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"HVAC" |
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28 Sep 2006 05:23:13 AM |
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Why are flying saucers round? |
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Yes, Jenny, I know the answer.
First off....Are you hot?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
So, when you hear someone say, "***** the aliems", they
really mean it.
PS- If you ARE indeed hot, please send pictures
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| User: "Hagar" |
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| Title: Re: Why are flying saucers round? |
28 Sep 2006 10:52:26 AM |
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"HVAC" <MR.HVAC@gmail.com> wrote in message
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"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Well, Toots, the first UFOs to arrive here on Earth were actually square.
The Alien advance party made their first mistake by hijacking several beer
trucks. Their second mistake was to subsequently go on a sightseeing tour
of the Grand Canyon. When they went in, their UFOs were square ... when
they came out, they were round.
Since the Aliens did take quite a liking to fermented hops and malt and also
developed a loving affinity for the Grand Canyon ("The biggest crack we ever
saw. heheheh"), but didn't want any recurrences of drunken episodes, their
UFO design was subsequently changes to include the canyon wall induced
modifications.
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| User: "Steve O" |
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| Title: Re: Why are flying saucers round? |
28 Sep 2006 11:42:04 AM |
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"Hagar" <hagen@sahm.name> wrote in message
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"HVAC" <MR.HVAC@gmail.com> wrote in message
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"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
AFAIK the term "Flying Saucers" came from the pattern of flight alllegedly
observed, and not particularly the shape of the UFO.
One of the first apparant observers of lights in the sky told a newspaper
reporter that the lights "flew across the sky in a skimming motion, similar
to what a saucer looks like if you skim it across a pond"
The term "Flying Saucer" took hold, with most people later assuming it
referred to the shape of the craft rather than the flight pattern.
Personally though, how people make a leap of logic from "seeing lights in
the sky" to "there are a race of little green aliens who visit this planet
in interstellar craft from time to time" is beyond me.
--
Steve O
a.a. #2240
"My last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke
and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the "National Day of
Prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King
impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold
hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the
first place." - Richard Dawkins
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| User: "Bert A W RvB " |
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| Title: Re: Why are flying saucers round? |
28 Sep 2006 09:27:29 AM |
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HVAC schreef:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Yes, Jenny, I know the answer.
First off....Are you hot?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
So, when you hear someone say, "***** the aliems", they
really mean it.
PS- If you ARE indeed hot, please send pictures
Flying saucers are round because in that way the strength on the
surface is on each part the same.
Here are those formulas:
Round for the width
and for the height: x = ( c + 1 - y ) y
Bert RvB.
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| User: "Andres64" |
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| Title: Re: Why are flying saucers round? |
28 Sep 2006 02:43:34 PM |
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HVAC wrote:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round.
Because if they were square, they wouldn't be flying saucers, would
they?
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| User: "jcon" |
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| Title: Re: Why are flying saucers round? |
28 Sep 2006 09:56:09 AM |
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HVAC wrote:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Strange sightings go back many centuries and things are described
as all sorts of different shapes: discs, cylinders, torpedoes, eggs,
but
commonly spheres.
In the early part of the 20th century, alien spacecraft in popular
books
and later films were usually bullet-shaped, becoming cigar
shaped as actual rockets began to appear.
I believe the term "flying saucer" was coined in one of the first
widely
reported modern events in 1947, when Kenneth Arnold reported
nine disk shaped objects the "flew like a saucer would if you
skipped it across the water". The name stuck, as did the concept.
Shortly after, flying saucers began to appear in popular movies. I
*think* the first was "The Flying Saucer" in 1950, but the next
two decades were choc-a-bloc full of them, including classics like
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Forbidden Planet". Anyway,
this forever cemented the concept of "saucers" with "space travel"
(for aliens anyway; humans still often flew cigars) and since
then, the vast majority of "sightings" have been saucer shaped.
So either the aliens are watching our old movies, or....
-jc
Yes, Jenny, I know the answer.
First off....Are you hot?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
So, when you hear someone say, "***** the aliems", they
really mean it.
