as a dog does he/she/it shit in public. Oh, right. Its Califuckedup.
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  4964. I hope he was handed a loaded pistol and shown into a locked room.
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  4965. At least Newsome is honest about his intent.
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  4966. There is that. I've seen the same thing in the auto industry. From the early 70s up thru 2005. In the 80s US cars were decried for build quality. And rightly so. But if the specs call for panel gaps of x and the competition is using x/2 or x/3 that's not necessarily productions fault. Plus I repeatedly saw management pushing to meet or exceed production quotas per shift. I once had to cover a weekend shift in an engin block machining dept and there was a call to figure out what was going on. The production supervisor told us that they were losing clamping during the machining operation. He wanted the hydraulic pressure turned up. The drills in the station were so dull they where overcoming the hydraulic system. Instead of changing the tooling he just had to hit the numbers. If they had started breaking taps then he would have had a lot of esplaining to do as Ricky used to say.
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  4967. Hillary had it in the bag until she uttered the word "deplorables". That said. I agree she sucked as a candidate. And she would have sucked as a President. Of maybe if she sucked Bill might not have strayed.
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  4968. Adam. Above a certain size lathe chucks should never be mounted by hand. Using a hoist is to be preferred. This also comes in handy when inserting larger pieces of material in the machine. The same applies to milling machines. It is easier on the back. Plus it greatly reduces the possibility of accidently dropping a chuck on your hand. We mounted our chucks on a rack welded out of 1/4 x 1 flat stock and bolted to the tail stock end of the bed. We also normally would put our steady rest on the end of the bed and lock it down. The lathes were long enough that they were out of the way.
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  4969. One question on Vermont fish and game regs. Do they still shoot spawning fish in Lake Champlain from tree stands?
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  4970. They never should have dropped the Pinks and Greens in the first place
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  4971. The jobs were for the people counting the money.
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  4972. Roddenbury actually had a twofer with Enterprise. She's a Constitution Class vessel. HMS Amelia. In proper British tradition for the Napoleonic Era built in a French yard. When the RN took possession of QEll they should have sent a cutting out expidition into the harbor.
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  4973. As long as there is one piece still there nothing is beyond repair. There are cases of completely new Spitfire airframes being built around an original flap, rudder or elevator. Is it worth it is another matter.
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  4974. San Francisco could use him now.
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  4975. Feminists no doubt find men problematic. There l fixed it for you.
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  4976. How to keep AOC occupied for hours. A piece of paper with "see other side" printed on both sides. See likely messed up her orders as a barista constantly. And she is supposed to have an economics degree from Boston University?
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  4977.  @AhHereWeGo  Doubles as a really lousy Brass Knuckle
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  4978. Lies from the left Only men can be sexist Only white folks can be racist. It's all the fault of Europe/white people/the US. Take your pick.
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  4979. How in the world did she miss eating meat is rscist and transphobic towards black transwomen
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  4980. I really don't care if Neaneerthal had heavily melanated skin or not. The same goes for Cheddar Man or the Old European Hunter Gatherers. Heavily Melanated skindoesnot mean they were culturally like Sub Saharan Africans. When l was a wee sprout the neighbor across the street came home after being stationed for two years in Libia. He was tanned darker than a lot of so called blacks. In my opinion the only way to judge the actual state of a persons normal skin color is at birth or areas on their body that never sees the direct sunshine.
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  4981. Maybe when the Kia Boyz steal Biden's limo at the Donks coronation, l mean convention ......
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  4982. ​ @chrisbammer4946  People Eating Tasty Animals
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  4983. Well, part of that million years. When it wasn't cover in ice.
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  4984. Just make sure to use Brown 29 from Uranus Industries when creating art.
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  4985. One wonders just how much test firing Spingfield and the army did under "combat" conditions given stories about cases failing to extract. If they didn't because of financial restraints then the death of any cavalry trooper that could be attributed to a non functional carbine* can be laid at their feet along with the US Congress. *let's not get I to the whole pronunciation thing
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  4986.  @ElCrab  Yes I understand the issue was mainly with the ammunition. But the rifle and ammunition were part and parcel. There certainly was no issue with the strength of the design. IMO it wasn't the best of the single shot rifles of its era. But it wasn't a complete disaster either. Th ed action was strong enough to have test rifles made up in .30 Krag.
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  4987.  @ElCrab  Still the reason not to test the Trapdoor under extreme stress was a fatal mistake. Doing so would have prevented its combat issues with the original ammunition. But given there was practically zero ammunition alloted for range practice.
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  4988.  @ElCrab  A tually since drawn brass cartridges hadn't really been worked out I wonder if a composite case similiar to a shotgun shell would have worked. The brass base would have provided the gas seal. The paper based portion could have been varnished or waxed to seal it against moisture.
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  4989. Seems like a nice place. I say we vote the residents off of the island and move in.
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  4990.  @japolieb4292  No, I meant the rest of the island. It's a joke. In reality there are politicians on both sides that tacitly support illegal immigration. Democrats who just future potential voters and Republicans who just see potential cheap labor.
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  4991. I remember when my parents generation used to say you only get to ride in a Caddy once. Only you don't get to enjoy it. The Allante. The worlds longest assembly line. It's pronounced sim-a-ron
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  4992. Wheeler the Weasel has been catering to the far left fringe for years. The only reason he gets re-elected is his opponents are farther around the bend than he is. As to ID ing rioters. Use paintball guns with dye sensitive to ultraviolet light. If somebody it throwing a molotov cocktail or projectile with intent than the police or the feds are able to respond with force. Antifa and their fellow travellers are lucky the gloves have not come off.
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  4993. There are a number of factors that contribute to the rod length ratio. One big one is deck height. A short deck block like a Ford Windsor almost requires a short rod. The only way to fit a long rod is to have a piston with an extremely short height above the pin.
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  4994. I'm sure its probably been said but it matches the song 🙄
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  4995. I really don't think Evan's hff ad a death wish. It was a case of a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. A lot of the crew was able to abandon ship but it took a couple of days for them to get picked up. And that was when they knew about the sinking unlike the Indianapolis
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  4996. Yah. Generally Miserable s rewed that up.
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  4997. Why is it left leaning individuals will never listen to what people say. If a terror group advocates genocide or ethnic cleansing they get a pass or it is ignored. There are other similar cases. When the civil war (1) in Sudan became news worthy the left largely ignored it. Why? I suspect because they did not have a European derived nation or ethnic group to feel enraged about.
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  4998. One way the lack of ownership of the rail corridors could have been solved. When the Interstates were first approved there could have been right of way set aside along the interstate corridors for eventual use for HSR.
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  4999. In terms of shore bombardment effectiveness during WWII I tend to think it was mostly under effective related to the number of shells expended. One of the more effective store bombardment systems that was employed was probably the rocket based systems used by both the RN and the USN. The best of these was probably the MK 102 that used the Twin 40mm Bofors mount. Sustained rate of fire was 32 rockets per mount per minute. Maximum range 10k yards. If fitted with proximity fuses I wonder just how well they would have been in the AA role. See Mark Feltons recent video for footage. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mark+felton+youtube&PC=U316&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dmark%2bfelton%2byoutube%26PC%3dU316%26FORM%3dCHROMN&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=4EAAD82AF4E45F05AF2A4EAAD82AF4E45F05AF2A&FORM=WRVORC
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  5000. On Antons channel last year he talked a study that suggests that there may be 14 civilizations in the Milky Way alone. But given the volume of the galaxy they are spread out so thinly that contact is impossible. In the future we may detect signs of intelligent life but I suspect they will be so far away in space. And more importantly in time that contact is basically impossible. But in the end making estimates about the possibility of life much less intelligent life in the universe is a guessing game.
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  5001. Man buys his wife, girl friend or SO some sexy lingerie. She opens box and seys "l see you bought yourself a present". My late first wife loved their just regular undies. Cause they fit.
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  5002. I'm waiting for a return of the vent window
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  5003. I remember when department stores at least in my area all had a candy counter that featured various types of hard candy, caramels or jujus (think Swedish Fish) . One store eliminated theirs only to bring it back because of too many complaints. Today Jujus are rare. They seem to have been replaced by gummies
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  5004. The cooling of anything with Wasp Major had to be a challenge. When we see pictures of the engines it is often sans cooling baffles. One trick the Wasp Major used was offsetting the intake and exhaust valves for maximum cooling. A trick first used by Franklin Motors on their air cooled car engines.
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  5005. I could care less
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  5006. Star Wars never really was very good. The first movie is literally a Saturday Afternoon Serial. Its saving grace's are the score and the visual effects. Even its climax is a direct rip-off of The Dam Busters and 633 Squadron.
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  5007. Gee, none of the young woke SJWs are enlisting. Who'd a thunk
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  5008. This so Chicago.
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  5009. Ballard was a US Navy Reserve commissioned officer.
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  5010. But where's the Jeremy Clarkson rocket sled face. 😖 Hey, I thought the Brits used that heretical French system of weights and measures.
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  5011. ​ @DuncanHall2070  Deserve has nothing to do with it. They have to earn it. KC is beatable (1). Baltimore lost this year to the Colts, Steelers and Browns. I'm not counting the second loss to the Steelers as they rested players. Will the Lions beat the 49ers. I hope so. But I learned a long time ago hope isn't much too on. Whoever takes the NFC I think the Ravens or KC 😭 win in Vegas 1) I've heard the loss to Green Bay was all because of the refs. From what I saw both teams got calls or non calls go their way.
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  5012. What about scintered and forged OEM rods?
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  5013. There are plenty of "non left wing novelists". Only most of them tend to labor in the ghettos and slums of the literary world. Genres such as SciFi, Techno Thrillers etc. Not in the artsy fartsy world the literary critics love.
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  5014. A recurrent theme in the 50s and 60s. Sometimes I wonder if the Ministry of Aviation was working for Moscow.
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  5015.  @unclenogbad1509  As for most of the talent going to the US. Might it have something to do with getting paid better. As well as food not still being rationed.
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  5016. Sidney, instead of Hercules jumping into the Pit of Souls a better analogy might involve a stable. A stable housing nothing but bulls.
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  5017. Was the United States perfect at its founding? No. First we had the Articles of Confederation. Which was unworkable. Then we had a Constitutional Convention. Which was passed along with the Bill of Rights. Was that perfect? No. Have we gotten better overall? I would say yes. Is there room for improvement? Yes, there probably is. But the government cannot fix everything. Government can not do everything for us. First we have to fix ourselves.
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  5018. IIRC the F-16 was originally designed with twin vertical stabilizers. When they switched to one the structure for the horizontal control surfaces were not changed much. Of course that could be internet or aviation magazine BS. Kind of like the reason the Corsair had a full wing was to shorten the landing gear for ground clearance on the prop. Nope. The gull wing resulted from it improved the aerodynamics of the airframe.
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  5019.  @johndawson8510  I thought it was a licence to freakin own one.
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  5020. Rigidity of a wet noodle? You obviously have not seen ThisOldTony breaking his bending vise trying to bend a wet noodle sir.
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  5021.  @jule3480  They'll find London isn't English anymore. Your population keeps increasing and your sewer and waste treatment systems cannot keep up.
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  5022. Telegram in the early 1900s To Henry Ford Detroit : stop : Request advice on setting up assembly line : stop : Jackie Fischer Admiral Grand Fleet : stop : The Admiralty, London : stop
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  5023. But my feelings are important. My feelings are special. Sarcasm mode off.
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  5024. Does any one else have a certain movie score running through their head.
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  5025. Plus if the author was in the Marines just how did he wind up in North Africa. The only Marines could possibly have been in the North African, Italian or European theaters would have been either in the Marine detachment on major warships or some embassy personal if they stationed Marines at embassies then.
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  5026. I don't care how much power you have. If you cant get it to the road you are just quoting Shakespeare "sound and fury signifying nothing" What, no Hayabusa Smart Cars?
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  5027. The Czechs, the heroes of the gun design world. Complicated little buggar
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  5028. Just listen to the coxswain "Stroke! Stroke! If you ever heard an engine d being honed in a production environment it is really loud.
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  5029. Love the sound of a throaty inline 6
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  5030. I'm going to recommend their co-religionists in places like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonesia and Malaysia step up to the plate. But I imagine that there are radicals looking at this as a recruiting opportunity.
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  5031. He's a trust fund baby anyway. The thing l find most insulting about the way he dresses is he's wearing Carhartt. You know, WORK clothes.
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  5032. And to add insult to injury there is the one where the drive belt for the oil pump is on the output end of the engine requiring removing the transmission. Ford iirc. The only oil pump driven dry belts that make sense are dry sump conversions of wet sump engines for racing. As to conventional ICE engines crank mounted internal gear or gerotor types are best IMO. Camshaft driven pumps via the distributor are fine for OHV engines under normal operating conditions
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  5033. Townsends is one of the best living history channels on YouTube. Period.
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  5034. At their core organizations like WHO and the UN are useful. An organization like WHO that can help co-ordinate responses to disease outbreaks and health issues in times of emergencies (floods, hurricanes, earthquakes) and do it with purely humanitarian and unbiased and apolitical efforts is needed. The same goes for an organization such as the UN. We need a UN to help deal with international disputes. Not just this UN. The idea that a nation of a couple of million has the same vote in the General Assembly as a nation of hundreds of millions is ludicrous. For a new United Nations there should be certain requirements. Do your people have some say in their government. Do you have a free press. Do you have the freedom to speak. Do you have the freedom to practice or not practice your faith. I don't expect everyone should be held to the gold standard. But there should be some sort of minimum. There should be no theocracies. There should be no Third World dictatorships. There should be a level of freedom at least equal to late 19th Century Britian, her Commonwealth, the United States etc.
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  5035. Which explains the demographic problem th er y have in China right now.
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  5036. The modified Landing Ships that were equipped with rocket launchers could put out an incredible volume of fire. For a very short period. The turret equipped ships might not have been able to match the initial volume of fire but they had the ability to train rockets on target not directly forward. I've often wondered just how possible it would have been for the US Navy to equip Gato Class subs with a detachable module that would be equipped with a certain number of 6" rockets. Enroute to their patrol areas the sub could conduct a bombardment mission against island airfields. Risking the sub is a lot less than the potential risk of a carrier and its task force. One the rockets are expended the sub dives and discards the module the rockets were carried in. And continues its patrol.
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  5037. 19 years old is not a teenager.
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  5038.  @randyrussell4331  Storage is the problem with H2. But l would be willing to bet if H2 becomes widely used the climate alarmists will be screaming about H2O emissions because water is more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. Face it. The alarmists just hate the idea of any personal transportation beyond a bicycle.
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  5039. Rotary arm launchers are theoretically possible for small payloads. There is also a short story about a moon base needing a much better computer system in order to track small projectiles that were placed into lunar orbit during a firefight between US and Soviet security forces.
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  5040. Technically everything in the Solar System is older than the Sun. Or to better phrase it. Older than the formation of the Solar System
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  5041. What are they going to do when he is gone. Trump is like crack for liberals.
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  5042. I have to admit that in some ways l sympathize with JSO. But not from the "we're all going to die" arguement. But from the economic view point that oil is too useful for other things that burning it is wasteful. Even if we stopped using oil for transportation today the petrochemical industry is not going to go away. I do not think coal is going to dissapear as an induetry either. I think it will shrink but may still provide feedstock for the carbon nanotube industry providing construction materials stronger and lighter than what we use now. JSO obviously wants a clean renewable energy future. I think most people do. Who really wants to live downwind of a coal burning power plant. Yet these same people will refuse to consider the cleanest and safest power source currently available. Nuclear. Decommisioned coal power stations would be the ideal location to install the small modular nuclear systems being developed. Also in an all electric future these same activists will oppose any resource extraction needed for the "rare earth" minerals needed for such an economy. I say let them eat zer bugs along with Klaus Schmidt.
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  5043. But they were Chryslers 😖 The big reason the 4.0 went away is in the end it was down to one platform (WJs) and it needed too much redesign to meet future emissions and economy goals. Plus KEP was the red headed stepchild as far as corporate was concerned. KEP had too many inefficiencies in the facility. No interstate access. Older disjointed facility. Plus corporate wanted to concentrate engine production in one area for transportation costs.
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  5044. Joi
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  5045. What you fail to realize is that Pathě Newsreela were all part of the insideous plot to hide the "true" nature of the diverse genetic make up of British society at the time. One thing that needs to explained to immigrants to tolerant societies is that if you expect (and demand of) us to be tolerant of you is that we expect and demand that you be tolerant of us. It is not a one way street. Otherwise go back to whatever third world shit hole you came from.
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  5046. God, that's butt ugly. But then the Lagonda wasn't good looking either imo
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  5047.  @demannuresu  A far better means of plotting ones political leanings would be something like the Pournelle 2 axis system or ones that are similiar to it. There have even been examples of it being developed into a three axis system. The whole left right thing dates to the French Revolution anyway.
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  5048. Last spring it made soooooo much sense to put Covid patients into nursing homes.
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  5049. Street names are very unusual were l live. Almost everything is numbered on a grid. 100 years ago they allowed builders to name local streets. Hence multiple streets with the same name not connected in anyway. It got so bad the Post Office could not deliver the mail. Hence the city went to numbered streets east-west and avenues north-south. Names were reserved for highways, loop roads and diagonals. Now idiots want to go back to street names.
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  5050. ​ @jeffbybee5207  Ideally yes. The issue is what if you have a completely flat charge on the battery and have to limp home or to reach a charging station. Not being able to meet the demands of driving conditions required if you stuck in a single optimal engine speed. Perhaps an option could be being able to switch between a constant RPM setting and an on demand setting.
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  5051. Certain cylinder layouts are combinations of various types. Radials and inlines combine to make star engines. X layout is a form of that. Fan types and inlines combine to make W or Broad Arrow.
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  5052. ​ @ericpadilla2454  Lambeau South. Are the 'boys the new Bears? 😅
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  5053. The Brits had the best pop up headlghts. Engineered by Lucas in Dim, Flicker and Hope modes. Runner up. Mata Slant Six swap by Uncle Tony's Garage. See Blnky.
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  5054. There's an old saying from Estonia or Latvia. Why do Estonians pour oil on their flower beds? So their guns dont rust
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  5055. Kind of ironic as Walt was a racist prick.
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  5056. House them at #10, Buchingham Palace, Balmoral and Chucky's country place. Plus in the home of any politician that thinks this is a good idea. And Martha's Vineyard probably has some empty vacation rentals.
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  5057. As an american l have to ask. Is the UK award for copper of the year called the Max Sennet Award.
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  5058. I'm surprised that they aren't demanding she be succeeded by a DRAG QUEEN 😁
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  5059. The DNC knew if she had to hit the campaign trail in the primaries she'd get her butt kicked. I've heard the argument that "you knew she'd be on the ticket". How many times has the current VP been dropped when the incumbent runs for a second term.
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  5060. If l had a two door I'd leave the back seat down permanently. Had an 84 I bought used. Great little station wagon which is what l wanted.
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  5061. No one with any sense believes any of the conspiracy theories that got hung on C-19. This is one nasty bug. But there is one question I have tried to find an answer for. Given a death rate 8.2 per 1000 people per year and a population of 330M (that's the number I got from the census bureau) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Census Actually the projected figure +334M. At 8.2 per 1000 that comes out to 7500 deaths per day from all causes. New York City's population projected at 20.169M. https://uspopulation2020.com/population-of-new-york-2020-population-growth-demography-facts.html This works out to an average of 453 deaths per day. Is the death toll we are seeing attributable to C-19 added on top of the deaths from other causes. The current US total of 22000. If we put the first death at March 1st for sake of arguement then we are looking at 511 per day. Is this on top of the 7500 per day average. How many of these deaths are people who would likely have died from other causes. I am not being a heartless SOB here. I'm simply asking a question as to what the real numbers of deaths per day is. I suspect some causes are way down. Motor vehicle accidents. Hopefully the murder rate is down. Although I understand domestic violence is up. Are there less people dieing of other infectious diseases such as influenza because of social distancing and other practices. Are all deaths that are attributed to C-19 actually have that as the primary cause. Or are we seeing a case of they tested positive so C-19 is the cause. I strongly think there is going to be very thorough statistical study done in the future. In fact I know it. And yes this bug is going to be back this winter. Whether it comes back from a small pool of infected individuals here in the US or from outside the country. Hopefully everybody will be better prepared come October. And it will also pop back up in Europe, Asia after the Southern hemisphere's turn. After things settle down we may well see some restrictions on air travel. I also think we are going to see countries or regions looking to be more self reliant on their own sources of medical equipment and prescription drugs if possible. That and either expanding national stockpiles or creating one to start with. The US used to have surplus food stocked as it was used in the commodities program. How much they keep on hand I don't know. But this is something that needs to be looked at. In all countries. I also think the days of open borders are over at least for awhile.
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  5062. It's not just the manufacturing cost. There's the engineering and development work. It's not just a matter of copying an existing item. Then there is the tooling and ma CV hinerh costs. Company A decides to build and market lets say a semi auto version of the Johnson LMG. And they don't have the machine tools needed to ro the job. And the reproduction will have limited sales. The cost if all of this has to covered somehow. And in any liability insurance. Plus th hey are planning on making a profit. After all. It's a business. Not a charity.
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  5063. ​ @JohnHughesChampigny  I can think if two specific areas of shooting sports where a reproduction is useful and probably highly desirable. Cowboy Action events and re-enactments. After all would someone really want to risk damage to his possibly expensive antique firearm.
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  5064.  @JohnHughesChampigny  Not really. The re-enactors I'm thinking of are Civil War and earlier.
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  5065.  @JohnHughesChampigny  Yes I have seen it. As Ian pointed out with the FG-42 repos SMG iirc put as much work into the magazines as the rifle.
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  5066.  @jamesthompson7694  Look up a piece by Larty Niven about why Lois Lane can not become pregnant with Supermans child. https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ma... Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex - Wikipedia
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  5067. I can just see number 4 happening.
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  5068. I never knew Rube Goldberg was Prussian.
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  5069. Das Fourth Reich vit oot der Panzers unt sspiffy uniforms
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  5070. I knew about the rifles but the pistol. I would think the artillery would want a little more fire power than this if enemy infantry or cavalry show up. The only real change the system needs is a second stage to the trigger that would drop the block and eject the spent casing. Fire, squeeze the trigger some more and the spent case ejects. That would be even slicker.
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  5071. "Not that many of these cars get in accidents." And then there's the guy with the 73 Hornet Hatchback that got hit by a dump truck while doing Power Tour.
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  5072. Myself a would nominate a number of USN commanding officers. Both surface and submarines.
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  5073. ​ @dovetonsturdee7033  The same Labour government which gave the Soviets the latest jet engine technology for free.
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  5074. A definitely Nine Nations of North America with this.
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  5075. They were running torpedo drills as I u understand it. I wonder if they opened one of the tubes to load a torpedo and the outer door on the tube was open or leaking. You then have about a 50 cm pipe letting water in at pressure. Or possibly one of the vents for the diesel engines
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  5076.  Biden Sucks  I get that all the internal hatches in the boat would have been closed. But if one compartment flooded I seriously doubt the boat had enough reserve bouyancy to resurface even if the sub was able to blow its ballast tanks. Somehow the boat must of flooded. There is no way I could see the designers of the sub leaving out a manual option to blow the ballast tanks.
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  5077. Admitting you fudged the numbers does wonders for your credibility.
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  5078. The Battle Hymn of Portland Soy, soy, soy, soy, soy................
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  5079. ​ @nathanexplosion5478  In the 80s AMC started Ziebarting vehicles in house after they were painted. The State of Illinois wanted to sue them because "they weren't doing it like the Ziebart shops". Ziebart helped but winter salt use is going to get you in the end. Thankfully most carwashes now feature underbody wash. If you pay more of course.
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  5080. The simple answer. Its complicated.
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  5081. Lets be honest. Moving from one region to another is always going to involve soe culture shock. Just don't try and shove your culture on your new neighbors
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  5082. Does anyone notice the slur Richie uses early in the "apology". That slur is "worker".
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  5083. One point on abortion rates. If we did not have Roe vs Wade for all those years. Would we even be in the position of needing massive immigration? Im not taking a position one way or the other. Nor do l think that immigration at some level. would not have happened. Immigration, legal and illegal, is going to happen.
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  5084. I think one wild card that could upset any number of apple carts is the potential for a breakthrough in fusion. The joke is fusion is always 20 years away. I think we are in the last 20 years.
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  5085. If this ever comes about then the states in the Compact had better be prepared to go the other way if the popular vote favors a candidate in the "other" party. If not, then it is just one more political deal. Personally l am in favor of ditching the Electoral College. While at the same time redrawing state lines to equalize population. Imagine a situation where 5 to ten states have not only a majority of population but closer to a supermajority. Then the rest of the 45 to 40 states are left beghing gor crumbs while being little more than sources of tax money for the other 5 to 10.
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  5086. Relying on guns to sink mechant ships makes perfect sense if you are attacking ships steaming all on their own. Not so much if they are in convoys (1). The cruiser sub was idea that came and went. 1) Now I have wretched 70s trucker song rattling around in my head.
