Darthboco
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Uuuuhhhh...
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Post by Darthboco on Jun 29, 2006 14:14:46 GMT
Not to mention the lack of stars and the plus thingies on the picture showing up behind objects in the picture.
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Rheneas
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Looks familiar, doesn't it?
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Post by Rheneas on Jun 29, 2006 23:21:47 GMT
The big hill on the left seems to have many skeletal part-looking things, but I see nothing resembling a skull... EDIT: Never mind, I see it now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2006 1:45:38 GMT
While were on the subject of Apollo, here's something odd in that programs history. Apollo 12, the second moon landing mission was launched in the middle of a thunderstorm, now I'm very well aware of the power of the Saturn V, but still someone should have said stop to the countdown when the weather got bad. That way they wouldn't have gotten hit by lightning and have knocked out the power systems nearly aborting the whole mission.
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Post by Jarrah White on Jul 1, 2006 12:02:42 GMT
Perhaps they deliberately launched the mission during a thunderstorm to grip the public's attention, after all Apollo was starting to loose its effect of drawing public attention away from Vietnam. Of course it obviously didn't give the public the cliffhanger they would have wanted: the viewers of the Apollo 12 landing complained because repeats of I Love Lucy were cancelled to bring the television transmissions.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jul 5, 2006 11:37:47 GMT
Here's one. According to the physicist J. W. Bell, if you break a molecule up, something weird happens. If you change the orbit of the electrons in one half of the molecule, those in the other half will respond in the same way at the same time, no matter how far apart the two halves are. This is basically one of the most amazing things I have ever heard. It certainly sounds like something that could have useful applications for communication purposes.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2006 20:20:12 GMT
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jul 6, 2006 10:17:47 GMT
I love the comment. "This locomotive would be suitable for moving the Earth's axis, or similar heavy freight duties."
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Post by Jarrah White on Jul 6, 2006 11:17:05 GMT
I think moving the Earth's axis with a locomotive, regardless of its performance, would be a feat more difficult than going to the moon.
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Post by Jim on Jul 6, 2006 16:33:10 GMT
Interesting website, spacewizard Those drawings remind me of the ones I saw in a railway magazine a few years ago. They were in a lengthy article about the 'Breitspurbahn' (sp?). It was old Herr Schickelgruber's plan for a trans-continental broad-gauge railway (3 meters!!!), once he took care of the Russians. A few of the wagons were designed to haul warships! Needless to say... Pretty scary stuff I'll see if I can find the article and scan a few pages. Now to guess which storage box contains the magazine...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2006 16:53:34 GMT
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Post by duncanfan on Jul 6, 2006 21:09:13 GMT
Interesting website, spacewizard Those drawings remind me of the ones I saw in a railway magazine a few years ago. They were in a lengthy article about the 'Breitspurbahn' (sp?). It was old Herr Schickelgruber's plan for a trans-continent broad-gauge railway (3 meters!!!), once he took care of the Russians. A few of the wagons were designed to haul warships! Needless to say... Pretty scary stuff I'll see if I can find the article and scan a few pages. Now to guess which storage box contains the magazine... I've heard about that once before- don't recall where, but there is a reference to it in the book 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris. It's an alternate history of postwar Europe where Germany was never defeated, and as a result the giant super-railway (gauge of almost 10ft!) Hitler planned was completed. When I read the book, it struck me as rather well researched. Obviously not the focus of the novel, however. I love the comment. "This locomotive would be suitable for moving the Earth's axis, or similar heavy freight duties." Beat me to it!
