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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Just a response to the implication that a “chicken cannon” is an odd or silly thing to be using. What else would one use for such purposes?

    Chickens seem ideal. A bit on the largish side of the range of birds, they should adequately simulate striking an albatross, or buzzard, or an eagle. You could use a pigeon, but they are more toward the middlin' part of the scale. It wouldn't be as thorough a test.

    Birds are rather lightly constructed, their bones are more of an open framework, less solid than land dwelling animals. Substituting rats and groundhogs would bias the test negative.

    Chickens, while not as prolific as said rodents, are prolific enough, are widely raised, and can be easily obtained.

    It is possible something else, say a carp, might have similar characteristics as a chicken; I doubt anyone has seriously looked in to this, so there's an opportunity. That said, carp seem to me to be more difficult to obtain and more expensive, and we already know the chickens work.

    Which leaves, a synthetic substitute. Maybe ballistics gel with embedded fibers and plastic 'bones'. PETA would be happy. I see problems with validating the artificial chicken object as being representative, and costing quite a bit more. Manufacturing quality might become a factor that has to be accounted for. Still, it seems doable. Except, the usage rate is low enough that I don't see a viable business model for the manufacturer, so you probably need to dedicate a technician to make them in house. At a guess, the study to specify the object has never been done, because chickens are already available, and no one is going to invest in the development.

    I wonder if they use the chicken afterward? I'm guessing no, it probably has bits of canopy plastic, and they may need to keep the remains as reference, and so refreeze it.

    Definitely not a silly thing, or they built it. It is after all a useful device. But it is odd; the first time you hear about it, you think your leg is being pulled. Few people have ever seen one.

    Thanks for asking, I enjoyed the thought exercise; as appropriate to the thread, it made me happy.

     

     

  4. Posted

    Just now, mlooney said:

    Thawed chicken. Granted it took the MythBusters 3 tries to find out that.

    I must have missed that episode. I heard (before Mythbusters was a thing) that the Brits asked to use it, and broke several windshields. Then it was explained to them, "Thaw first".

    I visited the the facility long ago. I don't recall why, likely a conference. I don't remember seeing the chicken cannon; if I did, it was not being operated that day.

  9. Posted · Edited by Darth Fluffy
    Update

    Tropical trail mix. Has dried pineapple, dried mango, dried bananas (the bulk of the pack), dried coconut shreds, and some rather large, tasty raisins. Do grapes grow in the tropics? I think they might, seems like most countries have wine. A little weird, because some cold places like NY state have a lot of vineyards.

    Per Wiki, the range at least approaches tropical. Does not appear to be commonly grown on the equator.

     

  14. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Sorry, but Elliot just is not good looking or vain enough to strike the panel one pose on his own initiative

    As for the chest oval?  It is difficult to tell if it is a window or just a vacant emblem spot when expressed as a line drawing

    At least it doesn't read "YOUR AD HERE!"

    And whatever happened to Patty & Violet, and all the other female acquaintance of Charlie Brown?

    Somehow Lucy VanPelt, Little Sister Sally & late arriving Peppermint Patty seem to have stolen every line Charles Schultz wrote that could have been in anyway attributed to a girl

    Long ago, MAD Magazine did a several page cartoon on Shermy returning to visit the gang, and how much they had changed.

    The early characters were bland, did not have distinctive personalities. They generally acted like children. Even Snoopy acted much more like a dog. Sparky developed some of them, Charlie Brown in particular, added new ones with notable quirks, and let the others fade away. By the time I read it, in the early 60s, it was a different comic, and the characters' quirks were central to the comic.

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    I explained myself poorly and posted without thinking about the topic, and I apologize for that. I was speaking of bullies in general, not of Tony specifically; it is indeed valid to speculate how his bullying actions might have been born. As to what may be done about the bully, which action may be taken is uncertain to me; as I stated earlier it is a very complex matter far beyond my field of expertise. All I know is that the current general practice of simply ignoring the matter and allowing the children themselves to sort things out (or more likely, not) is suboptimal.

    Having been a child and seen how kids behave first hand, I have to agree with you.

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  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, The Old Hack said:

    The cycle of abuse. *sigh* It is an extremely complex issue. Unfortunately, discussing whether a bully's backstory is tragic or not does not really deal with the main issue, which is that the bully is presently a bully.

    "Tony is a bully" is evident. There does not seem to be disagreement about that. There is little information content in stating it.

    Background is interesting. Potential to change and develop is interesting. His backstory does not excuse his behavior can be an interesting statement.

    Dan has taken Diane, who was a negative character, and has spun her as a positive character. Could he do the same with Tony? Plausibly? I think it's easy to see that he could. I could be wrong. the room for variant opinions and discussion make it interesting.

    "the bully is presently a bully" - is there a goal related to this? Change him? Punish him? Ostracize him?

  20. Posted

    7 hours ago, mlooney said:

    The last time I was in MRI (vs CAT scan) it was for a migraine study.  I had one start while I was in the machine.  My Doctor said she didn't need to run the rest of the tests as it showed quite nicely on the MRI.  I really hate the noise a MRI makes.

    I've never been in one. I had to take my infant daughter for one, decades ago.

    We know about your cat scans, you post pictures of her all the time.

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  22. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/jestful-21

    Good Idea, Grace

    If you act like you are keeping secrets, people will notice and attempt to uncover them

    However, if you act like you have nothing to hide, the nosy may not even bother to look

    Dude, we must crawl out of bed around the same time. You posted minutes later.

    I saw you had another tag, I didn't see what it was. Do you want me to add it?

  23. Posted

    On 1/11/2022 at 3:18 PM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    George will frame the last DVD copy of Space Balls and, after mounting it on the wall of the comic shop, ...

    Space Balls, the Wall Plaque.

     

    On 1/11/2022 at 4:01 PM, mlooney said:

    None of which sounds like a good idea.  I suspect that most of the stuff about magic being a round you level of thing is going to go away soon, if it hasn't already due to magic now being in the common knowledge pool.  Now the bit about aliens might be a problem, but Arthur can always say "No, she's not an alien, she just magic"  And if the disco wizard is right, they can say "There aren't any aliens from outer space on Earth" and be technically correct. 

    "... which is the best kind of correct." (Hermes Conrad)

    - and he can send them to sensitivity training.

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