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.livescience.com ^ | October 5, 2018 12:57pm ET | Brandon Specktor

[Monkey Face]

I only had one child like that, but these two avian boarders seem to find perverse pleasure in the simple things — knocking things to the floor and going into a frenzy when my arm goes into the cage to reach the food dish.

Then they sit on their perch and laugh.

[ArGee]

I’m glad you’re feeling more upbeat today.

Me, too, although without a good downbeat it's hard to keep the band together.

[Tax-chick]

So true.

[Monkey Face]

We’ve done well keeping this UT band together, though we’re not as strong as we used to be. I suspect we’ll just keep hanging in there!

[Tax-chick]

Vlad took his exam to qualify for the state geography bee today. He missed a question about St. Bernard dogs. We’ll find out March 4 whether he had one of the top 100 scores in the state.

[Monkey Face]

I’m hoping Vlad will be in the top 100, as its obvious he likes the subject. :o] I’ll just keep your family in my prayers.

[Tax-chick]

I expect he will be. He knows LOTS of facts.

[Darksheare]

“Ja’lra rash’nakh h’rai?” -cat

Kilrah avenge me..

[Silentgypsy]

Buenas tardes.

[moose07]

Gutten Tag. :)

[Monkey Face]

¡Y a usted también!

[moose07]

The St Bernard Dog:
A very large transport device for a tongue.
Comes in 4 wheel drive, dif-locks as standard.
A leg on each corner and a starting handle at the rear.
The top of the range model also features a drinks cabinet.

[Monkey Face]

LOL! One of our friends in Germany had a St Bernard. That animal was excellent at drooling!

[Tax-chick]

That’s the one. Not at all the thing for apartment-dwellers.

[no-to-illegals]

Bob the previously discussed hyper loop is closer than I thought. You are ahead of your time Bob. Experimental speed would be approximately 225 mpg. Know if implemented is not top end mph. What do you think as top end mph would be?

[no-to-illegals]

Mpg should be mph

[NicknamedBob]

In an open track, top end would be the speed of sound at sea level, moderately slow. But that’s probably a little too fast for the current engineering.

There’s nothing wrong with 250 to 300 mph. If you have further to travel you might want to go higher in the atmosphere, or leave it altogether.

At ground level, the only way to go faster is in an evacuated tunnel. If we combine evacuated tunnels with electromagnetic propulsion, or even simple pneumatics, we could get appreciable speeds between cities. Think of the elevated railway.

The main thing to do with these slower modes is to have a way of sorting the people as they travel, so that each can get to a selected destination with a minimum number of stops or transfers. The same principles apply here as to a really massive high-rise, where local slow elevators take people to an interchange floor where they can move to faster routing for a period, and then get another local to their selected location.

Such elevator systems could integrate with surface transportation to get a traveler from one massive building in one city to another in a different city many miles away in just minutes.

[Tax-chick]

[Covenantor]

Bishop Katz is not not amused by all this talk of St. Bernard dogs...

[Covenantor]

not not

who’s there?