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* Posts by Mark 30

11 posts • joined Tuesday 9th March 2010 16:46 GMT

Mark 30

She may not be much to look at but I'll be she's great to dance with.

Mark 30
Flame

Let's face it, it's just another "feel good" law. Politicians pass laws to make everyone feel safe, comfortable, or whatever. Here in my home state, they passed laws to make "everyone feel safe about not having forest fires'. Guess what? They didn't ticket Mother Nature for lightning. Nor do idiots with fireworks pay attention to laws.

Flame icon.. well because....

Mark 30

Ya'll forgot one thing.

You forgot that "it's the job of management to protect management jobs". Cost savings and bonuses for the top level always come at the expense of those to do the grunt work.

Mark 30
Flame

Way back in the bad old days, certain air-to-air missiles used nichrome wire and black powder to fire the propellant. Always worked from near ground level to max altitude of the aircraft.

Flame.. cause that's what we want to see....

Mark 30
Mushroom

Back in the day... the US had in IFF in aircraft that the destruct mode would fire two .45 Cal ACP rounds into it. The rounds were mounted in the IFF case.

Mark 30

Biplane? I think the rocket forces would rip the wings off... go back and re-read your history of aircraft in WWI and why the biplane's days were numbered. Something about excessive drag as I recall....

Mark 30

So they gotr him. Once upon a time, they went after the downloaders also. So, all the "reviewers" should have harassed and fined. Strange world.

Mark 30

Well it is autonomous. Maybe it wanted a vacation?

Mark 30
Headmaster

Elk or Moose?

Which is it? Two different critters. Pic looks to be a moose...

Mark 30

Down to1.9 centimeters?

So the earth would shrink down to 1.9 centimeters. How would we know as we and our measuring devices such as a ruler would shrink also? Maybe it's already happened and we just don't know?

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FAIL

Something fishy about the headline?

So history was wrong? The Indians were clobbered by Custer, not the other way around? Hmm... 135 cavalry vs. several thousand Indians... yep... Custer won.