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  5087. I remember when scrap prices spiked in the 90s iirc. People were boosting manhole covers and sewer grates
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  5088. The Boeing competitor for the YC-17 used the same basic set-up only with two engines.
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  5089. Do they need to hear Bill Clinton. Its the ECONOMY STUPID.
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  5090. If you dock the bike and immediately want to use it again rent it again. Once you dock it that bike is available to be rented by ANYONE.
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  5091. Maker of laxatives?
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  5092. If there is an American accent it's the one you hear on the nightly news.
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  5093. ​ @charlesrusso7523 drawn and quartered with her head on a spike most likely
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  5094. Some areas never left the Dark Ages. Much less the Middle Ages.
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  5095. They're just trying to keep up with the Canadian Shop Teacher
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  5096. I don't think boy child Justin even knows what the word means. If not for daddy he'd be a dog catcher someplace.
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  5097. ​ @derrickthewhite1  When the whole point of the Maginot Line was to allow the French Army to fight a maneuver campaign.
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  5098. Maybe they should check their privilege
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  5099. Why is it almost every public figure can not stand in front of cameras and a microphone without backup.
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  5100. You had two choices. Jump or burn.
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  5101. This what happens when you channel Cochrane
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  5102. Robots? Spell check does some weird stuff doesn't it.
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  5103. ​ @TyrannoJoris_Rex  The Russians (1) had one major advantage over the West when it came to aircraft development. At least at that time. If Joe said l want this. Multiple design agencies got busy. Britain and France were broke. Even the US could not spend endless money. And then there is Congress. 450+ egotistical fools who all believe they are the smartest person in the room. On any subject.
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  5104. If there was a major element of luck involved it was in the Japanese indecision on arming the torpedo bombers
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  5105. The three biggest exports. Oil, beef and bullshit.
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  5106. The ultimate 4 engine car was Mickey Thompson's LSR car
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  5107. I think he is refering to the people who would listen to this.
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  5108. What caused Greenland to freeze over in the first place. None of the large islands in the Canadian Artic have permanent large ice caps. Theres a YouTube channel that shows there are large numbers of ancient monumental structures on Earth that are oriented to the cardinal directions. Such as the pyramids in Egypt are oriented to to true north. Yet there is a second group of structures from different regions oriented to a point over the north end of Greenland. About 73°N47°W. And a third group to a point South of that. And a fourth group South of that. I do not agree with the individuals idea why. I just find the data interesting. And how did he find this data. Google Earth. Google Earth and Maps are very useful for finding past evidence of some of the effects of just what happened at the end of the last Glacial Advance.
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  5109.  @wbertie2604  One way was by failing it for certification. Or at least delaying it. When Fairey did finally get the engine certified the moment had passed. One Fairey D-12 (named Felix) did do, was kick RR in the rear on starting development of cast block liquid cooled engines. Something Napier didn't do until the Sabre. If the engine had entered production and the tooling still existed in the late 30s the D-12 or it later brother the Conqueror would have made great tank engines.
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  5110. For a little perspective. Based on the total US population estimated at 330M by the US Census Bureau and the national motality rate of 8.2 per 1000 per annum 330M ÷ 365 x (8.2 ÷ 1000) x 90 days the US should have seen at least 666,000 deaths from all causes. I'm not saying C-19 isn't bad. What I want to know is are the 100K COVID-19 deaths in addition to that figure. Are the 100K deaths partially in addition to the 666K deaths we should have expected. If an individual has a terminal disease with a life expectancy of 3 months and contracts COVID-19 and dies should that death be considered due to the first condition or the second. When this is over teams of statisticians at the DHHS, CDC, insurance companies, other governments will be analyzing the data. Yes data can be manipulated. But the data properly analyzed can answer questions. Questions I for one have not heard being asked. Here in Wisconsin with a population of 5.81M and 510 COVID-19 deaths or .00877%. Based on US mortality rate Wisconsin should have seen close to 12K deaths in the last 90 days.
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  5111. Most reliable? I would have thought the Ford GAA 18 liter V-8 was.
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  5112. The Wrights made sure they had photographic evidence.
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  5113. Greg's Planes and Automobiles has a good video on the benefits of the inverted versus conventional.
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  5114. One way to judge the class (or lack of) of the customers. The number of shopping arts randomly scattered across the parking lot.
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  5115. Banning tobacco products? Hopefully we've learned one thing from Prohibition and the War on Drugs.
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  5116.  @stephaniemorrissey123  Also they are a favorite target for those who love "sin taxes"
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  5117. A climate crisis confrence in a country that depends on its oil production. Brilliant.
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  5118. Of course Das Boot had 10/10. The director served on U-boats
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  5119. What l find ironic is that prior to swept wings taking over a lot of the aircraft developed by other countries were using wing profiles developed by the NACA research facilities. Research facilities in the US, Britian and the Soviet Union were well aware of the potential of jet engines and advanced wing designs. In the US the problem was seen prior to around 1940 as being one of the hight temperature alloys having hot been developed as of yet. And the company working on high temp alloys was GE. Primarily for use in the input eide of turbosuperchargers. As far as l know the first axial flow gas turbine for aviation use to be started on in the US was the Lockheed L-1000. This was started in the 1930s. Others in the US, Britian and Germany were aware of the Whittle patents. As were the Soviets (1). Plus Whittle and von Olhein were hot the only ones engaged in designing jet engines pre WWII. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilio_Leret_Ruiz ln 1935 in Spain Ruiz was granted a patent for a jet engine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Jendrassik The first turboprop design was undertaken by Jendrassik a Hungarian mechanical engineer. Prototypes were built and tested between 1938 and 1942. First being run on test stands in 1940. He also designed a small 75kw turboprop. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrovick_F.2. First flown in 1943 mounted in a Gloster Meteor it can trace its ancestry to an axial flow compressor section first demonstated in 1928. The F.2 had better performance than the Whittle centrifigal type but worse reliability. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Guillaume Guillaume was awarded a French patent in the early 1920s for an axial flow gas turbine. The first patent to awarded for an aviation engine of this type As to leading edge swept wings they were nothing new. But they were ussually employed prior to the use of jet engines to solve center of gravity issues. This is why the ME-262 has a moderately swept wing. In fact its leading edge sweep angle is about the same as a DC-3.
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  5120.  @Mike-n8d5g  Sows ears and silk purses come to mind.
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  5121.  @MohamedAhmed-ms9eu  I won't speak for women in general. But my first wife, my she rest in peace, preferred bras and underwear from Victoria's Secret. Not their "play clothes". But their day to day product line. She said their products were far more comfortable to wear.
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  5122. None of this is shocking about the BBC.
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  5123. In an utterly forgettable Bob Hope movie he plays a supply Sargent in search of a lost shipment of "Milwaukee Holy Water".
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  5124. Girl, you would have been better off going for a two year Associates in something useful. But that might require getting your hands dirty. Or maybe breaking a nail. Enjoy your future as a barista. It worked for AOC
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  5125. She's a has been and a wanna be at the same. Which ain't easy
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  5126. A certain religion which shall not be named even condones an has rules about slavery.
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  5127. It is not important what his appearance was. What is impotant is the message.
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  5128. Tim, these people are not ss dumb as a box of rocks. They are dumb as a box with no rocks in it.
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  5129. This principle must believe personal esteem is a zero sum game. In order to raise the esteem that others have in them selves you must diminish the esteem of others.
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  5130. Hate crime is a real thing. Using your right of free speech to spread vile ideas and encourage violence towards a group of people certainly qualifies in my book. It is curious just how law enforcement in the West looks at the matter. Just wait until Westminster grants the police in Scotland the power to arrest persons on hate speech charges in the rest of the UK, the Commonwealth and any other place on Esrth they can think of.
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  5131. A calm reasonable discussion. That's the way things should be.
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  5132. Drag is the gender equivilant of Black Face
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  5133. Perhaps when the UK voluntarily gave up its empire they should have reduced all of their colonies to the state they were in pre colonization in terms of any infrastructure they had built.
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  5134. If the vote totals are higher in Wisconsin it's not because the cows voted. It because you can register at the polls.
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  5135. Trump can file as many lawsuits as he wants. But it's not going to do him any good. While there may have been some fraud in this election* I do not think it was at the level needed for Biden to win. The turnout was as large it was due to young voters who sat out last time voting this year and probably near universal voter turn out in the Black community. *I suspect that for any election in Chicago.
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  5136. Audio books should be available to you through your local library or some state or federal agency. My mother had MD and she got audio books that way
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  5137. About the add. I remember years as go there was somebody selling small plots of the Lunar surface. And then there was the Star Registry.
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  5138. No scene in a Tarzan movie tops the swimming scene 🤪
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  5139. Its not just the media. Just where the hell are Reverend Al, BLM, Crump, the NAACP and every other self proclaimed "leader" or "spokesperson" for the black "community". If they are ssying anything nobody hears about it. No money to be made most likely.
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  5140. When these idiots pull this crap I suggest the public should be able to counter protest and open up a big can of whoop ass. Especially the ones glueing them selves to highways.
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  5141. Once again the Law of Unintended Consequences rises up to bite somebody on the ass. If Roe v Wade was based in a supposed right to privacy why then do corporate get the right to sell your private information?
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  5142. Wheeler the Weasel does not controll ANTIFA. He may sympathize. He may be aligned with them. But these people are clearly out of control of anybody
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  5143. Hollywood!!!!!
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  5144. Warren Oats "Via von Dios!" Robert Stack enjoying Dumbo.
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  5145. Was there a Trojan War? Undoubtedly. But as Micheal Wood closed his 8 part documentary out. Which war? And which Troy? Troy, or Illium, or Willusia if you prefer given its site on the Dardenelles controlled trade between the Aegean and the Black Sea (along with any other city state that may have been situated on the Bosphorus. This would lead to it's being rich and a ripe target. Personally I think Homer's Illiad has its roots in orally transmitted tales of a campaign or raid in the Bronze Age on a city or fortress located somewhere on the Anatolian coast. Was at Hisilric? Quite possibly. Given the tradition in the Greek and Roman world that placed it there. Remember they were much closer to the time of the events. Also the Illiad covers a small part of the war. Although it does allude to both earlier and later events. The most important thing about the Illiad and the Oddessy is it marks the beginning of narrative literature in the west in that it is the only works we have from the period. There were probably others as well. Now lost to history
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  5146. I remember in the early 80s a board member (1) of one of the major recording companies reading the lyrics of a rap song about killing cops and asking just why are we publishing this stuff. 1) C Heston iirc
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  5147.  @terencebernard2337  I know perfectly well how to pronounce it. Battery Acid.
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  5148.  @quinnroberts3158  How do you think I feel living in K-town
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  5149.  @ethandollarhide7943  There's a difference between a human rights issue and a we are going to shove this down everybody's throat whether they approve or not issue.
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  5150. We really need a woke college to rename themselves Snowflake University.
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  5151. Portland's PD prefer that rioters defer from using molotovs. It saves on getting fire extinguishers recharged with human flesh safe CO2. Oh wait. We cant use CO2 extinguishers. Climate change you know.
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  5152. Most counties will not remain poor forever. There are exceptions. Haiti comes to mind.
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  5153. The Tonys, Oscars etc. I could care less.
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  5154. Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
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  5155. It's not just Jews. It seems the Democrats today are anti religious across the board. As long as it is Judeo Christian.
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  5156. Pennsyltucky?
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  5157. Theres actually a city in Wisconsin named Portage. Because, well it was where there was a Portage between the Fox River Drainage which flows into Lake Michigan and the Wisconsin River that then flows into the Mississippi. Basically on the route between Upper Canada and St Louis.
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  5158.  @EnfieldNo4  I was thinking of Wisconsin taking out a T-34 in Korea.
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  5159. Fortune tellers. You must have a shortage of fortune tellers.
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  5160. Well l guess United is on the do not fly list.
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  5161. One thing with Pontiac's OHC 6. Why they didnt go with a cross flow head. The Vega head actually looks very similiar. What killed the Cammer 6 was cost. It cost more to build than a 326. There were some guys working on a DOHC head for the Cammer 6 https://www.hotrod.com/articles/hppp-0606-pontiac-sprint-six-engine-build/ Just think what never saw the light of day. As I understand it AMC ran OHC versions of the 232 on test stands. It would not surprise me if Ford, Chrysler and Chevy ran experimental OHC engines also. That multiple pushrod idea wasn't new. BMW built an OHV six with that setup for a Hemi head. Jaguar also looked at the system before going full in on their DOHC. Ford had 4 valve heads for the Windsor Small Block that used a second pushrod to run the exhaust side. Olds did the same thing on the W-43. Back 15 or 20 years ago Thunder 24V Heads for Chevies had the same setup. I really cant see it being superior to a conventional DOHC. Just think of all the added reciprocating mass. If itwas better dont you think Cosworth would have done it on the DFV Formula 1 engine
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  5162.  @rodofiron100  That was Tambora
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  5163. As Tom Lehrer said "vonce der rocket goes üp, who kares vhere ict cumves down. Icts not my Department zays Wehner Von Braun
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  5164. I finally recently started watching season one. Things l find implausible. 1) The sheer size of the vessels. And in comparison the volume ofcargo they carry. A perfectexampld is the first shp we see. Canterbury. Why haul around all that extra mass to store ice when you could melt the ice. Distill and store all the contaminates and haul the water in bladders or just refreeze it and push the frozen block of ice. 2) The sheer internal volume of the ships themselves. I know its a TV show but in the future when there are actually miners etc working out in the belt l doubt they will have the internal volume to spare. The MCRN battle ship is even worse. 3) Not just the volume of living space but how it is laid out. Again its a TV show and had to be shot on realistic budgets in sound stages. Given a continuous drive how ever it works. Let go with the approximate 1/3rd gee of Mars. Even during coasting phases some artificial gravity is nice. IMO the mag boots aren't going to cut it. Yes l can see there usefulness. A better solution especial for a merchantman water hauler would be a spin section with multiple modules that rotate on bearings with hatches inbetween the sections. The modules are arranged in a ring or partial rings. When the ship is coasting or at rest the modules are in their rest position. Meaning you head is pointed toward the Axis of the ship. When the vessel is accelerating the modules rotate so that your head is pointing in the direction of acceleration. At low thrust the spin section can still rotate with the floor being canted. Go to the Atomic Rockets website and look up Ezekiel Wheels. I had this idea years ago only to find out that somebody beat me to it. The vessels control station can be on the ships axis in zero gee when at rest. 3) The inplied scarcity of water and other vital supplies. Given what we know about the Solar System today or evenwhen Corey was writing The Expanse the Asteriod Belt is rich in water. At least in terms of what a human society would need. Given that Carbonacous Chondrite asteriods can be up to around 30% water and Ceres should be rich in water. You get the idea. And when the actorsare traversing the tunnels water is just dripping on them. Tunnels. Another dumb idea. Why do so many SF shows use tunnels. 4) Spining Ceres up for artificial gravity. The amount of energy needed to dpin up a body the size of Ceres to provide 1/3rd of a gee would better spent building an O Niel habitat. The Docks on Ceres or Eros Station. Wouldn't these be better situated at the axis in zero gee. The huilding of Navoo/Nathan Hale or Tycho Station implies implies they they could build O'Niels. 5) Martian terra forming and importing "supplies". Why not divert cometary bodies that are already headed in system. And start small. Roof over part or parts of Valles Marinaris and establish habitats there. Plus Mars may have substantial subsurface water. And given any need of metals why not mine Mercury. 5) Stealthed spaceships. Given the implied number of ships running around the Solar System there has to be some sort of traffic control system. Lord knows you do not want to be cruising through somebodies exhusst plume of fusion reaction products. Plus once your drive is running everybody with decent sensors will see you. Lets not talk about waste heat. Maybe use it to power a laser pointed out of the Plane of the Ecliptic? Kenetic Weapons Systems. Those rail guns aren't just hitting their targets. The rounds that miss are now dangerous projectiles racing through the Solar System. How fast are they? Above Solar escape velocity? We know the ships are given travel times.
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  5165. If both Mars and Venus have or had life at one point and we then find life on Europa then in my mind life is as common as dirt in the Universe. Intelligence is another matter
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  5166. The best by any manufacturer? That's debatable. Another good candidate would be the Volvo Red Block 4 cylinder. The Ford Barra used in taxis would rack up some truely incredible numbers of miles or kms. One thing that's really needed for an engine to have a long lasting potential life is a good oiling system.
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  5167. Somebody needs to insert the part of the Looney Tune cartoon where the one character inspired by Of Mice and Men is holding the little rabbit. "I'll hug him and love him....."
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  5168. Re-Education Camps. Hillary and others gave suggested itfor political opponents in the US.
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  5169. The Anglo-Saxons claiming Arthur and the Arthur legend as theirs is silly given that Arthur is fighting against the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
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  5170. She's right up there with "the island to capsize" guy.
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  5171. Just what do they think will happen when the Mississippi shifts to the Atchafalaya.
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  5172. Or Trudeau bring a wanker he could do what wankers do.
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  5173. There's more out there on the bottom of the lake. It's my understanding that the Navy still of claims possesion of all the wrecks not only in Lake Michigan but also all "lost" Naval aircraft. So salvaging any of them starts not with ginding the wregk but with permission from the Navy
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  5174. Too bad they couldn't have turned into some sort of cargo vessel. But the amount of trade on Lake Ontario wasn't great enough. Once past Buffalo you can sail all the way to Huron and Michigan
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  5175. Its is far easier to do something that restricts the average citizen than actually do something useful. It is easier to tear down than to build.
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  5176. A rabbits gonna fo what a rabbits gonna do.
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  5177. Idaho, the one state whose representative is guaranteed to never win the Miss America title. I mean Miss I da ho. A lot of people do not like their solitude, hence 600k people in the Green Mountain State. Plus Ben & Jerry's sucks. Only Portland and Salem are liberal? Well, I suppose Eugene is way past that. Although in 2020 Potash is getting pretty nuts.
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  5178.  @bkjeong4302  Bismarck post Denmark Strait. Scharnhorst at North Cape.
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  5179. Que the Jeapordy thyme. Not only because of the time factor but because you are so screwed
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  5180.  @rey_nemaattori  Chavez got rid of everyone who knew what they were doing. And appointed people for political loyalty.
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  5181. That actually improved Whoopies looks.
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  5182. Another thing contributing to lack of place is the sameness of what some accountant thinks is architecture. And its not just chain stores and franchise "restaurants". I see newer apartment complexes go up and they all look like they use ond of three sets of plans.
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  5183. Another factor imo is the engine type and just how fresh the engine was. The TA-154 was tested with versions of the Jumo 222 24 cylinder hex layout liquid cooled radial.
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  5184.  timhoovermusicman  It called sarcasm
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  5185. While Jaguar used DOHC inline 6s since the late 40s one thing I find interesting is the formerly OHV inlines that have been developed or modified into DOHC 24V versions. On the Ford side of course the original 144 CID/2.4L Thriftmaster Six eventually morphed into the Barra. An additional Twin Cam version of the OHV Ford (1) was developed for racing was built in Argentina along with Twin Cam 4 valve versions of the Chevrolet and AMC/Jeep inline sixes. These race motors displace 3 liters with about the only common original part being used is the block. The heads on all three engines appear of a common basic design as the cam covers all have the same basic appearance. Also equipped with gridle type main bearings, dry sumps and l think new crankshafts (2). Output around 500 hp using two Weber downdrafts. Used the the oldest continuous race series on Earth. Dating back to the 30s. 1) The same basic engine as the Barra came from. Not the 240/300. 2) Not sure how they got the displacement down to 3.0L either via destroking or bore sleeving. Or a combination of the two. If the heads share a common combustion chamber design all three engines could share common bore and stroke dimensions.
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  5186.  @geralferald  Move the agriculture to those regions better able to support it water wise. Water is about the last major advantage the Rust Belt has left and you expect them to just give it away?
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  5187.  @geralferald  It is a competition when states are actively trying to get businesses to move to their state via tax breaks, labor laws and other incentives.
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  5188. Screw Tyson.
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  5189. CBs food is alright. I hate the tacky gift shop at the front of the store. Besides l would rather support locally owned restaurants.
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  5190. How long before Witch Doctoring is included in the syllabus of your best medical schools. All in the name of diversity and inclusion
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  5191. Its a video game. They can make up what ever they want. The problem arises with people so shallow they accept it as reality. The same with Britian has Always Been a Nation of Immigrants. To a degree that's true. Over the last few millennia there have been a few waves of immigration into Britain (and back and forth between Britian and Ireland). The early Celts probably moved in and changed the previous Bell Beaker culture. The Angles, Jutes and Saxons immigration certainly changed the culture of Southern England. As did Danes and Norwegians in the North. The Normans certainly put their own veneer over Britain. But in each of these immigrations the native population was never pushed aside. Languages may have have changed. Religions changed starting with Christian Romans. But the immigrations were more like close genetic cousins moving in next door.
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  5192. The 27 big tech watchdogs that checked this for divisive content.
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  5193. If this was in a hotel. Especially in DC l can see the prices being this high. Should they be. Not bloody likely. In my experience breakfast in hotels is usually overpriced and poor quality. But then l suppose the high mucky mucks wouldn't be caught dead in a diner or a Waffle House.
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  5194. NYC declared its self a sanctuary city, didn't it?
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  5195. Another material to consider is cardstock. Actual paper cardstock. You can actually do some pretty impressive stuff with it https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php%3Ftopic%3D35421.0&ved=2ahUKEwiG8-X9iurhAhVORa0KHfdPDCMQFjAKegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2-US6KrpaFQXDB4lDIljDP&cshid=1556155542572
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  5196. Zed of course played by Sean Connery.
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  5197. It may come from the fact that a Navy especially in the second half of the 19th century was more in tune with the pace of technological change. Also for a Navy if they had to send Naval or Marine landing parties ashore probably would want the most fire power they could get.
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  5198.  @Halinspark  The US Navy following the Civil War was probably the more neglected of the services. The purchasing of new sc hips pretty much stopped. And when the Congress did approve new construction the ships were mostly coastal monitors. Absolutely useless for overseas use. People credit Mahan's book on seapower for shaking the US Navy and Congress out of their collective slumber. I prefer to think it was the Samoa crisis which saw the US and Germany nearly come to blows. The possible conflict was prevented by a hurricane. The one US ship in the region was severely overmatched by the German cruiser.
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  5199.  @Perun944  Ice fishing. I doubt there are very many Brits who ice fish.
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  5200. The first torpedoes used compressed air to power their engines.
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  5201.  @jeffbranch8072  Personally I suspect that the reason the project died was either the cams and cam drives. Or the oiling system. But I can think of three pushrod inlines that have been converted to DOHC 24V heads. The Chevy, a Ford (1) and the 4.0. Used in the TC racing series in Argentina. They all share a very similiar head design.
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  5202.  @jeffbranch8072  I'm not sure which Ford 6 cylinder block was used. The 140 or the 240 family.
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  5203. For what SMG gets for one of these they better be pretty nice. I can just see somebody using one of these from a tree stand during deer season. Or better yet pike spawning season in Vermont. Yes they shoot fish from tree stands in Vermont. Or used to anyway.
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  5204. Philly on one side, Pittsburgh one the other. Alabama in the middle. The state were Americas contribution to global warming kicked off. Between Anthricite coal and the oil industry starting there in 1859.
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  5205. I live about maybe a mile from where this incident took place. Justified? I dont know. I have my doubts but I do not know the full story. Was Blake reaching for a weapon in the vehicle? I dont know. And neither do the rest of us. I'd the officer use excessive force? Highly likely. Seven rounds at point blank range. I have heard reports that Blke had been hit with a taser. True? If so was the Taser charged? In he video Blake is clearly seen walking away from the officers around the front of the vehicle from the passenger's to the drivers side. While the officers clearly have their side arms drawn. He is clearly not attempting to sit in he driver's seat. You simply do not enter a vehicle that way. As to what was being said it is certainly not clear from the video. The video appears to have been recorded from across the street from possibly a second story window or a front porch.
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  5206. Give 'em a month and they take a century
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  5207. How many Interglacials did the Neanderthals see in Eurasia? Add in the corresponding number of Glacial Advances that may welll have bulldozed any physical or cultural evidence.
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  5208. Joy thinks a 20 year white male sneezing should be reported. And just WTF did she ever do to get "famous".
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  5209. The guy tht should have gotten the role was Sean Bean
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  5210. The Hood may of been over twenty years old but she didn't get her refit because she was newer than the rest of the ships that needed one.
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  5211.  @Brian-om2hh  When the Hood was designed and built gunnery actions were taking place at shorter ranges. As fire control systems improved theoretical engagement ranges increase. Ships become much more vulnerable to plunging fire.
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  5212. I do not underetand why NASA is not putting more research into the skin tight or Mechanical Counterpressure Suit. There is orwas an ongoing research program at MIT. NASA and the Air Force did do development work on MCS type suits in the 1950s and 60s. Such a suit would likely require a protective over suit and possibly a cooling/heating system. Such suits were tested in vacuum chambers.
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  5213. As long as it is socially or legally acceptable it is not going to stop.
