Random thoughts

[frostbitevinnie]

Only thing I like about %%%%ry music is.........ummmmmm,uuummmmm, uuuuhhhh, the first part sounds like, uuuummmm, uuuuhhhhh,


well, maybe I had better not go there.

[jgreth]

Originally Posted by frostbitevinnie

Only thing I like about %%%%ry music is.........ummmmmm,uuummmmm, uuuuhhhh, the first part sounds like, uuuummmm, uuuuhhhhh,


well, maybe I had better not go there.

Did someone typo country? [evil grin]

[tricker]

my woman left me, my dog ran away, my cow died and my truck fell apart... yup just covered the whole country music spectrum

[frostbitevinnie]

Originally Posted by jgreth

Did someone typo country? [evil grin]

No, just doing a filter test. It works!!!

[themeatmanlandry]

I don't know . . . personally, I happen to like the sound of a banjo . . .































. . . bouncing off an accordion as it's tossed in a dumpster!!

[frostbitevinnie]

Heeeeeeheeeeeheeee!!! Good one!!

My coworkers play country music, (got it right this time) all day, everyday. So today I blasted our local hard rock station. Got a few bad looks. Oh well at least it was for different reasons this time.

[tricker]

93.7 i presume?

[frostbitevinnie]

Rockin' 101

[omegajim]

my old man doesn't like the new style country music;

Shania Twain, Toby Keith, Jo Dee Messina, he doesn't like it.

Not "twangy" enough; I tell him that the over 60 crowd is not a target audience.

Modern country music isn't so bad; the effects of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson can be seen lots of places.

and then there's my favorite country song - "Cocaine Blues." by Johnny Cash, this version recorded by Limp Bizkit no less.

YouTube - Limp Bizkit - Cocaine Blues [TA]

[Uncle B]

John Ford's Point is where?

[amvince]

Obviously nowhere.

[frostbitevinnie]

Where all da white women at?

[amvince]

Uhh...Behind the large rock like formations?

[Uncle B]

Third gear and cruising

[buster]

How did someone, thousands of years ago, learn to melt sand... to make glass?

Who came up with mixing copper, tin and manganese to make bronze?

Who determined that you could get high from that wierd little frog's secretions... I mean really.

[Wednesday afternoon, Peter & Dave roaming through the amazonian rain forest, Pete:"look mate there's a wierd looking frog"... Dave: "Oh yeah, pick it up and lick it" .... Pete: "%%%% off it might be poisonous" ... Dave: "But you might get high" ... Pete "Okay then!"]

[omegajim]

I think a lot of alloys were found by trial and error.

At the turn of the last century, it was much the same process with discovering the airplane. That was until two brother slowly but surely methodically determined the best wing, implemented that wing design to the propeller and went and built their own engine, because heck, they were bicycle mechanics.

btw, the wright brother's propeller was 80% efficient when the next best thing on the market was 15%.

Lastly, a modern propeller with all our speed of light technology is cracking a bit over 85%.

[tallannie]

1 Smokey bear made a caveman throw sand on a hot fire
2 Grunt soldier trying to melt down his booty to carry it easier
3 Timothy Leary's great great great great great great grandma trying to make an economical meal for her family...

Originally Posted by buster

How did someone, thousands of years ago, learn to melt sand... to make glass?

Who came up with mixing copper, tin and manganese to make bronze?

Who determined that you could get high from that wierd little frog's secretions... I mean really.

[Wednesday afternoon, Peter & Dave roaming through the amazonian rain forest, Pete:"look mate there's a wierd looking frog"... Dave: "Oh yeah, pick it up and lick it" .... Pete: "%%%% off it might be poisonous" ... Dave: "But you might get high" ... Pete "Okay then!"]

[omegajim]

that's annie with her twist of the great "carsiny" or whatever character that Johnny Carson did back in the day.

which reminds me of one of my favorites

"sis, boom, bah."

and the question is "what sound does a sheep make when it explodes."

