LRPD's eval: IWETHEY's Terrible Horde of Epithetic Yammerers

Post #19,766 by Ashton 11/29/01 11:29:17 PM Reply	LRPD's eval: IWETHEY's Terrible Horde of Epithetic Yammerers (No doubt the Great Oracle approves of the Beastly refs.) OK - 'dirt track' I'd guess too; none o' that IOM precision dicing. So: since the shape has to somehow accomplish that which human lore + feedback does on land, umm where shall the skill enter in? T'would seem that, overcooking a 'turn' would result in merely.. increasing the turn radius automagically / not elbow burns (splashes?) But then.. I have little feel for What those folks do on water anyway - except with water skis it's apparent where the skill is needed, just to stay up. Played a bit with a speedboat at Tahoe once. Cute but tame, and seems to bring out the vandal-mind in most practitioners (and.. did I mention noisy?) Hmmm .. guess my Interest would be more in the vein of a video clip ~ 3 years back, about a (local!) guy developing a personal submarine! Lie prone in a tube; imagine an optically kewl paraboloid front. Don't recall max depth he was aiming for, but it was in hundreds of feet. Maybe even deeper. Alas, such a thing would be unlikely to reach prod. levels where anyone could afford it - but imagine an entire new world to explore, without the rigors of Tri-Mix and the usual SCUBA training and hazards. (Not to worry: exceed crush depth and.. no time to worry.) He seemed to think he could make a commercial one, though obviously not into the plan for usual bizness reasons. Physics + new materials - under $20K? Don't think I heard his hoped-for price. 3-D: now That's what a watercraft ought to do !! Ashton Beebe Verne
Post #19,771 by Andrew Grygus 11/30/01 12:24:16 AM Reply	Thought that was "Pathetic Yammerers" [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #19,781 by Silverlock 11/30/01 8:37:45 AM Reply	It is But see, since we are an eCommunity, we are ePathetic. And ePedantic. When I visit the aquarium, the same thought keeps running through my mind; Leemmmooonnn, Buuttteerrr, MMMmmmmmm good!
Post #19,816 by Ashton 11/30/01 4:28:57 PM Reply	LRPD be versatile as well as prescient.. empathic epithelial eclectic ecdysiastic ecoterroristic euphemistic eulogistic eutectic endo-European enneagrammatic eucharistic euphonious Euripidean expropriating extricating edifying excommunicating exasperating endodontic effusive ecStatic erroneous ectomorphic efficacious egregious eigenfunctioning extraterrestrial ejaculative (hey! that's about words) ejective emending ebullient eponymous and.. ecumenical (But only on Fridays) All Hail the Llanthropythical Elll Arrrrgh Pee Dee !!
Post #19,838 by Ric Locke 11/30/01 8:19:33 PM Reply	Where's the skill? OK - 'dirt track' I'd guess too; none o' that IOM precision dicing. So: since the shape has to somehow accomplish that which human lore + feedback does on land, umm where shall the skill enter in? T'would seem that, overcooking a 'turn' would result in merely.. increasing the turn radius automagically / not elbow burns (splashes?) Well, now, don't think even a Beowulf cluster (still current?) would be able to model the thing well enough to eliminate the skill. Too much lean? You get wet, with a strong flow up your nose (that is the direction it's going). Not enough, a-over-t -- call me skippy... And despite the utmost efforts of able engineers, the surface of the water is not a plane. Related story: A friend in high school once had a boat made of two pieces of marine plywood and a few sticks of 1x10. Build a wedge, 10" thick at the back, then cut the front out in a semicircle. Power was an old "seven-horse" Evinrude, from the days when outboard racing was by manufacturer's advertised horsepower. Change the reed and the jets, and it was more like fifteen. Directional "control" was the skeg of a broken slalom ski, screwed to the bottom in more or less the center... we were out on the lake one day, with plenty of fuel, and another friend was driving it. Probably thirty MPH across the water -- and a Chris-Craft passed across his bows at about ten knots. Have you ever seen the bow wave one of those puppies puts out? Boat climbed the wave, went airborne, then (against all expectation) began nosing over instead of flipping bow-up. Thin end of wedge entered the other bow wave, more or less perpendicular to the water surface. plurg! Hardly a splash. Tim had on a good life preserver, as evidenced by the fact that he did bob to the surface eventually, as did the boat (though quite a ways away from the, er, scene of the incident). Don't think the nabobs in the Love Boat ever noticed anything... The boat was retired to pontoon duty on our fishing trips. Ah, youth. Regards, Ric

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