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  5214. Given the low cost of precision measuring tools compared to the past if somebody does a lot of engine work it will really pay to equip yourself with at least a dial bore gage and micrometers appropriate to the work your doing. During my working life I had to do inspection work of machine components during the course of repairs. When checking bores these would be checked at least in 4 directions. Vertically, horizontally and at 45° to those two. The total variation gave me a good enough reading for an out of round condition. And for setting the dial bore gage with a micrometer get some plastic tubing to slip over the micrometer's anvil and spindle. This will keep the dial bore gage from slipping of off of the anvils while trying to set zero. Another way is use a ring that matches the print bore size. The other measuring option is a set of telescope gages. Preferably with long handles. Regular telescoping gages can be extended by using rigid tubing.But when checking bores for out of round, oversize or barreled condition it is important to keep accurate records. As to checking if the bores are actually on center in relationship to the crank centerline that takes far more advanced equipment. When manufactured the bores on this engine were actually located off of the two .750" holes in the pan rail. In fact every single feature on these blocks (1) besides the first three operations were located in relation to the two main manufacturing holes and the pan rail. 1) The same can likely be said for just about every other engine built.
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  5215. 40 years on and this still has a lot of relevance.
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  5216. The "rent" is more likely pay us or will break your face
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  5217. I remember Moore(on) making a comment about how he "wanted his country back". His as in a personal possession.
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  5218. I loved The Winter King when it came out. And the Sequels. The audio versions are amazing.
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  5219.  @peterharrington8709  I know that. It's my understanding that the idea was to surface. Get the gun above the water. Open the seal on the end of the barrel and submerge while reclosing the barrel. Whether the gun could be reloaded underwater?
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  5220. She won't be in the future. Expect her to run in the next Senate race
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  5221. Just wait until they start keeping a herd of goats in Hyde Park. The reason will be it's a cultural practice that enriches the culture of Britistan
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  5222. @LabRat Knatz You score extra points for the amount if public defecation. Burnt out rusty cars. Crooked politicians.
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  5223. I must live in a cave. Because I for one had never heard of her* at all until this crap hit the feed in YouTube. But then the only time I ever paid attention tion to comic book movies is when my kids wanted to see one or later if my grandson did. She's an actress. Just like all actresses and actors her job is basically pretending to be someone else. And a fictional someone else at that. In ancient Rome actors and actresses were considered in par in society with prostitutes. Maybe they were right. I personally despise the cult of personality that surrounds celebrities. Be they actors, athletes or simply famous for being famous. And I feel sorry for the people who hang on every word that comes out of their vapid mouths. I remember an interview with Harrison Ford. He was asked something about some hot button issue of the day. His response was basically what makes his opinion worth more than anybody else's. After all I'm just an actor. * I suspect her preferred pronouns are me, me, I and ME!
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  5224. Just increase immigration. That will solve your water problems.
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  5225. Hitting an asteriod with an anti tank round is really no different than the asteriod getting smacked by a stray chunk of rock. Doing it from a stand-off distance with a small anti tank cannon or missle would work equally well. But then we'd have people yelling about weapons in space
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  5226.  @DCSk8er529  Just about everytime I go with my heart that team loses. 😖
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  5227. Look how long we were in the paleolithic. I'm becoming increasingly convinced that in each generation there are a very small percentage of innovators. With low populations that means new ideas spread slowly or die with the person. As our population has grown that means the same percentage is the same but constitutes more people. That might go a long way to explain the frenetic pace of innovation in the last 50 years.
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  5228. It will be interesting to see how the voter break downs come out.
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  5229. The mid terms are gonna be very interesting.
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  5230. Everytime l hear the world re-education in a political sense (1) the first thing that comes to mind is the re-education camps in the former South Vietnam. 1) And that is what this is. It is political not professional.
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  5231. I never understood why Ford didn't bring the Barra to the US
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  5232.  @naamadossantossilva4736  Yeah, but what about his enlisted gunner.
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  5233.  @naamadossantossilva4736  In the middle of the Pacific?
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  5234. Pizza? Anything frozen is not Pizza. 🙄
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  5235. Although the actual numbers are far less than the ones involved in the Atlantic slave trade there is one crucial difference. The local "governments" where the slaves were coming from were not aiding and abetting the slavers.
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  5236. I have a solution. A Louisville Slugger.
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  5237. There is another thing involved in the 5 mph curb feelers. A light weight car such as an import VW or say a Fiat is sitting in a parking place and gets tagged by a 4500 lb or more full sized car. That full sized car has the inertia of its mass moving at that speed. That import is going to move. And just might suffer damage due its bumpers being built to the import hitting something at 5 mph. Another thing about the 5 mph bumpers and the insurance companies saving money. Collision rates actually went up following the introduction of the "bumper cars" due to it costing more to repair collision damage.
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  5238. In '75 I ordered a new car. My brother worked in the paint shop in the assembly plant. We got the broadcast number and he had it run through the paint repair area and resprayed about 6 times. When I picked it up at the dealer the paint was flawless. Plus the under body got all the extra coats. Never did rust in the 5 years I had it. Which is a major accomplishment then.
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  5239. One question. When looking at images of the front of the G 3 Hemi block there are two pipe plugs. One on either side of the cam bore. Are these plugs closing off the ends of drilled oil galleys that intercept the lifter bores? If so the the lubrication issue of wear on the sides of the lifter make no sense. As to cam lobe lubrication do the squirt holes in the rods spray the cam. Either way it is definitely a lubrication issue. I also wonder if the needle bearings up to the loads.
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  5240. My oldest brother* used to live in Amish country (NE Indiana, Goshen). After they moved there they went for a ride out in the country. At more than one Amish farm he spotted Mustangs, Camaros, Chevelles and other cars parked in or next to barns. The boys from a certain age for about three years they let them get it all out of their system. At least that's my understanding. *he actually worked for Dana.
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  5241. There is no way I see this being applied to the individuals that implemented it.
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  5242. This is what happens when you have people putting in place policies that are driven solely by their ideology. And these same people have never done one days work in the real world.
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  5243. If Yellowstone erupts it would be bad for sure. Extinction level event. No.
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  5244. It might be cheaper in the long run to start doing resource extraction in space.
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  5245. For a solid mass driven gravity battery it would make far more sense to use a moderate to higher density material in large box in an enclosed shaft. 500 metric tons of sand would fit in a cube roughly 8.55 meters on a side. The idea with all the individual blocks is idiotic. Sand is 1520 to 1680 kg per cubic meter. Install your gravity batteries in the interior of urban high rises. Say four per building. Wrap the exterior with office space, shops and residential. You get an extra income stream from the exterior space. The lifting and generating machinery you install at or near ground level. It makes servicing easier.
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  5246. We used to use very reliable voting machines. Strictly mechanical. No soft wear issues period. But we had to get rid of them because "no one made parts for them anymore". Instead we get optical scanners whose software can be hacked into.
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  5247. Of course crime is low when you never charge much less prosecute someone. If you slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a pedestrian crossing against the light in Portland. Would you be better off hitting them or leaving skid marks on the Pride crosswalk?
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  5248. When we went to Oahu on vacation we went for a ride one day. Stopped at an overlook. There was a beach below. I looked carefully and recognized it. The one used as a filming location for "From Here to Eternity". That beach looked exceptionally dangerous to me.
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  5249.  @bobo-cc1xw  He must of an especially good boy to get that for Christmas
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  5250. Im going to ask the liaded question about the elephant in the room. If you have students who gained admission to a prestigeous university not on merit but solely on another criteria (1). And then later drop out because they can not handle the work. Who then benefited. And l don't care what the criteria is. Poor, racial, gender, whatever. Applications completely blind as far as the reviewers go. No personal data aside from acedemic records. Let the chips fall where they may. The only exception is if the school is funded by tax payer dollars US citizens or residents get priority. 1) I don't think minority students that apply to schools such as MIT & Cal Tech are dummies.
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  5251. Providing it didn't fall apart in flight
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  5252. What about this original idea. Just close up shop.
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  5253. One problem with trying to assure that people have a chance in life to succeed. The SJWs will push for equality of outcome. Everyone in our society should have a chance to thrive. But you cannot ensure everyone will. Bret talks about economic development in the inner cities. It would need to be meaningful opportunity. Bret talks about the lack of jobs for Phds. What would one expect when the education industry has been pitching the mantra that everybody should go to college. Not everyone is prepared for college or intellectually suited for college. And that's where the meaningful opportunity comes in. One place this country needs massive investment is in its infrastructure. Roads, bridges, sanitation systems, water etc*. To find the money it's either going to have to come from raising taxes or shuffling the budget around. Some of the money can come from social programs that rather than simply support people give people something useful to do they can take pride in. The rest will have to come out of the defense budget. Is there really any need to have ground troops stationed in Europe and Korea anymore. I can see maintaining a certain level of naval and Air Force basing overseas. But where the defense establishment is severely out of wack is the procurement system. Just how long has the JSF been under development and how much work still needs to be done to make as effective as it needs to be. We are buying two different designs of LCS ships for the Navy. Partly to replace Perry Class Frigates that are getting worn out. Neither the Independence or Freedom class can really sail in harm's way if needed. Maybe the Coast Guard could use them. The Army is currently looking at replacing the M4/M16 with a weapon that fires a larger caliber round. The AR series of rifles that the M16 is derived from will handle up to 7.62 NATO. Why not simply upgrade existing systems. The military isn't the only place were procurement is out of wack. NASA in some ways is a good example. Just how long has the SLS launch system been under development. Some of this isn't the Agency's fault. NASA gets treated as a political football with mission objectives changing with every new administration and constant meddling by Congress. A while back Congress budgeted for a production run of new C-130-J transports. Which the Air Force did not want because it diverted funds from other programs they considered more vital. The same thing has happened with the Army and M-1 tanks. In some ways buying small numbers of aircraft from Boeing, Lockheed etc. Engines from GE. Having General Dynamics build small numbers of or upgrading M-1 tanks in service or storage makes sense to a degree. Keeping the skill sets involved in this type of work is cheaper than starting over from square one. But such programs are not supposed to be cash cows for the contractors or the Congresscritters and their districts. And it cant just be government initiatives. As a nation we will need major corporations to step up. Bring production of some goods and services back from off shore. It may mean that we pay a slightly higher prices. But I have a very difficult time believing Nike for one cannot make a profit on a pair of a Air Jordans made here. *Public infrastructure always seems to be built to the lowest possible cost and standard. Our highways wear out much faster than they should. I for one would rather see more money spent up front if the finished product lasts at least twice as long.
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  5254. The typical Democrat approach to crime reduction. If you do not report crimes it is an instant reduction. Any person who lives in or near a Democrat led city can see this. To actually reduce crime through tough but fair law enforcement is a harder road to take. But is worth more to the community. But no matter the law enforcement policies. It don't mean squat if you have Woke DAs.
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  5255.  @bsport320  Radial engines actually go back to the pre Kitty Hawk period. The Manly Banzar used in Langley's Aerodrome #9 was probably the best power to weight ratio up until the Antoinette
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  5256. Of course it's a total disaster. It's a remake for one thing. I realize there are very few original ideas out there (1). But in Hollywood originality today consists completely changing the racial, sexual or gender identity of a character. There have been remakes that are better. The Maltese Falcon with Bogart was the fourth or fifth time time the story was filmed. But it is the one remembered. 1) Probably the Greek playwrights used all of the basic plots.
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  5257. If you own an EV. The best option IMO is drive it until it dies. Im in the US and I've considered an EV for my next vehicle. Most of my driving is local and it would be ideal for that. I'm not concerned about range or recharging time for trips. If my wife and l go on a trip we will simply rent a car for that time period. What concerns me is the added cost for the system to charge at home. Another thing with EVs. If the government dogooders insist on shoving them down our throat they could at least force one standardized charging plug.
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  5258. Workmanship and fittings somewhat cruder? In a German machine? Heresy I say. A local wire rope manufacturer used to supply bracing wire for aircraft struts wings. The wire was actually drawn into an elliptical shape to help reduce drag. Some of their product is currently sitting on the Moon in the LEM Descent Stages cargo bays.
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  5259. One could well be a great "writer" and be illiterate. The bards/poets/story tellers that sung the stories that come down to us as the Illiad for example certainly qualify in my opinion. This woman may well have been amazingly skilled at telling her lifes story. But we do not know that for an absolute fact. She may well have 5old her story to another who embellished the facts. She may well be a composite of different women. I'm to the point where something may sound plausible but to accept it as an absolute fact there need to be seperate verifiable sources. Sources that do not rely on each other for support.
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  5260. That oil pan looked like a rhinestone suit they use to wear at the Grand Old Opry. The bottom end of these things just look strange to me.
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  5261. What Fandozi Dabi is to the Highlands. You are to colonial America.
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  5262. Why are we the target of shoplifters? Well duh. It's right on your store.
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  5263. Early in the war if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor along with other bases on Oahu and started the war by attacking the Philippines it may have been able to employ decisive battle effectively if the US Navy had tried to re-enforce the Philippines. The Navy imo would have been severely stretched in terms of logistics in early 1942 in terms of supporting such a relief effort in terms of fleet oilers etc. If the relief effort is too small it could well sail into a trap.
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  5264. Java is an island in South East Asia. Not South West Asia.
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  5265. She has one issue yo run on. And every body but the hustlers are sick of it. But as Gilbert Morris would say. Politics been veryvery good to her.
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  5266. Why do animations of impacts always show the impactor heating up long befor us hits the atmosphere? In reality depending on the impact angle the impactor would only be in the atmospere for seconds.
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  5267. It's kind of hard to mask off something with the digital feed from an online news feed. 😝😝 Its hard to line a birdcage too. And I'm not going to say one one word about spraying without a respirator. Too bad you couldn't have taken it to Earl Schieb. "I'll paint any car for $29.95."
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  5268. And there is the people building a 4.0 liter Flat 20 cylinder engine based on the V-10.
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  5269. @Covert Garage I personally believe in a past life they designed and built aircraft engines for Napier.
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  5270. The lack of coverage amounts to one thing. DOES NOT FIT THE NARATIVE.
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  5271. The common thought is that a rocket engine works simply by ejecting a hot high speed gas one way and the rocket engine moves the other way. It's a little more complicated than that. Yes you have a hot high speed gas but that gas also has high pressure. It is this high pressure interacting with the engine bell that works to transfer that pressure into thrust. An aerospike is an inside out engine bell. But since there is pressure involved here what if take the aerospike and squash it so that instead it is much larger in diameter than its length. No we move the combustion chambers to the center of the engine and flow this high pressure gas out radially across the surface. At the the perimeter of the surface we place a fence that extends above the surface. The gas flow then piles up against this outer area to get the maximum amount of pressure against the surface as possible. Because this surface is by design handling the temperatures of a hot gas . We also use this surface for a heat shield for re-entry. Would this work? A simple test rig using propane or even water under pressure would be fairly easy to build.
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  5272. Muslim football hooligans?
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  5273. To bitch slap France every 50 years on average.
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  5274. One needs to remember a lot of the "bleeding hearts" (1) have gone full woke and Marxist. They truely believe that any business is just theft if they make a profit. 1) In my opinion the term "bleeding hearts" comes from an analogy of images of Christ that show him with his heart dropping blood.
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  5275. I'll be honest my first thought was who was Vincent and who was Jules. But then the "bank heist" takes place and it fell into place. It could be worse. The 4 million could be in Gold.
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  5276. Its one vote. It's his vote. He has the right to vote how ever he wants. I doubt it will make a difference.
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  5277. ​ @biguglyskunk1248  But the truth dgall make you free. Actually there was some decent disco. George Benson mainly.
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  5278. There may be no nearby habitable planets. Nearby in astronomical terms. But, if humanity is ever able to take the leap to interstellar flight it will not matter. By that time technology will be so far in advance of what we have today that it would be just as easy to build space habitats even while teraforming any usable planets. Barren planets incapable of being teraformed would wind up being huge strip mines.
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  5279. Shoal needs to start with an A
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  5280. Pretty racist music you played there.
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  5281. At the end of its run the 4.0 was simply out of gas in terms of emissions and mileage requirements. And for Chrysler it just didn't fit anything else. They could have put it the Ram pickup as the base engine but I doubt they would have sold many. Two years after the 4.0 was dropped Kenosha Engine was shut down.
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  5282. Refused to answer questions. Expect to hear this a lot.
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  5283. There is more than one Christmas Island. If there can be more than one Portland or London etc etc why not.
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  5284. These were issued to the crewmen of Bob Stemple tanks 😖
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  5285. Withholding sex used to to be the standard practice on the part of most single women.
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  5286. It's also what you get in any nation with elected representatives. We have had our share of buffoons in the US in the various State Legislatures and Federal Government. On both sides of the political spectrum (1). Maxine Waters, AOC and others come to mind. 1) The whole idea of Left and Right is nonsense anyway. It implies that any political figure that is on one side of an issue is onboard with the whole stance of the Left or Right. In reality any of the Cartesian Co-ordinate Political charting systems whether in 2 dimensions or 3 do a better job of actually defining overall political stances.
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  5287. Aba and Preach. Any one who runs for office and promises he's or she is going to do or accomplish anything is selling the voter a bill of goods. All the can really do is promise to introduce legislation. They can not promise it will pass. They can not promise it will not be loaded down with all the crap that gets tacked on to bills today
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  5288. ​ @Rebrn-bk5em  BUFFET = Big Ugly Fat Fu<&€?$ Eating Together
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  5289.  @beatriz9376  Delivered by parachute out the rear cargo ramp?
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  5290. Audi VP in charge of customer service. "Hans, make sure the timing chains are on the back of the engine. That way we can add 5,000 Euros to the repair cost.
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  5291. At least it was true to her ethnicity.
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  5292. Metatron. Your "critics" would claim you said the sky was orange if you said it was blue.
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  5293. Not related to armor. That shot (13:25) going down the cortidor with all the torches. How come in movies etc we never see the guy that goes around lighting or replacing them when they burn out. Even in abandoned "lost" tombs or tunnels. 😅 Did they run down to James the Torch Sellers shop for eternal torches?
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  5294. We already had the Dukes of Hazzard. They got cancelled.
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  5295. The one thing that bothers me about IQ and comparing groups from different cultures is how these cultures view the world and around them. That said I do think that there are differences in average IQ between different cultures and societies. To me the prime driver of cultural differences in IQ statistics is the value those cultures place on education and true critical thinking. Not that I claim to be a member of any group that is superior to others.
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  5296. Somebody decided that everyone that died on those two days in the UK automatically died due to the temperature. No matter if it was an automobile accident, cancer, or anything else.
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  5297. What do militaries and school districts have in common. They always want more money!
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  5298.  @twt000  True.
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  5299. One thing this channel proves is negligent maintenance will kill literally anything. Except maybe a Buick 3800 or a Jeep 4.0. But even then they are killable.
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  5300. In todays USS Navy ships that are decommissioned can see three different fates. Sold off cheap (or given) to a friendly nation. Sold off to the scrappers (I think I once saw a picture of a USN and Soviet warship doing dismembered at that place in India). Or go the way a retired warship should go. Used in a Sink Ex.
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  5301. Baltimore is almost as bad as Philadelphia. Using a bullhorn to shout right into someones face is assault.
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  5302. Remember SpaceX had tooling built to manufacture composite fuel tanks and other components got the Starship. And then went with stainless steel.
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  5303. Fishermen from Bristol or the Basque ports may well have landed before in the Maritimes before Cabot. The Norse certainly landed before them.
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  5304.  @Anmeteor9663  If you mean the Bristolmen or the Basque. I agree there is no proof but it is thought that they may have been fishing on the Grand Banks by the 1480s. I won't even go into the ideas of St Brendan, the Welsh etc.
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  5305. There is something that every major political party in a democracy needs. And that is to have its ass kicked in a major election cycle. And this applies to all parties
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  5306. Higher Standards? What about some standards to start with.
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  5307. Consider this a lead-in to climate refugee immigration.
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  5308. I wanna see a Tesla during the winter anywhere between North Dakota and the Yukon.
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  5309. Of course I had heard about the French thrust into German territory but never a Polish one.
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  5310. @Fabian Kirchgessner And the French thrust should have been sustained. The overwhelming bulk of the Whermacht's frontline divisions were in Poland. Of course if France had simply sent troops into the Reihnland in 1936 when Hitler re-militarized it it's possible the whole war could of been prevented. I question whether his government would have stayed in power. But that's not saying war might not of broken out at some later point in Europe anyway.
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  5311. "Life, liberty and no offensive tweets". You have no right not yo be offended Mr Lemmon. Or anybody else. Including me.
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  5312. Tolerance is a two way street.
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  5313. Mexico is talking about beefing up it's southern border simply to slow the flow of immigrants trekking across Mexican territory. And they already have a border wall. And it's not just the southern border. There is flow across the border with Canada.
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  5314. So I guess that the patrons of the prostitutes of Medieval London were "the Johns of London". One problem with a name ending in 'sen' versus is 'son' is it gets misspelled all the freaking time. Even if you enunciate it to emphasize the last syllable very clearly. Unless you happen to be in say Denmark or possibly Norway.
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  5315.  @mikecampos1193  Whole Foods? You mean Whole Paycheck don't you?
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  5316.  @juanzulu2755  And here the Italians were sitting on Lybian oil and they didn't even know it
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  5317. The Mercator Projection was developed to do one thing. To enable navigation. And that is it.
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  5318. The War Department also spent a lot of money building and tooling a plant at the Rock Island Arsenal to build M-7 Light Tanks. I think International Harvester built around 15 of them before the plug was pulled. By the time the design was finalized the M-7 weighed almost as much as the M-4. Not every effort on the part of US industry was successful. One of the worst cases was the GM P-75 Eagle. All because GM did not want to get involved in building engine nacelles for the B-29. The B-29 was the largest single weapons system program on the part of the US during WWll. Surpassing even the Manhattan Project.
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  5319. I once wondered about the Wolverine and Sable training carriers. And why happened to their fittings when they were taken into naval service. I have heard that ships fittings did make their way into some homes in cities that had dockyards. Amazing what just falls off the back of lorries.
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  5320. During the retro craze the best looking of all the show cars manufacturers built was the one by Holden
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  5321. At his expense means when has spent every single penny he has.
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  5322. We hear the "all cultures are of equal value". Bullshit. If your culture practices human sacrifice. If your culture advocates slavery. If your culture places no value on the individual. If your culture engages in the mutilation of women. If your culture engages in honor killings. Sorry, but your culture is clearly not if equal value. And l am not saying the Western CV culture is superior to all others. Western culture has its faults as it currently stands.
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  5323. For the truly adventurous DIYer there options. Depending on bore spacing and welding skills one can take the head from one car and build a new head out of two heads off of 4 or 8 cylinder engines.
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  5324. After PH was definitely wasn't a virgin anymore.
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  5325. Oh my, tank units lied about their strength to their superiors. Tactically the Big Cats could hold their own against any of the Allied tanks provided several criteria were met. An open tactical enviroment offering open fields of fire. Range advantage. Being able to control the range of engagement is crucial. Even if the opponent can see you if he cant hit you at that range it's to your advantage. Lack of enemy artillery. Artillery fire is going to reduce your vision drastically. Especially if you enemy is firing a combination of rounds. Air burst, contact fuses and smoke. And that is the most crucial IMO. The western Allies especially the Americans with time on target artillery fire from multiple batteries and multiple shell sizes. The air bursts are going to strip off your supporting infantry. Either by casualties or simply driving them to cover. Contact fuses throwing erupting cololums of soil into the air will partially degrade your vision. Smoke will degrade even worse. Once the enemy brings his numbers to bear in close you only have three options. Fight and die in place, retreat or surrender. In the end #3 is best as far as the crew is concerned. As far as Germany is concerned, they just should have stayed home
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  5326. Or mis-indentified as being Batshit fucking crazy.
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  5327. Those left will be confined to ghettos
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  5328. She probably brought him along to make sure she took her meds.
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  5329. We simply do not have the number of ship yards anymore.
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  5330. If only Hitler was a failed chef. Instead of Wonderwaffe. We could have had Vundervaffles 😛
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  5331. Short answer. No. If this comes to pass l would expect to see land grabs by various states. If the State of Jefferson were to be formed expect to see various portions of certain States to want to form their own States New York, LA and Chicago come to mind. The old adage about being careful what you wish for applies.
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  5332. I suppose Elon still has the tooling for the carbon fiber tanks. I'm no rocket engineer but one idea for the ring joints on the BFR*. Use a narrow ring with a slightly larger diameter that just slips over the outside of the main ring. This narrow ring is slipped over the main structural section. You then electron beam weld the joint ring in place. Slide the next section in and weld that in place. Then weld the two main sections together. Yes you are adding weight but I suspect Space X was trying to go as light as possible. *I don't care what Elon calls it. It's still a Big Freaking Rocket
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  5333. Plus have the proper offset in your magnetic compass. My father had a German artillery compass he brought home from Italy. The cover had the offsets for various locations in Europe engraved on the cover. Plus it was in radians.
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  5334. About the only "third world electric power generation device" that makes sense and is workable and cheap is the weight powered light
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  5335.  @williampearson6299  I have to agree. All cultures. Warts and all.
