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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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I find myself reminded of the post I made, lo these many pages ago  , where I demonstrated that you can indeed balance a coke can on your fingertip. All it takes is little ingenuity and a big funnel. The same applies to the moon lander, albeit on a grander and more complicated scale.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Starman
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 04:47:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
I find myself reminded of the post I made, lo these many pages ago , where I demonstrated that you can indeed balance a coke can on your fingertip. All it takes is little ingenuity and a big funnel. The same applies to the moon lander, albeit on a grander and more complicated scale.
I'm impressed. You must have strong fingers!
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 06:32:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by breakballs
I agree with bigbrain. I am a helicopter pilot.
A rocket can't land going backwards.
It can't use its rocket engine as a brake, it would wag its top and it would become uncontrollable.
Your posting style seems familiar. Perhaps some sock-puppetry by bigbrain to get someone to agree with him? |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 06:44:46 [Permalink]
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| I wonder if someone could do an IP check on both posters to see if there is some chicanery in our midst... |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 07:02:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
I wonder if someone could do an IP check on both posters to see if there is some chicanery in our midst...
Chicanery? At SFN?!! Not possible!.... Is it?
Oh, say not so!
Might be telling, if not particularly interesting, to see if breakballs gets involved in any threads other than this one. If he's a'trollin' or a'sockin', he probably won't.
Might be he's just another benighted soul who's been hanging at the moon landing hoax sites and needs some accurate info to offset their nonsense.
One hopes....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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pleco
SFN Addict
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 07:26:10 [Permalink]
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| The reason I said that is the "I am a helicopter pilot" statement, which, if we recall, bigbrain had a big diatribe on helicopters in one of the earlier tomes. Just sounded suspect to me...oh well it doesn't really matter. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 10:38:14 [Permalink]
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BigBrain and BreakBalls, Hmmm.....
Even more telling Breakballs AGREES with Bigbrain,
Come on, what are the odds that anyone would agree with Bigbrain???
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breakballs
Sockpuppet
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 11:09:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
I find myself reminded of the post I made, lo these many pages ago , where I demonstrated that you can indeed balance a coke can on your fingertip. All it takes is little ingenuity and a big funnel. The same applies to the moon lander, albeit on a grander and more complicated scale.
Don't say absurdities |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 11:41:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by breakballs
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Originally posted by filthy
I find myself reminded of the post I made, lo these many pages ago , where I demonstrated that you can indeed balance a coke can on your fingertip. All it takes is little ingenuity and a big funnel. The same applies to the moon lander, albeit on a grander and more complicated scale.
Don't say absurdities
Hello, bigbrain. Couldn't get anyone to agree with you here so you had to invent a new persona?
Sock-puppetry is discouraged here. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 13:14:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by breakballs
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Originally posted by filthy
I find myself reminded of the post I made, lo these many pages ago , where I demonstrated that you can indeed balance a coke can on your fingertip. All it takes is little ingenuity and a big funnel. The same applies to the moon lander, albeit on a grander and more complicated scale.
Don't say absurdities
And how exactly, is that absurd? Can't you balance a coke can on your fingertip? I can...
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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breakballs
Sockpuppet
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 13:51:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
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Originally posted by breakballs
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Originally posted by filthy
I find myself reminded of the post I made, lo these many pages ago , where I demonstrated that you can indeed balance a coke can on your fingertip. All it takes is little ingenuity and a big funnel. The same applies to the moon lander, albeit on a grander and more complicated scale.
Don't say absurdities
And how exactly, is that absurd? Can't you balance a coke can on your fingertip? I can...
Are you using a full coke can? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 14:10:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by breakballs
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Originally posted by filthy
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Originally posted by breakballs
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Originally posted by filthy
I find myself reminded of the post I made, lo these many pages ago , where I demonstrated that you can indeed balance a coke can on your fingertip. All it takes is little ingenuity and a big funnel. The same applies to the moon lander, albeit on a grander and more complicated scale.
Don't say absurdities
And how exactly, is that absurd? Can't you balance a coke can on your fingertip? I can...
Are you using a full coke can?
Coke and Pepsi. et al, are poisonous substances and are not to be found in my house. I used a can of beer, and yes, it was full (although I've yet to try it with a tallboy). It was done thus: I took a big, plastic funnel and sawed off the spout. Into this, I attached a short piece of 7/8 inch dowel. To that, I glued on a scrap of plywood. The can sat on the plywood with the funnel hanging down over my hand, held up by my finger tip. It worked nicely, and the reason I went through all this is to make sure I could do it before I put forth the idea. If it hadn't worked initally, I'd have simply added weight to the funnel rim until it did work.
The lander worked the same way, except in place of a funnel, it had gyroscopes and thrusters.
Do not sell, the science short. Many problems that look vastly complicated actually have quite simple solutions.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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breakballs
Sockpuppet
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 14:37:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Coke and Pepsi. et al, are poisonous substances and are not to be found in my house. I used a can of beer, and yes, it was full (although I've yet to try it with a tallboy). It was done thus: I took a big, plastic funnel and sawed off the spout. Into this, I attached a short piece of 7/8 inch dowel. To that, I glued on a scrap of plywood. The can sat on the plywood with the funnel hanging down over my hand, held up by my finger tip. It worked nicely, and the reason I went through all this is to make sure I could do it before I put forth the idea. If it hadn't worked initally, I'd have simply added weight to the funnel rim until it did work.
The lander worked the same way, except in place of a funnel, it had gyroscopes and thrusters.
Do not sell, the science short. Many problems that look vastly complicated actually have quite simple solutions.
Try to balance it without the funnel. |
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 15:11:29 [Permalink]
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bigballs, er, breakbrain:
What is your take on artificial sattelites in Earth orbit? Do they exist? |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 10/10/2005 : 15:29:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by breakballs
Don't say absurdities
That grammar would have nailed it for me, even if I hadn't checked and found these two usernames posting from the same Italian ISP. What are the odds...? |
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