Posted on 12/23/2006 11:31:23 AM PST by BibleBabe1
Thanks for typing all the names Bob!
You just saved me 5 mins!
In case you can't tell, I'm a slow typer.
How's everyone?
DC is having dinner.
The rest of us are bored by the TV fare. (Hollywood should be beating down our doors, but they are even more clueless than the dust bunnies.)
'Face, go to the top of this page and click on "bookmark" and then OK. This will put a link to this thread on your profile links page, and you will never be more than 3 clicks away--then you can always quickly find the Castle, regardless of where it has traveled.
I've heard that "Snakes on a plane" is pretty funny.
We may rent that tomorrow.
I love to laugh.
;-)
Do you do that?
I usually stick in a keyword like "fan", or bookmark the thread in my computers bookmarks, under "Free Republic".
How are you tonight?
:-)
TV? What's that?
There's your problem. No breezes, no sprung hinges.
That's a quick way to do it.
Another is to copy and paste the URL of the thread onto your profile page--Then it's just 2 clicks away, but it is a little more involved.
I'm fine--you?
Actually, since we're on a space vehicle, no breezes could mean asphyxiation.
Rather than considering it a problem, I think of it as a blessing. As reflected solar energy warms each Habitat, its expanding air is gated through one way airshafts to a neighboring habitat, (through the Thrust Ring).
By having three habitats at eight hour day separations, a permanent cycle is established which saves having to move the air electrically.
Note that the Flying Castle habitat is a sink for water vapor, offering condensation surfaces on the canopy glass. That's why we have 'rain' at four O'clock in the morning almost every day.
Sorry rottndog, I was working on 'this'
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014722.php
January 06, 2007
"Canadian politician receives death threats for being 'anti-Muslim'"
I'm good, thanks.
Really enjoying the weather!
What do you like to be called?
R?
Rotten? (hee,hee)
Dog?
Hey you?
RD?
Moving fluid through thermal expansion...in the Navy we called that Thermal Driving Head--as long as the heat source is BELOW the heat sink, the fluid will flow.
"dog" works, as well as just "rottn". Allthough "Master" or "Lord" have always appealed to me.
I would tell you what they called me on the boat, but that would probably get me banned.
Weather was 70 degrees and not a cloud in the sky here today.
OK Lord Dog.
You may call me Lady Fanfan.
;-)
Okay. Air may be fluid, but what is actually happening is thermal expansion.
When the sunlight, or artificial sunlight, warms the air, it expands a lot. It tends to push at the doors and windows, so we give it a path to an area where the air is cooler and denser.
Then that space heats up, and the air moves on to the next Habitat. Finally the cycle is completed by the first space receiving the warmed air of the Habitat to its other side.
It's like a classic cylinder expansion problem, or something, but what it gives us is air movement, simply because we follow a daily heating and cooling cycle, and because we have three lobes to give it rotation.
NASA could take advantage of this technique when they build a Lunar base at the Moon's South or North Pole. By mounting a mirror on a tower, they could gradually heat and illuminate one of three locations and build the air rotation.
It would also impose a twenty-four hour schedule on the Moon's 28 day "day." I think it's a good thing.
*snicker*
I like it.
I've considered the "I have opera and I'm not afraid to use it" approach a few times....
The Castle has facilities for stage productions, or even broadcast shows on our own internal network.
Habitat A has a few opera-style houses, as well as a small orchestra, and Habitat C has the Kabuki dancers. Of course, you have to accept their schedule.
What can I say? It's a small world. And bowling never worked out.
LOL! I can kind of imagine why...
Our entertainments have to be recyclable. Among other things, bowling isn't.
Badminton works, though. Habitat B is fierce for ping-pong.
Mostly I just read, and watch the weather. (Imperial Weatherman joke.)
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