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  5336. So she's like Noam Chomsky. Hate the West but love the benefits. Hipocracy as usual knows no bounds.
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  5337. I had to check the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st.
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  5338. Does any one rem er amber the tee shirts that were going sold maybe 10 years ago for a college intramural basketball team called "the fighting whities". I do and I thought it was turnabout it fair play. Plus funny as hell. As to the media clown that flogged this and any outlets that picked it up. They needed to follow what Joe Friday used to say. Just the facts ma'am. But they don't. They still haven't learned anything from the Sandman case.
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  5339. Dirt cookie dessert.
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  5340. Buffet is an acronym for Big Ugly Fat Folks Eating Together
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  5341. When it comes to Bismarck and Titanic l think they have one thing in common. Hubris pure and simple. Their builders certainly knew the ships could be sunk. Put a big enough hole in anything and will sink. As to where the hubris comes from in Titanic's the obvious place to look is the White Star Line in terms of some of the things their PR staff put out. Another place is in the preformance of the White Star Lines ships officers. In Bismarck's case I would point to the German government. And to a certain extent I would put Vasa and Mary Rose into the same circumstances. While ships do get lost due to circumstances beyond any one's control. Often there are also underlaying human causes. One case of a ships loss to human error was the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1975. When the wreck was found the following spring the securing clamps on the cargo hatches were largely intact. Every fourth on though was broken from when the hatches blow off. The ship left port on a Sunday and the captain was supposed to be tight as to paying overtime. and only had the crew lock down one in four of the hatch cover clamps. He supposedly intended the rest of the clamps to be set the following morning. But the weather had turned so bad that the crew could not work on deck. to show just how bad the weather change was when the Fitz left Superior the weather was extremely mild. Sunny skies, light winds and approximately 70 DF/21C. By Monday morning the temperature had fallen to 32F/0C or lower with gale force winds. With the seas washing over the deck. See The Mighty Fitz by Michael Schumacher. No, not that Michael Schumacher. He's a friend and he was doing a book tour in Germany and Austria and when he was checking into his hotel in Vienna the hotel staff was anticipating the other one. He says they were sadly disappointed.
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  5342. When the current recod holding statue in terms of height be surpassed.
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  5343. Which Cambridge. The one in Britian or the one in Massachusetts. Both probably
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  5344.  @melaniebliss6360  Well I assumed that but Haaaaavard does like to be a little pretentious
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  5345. The pilots flying the COD aircraft along with the ASW/AWACS planes probably got more cat launches and landings than any of the fighter or attack pilots on a peacetime cruise.
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  5346. The original USS Second Amendment.
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  5347. If not the Taliban it would be someone else. Maybe better maybe worse.
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  5348. There is an easy way to make sense of this political trend. The regular people have had enough. It is time for the adults to take charge and put the brats in their place.
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  5349. The vast majority of intelligent species in the universe may be stuck in their version of the paleolithic. Or be incapable of tool use completely if they live in an environment that does not allow it. Either water based or in the atmosphere of a gas giant.
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  5350. This was a brilliant design but ran into changing requirements. McD was able toscale up the YC-15. In my minds eye l can see this scaled down and deployed on carriers to fulfill the COD requirement. Possibly able to land and takeoff from the Marine assualt ships.
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  5351. And if anyone raised objections about possible problems. The standard reply is "oh that will never happen". Like rapes in women's bathrooms. Or in women's prisons.
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  5352.  @spartancam-rs5ru  I know the joke
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  5353. Well, she got enough buzz words in. All this was about was her 30 seconds on St Louis TV stations.
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  5354.  @4Everlast  Yah, right. Somebodies supposed to spend millions to land a camera on the Moon. Just to make you happy. 🖕 As if the observation satellite at the L1 Lagrange point isn't enough. Or is that all CGI.
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  5355. F the critics. Just what have the overwhelming majority them ever done that was the original
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  5356. 0:36 Bascom Hall, UW Madison
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  5357. My wife and I can see a movie cheaper than buying it. And if we do buy a movie it usually only gets watched once. Plus there are some movies that you really need to see on a big screen. Even if you have an 80 inch TV it's just not the same.
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  5358.  @shelleydunkle7867  Unfortunately it's too late for that. After all they blame everything on Trump. Sun comes up in the East. Trumps fault. Most of them had to give up playing Bridge probably because their TDS kicked in every time somebody played a trump card.
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  5359. If one listens to the interviews with a former power train engineer on AMXJ's channel broken pistons in #5 and 6 cylinders have their root in overheating issues that can be traced to stagnant coolant flow. They had wired up a 4.0 on the test stand with thermocouples. They found steam being generated between #5 & #6. He was also involved in some aftermarket performance builds. One thing they did was to remove the #5 welch plug and installed an extra coolant line to stay coolant into the passage between #5 and #6 cylinders. There is another issue in my opinion. Up until sometime around the 98 to 2000 model year they used the older AMC designed pistons. The old piston machining equipment was pulled out and two new transfer lines were installed. These lines machined the wrist pin bores, smoke holes and maybe another feature. The pistons then went to CNC high speed lathes where the ring grooves, piston head and skirt were machined. The skirt profiles were machined by tooling that was connected to amplifiers. This controlled the skirt drop off (piston skirts are not round) a slight barrel profile. They then went to a printing machine that used stencils to apply the molycoat on the skirts. These new pistons weighed about 60 to 70 % of the older pistons.
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  5360. The speaker can deny them. See James Lindsay's "rebutal" of Woke Culture has Gone too Far
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  5361. The West was never really as wild as it is portrayed. Not that it was entirely peaceful.
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  5362.  @doloresaquines1529  And in Britian were the term comes from a cowboy being literally somebody who drove cattle to market. Often young. On foot. With all the filth that entails due to the nature of cows.
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  5363.  @jasonsabourin2275  I'll agree with that. The word can mean an occupation, a life style or an attitude of recklessness.
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  5364. Too bad the piss couldn't be poured all over the upper class twits super blueing themselves to paintings.
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  5365. The time from when the officer gets out of the vehicle until the shots are fired is around 9 seconds. The officer literally had no time to even figure out what was going on when things went South. And when things went South it happened in a hurry. Plus, I wonder what the reaction of these geniuses should have been. If the officer was black
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  5366. With some of the freshmen Members of Congress that were just sworn in the level of hostility will just be ratched up.
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  5367. There have been factory development projects. Ford had a 4 valve head for the Windsor. Oldsmobile had 4 valve heads under development for their big block https://www.streetmusclemag.com/news/the-w43-oldsmobiles-dohc-455-v8-that-never-was/ The DOHC was a development of the 4 valve pushrod head. There have been aftermarket multi valve pushrod heads. Three and four valve. Perhaps the most well known is the Gurney Westlake three valve heads. Unfortunately bling won't find an image. The one below is for a Corvette motor https://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/specs/c6/corvette-ls7-engine/ls7-engine10.html One problem with 4 valve heads on a pushrod engine is pushrod clearance issues. Plus one pushrod opens two valves. Additionally the exhaust valves usually need a secondary pushrod between the idle rocker arm and the one that opens the valves.
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  5368. How the heck did Gary Indiana worm it's way out of this list
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  5369. One should always be willing to listen to what the other side is saying. And l mean really listen. One reason so you understand just what they are saying. A second is they may be right and you are wrong. But the ideologues on both sides rarely are willing to do that.
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  5370. The lyrics.? My country tis of thee Sweet land of liberty Damn strong version
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  5371. Where do these people come from. I've been seeing the 5G causes COVID-19 conspiracy, the COVID-19 is a hoax, Bill Gates caused COVID-19, it's all part of the UN Plan 19. You name it. The Loonie Tunes are invoking it. As to the usually evangelicals believing that Christ is coming in their lifetime. As my late father-in-law said what makes them believe they are so special the Second Coming will come in their lifetime.
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  5372. #4 brings to mind the Medieval America and its reboots on Alternatehistory.com.
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  5373. As an outsider not if their higher ups are onboard. And just wait for Pride Month.
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  5374. ​ @stevenscott2136  That one word sums it up. Laziness. We all want the future to be better for our children. But unfortunately, it does not always work out that way. There is a line in the movie Caddyshack. The main character is trying to butter up Ted Knight to win a scholarship. Ted Knight's character replies "the world needs ditch diggers too". And far too many people in the US are unwilling to be ditch diggers if that is what it takes to get ahead. That is one reason we have major issues with illegal immigration today. The powers that be know need people willing to do the hard physical jobs.
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  5375. ​ @plowe6751  Probably. It's the "hey, I've got four wheel drive" attitude. 4WD is not a cure all. When it's icey you still have 4 wheel brakes like everybody else. And it's not just Subaru drivers. When I was still working for every FWD or RWD car I saw in the ditch I saw at least one vehicle with 4WD or AWD. From all brands. The problems is the loose nut behind the wheel. I wonder how the electric cars with all the battery weight are doing in winter conditions. Extra traction maybe. But extra inertia when stopping. And in sub zero just how much range penalty is there. Not just from the cold but running the heater.
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  5376. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and other targets on Oahu all of the civilian casualties in Honolulu were caused by antiaircraft shells fired from ships in the harbor.
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  5377. Or really qualified pilots.
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  5378. Just what is it with Austrian Nazis
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  5379. As the old saying goes, "when in Rome". As a US citizen and a member of the West I am so sick and tired of the citizens of my home country and other Western societies that travel to other nations and think that the rights they enjoy at home automatically follow them to a foreign country. Travel abroad, you are a guest in a foreign country. Subject to the laws of that cou try. And surrounded by that countries culture. Expecting that country to adapt to and change their society smacks of colonialism.
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  5380. Does anyone here remember when Trump was talking about Third World Shitholes. And the subject of American shithole cities came up. Specifically Baltimore. Baltimore was on the UN list of cities with major rat infestations. At this time there was a news story about one location in Baltimore that had a huge pile of garbage. Naturally this was drawing rats. The city wouldn't do anything. The property owner wouldn't do anything. And the residents wouldn't do anything. Well they all did two things. Ignore it and point the finger at somebody else. Plus they kept throwing more trash on the pile. It got cleaned up eventually. Not by the city. Not by the property owner. Not by the residents. But by volunteers from outside of Baltimore who spent their own money and devoted their time to do something. I wonder what it looks like today.
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  5381. Sometimes I think BRM was founded by engine designers from Napiers
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  5382. Actor, a definition. An individual whose job description is to pretend to be someone else.
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  5383. What is Blackness? If you have you, ask you don't know. See how that works.
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  5384. Animal Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion, all one group with the same people and leader.
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  5385. Why as someone from outside the UK do l get the idea that the police in the UK gave spent the last 20 years recruiting only officers that belong to marginalized groups.
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  5386. Is or is that not an urban legend
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  5387.  @MrJeffcoley1  My $.02. If the lifters are bleeding down there has to be a problem on the seat where the ball sits. Probably just machined or poorly lapped.
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  5388. Uncle Tony. There's all kinds of free energy out there. It's the energy collection systems that you have to pay for. Solar cells are a good example. It sould be no surprise that people believe this crap. There are still Flattards* around after all. Now if somebody can just invent the Turboencapulator. *people who believe the Earth is flat.
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  5389. It happened in The People's Republic of Boulder
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  5390. ​ @straubdavid9  Let's not get into the Monty Python We were so poor routine.
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  5391. If you are going to continue to do videos of aircraft with perhaps undeserved reputations I can think of one that should not be covered. The Curtiss-Wright Seamew. An aircraft so bad it was replaced by the plane it was supposed to replace. And as bad as the Seamew was it was not the worst US built aircraft of the period. That honor goes to Brewster. Some observations on the C-46. The risk of fire and fuel being able to pool in the wing roots. That one is on Curtiss (1). The wing roots should have been properly vented. But on the self sealing fuel tanks. That one is on the USAAF. The specification when it was drafted should have specified the aircraft being equipped with self sealing tanks. 1) The aircraft were built by the Curtiss side of the company. The Wright side of the business built aero engines.
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  5392. Let's see. Thai food should give up peanuts (African) chilis (Mesoamerican). The Swiss and Belgians chocolate (Mesoamerican, again). The Irish, Poles, Germans and Russians potatos (Andean). Everybody sugar (India). These people can GFTs
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  5393. The public should have put their collective foot down years ago when the whole child beauty pageants came into the spot light. The fashion industry has been in on this for years with clothing marketed to children that looks like something a hooker would wear. What are the odds Hollywood throws a big FU at the "normies"and nominates this for best picture and it wins. The only thing Hollywood understands is when they lose money. Well, I'm done. They will never get another cent from me
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  5394. USS Vesuvius
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  5395. Quessing the possible level of thechnology available 100 plus years from now is hard. It could be quite advanced. Or it could be lower than today if we go through a collapse. Best bet in my opinion is to use a gravity tractor.
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  5396. There may well come as time when an individual will be able to truely switch genders to the point of full functionality. I do not expect this to be in the next ten years. Or even 50 really. It would require the complete rebuilding of the body. I'm not advocating this. I'm only saying it is hard to judge just where medical advances will go. Another option may well be being able to "download" the individuals personality to a surrogate body (biological or mechanical) to allow the individual to experience various sensations or engage in high risk activities. Remember any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable with magic.
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  5397.  @clarehidalgo  Think of the device you posted your reply on. Now think of what someone 200 years ago would make of it.
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  5398. Not everything is worth saving or should be saved. I had a news item pop up on my feed about a 69 Camaro SS that was overgrown in a field. If it been there long enough it might not be worth saving.
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  5399. I thought it was Harrison Ford
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  5400. Time open Newgate back up.
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  5401. Hell, my 2011 Town and Country gets 99+ mpg. Just need a long downhill run.
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  5402. Anyone, no matter their political outlook who decides on who they will vote based on the opinion of a "celebrity" needs to rethink their world view. As to any "celebrities" that promised to move out of the country if Trunp won the election. If they don't can we sue them for breach of promise?
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  5403.  @Cashewnutter112  Tragic ain't it. The Left in the West does not care who they destroy. Nor do they care about the means. Lies, innuendo, distortion, failure to report the actual truth, misrepresentation of the truth. As stated as above life's a bitch.
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  5404. Eventually we're going to got on of these over a populated area at a low enough altitude to cause massive casualties. It might be a year. Ten years, 100 or RIGHT NOW😱😱😱
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  5405. The difference between the Wermacht and the modern German army in terms of unit descriptions most likely has to do US influence in the 1950s
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  5406. I see this working out well.
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  5407. Mom, I'm pansexual That's nice Zamphir. Now could you take out the garbage.
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  5408. Isn't Stoke Space using a 3D printed copper alloy in their engines combustion chambers.
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  5409.  @davidaugustofc2574  Not sure. They aren't using pulsed detonation to my knowledge. Stoke is shooting at the same target as SpaceX. Completely reusable with quick turnaround time. As I understand it they actually will be the first people to actually fly a Plug Noozle. Only they didn't intend to build a Plug Noozle.
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  5410. "The problem with England is it's full of the English" Sadiq Kahn and others likely.
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  5411.  @Nonameforyou777  How the hell could they feel invisible in this day and age. I have no problem with them being assured of their rights. Just so long as they have th he same rights as everybody else. Not special rights.
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  5412. Have to sell some mansions
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  5413. I cannot imagine is just how the court system will even be able to assemble a jury in the Geore Floyd case
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  5414. I really can't see the Biden Administration doing this. Does anyone seriously think they could pull this off without somebody spilling the beans. This could have been pulled off by a team of divers operating off of a fishing boat. It's not that deep. There are probably thousands of sport and commercial divers that could have one the job. And the explosives could gave been planted days or weeks before hand. Suspect #1 Urkraine. They may see it as a legitimate target. Suspect #2 Russia themselves. The pipelines aren't in use and we can blame somebody else. Suspect #3 Norway. I mean who's gonna elect the Norwegians. Suspect #4 Radical Greens. Willing to do anything to prevent CO2 emissions.
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  5415.  @robertstone9988  Perhaps I should have stated that you have no right to abuse others with that your sense of being offended by the truth. If you are offended by things that clearly are wrong in a moral* or societal sense. That's a different matter. *even morality can be a slippery slope in that what may be immoral to one society may be perfectly moral to another.
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  5416.  @robertstone9988  I'm fairly tolerant. But I find I do not suffer fools gladly. Myself included if I'm being foolish.
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  5417. The Federal Bureau of Insinuation.
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  5418. Where are the aliens? And when are they going to show up? If you were an alien would you visit a bunch of primitives.
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  5419. Overlooked? Not anymore.
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  5420.  @kj3n569  The Speed of Light. It's not only the limit it's the law.
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  5421. I saw that too. Probably a typo
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  5422. If this country was as facist as the far left seems to believe there would be shallow graves filled to the brim with them. Right now the justice system in this country is broken. Both sides had a hand in it. The Democrats in my opinion did far more damage in my opinion. After all. They've had political power for how long since the 1930s.
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  5423. Mostly peaceful lootin.... er window shopping. I can just see a crowd of teens looting a business and one of them gets cut on glass from the broken doors or windows. And they sue the business.
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  5424. The lifters in your XJ are Chrysler lifters. AMC and Chrysler used the same .904" lifter dimension.
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  5425. Nice shirt 🤘🤘
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  5426.  @DaBriars  Welcomed? Maybe some places. Certainly not where my Irish ancestors went. Plus they were never given a roof over their head and food in their mouths. Plus they realized even with the prejudice against them they had to assimilate into the larger society. How many of today's immigrants are willing to do that. I don't expect immigrants to Ireland, Britain, the US, France or any other Western countries to turn into culturally perfect copies of the Irish or anyone else. But the immigrants should not expect Ireland or any other country to turn into the nation they fled. One of the Central American presidents has stated the problems of wide spread massive immigration is to a large degree the fault of the countries the migrants are fleeing from. The fault lies in that these countries have failed their own citizens. Are their problems all their fault? No they aren't. Some of their problems can be traced to US interference. Just as some nations problems can be traced to economic policies they attempted and could not afford. Or implement properly.
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  5427. Morphed into General Dynamics iirc.
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  5428. Squirrels are rats with furry tails. We used to have red squirrels. Then the greys moved in. Now the black squirrels are pushing the greys out.
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  5429. If the US is do f'ed up I would like somebody to explain to me just why so many people want to come here and almost nobody leaves. Even when they threaten to.
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  5430. I wonder what happened to all of the nice woodwork and fittings on the SeeandBee during conversion.
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  5431. At the Battle of Samar, E. E. Evan's and his crew along with all the rest of the DDs and CVE pilots counted coup.
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  5432. Likely you would. But then the video gas been edited to show the desired result. But still to find this many morons is amazing
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  5433. By the shape of her head? Smacks of racism to me.
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  5434. What had a lower life expectancy? Flying one of these or one of the fighters at the time.
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  5435. Too bad she couldn't have been towed up the Thames, fired a full broadside into the Exquecors Office and sunk from shock of her guns going off. If she had been built of sterl she would have gone to the knackers. I'm surprised they just didn't burn her to recover any iron for the scrap value.
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  5436. The sights are offset
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  5437. Add in the dams that China is building or planning on building on the rivers that flow down into India. China is playing a long term game here. This is probably why China invaded Tibet in the first place.
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  5438. What's the old British Army officers mess toast. Here's to bloody wars and tropical disease. Or something like that in periods of infrequent promotions.
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  5439. The 2.5 actually never got put into Concords or Spirits. The 2.5 was developed for the XJ.
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  5440. I'm curious. What percentage of people looking at transitioning get to the point of surgery and opt out? Under 50%? Over 50%.
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  5441.  @Trebuchet48  Bug Drach also goes on to state that the photo was of the Shaw.
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  5442. In related news the Guardian lauded Blue Man Group for their authentic representation of the appearance of the ancient Picts. Also the Leeds Music and Dance Conservatory condemned Irish Glog Dance as partial cultural appropriation of the Spanish Tango
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  5443. Good stuff. I'm not sure that applies universally anymore today. Certain items they are still top notch. Machine tools for one.
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  5444. What's that Broadway show tune in honor of avocado. Ah yes, "How Are Things in Guacamole". 🤪 I find that I like avocado in dishes. Just not on it's own. Something about the texture. Personal taste I guess.
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  5445.  @magdalenem4949  Note I said the absolute last therapy should be the knife.
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  5446. Joe, we always kept our chucks and faceplate on a rack mounted to the back to the bed. These had tapped holes for eye bolts and we used a hoist. Most of our lathes (LeBlonds*) had L type long nose tapers. *the superintendent was a LeBlond admirer. One feature on the later Regals (1970 or so) was the front ways were replaceable. They were hardened and ground and were held on by cap screws from underneath. Most bed wear occurs near the head stock anyways on the operator's side. Unfortunately LeBlond did not put two sets of tapped holes so you could swap the front way end for end.
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  5447. I sincerely hope there is a floor revolt over this. The failure of the Obama's to endorse Harris tells me something will probably happen this week. But then again the crap the DNC pulled with the primaries......
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  5448. Vhat vas it Klauz zead. Zer vill be pain.
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  5449. When it comes to illegal immigrants the Democrats see them as potential voters. And far too many Republicans see them as cheap labor.
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  5450. In the past couple of years l have seen some truly awful apartment buildings built different locations in the same general area. Say a 50 km radius. Built l suspect to a strict price point. Truely hedious buildings l suspect will be slums in 30 years.
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  5451. I'm sure Huff Duff had it tactical uses also. Operational units who if they received any orders based on intercepts of course could not be allowed to know their origins. Also Huff Duff had to be useful in terms of allowing the Allies to not only get a fix on a U-boat's position but also the limited area it could be in for the next number of hours. Thus Coastal Command could inform patrol aircraft that a sub is known to be at x latitude y longitude. Plus if the same sub is picked up over several days it can be indicative of either a patrol area or a course towards a patrol area.
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  5452. Sights were always adjustable. A hammer, a file, a screwdriver, er prybar
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  5453. 2 things. 1) I could care less about the "hardships" these two people have endured. I have my own problems to deal with. 2) Just when are the Brits going to finally say, "great, we'll let you carry on with your ceremonial duties* but only if you get to do it at the pay rate of a medium rank Civil Servant. Emphasis on the servant part. Simply because you are part of a certain family that does not mean you should get to carry on your parents job. And yes I'm looking at you Cuomo's, Kennedy's and others *It may actually be worthwhile to have some sort of unifying symbol that ties the British Commonwealth together
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  5454. I had to check the date on this one The stock on this one I notice is from the now extinct Egyptian hardwood forests that once graced its western region. Sadly the cutting of these forests lead to the deserts of Lybia expanding almost to the Nile Creek 🎶😚😚🎶
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  5455. I'd rather be Far Right than Far Wrong
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  5456. Barak wants Michael
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  5457. Democrat strategists are already busy looking at the Mid-Term elections. As are Republicans. After Harris lost one of the first thing l did was to look up which states have a Senate Seat up for election in 2026. My thought was her moving to a State that might have a seat she could have a chance at. I don't think one is out there. A second thought is she just might run for Congress in Pelosi's district if the Wicked Witch of the West steps down. It could happen.
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  5458. ​ @misanthropicservitorofmars2116  I'm not sure that Aztecan- Americans would be a good image. And yes l know it was the Triple Alliance etc.
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  5459. And all of these languages are the laguages of invaders who overroad the languages of the people living in what we call Britian.
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  5460. Has anything for New Glenn even been built?
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  5461. So the parents in the video are both biologically female? So for one of them to become pregnant they needed a sperm donor?
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  5462.  @ellenlyons4090  I'm not advocating such a law. I'm just saying expect it. And the spineless Friends of Bevis (1) will never in a million years ever vote for a law banning Halal products or practices. 1) Remember what Bevis's buddy is called.
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  5463. You can kill these engines just like any other. If you neglect it totally.
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  5464. People see what they want to see.
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  5465. Just pee on 'em. Call it performance art.
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  5466. A Torino/Pantera hybrid
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  5467. Halle Palle!
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  5468. I can't stand Haribo products but they are building a manufacturing facility in the US about 9 miles or 15 kilometers from me so I suppose that's a win
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  5469. Oh, software. That's so you can be connected to the NASA CGI image server and amaze your friends with fake space pictures. At least that's what a flattard would say. Face it the average person buying one of these is meerly hoping to get a glimpse of the blond across the way stepping out of the shower. 😉
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  5470. Everybody needs a hobby, interest whatever. Just because yours isn't mine I have no right to judge. Nor anyone else's. Or they mine.
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  5471. Occasionally l have an evil thought about paparazzi. That there should be an open season on them.
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  5472. I'm wondering if part of this is to move the capital to an area that is under less threat to volcanic eruptions. Looking at a map of volcanoes in the country Borneo and Western New Guinea* are the only major land areas without any active or potentially volcanoes. Sometimes I think the US should move the capital from DC to somewhere with really nasty weather. Not that DC doesn't. It used to be considered a hardship post for foreign diplomats. I'm thinking somewhere like Fargo or maybe Bismarck in North Dakota. Someplace with about a 140°F temperature swing between highs and lows. At least move all the unelected officials there. *I can't remember just what the Indonesians call the region.
