nik

Oh yeah! Great show!

Pretty good picks, TUH. In addition the the previously mentioned coadh, I would

add Cliff and Norm from Cheers (you really can't say one without the other).

I may sound like a dolt here, but I guess I have to add Joe Cartwright from

Bonanza. (Sorry, I'm a big Michael Landon fan.)

(Note: opinion only)

We all like to think we are in control. We invent axioms to the effect that life is is a ship that we guide ourselves. If that is true, then who do we credit for things that we do not anticipate? Things like the unexpected death of a friend can cause us to go from believing that we are the masters of our ship to thinking that our vessel is to be cast upon the rocks. Is this a life changing event?

If life is what we make it, then is anything that is not made by us is not life? I would

argue that if life is what me make, then the items outside of our control (not made by

us) do indeed change what we make, and thus are life-changing events. However, can we change our own lives with our actions.

A great person once said, "I am convinced that life is 1% what happens to me, and 99% how I react to it." Jeanway, I bet you know who said that.

Example: The death of the one person in the world who I was convinced was the only person in the world who really understood me. Unplanned. Reaction: Initial anquish and severe depression followed by a decisive effort to honor this person in my own life.

Principle: Death was immediate and quick. The reaction continues.

(Yeah, I know, that sounds corny, but it's a tough question.)

^^ Is again, very kind with words. And asks great questions - true wisdom, not just knowledge.

Probably, you've got the PM.

^Has an extremely puzzling, yet fascinating name, and maybe she'll explain it someday.

Well said, Chronic. Life is a big song, and the best thing to do if we can't

anticipate it is just dance with it.

Or..... as my ancestors said:

Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.

the answer is, yes, subs can go for longer without surfacing. Modern Diesel Electric (SS in US Navy Designations) submarines have more powerful batteries, and air recycling systems. however, Diesel Electric subs still have to surface to run the diesel engines and charge the batteries used for undersea ops. The US Navy has a submarine force of 53 attack, 16 Fleet Ballistic missile subs, 2 FBMs undergoing conversion to Guided Missile submarines, 1 deep submurgence vehicle, and one Research Sub. of those submarines, which doesn't include DSRVs and unmanned vessels, only the Research Sub, USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) is not powered by a nuclear reactor. other countries use a mix, but the US Navy doesn't have any combattant diesel electric subs.

 

by the way, a Nuclear submarine has only one limit to how long it can stay submurged and away from port---the amount of food it caries for the crew.

Now that's cool.

Toronto in 5

Tampa Bay in 6

Detroit in 6

San Jose in 7

Belfour is in the zone and can't be stopped.

San Jose will struggle to come out alive and

definitively lose against Detroit in 4 or 5 games.

Detroit against Toronto in the final. Too close to call yet.

Ensign, is it true that modern subs can stay submerged for a longer period of time? I once heard that the old WWII subs had to come up to "snorkel depth" occassionally. Is this true, and if so, how often? How often to

modern subs need to surface to keep the crew alive? Do you cycle your own

air similar to what is done on spacecraft?

I'm usually a person who sees an opportunity, siezes it, tackles it, sucks the marrow out of it's bones, and leaves the remnants for any carrion fowl that might pass by. However, I've started to mellow a bit, and that the world is more than another

challenge but people, most of whom are not nearly as fortunate as I. Slowly, very slowly, my very thick, osmium-plated skull will realize that the best opportunities are those that affect not one's own life, but the lives of others.

Poorly.... I still drink coffee, and I'm still five pounds over my optimal racing weight......

You would eat dog food?? Ewww

 

Youghurt and a Glass of Pepsi Max

You would be surprised how many dog owners eat dog food to make sure it's good enough for their dogs. It's not uncommon to be in the pet store, and seeing people

sampling the bulk dog food before buying it. Wierd? Slightly. Unhealthy? Nah....

Gives you healthy teeth and a nice shiny coat!

That's Latin. Literally, it means, "In the same place." (i.e., "What she said....")

NORMAL :)

ibidem

"Tu marche sur mon haricot? "

Well, that's how one would translate literally, but I'm probably wrong..... never heard that one before. That's good. I'll have to try it in English to see what sort of reactions I invoke.