[buster]

Originally Posted by omegajim

I think a lot of alloys were found by trial and error.

At the turn of the last century, it was much the same process with discovering the airplane. That was until two brother slowly but surely methodically determined the best wing, implemented that wing design to the propeller and went and built their own engine, because heck, they were bicycle mechanics.

btw, the wright brother's propeller was 80% efficient when the next best thing on the market was 15%.

Lastly, a modern propeller with all our speed of light technology is cracking a bit over 85%.

Aha... The Wright Brothers, beaten to an efficient wing design by......

Scotsman Percy Pilcher was a pioneer aviator who designed, built and flew gliders in the hills above Cardross, north of the River Clyde. Some say he became the first man to achieve controlled flight in a heavier-than-air craft – which he built during a break from his job as a lecturer at Glasgow University – in June 1895, a full 13 years before Cody! Pilcher went on to break the world distance record when he flew 250 metres (820 feet). Sadly, he was killed in a glider crash in September 1899. At the time of his death he had almost completed construction of his powered aircraft, which scientists claim, would have flown.

Who was beaten by......

Clément Ader, (b. Feb. 4, 1841, Muret, France--d. March 5, 1926, Toulouse) was an early enthusiast of aviation who constructed a balloon at his own expense during the Franco-German War of 1870-71. In 1876 he quit his job in the Administration of Bridges and Highways to make more money to support his hobby. His early inventions in electrical-communications included a microphone and a public-address device.

He then focused on the problem of heavier-than-air flying machines and in 1890 built a steam-powered, bat-winged monoplane, which he named the Eole. On October 9 he flew it a distance of 50 m (160 feet) on a friend's estate near Paris. The steam engine was unsuitable for sustained and controlled flight, which required the gasoline engine; nevertheless, Ader's short hop was the first demonstration that a manned heavier-than-air machine could take off from level ground under its own power.

Between 1894 and 1897 Clément Ader built a larger but still 'batlike' twin screw machine which he named the Avion (Ed.)

So... the Wright Brothers real claim should be, the first ever photographed manned heavier than air flight.

BTW I live in Cardross, the village mentioned for Percy's flights, for those of you into history, may be interested to know that Robert the Bruce died in cardross, and Rob Roy MacGregor, laid siege to Darlieth House (also in Cardross) for four days, for non-payment of 'Black-male', the origin of the expression Black mail.

Yes, history fans, Rob Roy was a criminal, he was actually a sheep rustler, and he guaranteed the unmolested passage of drovers for the payment of one Black Male Sheep, (back then, by far and away the most valuable animal on the market).

And all of this in my tiny little village.

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[omegajim]

Between 1894 and 1897 Clément Ader built a larger but still 'batlike' twin screw machine which he named the Avion (Ed.)

So... the Wright Brothers real claim should be, the first ever photographed manned heavier than air flight.

I have no doubt manned powered flight occurred before the Wright brothers.

However, I have this to add.

The wright brothers more than likely had a more efficient propeller, and their wing was in all likelihood more efficient as well.

In addition, the wright brothers could repeat their flights under less than ideal circumstances. Repetition of flight became as big a deal as anything.

That all said, I don't believe we can use 1903 as a reliable date for the invention of powered flight.

A much more likely time would be some 3 years later, when on any given day, Wilbur could crank up the engine, and Orville could take to the skies. No, if the wind is this way, or that or the other thing.

Essentially, the point of using the Wright brothers as the inventors of powered flight is because they could duplicate the results, and furthermore, build multiple copies of their plane and those planes could fly too. In some cases, with small modifications, better than the original.

After that happened, one of the most important milestones in flight took place.

A Frenchman, Bleriot (i believe) flew a plane across the English Channel.

This brought the issue, front and center, that planes could now navigate what heretofore had only been the domain of ships. It was a goal that was to be repeated many times again in the course of history.