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Space Forum / Shuttle / September 2005Rite: To Our Friends in the Southern USA
Just a note that we're thinking of you all and hope that everyone is and will be OK.  Signaturerk, Just an OldEngineer "These are highly complicated pieces of equipment almost as complicated as living organisms. In some cases, they've been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work." -- Scientist in Michael Crichton's 1973 movie, Westworld Yup, sometimes nature seems to come up with some sadistic moves. Brian SignatureBrian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: briang1@blueyonder.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > Just a note that we're thinking of you all and hope that everyone is and > will > be OK. > Yup, sometimes nature seems to come up with some sadistic moves. > > Brian It is kind of spooky that mother nature seems to be aiming for NASA, with one hurricane hitting KSC last year, a second hitting Michoud and Stennis this year, and now a third lining up to put JSC under water maybe. - Ed Kyle >It is kind of spooky that mother nature seems to >be aiming for NASA, with one hurricane hitting >KSC last year, a second hitting Michoud and >Stennis this year, and now a third lining up >to put JSC under water maybe. > Yeah, one gets the feeling that building space facilities near our Allah-accursed oil production and shipping facilities wasn't a wise move. Of course, the real culprits are the Japanese Yakuza: http://www.flashnews.com/news/wfn1050908J5463.html ;-) Pat >> Yup, sometimes nature seems to come up with some sadistic moves. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >be aiming for NASA, with one hurricane hitting >KSC last year, Two: Frances and Jeanne. Plus the outskirts of Charley. Brian > > Yup, sometimes nature seems to come up with some sadistic moves. > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > - Ed Kyle If NASA was concentrated all in one place, away from the coast a few dozen miles, then all those aims but one would have been a miss, and the one would have been seriously downgraded by the time it dragged it's whirly butt over those few dozen land miles. The real question is why the number of Cat 4 and 5 storms has nearly doubled in the last few decades. JazzMan Signature********************************************************** Please reply to jsavage"at"airmail.net. Curse those darned bulk e-mailers! ********************************************************** "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry ********************************************************** >The real question is why the number of Cat 4 and 5 storms has >nearly doubled in the last few decades. > Well, let us assure you it has nothing at all to do with any foolish and unsupported claims of global warming. It's probably due to immorality on the liberal elite controlled television channels. It could well be that the only things preventing 200 force 5 hurricanes a year are Fox News and The Christian Broadcast Network- which are the only two networks that God watches and trusts to give him the unbiased true story about what's going on on Earth. ;-) The Republican Party Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote: >Well, let us assure you it has nothing at all to do with any foolish and >unsupported claims of global warming. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >only two networks that God watches and trusts to give him the unbiased >true story about what's going on on Earth. ;-) Let me direct your attention to the latest *sound* science: * a re-analysis of the Maunder minimum at Powerline * new oceanic carbon uptake data from Michael Crichton * a more nuanced assessment of sulfate aerosol reflectivity by Hannity, O'Reilly, Savage & Limbaugh * the American Enterprise Institute's "Green Greenland: Market Opportunities in the New North." I can provide citations for a reasonable price. (That old "give them away" approach betrays the Marxist orientation of 99.932% of academics.) > Let me direct your attention to the latest *sound* science: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > away" approach betrays the Marxist orientation of 99.932% of > academics.) It's like they say - 0.068% of climatologists can't be wrong! Signature-Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:15:15 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: >>The real question is why the number of Cat 4 and 5 storms has >>nearly doubled in the last few decades. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >only two networks that God watches and trusts to give him the unbiased >true story about what's going on on Earth. ;-) Nope, the Yakuza are doing it: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170064,00.html That'll teach us to nuke Japan. >Yup, sometimes nature seems to come up with some sadistic moves. > Either that, or we've really torqued off Allah. :-\ Pat > Just a note that we're thinking of you all and hope that everyone is and will > be OK. Thanks for the thoughts. We really should pass a law or something to end these hurricanes. Maybe require the NWS to get a permit for anything larger than a tropical storm. SignatureScott >Thanks for the thoughts. We really should pass a law or something to end >these hurricanes. Maybe require the NWS to get a permit for anything larger >than a tropical storm. > Was Texas the state that once passed a law defining Pi as 3.0? :-D Pat >>Thanks for the thoughts. We really should pass a law or something >>to end [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> > Was Texas the state that once passed a law defining Pi as 3.0? :-D Nah. 'twas Indiana, IIRC. SignaturePete Stickney Java Man knew nothing about coffee. >>Was Texas the state that once passed a law defining Pi as 3.0? :-D > > Nah. 'twas Indiana, IIRC. Apparently: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html Am Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:17:24 -0400 schrieb "Peter Stickney": >> Was Texas the state that once passed a law defining Pi as 3.0? :-D >Nah. 'twas Indiana, IIRC. Don't laugh! Germany has a valid law that simply defines Pi as 3.1 (yep, just cut after the first decimal). It is to calculate car taxes based on motor displacement, so the tax payers profit a bit, because a given displacement is tax-wise around a percent less than really built-in... cu, ZiLi aka HKZL (Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker) Signature"Abusus non tollit usum" - Latin: Abuse is no argument against proper use. mailto: heinrich@zili.de http://zili.de > Am Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:17:24 -0400 schrieb "Peter Stickney": > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > given displacement is tax-wise around a percent less than really > built-in... This is... inspiredly wonderful. Any chance you have a citation for this (even a reference to the name of the law)? I know a few people who'd be amused to see it... Signature-Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk >>Don't laugh! Germany has a valid law that simply defines Pi as 3.1 >>(yep, just cut after the first decimal). It is to calculate car taxes [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > (even a reference to the name of the law)? I know a few people who'd be > amused to see it... It's not a law, it is a regulation (i.e., a piece of text that makes it possible to actually execute a given law). And it is quite practical: it states that in calculating the volume of a cylinder based on its radius, the value of pi/4 is to be approximated to 0,78. Given that your measure- ment of the cylinder's proportions will not usually be more accurate than about 1%, and being design values anyway, it makes perfect sense to define a value, and one with this kind of precision to boot. Jan JRS: In article <3pq8omFbk8i5U1@individual.net>, dated Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:44:13, seen in news:sci.space.shuttle, =?ISO- 8859-15?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?= <jvorbrueggen-not@mediasec.de> posted : >>>Don't laugh! Germany has a valid law that simply defines Pi as 3.1 >>>(yep, just cut after the first decimal). It is to calculate car taxes [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >about 1%, and being design values anyway, it makes perfect sense to define >a value, and one with this kind of precision to boot. However, using 11/14 would be much better. Signature© John Stockton, Surrey, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v4.00 MIME. © Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms PAS EXE etc : <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/> - see 00index.htm Dates - miscdate.htm moredate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc. >>>Thanks for the thoughts. We really should pass a law or something >>>to end [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Nah. 'twas Indiana, IIRC. http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.htm |
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