GEORGE BUSH AND CONSERVATIVES IS AN EVIL DEVIL! HE SHOULD NOT BE REECELCTED!!! [subliterate alert]

[awildanimal]

GEORGE BUSH IS EVIL!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE EVIL!!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE STEALING FOOD AND MONEY FROM BABIES AND CHILDREN AND GIVING THEN TO RICH RACIST NAZIS IN GOVNERMENT!! THEY ARE STARTING HOLOCAUSTS AGAINST MINORITES WOMEN AND THE POOR!! THEY HATE THE POOR AND TAKE FROM THEM AND GIVE IT TO THE RICH!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE NAZIS!! MY SISTER HAS A HIGH IQ!~!! CONSERVAITIVES ARE BOMBING CHILDREN IN IRAK AND IRAN!! THEY ARE KILLING BABIES BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT WHITE AND RICH LIKE THE CONSERVATIVES ARE!!! THEY ARE ALL RACIST AND EVIL!!

[Monkey Face]

My daughter’s brother-in-law gives her slippers every Christmas. She hates it. She wears them long enough to please him, then puts them in the back of the closet!

I often knit my own, but they are wicked on bare floors.

[Monkey Face]

HEY! You got 1900!!

WOO-HOO!

[Tax-chick]

but they are wicked on bare floors.

That's happened to me, too!

Does your daughter have very large feet? I'd take her extras!

[Monkey Face]

I think she wears a 7, and I wear an 8, though I’m quite a few inches taller than she is.

I’ll ask her about them. She can only wear one pair at a time!

[Tax-chick]

Way too small for Anoreth or me, and too big for Elen.

[Monkey Face]

Well rats.

What’s your favorite color?

[Tax-chick]

Orange. But I have hardwood floors! And the slippers I just bought should last me through the winter, if I don’t put them in the dryer.

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

I think I knew you had hardwood floors!
Of course, you could make controlled slides in fabric soles and get places faster...just don’t carry any food...;o]

[NicknamedBob]

"You have to be going a certain speed to "miss" Venus' horizon and stay in orbit. This isn't because of how fast Venus is rotating, but because of how much it "weighs". If you are going less than this speed, then you need some kind of thrust to counteract Venus' gravity. The Skyhook only works because it anchors a mass in ORBIT at orbital velocities."

Aside from the labels, and the fact that the "fixed point" of the "surface" will be moving at 300 miles per hour, this is a remarkably accurate drawing of a skyhook for Venus.

Skyhook

Just imagine that Earth's rotation has slowed to a four-day "day" and that our orbital altitude has to be extended accordingly.

Also note that plans for an Earth Space Elevator call for the ground station to be free-floating on the ocean, a circumstance not dissimilar to a station floating in Venus' ocean of carbon dioxide.

Also please note: The above diagram and similar others show the situation as it would appear to an observer in the fixed rotation viewpoint of Earth. That is, this is the situation as it appears to the ground station observer, but re-oriented to the side.

The anchoring mass for the tremendous gravitational pull of the hanging skyhook tether is orbiting. On a polar view, one would see a mass orbiting a planet at thousands of kilometers distance and very high velocity, while the planet leisurely rotates in the center. The fact that the orbiting object remains oriented over the same ground point does not mean it is not moving.

[NicknamedBob]

You two!

"Orange. But I have hardwood floors!"

Just get some carpet scraps, of the type with foam padding attached, and affix them to the knitted slippers.

You could even use "carpet tiles", but you wouldn't want any adhesive on them. Cut the carpet to the shape of a foot.

[Tax-chick]

Very clever! But it would make them heavy.

[Tax-chick]

Have y’all noticed the “popular keywords” today?

[Monkey Face]

As to your Skyhook: WHATEVER YOU DO, BOB!!! DON’T LET GOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo.....................

[Monkey Face]

I try not to read the key words. Some of them make my eyes bleed.

[NicknamedBob]

"As to your Skyhook: WHATEVER YOU DO, BOB!!! DON’T LET GOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo..................... "

Skyhooks are somewhat different than Jack's Beanstalk, although they are analogous to a degree.

Jack didn't climb out of his gravity well.
Jack didn't bring a spacesuit, oxygen, or meals for the trip.
Jack didn't bring toilet paper for, uh ... never mind.
Jack didn't have to turn over halfway up.

Generally speaking, these devices are like really long railway viaducts. They're built for the passage of trains and nothing else. They just go upwards.

[Monkey Face]

How can I trust you when you spiked my champagne the last time?

Before that, you glued my furs together so I had to run to the biffy in the buff!

And the worst thing you ever did was put Ex-Lax in the box of Godiva chocolates you gave me.

:o[

[NicknamedBob]

"Very clever! But it would make them heavy."

Uh-huh, foot-dragging. So much for your pretended perkiness.

[NicknamedBob]

"How can I trust you when you spiked my champagne the last time?"

I never asked you to trust me.

(And I would advise against it if I did.)

[Monkey Face]

Looks like y’all are off the hook, Bob. I’m going to bed. Just remember: I WILL be here tomorrow!!!

[Monkey Face]

(You sweet-talker, you!)