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Post by Jim on Jul 7, 2006 6:06:40 GMT
Interesting website, spacewizard Those drawings remind me of the ones I saw in a railway magazine a few years ago. They were in a lengthy article about the 'Breitspurbahn' (sp?). It was old Herr Schickelgruber's plan for a trans-continent broad-gauge railway (3 meters!!!), once he took care of the Russians. A few of the wagons were designed to haul warships! Needless to say... Pretty scary stuff I'll see if I can find the article and scan a few pages. Now to guess which storage box contains the magazine... I've heard about that once before- don't recall where, but there is a reference to it in the book 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris. It's an alternate history of postwar Europe where Germany was never defeated, and as a result the giant super-railway (gauge of almost 10ft!) Hitler planned was completed. When I read the book, it struck me as rather well researched. Obviously not the focus of the novel, however. I enjoyed reading that book, but overlooked the reference to the super-railway - engrossed as I was to the storyline. The bit about Speer's 1000' dome creating its own weather also struck me as being well-researched. Recommended reading if you like alternate history combined with a good mystery and moralistic tale, but I digress... I found the magazine in question ( packrat that I am) - It's in the August, 1984 issue of Trains. Here are a few pics from it... Artist's Impression of BreitspurbahnA few Engine TypesA few Rolling Stock and Passenger TypesOnly a megalomaniac could of conceived of such things, while simultaneously being the author of so many horrors in Europe. As I said before - Scary.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jul 7, 2006 21:31:28 GMT
It sounds like it would be incredibly difficult and expensive to build. It's hard enough building a regular railway, let alone engineering for rolling stock that size.
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Post by Jarrah White on Jul 9, 2006 6:35:25 GMT
Stop wavin' the flag! We haven't got wind on the f***in' moon!
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Post by Jarrah White on Jul 21, 2006 8:11:19 GMT
Here's another space oddity, pun intended. Thirty-six years on, and rather than celebrating the first steps NASA decides to focus on the Viking missions. www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Viking_front/Maybe I'm just being biased but one would think man venturing to another planet would hold more historical significance than an unmanned Mars landing.
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SRapi
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Pronounced: Ess-Are-Ay-Pie.
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Post by SRapi on Aug 24, 2006 22:51:20 GMT
You have cones and rods in your eyes. I know that one of them detects light, and the other one detects color. That means that if there is no light, what you see in the dark is black and white. I've never noticed this, but they said so on the Blue Man Group.
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Post by stepneydude on Oct 14, 2006 14:56:43 GMT
I recently met a little dead girl. Time was about 1am, in my bedroom. Said girl was 10 years old, she died in the late 19th century. I wasn't all that scared (I do scare easily, but I don't fall into the stereotype that I have to freak out whenever I see a ghost. I just began talking to her normally.) and we talked about each other, mostly when she died. I didn't really ask any silly questions like "if I walk through you, does that mean we've done it" because it just wasn't appropriate. Eventually we began talking about my series I've been working on (Captain Punjab and Jimbob already know of this.). What is scaring me the most is that I can't remember how the topic of my series came up, and how someone from the late 1800s knew so much about comedy - I mean, I know comedy was around then, but it just seemed so weird. Plus, this little girl was dead, so comedy was hardly going to come into it now, was it? She smiled occasionally but she never laughed. She was actually quite cute. I went to sleep with several ideas for my series thanks to that little girl. Should I get somewhere with these ideas I shall credit her. ;D But what interests me is that I'm starting to think this was all a dream. The whole thing seemed kinda surreal and impossible, but at the same time, it felt so real - you seriously can tell the difference between dreams and reality, even someone as messed up as me can do that. I still swear to myself (naughty me, I should wash my mouth out with soap) that I really did see a ghost girl, but at the same time, I'm also convinced it was a dream. Something like this is open to interpretation. Perhaps I'm talking to dead girls because my love life is so terrible I have no other option, or I'm under so much stress (I have been quite stressed recently) I'm seeing ghosts. Or perhaps this is the girl's fault? She could have some signifigance to the house (could've been built on her grave) or something to do with me personally. Dream or no dream, I've got great ideas for a series thanks to this little deceased lady.
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Mafew
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Post by Mafew on Oct 14, 2006 18:28:05 GMT
We had this on our bathroom ceiling a while ago. Remind me never to use your bathroom...I've grown stuff like that in jars...
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Post by stepneydude on Oct 14, 2006 19:23:22 GMT
What's even scarier is it looks like he has Jesus on his T-shirt.
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Rheneas
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Looks familiar, doesn't it?
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Post by Rheneas on Oct 14, 2006 19:44:21 GMT
Interesting story, Stepneydude[tte]. I wonder if you will see her again (assuming this actually happened.)
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