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26 Aug 2006 06:33:23 PM |
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What on Earth? |
To get you started, some easy ones:
What on Earth is this at N28 30' 00", W 80 32' 40" ?
What on Earth is this at N40 45' 18", W 74 00' 18" ?
What on Earth is this at N26 53' 30", W 82 17' 00" ?
Now a harder one:
What on Earth is this at N44 48' 30", E 50 37' 48" ?
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Der alte Hexenmeister ist:
Sorcerer Androcles Dumbledore, Headmaster, hogwarts.physics
school for zauberlehrlings.
"One muggle's magic is another sorcerer's engineering"
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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| User: "Dirk Van de moortel" |
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27 Aug 2006 04:55:27 AM |
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"Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote in message news:7T4Ig.174112$F8.79356@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
To get you started, some easy ones:
What on Earth is this at N28 30' 00", W 80 32' 40" ?
What on Earth is this at N40 45' 18", W 74 00' 18" ?
What on Earth is this at N26 53' 30", W 82 17' 00" ?
Now a harder one:
What on Earth is this at N44 48' 30", E 50 37' 48" ?
--
Der alte Hexenmeister ist:
Sorcerer Androcles Dumbledore, Headmaster, hogwarts.physics
school for zauberlehrlings.
"One muggle's magic is another sorcerer's engineering"
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
And now the toughest one of all:
What on Earth is this at 82.34.65.187 ?
Solution at
http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/ImmortalFumbles.html
(look for Androcles)
Dirk Vdm
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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| Title: Re: What on Earth? |
27 Aug 2006 07:53:58 AM |
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"Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com> wrote
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| "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote in message
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| > To get you started, some easy ones:
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| > What on Earth is this at N28 30' 00", W 80 32' 40" ?
| > What on Earth is this at N40 45' 18", W 74 00' 18" ?
| > What on Earth is this at N26 53' 30", W 82 17' 00" ?
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| > Now a harder one:
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| > What on Earth is this at N44 48' 30", E 50 37' 48" ?
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| > --
| > Der alte Hexenmeister ist:
| > Sorcerer Androcles Dumbledore, Headmaster, hogwarts.physics
| > school for zauberlehrlings.
| > "One muggle's magic is another sorcerer's engineering"
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| > http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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| And now the toughest one of all:
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| What on Earth is this at 82.34.65.187 ?
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| Solution at
| http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/ImmortalFumbles.html
| (look for Androcles)
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| Dirk Vdm
1) What is this?
2) Some kind of quote of some post?
Clarification:
Something you want us to believe you invented?
Something you found somewhere?
Something you want to tell us?
Something you want to tell us something about?
Something you forgot to delete when you started?
3) An introduction to the ***** you produce later on?
4) ***** that you expect someone will bother reading?
Clarification:
The '*****' in question 4 is a reprise of the '*****' in
question 3. This is what we call a 'style figure'.
Didn't they teach you to write English in Belgium?
How old are you?
Androcles
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| User: "Ben Newsam" |
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28 Aug 2006 04:32:39 AM |
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:33:23 GMT, "Sorcerer"
<Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
What on Earth is this at N28 30' 00", W 80 32' 40" ?
What on Earth is this at N40 45' 18", W 74 00' 18" ?
What on Earth is this at N26 53' 30", W 82 17' 00" ?
Now a harder one:
What on Earth is this at N44 48' 30", E 50 37' 48" ?
Here are a few of my own favourite places:
69°38'34.41"N, 153°27'43.61"W
30° 4'59.48"N, 97° 8'35.27"W
51°18'13.70"N, 68°38'39.82"W
54° 8'26.77"S, 36°41'15.55"W
30°19'38.73"N, 35°26'36.73"E
51°10'45.96"N, 1°49'35.53"W
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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28 Aug 2006 07:38:50 AM |
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"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:b0e5f2lncjkp7d7m7tlsv6jloemoed3ugm@4ax.com...
| On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:33:23 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
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| >What on Earth is this at N28 30' 00", W 80 32' 40" ?
| >What on Earth is this at N40 45' 18", W 74 00' 18" ?
| >What on Earth is this at N26 53' 30", W 82 17' 00" ?
