jrinwv
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jrinwv

Tyler,

You know that one gun turret on the Iowa exploded during gunnery training some years back? Killed like 80 sailors, one of which the Navy tried to blame for the event. But then, of course all the munitions for these babies were built during WW II, using cloth bags filled with black powder milled 40 years ago, shooting

Not quite... the x-ray emissions stimulate atoms/particles to emit photons in the blue part of the spectrum, so I’m betting if you had eyes that could accumulate light for an all night session, you could see these colors.

What I thought, thanks. All are sweet design work.

I'm not a follower of hot planes. What is this other jet? You only mention the F-35s, which I think are the darker and stealthy looking planes on the bottom of the picture.

Yes, Oxy-Acetylene burning - he’s removing that no longer useful flange from the floor.

That is a good catch. It might not be "massive frame damage" as most of these cars don't have frames per se, but still, that's ugly.

Tyler,

I seem to recall that the mass of dark matter far outweighs that of the "normal" matter we can perceive. I wonder if there's a possibility that dark matter is the real universe, full of multiple galaxy-spanning civilizations all doing business together, while our universe is a faint, barely perceptable mystery matter

We better hope so!

Now I'm really jealous! I began to suspect that many ancient dinosaurs might be violently colored, irridescently colored, and seeing fossil scales with actual colors remaining after how many hundred million years - awesome!

We bought a 2013 VW Tiguan last spring, it was a demo so we got a good deal. Then last fall I got a set of wheels and snow tires from Tirerack, and it tore up the snow when necessary all winter.

I have hundred of thousands of miles on Direct Injection vehicles, from VW TDI motors, Mercedes Benz, Ford PowerStroke Diesel, and by running them up into the red line range on shifts from a stop consistently, I have never had carbon build up that caused an operational problem with any of these vehicles.

My wife and I have worked at hard jobs or all sorts, good jobs with shitty bosses, bad jobs, hard jobs, interesting jobs. No job is worse than serving at a restaurant!

Isn't it a Bentley? At least the front end...

What's it like to get a peek at the pinnacle of GT racing? Remarkable. Especially since they never stop, avoiding body contact lap after lap by only a few inches. If you can forget about their value for a second, you'll see that race cars were meant to do this, and the fact that their owners feel the same about them

I currently own a 2011 Mercedes-Benz C300 which I'm really kind of afraid to drive out of town on vacation. We had just got back from a weekend driving vacation when the wiring harness for the engine failed. It barely got me to the dealer, where I shut it down and talked to the service guy. He said after I told him

This is one of the largest airplanes ever built, and certainly one of the largest still in service where it is used to carry massive payloads. Since it was built in 1988, the AN-225 is sort of a last hurrah for insane Soviet aircraft.

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