It amazes me how some people can take a very complex concept and break it down to its basic premise with brevity and simple language, allowing the layman to fully appreciate the science. All I can say is I wish I’d thought of it first.
Lets discuss this further with an Overnight Open Thread.
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I prefer the oldskool Retro encabulator:
brilliant!
if Only LVQ could weigh in with his nonexistent PhD in physics to dazzle us with his
wisdombullshit and liesEven LvQ can understand this. Except maybe the capacitive Diractance.
Of course, over there, they’d want to shove the marzelcoptic vanes where the moon don’t shine…
Only $750 million? That’s so retro.
so, can it make coffee?
Of course, you guys are probably wondering what an automatic transmission has to do with a motor control center. Well, they both have something to do with energy. Controlling energy. That’s the ticket!
coldwarrior wrote:
What to you think the cardinal grammeters are for? They’re to measure out creamer and sugar.
@ snork:
i’m still laughing at some of the terms
the Retroencabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating nofer trunnions!
snork wrote:
@ coldwarrior:
Ooh! Ooh! a front wheel drive turbo-encabulator!!!
The early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral decommutator failed largely because of lack of appreciation of the large quasi-pietic stresses in the gremlin studs; the latter were specially designed to hold the roffit bars to the spamshaft. When, however, it was discovered that wending could be prevented by the simple addition of teeth to socket, almost perfect running was secured.
No shit. If we could figure out how to do that, we could have perpetual motion.
coldwarrior wrote:
There’s your problem, right there. Not halal.
@ coldwarrior:
Hey check my last comment to you in the previous thread…
No more drammock for oil!
@ snork:
this is hysterical…i bought it for the first 45 seconds.
@ doriangrey:
bad stuff there…he is finished, or should be, in politics
Musical Science!
Goodnight all. Rodan, everyone …thanks for the welcome!
GE’s data sheet on the turbo encabulator
@ pinkfreud:
night!
That’s how Pud Johnson and his ilk explain the validity of gorbal warming.
@ song_and_dance_man:
classic python
@ pinkfreud:
Night!
@ gulfloafer:
Pretty much. Captin! Her gurglespring is overloading! She can’t take this much longer!
Roughnecking was never so complex. We’d nipple up the BOPs, string up on 10 lines, unlatch the cow’s cock and run the pipe in the hole. But this…
@ gulfloafer:
Oh, shit. That means the polar bears are going to die.
huckfunn wrote:
Meanwhile in the refineries, these guys would get stripper bottoms all over them.
@ snork:
The Polar Bears are in danger! Al Gore said so!
lunar wainshafts
@ coldwarrior:
that’s no big deal, but the ambifacient lunar vaneshaft was a real advancement. Nobel peace prize material.
Like Ludwig says, if you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullshit.
snork wrote:
I always heard about that but never got any refinery work. Funny story. I roughnecked in the summers while going to college so the regulars who worked there all summer were somewhat suspicious of me. Anyhoo, there was a trailer where we changed clothes. There were lockers, washer/dryer and a shower. Think of this. Gulf coast. July. Humidity of 110+. Hard, dirty work. When we got off, I would shuck down and go straight to the shower. The other hands would wash their faces, wash their arms up to the sleeve cut, put on street clothes (no change of drawers) and head straight to the bar hoping to get lucky. Sadly, they did. Those were the days.
classic dave allen on first contact with god:
@ huckfunn:
I found an old clip from your past.
night everyone…
Is pinkfreud from lgf?
@ typicalwhitey:
yep
@ coldwarrior:
g’night CW
@ gulfloafer:
Mullet?
@ gulfloafer:
same name over there as here?
@ gulfloafer:
Believe you me; I know the rough version of those folks.
@ typicalwhitey:
same indeed
@ snork:
@ gulfloafer:
The sad thing is that I think I recognize some of those people.
Not too many here habla geekobafflegab?
Fake pilot flies thousands of passengers for 13 years without one mishap.
Just print license and fly!
that just hurts my head
I’m not going to buy a new Mercedes unless it has a Turbo Encabulator.
It reminds me of the days when a stout young surgeon removed my consequences with his conflator. “Dr. Sickenhelper,” was his name. He was three-and-a-half years old. I always felt better after a session with Dr. Sickenhelper.
Trouble Brewing for Wind?
Amid much good news for wind–an onging global surge in wind energy installations, the go-ahead from the U.S. government for the immensely controversial Cape Wind project–comes a report detailing a sharp rise in wind operating costs and poor performance relative to other countries. Prepared by the independent business intelligence service Wind Energy Update, the Wind Energy Operations & Maintenance Report finds that current O&M costs are two or three times higher than first projected and that there has been a 21 percent decrease in returns on investments in wind farms. O&M costs were found to be especially high in the United States, “now the world’s largest wind power market.”
Based on surveys, the report estimates average world O&M costs at 27 U.S. cents per kilowatthour, which compares with the 20 c/kWh at which costs roughly equal the value of U.S. wind production credits. The report says that while close to 80 percent of the world’s wind turbines are still under warranty, “this is about to change.” R&D is focusing especially on gearbox reliability: “Many gearboxes, designed for a 20-year life, are failing after six to eight years of operation.”
Let’s try that again
S&D … both great songs from my youth .. the second particularly reminds me of my son’s father … sweet to think of the past …
@ JacksonTn:
Nice. Just posting old songs I like.
Sigor Ros … good night ya’ll … better day tomorrow … we will win …
@ JacksonTn:
Embedding disabled.
@ snork:
@ coldwarrior:
My how times have changed. Now of course, we have frommle valves and curpitude didactors to grannualize the HD5A hold downs, and you can buy them right off the shelf. Is this a great country or what?
