Rudolph the Red would love The Peoples' Soviet of Washington.
Lenin statue in front of a Taco Del Mar, Fremont District, Seattle.
Posted on 11/04/2007 11:30:22 AM PST by Fennie
Nazi UFO Electromagnetic Propulsion & Antigravity Technology
The old ‘face just keeps getting better with age, as you so well know, Santy. ;o]
I’m puzzled about whom you’re calling “hefty.” But we’ll just walk away from that ...
Der Prinz turned up with a new HDTV, courtesy of OldTax-lady’s estate tax avoidance. But how will it work with slimy baby fingerprints all over it?
Pat got some early birthday presents - a 32” trampoline and a light saber. James got a light saber, too, since it’s no fun if you can’t fight anyone.
LOL!
I get catz hair and feathers on my TV screen...
My secretary should be aware that the antecedent for that word was the shout. A hefty shout.
But now that you mention it, "OldTax-lady’s estate tax avoidance" appears to have put you into "fat city."
By the way, find a method of securing the TV to the wall, at an elevation to discourage finaglerprints.
I have trouble visualizing a “hefty shout,” so I was picturing a hefty person shouting.
It’s more in the lung capacity, and the diaphragm strength.
I guess I meant something more in the line of a robust verbal greeting.
I suppose “robust” and “hefty” mean pretty much the same thing, eve if we don’t usually treat them as interchangeable.
Speaking of “hefty,” Wednesday just sauntered by, looking rotund. I think she’s waiting for the children to go to bed before she appears for the evening.
I can imagine when she reappears, she will be doing her best to look emaciated.
Wednesday’s best effort at “emaciated” is still “chunky.” I thought we’d lost Shannon, but she just came out from behind the router. I guess it’s time to feed them!
How fortunate that it was "rain," and not mist, drip, drizzle, downpour, gusher or one of the 43-odd other degrees of "rain" that we have here in Seattle.
("Rain" is defined as the rate of precipitation at which the average Seattleite begins to accelerate his/her walking pace to/from the car to the supermarket. A pace 25% faster indicates "heavy rain.")
Rudolph the Red knows better than to live in a drippy place like Seattle.
(Kidding!)
Sounds likes shades of Eskimo’s descriptions of snow... Plagiarism? ;-)
I have yet to compile a "definitive" list.
I just wear a raincoat and bring an umbrella when it gets like that.
Rudolph the Red would love The Peoples' Soviet of Washington.
Lenin statue in front of a Taco Del Mar, Fremont District, Seattle.
Rain parka/shell standard issue in Seattle (I've seen lawyers wear them over their suits).
Umbrellas flag you as a tourist.
Hey, snow level is supposed to be down to 500 feet tonight. Goody, I’m at 600 feet! Bring it on!
TC, I've found that bathroom wipes work really well for wiping off flat screens. Not Clorox wipes--the other kind. Cottonelle. That tip is free of charge. If you want to know my secret to curly hair, or you're interested in THE BEST moisturizer out there (and you wouldn't believe the price!)...well, that'll cost ya.
I'm famished, fridge-raidin' time!
They call it "Launch to Space with an Electromagnetic Railgun". I call it a nice first step.
In the document, concern is expressed about safety downrange, noise, durability of the "launch tube", and other matters.
I can help them out. As you may recall, I want to build such a facility in Antarctica. No problems downrange, no complaints about noise. Plenty of room to spread out the launch facility.
We could probably take advantage of the current equivalent of Pikrete, or Pykrete. Maybe reinforced with carbon fiber and other essentials. This eminently practical construction material could be used not only for portions of the orbital vessel, but also for the launch tube as well.
Imagine a four-pole metal/plasma induction railgun, supplemented with magnetic control coils to help keep the craft centered and steady.
Build the launch tube inside an appropriately positioned stable glacier, with the walls strengthened with our formulated Pykrete, and the control rails embedded in the cylindrical walls. Presto! One freight train launched into orbit!
Each launch would probably use up about a million dollars worth of electricity, so I'm not sure how feasible my plan to irrigate the deserts with suborbital snowball tossing would work. The water might be a little pricey.
Still, it is a way to at least utilize the facility, as opposed to amortizing it. And it does allow one to "ramp up" the engineering on the way to being able to launch massive amounts of mass into orbit for a fraction of the current cost (pun unavoidable).
New(er) to me, anyway. If memory serves, you haven't been posting too much to the Undead Thread.
"Hopefully, it's something that will make me feel young, however fleetingly."
But of course! In our current orbit, far out in the Asteroid Belt, where it takes four years to orbit the Sun, we use a Mars normal gravity load of only .34 gees.
Weighing about a third of your Earth weight not only puts some spring into your step, it also lifts sagging skin and muscles. Who wouldn't feel younger?
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