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| >Now a harder one:
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| >What on Earth is this at N44 48' 30", E 50 37' 48" ?
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| Here are a few of my own favourite places:
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| 69°38'34.41"N, 153°27'43.61"W
Magnetic Pole?
| 30° 4'59.48"N, 97° 8'35.27"W
"Gap" in the trees.
| 51°18'13.70"N, 68°38'39.82"W
Highly eroded meteor impact crater.
| 54° 8'26.77"S, 36°41'15.55"W
Stromness whaling station
| 30°19'38.73"N, 35°26'36.73"E
Petra
| 51°10'45.96"N, 1°49'35.53"W
Andover. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, completed the delivery
and took a detour.
40 26' 44"N, 80 01' 05" W
40 34' 43.75"N, 80 12' 55.7"W -- this is a cheat... I lived there once.
27 0' 30.5"N, 82 04' 8.5" W -- and there too.
42 19' 35"N, 83 02'57" W (Turn on 3D buildings)
Androcles
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| User: "Ben Newsam" |
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28 Aug 2006 06:46:58 AM |
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:33:23 GMT, "Sorcerer"
<Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
What on Earth is this at N28 30' 00", W 80 32' 40" ?
What on Earth is this at N40 45' 18", W 74 00' 18" ?
What on Earth is this at N26 53' 30", W 82 17' 00" ?
Now a harder one:
What on Earth is this at N44 48' 30", E 50 37' 48" ?
Here are some of my favourite places:
69°38'34.41"N, 153°27'43.61"W
30° 4'59.48"N, 97° 8'35.27"W
51°18'13.70"N, 68°38'39.82"W
54° 8'26.77"S, 36°41'15.55"W
30°19'38.73"N, 35°26'36.73"E
51°10'45.96"N, 1°49'35.53"W
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| User: "Ben Newsam" |
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28 Aug 2006 06:47:57 AM |
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:46:58 +0100, Ben Newsam
<ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
Here are some of my favourite places:
Ooops. Sorry. Posted twice.
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| User: "tadchem" |
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27 Aug 2006 10:09:47 AM |
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Sorcerer wrote:
To get you started, some easy ones:
What on Earth is this at N28 30' 00", W 80 32' 40" ?
The Atlantic Ocean, just east of Launch Comples 16, Cape Canaveral:
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=28.5&lon=-80.544444&datum=NAD83&u=5
What on Earth is this at N40 45' 18", W 74 00' 18" ?
Port Authority-West 30th Street Midtown Heliport
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?latd=40&latm=45&lats=18&lond=-74&lonm=0&lons=18&datum=NAD83&u=6
What on Earth is this at N26 53' 30", W 82 17' 00" ?
A spot in Rotonda, Florida
http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=17&X=116&Y=929&W=1
Now a harder one:
What on Earth is this at N44 48' 30", E 50 37' 48" ?
It appears to be a shoal in the Caspian Sea
http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&tab=wl&q=N44%2048'%2030%22%2C%20E%2050%2037'%2048%22
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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| Title: Re: What on Earth? |
27 Aug 2006 12:15:37 PM |
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"tadchem" <thomas.davidson@dla.mil> wrote in message
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| Sorcerer wrote:
| > To get you started, some easy ones:
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| > What on Earth is this at N28 30' 00", W 80 32' 40" ?
| The Atlantic Ocean, just east of Launch Comples 16, Cape Canaveral:
| http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=28.5&lon=-80.544444&datum=NAD83&u=5
Very close, it is in fact a launchpad.
Discrepancy: 80.5444°W <> W 80 32' 40"
I'm using Google Earth, BTW, not maps.
| > What on Earth is this at N40 45' 18", W 74 00' 18" ?
| Port Authority-West 30th Street Midtown Heliport
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http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?latd=40&latm=45&lats=18&lond=-74&lonm=0&lons=18&datum=NAD83&u=6
No cigar. A railcar is not a heliport.