Sorry I’m late to the thread. Had to go see a bishop tonight about an oily mark on daughter Bunkarina’s forehead that smells funny. He said she’s confirmed, but then went into a very long diatribe during which we had to stand up, sit down and sing numerous simple cloying songs with a large group of people that I’ve never met.
last time I posted this it was not cut up as it is now. It ruins the continuity.
Mussorgsky’s “Pictures At An Exhibition” was always one of my favorites.
But what about the very HOT tea?
@ Bunk X:
The first version of “Pictures At An Exhibition” I heard was done by ELP.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
???
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
They played that very song at their debut at the Isle of Wight festival.
I saw them perform it at the California Jam.
I got caught up listening to music, but it’s late.
Catch you all on the rebound.
@ Bunk X:
As improbable as this may sound, think of the number forty-two. There you will find the answer.
Will, I was sitting at home, relaxing, then I got a load of emails from vets. Did anyone see Family Guy either tonight or last night. I don’t watch it much. When nothing is on I might try it. It gets harder to watch each time I try. The dog was eating the shit out of the babies dieper was the last try. Then tonight I learn, Family Guy is mocking dead Vietnam veterans at the Wall. Has our country come to this? Mocking our dead veterans? I will not link that piece of crap I saw on Fox on Family Guy. It is disgusting.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
The first version I heard was by Isaio Tomita in 1975, at a curbside drive-through restaurant. We weren’t entirely sober when we heard this on WEBN:
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Hot tea is the meaning of life? Hmmm.
What “fragile ecosystem?” This world has survived much worse than anything man is capable of doing, and man cannot control the largest greenhouse gas of all: water vapor. Given the two choices, I’d pick global warming over a new ice age any day.
Four solo comments in a row means it’s time for me to check out and hope that the overnight crew shows up. Later.
@ Bunk X:
Close. IIRC the very HOT tea played a role (I don’t recall how large or small of a role.) in the discovery of the improbability drive.
Six weeks old but nontheless very interesting (and very scary):
Ovebanked, Underfunded, and Overly Optimistic: The New Face of Sovereign Europe, and Ireland in Particular!
@ Bunk X:
In some states in the U.S., the temperatures can swing 30 degrees up and down within 24 hours. I’ve seen temperatures swing 40 degrees within two days (95 during the day and 55 at night a couple of days later).
If the ecosystem is so fragile that an average increase of 1.24 degrees over 100 years (or whatever) will destroy it, then why doesn’t a 40 degree temperature swing within two or three days send the planet into an unrecoverable tailspin (ecologically speaking)?
I keep three weather widgets up on my computer desktop screen. The temperatures in three cities (on two continents) swing wildly all the time without the world ending.
Our planet is pretty doggone sturdy.
Nuke the
whaleswells!@ Eliana:
Don’t forget the daily swing from millions of lumens to near zero.
G-d is great!
@ Eliana:
My Dad was just recounting to me how when my brother (20 now) was in second grade, he brought home this assignment about conserving water, along with some pretty stern lefty voodoo from his new teacher.
He shut her up pretty good apparently by asking her where it went, aside from a bottle or two that may have been left on the moon.
@ Eliana:
Sorry, Eliana, but you can’t compare local climate which is adapted to the situation, to global climate.
What those doomsayers don’t take in account is, that if the world would cool only 1°C (a temperature we had in the 19th century) Canada could no longer grow crop which would lead to famine.
The world has survived a cooling of the world climate of 0.5°C within months and a cooling is much more dangerous for the people than a warming (erruption of Tambora 1815 “year without summer 1816″).
@ Bumr50:
Congrats to your father, he is very intelligent man !!!
Water doesn’t disappear and there is enough water all over the world for everyone. It is a question of cleaning the water and a question of distributing the water to the people.
@ Guggi:
He wasn’t as successful, unfortunately, when he went to my brother’s Catholic high school outraged over out-and-out “social justice” curriculum. It wasn’t even disguised. He was spending gads of time writing and studying “social justice”-worded as such-to fulfill humanities credits, and my Dad went to his principal.
The principal was outraged at first, went to his superiors (not sure how Catholic school is structured), and came back with his tail between his legs muttering something about “the position of the Church.”
I went to public school 14 years earlier(94′) and never saw anything nearly as blatant. I can’t imagine what they’re teaching.
@ Bumr50:
I’ve a lot to do with one of the oldest Catholic Universities in Europe. Especially the young professors and university lecturers are very left-wing leaning and I watch a kind of “liberation-theology-revival”. “Social justice” and equality are also the main favored buzzwords in political science nowadays. It is all about “social justice” and equality, never about liberty or freedom.
Interesting article from 1938 (pdf-file):
Hoover Warned “New Deal” May Lead To Fascism, Asserting War In Europe Was Result Of Similar “Planned Economy”
@ Guggi:
Great article!
He sounds just like a Tea-Partier.
World wide web asshole alert!
Chris Giles of Port Richey in Pasco county Florida is a POS whiney girly man Democrat.
@ Bumr50:
Not so fast. Hoover was the author of the New Deal, FDR expanded Hoovers OWN programs.
Union members abandon blind girl on plane, locked her in to boot.
@ BenZacharia:
Not in the contract…
Heh.
FOX is saying Napolitano hasn’t read the AZ Immigration bill either.
Notice a pattern?
They haven’t read it ON PURPOSE, or if they did, they’re not admitting it.
Why?
Because they are scared to death to answer the next question, which will force them to express a POSITION rather than mumbling nice-sounding generalities.
Better to be perceived as stupid or lazy in their world than having any conviction.
Disgusting.
Good morning everyone!
Rev. Wright – “When Obama threw me under the bus, he threw me under the bus literally!”
Uh,…no.
Had to be a malamanteau or two in that clip.