PS- If you ARE indeed hot, please send pictures
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| User: "Sir Gilligan Horry" |
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| Title: Re: Why are flying saucers round? |
28 Sep 2006 04:24:23 PM |
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On 28 Sep 2006 07:56:09 -0700, "jcon" <cirejcon@yahoo.com> wrote:
HVAC wrote:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Strange sightings go back many centuries and things are described
as all sorts of different shapes: discs, cylinders, torpedoes, eggs,
but
commonly spheres.
In the early part of the 20th century, alien spacecraft in popular
books
and later films were usually bullet-shaped, becoming cigar
shaped as actual rockets began to appear.
I believe the term "flying saucer" was coined in one of the first
widely
reported modern events in 1947, when Kenneth Arnold reported
nine disk shaped objects the "flew like a saucer would if you
skipped it across the water". The name stuck, as did the concept.
Shortly after, flying saucers began to appear in popular movies. I
*think* the first was "The Flying Saucer" in 1950, but the next
two decades were choc-a-bloc full of them, including classics like
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Forbidden Planet". Anyway,
this forever cemented the concept of "saucers" with "space travel"
(for aliens anyway; humans still often flew cigars) and since
then, the vast majority of "sightings" have been saucer shaped.
So either the aliens are watching our old movies, or....
-jc
I know one thing for sure,
many of the UFOs in the 40s, 50s, 60s, looked old fashioned.
I doubt they were made by beings out there 5000 years or millions of
years ahead of us in technology.
Then there was mention of a triangle antigravity chamber in the
Disclosure Project, so some of them might be human made.
And they don't look old fashioned, those black triangles look great.
http://www.log24.com/log/pix03/030613-blacktriangle.jpg
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| User: "Martin Willett" |
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| Title: Re: Why are flying saucers round? |
28 Sep 2006 03:01:09 PM |
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HVAC wrote:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Yes, Jenny, I know the answer.
First off....Are you hot?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
So, when you hear someone say, "***** the aliems", they
really mean it.
PS- If you ARE indeed hot, please send pictures
The reason rockets are shaped like dicks has nothing to do with Freud
and everything to do with physics.
A cylindrical shape longer than it is wide and with a pointed or rounded
end is the most efficient shape to penetrate with a large volume any
medium which offers significant amounts of resistance or drag. At the
escape velocities of planets big enough to retain an atmosphere any
atmosphere offers significant resistance and so you should expect any
craft that takes off from the surface of such a planet carrying its own
fuel to be broadly phallic in shape unless the designers actually had a
hang up about such a shape.
The reason dicks are shaped like dicks is very similar. They only vary
in shape if they have bone to hold them stiff, in which case they can be
longer and narrower than penes without supporting structures. Other
variations include the pig's cervix-penetrating corkscrew and the dog's
knotting bulb.
Designing a spacecraft to fly though space and enter the atmospheres of
planets is stupid. Spaceships can be any shape and don't need to have
thick heatshields. A sensible strategy is to have a large spaceship and
a smaller shuttle to go down to the surface of the planet. The two
media, vacuum and dense gaseous atmospheres are so different designing
something to cope with both is stupid. How stupid? As stupid as
designing a 4,000 berth cruise ship which could drive up the jetty and
into the car park of a back street taverna six miles inland.
--
Martin Willett
http://mwillett.org/
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| User: "hughe" |
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| Title: Re: Why are flying saucers round? |
28 Sep 2006 05:42:38 AM |
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HVAC wrote:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Yes, Jenny, I know the answer.
First off....Are you hot?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
So, when you hear someone say, "***** the aliems", they
really mean it.
PS- If you ARE indeed hot, please send pictures
You know this could be a kid asking a simple question don't you? Too much
to ask you to find out a bit about the people you talk too? Before you get
in the ***** remarks?
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| User: "Witziges Rätsel" |
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28 Sep 2006 12:18:36 PM |
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I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Yes, Jenny, I know the answer.
First off....Are you hot?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
So, when you hear someone say, "***** the aliems", they
really mean it.
PS- If you ARE indeed hot, please send pictures
You know this could be a kid asking a simple question don't you? Too much
to ask you to find out a bit about the people you talk too? Before you get
in the ***** remarks?
What kids read online is a matter for parents to regulate. Besides,
today's kids are very sophisticated and usually have dirtier minds and
mouths than adults do.