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  5473. Well, they were likely the last people he had to throw under the bus.
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  5474. Klaus says "eat ze bugs" and "zer vill be anger" I remember when there were novelty "foods" such as chocolate covered crickets available as a gag. One thing I'm waiting for is the "cultural appropriation" lunatics to start in on food. Not Hispanic, no foods from Mesoamerica for you. You know the drill. Just one more thing to bitch about.
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  5475. Let's say we have an interplanetary passenger ship with the habitat volume being a torus. And the ship is capable of transporting say 200 people. What happens if all 200 passengers congregate in one small portion if the torus?
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  5476. @manw3bttcks  No easy solutions. But some day, soon hopefully, some nation, some corporation, some visionary will take a chance and build the first rotating habitat in LEO and start to gather data. And the initial research station is not going to be massive enough to damp out variations in mass distributions. Start with low gee environment. Say Lunar equivalent.
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  5477.  Salty Pureblood  Well Klaus did say zer would be pain.
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  5478. One again Ian accesses his ultra superdooper top secret time machine in the basement (do they have basements in Arizona?) to head to the local gun store to buy 9mm Parabelum in 2019. Of course the magazine is overly complex. 1) its German 2) its originally a Luger design. On would think somebody would of said "Hans, the Army wants some fancy pistol cartridge carbine. Well way don't we take the Carbine model and just make a 20 or 25 round magazine that sticks straight out of the hand grip" "Fritz, where is your pride. That would only have ten or so parts. Your wife would hang her head in shame. She would not be able to go out in public. No, so we must design a device that requires at least 30 parts. Plus it will need a special device just to put in the cartridges."
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  5479. A horse designed by committee as the old saw goes. Why in the world should anyone be shocked that camel fossils were found in the high arctic. To cross Beringia they had to get pretty far north already.
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  5480. But their hearts were in the right place. Helps to know where to aim.
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  5481.  @goodun2974  Nell doesn't grow up feral. Simply sheltered by her mother. Who came first H Rider Haggard or ERB. Haggard I think.
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  5482. You get what you vote for. Time for a revall petition.
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  5483. Well, at least Peking Man was a valuable scientific treasure. The rest mainly speak to vanity IMO.
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  5484. Tomi Vuori I had a Fuego back in 82. One bad thing about this engine layout is in any accident that involves the front end the car is totalled. One neat thing dRenault dd with the 1.6 liter was it was a hemi with a cross flow head. The cam is positioned very high in the block. This allows the use of extremely short push rods in an OHV engine.
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  5485. One thing about snowflakes. They will melt under a bright hot light.
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  5486. People who argue against the use of nuclear weapons against Japan often argue that the submarines would be able to finish the job. Probably at a higher loss of life There were later special operations done by US subs specifically to tap Soviet communication cables During the potion on Quad Turrets. I'd swear that there's what looks like an AP projectile just laying on the deck. Just above and to the left of one of the men guiding the naval rifle Ship nicknames. USS Wisconsin, BB-64, aka Wisky due to the uncompleted Kentucky's bow being welded on after the Wisconsin's collision with the USS Eaton
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  5487. Along with the politicized FBI (Federal Beaureu of Insinuation). Return the FBI to being a non political Federal police agency investigating federal crimes.
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  5488. Was it unsinkable? Well, duh!!!!
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  5489. Twenty five or so years ago there was a lot of research being done on composite engine parts including blocks, heads etc.
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  5490. We need a new gender classification system. Male, Female and Nutcase.
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  5491. Because almost nobody showed up for the primary when she first got elected. After that its Vote Blue, no matter who. And to be fair it happens in Red districts too. And as stupid as Ocassional Cortex seems sometimes I don't think she's as dumb as the island capsizing guy from Georgia.
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  5492. They guy in the white "childish" tee shirt wouldn't let the bike be reset.
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  5493. Just so you know. The term "spear chucker" is very offensive to some people*. Jesse Jackson included. He actually got called one at a political rally. For him. True story. *Given the way it's usually used I do not blame them one bit.
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  5494. Remember the old 10 Years After song. Tax the rich. Feed the poor Until there are no rich no more. Thats the logic of the progressive. The only thing is being rich becomes an ever downward sliding scales. The logical end result is everybody's poor. Its long been my opinion that there are politicians who if they were given the entire GDP of the US it still would not be enough money.
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  5495. Slipper bearings on the big ends of the rods. One way to avoid a master and slave rods. Usually radials with even numbers of cyinders per bank run rough.
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  5496. Is it possible to be BIPOC if you identify as non binary. Inquiring minds want to know. And it must be really tough if you are bipolar.
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  5497. Ask the question just why do the "protesters" burn the federal court house down. Maybe, just maybe, the "protesters" are worried about evidence against them in the court house.
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  5498.  @garykennedy4856  But they're probably just Trump supporters anyway. The West Virginia ones. The Welsh ones I bet voted Labour all the way.
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  5499. ​ @robertjohnston8690  No, we are not close to the "red zone". But the Earth evidently did come pretty close during the last Glcial Advance. The red zone is down around d 150ppm.
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  5500.  @andrewthompson5728  Thousands? Tens or hundreds of thousands more likely. One problem is the cost of education has been out stripping inflation for decades. Why is that. Possible reduction in public support for state owned and operated institutions? Possibly it's inflated employment on the administration side of institutions public and private. Possibly it lies in the seemingly ever increasing number of fields that it is possible to earn a degree in. Fields that likely did not exist 20 or 30 years ago. Some of these fields also exist due to parsing one field into ever smaller slivers. Admittedly some of these degrees can exist in STEM as new developments offer new opportunities.
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  5501. Gene Barry followed it up with Burke's Law. Arriving at the crime scene in his chauffeured Rolls Royce
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  5502. He probably doesn't identify as Christian much less Anglican.
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  5503. Over engineered? No, that could never happen 😖
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  5504. I'm willing to bet this pampered hypocrite also enjoys flying off to tropical destinations for "eco tourism"
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  5505. Ouzo. Greek fire is Ouzo.
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  5506. Dive Bombing was initially invented by the USMC in the 1920's. It was quickly adopted by the US Navy. Dive bombers and dive bombing were well developed concepts in the early 1930's. Torpedo planes the problems was sufficient engine power.
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  5507. Some folks just don't get it. Yet at the same time they will proclaim all cultures have equal value. Yah, right.
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  5508. @Emily Bearden Fine. I understand that. Get rid of the bad apples. Ageed. More selective hiring policies. I'm fine with that. Decriminalizing personal drug use. Pot's OK. Addictive drug use I'd prefer to see treatment. Pushers. No. Defund the police completely. Not only no but hell no.
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  5509. Yes he has.
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  5510. The next version of Shogun will feature a Black actor who is trans playing the Blackthorn role. You get bonus points for ticking off two diversity boxes. In reality if this were a stage production of Romeo and Juliet l could care less. Because then it all about the delivery of the lines of dialog. No doubt this new production of Romeo and Juliet will have the script "updated" to make it more relevant.
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  5511. There is one very valid reason that Buick, AMC and others were pushing the thin wall casting technology as far as possible. While weight came into it eventually at first it was all about costs. The less iron in the part the lower the casting costs. In the late 70s GM, Ford, Chrysler and AMC were all redesigning castings to reduce weight as much as possible. And they were all sending engineers to each others facilities to see what worked and what didn't. I remember seeing the first light weight 258 blocks coming in and when they tried to clamp them up in the first machining operation the blocks broke into pieces. Make some changes to the casting and then they broke under the stress of machining. At that time with cast iron blocks the initial machining steps was to cut the deck face along with some locating surfaces and then cut the pan rail along with the rough crank bore and bearing cap surfaces. These operation were performed in large horizontal broaching machines. The part would clamp in the fixture. The fixture would swing up and clamp. The the tooling would engage. The tools could be thought of as a very large file that would make one pass across the part. It sounds crude but the process produced a very clean and precise surface.
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  5512.  @rswindol  Especially when it literally is made of shit.
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  5513. Reminds me of the time when Ohio and Michigan went to war and Wisconsin lost. Wisconsin wound up losing its potential share of the Upper Peninsula along with all of the iron and copper. Along with the silver and gold associated with the copper deposits. To this day you can still find natural copper just laying on the ground in the UP. In the ACW case Poland lost. A victim of geography.
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  5514. Remember when it was Pride Day. Pretty soon it's going to be Pride 24/7/365.
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  5515. The Main Stream Nincompoop Broadcasting Corp.
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  5516. But its low calorie word salad
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  5517. Didnt you hear his mother saying that he is a good boy who's grandfather was a minister. I hate to see this turn even worse but it was most likely inevitable that it would somewhere.
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  5518. Those aren't testicles. They're exposed ovaries. I'll bet using a tampon is a lot of fun.
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  5519. Worked for the "artist" l guess.
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  5520.  @forestofsecrets7273  Well it depends on where in Canada doesn't it. I'm south of Milwaukee and theres parts of Ontario farther south than I am.
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  5521. Probably because they needed the cam cover for another engine. If the spark plugs were missing that's all it would take. How far from the coast is the yard the engine came out of. That could explain a lot of the corrosion on the exterior.
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  5522. Somebody, likely a clerk, messed up and nobody wants to own up (1). Should the driver get a hefty fine? Yah, he should. 90 in a 55 is only 40 over. If he had been involved in an accident he would really be up a creek. Good thing this never happened to Bo and Luke while outrunning Roscoe. 😅 1) And just why would a placeholder need to be set at $999,999.00?
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  5523. One groups of people that really want this are the people running the colleges. Because they see it as a way to increase their enrollment hence more money coming in. But one thing that a lot of people forget about the countries with "free" college education is that not everybody gets to go. In fact I doubt it is as high as in the US. What about everybody else. Are they just kicked to the curb as unworthy.
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  5524. But math is racist. Or so some say.
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  5525. It's a well known non secret that between the USAF and DARPA they have a considerable Black Budget used for secret programs. No doubt some of these programs have been for classified aircraft programs. And of these programs some may have lead to limited production aircraft. Some were pure research programs. And others were likely failures that failed to meet their design goals. The F117 started as the top secret Have Blue. The SR-71 was originally a top secret program for the CIA known as Oxcart. As was the U-2. There are reasons that the USAF and DARPA fund this stuff. One is to keep the aviation companies busy. Let them go out of business and we lose a national asset. Starting up a new aviation company from the ground is not like opening a law office were all you need is some office space, desks and computers.
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  5526. How wheat isn't a colonial tool of oppression impossed on Europe by Neolithic Anatolian farmers. And potatoes aren't a tool of South American native peoples.
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  5527. Amazing how athletic she looks
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  5528.  @rogersmith7396  My bad. It's either hitting the wrong touch key or spell check
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  5529. People forget about valve jobs and transmission rebuilds by 70k. If the car lasted that long. Especially from the northern states.
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  5530. What, you never heard of The Philadelphia Experiment 😁
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  5531. This reminds me of what is happening to Coptic churches in Egypt
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  5532. One early V-8 with a heart shaped combustion chamber is the first generation AMC V-8s. Which were backed up by some lousy intake manifolds and the center exhaust ports being siamesed. I'm not sure but the chambers might have been machined.
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  5533.  @edge2sword186  The later AMC V-8s are closed wedge combustion chambers. The earlier V-8 was a cast chamber.
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  5534. They immigrated from Latin America. Right?
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  5535. Even Mercedes had tail fins. Small, but tail fins. Today we find something similiar in the faux ground effects found on the rear of some models. Also in the past we've had non functional side scoops, hood scoops, "power" blisters in hoods etc. The 60s and 70s version of the non functional styling accessory was the vynal top.
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  5536. 12 years. That is quite fast by Congressional standards. 🙄
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  5537. The reason its single shot. Because you never want to fire a second one 😂
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  5538. In ancient Rome actors were the social equal of whores.
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  5539. The legacy media will only wake up when the mob comes for them.
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  5540. He's a former school principle. I say go back and check the schools performance levels. Granted how a schools performance levels come out is not all up to the principle (starts in the home) but he is supposed to set the tone for the school.
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  5541. The Pom Pom Maxim might have been useful mounted on the early armored vehicles. As would the 37mm hand cranked
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  5542. Oh, I don't know. Saw "The Outfit" last weekend. I enjoyed it. But I agree most of what gets made is woke crap. I could care less about what the personal lives of the people involved are. As long as the film tells a good story.
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  5543. ​Is the bus a Tesla?
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  5544.  @guaporeturns9472  And I wonder just how many people know what a P-38 is.
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  5545. A Super Dooper Pooping on the Enemy Deadnought.
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  5546. One other thing to remember is the Viking era to a largely degree corresponds with the Medieval Warm Period. And I have yet to hear a good explanation to the causes of different warm and cold climate eras.
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  5547. There's a WWI sub on the bottom of Lake Michigan about 15 miles off Chicago
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  5548. It's easier to lower everyone than to raise them
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  5549. HMS Victoria. Histories biggest lawn dart. And Admiral Tyron is the poster child for the Naval Darwin Awards. At least he paid the price for his folly. No scratch that. His crew paid the price. He got his just rewards.
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  5550. One thing it was probably very good at was causing the troops on the receiving end to soil their drawers
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  5551. Note. Do a filing or stoning of of parts prior to final cleaning and assembly. I suspect that you wound up with some dingers on the teeth of the Pinion. The relief cut on the scroll plate should have a mark that corresponds with its position for assembly and teardown. Those gear teeth could have stood some polishing. They sounded really rough. Plus it would be nice if the Pinion was adjustable for tooth clearance. But that would cost more. Also, since you have it apart I think I would have put spot faces where the adjustment pins bear on the adapter plate. Side note. In the late 30s my dad worked for Old Man Zerk. Yah, that Zerk. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.geni.com/people/Oscar-Zerk/6000000020722661365&ved=2ahUKEwjbzI7IgdPuAhUYZc0KHf4VDs4QFjACegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw1H_HCwZ3Azrhtd3ImegqUQ Went to HS with his granddaughter
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  5552. One note on Drag. IMO Drag is the sexual/gender equivilant of Black Face.
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  5553. So the company is called WASP. Hopefully they founders cleared that with Lisbeth Salandar. 😁 While I think 3D printing will have a major impact on the building industry at this point its overhyped. The whole built in a day neglects interior fittings, electrical and HVAC if any.
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  5554. An entitled spoiled brat.
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  5555. Imagine if the organizers had the balls to mock another of the Abrahmic religions. We know how that would have gone. Christians are a soft target. And a favorite one of the Woke and the Left. I am a firm believer in religion does not belong in the classroom of public institutions with the sole exception of its effect in world history. Good and bad. This also means the theology of the new religion of Woke gets left out too.
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  5556. I will absolutely gaurenty that all of the tapped holes in a cylinder block or head are not tapped to full depth (1). The reason is manufacturers want to abide any off line operations such as EDMing out broken taps. They still happen but one way they avoid it as much as possible is to drill the hole say .125 deeper than the tap ever goes. The chamfers or reliefs at the tops of the tapped holes. Thses are done in either a second operation or by using a step drill that has two cutting diameters. The decision here is the cost between having a second drilling operation or the greater cost involved in resharpening the tooling. 1) The exception to this holes tapped all the way through.
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  5557. Did a war occur around the site of Troy? I think yes. Did it involve what happens in the Illiad. Probably not. But the war or wars inspired the epic poems that became the Illiad. And the wars were likely over Troy strangling trade through Bosporus.
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  5558. Everybody knows it's Trump's fault the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.
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  5559.  @incurableromantic4006  Leaflets. Gotta gave leaflets
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  5560. With enough pellet velocity it would be perfect for geese season vs goose season. Although in my area (SE WI) there used to be (and maybe still is) an unlimited special early goose season. Fourty years ago one never saw a year round goose population. Outside from a couple of golf courses. In fact we would only see geese in spring and fall. Now they are year round and congregating anywhere there's green space. And doing what geese do. At one time Mayor Daldy wanted to sue the cities in SE Wisconsin for the pollution causing Chicago to shut down their beaches. Nope. It was the local geese in Sh!+ago crapping on the beaches.
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  5561. The P-59 was a dog. It could have been the Best of Show at the Westchester Kennel Club. But Best of Show is still a dog. That said. The P-59 performed a valuable service. And that service was how to operate jet aircraft in terms of maintenance, available aircraft and all the other things besides combat operations. So that when the P-80 and F-86 entered service the USAAF/USAF were not fumbling in the dark
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  5562. We do not have a shortage of energy or potential solutions. We have a shortage of will and courage. And do not ask me for solutions. The response will be long. Very long.
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  5563. As the son of a 'surviving' WWII veteran I haertly approve of any and all arguements amongst German high command that delayed or sidetracked German small arms development and deployment in the period.
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  5564. In all likely hood the city has insurance that covers this. So the costs should go up in terms of insurance and rates. The costs will be spread across multiple insured parties. That said. If the City Council members cannot handle any criticism they have no business being in the job.
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  5565. And he didn't even drink Dos Equis
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  5566. Well, they didn't have transport them.
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  5567. The only times a Japanese warship shelled the west coast it was by submarines. One sub as I recalled tried to hit an oil refinery.
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  5568. Like Gutfeld said. They've got more excuses and buts than a Kardashian family reunion.
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  5569. I had a 2000 Grand Caravan* and currently have a 2011 Town & Country. Given my current situation having a modest sized house and yard by todays standards in the US. And having substantial spring, summer and fall** yard and gardening work. Along with hauling lumber etc. I find the minivan to be just about the most useful type of vehicle I have ever owned. Both are capable of respectable mileage on the highway. They were and still are the replacement for the station wagon. And I've had three small station wagons. Each had they're quirks. The Caravans middle and/or rear seats lived in the garage most of the time. The T&C the rear seat is normally down and folding the middle seats into their storage wells is kind of a pain. But both would and do take a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood, drywall, foam insulation etc with the seats out of the way *Grand simply because it had a longer wheel base. **My local municipalicy does do curb side yard waste pickup in the spring and fall. But only in approved biobags. However with seven large mature trees that's a problem. And they do not suck up leaves in the fall. The city composts or chips all yard waste. Free compost and wood chips to residents. Plus they sell the excess commercially. And the city uses a lot in it's own ornamental flower beds. It may also supply compost to local community gardens. EPA regs do not allow compost made with material sucked up from streets to be sold commercially. The cities waste treatment plant (state of the art) does sell its dried sludge to commercial operations.
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  5570. What about the US Navy's "kamikazi". The Fleetwings BQ's. Of course there were the B-17s close to the end of their useful service life converted to remote controlled flying bombs.
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  5571. Check out Clicksprings YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA He is building a reproduction of the Antikythera Device using hand tools where ever possible. Even to the point of making his own tools using technology we know the Greeks had. Everything from just what the maker would have needed to use for a marking out fluid to how to cut perfect arcs in the mechanisms plates by hand. This guy does extremely nice work. I suspect if he were a gunsmith his firearms would be absolute jewels http://www.clickspringprojects.com/
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  5572. Just change the name and number to 666 squadron. The Shiatans.
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  5573. The follow on class was named after the lead ship, HMS Spotted Dick
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  5574. There are people who should never be allowed to put a wrench to a car. Let alone own a wrench. If I was the owner I'd be talking to a Shyster.
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  5575. With Trump the media has always cherry picked his public statements and speeches. The classic one is Charleston and the claim he was defending Neo Nazis and White Supremacy types.
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  5576. Now we need a video on the USS Sable and Wolverine. Unless it's already been done.
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  5577. Odds are Homo Sapiens has been fighting wars as long as we've been around. And our ancestors be they Homo Erectus, Heidelbergiensus (sp) or whatever we choose to call early humans. Yet today even as violent as Humanity can be the average person alive today stands a lower chance of dying a violent death than in the past. The San of Southern Africa living a Hunter Gatherer lifestyle closer to our early ancestors have very high homocide rate.
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  5578. And if pulled up to pickup a date in it and her dad saw it was Rambler he wouldn't let his daughter go out with you. You have to love those reclining seats 👍👍
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  5579. I have an unbuilt card model of the two of them.
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  5580. I used to work in a facility that produced engines, rear ends and finished cars from rolled sheet metal to out the door. We stamped all the rockers in house until 1989. That's when our press room was shut down. On stamped rockers like this one if they feed oil up through the pushrod the last stamping operation on the pushrod is to stamp (not drill) the oil feed hole in the pushrod seat. About .040" in diameter through .125" in one shot. After that the rockers were heat treated. The way this rocker failed I'm suspecting poor heat treatment. Plus if the lifter collapsed I'm surprised the pushrod did not get out of the seat completely.
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  5581. Maybe if you become so broke that public subsidies stop all of you recently immigrated doctors and engineers will go somewhere else.
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  5582. To me the classic example should be Sears Roebuck. They had the online marketing business in the palms of their hands. They along with Montgomery Wards perfected it with their catalog business. When the internet came along they just could not see it.
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  5583. I had that thought to. Or using a ridge cutter to break the top edge. This block is going to need an overbore or resleeving. How much overbore allowance is there in the bore. This can vary widely. Anything from .030"/.75mm to .125"/3.15mm depending on manufacturer.
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  5584. Personally I think nuclear should be used a lot more. Especially the more modern designs. And instead of just shutting down existing reactors. Use the facilities to site the newer generation designs. Plus I think we should be putting a lot more money and effort into fusion. What we spend on fusion now is peanuts compared to the rest of our total economies
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  5585. Time to form Radio Free Britian
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  5586. Let's see. You've managed to get that week or two of vacation you wanted. You plan on taking the family to a destination that requires flying time wise. And now you have to take a slower method of travel that eats into the time you have.
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  5587. In the era between the Norse abandonment of Vinland* and Columbus's 1st voyage the complete absence of Europeans is somewhat of an open question. The Norse** settlers on Greenland certainly would have been crossing the Davis Strait to Labrador for timber. By the 1480s if not earlier fishing fleets from Bristol and probably the Basque region of Spain were fishing on the Grand Banks. That they may have had temporary encampments, bases whatever on Nova Scotia is likely. It is also likely that the odd European or North African vessel wound up in the Caribean or Atlantic seaboard due to weather. If they got home that's another story. Concerning indeginous permanent settlements on the Atlantic Seaboard all of the early Pilgrim or Puritain settlements were on the sites of former Native settlements that had been essentially wiped out due to one epidemic or another. By the 1600s the natives had over a century of dealing with Europeans and while they were willing to trade the preferred to keep them at arms length. As a side note one early explorer (Vespucci iirc) was exploring around present day Rhode Island he had Native guests aboard his ship. Some of whom were wearing Venitian glass and one had a broken Vinetian sword. Maybe from a lost ship or explorers who never got home. Plus by the 1600s some of the ships trading along the Atlantic Coast were crewed entirely by natives. * by Vinland I mean in the general sense of any settlements in North America. I doubt the the found on the Northern tip of Newfoundland was the only one. ** Norse and not Viking. The term Viking is related more to an activity than a specific people.
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  5588.  @taccovert4  Although I really don't think it makes that much difference. One thing I've wondered about is in the early days of cartridge adoption there were issues with cases tearing and manufacturing. Did anyone do an intermediate step of producing rifle ammunition with a metal base to provide chamber sealing and a paper based upper section to hold the powder and projectile?
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  5589.  @jic1  My thought too. Plus plastic case shells were probably cheaper to produce. During the period when I did hunt it bridged the gap between paper and plastic. I never remember paper being that much of an issue. But then I haven't been in the field for over 50 years. Plus metal base/paper based shells were composite construction.
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  5590. Starmer should realize he is not just the representative leader of Labour voters. He is the representative leader of everyone in the UK. And right out of the box he vilifies a large percentage of the people n the UK.
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  5591. Odds are the creators are part of the Alphabet Soup. The activist part.
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  5592. One question on GoFundMe. Is the individual in Portland that executed a man in the middle of the street allowed to raise money via they're site
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  5593. I saw a movie once about an intrepid archeologist named Indiana Joan. Plenty of traps in that movie.
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  5594. Emissions is another reason starting in 1970 you saw engines either getting moderately stroked. Or manufacturers bringing out engines with around the same displacement but featuring smaller bores with longer strokes. Also one way of opening up the combustion chamber was to raise the deck also dropping compression ratios.
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  5595. In 1948 the Soviets had yet test their first atomic device.
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  5596. I live in Kenosha and this is the first I've heard of this. And I can imagine just where the venue would be.
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  5597. In a French accent. But monsieur, we must increase the drag to match the total parasitic drag of a biplane. This looks like it could maintain formation with an ocean going vessel.
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  5598. Easy for me. I never buy Coke products.
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  5599. I think calling them insane is being generous.
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  5600. Netflix would not touch it with a ten foot pole.
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  5601. What was it that Forrest Gump's momma said.
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  5602. #7 is actually kind of appealing
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  5603. Remrmber. Before CIS became the straight slur there was the slur "breeders"
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  5604. I don't know who is more at fault here. The author. Or the publishing house that released this. Intersex gets brought in because of Intersectionalism
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  5605. Would you.
