gwalchmai Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 6 hours ago, janice6 said: Too much heat. Enough to melt lead on Venus. Great! We can cast boolits! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 7 hours ago, Eric said: What will melt on Uranus? According to my wife, I could, at times, burn up the atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 (edited) Impressive. Pointless, but impressive. Take all that engineering and money, and put it to good use. An impermeable boarder wall. New nuclear power plants. Better roads. More oil pipe-lines. Edited February 19, 2021 by M&P15T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valmet Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 (edited) There’s gotta be a Coke or Budweiser can laying around up there somewhere... Edited February 19, 2021 by Valmet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 6 hours ago, railfancwb said: Outfit government security and law enforcement with electric powered vehicles ONLY and see how things work out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 6 hours ago, railfancwb said: Now can you understand the reason for forcing electric cars on the world? Outfit government security and law enforcement with electric powered vehicles ONLY and see how things work out. Tell John Kerry that he can't fly anywhere that cannot be reached by an electric aircraft. Greta will approve. Then, we invest in companies that make really, really long extension cords. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gwalchmai Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Valmet said: There’s gotta be a Coke or Budweiser can laying around up there somewhere... In the WalMart parking lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Incredible engineering feat from a great nation. if your looking for something to bitch about, you’ll find it . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT4494 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Just remember..... Great "back lot" shots from NASA... Just like the Apollo thingy in 1968. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 So, the manned landing on the Moon in July of 1969 must be real, then? The back lot was used a year earlier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 that's some First Class Math right there. Nerds! its pretty cool they are more accurate with a Rocket on a Moving target with a Slide rule then any of us are with a rifle on Earth if its Stationary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 You don’t call that generation of men “coward and liar” . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 I used to think Buzz was pretty cool, but watching a video of him signing a stack of photos that he'll try to sell for 500-700 bucks each was a bit off-putting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 On 2/19/2021 at 2:55 PM, Historian said: Many many years ago on a visit to NYC I noticed that at least some LEO were riding Vespa motor scooters - two cycle engines and manual shift transmission at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 On 2/19/2021 at 2:06 PM, M&P15T said: Impressive. Pointless, but impressive. Take all that engineering and money, and put it to good use. An impermeable boarder wall. New nuclear power plants. Better roads. More oil pipe-lines. Wander through intensive care at a modern hospital and notice all the remote monitoring equipment - most developed as byproducts of the space program. Consider GoogleEarth - another offshoot of the space program. Not a single dollar of the space program was spent off world. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Somewhere among the back and forth y'all reminded of an airplane. A "Luscombe" which had a wind powered generator below the cockpit. Perhaps if electric cars were so equipped, I'd opt for separate batteries, when one was low on juice, use the other to either run on or recharge the other. Of course I'm not suggesting a perpetual motion machine but considering the wind powered generator could be allowed to generate when the car was parked............I'm digging a ditch here, and following the advice to stop digging, I'll wish y'all a good night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 On 2/19/2021 at 2:44 PM, Valmet said: There’s gotta be a Coke or Budweiser can laying around up there somewhere... Thought there were strange eyes staring at me from under the deck a few nights ago. Took a zoom photo to see what it was. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 1 hour ago, railfancwb said: Many many years ago on a visit to NYC I noticed that at least some LEO were riding Vespa motor scooters - two cycle engines and manual shift transmission at that time. All jokes aside...they might make sense in the right place. I have a university in my city...and bicycles are a tremendous way to patrol (and stay fit)...and a Vespa would likely do quiet nicely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 9 minutes ago, Historian said: All jokes aside...they might make sense in the right place. I have a university in my city...and bicycles are a tremendous way to patrol (and stay fit)...and a Vespa would likely do quiet nicely. Yes, bumper to bumper near stalled traffic. Vespas much more maneuverable than big Harleys. Also saw horses in use by police while there. Same advantages. Bicycles also have a place as you say. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 3 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Yes, bumper to bumper near stalled traffic. Vespas much more maneuverable than big Harleys. Also saw horses in use by police while there. Same advantages. Bicycles also have a place as you say. We used horse of a while. They were fantastic for crowd control and public perspective. Everyone loved the horses. For the most part. Some people are stupid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Historian said: We used horse of a while. They were fantastic for crowd control and public perspective. Everyone loved the horses. For the most part. Some people are stupid. I would not recommend horses around BLM and Antifa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 1 minute ago, railfancwb said: I would not recommend horses around BLM and Antifa. We might do very well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 On 2/19/2021 at 2:06 PM, M&P15T said: Impressive. Pointless, but impressive. Take all that engineering and money, and put it to good use. An impermeable boarder wall. New nuclear power plants. Better roads. More oil pipe-lines. I we don't do that, this is the bail out plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 NASA's first-ever Mars helicopter is preparing to take to the Martian skies following Thursday's successful Perseverance rover landing in the planet's Jezero Crater Ingenuity is currently attached to the rover's belly and its mission is also historic: the 4-pound helicopter will attempt the first powered-controlled flight on another planet https://www.foxnews.com/science/mars-how-will-nasas-perseverance-rover-engineers-pilot-first-helicopter . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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