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I don't see the resemblance.

it's a fake!

looking st some of those designs make me wonder just how the fark we ever got off the ground?

//way to go wright bros

Those magnificent men...

GIS for romulan sure turns up alot of pics of weed.

Do NOT GIS "it's a fake" at work, even with SafeSearch on. Good god, I did not want a photo of a nude porn star getting a facial on my screen.

/scrubs cache

styckx: Some of those are hilarious.. Like this one.. I mean.. Even back then it's hard to imagine someone seriously thinking that would fly. I understand education on flight was rare but really? Flying scaffolding?

Hindsight is easy. Foresight is difficult.

styckx: Some of those are hilarious.. Like this one.. I mean.. Even back then it's hard to imagine someone seriously thinking that would fly. I understand education on flight was rare but really? Flying scaffolding?

I still have random people describe devices which amount to perpetual motion machines to me when they find out that I'm an engineer.

some_beer_drinker: GIS for romulan sure turns up alot of pics of weed.

It's an actual strain of marijuana, specifically an indica. An offshoot of White Rhino. It causes severe couch lock and is popular with growers in British Columbia.

/I only know this through research

Or we could go hunting whalers in a repurposed Bird of Prey.

Ah the good old days when people actually built stuff(multiple designs too) without being worried about being sued out of existence for patent or copyright infringement.

/Excuse me while I charge up my homes battery(with a small generator) that lasts for a month and the design I stole borrowed from the a-hole who got the patent and then proceeded to bury the whole battery project to protect his oil price futures.

SN1987a goes boom: styckx: Some of those are hilarious.. Like this one.. I mean.. Even back then it's hard to imagine someone seriously thinking that would fly. I understand education on flight was rare but really? Flying scaffolding?

Hindsight is easy. Foresight is difficult.

You need both to hit the target.

Get Lost: /Excuse me while I charge up my homes battery(with a small generator) that lasts for a month and the design I stole borrowed from the a-hole who got the patent and then proceeded to bury the whole battery project to protect his oil price futures.

So you are saying that the price of fuel for your (small and inefficient) generator is cheaper than buying electricity? Where on earth do you live?

I really don't see the resemblance, Subby

These early aviation "pioneers" were either insane, or stupid as hell. Personally, I would have felt safer trying to ride a rabid grizzly bear, but that's just me.

LordBollocks: styckx: Some of those are hilarious.. Like this one.. I mean.. Even back then it's hard to imagine someone seriously thinking that would fly. I understand education on flight was rare but really? Flying scaffolding?

Actually I can see what he was thinking and if you've never flown before it's not all that dumb

Yeah, same here: High aspect ratio wings are more efficient at lower speeds, and that's just a way to "fold" a set of ludicrously high aspect ratio wings into a reasonable footprint.

Get Lost: Ah the good old days when people actually built stuff(multiple designs too) without being worried about being sued out of existence for patent or copyright infringement.

/Excuse me while I charge up my homes battery(with a small generator) that lasts for a month and the design I stole borrowed from the a-hole who got the patent and then proceeded to bury the whole battery project to protect his oil price futures.

You can't bury something you've patented-- it's kind of all laid out in the patent.

Kaymon: I don't see the resemblance.

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Pretty clear to me.

#11... the flying sex machine. The 'Do Not Want' horse in the pic has had enough.

blahpers: Or we could go hunting whalers in a repurposed Bird of Prey.

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Ha, that's on one of the HBO channels right now, and I'm watching it.

Egoy3k: Get Lost: /Excuse me while I charge up my homes battery(with a small generator) that lasts for a month and the design I stole borrowed from the a-hole who got the patent and then proceeded to bury the whole battery project to protect his oil price futures.

So you are saying that the price of fuel for your (small and inefficient) generator is cheaper than buying electricity? Where on earth do you live?

Quantum battery. It multiplies th dsfjfdfbdvfvibltuirwgbo;aenevioean [citizen removed by homeland in-security for trying to further mankind past their caveman ways].

raygundan: Get Lost: Ah the good old days when people actually built stuff(multiple designs too) without being worried about being sued out of existence for patent or copyright infringement.
/Excuse me while I charge up my homes battery(with a small generator) that lasts for a month and the design I stole borrowed from the a-hole who got the patent and then proceeded to bury the whole battery project to protect his oil price futures.

You can't bury something you've patented-- it's kind of all laid out in the patent.

Ah yes. but you can not bring the same product to market, due to the patent. Mankind loses every time.