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  5606. The MSM, MSNBC especially, edited that speech perfectly to suit their agenda. I have issues with Trump. But those tend to have more to do with his personal life. I find him to a crass individual. But l also give him credit for putting more people to work in his private life than any President l can think of. During his four years in the White House things were running smoothly until February of 2020. The COVID response was botched. By a lot of people. But the first response of shutting down flights from China got him labeled a racist. If Hillary had been in office she would have been praised.
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  5607. Why is it everytime somebody vomes up with new state borders they want to stick the area I'm in with Chicago. Not only no, but hell no.
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  5608. Add in swimming pools, sprinkler systems etc. Its not just about production costs. It's also about usage.
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  5609. At some point in time we will be in the cross hairs. A largish body, say 500 meters across approaches unobserved from sunward. Say a body lurking in the Taurid Meteor Stream. And it impacts either near or in a densely populated region. I think this is what it is going to take for governments to really commit to finding and preventing such occurances
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  5610. I'm waiting for somebody to walk up to the JSO protesters and piss on them. And call it performance art.
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  5611. 1984 wasn't a warning. It was a prediction.
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  5612. The existence of the Copper Cultures* of the Great Lakes Basin was well known in that region in the 1950s when I was a wee sprout (I'm a boomer, you don't like it go find a rope to, you get the idea). Certain areas in Northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan used the Copper Cultures and the logging period of the mid to late 19th Century as the basis for tourist attractions. If the early nativd peoples had had the skill to exploit it there was a far richer source of metals in the area. The UP and the Indian Head Country** are incredibly rich in high grade iron ore. The only reason it is not mined today is because the mines along with the copper mines were not surface mines but deep tunnel operations that simply became to expensive to operate due to the costs of pumping. *Plural because they may have had slight cultural differences they all used Native copper. What they lacked was Tin to takes the next step into bronze. To my know.edge the only good source of Tin in North America is in Northern Mexico **Look at a map. Look at the Northwestern portion of Wisconsin. It should be self explanatory.
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  5613. I used to love running a shaper. Both conventional and vertical. There is just something so pleasing in the rhythm of the machine. I mostly used tooling with a generous nose radius and a lot of top rake on the horizontal machines.
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  5614. Call him Nemo
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  5615. The first really successful steam powered flight happened in the early 1930s. A two cylinder double expansion steam engine was fitted to a proven airframe and flown. Simply to prove it could be done. Where the Wrights really succeeded was in their use of wind tunnel data. Which let them refine their wing design. And their propeller design. Their wind tunnel data proved that the lift and drag data that other experimenters were using was wrong. Look at the early attempts and the propellors they used. Crude creations of wood and fabric. The ones the Wrights developed approach the efficency of modern props. The Wrights really did invent contolled usable flight.
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  5616. A base four numerical system. One, two, three, many. The same counting system probably used by all non technically advanced societies.
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  5617. The "Home Defense Edition"
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  5618. Well, that's one way to make brass shotgun shells
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  5619. The problem is the centrifuge is still experiencing Earths 1 Gee acceleration. You can build a centrifuge to experience more than one gee. But not less.
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  5620.  @arthas640  Do you mean France or Francis the talking mule 🐴
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  5621. One thing that should be required of anyone that migrates to another country. That they be tolerant of the country they are migrating too. If you expect the country you migrate to should become like what you left. Stay home. If l were to migrate to another country l would not expect them to change their society, language and laws to suit me.
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  5622. And when this fails to accomplish anything there will be a whole new cry for more reparations
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  5623. The downside of using a bigger diameter main bearing is the increase in feet per minute. Similiar to running a 1/2 drill at the speed you should run a 3/8ths. The upside is a thicker cross section.
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  5624.  @unclewerner  Grob also built machine tools. Unless it was a different company with the same name
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  5625. Just the thing for squirrels. Two states over.
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  5626. Unfortunately their efforts have largely been lost on the wind since COVID-19 and George Floyd
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  5627. In the US some ethnicities once they could afford a single or multifamily home would look at the space devoted to a front or rear lawn and immediately tearout any lawn and devote it to vegetable gardens. Italians used to be known for this. Not a problem in my book as long as it is kept up. Used to grow a lot of our own vegetables and some fruits ourselves. But building over every square foot or meter of lawn/garden space does something else. In warmer weather l can be outside looking after the flower beds out front. And when l take short break in the backyard it feels about 5 to 10° F cooler simply because of two large shade trees. This is another benefit of what l call private green space. The down side is clean up in the Fall. But as to private vegetable gadens. There is now a movement, at least in the US to seek to eliminate them as some see them as "contributing to excessive greenhouse gases due to their lack of efficiency". If l wished l CV ould cut down my shade trees, tear out the lawn and convert it all to growing vegetables. Maybe l would not be self sufficent but it would go a long way towards eating better in the Summer and Fall. Nothing like a Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich made with lettuce and tomatoes you just picked.
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  5628. AMC guys run into some of the same issues. 290 and 304 heads have smaller valves. You can put a 390 or 401 head on a 290 but the intake might need relief cut in the cylinder. Not a good idea imo and why would one. And the heads all have the same valve center distance as they were all made on the same machining lines. equipment.. For the T/A heads on the 340. When the heads were being machined I'd be willing to bet the tooling for those push rod holes was simply removed from the drill station/s on that section of the transfer line and the holes drilled of line in a special fixture made just for that purpose. One reason for the different foundry Mark's is so the foundry can keep track of casting problems. If A castings are in spec and B casting is showing casting or core shift then the foundry knows which set of patterns for the casting may have problems. Casting marks can also be related to casting changes. Porting, cooling passages, wall thicknesses etc.
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  5629. This explains why Ford gave up on them in the 30s
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  5630. The first Commandment amongst Big Tech. "Thou shalt not stay from th he narrative."
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  5631. Sandals and socks. How European.
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  5632. Notice sympathetic reporter calls what's going on riots
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  5633. I thought BBC stood for the British Broadcasting Corporation. I guess now it stands for the Black Brosdcasting Commune. I could care less if they hire people who's ethnicity originates in Sub Saharan Africa. And I don't think anyone else really does either. I do care if they or any other media outlet tries to shove their narrative down our throats. Especially if it does not agree with the truth.
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  5634. Wider tires do not always improve handling or braking. There are exceptions. Mostly having to do with weather. One individual l knew bought an MX-5/Miata. After a week or so he bought new wheels and tires. Wider than stock. Not sure how much. Said it was great until it rained. Now maybe it was the tires or the tread pattern. But in the wet the car was dangerous to drive.
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  5635. It had been long enough from the Crimea and the Napoleonic Wars the horror was forgotten. They all hoped for dhort victorious war. Seldom happns.
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  5636. Best book of the 20th Century? I doubt it. I really, really seriously doubt it. But to each his own i suppose.
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  5637. Copper and copper alloys are annealed by heating and then rapidly cooled by quenching in water.
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  5638. I know it has probably come up, but the Bloke seems to like his in .308/7.62 NATO
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  5639. Swap in a 4.0 from a Jeep
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  5640. So they machined the bolt with an interrupted thread like a naval rifle*. Any caliber I want? Fine, I'll have mine in 16"50 :) Now that I think about it I am a little surprised that it hasn't been done before. With modern machining techniques it should be a lot easier
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  5641. I just suddenly realized that Ted Cassidy (Lurch) was elected to the Senate. Soon to be replaced by Cousin It (Meatball).
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  5642. Because they cling to the definition of facist that Mussolini used in the 1920s. IMO they arefavist because they seek to deny others the right to voice their opinion.
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  5643. When going on vacation in exotic third world crapholes is too expensive they bring the crapholes to you.
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  5644. If the Gulf Stream collapses Britain's climate will get decidedly worse.
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  5645. Notice we never see transwomen competing in womens gymnastics.
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  5646. The Second Amendment says not one word about firearms. It speaks to 'arms' in a general sense which includes, firearms, edged weapons etc. Firearms were fairly common in 18th Century America. But not as common as some believe. Guns along with powder and shot were not cheap. And amongst those that had and used them they were viewed as a tool. A tool that could help put food on the table as well as a tool that could be used for defense. Some say an armed society is a polite society. Others will say a civil society has no need for arms. Unfortunately we have neither a polite or civil society today. The founders (1) knew that any weapon could be used for ill. But they also realized that the weapon does not commit the crime. The perpetrator does. And if anyone thinks only weapons can be deadly instruments let them sit on a jury considering assault with a deadly weapon one time. I have. The weapon in this case was a cell phone. Being used to beat the victim in the head. To clarify just what a deadly weapon can be the assistant DA explained if you attempt to smother someone with a pillow that pillow is a deadly weapon. 1) You know. Those bigoted, racist, despicable dead white guys.
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  5647. And she did a "study abroad". I'm calling bullshit on that.
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  5648. Smoky Yunick said it 40 years ago. It's all about getting as much air into the cylinder as possible. The trick is to get the engine to hold up.
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  5649. Now if they had only just smashed the tape player that was endlessly playing that idiot music they'd be heroes
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  5650. An off the wall question. There have been instances where ships have lost their main propulsion system and had to jury rig emergency sails. Just what is the feasibility of converting a smaller warship class to sail propulsion if let's say there was a chance in the basic laws of nature completely eliminating any form of propulsion system that relies on an expanding high pressure gas. This means conventional steam, steam turbine or diesel will not work. This has to do with a short story I'm working on set in the Emberverse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emberverse_series Right now I'm playing around with the possibility of the conversion of a Perry Class Frigate to a mix of sail and and an onboard wind powered* hydraulically powered manuevering thrusters. *most likely a Darrieus type machine utilizing rotorblades from Seaking or Chinook helicopters. The mast for the turbine being taller than the deployed position allowing the top of the blades to be raised for stowage against the mast.
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  5651. Why not just check all the clearances with a feeler gage and go from there?
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  5652. I want to know when non whites will start getting cast in roles as Nazis in productions about WWll.
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  5653. I normally think of the Constitution and other see ships such as the large frigates such as the Royal Navy built as akin to super cruisers or battle cruisers. Properly handled out run what you can't outfight. And outright anything you can't outrun. But note the properly handled bit. Of the other Six Frigates built by the US Navy the Philadelphia was lost to mishandling. Chesapeake largely to the collapse of her command structure. President the same. Properly handled the ships were largely a match for anything around their own power. One reason for the performance of the US Navy in 1812 was the immigration of the DuPonts from France in the early 1800s. Having known Jefferson when he was ambassador in Paris they visited him in Washington. When inquiring about potential business opportunities Jefferson suggested they yo into the gunpowder business as US powder was lacking and one of the Duponts had been involved in the gunpowder industry in France.
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  5654. If any of the States passes Voter ID Bill's that require certain forms of identification* I have no problem with that. If that State then makes it harder to obtain the required identification by closes State offices that issue said IDs then yes voter ID can be voter suppression. An example would be a State passes legislation that you need some form of ID issued by a State office (typically the DMV**). But then closes a large number of DMV offices by "consolidating" multiple offices together with limited hours that is a way it could be done. An example would be if you have let's say five primarily rural counties with fairly low population and each county has a DMV office. The State closes four of them and consolidates those offices into one office that is as far away as possible from a certain population some State officials may try to dis-enfranchise. And that is the only way Voter ID can be voter suppression. The idea I've heard liberals float about Voter ID that certain minorities or racial groups would basically too lazy or stupid obtain said ID is truely racist. *the ID can be drivers license or state issued IDs used in lieu of the aforementioned. Requiring multiple forms of ID at the polls is wrong IMO. As long as you have ID issued by the State you reside in that should be enough. ** let's not mention a visit to the DMV can be a case of voter suppression all by itself
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  5655.  @oatnoid  I'm not throwing up my hands. Merely pointing out how Voter ID, Voter Validation systems could be misused.
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  5656. My experience with NIMBYism is the local politicians who live in areas with higher property values that propose things such as Halfway Houses. But not in their area. If you propose it you should be willing to live next to it.
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  5657. Needed a loaf of bread
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  5658. Tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no rich no more. The logical end to this is the state owns everything and you line up for your bowl of gruel before shuffling off to help build the glories of socialism. The reason it is logical Is because what is defined as wealth and being wealthy becomes a sliding scale. Give it time and it gets to the point that own your own home, or car, or have any savings and you are the wealthy.
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  5659. If I had not heard the part about where the pistol was designed and manufactured I would of guessed Germany or maybe Switzerland. A gun made by a watchmaker.
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  5660. Where's Annette?
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  5661. Don't try this at Home!!!!
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  5662. What! No Big Iron! Or Iagio for Strings
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  5663. There are things the US did wrong with nuclear power and things the French did right. The US did not really use standardized designs (1). The French did. As I understand it they have a Generation 1 design and a Generation 2 design. If you have an issue design wise you know what to look for in other facilities. This also lowers costs. Also l wonder if the individual regions, departments or whatever the French call them along with municipalities have as much legal power to throw up roadblocks to construction. One reason that nuclear plants in the US cost as much as they do is every Tom, Dick and Harry can file legal challenges, endlessly it seems. Delaying construction and causing increased costs due interest on the loans. Nuclear produces cheap reliable power as far as the operating side goes. It's the long lead time that builds the costs. Another thing that increases costs is the incredible amount of paper work involved in everything. Simply replacing one screw and nut on pipe fitting requires multiple forms (2). There is also the waste side of things. Most nuclear waste is low level stuff such as personal protective gear. The actual waste from the fuel in the US would fit into an Olympic sized swimming pool. We used to reprocess waste. Carter stopped that by Executive Order. EOs can be reversed by EOs. The spent fuel rods out of a nuclear facility actually contain very high levels of usable fuel that can be recovered. In the 1990s the US DOE actually ran a small test reactor to look into using the high level waste to produce power and consume that waste by converting it into lower level waste. The Vlinton Administration killed that. 1) The Soviets. I'm not sure they did anything right with nuclear plants 2) I worked with several people (plant maintenance) and knew others that worked at a Commonwealth Edison plant in Illinois. Even the plant security department had forms up the ying yang
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  5664. It would be interesting to see just what the total engine hours were on this engine. My van has 112+ thousand on the odometer with 4k plus hours.
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  5665.  @wilburfinnigan2142  Maybe it would have been but the airframe would have limited it IMO. I do think it provided a valuable service in letting the USAAF learn how to operate jet aircraft.
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  5666. The reason. I'm willing to bet it's spelled Renault.
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  5667. ​ @sue3032  No drive thru? Seems like the DAs offices do.
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  5668. The United States Mercury dime (10 cent piece) has the axe with the bundle of sticks surrounding it.
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  5669. What is really needed is Phasers set to stun
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  5670. Would the radial engined Bristol fighter have worked as a Naval fighter. A Roc did score an arial victory in Norway against a German bomber. But the Luftwaffe aircrew also shot down the Roc. Both crews actually wound up sheltering in the same hut for a while. I can understand in part the RAFs reluctance to see the FAA provided with adequate fighter aircraft. Given the near total dependence of the British fighters on Merlin engines at the time every Merlin diverted to naval use was one less for RAF use.
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  5671. I'm not sure about fossils but there is circumstantial evidence circa 30k ago. I personally think a lot of evidence is underwater.
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  5672. 50%? 100% more likely.
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  5673. A political note. As we face an extremely bad potential food shortage worldwide we have certain segments of society attempting to drastically reduce or eliminate certain fertilizers etc. Often with good environmental reasons due to over application and usage.
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  5674. I really think they want most of us to die
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  5675. It's the box office score that counts. If this takes in 100M watch Boringwood copy it.
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  5676. What was it Smokey Yunick said. Ah, something to the effect that it all depends on how much air and fuel you can stuff into the cylinder and not have it self destruct Another thing. Look at Formula 1 engines from any of the normally aspirated eras. There is a very specific reason that Ferrari built V and Flat 12s. A V-12 has a higher ratio of piston area to displacement than a V-8. However a V-12 does have a higher loss to internal friction. Ideally the V-10 is about right in terms of displacement, piston area and internal friction. Hence the V-10s 3.5 liter engines in the last normally aspirated era
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  5677. The Z slammed the coffin lid shut. The Miata nailed it down.
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  5678. My vote goes to The Bishop's Wife. Followed by Die Hard. And all the commercial Christmas tunes are bad. Except for "Santa Baby" with Ertha Kitt.
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  5679. I have no idea how I missed this one.
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  5680. Ask the so called screenwriters if they would rather live in the society of the Orcs. Or the Hobbits?
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  5681. Or if the federal government had carved out a state in the south for freed slaves. But that would have caused other problems. The main reason that the 3/5ths clause was in the Constitution was South Carolina being dicks.
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  5682. In terms recoil control of muzzle loading cannon common to the Age of Sail was there any attempts to control the recoil of the gun through the use of an inclined ramp on the carriage and the use of ropes wound around drums to act as springs One benefit of such a system is the gun carriage could be set up to pivot at the gun port allowing a greater freedom of aiming the piece HESH shells. Instead of HESH what about something along the lines of a HEAT round especially against lightly armored vessels
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  5683. The the young lady that is pushing this is the same one as being involved in the No New Oil then she needs to be asked about her globe trotting vacations.
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  5684. People in urban areas keep voting Democrat candidates in for several reasons. And these reasons are not necessarily related. 1) Because they feel guilty for things that happened in the past that they had nothing to do with. 2) Greed. They percieve that the government. State, local or Federal is going to give them something. 3) Percieved things done in the past. Ch ivil Rights legislation in the 60s that passed because of Republican support (a). 4) lnertia. The l've always votedDemocrat. My daddy voted Democrat. Blah, blah, blah. It doesn't jatter how many failed promises, destroyed families, destroyed businesses, destroyed neighborhoods etc just keep voting blue. 5) The media. The media and the Democrats to a large degree are in bed together. Maybe not making deals but the major media outlets by and large are on the Democrats side. When they should be on neither side. 6) Education. It used to be an education at least thaught you to think critically. Not it appears an education trains you to be critical of anything to the political right (b) of Marx. a) The Republicans have their own issues b) IMO we need a new dynamic to discribe political view points. Something like the Pournelle political axis. The problem with left right is it groups all political viewpoint in one narrow line.
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  5685. Not all weapons are sharp pointy things, throw things or go bang.
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  5686. 1/250th card model available from Digital Navy http://www.digitalnavy.com/
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  5687. Different subject. Before takeoff you get the talk about cell phones, tablets and laptops being turned off for takeoff. Yet l aways see idiots ignore it.
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  5688. Bill Whittle has a video of Walz to Abba's Dancing Queen.
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  5689. See, Gene Roddenberry stole the design for the Starship Enterprise!
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  5690. If you wre going to cover non automotive engines may I suggest the Nordberg 11 and 12 cylinder radial stationary engines built post WWll. Both engines as radials featured no master rods in their design. The 11 cylinder used a set of gears to hold the Slave/Link Rod carrier in position while the 12 cylinder featured a patented system using two link rods to hold the orientation of the Slave Rod carrier. Both engines featured 14"/355mm bores and a 14"/355mm stroke. Running mainly on natural gas they were used to generate electricity and power pumping stations. Heavily used by several Aluminum/Aluminium plants in the 40s and 50s. One running example still exists in Iowa iirc. Also the last Naiper piston engines. The Nomad and the Deltic if you haven't done them yet.
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  5691. Ok, if Cali want to ban all new gasoline fueled cars after 2035 they had better be willing to accept two things. The first is a huge increase in the used car market. The second is any of the environmental costs associated with "green" energy. Nothing is without environmental impact. Solar may shine down from the sky but there is still an environmental cost in the manufacturing of solar cells, batteries, wind turbines and the storage systems needed to store power generated during the day for use at night. And yes wind is nothing more than second level solar energy. I realize that there are two ways forward with energy. Either renewables or hopefully fusion. If we go with renewables then we have to understand that there are costs involved environmentally. Be they wind farms, large solar facilities (photovoltaic or thermal), the production of these systems and ultimately their disposal or recycling at the end of their useful lives. There's another environmental cost I can think of. If Cali wants to push more surface mass transit (bus or rail) there are costs here as well. Bus systems not so much. But rail requires right-of-way and the construction costs involved.
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  5692. Which CB in SE Wisconsin
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  5693. This was coming at least a douple of days before it was announced. They sure had commercials ready to run didn't they. One thing to expect in the next three months. A big push to get recent "asylum seekers" registered to vote in local and federal elections. The only requirement for federal elections is proof of citizenship. Which can be displayed by "good faith". And can be done on line. Why bother to immigrate. Register online and vote by mail.
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  5694. When one has access to the worlds only time machine one can buy all the ammunition one wants. Plus you can find mint never fired once they left factory (or dropped in the case of the Trench) rare firearms
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  5695. I can think of 2 other 42 cylinder engines. The Wright R-2250 Tornado and the French Mathis.
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  5696. I be Iron Jack Bonny and your pirate accent is terrible. Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
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  5697. How do we know she is even his sister? Just asking.
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  5698.  @blackrifle6736  Possibly. I wonder if Pratt & Whitney still has NOS repair/rebuild parts in stock. Or if they sold them off yo a third party decades ago. Would have sold most likely as they would have to pay inventory taxes over the years. Inventory taxes is one of the things that killed a lot 8f the US machine tool industry. The US government let foreign companies ship in complete machines and warehouse them in the US. But as they had not cleared customs they were not "officially" in the country. Mazak and others could have brand new machining centers sitting ready to ship as soon as the customer had the foundation ready. US builders such as Kearney and Treker and Ingersoll basically had to build to order with the attendant lead time.
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  5699. Mitchell's lack of confidence in torpedo bombers may had to do with his BS detector in regards to the Naval Ordinance Board. Of course his BS detector only worked one way. And it pains me to say that as my favorite airport to fly out of is named for him. Anything to avoid the zoo O'Hare is. In defense of Mitchell he was just ahead of the curve. The complete lack of precision guided ordance for use agaist ships that lacked effective air defense. Also level bombers might not have been able to hit moving ships but attacking them while underway could force them into engaging in evasive manuevres.
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  5700. @milominderbinder8655  Guided munitions existed in the 1940s. The first used in combat was the Fritz X which was used to sink the Italian battleship Roma in 1943. The US had TV guided bombs which were unmanned aircraft and used against Japanese shipping with some success later in the war.
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  5701. I had check the release date wasn't April 1st. If there are aliens out there, why the hell would they want to come here. Earth is the Mel Brooks movie of planets.
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  5702. The title being Naked and Dead? Let's see. Products with absolutely no oil or hydrocarbon products involved. 1) Sharpy things. No mass produced knives, axes, scissors, needles. 2) No commercial pots or pans 3) No commercially made clothing as oil products were certainly involved in production or transport. Even if the cloth is 100% cotton, hemp, linen or wool. Sounds like they are back to knapping stone tools?
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  5703. ​ @TheStarcleaver  No. Breathing included.
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  5704. The ideal source for the hydrogen is of course water. Which is in kind of short supply in many areas. Plus you need a lot of power to disassociate the Oxygen and Hydrogen. In the end batteries are a better bet imo Plus there's that tendency of hydrogen to just leak through everything
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  5705. Hit with a shovel? No. More like an axe. A very large, very dull axe. In reality, no nation can really save them all. In the grand scheme of things the desire simply isn't there. If the British government really wanted to save her they'd have found a way. Lord knows they certainly pissed away a lot more than that on projects that went nowhere.
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  5706. The Left has been on a crusade to change and control language for decades. He who controls the terms controls the debate.
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  5707. Its saving grace is the scores.
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  5708. Remember none of these appointments take effect until January 20th.
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  5709.  @rupertboleyn3885  I would think that steam turbines would run at higher speed than that to turn the shafts and props. Yes the steam is putting a lot of force on the turbine blades. And the turbine has a lot of surface area for that steam to transfer that force. But the total mass of the turbine, couplings, shafts and screws has to be considerable. A geared turbine gas to have significant advantage in applying torque to start to rotate the whole assembly. Also whether geared or ungeared did they gave to reverse the steam flow to back the ship.
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  5710.  @jockellis  R-2800s were license built by Nash, Buick and Ford iirc. I think the Ford built units went primarily to B-26 production. Buick to P-47 and Nash to F6F and some F4U. During Korea the Nash facility that was mothballed was restarted but produced very few engines before being shutdown as P&W production was deemed sufficient. By the invasion of Korea in 1950 they only current aircraft still using the R-2800 in military use were F4Us and B-26s (former A-26s). The Nash facilities were then turned over to Nash for their own use. Torn down in 1989. The initial demolition ball used to demolish the engine test cells just bounced off of the concrete structure. Each cell had a circular cross section in part of it large enough to mount a full size prop on the engine.
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  5711. ​ @Jonathan-dq8hb  In some ways AMC took over Chrysler in that Chrysler wound up adopting some of AMCs development strategies. Chrysler also took over development of the 4.7 that AMC had started realizing that the Grand Cherokee needed a V-8 and not being in the position to use their previous ones as some of the 360 machinery had been repurposed for the 2.5. The block broach specifically.