Nori is seaweed that has been dried (and sometimes salted). It's typically made the same way paper is made. One can place it on the rice,and used the chopsticks to

sort of scoop up some rice with the nori. Very tasty, good energy.

I've had millet. In fact, I used to have a parakeet, and - being a person who fellt

the need to test anything before subjecting my pets to it - would taste test everything

I fed to my bird, dog, fish, etc. (Sort of off topic, I guess.)

Rice, nori, tuna, and coffee.

In high school, I worked in a pretty nice restaurant, starting off as a prep cook, and then getting promoted to chef by the time I graduated. We used to take great pride in

our work. The exec-chef would always say, "Make every plate a Mona Lisa." I remember he had a framed quote in his office, and I think that was it. He (and hence,

the rest of the crew) really took cooking seriously. Indeed, it is both art and science.

We always found time to "experiment" - different techniques, different recipes, different

tools. While I found the art to be tremendously fullfilling, my niche in the kitchen was sort of as the chief science office (yes, the exec ran the kitchen like a well-tuned

naval vessel). The most efficient cooks were the ones who had in intimate knowledge of things like specific heats (i.e., why a potato take a while to bake, while a filet

mignon can take minutes), thermodynamic conduction (why you use higher heat to

cook a rarer cut), convection (blow hot air over the food to cook more uniformly), mechanics (why it's dangerous to fleur strawberries with French knife), chemistry (which cleaning solvent do we use on the silver), and on an on. Economics was also an issue. It was hard work, but the results were beautiful. If I never make in this career, I'm opening a restaurant.

Cooking is fun. Good topic! We should discuss more!

And again, thanks for the dedication. As the Japanese would say, "Aoi ganmen ga arimasu." ("I am blue-faced." That's what they say when they blush. Funny, no?)

That's tough. All those ships are fascinating, but if I have to vote for one, I'd say the

Phoenix. The pioneer spirit has been in my blood since birth, and I can't get it out. To me, it would be a huge thrill to be the first to do something. Even if others come along and improve it, you're still the first. The Phoenix.

I dedicate this thread to nik :)

Aw, shucks, Jeanway, you're very kind! (Where's the blushing smiley?)

That's a great quote! Where did you get it? It sounds like something I had

hanging in a kitchen once upon a time in another place.

i believe the answer to the drift question lies in the fact that the earth's core is a large iron ball surrounded by a sea of molten iron/metal/ore..magma creates a large electro/magnetic field which sometimes the core drifts alittle. something like that.

Pretty much. I'm no geophysicist, but the crust essentially "floats" on the earths core, and so they can indeed move w.r.t. each other. The core has a lot of ferromagnetic material in it, and so you can see how this might happen. When we add components of

angular momentum, as well as things like the "Hall effect", we can get "nutations" in the

magnetic poles, which have been postulated to sometimes result in complete

pole reversals.

OK, talking about my work again. Neutron stars have pretty robust magnetic fields

(well.... freakishly phenomenal magnetic fields.) However, they are also thought to be superconducting. What that means is that magnetic "flux tubes" within the star can

"pin" - get stuck so to speak - so that they affect the motion of the star. We see

neutron star pulsars which actuall will "spin up" and then "spin down" and then have

"crust quakes" becuase this flux tube pinning is creating instabililties. Neat stuff.

In general, the reason earth coordinates aren't used in space is becuase the earth is

a rapidly moving reference frame with respect to the starts, galaxy, and even the sun. It would be like trying to pinpoint the position of a building by referencing with respect to a horse on a merry-go-round.

In astronomy, the coordinate system IS similar to the earth's - with different

names for the coordinates, but the locations are fixed with something pretty

"stationary", much like "guide stars" in nautical navigation. (I don't remember

what our "stationary" points are, as headbord described.

Yes nik, I must concur, that was pretty stupid

It was one of those absolutely DUMB things. I don't know why I did it, I can't explain what mental process or synaptic misfire prompted such an action, but fortunately,

it didn't harm the business in any way, and I"m glad my boss didn't have a camera.

OK! Who else did an embarrasing thing! NEXT!.....................

I love lighthouses nik

And even fewer people who know that a lighthouse employs a Fresnel lens!