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| > What on Earth is this at N26 53' 30", W 82 17' 00" ?
| A spot in Rotonda, Florida
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http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=17&X=116&Y=929&W=1
Right on the money, it is the central point of Rotonda.
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| > Now a harder one:
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| > What on Earth is this at N44 48' 30", E 50 37' 48" ?
| It appears to be a shoal in the Caspian Sea
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http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&tab=wl&q=N44%2048'%2030%22%2C%20E%2050%2037'%2048%22
I don't know what it is, that's why I'm asking.
This actually makes a good family game, one can give a feature then start
at 30 miles altitude, zoom down gradually and see who recognises it first.
It must be a feature of note, though.
You cannot choose a car, for example, or someone's yard.
This will not be on a map: N37 24' 55.5" W122 03' 51"
but is worthy of note.
Your turn.
Androcles
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| User: "tadchem" |
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28 Aug 2006 03:31:09 PM |
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OK.
We have now established that Google Earth does not *precisely* agree
with Google Maps. TopoZone, or Terraserver.
Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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28 Aug 2006 06:05:27 PM |
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"tadchem" <thomas.davidson@dla.mil> wrote in message
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| OK.
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| We have now established that Google Earth does not *precisely* agree
| with Google Maps. TopoZone, or Terraserver.
Ok.. so now we know there can be slight errors, like 43 arc seconds
per century for the precession of longitude of perihelion of Mercury,
which is an excellent result for Newtonian mechanics and a *****-poor
one from Einstein leaving out Jupiter.
Androcles
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| User: "Ben Newsam" |
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| Title: Re: What on Earth? |
28 Aug 2006 08:02:30 PM |
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:05:27 GMT, "Sorcerer"
<Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
"tadchem" <thomas.davidson@dla.mil> wrote in message
news:1156797069.569066.275570@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
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| We have now established that Google Earth does not *precisely* agree
| with Google Maps. TopoZone, or Terraserver.
Ok.. so now we know there can be slight errors, like 43 arc seconds
per century for the precession of longitude of perihelion of Mercury,
which is an excellent result for Newtonian mechanics and a *****-poor
one from Einstein leaving out Jupiter.
Ah... Well.... Now... the Earth is expanding, you see...
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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| Title: Re: What on Earth? |
29 Aug 2006 07:52:09 AM |
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"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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| On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:05:27 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
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| >"tadchem" <thomas.davidson@dla.mil> wrote in message
| >news:1156797069.569066.275570@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
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| >| OK.
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| >| We have now established that Google Earth does not *precisely* agree
| >| with Google Maps. TopoZone, or Terraserver.
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| >Ok.. so now we know there can be slight errors, like 43 arc seconds
| >per century for the precession of longitude of perihelion of Mercury,
| >which is an excellent result for Newtonian mechanics and a *****-poor
| >one from Einstein leaving out Jupiter.
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| Ah... Well.... Now... the Earth is expanding, you see...
Nah... shrinking... the crust cracks, hot gas spews out of volcanoes
and escapes into space.
Androcles
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| User: "hanson" |
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| Title: Re: What on Earth? |
29 Aug 2006 10:28:30 AM |
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"Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote in message
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[Beytsam]
"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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| Ah... Well.... Now... the Earth is expanding, you see...
[Andro]
Nah... shrinking... the crust cracks, hot gas spews out
of volcanoes and escapes into space.
Androcles
[hanson]
neh... the Green shits, the Enviro turds and the hordes of
little green idiots say she expands because of GW & that
she really breathes... arrhythmically.... expands from the
arrival of cosmic debris then belches, farts & deflates like
Andro says and contracts further when the Iceman cometh.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.global-warming/msg/ee9fbdcbc0cf598c
Thanks for the laughs, guys
ahahaha... ahahahanson
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29 Aug 2006 11:27:18 AM |
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"hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote in message
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| "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote in message
| news:ZLWIg.79223$fV1.22431@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
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| > "Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
| > news:qf47f2pq6lore4ukm9j4adhqlc22bfre3f@4ax.com...
| > | Ah... Well.... Now... the Earth is expanding, you see...
