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  1. In the cartoon thread the gag was “what’s the square root of 5,248?” These days we just plug the number into the calculator and push the button. 
     

    For the life of me, I can’t remember how we figured that out before we had calculators? I vaguely remember a laborious process of guesstimating. 
     

    Any of you math wizards recall how?

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  2. 4 hours ago, Warden Callaway said:

    Not difficult.  Open the action. Take some padded pliers and compess V spring and work it out. Push pin out at pivot of lever and block.  All the action guts should fall out.  Anything else is pined or screwed. 

     

    Not specifically a good disassembly video but well worth the watch.

     

     

     

    I had never heard of, much less seen a lever action shotgun before getting into CAS. And those have all have been 20” barrels. When I see a longer barrel like that in the video, it still looks odd to me, even tho the gun was designed that way. :)

  3. 21 hours ago, Alpo said:

    I remember on Sea Hunt, Lloyd Bridges would sit on the gunnel, hold his mask tight to his face and just fall back wasBACKWARDS out of the boat. That would have been fun if there had been a great white 5 feet below the surface.

     

    At least that girl bent over and looked first.

    I always looked behind me right before falling over backwards. One time a tourist diver didn’t and landed right on top of me. Boy howdy, that left a mark on my head. 
     

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  4. 7 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

     

    I don't remember it having that, it was a Cox engine on a rail type dragster. You had to tack string down from point A to point B that would steer the travel albeit with yaw from side to side.

    I had a Ford GT-40 with the .049 engine. You could run it a straight line as described above, but it was a lot of work for a couple of seconds of run time. My dad rigged a set up with an anchored string so it ran in a circle, similar to the control line airplanes until it ran out of gas. It was yellow blur!
     

    Starting it was harder than the airplane because you had to spin the right rear wheel between index finger and thumb. Once running, you had to snap the body into place which was hinged on the front frame. I vaguely remember a pull starter wrapped around the rear wheel, but I could be mixing memories with other toy cars. 

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  5. 25 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said:

    Granted, NASA and Space Force are acting as customers, but it is still necessary that it be done. U.S. military is looking at Starship as a potential way of moving supplies from place-to-place here on Earth! If you want to object to what is being spent by NASA on getting astronauts back to the Moon, then get them to terminate Artemis and Gateway, and let SpaceX do it right and a lot cheaper. As Musk eventually wants to use Starships to explore and later colonize Mars, he will do it anyway, and get us to the Moon in the process.

     

    When Space Shuttle was cancelled, 2500 peole were laid off at the Cape. At the time they had nowhere else down there to get jobs. As a result, 10,000 jobs were lost in Brevad County alone!  Apollo put between $9M and $20M into the economy for every dollar spent directly on that program. SpaceX is hiring a lot of people at both Boca Chica and the Cape who are not rocket people.  I bet a welder can make good money assembling the booster and Ship, and will use that money to feed, clothe and put a roof over his/her family's heads. Same for a heavy equipment operator.

     

    If I were fifty-five years younger, I'd be down in Texas banging on Musk's door and asking if he could use a rocket engine engineer, or even a janitor!

    Ad Astra!

    My point is that we have more critical concerns here on earth. China is already a global threat to control of the oceans as are other bad actors. We've already seen what can happen to the economy when trade routes are blocked or choked. This planet is 75% water and is the medium in which global trade travels. No amount of airplanes or spaceships will ever achieve what shipping does.

     

    Yet our Navy is severely depleted and in disrepair. We lack the ability to maintain our current submarine fleet and surface ships. We need new and upgraded ports and facilities not just for our Navy, but for commercial shipping as well. We need to embark on a building program comparable to what was done for WWII. Think of the jobs that would provide for those engineers, welders, fabricators, the steel industry and on and on. That will take an extraordinary amount of money and time. 

     

    Right now the world is a tinderbox as in the 1930s, and we're running out of time to be prepared for when the SHTF. I believe that will happen long before the moon or Mars are colonized. We need to keep the oceans open now. Solve that, and then we can talk about manned deep space exploration.

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  6. 12 minutes ago, Trailrider #896 said:

    Uh, Slim...it ain't your money. What SpaceX is doing with Starship is private/commercial enterprise. Yes, once it is developed, NASA will pay for the lunar landing flights, but if we (America) doesn't do it, the Chinese will for whatever reasons to go back to the Moon. 

    Uh, Trailrider...NASA has a lot of money already invested in this project. From an NPR article:

     

    "In addition to private investment, SpaceX has won around $4 billion in contracts from NASA to develop Starship into a lander that can put astronauts on the moon."

     

    "They have a lot of money now from the government specifically to do this," says Lori Garver, former NASA deputy administrator and author of the forthcoming book Escaping Gravity, about NASA's relationship with commercial space companies. "I think those deep pockets will serve them well through a test program."

     

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  7. I don’t know about a legal requirement, but there’s usually a guardian, trust or conservatorship etc. that receives and distributes the money. Nonetheless, it’s my understanding a minor can’t buy certain properties like cars or real estate without some entity or guardian signing off. 

  8. My priorities are a bit different. We know less about what lies under this planet’s ocean than we do about outer space. There’s more useful stuff to be discovered down there for less money than what’s on the moon. 

  9. I had a PT 19 like the one in the film with the Cox .049 engine. Crashed it a lot early on. Thank goodness for the rubber band assembly. 
     

    This kid had a really cool dad. Drove a Corvette and flew a real Comanche…! :rolleyes:

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  10. 7 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    I went searching for names. They ran out of lovers and started using names of descendants of Zeus or Jupiter and when they got to Jupiter LIII they named it Dia a lover of Jupiter. 
     

    Some names were given in antiquity. Modern names are assigned by the International Astronomical Union’s Task Group for Outer Solar System Nomenclature.

    That's nerdy right there, I don't care who you are.  :D:)

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