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  1. Posted

    21 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    There is, of course, the multipart MythBusters thing on Chicken Cannons.  Final result:  Thaw your chickens before firing at your high-speed train target.

    I have never seen that, would like to find it. Well, something else to hunt down. Adam has many interesting after-Myth Busters YouTubes.

  2. Posted

    4 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Duck vs F-16.  F-16 wins, but it's expensive.

    https://taskandpurpose.com/news/f16-duck-mishap-alaska/

    Giant flying mega-Hoover vacuums up at 'least one duck' (quote from the article), which causes the engine to flame out. I'm going to guess ducks, because I don't think a single duck is enough to clog the intake enough to shut down the intake, it's pretty damn big. The duck(s) could not be reached for comment, although someone probably had to clean out some of the remnants.

    I tested an air to ground frequency hopping radio in an F-16, and I had to sit through a short course just to sit in the cockpit. Most of it was 'don't touch this, here in explicit detail are the bad things that will happen to you if you do' (don't ever eject from a plane that is low to the ground), but a part of the course was 'stay away from the engine intake, it can suck you in and eviscerate you - no, further back - what part of evisccerate are you failing to understand?'

    My favorite bird and plane story is the Brits borrowing the chicken cannon to test an windshield (which is what it is designed to do). I have visited Arnold Air Development Center; the chicken cannon was real, and since it serves a useful function, probably still is. I cannot verify the truth of the anecdote, but it seems plausible, other than I suppose it needs to be clarified that they brought their windshield to the US to test it, rather than the rather humongous chicken carcass accelerator being disassembled and shipped to Europe; I've seen one article that got this detail wrong.

     

  3. Posted

    42 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    But they have the same father…  As she has said repeatably.

    And she is entirely trustworthy. And does not mess around in her relationships.

     

    2 hours ago, Amiable Dorsai said:

    They do say something about Mom.

    Which is what they might do if they were told from a young age they were hers . . .

     

    Canonically, in EGS, Ashley is Asian. Sarah does not appear to be Asian at all. Aside from everything else, this seems to preclude actual sisterhood, or some further explanation is warranted. Likely, it isn't a real consideration, and we are expected to ignore this, but as far as it goes, I stand by "They are not convincing (to me) as sisters." Doesn't mean I'm right, just seems jarring.

  5. Posted · Edited by Darth Fluffy
    Update

    3 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Really, Fluffers. You would think that a fast food place named The Rapid Rabbit would in and of itself kind of be a clue that you should not expect the meal to last long. :danshiftyeyes:

    The restaurant. The restaurant was only around for a few years after I got there, then became something else. I do not know how long it had been there, so it might have had a longer lifetime. Weirdly, it looked like a chain, but I've never seen another one. Google says there is one in Brownsville, Tx, so maybe it was?

    Update: The links I found for that are all from the same restaurant review site, and that site does not have links. My tentative conclusion is that the Brownsville location is also out of business.

  6. Posted

    3 hours ago, Amiable Dorsai said:

    I've long thought that they were involuntarily rebooted. Used to think it was by Pandora, but Voltaire seems like a good suspect, doesn't he?

    Someone caused the aberrations, Voltaire is a good guess, so he might view other immortals who target them as a threat.

  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Did Helena & Demetrius ever have contact with anyone in Moperville before the Griffin incident at the mall.?

    If all of their contacts are documented in the comic, then, as far as I recall, no. Susan and Nanase in France, then lots of observation, some interactions in the magic realm with Magus, and then the mall. But didn't they reboot between France and the mall? I recall comics about them being confused.

  9. Posted

    . . . and Pandora had way more, hundreds of years, something like 3x times a normal immortal. I suppose that it is actually impressive that she held it together as well as she did. Although, if she was as prescient as she seemed, she should have seen the outcomes of her less than optimal antics. I suppose that's all of us, in some ways.

  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    /me.  All of you stop it.

    /me throws stars around like a mall ninja on too much espresso.

    I had to read that a second time, the first time a read, "/me throws stars around like a small ninja on too much espresso." Freaking squirrels!

  16. Posted

    10 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Here is.

    All three of the “Cinder Siblings” have now said they feel “modest”.  Hope, you need to do something about that.  For CinderTedd at least…

    I think she's saying her boobs are small, in which case she should be saying, "My boobs are modest". Then again, both of the girls are short short, so maybe she's correct. It's probably just perspective, but they appear to be eye level with the other two ladies boobs.

    So, in the words of the late Bob Hope, I'll say, "Thanks for the mammaries . . .".  (Yes, that's pretty ancient.)

  18. Posted

    19 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    I woke up extra early today, on purpose, so I could work on some writing projects, that require a connection to the Internet.  From at least 5:00 to 6:55 I had no internet connection.  The internal network working just fine, but CrawKan's DHCP server seemed to be dead in the water.  Or their router, either way, no internet.  Meh.  Still up early, just a couple of hours behind.

    Maybe the pigeon was still sleeping?

  23. Posted

    57 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Ah.  I plead not enough caffeine this morning, your honor.  I'm on my 3rd pot of strong tea, and I'm still thinking about how good the bed would feel right now.

    Ah, caffeine for breakfast; mmmm . . . .

  24. Posted

    I saw that during our Saturday walk. It's different trees now, and it does not spread quite as much, here at least. The pollen drops in strings of packets, and they seem to lay better, not spread out as much; I don't see how that is good for the tree, but it is good for you and me.

  25. Posted

    22 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Because they are bird watchers, not mammal watchers.  They only care about rabbits/hare/bunnies in the context of hawk/falcon/vulture food.

    Rabbits are better, because you get extra drumsticks.

    When I moved to San Antonio, there was a fast food place, The Rapid Rabbit, that served rabbit. They did not last long, but the food was good.