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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Barry Nelson. So, what about my Kenya answer? I demand answers to my answers!
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Abc, no. Thought MagicSanta the seaman would have jumped at this one ...
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I didn't see the power boat question to be honest with you. The answer is that the way the boats move there is torque and to counteract it you need weight to the right side of the boat and having steering there forces the weight to that side and reduces the risk of overturning. There.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
What a bad explanation I gave. The screw, or prop, on a power boat rotates and either the water moves propelling the boat or the boat will turn and the way the screw moves the turning motion for the boat is to the left thus the need to counter balance on the right. With larger boats, which have more bouyance, the location can be centralized.
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
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On 2009-11-19 14:49, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Every year the Bering Strait freezes over to the point that you can drive tanks over it. The United States Army and the Alaska National Guard are tasked with border patrol during that time. LPOP (Listening Post and Observation Post) Alpha. Peace.
Peace
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2009-11-22 16:37, MagicSanta wrote: You have the explanation I was looking for. I'd just add, I was also told that modern redesigns of power boat hulls and steering mechanisms have apparently fixed this. So now the wheel is where it is out of tradition (so I was told).
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
The five Division I NCAA Football teams that have no emblems on their helments at the start of the season are:
Notre Dame Army Navy Syracuse Ohio State
Peace
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2009-11-22 22:05, Dreadnought wrote: Is that based on personal experience? Or hearsay? This story would have us believe that the first such crossing was only made as recently as 2002: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/england/1916481.stm I'll also through this out there ... http://www.angusadventures.com/beringstrait.html A common misconception is that the Bering Strait freezes in the winter time and it is easy to walk across the ice. In reality there is a strong current flowing north through the strait which usually creates large channels of open water. On occasion these open channels become clogged with moving chunks of pan ice, so it is theoretically possible to jump from chunk to chunk, along with some swimming across the open leads. Luck is also required in having favourable currents. There are two reported cases of successful ice crossings. The first was in 1998 when a Russian father and his son attempted walking to Alaska. They became marooned on the pack ice and spent many days drifting and cut off from shore. The ice finally reached the far side of the Strait. The men, on the brink of death staggered onto American soil. More recently in 2006 English trekker, Karl Bushby, and his American companion Dimitri Kieffer succeeded in doing the reverse route. The duo were immediately detained by the Federal Security Service and deported for entering the country illegally. There have been several other attempts that have ended with helicopter rescues on the ice.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2009-11-21 21:55, balducci wrote: Balducci is right, magicsanta is wrong (buck up, magicsanta. Everybody has it happen once in a while.) Barry Nelson played "Jimmy" Bond in the television adaptation of "Casino Royale." Peter Sellers played a gambler who is given the code name "James Bond," but he wasn't actually Bond himself. (In that film, the 1967 "Casino Royale," Bond was played by David Niven.) Odd moment is that Sellers shows up in the pre-credits sequence as Bond. But in the actual storyline, he's not. I'm going to give another week for the 30's radio characters who are related but never met question.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Some Americans once flew to the moon and stuck a flag on it.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
How am I wrong Ed? The reason they put the steering on the right was exactly for the reason I stated, Balducci even states it. The fact that the issues have been resolved and they did not change the general design does not make the answer incorrect. Balducci is correct that modern hull shapes make up for the problem so tradition kicks in.
Based on Eds answer the radio response would be 'they no longer do the shows on the radio so the likely dead people related but not knowing each other do not apply any longer'. |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Trivia question: Why are the buttons on mens shirts on the right edge as worn while womens are on the left?
Note: The reason no longer exist and it is done based on tradition now but I am looking for the answer as to 'why' they are like that. |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2009-11-23 00:12, MagicSanta wrote: I believe he was talking about the James Bond question that we both answered, not the powerboat one.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2009-11-23 00:12, MagicSanta wrote: No, no, no. I have no idea about power boats so you're more than likely right about that. My response that you were "wrong" was when you stated the answer to MY question about actors in James Bond movies was "Barry Nelson." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/ There was an anthology series called "Climax!" which presented a production of "Casino Royale" in 1954. Peter Lorre was the bad guy and Barry Nelson played James Bond. They changed Bond from a British secret agent to an American gambler _recruited_ by the British to bring down Lorre's character. The CIA agent Felix Leiter was changed into a British secret agent named Clarence Leiter. *** In the radio question. They're not _real_ people, they're characters that were presented in radio plays. The characters are still around. One got a movie a few years back which was the subject of a famous lawsuit. (The movie crashed and burned) The other had a tv series for a short while and is supposed to get a movie in a few years... which will probably crash and burn as I understand they're going to go the "lighthearted" route!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Sixten Inner circle Floral Park, NY, U.S.A. 4654 Posts |
Hi, MagicSanta:
Ref. Button question: (My wife's sister, whose a v.p. at The Leche League-(breastfeeding)-told my wife that this was brought up at one of their meetings.) For the women-easy access, for their babies. Men-copied after the old armor design? My shot: (at the country with daily 'white stuff') Andorra? Turning to Baseball: 3 men, all hit 40, or more, home runs in a season, that have World Series rings, as managers? (Hint: One of them was a player/manager. ) (Please, no 'digging') |
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Sixten Inner circle Floral Park, NY, U.S.A. 4654 Posts |
P.s./Should have read: ...heart-side, for their babies.
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
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On 2009-11-22 22:16, balducci wrote: Actual experience. Been there on guard duty. Seen them on guard duty looking back at us. Peace.
Peace
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Dreadnought, I don't doubt that there are people on guard duty.
I meant, have you ever seen a tank or anything drive over a completely frozen Bering Strait? Or heard about successful crossings, besides what I posted about? It doesn't sounds as though a tank could make it across.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
I never saw a tank. If I did that would have been a problem. But I did see light skin armored vehicles, their BRDMs and BMPs and our 113s and Hummers on the ice. The closest anyone could get would be the DMZ, a 2mile stretch of the strait that is no-man's land.
Peace.
Peace
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
I thought people had crossed the straight to populate the americas, way back in the day.
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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