Posted on 04/09/2013 5:27:53 PM PDT by Darksheare
I just spent alot of time posting!
I see that, looks like you hit a small bump.
Pictured: Small Bump
What happened?
Well, someone set up us the bomb?
I'm serious!
Oh, well.. looks like your post got pulled.
Augh! I spent alot of effort on that! How did it happen?!
Couldn't be because you were doing it wrong?
What the, how'd you get that video of m-- uh.. I don't even wear that!
Right Skippy. *cough* Well, since you asked, here's how posts get removed.
First, if it is against TOS it gets seen.
Then it gets marked.
Okay, I have that much.
Then the mods gather:
Pictured, mods gathering.
I don't think that's how it looks, I..
Look, do you want an answer or not?
...Yes?
Right, carrying on.
Then they back their vehicle up to your post.
Whoah! What the heck is that thing?!
It's a machine, that eats other machines.
With this:
I don't see what this has to do with my post vanishing, can you tell me wha-
Watch it question boy! I have a flamethrower!
You want to vanish like your dog did?
What the?! No, not Roozer too!
To be fair, your dog WAS drunk.
What?! Who would even... please don't point that flamethrower at me.
Right, and after they saw your post off the entire forum, they set it on fire.
Wait.. that man. His face, and fire! Oh GOD WHY?!
Oh, HIS post was all about his face, so the mods set it on fire.
After that, they used the ashes to open a gate between our world and theirs, like this:
BLECH! That's horrible!
And those tentacles! GAAAH!
If you think that's bad, you should see what happens when the mods get their hands on a bad thread.
Pictured: Mod hands
Oh look, here comes a mod now.
Looks like they want to ask you about that thread you just posted.
Gaaah! Tell them I'm indisposed!
Pictured: Moderator, dunno which one.
Tell them yourself, they're right behind you.
Wait, don't run away!
We haven't gotten to what happens when they edit your thread title!
This concludes our sordid fictional tale.
If you liked that, we have plenty more in the book "Oh the horrible things you'll summon!" rumored to be written by IamnotaMod
Oooooohhh....I LIKE your thinking! LOL!
I wonder how that would work...?
If I had hung them on the patio they would have been dry a couple of hours ago, but management frowns on “Third World Clothes Dryers.”
I just have this picture from that one cook in “Ratatouille” holding up his thumb.
Or for variety you could brush the living room and vacuum your teeth.
I can imitate some of their vocalizations but am never really certain of the translation. Squeak says mak-MAO to Mr. Sg when he’s giving her a really good backscritch, so he thinks that’s her name for him. When I follow her into the room where they’re fed, she says, MAK-mak, which could mean, “It’s about time,” or “What took you so long,” or maybe, “Thank you.”
I think in the desert no matter where you hang wet stuff, it dries. BTW, if civilization collapses, there are two things I’ll really miss, and one of them is ice cubes. Now I have something to celebrate on July 14th! Thank you!
LOL!
The usual Third World Clothes Dryer is the patio fence, and it begins to look really ugly when the not-so-dainties are hanging astride the pickets. Runs a close second to bedding...
When we lived in Gila Bend, AZ, I would get to the end of the clothesline and the things I had hung up were dry. I loved it there, but we couldn’t stay. I had to be with a friend who was soon to lose her son, who was also an early playmate of my own son. They were going to join the army together
I know that scowl...
That would be a novelty.
Nephew just called to ask if I got my ticket and was I ready. Yes and no. I also asked for five minutes at the service so I can tell everyone there how much this lady meant to me.
Since I don’t do funerals, this is an exception in SO many ways. I don’t like to speak in public, but for Ann, I will. She endured SO much, and the least I can do is tell everyone how much I appreciated her. I will miss her almost as much as her children will.
You can use heat in the place of mechanical energy to produce cooling. A good solar installation, as discussed in the link, will work. I've also read of camping equipment that uses the heat from your campfire.
In the event of a collapsing civilization, do not surrender your necessary comforts.
*ahem*
Is this not what we use for our own cooling/frigid thingys? I thought you had all this under control, Bob. So how have we been cooling the Guiness and the official whiskey of the FR? Inquiring minds want to know...
Not even close. We're in a four year orbit in the asteroid belt, and you're asking how we keep things cool?
Aside from our nuclear power, the only way we stay warm and stay alive out here is to collect sunshine. That's why we have those big reflective mirrors up there, swinging around with that complicated clockwork. It provides each Habitat its daily dose of daylight.
Cooling things off only requires that you let it become shaded. That's why the instant ice-cream facility is in the Thrust Ring. By taking advantage of the frigid outer hull there, they can make ice cream that is just one step this side of liquid nitrogen freezing.
Ah. King prout did us proud with his original diagram (wherever that is) and everything else seems to be superflouous. Or something.
My brain is failing me...
It’s telling me that bedtime is NOW!
So I will see you all in the morning...I will keep TC apprised of my travels.
Sleep well, all...
I've had some help with trying to portray the design of the three Habitats, and their mutual relation. It's less elegant than I would wish.
But it is functional. What we are currently doing is modifying our layouts for the extremely long term. If transportation, communication, travel and trade should collapse in the Solar System, I want this outpost to survive independently as long as possible. It's necessary to do so, among other things, to provide a background setting for stories I want to write.
To that end, certain features of the Flying Castle Habitat, and its associated Habitats A and B are being modified. Linkages are being established between neighboring Habitats, to provide additional storage areas for collected volatiles, and even to provide a surface for collecting solar energy. It isn't totally a wasted exercise, even this far out.
An automated system of air-balancing will keep the volatiles at a proper pressure, tempered by a slowly shifting weight function to speed the rotation slightly as a means of reducing overpressure.
Hmm. I'm not explaining this well.
We're gathering extra air. As we do so, the weight affects our rotation speed. We use that to keep the pressure between specified limits. Air circulation is accomplished without mechanical systems by using differential heating to create warm spots and cool spots on a daily basis. That makes the air circulate.
If we have set things up properly, the Habitats will function as a miniature world, with systems able to respond without human action. In that way, even if the larger civilization collapses, small pockets of resilient and prepared communities will be able to continue.
Oh, joy! Solar ice cubes without carbon footprints all over them! (I hate it when my ice cubes gots footprints.)
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