Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. May 12 - 13, 2004

5-12-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear and Billie

[JustAmy]

Welcome To....


'Amy's Place' welcomes all poets
and those who enjoy poetry. 'Amy's Place' is more than just about poetry.
Come in, relax, and share with fellow FReepers
your thoughts about any of the things on the *Menu*.

Enjoy! :)












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Many thanks for stopping by. : )

[JustAmy]

"Do you think that's too much coffee in one sitting?"

Nahhhh ..... just weaken the coffee with the other stuff. : )

[Darksheare]

LOL!
Beware, I'm told that weirdness is contagious.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

NnB said he currently has the pot to himself...is that why, Bob?

[JustAmy]

Ready for another cup? Which would you like to try this time? ; )

[JustAmy]

Have you tired one of each?

I'm staying with the Nutty Irish Coffee for awhile. ; )

[Darksheare]

LOL!
Uh oh..

[JustAmy]

"I can't resist a Starbucks latte "

There aren't any Starbucks within 20 miles so I don't stop by one often. I do buy the bottled Starbucks coffee and refrigerate it. Those are pretty good and a real pick me up!!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Those are pretty good and a real pick me up!!

Yeah, like you lay around a lot. Oh, I guess that's the point, you never lay around, so you need help to get your chin off the ground. Okay.

[NicknamedBob]

"...radiates in IR due to it's design characteristics..."

Any heat engine vehicle would tend to radiate in IR. Military observation craft could be made to be very small, and operate at very low energy signatures. They should also be relatively inexpensive, but require ground support.

I can even envision a very large vehicle designed to be invisible to radar and optical bandwidths, but I can't see much practical use for it, given what we have already.

Anybody wanna lay odds that there isn't a U2 variant that Francis Gary Powers wouldn't even recognize as related to his craft? It has been a lot of years, and if the Blackbird came out of the Skunk Works so long ago, what do you think they might have up their sleeves today?

[NicknamedBob]

Just had a cup, Amy, and chased it with a Snapple. I'm good for now, (but I'm thinking about getting a little weird just to make Darks feel at home.)

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

; )

[Darksheare]

Heck, it's a given they have stuff we don't know about.
(There was a design a coupple years ago for a massive ultra-high altitude wedge shaped zepplin. The idea was to have it fly at night and be basically a ghost in the sky invisible to the eye.)
No, don't know what purpose such would serve.
But, they developed the YF-12 interceptor somewhat out in the open and teh Air Force didn't want it.
So it became a spyplane.
*chuckle*
And from it sprang the much larger SR-71.
Loved both planes, they looked wicked.
(The missiles the YF-12 was suppsoed to carry eventually gave birth to the Phoenix missile according to some theorists I've read.)

[JustAmy]

Graphic by Billie

Water Bird

I built her from a crate of parts,
That filled up my garage.
Piles of tubes with nuts, and bolts,
Would be the fuselage.
Another pile of tubes and wire,
With fabric made the wings.
The engine and propeller on,
Would make this baby sing.
A hull made out of fiberglass,
Made sure she floated high.
On concrete she could use her wheels,
In seconds she could fly.
She wasn't fast like other birds,
But she was such a blast.
I miss my little water bird,
She was my first, not last.

Conspiracy Guy 5/10/2004
aka DIF © 2003 - 2004

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the precious poem!

[spatzie]

Just a quick hello to everyone to tell you all that archy is recuperating nicely, and will be away from FR for a little while. During that time, you can get any URGENT messages to him via hookman or spatzie. Thanks!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Sounds like you had as much fun building it as flying it! Good match with the graphic! If ya fly that low, I might be okay with it...might be.

[JustAmy]

Browsing the thread, I see that you are back and everything is normal ..... well as normal as it can be at this time. :)

Hope you are having a fun Wednesday.

[Darksheare]

LOL!
"It is NORMAL!! NORMAL I tell you!"
*chuckle8
Don't ask, I don't know why that popped into my head.

[NicknamedBob]

"...given they have stuff we don't know about..."

In order to deduce what they have, it is only necessary to think about what they need.

They have excellent, virtually real-time satellite observation capability, which is limited by cloud cover, and extreme height.

Enter lower-level observations, overflights and remotely operated vehicles to cover the mid-range.

I would suspect some level of capability at the microscopic level, items too small to be considered, (A.K.A. "fly on the wall" technology.) How does a department store security scanner work? Similar technology could be adapted to allow miniature sensors to be scattered over a terrain, interrogated by an RF sweep, and respond with RF or optical data. A computer could then sift the significant data for info about moving vehicles, voices, or even chemical signatures. Bees find flowers, don't they? Such micro-devices could even be designed to waft into the terrain from orbit, like dust particles.

Should I go on?

[JustAmy]

I like Kahlua in coffee. I don't use very much and you don't need anything else in it ... no cream or sugar. Forget the whipped cream. But then I drink my coffee black with just a small amount of artificial sweetener.