I don't see the resemblance either. If you flip it backward, it looks sort of like the silhouette of a Klingon Bird of Prey from TOS. If you're drunk. And high. But it doesn't look like a Warbird.

LordOfThePings: Kaymon: I don't see the resemblance.

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Pretty clear to me.

Just noticed this. I thought I was the only one who remembered that old game. Used to play it a lot on my Kaypro II. Thanks for the nostalgia.

Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Sofa King Smart: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Sorry, old man, we don't understand your banter.

Sofa King Smart: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Shat on a turtle?

ShadowkahnCRX: Just noticed this. I thought I was the only one who remembered that old game. Used to play it a lot on my Kaypro II. Thanks for the nostalgia.

No idea why I thought of it. Great game for the time.

Oh, look!
A CPU heatsink and fan with wheels.
Computers really have become smaller and smaller over the years.

Sofa King Smart: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Would you say it a little slower, please?

moops: Do NOT GIS "it's a fake" at work, even with SafeSearch on. Good god, I did not want a photo of a nude porn star getting a facial on my screen.

/scrubs cache

Hey that's Ellen Page! Gotta love GIS algooglerythms.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Sofa King Smart: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Sorry, old man, we don't understand your banter.

It's perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy.

Wile_E._Quixote: Sofa King Smart: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Would you say it a little slower, please?

Banter's not the same if you say it slower, Squiffy.

probesport: Sofa King Smart: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Shat on a turtle?

Something up with my banter, chaps?

Egoy3k: I still have random people describe devices which amount to perpetual motion machines to me when they find out that I'm an engineer.

What's even funnier is when you start asking questions about where the energy is coming from and how it's coming back after being transformed into heat, and motion. It's really easy to get them flustered and start pulling stuff out of their ass (which coincidentally is probably where the original idea came from in the first place).

Sofa King Smart: Wile_E._Quixote: Sofa King Smart: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Would you say it a little slower, please?

Banter's not the same if you say it slower, Squiffy.

Wingo! Bend an ear to the squadron leader's banter for a sec, would you?

Get Lost: Ah the good old days when people actually built stuff(multiple designs too) without being worried about being sued out of existence for patent or copyright infringement.

The Wright Brothers were sued multiple times over their flying machines. They wasted considerable time and money fending lawsuits off.

The book How We Invented the Airplane was written by Orville Wright to assist with defense of their ideas.

Wile_E._Quixote: Sofa King Smart: Wile_E._Quixote: Sofa King Smart: Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Would you say it a little slower, please?

Banter's not the same if you say it slower, Squiffy.

Wingo! Bend an ear to the squadron leader's banter for a sec, would you?

(draws a deep breath and looks slightly uncertain, then starts even more deliberately then before)
Bally Jerry ... pranged his kite ... right in the how's your father ... hairy blighter ... dicky-birdied ... ... feathered back on his Sammy ... took a waspy ... flipped over on his Betty Harper's ... and caught his can in the Bertie.

Get Lost: raygundan: Get Lost: Ah the good old days when people actually built stuff(multiple designs too) without being worried about being sued out of existence for patent or copyright infringement.
/Excuse me while I charge up my homes battery(with a small generator) that lasts for a month and the design I stole borrowed from the a-hole who got the patent and then proceeded to bury the whole battery project to protect his oil price futures.

You can't bury something you've patented-- it's kind of all laid out in the patent.

Ah yes. but you can not bring the same product to market, due to the patent. Mankind loses every time.

I... no. It's an even swap-- we guarantee a temporary monopoly in exchange for you putting the whole thing down on paper. Then, in 20 years, everybody not only gets to make your invention, they have the plans to do so instead of them going into the inventor's grave like Grandma's secret recipe or something.

There's all sorts of other implementation problems with the system, but the fundamental concept of it is pretty sound.

This is just TOO MUCH NERDAGE

TwowheelinTim: What's even funnier is when you start asking questions about where the energy is coming from and how it's coming back after being transformed into heat, and motion. It's really easy to get them flustered and start pulling stuff out of their ass (which coincidentally is probably where the original idea came from in the first place).

I find that most people don't understand things like frictional losses or how to properly define the boundaries of their system. I usually nod and tell them some techno jargon until their eyes gloss over.

"Well that might work but you need to account for the angular velocity of the flange to ensure that it's rotationally stable."

"That spring will strain harden and eventually snap."

"You can't push a rope."