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| [Andro]
| > Nah... shrinking... the crust cracks, hot gas spews out
| > of volcanoes and escapes into space.
| > Androcles
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| [hanson]
| neh... the Green shits, the Enviro turds and the hordes of
| little green idiots say she expands because of GW & that
| she really breathes... arrhythmically.... expands from the
| arrival of cosmic debris then belches, farts & deflates like
| Andro says and contracts further when the Iceman cometh.
| http://groups.google.com/group/alt.global-warming/msg/ee9fbdcbc0cf598c
| Thanks for the laughs, guys
| ahahaha... ahahahanson
As if man played any role in the geological cycle... too funny.
They are already hugging trees, now the shits want to save
Pluto from becoming "comet Tombaugh" instead of being a
planet, and I can practically guarantee not one of them has
even seen it. I looked, and I'm damned if I could find it.
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30 Aug 2006 12:20:10 AM |
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"Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote in message
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"hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote in message
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| "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote in message
| news:ZLWIg.79223$fV1.22431@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
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| > "Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
| > news:qf47f2pq6lore4ukm9j4adhqlc22bfre3f@4ax.com...
| > | Ah... Well.... Now... the Earth is expanding, you see...
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| [Andro]
| > Nah... shrinking... the crust cracks, hot gas spews out
| > of volcanoes and escapes into space.
| > Androcles
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| [hanson]
| neh... the Green shits, the Enviro turds and the hordes of
| little green idiots say she expands because of GW & that
| she really breathes... arrhythmically.... expands from the
| arrival of cosmic debris then belches, farts & deflates like
| Andro says and contracts further when the Iceman cometh.
| http://groups.google.com/group/alt.global-warming/msg/ee9fbdcbc0cf598c
| Thanks for the laughs, guys
| ahahaha... ahahahanson
[Andro]
As if man played any role in the geological cycle... too funny.
They are already hugging trees, now the shits want to save [1]
Pluto from becoming "comet Tombaugh" instead of being a
planet, and I can practically guarantee not one of them has
even seen it. I looked, and I'm damned if I could find it.
[hanson]
I don't know what you are referring to specifically [1], but if it's
the green shits you are talking about then there is no question
that the are getting hysterical on that, just like they got bent outa
shape about terra forming on mars. Green shits and enviro
turds will use the entire universe & every element in the periodic
table to extort money from hard working people via their
permit charges, user fees and enviro surtaxes. Check here:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.org.earth-first/msg/e69503b9ae8f4fcb
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.chem/msg/ce9f38ad83fa11ee
Have fun, Andro!, and *****'em.... ahahahaha... ahahahanson
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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30 Aug 2006 01:19:44 AM |
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"hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote in message
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| "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote in message
| news:GVZIg.79672$fV1.34988@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
| > "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote in message
| > news:y2ZIg.7359$4O4.5586@trnddc02...
| > | "Sorcerer" <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote in message
| > | news:ZLWIg.79223$fV1.22431@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
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| > | [Beytsam]
| > | > "Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
| > | > news:qf47f2pq6lore4ukm9j4adhqlc22bfre3f@4ax.com...
| > | > | Ah... Well.... Now... the Earth is expanding, you see...
