Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. August 23-24, 2004

8-23-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear and Billie

[JustAmy]

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[Darksheare]

LOL!!!

[Darksheare]

Top one.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Sorry, I think the top one is fictional.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

see post 44

[Darksheare]

Probably.
But it'd be nice if it was real!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Thank you for the link.

[Darksheare]

LOL!
Windsock...

[MeekOneGOP]

Industry shredders are a bit expensive as I recall. Seems they were in the $1 - $2K range.

Speaking of no money, I have transparent tape over the holes in my chair seat to keep the stuffing from coming out .....

heh! That reminds me of the commercial I keep hearing. The boss is announcing cutbacks in corporate spending. "If you need to use some tape, look around for someone's chewing gum instead." Oh, yeah and then there was the part about "Restroom breaks and water will still be available ..... at a minimum charge!"

[NicknamedBob]

I am puzzled.

What would make hoverbikes more fun than motorcycles, jet skis, or snowmobiles?

The fact that it might combine the fun of all three of them?

If that be the case, you may have to invent your own. Start with a BIG air hockey rink, and design the appropriate vehicle for whatever seems like the most fun.

Another thought is the bumper-car place, with electromagnetic levitation toward the metallic ceiling. Just figure out what you want to do, and then build it.

If you build it, they will buy tickets.

[Darksheare]

I'd like to zip out over a lake, and then come back over teh road.
*sigh*
Hovercraft/groundeffect vehicles aren't capable of doing what I'd like to do.

[NicknamedBob]

Sounds like you need a jet-powered hovercraft.

An expensive toy, but not unaffordable. Check into Jay Leno's jet powered motorcycle.

[Darksheare]

What'd be great is if zero point energy could be tapped, and an anti-grav device invented, along with a way to stop forward inertia efficiently enough to not need to touch the ground.
(But, for now, anti-gravity/levitation is the realm of sci-fi.. and zero-point energy is still theoretical.)

Then a ducted fan, electrically driven, and levitation would be slapped onto what would look like a motorcycle chasis and voila, the hoverbike is born..

[NicknamedBob]

Take the ducted fan of high-tech state police rescue helicopter tail rotors, multiply by 3 or 4, add something for propulsion -- voila, a hover-go-cart.

Plenty enough fun, even for a Darksheare.

[JustAmy]

That is beautiful, Dubya. It was worth the wait!!!

Thank you for sharing it with us.

Hope you and Eve are having a wonderful Monday.

[Darksheare]

Interesting.
Sounds like a plan, if I could get my hands on some small items.

[JustAmy]

Shoot .... let me try again.

[Darksheare]

Black hooded gull?
Jonathan Livingston Seagull!

[NicknamedBob]

You'll need a motor, preferably one that rotates on a vertical axis, and a transmission similar to a motorcycle, with a chain drive to perhaps three shrouded fans.

Directional control, as well as balance, is from steerable vanes in the output airstream. Be careful, too much lift and you'll find yourself fifty feet in the air, and balance then is extremely tricky.

The horizontal component is left as an exercise for the student. Think about the air-boats of Florida, perhaps.

[Dubya]

Thank you. The lady who owns that web site, her husband died a few months ago. She has a good clean place with a lot of good stuff on it.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi everybody!

AND HE SAID, FIGHT ON

Time and its ally, Dark Disarmament.
Have compassed me about,
Have massed their armies, and on battle bent
My forces put to rout;
But though I fight alone, and fall, and die,
Talk terms of Peace? Not I.

They war upon my fortress, and their guns
Are shattering its walls;
My army plays the cowards' part, and runs.
Pierced by a thousand balls;
They call for my surrender. I reply,
"Give quarter now? Not I."

They've shot my flag to ribbons, but in rents
It floats above the height;
Their ensign shall not crown my battlements
While I can stand and fight.
I fling defiance at them as I cry,
"Capitulate? Not I."

-- E. Pauline Johnson