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  5712. Navarro also used copper o-rings to seal the cylinders
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  5713. ​ @Timmitous  The 4.7 surfers from the same problem a lot of modern engines do. The older OHV v-8S could be miss treated in terms of oil changes etc and still run. OHC engines must have their oil changed on a regular basis. With the prices oil change shops charge today and people strapped for cash oil changes get stretched out. With predictable results. And remember. Not everyone has the tools, the basic knowledge or even a place to do their own work.
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  5714. Who'd of guessed. A track vehicle with a neckers knob. "Come Natasha, we will go for ride."
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  5715.  @FirstDagger  OK, change the Natasha to Inger. Now I'm starting to think of Sven an Ole jokes.
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  5716. It really needs a knights pennant hanging from the pitot tube
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  5717. Future Subaru owners 😂
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  5718. Sure looks black in the thumbnail. I have come to the opinion that the way to bring a stop to this insanity is to simply make the ones pushing this crap the objects of the public's laughter.
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  5719. ​Yes l do remember that. And I'm a yank.
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  5720. The average person thinks it is all about the social sciences. AKA The Rubber Sciences. 40 plus years rebuilding machinery, machining, fixture and tool work.
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  5721. There is nothing mysterious about any of these ship wrecks. All of them took on too much water, lost buoyancy and sank. The last major vessel lost on the Lakes to my knowledge was the Photinia. She went aground off of Milwaukee and was severely damaged by wave action. I live on Lake Michigan and we used to be a commercial port. Foreign vessels would dock and when the crews were off of the ship some would come into a local watering hole. They all hated coming onto the Lakes. It's not the waves are bigger or anything. You get much bigger waves on the ocean. But they come much closer together. And every lake is different. Plus while the lakes are pretty big they aren't big enough that a ship has room to run before the wind. When Ted Turner was racing yachts the Chicago Yacht Club tried to get him to rac in the Mackinaw race. He finally said yes. Halfway through the race it turned from calm to really nasty. Afterwards he said the only worse weather he'd raced in was the Fastness in the Irish Sea.
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  5722. The safest place on any capital ship is not on Hood, Bismark, Yamato, Musashi, Barham etc
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  5723. The guy from the Oneida Nation. One of their biggest sources of income is from gambling. If the majority of Native Americans are offender by the team names. Fine drop them. If they aren't. Then just STFU.
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  5724. There is a very good reason that the Romans considered actors on par or below prostitutes in social standing.
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  5725. Well obviously every notable man of the 18th Century was of the rainbow community. 1) Wigs? Check 2) Knee hose? Check. 3) Lace and frills? Check. Let's not mention the Middle Ages Next they'll be saying that George Washington was gay because he and Martha didn't have any children.
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  5726. But it was during prohibition so the foreign embassy functions were most likely very popular. As to other extraciricular activities why should DC be any different than any other cess pool inhabited by politicians
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  5727.  @scottgiles7546  And a malarial swamp at that. At one time it was considered a hardship post for foreign diplomats.
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  5728. ​ @kramnull8962  And getting their insurance cancelled because of the solar panels.
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  5729. Better get rid of that cell phone then.
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  5730. Plus all ships armed with FLAIR (Flying Low Airborne Interception Ratios) are targeted to attack the Reichscopiechen Machine Wercks
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  5731. Well, he's got three hots and a cot now. Living the dream.
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  5732.  @How23497  Lets say with breakthroughs in materials science and improvements in engine performance it was possible to build an manned SSTO capable of carrying say 6 passengers to orbit. Even if it is not as efficient as an optimized two stage vehicle. With a short turn around time. There is more than one type of efficiency. There is the mass ratio efficiency. And then there is the man hours turnaround efficiency. One thing in terms of materials science that might improve the possibility of an SSTO could be the use of Byrilium alloys in place of some of the materials in use today. And yes I'm aware of the potential issues with Byrilium. Besides say we have a barely workable SSTO capable of functioning as an orbital taxi. Just how well, would the same vehicle work from the Lunar or Martian surface. As an aside perhaps an SSTO (1) could function with dropable liquid fueled booster of extremely simple design. 1) It should be remembered that the first US built launch vehicle to place a man into orbit was almost an SSTO.
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  5733. LCS. Who do we blame. Congress? The designers? Or the USN?
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  5734. This election is between Trump and who ever is the Democrat VP candidate
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  5735. Now that the Queen has passed I'm assuming that Charles will step aside for some random Nigerian. After all they're all Princes or used to be kings.
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  5736. Jake, the level of scientific reporting in the media has already sunk lower than whale poop
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  5737. I'll bet Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition aren't happy either.
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  5738. 80 shots and it still won't do the spinner.
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  5739. There is a term for these panels. Circle Jerks. But them what would you expect from wankers.
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  5740. Up until the time of its production the second best looking car ever produced in Britian. I mean let's face it. The XKE is and always will be #1. I'm thinking that if somebody wanted to do a modern take on the Interceptor what would you use for the drive train. IRS for sure. But what about the front axle assembly. The front end from a Mercedes all wheel drive? Resurrect the front diff from an AMC Eagle?. Engine? Gotta be a V-8. OHV simply because it's easier to package. LS? New Hemi?
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  5741. Abstinence is the only really 100% way to prevent pregnancy.
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  5742. They want you to be like Marx. His hygine even by 19thCentury standards was appalling.
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  5743. No weapon. That weedwacker sure looks dangerous.
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  5744. In everyday driving low end torque beats horsepower. Besides if you can not use the ponies due to tires, suspension issues, availability at high RPMs etc all you are doing is quoting Shakespeare*. *Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5
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  5745. I tend to think the reason the B-17 gets mor affection is that they tended to bing more of their crews home. At least that's the perception.
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  5746. If some fool tries to tell another child that achieving scolastically is "acting white". Or even better "acting Asian". Tell the fool that if he later in life needs a doctor and choose an African American physician. That he better choose one that did so.
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  5747. Murphy wasn't in Normandy. My father served with him in Italy. Well, they BOTH were in Italy at the same time.
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  5748. Have to admit I always found carbs to be black magic. Simple in principle. In practice. And living in a climate where it can get cold in the winter sometimes I love EFI.
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  5749.  @fatdaddy1996  I never said the F4U was a replacement for the F-6-F. Once jet fighters got onto carriers the day of the naval piston engined fighter was over. In the attack role however it was a different story. The AD-4 took on the role of carrier strike while the F4U carried on in the ground attack/air support for the USMC.
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  5750. Somebody should check her passport to see how many tropical vacations she's had.
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  5751. ​ @mongolia8962_  Hell, I'm a Middle American white guy and I can tell she's an Upper Class oh so posh twit just from her accent. And posh stands for Port Outbound Starboard Home.
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  5752. I wish them well. I'm almost my three score and ten. I've been waiting for workable fusion in my lifetime. And for most of it it has looked like a dim prospect. Now maybe I'll see it. I suspect once one concept proves viable others will as well.
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  5753.  @Whoishere2333  When the incident involving Jacob Blake happened a major problem was the spread of false information concerning why the police were there (1) and the video shot by someone from across the street in their apartment was edited to not show the events just before the shots being fired. City and county officials knew the information that was being reported by the media was wrong but did little to counter it. I am not saying the shooting was justified (2). I am saying that social media is a tool that can cause a great deal of harm. 1) The police were there because Mr Blake's girlfriend had a protection order requiring him not to be in her presence. She called 911. There was also an outstanding arrest warrant for Mr Blake for a charge of 3rd Degree Sexual Assault. The officers were there in response to the 911 call and to execute the warrant. 2) I think the number of shots fired comes down to a couple of things. First is adrenaline. Second is the type of weapon. A double action revolver generally takes more effort to fire each round than a semiauto pistol. The officers were armed with semiauto pistols. Officers in Kenosha had not been armed with Revolvers for close to 30 years at the time. And when they carried Revolvers they were limited to issue .38 Special Revolvers or they were allowed to carry .38 Special or .357 Revolvers they had purchased themselves but were only allowed standard .38 Special ammunition. A .357 will chamber both .38 Special and .357 ammunition. The difference is the in the case length and powder charge.
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  5754. I wonder if some of the Israelis involved in the design had experience working as slave labor in German firearm plants.
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  5755.  @Slapnuts9627  I remember my brother in law telling us about stopping for gas in Nebraska and the guy inside (pre pay at the pump) telling him "I guess the Badgers didn't do so good this year. He replied, "at least they can all read"
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  5756.  @pokepress  The best thing hockey ever did was the puck tracker on TV.
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  5757. Truthfully, l thought Leeds had been transported to 2020 Kenosha with the "fiery but mostly peaceful" celebrations.
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  5758. It's not just that she is a woman. It's her
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  5759. Yes Metatron. You could be and probably are an alien. But are you a registered alien?
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  5760.  @metatronyt  I thought you would get the joke. When I was a kid every year at as certain time of the year there would be TV public service spots reminding registered aliens to RAs to turn their paperwork in. This was in the 1960s. There were still large numbers of DPs* that came over in the 40s and early 50s that had not applied for citizenship *Displaced Persons
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  5761. Ogre? Hobbit? Troglydite perhaps. 😝 I know a gentleman named Underhill. I call him Frodo.
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  5762. They used the Daimler 601 iirc on their best fighter. Italy's aeromotor industry lagged behind everybody else. They stuck with the seperate cylinder layout long after everybody else had gone to monobloc engines.
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  5763.  @terryturner4116  I can think of reasons they may have stuck with the seperate cylinder engine so long. One is if you have an issue (bunt piston, bad cylinder etc) you could pull the head and replace the cylinder. Pratt & Whitney had two H-24 sleeve valve engines under development in the late 30s. These had seperate cylinders for this very reason.
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  5764.  @ThumperE23  Which Christ on the Cross scene? The first or second one.
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  5765. Facists? Neither one of you two gentlemen strike me as being facists. You are Classic Liberals IMO
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  5766. I'd take Nixon over any of the recent presidents.
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  5767. If somehow Nancy does get money from Chucky's the money should be put in a trust for the child where mommy can't get her hands on it. And besides. Even if she does get a cash settlement it won't be Chucky's that pays. It will be their customers* due to raising prices to cover the cost. It might only be a nickel but nickels add up. *Same thing with Dopey Joe's minimum corporate tax. They're just going to pass on the cost to the customer.
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  5768. Dreadnought Super Dreadnoughts And Super Duper Dreadnoughts
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  5769. They never let facts get in the way their reality. 14 in 40 million is .000035%
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  5770. Other ships in the class include the Fuschia, Puce, Chartreuse and Vermillion.
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  5771. I guess that windage tray ran out of wind.
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  5772. You likely. Me it's the score from 633 Squadron. Yes I know its RAF but the tune is just livelier
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  5773. Tarawa is basiclly the size of a WWII Essex class carrier
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  5774. Lever Action Winchester Model 1873 as in "Winchester '73" Matthew Quigley's single shot Sharpes Model 1874 lever action falling block chambered for 45.110. Should have been listed in the credits Colt Single Action Army carried by John Wayne in numerous westerns .50 Caliber Hawken. Jeremiah Johnson
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  5775. So we have the Coastal Artillery Branch and the US Post Office to thank for the survival of two American icons. The .50 BMG and the Thompson
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  5776. What about that guy that's running a lawn mower carb on a 302 in a Maverick. Not much power but it runs.
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  5777. Disney will eventually make back the production costs through DVDs and other outlets. I just hope it takes them a long long time. Like maybe 20 or 30 years. Wokeness in films. Especially kids films. As a father when my wife and I would take our son and daughter to the movies and later the grandkids the primary and only reason was for entertainment. We didn't want our kids preached at about anything beyond perhaps doing the right thing. Disney having to make another feature based on Toy Story. Or any of the film industry production companies having to continue to make franchise movies. Is having an original thought outlawed? It seems at least 50% of the movies produced in the US are either remakes or the next installment of a franchise. The last film I saw at the theater was decently original (almost all movies are a few basic plots) was The Outfit. Great 50s gangster lingo. Little or no profanity. Limited scope. The film is set in two or three rooms and one exterior. With great plot twists. No message. No wokeness. No social commentary. Just a good story.
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  5778.  @tominiowa2513  Somebody starts throwing nukes around that's it.
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  5779.  @gotanon8958  That may be true. Plus the jet attack aircraft has more range. The one thing the jet attack air raft does not have is the ability to stay on station for days at a time. The 16" shell is a slight amount of overkill. The best choice for a naval gun today is probably in the range of 105mm or 155mm. For western navies this gives commonality with army artillery organizations.
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  5780. And his mother seems to get ignored. I thought his father was Kenyan.
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  5781. Buying your commission was pretty standard in the British Army of the period
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  5782. A second store? They need more than one?
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  5783. As the old saying goes. "Young, dumb and full of .........."
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  5784. ​ @UteHeggenTranswidowHeals  Most guys l knew that went to anti war protests went for two reasons. One was to protect their lily white ass from getting shot off. The other was to meet girls.
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  5785. The MSM along with leftwing internet journos will always edit or only show the portions of a video that "proves" their point. In my opinion Trump is an asshole. So what. You have to be, to be in that kind of position.
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  5786. The Dornier was designed as a transport.
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  5787. What are they going to do when they really get assaulted.
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  5788. The JMB trinity, M1911, M2 and Hi-Power
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  5789.  @spacecadet35  The Poles and Swedes iirc did alright with it. Not a Bren though.
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  5790. Subway tunnels? I doubt it. Current tunneling tech works pretty well. Even if tomorrow we went 100% renewables (1) the oil industry is not going to go away. Too useful or other things. Coal isn't going to completely disappear either. Not unless we have a way to completely replace coke in the steel making process. But if we can get most of the transportation and all of the energy segment out of the equation then CO2 output should be manageable. 1) One segment of transportation that is going to be hard to get away from hydrocarbons completely is aviation. H2 takes too much volume for fuel tanks and electric 777s. Yah, right. But one segment of aviation we can replace is short haul flights with High Speed Rail. HSR might have slower trip times but less time involved in arriving at the airport etc. But even then I don't think you can replace all short haul flights with HSR. In some cases the traffic density simply isn't there.
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  5791. I wonder if as a person aged if they changed occupations (unlikely probably) they became instead of John the Miller John the Farmer. And what about John the Miller's son? Andre the Giant anyone.
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  5792. No, but my wife does.
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  5793. The shackles of positive bouancy. A suppose they were yearning to breathe fre.........cluub, club, cluub.
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  5794.  @GunFunZS  The video on InRange when they did a comparision between the Spenser and the Trapdoor was very surprising. Chap on BotR has been doing mad minutes with BP single shots but hasn't got to the Werder yet.
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  5795. Western nations unfortunately do not have the staying power. In some ways I blame it on short attention spans.
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  5796. One definition of insanity.
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  5797. The pleading whine, "we're environmental protesters ". Plus they're anti-capitalist. Yah right. Sporting their i phones. I doubt any are using Android phones. Those are for the plebs.
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  5798. The absolute worst aircraft ever to fly was the Christmas Bullet. Two Built. Flew twice. Crashed twice. Killed their pilots twice. Closely followed by the German Natter. Vertical launch rocket powered interceptor. Flew once. Killed the pilot.
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  5799. If you are building a suit meant for use in weightlessness why do you even need leg mobility. Why couldn't the legs and lower torso simply go into a sleeve that attaches at the chest level to accommodate different body types.
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  5800. Ford did a lot of work on inline fives in the 20s and early 30s. Henry Ford was never happy with how they ran. He wanted more power without having to go with a 6 cylinder. Hence the flathead V-8. A lot of US inline 6s pre WWll had only 3 or 4 main bearings. One issue with a 4 main bearing crank is in a fully pressurized oiling system is two of the main bearings have to eupply oil to two rod journals while the front and rear bearing only supply the #1 and #6 rod journals. In a three main bearing crank oiling is dependent on splash oiling.
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  5801. To prove their point about not being controllable they could have just converted a couple of the Polish semi-automatic rifles they were developing
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  5802. Now that's itelligent discourse.
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  5803. No tank is invincible.
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  5804.  @fastannoone  I've passed my "three score and ten" so I am well aware of past. One thing I worry about is the youth of today are becoming increasingly enamored with the concept of Socialism. They see "free" health care, "free" education etc. What they fail to realize is nothing is free. Somebody foots the bill. And somebody acts as the debt collectors (1). Eventually the debt collectors (aka the Party) begin to gather more and more authority and power to themselves. 1) If the debt collectors worked for a loan shark they'd be called leg breakers
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  5805. It depends on the options. Dungeon? Dungeons? Equipped with chains? Built in torturer?
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  5806. I'm sure the Britons of the post Roman period weren't to fond of mass immigration on the part of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Or the Picts with the "Scots" who immigrated from Ireland. Seems titian has had a problem with boat people for thousands of years.
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  5807.  @nerd1000ify  The Lycoming was intended for large aircraft such as the B-36. About the only piston aircraft engine developed in the US during WWII that eventually went into production and saw service was the R-4360. Unless one counts Wrights R- 3350. And that was not Wrights finest product. Overall the best US designed a/c engine was the R-2800. Pratt& Whitney did their development work inhouse including prototyping. Curtiss-Wright farmed a lot of work out to contractors. Two engines P&W was developing that had a lot of promise were their H type 24 cylinder sleeve valve engines. They were canceled to allow P&W to concentrate trate development work on the 4360.
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  5808. What happened to Michelle's healthy foods school lunch program?
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  5809. Is U-505 on the list. Depending on your travel plans when in the states. Cobia is only about 3 to 4 hours north in Manitowoc. The Harley* Museum in Milwaukee just off the interstate on the same route if your intertests run that way. *Harley-Davidson, a clothing company with a sideline selling motorcycles.
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  5810. It won't outlive the DC-3
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  5811. And Vought Pirate, North American Fury, McDonnell Phantom and Banshee.
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  5812. I hope the Poles burned any documentation and destroyed any tooling to keep it out of German and soviet hands
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  5813. ​ @sputterscott4728  Rod Stewart once said he was prouder of being on the cover of Model Railroader than the cover of Rolling Stone. And that was at least ten years ago.
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  5814. You're right. The car as we've known it is nearly extinct. The IC engine isn't dead yet. But in mass use it's on borrowed time. All it is going to take is a break through in battery tech and charging time and manufacturers will go mostly electric. Some of us might not like it but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen. To most people a car is an appliance that gets you from point a to point b. And they want one that's reliable. No fuss, no bother. Personally I don't think I will ever buy another new car again. If I do get another new car I'll lease. As to minivans. I agree. Love 'em. Most versatile vehicles I've ever owned.
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  5815.  @SheriffsSimShack  There is also the pucker factor.
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  5816. I etopped by my local pharmacy to pick up a perscription the other day. They were getting a delivery some of which was going to the pharmacy area. The delivery vehicle was left open in the parking lot unattended and undisturbed. This was in the same city that saw "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests in August 2000.
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  5817. Asian. Why doesn't everyone be honest and just say Pakistani and Bangladeshi.
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  5818. Please don't give them any ideas.
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  5819. You should have dressed up as Hitch from Appaloosa.
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  5820. Funny thing is most of the housing being built in the area I live in is multi unit (8 to 16 units) apartment building naturally touted as "condos"
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  5821. As someone who lives in a city on the western shore of Lake Michigan (Kenosha) lakeshore erosion problems are something I know something about. This is a problem that has plagued the Wisconsin and Illinios side of the lake for probably as long as the lake has existed. The currents in Lake Michigan run down the west side to the south. The current moves sand and other things to the south. A lot of the sand gets deposited on the shoreline from the area of the Indiana Dunes a up the Michigan side. You can see the effects of the current in the view douthalong the lakeshore. You can see that the beaches extend a lot farther out alongside the jettie that extend into the lake Pus the amount of lakedhore erosion fluctuates with the fall and rise of the lake level. The level of Lakes Michigan and Huron fluctuates over time based on the amount of percipitation. And like Chicago our lakefront is largely made up of parks, public spaces and beaches*. There's roughly 8 blocks of private homes and a private college. That's the only non public parts. *the beaches like many on LakeMichigan are not the best. One of the things that get deposited along the lakeshore are dead alewives.
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  5822.  @DMX-NAS  This will be long. Am I serious. So we have climate data from the 1800s. Wow! Thats like .00000043% of the age of the Earth. Now for what I really think. Do I think climate change is real. Damn straight I do. But if you really want to talk about climate change look at the end of the last glacial advance. I suspect some climate activists if they were around then would screaming about we have to prevent the glaciers from melting. The last cold snap we had was the so called Little Ice Age. That saw glaciers in the Alps advancing and swallowing villages that had existed for 100s of years. Was it an extreme volcanic event? Or was it a Grand Solar Minimum? Last I heard the jury is still out. We really only started to come out of that around 160 years ago. And why is it when there is a cold snap it's always just weather. And when there's a drought or heat event it's always climate change. At least according to the media. What caused the Medieval Warm Period. When the climate was good enough that it was possible to have vinyards in Britian. And allowed Norse settlers in southern Greenland to practice farming. I'm all for cleaning up our industrial and social practices that are contributing to climate change. That's just good stewardship. I don't consider the atmosphere a public sewer to dump our waste into. In my personal life I used to repair machinery used in treatment of wastewater from treatment facilities. Municipal, farm systems and industrial facilities. So I've probably actually done more for the environment than the vast number of activists. The people who work at treatment t facilities are unsung heroes in my opinion. I'm in favor of renewable energy sources. I think in practice a lot of people are. Unfortunately they sometimes don't always want them where they can see them. Look into the proposed wind facility off of southern Cape Cod about 30 years ago. The opponents included a certain family with a house in Hyannis. Would have spoiled the view. In the old if I were king vein we would pursuing a number of strategies. Off shore wind turbines in areas suitable for them. The Great Lakes for one. Wind turbines sited in farms and pasture land on the Great Plains. Increased solar usage. Not only small scale such as mounting panels on roof tops but also large facilities in either deserts of again grazing or farmland. Another thing I would like to see is the increased manufacturing of many items locally. If only to cut down on CO2 output from containerships. But one thing I would also pour a lot more money into is fusion research. Not just the Tokamaks like ITER and MITs design (I give MITs a better way forward than ITER) but the non Tokamak designs being worked on by startups. They might be longshots. But look at them as the equivilant of winning the lottery. If we could get the Proton-Boron 11 reaction cycle to work it offers the possibility of direct electricity production with no hear exchangers, team turbines etc. Another type of renewable I'm in favor of is Ocean Thermal. This uses the temperature gradient between warm surface water and colder water at a certain depth to produce power with a working fluid and a turbine generator set. Think of it as a heat pump for producing electricity. Couple them with a desalination facility built into a ships hull the size of a supertanker. We don't suffer from an energy shortage or an energy crisis as the term is normally used. We suffer from a shortage of will power. But there are also things to consider on the cost side of things. I'm not talking about economic costs although that will happen. There will be environmental costs to any type of system we convert to. Environmental costs with the production of the infrastructure and the procuring of the materials required. Environmental costs to animal populations. One example is wind turbines and birds. Mining for the Rare Earths required for the electronic control systems, batteries etc an 'all' electric energy sector would require. But even if we wean ourselves largely off of fossil fuels do not expect the petroleum industry to go away completely. The stuff is too damn useful for other things. I expect that the last area of carbon based fuel use on a large scale will be in the aviation field. I really don't see batteries getting to point that they can take over from jet fuel. I really don't see electric aircraft replacing jet aircraft. We may have to go back to props. And hydrogen as an aviation fuel. It's simply too bulky. And the handling issues.
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  5823. I could go for a winter without any snow. Not likely though. Hard on the garden though. A cold winter with hardly any snow means lost perennials.
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  5824. AOC = Always an Occasional Cortex
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  5825. Close on 20 years ago I went to a training seminar at a machine tool builder (Ingersoll Machine Tool) and they demonstrated some machining centers that were being built for a company or government agency in India. The slides on the machines were not controlled via ball screws as in most CNC machinery. The slides and slidesways were linear electric motors with the position encoders built int the machine bases. Fast, very very fast.
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  5826.  @TechnologistAtWork  Weightless does not mean massless plus there is inertia etc involved. Robotic printer tries to move beam around and robot changes orientation. In actuality it might be better to do the basic manufacturing on the lunar surface. Lifting components from Luna to say L1 can be done with chemical rockets burning LOX and Aluminum. Infact it can be used as a monopropellant where the Aluminum is suspended in the LOX as slurry.
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  5827. I'd find more enjoyable than Norm building shaker style furniture
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  5828. What's needed is a Just Stop Just Stop Oil counterprotests.
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  5829. In regards to the Doolittle Raid it's my opinion that the targets the raiders should have concentrated on were any refineries or petrochemical facilities.
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  5830. While Trump won both the Electoral and the popular vote I'm not sure it was a landslide. Looking at the percentages the country is still pretty equally divided.