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| User: "Sir Gilligan Horry" |
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28 Sep 2006 04:13:44 PM |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:18:36 GMT, "Witziges Rätsel" <zer@roer.com>
wrote:
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Yes, Jenny, I know the answer.
First off....Are you hot?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
So, when you hear someone say, "***** the aliems", they
really mean it.
PS- If you ARE indeed hot, please send pictures
You know this could be a kid asking a simple question don't you? Too much
to ask you to find out a bit about the people you talk too? Before you get
in the ***** remarks?
What kids read online is a matter for parents to regulate. Besides,
today's kids are very sophisticated and usually have dirtier minds and
mouths than adults do.
Yer, that's true, aye.
But I'll have to look up the word "sophisticated" for context.......
2. sophisticated - ahead in development; complex or intricate;
"advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"
4. sophisticated - intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"
................
Well, with that type of evolution, I suppose according to the Drake
Equation some aliens OUT THERE swear two or three times before every
other word.
eg.
I ***** ***** *** went ***** ********* ********** over ******* ******
*** to ******** ******** **** my ******* **** ******** alien *********
**** ***** ** girlfriends ******* ***** ****** place ******** ******
and ********.
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| User: "Sir Gilligan Horry" |
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28 Sep 2006 07:05:22 PM |
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:13:44 +1200, Sir Gilligan Horry
<GM@ga7rm5er.com> wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:18:36 GMT, "Witziges Rätsel" <zer@roer.com>
wrote:
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Yes, Jenny, I know the answer.
First off....Are you hot?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
So, when you hear someone say, "***** the aliems", they
really mean it.
PS- If you ARE indeed hot, please send pictures
You know this could be a kid asking a simple question don't you? Too much
to ask you to find out a bit about the people you talk too? Before you get
in the ***** remarks?
What kids read online is a matter for parents to regulate. Besides,
today's kids are very sophisticated and usually have dirtier minds and
mouths than adults do.
Yer, that's true, aye.
But I'll have to look up the word "sophisticated" for context.......
2. sophisticated - ahead in development; complex or intricate;
"advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"
4. sophisticated - intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"
...............
Well, with that type of evolution, I suppose according to the Drake
Equation some aliens OUT THERE swear two or three times before every
other word.
eg.
I ***** ***** *** went ***** ********* ********** over ******* ******
*** to ******** ******** **** my ******* **** ******** alien *********
**** ***** ** girlfriends ******* ***** ****** place ******** ******
and ********.
"Star trekking across the Universe,
swearing our heads off as we traverse ! "
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| User: "Gman" |
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28 Sep 2006 05:20:13 PM |
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HVAC wrote:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
Dude, all of a sudden the term "anal probe" is begining to make
sense...
Like, it's all starting to "come together" now.
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| User: "Frontiersman" |
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30 Sep 2006 07:55:23 AM |
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Jenny:
http://imageevent.com/cropcirclerational/cropcirclesdecoded;jsessionid=s97mc684o1.lion_s?n=46&z=3&w=2&x=1&c=3&m=45&p=45
Tom
Gman wrote:
HVAC wrote:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Anyway, here it is..... You see, ALL of our rockets are
shaped like a *****...Right?
OK, now the aliems decided that to attract our attention
they'd shape their craft to resemble a ***** or hole. Hence
the round shape.
Dude, all of a sudden the term "anal probe" is begining to make
sense...
Like, it's all starting to "come together" now.
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| User: "" |
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28 Sep 2006 06:11:41 PM |
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On 28 Sep 2006 03:23:13 -0700, "HVAC" <MR.HVAC@gmail.com> wrote:
"Jenny" <jennythereader@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159403001.566224.105380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
I mean traditionally in movies and stuff, they're always round. Is
round more aerodynamic for space? Does it just look cool? When did the
concept of flying saucers being round first take root? Everything round
seems to be associated with aliens from roombas to Frisbees. Anyone
know the origin?
Maybe the first writings about aliens had them arriving in round
ships. The wheel may still have been a novelty back then.
Anyway they must have been round, or they mightn't have been called
saucers.
From: Sunyata of America!!!
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of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple
matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the
country to greater danger."
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Used to be that the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Now the
rich are killing the poor because they don't need us any more. The
automatons we built for them replaced us. Now we can't shine their shoes.
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