***The OFFICIAL Friday/Saturday singles thread (11/11/05-11/12/05)

Free Republic ^ | 11-11-05

[Paul_Denton]

Hello Singles! Hello all! And happy Veteran's Day! God bless the troops.

LOL my first time starting this thread so it may be amaturish at best until I get the...

...hang of it.

[ozarkgirl]

for some people water actvities such as kayaking is torture.. for me it is fun

You have kayaking skills?? I've never been kayaking (just canoeing) but that always looked like great fun. Been whitewater rafting down the Snake River in Wyoming. That was a blast.

[Paul_Denton]

What a shame that most people don't feel that way. They had rather talk about the Bengals (which is VERY popular around these parts right now-- hey, they even got me interested a bit), or Paris Hilton, or Ben Afleck, or the latest fashion trends, or such--- NOT about "things that matter", so to speak.

What is a bengal?. It is especially bad in a big city.

[ozarkgirl]

That's easier than a lake for me. The current can bail me out on the rivers(unless it's full of fallen trees).

Sounds like a man who's been there! It was the fallen trees that gave you away.

[pcottraux]

Skills and alligators...who knew?

[DollyCali]

white water rafting is wonderful! I have kayaked/canoed for decades.. there are some kayak shots of me on this thread I did in spring of my dog rescue

water rescue

[DollyCali]

sorry.. post 89 (although there are some in intro area)

[Rca2000]

Our football team here. Usually, by now, they have lost nearly every game, or most of them. And then, they are pretty much forgotten about ,for the rest of the season. A couple of years ago, a local station was trying to GIVE AWAY good seats for their games, but NOBODY wanted them... BUT this year, they seemed to have gotten their act together, (much of the credit for this goes to Marvin Lewis, the coach), and they are on their way, to the playoffs... IF they don't "blow it", and lose most of the remaining games(they are NOT predicted to do so, they are predicted to win most of the remaining games),they may just do so. NOW-- people are turning DOWN $5k, for puchase of their seats,for ONE game, at home games!!!!

[Dan from Michigan]

I have been there....although I haven't been in a canoe in about 10 years. Switched to kayaking. More fun, and less tipovers in 55 degree water (in the summer).

[Dan from Michigan]

Until you got to Marvin Lewis, I thought you were talking about the Lions.

[Rca2000]

I don't really know about kayaking.. but I LOVE boats, especially ones that go 40 mph, or faster!!!

[Keith in Iowa]

[ozarkgirl]

Whoa girl, you are impressive. Dogs and water. I love them both! You actually do this in real life?

[DollyCali]

no, I paid models & rented kayaks to get these pix..

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lol

[Paul_Denton]

Very cool! :)

[Paul_Denton]

I have to crash "early" tonight. Had fun chatting all :) Goodnight.

[DollyCali]

great vet's day read:

Generations of Valor

[Paul_Denton]

Oh thanks! :)

[pcottraux]

I must turn in for the night, everyone. Paul, let's keep this thread going strong tomorrow. For the sake of FReeper singles everywhere!

Good night.

[real saxophonist]

Former Marine musician. The ones who are in now are having a lot more fun:

MARINE BANDS: Bandsmen Give Performances of Their Lives in Iraq

[Nowhere Man]

In the story, the computer programmer terrorist explains that HMS memories were being readied for public introduction, to replace hard drives and other storage mediums. The computer was an experimental one, designed for the military, as an AI experiment machine--- and the terrorists hijacked it.

I ADMIT-- if one tries to over analyze things, they will find plenty of factual errors. But, in a fictional story, you have some leeway--- NONE of this is meant to be applicable to the real world--- HAL wasn't (then, or now), nor is Omni-One, Starshield or the Neutron multiplier--- they are known as PLOT DEVICES.

True, sometimes it is easy to look for a real life parallel that is the same in this worl or at least plausiable enough to make it work given some tinkering and engineering. I was talking about this to my co-worker and I mentioned your RCA 2000 where it was made in 1969 using the then avaiable TTL and MOS computer chips and he came up with a good phrase, "building tomorrow's future with today's technology" where you are building the typical TV set of 1980 to now with what is available in the late 1960's. Many times you get good results like the TV. I know in The Morrow Project we have cryotubes to freeze people to wake up in the future and fusion reactors to power our vehicles as well as having stationary fusion power plants. I've talked to on occasion to one of the authors of the game (which came out in 1980) about how they made the fusion work and to make a long story short, it is based on conceptual designs for fusion reactors. I have the second volume of "The Way Things Work" which was written in 1967 or so with possible concepts on fusion reactors. Some other gamers debate on using hot or cold fusion or some other power source entirely. In my game, the Project was started in 1963 and the Project vehicles before the changeover to fusion was in the mid to late 1980's, they were hybrids running off of batteries being charged by a small gas turbine engine from time to time using 1960's technology. The idea behind that is in the game, the Project is supposed to help people, rebuild America as best as they can and fight bad guys while not degrading into "fuel trek" by spending a lot of effort in getting fuel or distilling alcohol as a motorfuel substitute like in the game "Twilight: 2000." So the fusion reactors and to a lesser extent, 1960's era hybrids, are more or less a "dues ex machina" in the game to prevent "fuel trek" or at least cut it down. The founder of the Project, Bruce E. Morrow is said to be a time traveller and/or a slider to the future/alternate Earths where he managed to bring back high tech and use it in the Project like the fusion reactors.

The downside is if we overconceptualize, hot fusion in something as small as a V-150 armored car or a Hummer would most likely be a pain in the butt when you need a lot of energy to start up the magnetic containment fuel and then to start the reaction, hence some gamers use cold fusion or something else like micro black holes in a containment field or "Zero Point Energy."

Here is a link about it on one of the Morrow Project gaming sites: Fusion Power in the Morrow Project

BTW, "MARS One" and "Science One" are huge special purpose vehicles, think of "Ark II" or the Landmaster from "Damnation Alley" on steroids, MARS is a special Project strike force, like Special Forces, to take on tough enemies or to pull a recon or science team's butt out of trouble and the Science version is a lab on wheels/tracks. BTW, in my game, the fusion reactors last longer and one of the game's authors explains it to where you turn a crank to fire up the reactor much like an old lawnmower or Model-T Ford.

Another link of use is: You and your V

About Project vehicles in general including the field computers used by the Project.