Posted on 03/15/2013 10:16:41 AM PDT by Cajun Jihad
Edited on 03/15/2013 10:18:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Greetings fellow patriots! Houston we have a problem! A big one. I'm located in South Louisina 337. On February 28 a white SUV pulled up to the house with red DHS lettering with Texas plates. (Texas WTH i thought y'all were with us) I saw them pull in the drive an met them outside at their truck 2 agents late 40s-50s. They say Hi we are here doing a survey. One agent pulls out 3 volumes (looked like phone books almost sizewise) He ruffles through the pages in first then second volume. He finds my list (The 1 that they don't have). he says so we are doing a survey and we are going around visiting everyone and trying to verify if you own or still have these firearms. He proceeds to show me my list. Every gun i bought from a dealer is on this list. Every one from 22s to Mosin Nagants and everything in between. I was blown away and still am. Many bricks have been shat since then! I told them nah i don't have any of those dangerous baby killers gave them all away after Newtown. They left but sat parked down the road for a couple hours. Probably coordinating drone strike. I have ony told a couple of close friends i trust. I've been tryng to keep it together. The first person i told also had a visit exactly 2 weeks before me. He ordered a questionable part off the net an that's what the agents told him they were after. He lives 5 minutes down the road. I was freaked then but I didn't think anything of it you know he brought it on himself. Until i got a visit. All my stuff is legal and above board. No worries on that part. But then why did i recieve a visit? I don't know i've been gripped with fear since. Keeping watch on my porch, almost sleeping outside some nights. And then yesterday my wife's friends parents who are an hour north of us got a visit. Only the mom was home and she told them to hit the street. These people are farmers and have guns but mostly Fudd guns and relics passed down. The father was going somewhere on business this weekend and next week. He cancelled. Even the Fudds aren't safe from this. My only solace in all of this is the 3 massive volumes the jackboots had. I know i'm not the only one. I don't know what to do?! It took this long for me to tell somebody else. My wife and i are scared [crap]less!I'm not sure if they are testing the waters seeing who will comply. Or if it's something else entirely. Why down here? Why not in Commiefornia or one of these other liberal dreamlands? I thougt we were good we just voted to strengthen the 2nd in our state. i just keep saying in my head. WTF?
Ta! Outta here, for sure!
See you soon!
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Morning everyone. May our day be productive.
Good morning. You’re up early!
Thanks! I was glad to get up - I was having crazy dreams about things like the van falling in a lake and Jimmy Buffett cooking breakfast at my house. That one had a snake in it, too.
Just remember to be a complete sweetheart when you're not being annoying. Let ArGee be your guide.
Colonel Flagg isn't quite as good at being annoying as ArGee is, so I wouldn't get any advice from him. He is awfully nice, though.
Darks is... well... Darks! Ya gotta love him.
Ah! I detect an undercurrent of curmudgeonliness.
*rubs hands*
Good, good! Carry on!
Serious question on the above topic. The spaceship "Discovery" in "2001: A Space Odyssey," used a rotating area to simulate gravity of (seemingly) 1g throughout the flight to Saturn. Wouldn't that require the same expenditure of energy on the part of Discovery as simply propelling itself at 1g toward Saturn? The rotational force isn't "free," right?
ROFL! Mental picture!! ROFL!
You’re a treasure, NnBob!
Prolly, but I won't call it easy. My uncle had to raise two grandchildren as his own children because his daughter was a drug-addled mess. They got through it OK, but it wasn't easy.
Why are you giving them advice like that, ToL? Did they do something to offend you?
Not at all! Silentgypsy wanted advice on being annoying. She was the one I was addressing. The rest were courtesy pings. [smiles]
You know I love ya, AR!
The rotational force isn't free; one pays for it at the beginning by investing the necessary action-reaction energy expenditure to set the vessel turning.
Once begun, however, there is little to slow it or stop it. Minor changes in rotational velocity are manifested by the change of position of various masses, including human bodies, but in comparison to the mass of the ship, these are hardly noticeable.
Of course, any long-term development, such as the designation of a new storage area, would have to be offset by shifting other weights around to balance. Think of rebalancing the washer when it chokes on a load of towels.
Short term dynamic balancing can be effected by pumping liquids from one tank to another. And an aggressive dynamic balancing can be maintained by rotating a large mass at the center of gravity of the vessel.
The major problem with artificial gravity in space habitats is having "enough room to swing a cat". Space is normally at a premium in space. Some suggestions have been to rotate masses on long tethers to maintain artificial gravity. One familiar with our history and geography will note that we use an effective compromise; the Habitats go around a common axis of rotation, and are connected together with strong arms which contain our pipes, conduits, and transportation system.
“Let sleeping Blgthrgths lie” the sign said.
But he ignored it and confidently stepped out into the cordoned off square.
Something like a floppy wet towel slapped around his face!
UGH!
And it was an angry wet towel, making horrid noises as it slapped his head viciously!
Spinning, tripping, slapping at his face in a vain attempt to get the Blgthrgths off his face, he fell back over the cordone rope.
Where he died.
“I’m not dead!”
You stay out of this, I’m the narrator.
“I twisted my ankle!”
No, you’re dead, see? Says so right here.
“You wrote that in by hand!”
The blgthrgths will get you again.
“Get away from me you psycho!”
No sense of humor that one.
I have a house full of annoying, although not as full as usual since Tom and Elen are out.
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