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| > | > Nah... shrinking... the crust cracks, hot gas spews out
| > | > of volcanoes and escapes into space.
| > | > Androcles
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| > | [hanson]
| > | neh... the Green shits, the Enviro turds and the hordes of
| > | little green idiots say she expands because of GW & that
| > | she really breathes... arrhythmically.... expands from the
| > | arrival of cosmic debris then belches, farts & deflates like
| > | Andro says and contracts further when the Iceman cometh.
| > | http://groups.google.com/group/alt.global-warming/msg/ee9fbdcbc0cf598c
| > | Thanks for the laughs, guys
| > | ahahaha... ahahahanson
| >
| [Andro]
| > As if man played any role in the geological cycle... too funny.
| > They are already hugging trees, now the shits want to save [1]
| > Pluto from becoming "comet Tombaugh" instead of being a
| > planet, and I can practically guarantee not one of them has
| > even seen it. I looked, and I'm damned if I could find it.
| >
| [hanson]
| I don't know what you are referring to specifically [1], but if it's
| the green shits you are talking about then there is no question
| that the are getting hysterical on that, just like they got bent outa
| shape about terra forming on mars. Green shits and enviro
| turds will use the entire universe & every element in the periodic
| table to extort money from hard working people via their
| permit charges, user fees and enviro surtaxes. Check here:
| http://groups.google.com/group/alt.org.earth-first/msg/e69503b9ae8f4fcb
| http://groups.google.com/group/sci.chem/msg/ce9f38ad83fa11ee
| Have fun, Andro!, and *****'em.... ahahahaha... ahahahanson
Water comes from the sky. I've seen it. I've never seen it defy
gravity and go up again, either, so in a few more years the green
tords will all be drowned like Gawd did to Noah in 40 days and
50 nights when he made the oceans. Or was it 50 days and 40 nights,
I fergit? Anyway, build a farm on a boat and save all the animals
(for food, I'm partial to steak, bacon and eggs). If you want
to terraform Mars, take some clouds with you (preferably from
Britain, we have too many)
Androcles
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| User: "Ben Newsam" |
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| Title: Re: What on Earth? |
27 Aug 2006 08:40:19 PM |
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:15:37 GMT, "Sorcerer"
<Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
This will not be on a map: N37 24' 55.5" W122 03' 51"
but is worthy of note.
Looks like a wind tunnel facility to me.
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28 Aug 2006 06:30:15 AM |
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"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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| On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:15:37 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
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| >This will not be on a map: N37 24' 55.5" W122 03' 51"
| >but is worthy of note.
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| Looks like a wind tunnel facility to me.
It is indeed, NASA Ames Research, I helped install a B737
flight simulator there back in '85.
But what is the mobile object at N37 24' 55.5" W122 03' 51" ?
Androcles
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28 Aug 2006 06:41:40 AM |
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:30:15 GMT, "Sorcerer"
<Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:lbi4f29sslf1qrg83o1i69r1fuu0r0nptr@4ax.com...
| On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:15:37 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
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| >This will not be on a map: N37 24' 55.5" W122 03' 51"
| >but is worthy of note.
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| Looks like a wind tunnel facility to me.
It is indeed, NASA Ames Research, I helped install a B737
flight simulator there back in '85.
But what is the mobile object at N37 24' 55.5" W122 03' 51" ?
A model of a space shuttle. For testing in the wind tunnel facilty,
presumably.
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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| Title: Re: What on Earth? |
28 Aug 2006 08:34:52 AM |
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"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bil5f2p8bcip9b4fv0l31hufnpbnrf7d9e@4ax.com...
| On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:30:15 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
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| >"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
| >news:lbi4f29sslf1qrg83o1i69r1fuu0r0nptr@4ax.com...
| >| On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:15:37 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| >| <Headmaster@hogwarts.physics_a> wrote:
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| >| >This will not be on a map: N37 24' 55.5" W122 03' 51"
| >| >but is worthy of note.
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| >| Looks like a wind tunnel facility to me.
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| >It is indeed, NASA Ames Research, I helped install a B737
| >flight simulator there back in '85.
| >But what is the mobile object at N37 24' 55.5" W122 03' 51" ?
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| A model of a space shuttle. For testing in the wind tunnel facilty,
| presumably.
Here's your model shuttle, one minute of arc further south.
N37 24' 54.22" W122 03' 50.5"
A U2 spy plane looks nothing like a shuttle. :-)
It's a real one, too. I saw it take off and climb like a shuttle.
Androcles
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