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High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2010 - 07:05pm PT

The soldiers in the pic are Russian, the pic was taken near Chernobyl.

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Very interesting, Norton.

EDIT 4:15p

"Now watch modern scientist squirm over that statement ..."

That's the funniest thing I've read all day, thanks Werner.

WBraun

climber

Nov 26, 2010 - 07:10pm PT

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

Proof that the soul is the real life force of the living entity and not matter.

Now watch modern scientist squirm over that statement ......

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Nov 26, 2010 - 07:14pm PT

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

Perhaps we should give it a try with Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, or someone of the sort.

neebee

Social climber

calif/texas

Nov 27, 2010 - 09:49am PT

hey there say, tami.... ohmy.... in south texas, i loved having the goat... goats, in fact... we had three, once...

my now-ex, he never let me drive the ol' car, anyway....

and, the goat DID keep the texas wild grass down, for sure--and it could get waste high... (the grass, not the goat... though, the goats did grow a might, at that)... :)

and, a good goat is sometimes hard to find.... my now-ex, he always could find a cheap car and fix it up.... his family was mechanics, and his DAD was THE best 'en el valle'...

in the valley (which, really was NOT a valley, but the called they area, such)...

sure do miss the goats, they 'baa' nice, during the day
and cheer things up, though, they are a mite hard on the ol' gardens, and the car, did stay out of it...

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Nov 28, 2010 - 12:42am PT

So the goat charity, or one of them anyway, is World Vision Canada. Quite a large and effective one, so presumably the idea bears scrutiny. You can "shop" on their website, and "give" people in developing countries goats, rabbits, alpacas, hens, guinea pigs or a cow, depending on country etc. The idea being that this is the basis for economic self-sufficiency. https://catalogue.worldvision.ca/Gifts/Forms/Category.aspx?name=animals

So if you want to get someone's goat for the holidays...

Except that they don't ship in North America, so locker will be looking in vain under his tree.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2010 - 09:16pm PT

re: prayer, prayer effectiveness

British monarchs ought to be very long-lived, because millions of people all over the world daily intone the heartfelt mantra "God Save the Queen" or "God Save the King". Yet research (yes, scientific research) showed the monarchs of Britain don't live as long as other members of the wealthy and pampered aristocratic class.

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It takes 3,000 volts to arc 1 mm of dry air.

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Though a tapir looks pigish, it is more closely related to the horse. No sh'it.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2010 - 11:05pm PT

Here, for you Dingus:

He who shall teach the Child to Doubt
The rotting Grave shall ne'er get out.
He who respects the Infant's Faith
Triumphs over Hell and Death

William Blake
High Stakes in Auguries of Innocence

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A Presidential Commission moved dramatically today, suggesting a raise in the retirement age from 65 to 69. By 2075. Draconian!

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2010 - 04:09pm PT

Arsenic sits right beneath phosphorus in the periodic table of the elements and shares many of its chemical properties. Indeed, that chemical closeness is what makes it toxic - allowing it to slip easily into a cell’s machinery where it then gums things up, like bad oil in a car engine.

FRUMY

Trad climber

SHERMAN OAKS,CA

Dec 2, 2010 - 04:19pm PT

what if you switch & he asks you again if you would like to chance your pick? & again ----

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2010 - 11:26am PT

Look how "true" causality runs in our solar system:

The colors of the rainbow are never seen out of order. The consistency of causality (cause n effect dynamics) never disappoints.

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EDIT

If the colors WERE ever seen out of sequence - say, for instance, some Tuesday morning - either in a rainbow or in a camara picture - would it not throw the entire bastion of science out of whack? and give many a passionate scientist or engineer a heart attack or stroke?

But this never happens. Causality runs true. Reality runs true. Natural law runs true.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2010 - 11:49am PT

re: Thomas Jefferson

He died at Monticello on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day after the colonies issued that stirring document written by Jefferson, called the Declaration of Independence. It was denounced by conservatives worldwide: Monarchy, aristocracy and state-supported religion - that's what conservatives were defending then.

Source: Carl Sagan, Demon Haunted World, p426

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We've come a long way, baby.

But why can't today's conservatives take a lesson from their history? I don't know, it IS an enigma.

Stewart Johnson

climber

yo mama

Dec 12, 2010 - 12:05pm PT

we had to pay 100 $ each for goats on the k2 approach.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2010 - 01:26pm PT

The country of Spain translates more of the world's literature and learning into Spanish every year than the entire Arab world has translated into Arabic since the ninth century.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Potemkin Village

Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2013 - 07:46pm PT

High tech companies like Google and Microsoft measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees. For instance...

Why are manhole covers round?

(If you don't know the answer to this question, you're not smart enough to work at Microsoft.)

WBraun

climber

Oct 9, 2013 - 08:59pm PT

(If you don't know the answer to this question, you're not smart enough to work at Microsoft.)

No wonder Microsoft sucks.

They measure "smart" and not intelligence ......

jstan

climber

Oct 9, 2013 - 10:53pm PT

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa

Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 9, 2010 - 07:52pm PT
1) Energy, 32 gal of gas = Energy, 1 man year (or, 1 slave year)

Source: (a) William Catton (b) basic physics

2) A 200 lb man rapping stresses an anchor system 200lbs. A 200 lb man being lowered stresses a pulley anchor system 400 lbs. (minus friction effects)

Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area

Nov 9, 2010 - 08:00pm PT
#2 is why the American Triangle is stupid.

Following all the other knowlegeable people on ST, I would ignore pedagogy and say nothing, were it not for the chance Chaz(were he to climb), might get killed.

Chaz does not understand how the American Triangle increases force on the anchor.

First, HFCS' text is correct but fails to explain force is increased in a lower because there are two ropes pulling down. If there is no friction over the biner, lowering doubles the force. In my tensile machine days I measured in static mode about a 30% reduction in the force on the rope to the belayer. In that case force is multiplied by 1.7.

Now to explain how the Triangle multiplies total force on an anchor, we have to use vector sums. A diagram with the two anchors at the two upper corners of the rectangle.

Shown here is 200# person rappelling from a triangle in which the rappel rope is equidistant from the anchors, as would happen when the triangle tie-in is not knotted. The total force is equal to the vector sum of the horizontal and vertical components shown by arrows. The vertical component on each of the anchors is 1/2 the weight of the person, 100#. Let's say the angle shown is ø( not zero here but theta, some angle determined by the slop in the Triangle.) From geometry we know the total force on the rightmost anchor

=100/sin(ø)

So let's plot that force on one of the anchors as function of ø from 1º to 90º.

OK. So if the triangle is really deep there is relatively little force multiplication. On the other hand if the triangle is really tight the force on each anchor is multiplied to 5700#. Nearly three tons.

Chaz, if you construct an American Triangle

use a lot of sling

Also to get redundancy use two separate slings, one to each of the anchors and use slings of equal length. If you want to adjust the force between the anchors you need to have trig tables with you.

Wayno

Big Wall climber

Seattle, WA

Oct 10, 2013 - 01:14am PT

"In your earthly dimension, facts take place second by second but the moment they have happened, they become memory-beliefs and memories are not always accurate"

Jesus