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  1. "Today in Baseball history 

    December 16, 1896 In 1896, Princeton University mathematics instructor Charles Hinton designed a gunpowder-powered baseball pitching machine for the Princeton University baseball team’s batting practice. According to one source it caused several injuries, and may have been in part responsible for Hinton’s dismissal from Princeton that year. A demonstration was given in the school’s gymnasium on December 15, 1896.

    #baseball #PrincetonUniversity #Princeton #pitchingmachine #battingpractice"

     

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  2. 8 hours ago, watab kid said:

    i didnt know of this but it does not surprise me either , there are countless things we only barely know of after all these years , today we have almost instant info no matter where it happened albeit slanted to the agenda , the globe is a whole lot smaller today then it was in the 40s - for that matter the whole rest of my life , i never dreamed that computers would offer these connectons or that phones might be everything and more than the old dicj tracy talking watch 

     

    There are so many little "sidebars" to the main story that it would be very difficult to teach them all to the generality.  Most people wouldn't have the interest anyway.

     

    Pretty amazing, isn't it?  Dick Tracy watches in reality, some of the Star Trek technology in our pockets, and the sick bay equipment in our hospitals.

     

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  3. On 12/18/2024 at 2:43 PM, Blackwater 53393 said:

    None of the above bother me!!  I DO confess to being repulsed by those gays that flaunt their weirdness and by cross dressing people who get in my space!!

     

    It’s all well and good until they get into my radius of reach.  Outside of that distance is close enough!!

     

     

    Same here. I don't even mind the ones that can pass the "Ten Foot" test and have good taste in clothes.  It's the ones who in now way can pass for female (like certain public officials now), or who put on "femface" and religious garb to mock Catholics that I 0bject to.  There was one guy, about 6'3" and a solidly built 300#, who was a regular at the indoor range and decided he was a crossdresser.  We gigged him that he had poor taste in clothing and didn't have the legs to pull it off.  Phase lasted about 6 months and he came to his senses.  His girlfriend, a striking woman, think of Lauren Holly about 5'11", didn't seem to take issue with it.

    Never quite understood the "Killer Clown" trope.  

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    There's a traveling HL Hunley exhibition that includes a full size replica of the boat.  I got to see it back around 2007.  TINY is the first word that comes to mind.  Even with side open for display it felt like cramming 8 guys into a VW Bug.

     

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    The brass ones it must have taken to climb into that thing .....

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

    I kind of like the first one, although I have no idea what he's saying.  Better than some of the new "country" music out there.  The second one sounds more gospel than country. 

    Angus

     

    I think it sounds a lot better than most of the country music out there now.

     

    In my mind there's a lot of crossover with country and gospel.   I'd almost be tempted to say that country grew out of gospel music. 

     

    With my tinnitus I have a lot of trouble understanding the words of songs,  so it's usually the overall sound that appeals to me.  In the Christmas Music thread you may have noticed that most of the ones I posted were in foreign languages.   I like the sound. 

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  6. 32 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

    This happened in the middle of his second case of ammo. Anyway, he was not a jerk. And a bit humbled to find problems did not come on slow, his gun just stopped cooperating at all. His life may depend on his arms.

     

    If a LEO is in a situation where he's going through a case and a half of ammo something is seriously wrong.  

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  7. 8 minutes ago, Chantry said:

    I mean to post this yesterday, but life got in the way.

     

    On December 17, 1935 the first Douglas DC-3 took flight.  Eighty nine years later the design is still going strong with the DC-3 still in regular use around the world with no end in sight.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3

     

    I forget where I read it, but the comment was 'the only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3".  Eighty nine years later there is still nothing that can match the cargo capacity, short/rough field performance and low operating costs of a DC-3.

     

    And when an individual airframe might be getting a bit old, then off you go to https://www.baslerturbo.com/ who'll take that tired airframe, take the plane apart and replace, rebuild and strengthen the airframe and  start the plane's life cycle all over again.

     

    Argentina just bought a Basler BT-67 for Antarctica duties.

     

     

     

     

     

    And in 2125 the Goony Bird will be flying in replacement parts for B-52s, C-130s, and KC-135s.

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  8. 8 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

    I also do back the blue.

     

    As do I.  I've never had a negative professional encounter with one (as in the stories about traffic stops).  But in conversations when behind the counter helping out at the gun shop/indoor range I've seen the "you're just a civilian" attitude by a very few.  Especially when trying to impart some of the nuances of California gun laws. 99 44/100 were pretty down to earth and reasonable.  But, as in any largish population, there are going to be a few jerks.

     

     

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