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05-21-2013,
11:49 PM
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OT: Terrible storm strikes Oklahoma
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I was close to the Ft Worth tornado of 2000, which was classified as F3. After doing extensive damage in downtown Ft Worth the tornado leapfrogged...
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05-21-2013,
11:29 PM
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You guys might enjoy this steam video of an old operating business making boxes
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How far would you have to drive, from your place in Oregon, to the Phillips Brothers Mill?
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05-19-2013,
10:54 AM
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OK. You won the $600M Powerball. Now what?
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You could buy Bremerton, with Port Orchard thrown in.
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05-17-2013,
10:54 PM
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You guys might enjoy this steam video of an old operating business making boxes
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The box factory is in California, about fifteen miles east of Redding.
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05-17-2013,
09:53 PM
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You guys might enjoy this steam video of an old operating business making boxes
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The lighting is superb, very nicely filmed. I like the boxes for sets of Louis L'Amour novels. His stories are the best, always using real...
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05-15-2013,
06:50 AM
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OT: NOOOOOOOoooooo!!!! (Say it isn't so!)
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I wonder if there will ever by that much ram, adding together all the computers on Terra.
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05-07-2013,
11:55 PM
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Chemical question for EVAN the rocket scientist
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They may have been at the Michoud plant. I worked in the Barronne Bldg in downtown New Orleans in the heat transfer group. Some of the engineers I...
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05-07-2013,
08:10 PM
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Chemical question for EVAN the rocket scientist
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I am more than happy to let Evan answer this one. I did work on Saturn V, but there was no water in the RP-1 tanks that I know of. Hmm, would it...
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05-07-2013,
02:50 PM
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OT;Replacement dog/
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I should retract my remark about the "crazy" Finns -- I heard this once or twice in the Helsinki, the sole surviving tavern in Finntown when I lived...
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05-06-2013,
11:50 PM
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OT;Replacement dog/
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I see they were originally bred in Finland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_Bear_Dog. In 1978 I lived in the Finntown neighborhood of Butte,...
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05-03-2013,
11:28 AM
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A little OT - a science quiz
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Don't you see any climate change on Mercer Island? I can remember when new houses on the island plateau were selling for $5,000. I wonder if those...
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05-02-2013,
05:52 PM
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A little OT - a science quiz
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I was unaware that galaxies "kick up dust," or that they "collide."
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05-01-2013,
07:24 AM
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sounds like a recipe for ignorance. I guess that is not the same entropy which engineers know about.
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05-01-2013,
12:01 AM
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The entropy s used by mechanical engineers is a thermodynamic state variable, defined differentially as ds = dQ/T (that's easier to write than the...
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04-30-2013,
11:18 PM
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I will ask the window guy when he comes to fix this:
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04-30-2013,
11:38 AM
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George, If I ever doubted the benefits of being a renter, your experience is a reminder.
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04-29-2013,
08:21 PM
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Okay. I was hoping to save the absentee landlord some money, but I'll tell him of your experience.
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04-29-2013,
07:36 PM
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It's the rigid pane, not the sliding pane next to it. The condo HOA had a lawsuit for this problem, and many windows were replaced two years ago,...
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04-29-2013,
07:02 PM
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defogging a double-paned window
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A double-paned window measuring 4'x3' has sprung a leak, allowing whatever dry gas which was in there to escape. Now it fogs up, even in this dry...
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04-29-2013,
06:39 PM
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A little OT - a science quiz
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Okay, that's clear., and I am sorry. You did finish the sentence, and I lopped it off!
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04-29-2013,
05:02 PM
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A little OT - a science quiz
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If by "see" you mean "measure," how do we measure anything to that sort of accuracy?
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04-29-2013,
01:06 AM
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OT: I won my appeal
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It is in-stock at Amazon...
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04-28-2013,
11:03 PM
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OT: I won my appeal
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I can't imagine any better way to celebrate your "windfall." My understanding (I hope I'm wrong!) is that the Real 3D W3 doesn't produce two...
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04-28-2013,
08:18 AM
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OT: I won my appeal
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This is the best news on the forum in a long time. I'm wondering if you are also a Canadian citizen, or if not, if that might have delayed your...
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04-27-2013,
06:12 PM
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A little OT - a science quiz
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Those three added together are approximately equivalent to one Feynman. I am a retired mechanical engineer, and I can think of at least four I...
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04-27-2013,
02:52 PM
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Not bad. Are you a Cal Tech graduate, old enough to have attended the Feynman lectures?
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04-27-2013,
10:22 AM
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That was more fun. I missed three of the fifty: (a) major element in earth's crust, (b) nucleotide base of DNA, and (c) meaning of "nimbus."
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04-26-2013,
12:27 PM
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I bought the original iPad, in September 2010. It served me well for two years, but when the iPad Mini came out i decided to get it, for its...
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04-25-2013,
04:17 PM
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St Elmo's Fire in the shop? This ought to be good for something....
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04-23-2013,
04:17 PM
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John, That's just what you need for your bach (or your crib, now that you have moved to the South Island). I remember spending a night in Okarito...
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