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  5831. Sorry, but the ME-262 was not the worlds first je fighter. That honor belongs to the Heinkel 282. Powered by twin turbojet engines it was built in limited numbers and never really saw active service beyond possibly some point defense missions against allied bomber streams. The ME-262 was the first jet fighter to enter service and regular production though. The whole early period of jet engine and aircraft development is much more diverse involving more companies and individuals than generally understood. The great what if of WWII aviation isn't what if the Germans had embraced jet technology sooner. The great what if is if the British hadn't given Frank Whityle the cold shoulder in the late 20s and early 30s. But I'm not sure that airframe construction techniques and materials would have been up to the challenge. Remember people in the aviation industry were not idiots. The possibility of the gas turbine was generally recognized but the main line of thought was metallurgy wasn't up to the challenge in terms of low enough weight and heat tolerance. Most engineers looking at gas turbines at the time were looking into turbprops. Besides gas turbines were pretty well understood in that steam turbines are gas turbines that run on steam. If one considers a turbo supercharger (the proper term) an engine (it is performing useful work) that was taking the waste exhaust gases of a piston engine to turn a power turbine connected to a compressor turbine to feed compressed air back to the IC engin then the US built far more gas turbine engines than any other nation in WWII. In fact it probably produced more gas turbines than all other nations combined. The reason General Electric was picked to construct the first U built copies of the Whittle engine was because GE was the primary produced of turbo superchargers for the USAAC*. And today we have people building minature axial flow jet engines in their basements and garden sheds. Along with people building working jet engines out of the turbochargers from street vehicles. *in the US the engines, radios, armament etc was supplied by the government to the airframe manufacturers. The engines etc were built under contract to the US Army or Navy. Often the US government contracted the engine manufacturers to develop engines based on certain requirements. HP, altitude requirements etc. Often the engine manufacturers went off on their own but the development of a completely new engine could and sometimes did put a company under major financial strain.
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  5832. ​ @endurovro  Only the kleptocrats will find they can not control them.
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  5833. Most significant naval engagements? I'll go with Chesapeake Bay during the ARW or Lepanto
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  5834. Which makes more power? Look at the bore to stroke ratios of F 1 engines. But is more usable in the real world?
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  5835. There are people today who produce arrow heads etc by knapping glass. One of the more unusual stone artifacts found in the Americas was a flint knife found in the area of Jamestown. It was a surface find. So dating it is damn near impossible. When the stone it was made from was traced to its source. That source turned out to be a quarry in southwestern France associated with known Solutrean tools. Real? Fake? Planted to throw off paleo-archeologists? I have no idea. And I don't think anyone else does either. It begs the question though. Just what would an English settler be doing using a flint knife in the 17th century. And if the blade was snapped by a member of the tribes living along the James River just where did he get the stone from.
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  5836. I think they probably had in mind crooks using sawed offs. As if that's going to stop somebody intent on bodily harm.
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  5837. As a ciliviani of course never never thrown a I've grenade. Thrown a dummy practice one of the old pineapple style (50 years ago). But at the time I thought why doesn't the military come up with a grenade the size and weight of a major league ball. Something practically every possible recruit* or draftee would have had experience throwing in his youth. *Wouldn't first time enlistees be a cuirt and if you re-up you are a re-cruit?
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  5838. How long before they start trying to sell or give nuclear subs to "friendly" countries.
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  5839. Countries like Saufi Arabia and other MidEastern countries along with those in North Africa do have in abundance is Solar. The crux is in the distribution problem. In reality the world as a whole does not face an shortage of energy. What the world as a whole lacks is a shortage of will. In the future as renewables*, new generation fission reactors and hopefully fusion (🤞) will be able to provide abundant power. But even when the world as a whole has moved to the above mentioned sources the petrochemical industry is not going to go away. Hydrocarbons are simply too useful as a feedstock for any number of products. In the future as humanity begins to exploit the resources of the Solar System** I can even see a small market for coal in space. Any off planet facility be it mining or even habitats is going to need a source of carbon in its environment. Coal is about the densest form of carbon I can think of that is readily accessible. Plus coal and other hydrocarbons can be used as the basic feed stock for graphene once that becomes readily available. But if renewables can cover all of our needs way even invest in fission or fusion at all. Simply because there areas where renewables simply will not work. Not unless we are willing to build the power distribution systems to reach those areas. *Solar in all its forms. Primary as in Solar Voltaics or Thermal. Secondary as in wind and hydro. Along with other solar sources that may work as viable options when combined with other technologies. One is Ocean Thermal combined with desalination. Clean water is most likely the biggest problem facing humanity in the coming decades aside from climate change. But even without climate change thrown into the mix clean water is at the top of the list. We currently produce enough food. The problem there is distribution in some areas. These problems are primarily economic and political. Ocean Thermal facilities partnered with an integrated desalination facility could provide potable water to nearby populations either via pipeline or surface transport. Even if countries that formerly exported oil cannot readily be tied into the global electric grid they can find an export market in water. And yes I know about the potential problems with brine and its release into ecosystems.
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  5840.  @dave_h_8742  As if anyone could here the ping from 100 meters away or more.
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  5841. HOAs. Breeding grounds for little Hitlers
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  5842. Plus there are some engines running long and short runner lengths with servo or vacuum controllers to switch from long to short runners as the rpms climb. Of course with forced induction it's pretty much a non issue. On a normally aspirated engine if you could have intake runners that could telescope so that your runner length could be tuned to cover a broader rpm range. Just a wild idea.
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  5843. The EPA serves a purpose. Let that be clearly understood. I don't think anybody wants businesses or municipalities to be allowed to use the air we breathe and the water we drink to be used as public sewers. We need an enforcement agency to police these matters. However politicians and unelected federal beauracrats should not be allowed to abuse and over reach beyond set policies. If the Administration seeks to curb the emissions of greenhouse gasses then propose legislation and try to get Congress to pass it.
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  5844.  @thermalreboot  I find I do not always agree with Boyce but that's alright. His exposure of Evergreen and the absolute willingness of the Woke to trample anyone in their path had to be frightening. Especially sense the situation at Evergreen blew up over a false narrative.
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  5845. Taking place in Madison. Yah, I can believe it.
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  5846. As a side note I wonder if the USN ever had a capital ship named New York (the state) and a cruiser named New York (the city) at the same time.
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  5847.  @antisocialfb6005  The election rules vary by state. Some states when you get checked you just tell the poll workers who you are. No ID required. Some states require photo ID.
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  5848. There is a very similiar twin engined Russian aircraft that entered service.
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  5849.  @peter2uat  I couldn't remember if it was the YC-14 or 18. Still it seems a good choice for a type of airframe to fulfill the Carrier on Board Delivery role. I also happen to think the S-7Vikings should have been retained in the tanker role unless the airframes were completely wore out.
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  5850. Not exactly the brightest way to advertise them. There will always be idiots, but why encourage them in their idiocy.
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  5851. Sometimes l question whether the French as a nation have done much for Western Civilization since Tours. I'll concede that the Metric System is superior. But it was bound to happen eventually.
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  5852. Of course they use the word like arbitrary gibberish. Because everything out of their mouth is arbitrary gibberish.
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  5853. The cure for this sort of behavior is a head shot. Or two. Or three.
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  5854.  @kungfreddie  Rule number one in the World of Bullshit. First liar never wins.
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  5855. There's bronze. And then there's bronze. I suspect Aluminum Bronzes would have held up much better. Also think about the pumps used in waste water plants.
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  5856.  @MrKago1  The first four letters of Twitter says it all
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  5857. If one wants to complain about underdelivering in this arena l can think of a few other organizations and corporations that deserve to get skewered.
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  5858. I hope everyone knows Lego did not come up with the concept. They just executed it extremely well. In terms of sustained quality they are really excellent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddicraft
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  5859.  @Afrohare  Having raised children who had Legos I'm well aware of the joke about their being plastic landmines. Having stepped on a few in the dark, barefoot.
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  5860. It may actually be you haven't moved at all. The Left, whatever that means, have basically fallen off a cliff.
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  5861. I did see a RHD AMX in the States.
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  5862. AMC sold RHD cars to the Post Office in the late 60s. I wonder if they just sourced the RHD dash from Oz.
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  5863. If this organization is collecting any donations. Follow the money. Me thinks that 23 year old might be making some bank on this.
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  5864. Part of the problem of below replacement birth rates in the West in my opinion is the selfish individuals who choose not to have children because they might burden their lifestyle.
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  5865. One would think that the Navy would of learned something from the loss of USS Miwaukee, a St Louis class cruiser, only a few years before. The coast of California can be a cold and rocky place. Although the loss of the Milwaukee and the destroyers took place under different circumstances they had the same underlying fault. There's the the right way, the wrong way. And the NAVY way!
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  5866. The reason for the nose rings. So they can be lead by the nose from caue to cause.
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  5867. With the Democrats they have developed a severe case of not having enough balls to tell the screaming children in the room to shut the hell up and sit down. And just wait. The next month well have to be proud about is Pedophilia Month.
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  5868. Specialist hobby magazines seem to be hy oldin their own.
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  5869. I think I've been in a Starbucks twice. From necessity. Not choice. Lousy coffee.
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  5870. I'm willing to bet countries with gendered languages have very little of this problem.
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  5871. The first major natural disaster that was reported in close to real time was Krakatoa. Read (or listen) to Simon Winchester's book of the same name. Also he narrates his own books
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  5872.  @kordellswoffer1520  maybe not a civil war. But insurrection and sabotage of the facilities required to transfer any meaningful amount of water from the Great Lakes or the Mississippi Basin is highly likely.
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  5873. The problem with inclusion in historical fiction is that there will be individua who accept is historic fact.
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  5874. In the aftermath of Katrina I made the suggestion that the feds should convert or build temporary housing out of standard 40 foot shipping containers and store them in rail yards as double stack unit trains. This idea was mainly intended for disaster evacuation. Converting shipping containers into emergency shelters seems workable. If converting containers into urban housing is fine for hipsters why would it it be bad for the homeless.
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  5875. The question l have is how well did they shoot.
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  5876. Venison ain't free. Unless your out there with a spear you made yourself. A garden isn't free. Unless you plant heritage seeds (and you should) and save the seeds for the next crop you are spending something. Plus the work is an investment that you put in yourself.
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  5877. I doubt it. It's a matter of distance. Yes people have been using boats for a long time. There seems to evidence of boats* being used by both Neanderthals and Homo Erectus. I'm not positive that sea levels dropped low enough during Glavial Maximums for the Homo Erectus population that reached the island of Flores to have arrived on foot. If they did they were then cut of and then due to local environmental pressures slowly became the smallest known member of the genus Homo. That being Homo Florensis. The earliest arrivals in the Americas** probably arrived by boat hopping along the coasts of Eastern Siberia, Alaska and Beringia when sea levels dropped during a period of glaciation. A second possibility is from Western Africa around Senegal with the initial arrivals being fishermen driven across the Atlantic to Brazil's northern coast. The third option is people from Western Europe following seal populations along the edge of the pack ice. Both number 2 and 3 seem unlikely to lead to substantial populations in my opinion. The idea of people following the southern route route of Auxtralia, to Antarctica is very implausible in my opinion. This would involve crossing large stretches of ocean in the face of the worst seas on the planet. They aren't called the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties for the calm weather. Part of the reason for their being so bad is the Antarctic Current circling around the continent with no landmasses to deflect it. This is also why Antarctica iced over. Now for the wild cards in the deck. There is a site in Texas that turned up Carbon 14 dates of 26KYA. There is another site in Mexico that was dated around 120KYA iirc. Then there's the mammoth found in an excavation in the LA area that possibly shows evidence of butchering tools. My guess is the peopling of the Americas is a tale far more complicated and longer than we think. It may even include members of Homo Erectus who made it to the Americas only to die out. We don't even know just how many members of the Genus Homo actually existed. The Denisovians were unknown until recently. *Well watercraft of some sort. Part of the problem is organic materials simply don't last very long. **As noted in the video the name has baggage but we're stuck with it.
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  5878. If Bud Light's sales are declining has A-B ever given any thought as to it's being a lousy product. Now being tied to a lousy human being
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  5879. You want to see frustration. Just wait for when you run for re-election.
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  5880. Canoes are one thing. Especially dugouts made from one tree trunk. Some of which can be quite large. But what about vessels made from multiple pieces. Actual wooden ships. It's possible that very old ones could be found in the Black Sea below the depth were oxygen is basically not present. And then their are composite vessels. Watercraft made from wooden frames with skin coverings. And those made of reeds.
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  5881.  @appelflapdrol  Perhaps one of the oldest watercraft aside from a log could be the inflated stomach of a larger animal.
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  5882. Given the current recruiting issues this seems highly unlikely.
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  5883. The AMC Forum has a considerable amount of porting info on the 4.0. Also the AMXJ channel on YouTube has a series of phone interviews with a development engineer on the 4.0. The engineer was involved in a dragster build that set class records with a 4.0. Spinning 9k thru the the traps.
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  5884. One thing ionic about debates at prestigeous universities is that the audience. Be they students, professors or dons. Are incredibly privileged in that they have been given an incredible leg up on the rest of the society they live in. Whatever their means of entry to these institutions once they graduate they will have entry into the corridors of power. And opinion. But as individuals they have no more rights than the people in the lowest position in society. Also as individuals they have more responsibilities not to abuse any privilege they have.
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  5885. And they just elected a new mayor that will likely be worse than Lori Beetlejuice
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  5886. "We gave you a contract to make rifles. Where are they?" "Frist you need the tools to make the parts and then you need the tools to make the tools to check the parts." I really think Hall was a if not the true originator of mass produced items he was one of the first. One of the first mass produced items that I now of was the blocks used for handling lines on ships for the Royal Navy. The RN set-up a factory to mass produce block and tackle in Portsmouth iirc. But in terms of looking at manufacturing as a system to produce items industrially I think Maudsley in the UK gets the nod. One more item. The first standard screw sizes in the US originated in the Civil War. Machine tool manufacturers used to be notorious for using their own thread size and pitch combinations. Brown and Sharpe was one of them. It's called "buy our parts".
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  5887. Fairbanks-Morse (1) in the US who had purchased a license to build Junkers opposed diesels designed a 24 cylinder diamond layout 2 stroke diesel. It was under development for the US Navy during WWII but was abbandonded when the war ended. As usual see Old Machine Press. 1) F-M built diesels for diesel electric subs along with their own diesel locomotives.
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  5888. But aesthetics don't mean anything in its intended use. The only thing that matters is does it work and how many can we make. In that vein the Sten is is one of the most successful SMGs of the era.
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  5889.  @ianmedford4855  When you have been around as long as they have you had better be good at what you do. Can you imagine if they built cars instead of FIAT or Alfa Romeo.
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  5890.  @alangordon3283  Communist nations have built some very beautiful machines. Primarily in the aviation and marine worlds. Not because they sought an aesthetic but because of aer and hydrodynamics. As to the subject of this video. I'm surprised fashionable mafioso's never took up the Beretta just for looks.
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  5891. I know somebody with both a X-Bow and two GTs. Might be the only ones in the US
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  5892. Sally Struthers needs a new gig. I always found her pleading for starving children slightly funny. If she would just step away from the buffet* table *Big Ugly Fat F$%@÷=s Eating Together
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  5893. What was life in general like for the average sailor in the RN, USN etc during WWII. Aside from duty hours and combat stations.
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  5894. The sad thing this asshat will go to his grave continuing to complain about the time that guy wouldn't give him a refund.
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  5895. The 74 Matador 2 doors styling is the AMX/3 just larger. The problems with the Alliance all stem from the parts from Le Belle France. I actually see a few once in a while. Instead of Captain or Uncle Mike's hit Union Park Tap instead
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  5896.  @Rouge55  The Han Chinese are probably the most racist people on the Planet.
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  5897.  @LeCharles07  In a future war with France the Empire just might settle for taking Louisiana
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  5898. The point of the Universe is 47. And male nipples have a purpose. Erogenous Zones
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  5899. The one gentleman showing up wearing a tee shirt that says murder or kill a pedofhile was not smart.
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  5900. I can't remember where l saw it. But there was a video or print article that discussed hits on armor that did not pentetrate but that woud spall off chunks of armor that they called discus's.
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  5901. ​ @oml81mm  No, this was specific to navel guns
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  5902. PB and grape jelly is so lame. Has to be a good artisan bread, chunky* PB and a quality jam. My choice is a Chopped Cherry Jam from Door County. *Creamy PB is for kidsand wannabes
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  5903. In terms of Allied fighter aces. The leading US ace, Richard Bong, is credited with 40 victories. The actual number of air raft shot down are actually unknown. He would fly missions with no gun camera film and land either out of ammunition or nearly so. He had to be shooting at something. If their was no proof. He would not make any claims. Granted he was flying in the Southwest Pacific. Logistically pretty much a shoestring theater for the US
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  5904.  @michaelsommers2356  There had also been several war warnings during the previous month. The boy who cried wolf springs to mind. Besides when the fleet was in port at Pearl Harbor the defense was the responsibility of the Army. Not the Navy. What was the state of inter service communications on the morning of Dec 7th? If the Nsvy had taken the Ward firing on the midget sub more seriously it could have made a huge difference. The same goes for the the Army run radar installation on the North Shore picking up the inbound Japanese aircraft and their bring thought to be the B-17s coming in from California. A local radio station in Honolulu broadcast over night in order to provide a radio beacon for the incoming bombers. There were mistakes and there were also things that just broke the Japanese's way.
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  5905.  @michaelsommers2356  The only way I can think of any more drills helping is at the command level down to the message centers to promote interservice co-operation. One thing that never seems to get mentioned about Dec7th is just how many sailors or Army personnel had splitting headaches and quesy stomachs from carousing on Hotel Street in Honolulu that Saturday night.
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  5906. I've heard that the potato didn't really gain wide spread acceptance until the 30 Years War. Marauding troops couldn't burn your crop.
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  5907. I remember a line from Walter Lords Day of Infamy when one of the navy divers was asked if the California's torpedo damage could covered with a premade patch. His reply was "I don't think they make them that big"
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  5908. Should have used high grade SAE and ISO screws. 304 stainless is weak. A 12.1 carbon steel vs an A2-70 stainless is about 175% higher torque rating. Also the rated torque of comparable ISO vs SAE is higher. An ISO thread in comparision has a finer pitch for a higher percentage of the cross section in comparision to SAE of equivilant diameter.
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  5909. People Eating Tasty Animals
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  5910. Having worked in environments on land where we used derricks, bridge cranes and booms mounted on fork trucks I can well attest to loads swinging due to the sudden input of motion. In our repair shop we often would have to flip machine components 90 or 180°. I always taught our apprentices that it was best to have the component slung from one lifting device. And flip it with the second one. Also picking anything up with an eye bolt anything other than 0° was forbidden. I always had my personal eye bolts backed up by flanged nuts to provide a bearing surface and the threads were placed in tension. I never dropped anything. But somebody else did causing OSHA to come in.
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  5911.  @Drachinifel  Plus in the age of sail masts and spars being used for loading and unloading cargo, guns, ballast* and other items. *How much of the brick used in colonial structures in the Americas was shipped as ballast.
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  5912. I'm sure the residents of New Brunswick are a little miffed to find out that they are now US citizens.
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  5913. The Boomers of the 60s were hardly the first generation to call out government corruption and hypocrisy.
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  5914. During the 2020 Summer of Brotherhood it was Black owned businesses getying torched too. I think its a matter of if they have and i don't its going to burn.
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  5915. Its not just about mpg. It's also about operating cost. Lets say a 777 is burning 5 gallons/20 liters per mile. Let's say you have a 777 carrying 240 people. It would take 40 of these to have the same capacity. Just what is the fuel usage per passenger mile. Ask your self this. If a 6 passenger minivan is getting 25mpg on the highway with a full load of passengers and a Honda Fit with 2 or 1 person on board is getting 50 mpg which vehicle is getting more passenger miles per gallon. This may have a future in the business aircraft market. But I have heard that before. Anyone remember the Beech Starship. Much less the LearFan? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LearAvia_Lear_Fan&ved=2ahUKEwir58_Hv8LtAhUiAp0JHTmDD-oQmhMwDXoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw0dAMjsNg802qU_-FQYVRyA
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  5916.  @ghost2021a  Well how much land do we have taken up with parking lots. And expressway right of ways. And roof tops.
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  5917. Theres no reason that mail in ballots cannot be counted the same or the next day they arrive in the mail. Letting them pile up is not only an invitation to fraud or mishandling. And if they are those totals should be sealed until after polls close on election day. In fact I don't think any vote totals should be announced until the polls are closed. I feel early announcing of totals is just another form of voter suppression
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  5918. Take them for every last dime.
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  5919. That's because most men are taught not to pee on their hands
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  5920. Blond versus brunette? Redhead all the way 🤪
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  5921. Just how long as amber from the Baltic been traded South? Premium stone for tool making. How long and how far has that been traded. I dont think that 8 or 9 thousand years ago Baltic traders were loading up packs full of amber and hiking down to the Mediterranean to trade. But trade probably was taking place in stages. And it was not necessarily trade as we think of it. If the trade was a commerce based operation just how far can you go before it becomes unprofitable. Rather the trade in these pre-literate societies was likely based more on gifting and prestige.
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  5922. Also some states run their mayoral elections as non-partisan.
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  5923. One question. Just who the hell elected Ash as spokesperson for anybody? The BBC (British Broadbashing Communists)? The Guardian? And if she is so proud of her terrorist great aunt (and I assume of being Bengali) why is she living in the UK?
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  5924. Not how for every "protester" th here is one "journalist" shooting video with there phone. Plus all the "protesters" are graduates of the William Shatner School of Overacting. When they are arrested someone should check just how much of their clothing is made of synthetics.
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  5925. If we want beautiful and aesthetically pleasing structures we need to find a way that reduces the cost of ornamental features while making them part of the structure. The apartment building at the start of the video is from what l call the Blahaus School.
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  5926. The guy backing JSO owns a renewables company that gets subsidies from government. If renewables are sustainable let them prove it by operating without subsidies. All power generating systems come with costs. Both economic and environmental. Wind turbines require very large foundations to support the towers and turbine/generator assembly. This means concrete with the CO2 production for the cement. Solar has it own issues with production that needs to be accepted and dealt with. EVs and required battery production require mining for rare earth elements, refining of those ores and dealing with the tailings. And don't think we can just get rid of all vehicle production snd live in 15 minute cities. Building large wind or solar energy facitilities will require considerable amounts of new electrical distribution systems. So don't complain when yigh voltage lines needs to be built. Modular nuclear installed at former coal plants likely nake more sense. I for one noticed the vacuous stare on the part of ginger boy whenhe realized he was out of his depth.
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  5927. The artificial gravity on Star Trek operates Hand Wavium
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  5928. I'm not taking sides in this one way or another. But every time I hear the experts claim that we know how the Eqyptians preforned the work my first instinct is to say. OK, now reproduce it with the same results. With the same tools. Not just boring a shallow hole with a copper tube drill and sand. Not just cutting a shallow groove with a copper saw and sand. I'm not saying they had advanced technology. I do think that they were using techniques that we do not understand.
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  5929.  @WorldofAntiquity  Did I say anything about power tools. I do think that they were using techniques and tools that we haven't quite figured out yet. One thing I'm wondering is if they accidently stumbled on a bronze alloy sufficiently tough enough to be used to cut stone. Not all bronzes have tin as alloying element in the copper. In fact there is at least one bronze alloy* that can be used to cut steel. As to just what happened to the tools. I suspect that most if not all of them were resmelted and used for other purposes. As to the whole power tools or machinery thing that started with Flinders Petrei. As to reproducing the work found in the region with the tools known to have existed would go a long way towards shutting up the woo woo people. *Look into the history of a company named Ampco Metals. They specialize in copper alloys. Specifically aluminum bronzes. Founded in Milwaukee in the early 1900s the first product they brought to market was an copper alloy that could be used to machine steel and outperformed the high carbon steel cutting tools of the time.
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  5930. And after pretty soon after they tax the wealthiest out of existence they'll come after the next wealthiest. Like the old song goes "tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no rich no more". Of course the end result is everybody's poor. If the politicians really want to make sure everybody pays their fair share, close the loop holes and institute either a straight flat tax or a graduated one.
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  5931. Well I suppose the SAS and Special Boat Service will have to hand in their boot black used during night operations.
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  5932. I've never had problem at Chucky's. But then I've never been in one. Maybe they should take the kids to a Drag Queen show. I bet they kids get noticed then.
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  5933. If possible shen buying new lifters purchase them from the dealer in they have NOS lifters available. Any NOS lifters would likely be from when the manufacturer was still using them in production engines. Lifters made for aftermarket suppliers by th ge low bidder. Who knows just what you're going to get.
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  5934. Democrat Socialist tells you everyyhing you need to know.
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  5935. Could the center prop on say the German ships have been ducted. This might increase performance along with adding strength. OnUS cruisers. The bow weakness also bit the Belgrano
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  5936. The 917 CanAm car is most likely the only race car that scared Mark Donahue. I've heard stories of him coming in from test laps literally shaking in the car. It was so dominant it never needed to be run flat out in races The most successful racing engines of all time if one goes by percentage of wins is likely the Penske/Ilmor/Mercedes which ran once at Indy and buried the field. Built to take advantage of a quirk in the rules for a pushrod V-8 the pushrod are incredibly short
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  5937.  @wraithcadmus  Try the 70s unasheded rewrite by Pourmelle and Niven, Inferno. The sins get updated.
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