Who left the dimensional door open? - Thread 030

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[grannie9]

Is it screwing up the thread for you Kath? I sort of messed up the size I posted..

[Kathleen]

No, everything is fine for me, no loss of speed whatsoever. It's gorgeous. ;-)

[lodwick]

Dodge introduced its Tomahawk V-10, 8.3-liter (505 cubic inch) concept motorcycle at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 6, 2003. The superbike features independent four-wheel suspension, and its engine, borrowed from the Viper sports car, can propel the Tomahawk at speeds of nearly 400 mph, according to Dodge.

Very cool.

[grannie9]

I'll give you a link for a few more. They aren't that great, but they do look better full-sized..

http://public.fotki.com/grannie10/florida-1/beach_etc/

[grannie9]

WOW.. I wouldn't want to ride fast on that sucker..

[Kathleen]

I think they're magnificent. When I look out the window, everything I see is brown and drab gray. Your pics look like paradise to me. ;-)

[Kathleen]

Hmmmmm...400 mph might be a bit much for travelling around the Beltway. I'd hate to be hanging on the back at that speed. ;-0

[lodwick]

Thanks a bunch for the fotki sharing - things are looking great in Ft.Myers Beach. What white sand!

Mr.Weather has decided to return to semi-crappy here. Cool and near-drizzle after a gorgeous day yesterday.

[lodwick]

[Sundog]

1. At 8:53 a.m., when the
ship was crossing over San Francisco, a data point flickered
on monitors at Mission Control indicating that the flow of information
recording the temperature of the hydraulic systems in Columbia's
left wing had suddenly ceased.

2. At 8:56, when the ship was somewhere
over Utah, the temperature in the landing gear and brake lining-again
on the left side-registered high.

3. Two minutes later, three temperature
sensors embedded in the skin on the left flank of the ship quit
transmitting.

4. A minute later, temperature sensors in the left
tires winked out too. All these data hiccups were reported by
the mission controllers to the flight director. Finally, when
the spacecraft was about 207,000 ft. (63,000 m) above Texas,
Charlie Hobaugh, the spacecraft communicator, alerted the crew.

5. "Columbia, Houston," he said. "We see your tire-pressure message."
"Roger," Husband responded. "Uh ..." All at once, communications
were cut off as if by a knife, and with them went every other
scrap of data coming down from the ship.

6. Sundog's hypothesis: The exploding tire ruptured
the airframe's passenger compartment and precipitated
a rapid disintegration.

[lodwick]

Sounds good to me.

Here's a west coast account you might like

The end was beginning way before NM or TX. If they could see the tiles leaving, there was a lot of time for some serious praying.

[lodwick]

DID I REALLY SAY THAT?

Question:
-----If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer:
-----"I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."
-- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
-- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
-- General William Westmoreland.

"The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others."
-- Gerry Brown.

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
-- Lee Iacocca.

"Please provide the date of your death."
-- From an IRS letter.

[grannie9]

[lodwick]

Damm - that Chloe needs an agent.

What a little angel. Thanks for bringing her here Gran.

Cheers all.

[Darksheare]

I'd buy that monster just to see what it's like to blow my inner ear out my nose.
After hitting a tree at around 350mph....

[lodwick]

LOL - or your inner nose out your ears.

If they make those bad boys, expect the price to be in the 250grrr range.

Mrs.L will NOT be giving the big thumbs up on this deal.

[Darksheare]

Mrs. Sheare would want video, so she can par-t at my demise.
Hack, I'd par-t at my demise.
Ya know, do a jig on my own grave, or such..

(Yes, being fascetious.)
Mrs. Sheare woul;d stake me through my heart if I even thought of getting a motorcycle of any kind. She made the mistake of dating someone who owned a motorcycle before she met me. He insisted on doing 130 on the darn thing on the highway, with her on the back.

So, she'd murder me in my sleep if I thought of it.
But, hey, blowing one's eyes into the back of one's skull for amusement always sounds like a good idea at the time.

[lodwick]

Steaks on the grill ... back with my mrs. moto-story. Keep having a ball y'all.

[Darksheare]

OOh! OOH! STEAKS!!!

[lodwick]

Good stuff guys

Enjoy friends