Charles Lindsey

And now I have almost lost my train of thought. Ohhhhhhh: Survivor ships rights and medical care rights. Yes all that can be taken care of with powers of attorney, wills, and what not, but "marriage" makes it so much simpler. That's about it I think. Directed at no one in particular unless specified. Destruction of America needs to be a new thread. Social Security as well. Damme them baby boomers for not having enough kids to fund themselves through retirement.

You still doing copters?

DeepFreeze I LIKE you. Most moderate response I have seen I think. (But you misspelled $ilk. $ilk is $ilk with a dollar sign aka Cmdr Cooper. We also have a Silk running around here.) This thread has gone way beyond my ability or inclination to respond to every thing. Just a few things, maybe more, or not. To LostInSpace A great Non Sequitor panel. I love Non Sequitor. Just for you. Grab it quick. Yahoo tends to change addresses as the panels get older and they eventually fall off the page. Now, the first thing you have to ask is does gay marriage cause harm. I don't think so. Exactly whom does gay marriage harm? What physical damage does gay marriage cause to anyone? The AIDS argument I think is false as a monogamous gay marriage should be as disease free as a monogamous heterosexual marriage. Again to LostInSpace: about the children issue. Should be the same as heterosexual marriage. They want marriage they take the bad with the good. Exactly (or whatever reasonable statistic you wish to use) how much of the population is gay? It's not like you are going to open your closet and three gay couples spill out looking embarrassed. World resources: This is almost silly but if a gay couple gets married and lives together then there is that much hmore room for someone else. Using the same house instead of two and all. And saves some (probably miniscule) amount of energy. Takes less to heat or cool one house instead of two. Crud: lost my mouse pointer. Don't laugh. I'm gonna tab to the add reply then shut down and restart.

quote:By then I will have kicked Cruis.In and Subspace off my low spec Webserver What? Did they take root or something?

Want my two cents worth?

quote:Title subject Gay Marriages...legal or not? I have thought and pondered for a week or so whether to bring this up. Technically probably legal.

oh no!!!!! I forgot about Dreadx. Apologies. /slaps self on head

quote:Darkling to Jaguar You know, I've got to tell you, when you create these HUMUNGOUSE posts, it's too difficult to go over it all, just make your point and be done with it. Geez. There is an old convention from the usenet days that goes something like this: quote:Originally posted by Darkling: quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: quote:Originally posted by Darkling: quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: snip snip snip quote:snip long article about probabilities snip

Drats! Foiled again! If I had done it this morning when I replied to the other thread I would have won. But didn't want to call IT's attention. Then again I am in pretty good with the network guy that comes over. Took me forever and a day to explain why we needed four puters with only two (we used to have three) people and why we should be able to log onto any puter in the room. But he likes me cause I take such good care of the things like keeping them updated and not calling for every silly little problem. I got a brand new optical mouse out of the deal. Pretty spiffy. The original mouse which was at least six years old started clicking three times to my one physical push of the mouse button. Dangerous when you are inputting data. I'm due for new ones and he's trying as much as he can to help but his department head refuses to switch us out because he doesn't want to do the work twice. It makes no sense to me why anyone would take a P550 (somehting like that) out of service and bid it off when I am struggling with a P75. I can sorta see the point about not doing the work twice (reloading everything but still I'm dyin' ovuh heah. (terrible phoenetic Boston accent) Get this. He brought a floppy over with a program called Track-it on it. The purpose of Track-it was to run an audit on the machine and see if it could handle the new software they wanted to run. He put the floppy on my guy's machine and tried to run it off the floppy. Hehe big mistake. He killed it after an hour and saved it up to the server. The next day he comes back and tries to run it again. The P60 running Win95 was done in about five minutes. The other machine hasn't connected to the network in months. It's basically a Solitaire machine for guests. But he figured out it was simply the cable and after twisting the cable and wrapping it around the desk leg a certain way he got it to stay connected. That machine was done in about five minutes as well. Our two machines were a different story however. Both of them locked up. Think about it a minute. The machines that are supposed to run Track-it that decides if the machines can handle future programs can't even run Track-it. Pretty bad huh? Actually pretty good for me I hope. If the machine can't even handle the audit program then by default it can't handle new programs. But he made us re-start and kill most of the stuff in the sys tray and it finally did do it. After waiting about 2.5 hours. Hehe. So hopefully I'm at the top of the list for a new machine. I'd be happy with anything over 300 mhz but hey brand new is good too. Vice Admiral Chavik, commander of Balor Fleet, checking in. How's this for a new one? How about some promotions? I don't think Parias will be back. Even if he does he's still not in the fleet database. Hmmm gotta make sure on that but don't think he is. Finder1 has been with me forever and a day so I can't demote him but Pugwash and Cruis.in have been very active lately.

Doh! This thread was rocking along so well I completely forgot. It's my turn anyway.

Now THAT is FUNNY!!

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Shingen, I have decided to not do the deviceID check - as long as people with those boards do NOT post about graphics anomalies. Fair? FAQ worthy? Edit:I see the FAQ links back to the "UC Pixel and Vertex shader requirements" thread so ok

http://www.hydrogenus.com/hydrogen-basics.asp Here is a great page. Some quotes: "Hydrogen is highly flammable; it only takes a small amount of energy to ignite it and make it burn. It also has a wide flammability range, meaning it can burn when it makes up 4 to 74 percent of the air by volume. (DOE)" "The combustion of hydrogen produces no carbon dioxide (CO2), particulate, or sulfur emissions. It can produce nitrous oxide (NOX) emissions under some conditions. (DOE)" [What we were talking about above] "The energy in one gallon of gasoline is roughly equivalent to 1 kg of Hydrogen. (S&TR)" "Typically, a gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) is 18-20% efficient (S&TR); hydrogen ICEs are about 25% efficient (Automotive Fleet); methanol fuel cells are about 38% efficient (AMI); and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles like ToyotaÔÇÖs FCHV-4 are 60% efficientÔÇö3 times better than todayÔÇÖs gasoline fueled engines. (Toyota)" "The amount of energy produced by hydrogen per unit weight of fuel is about 3 times the amount of energy contained in an equal weight of gasoline, and almost 7 times that of coal. (FSEC)" [cool] "Hydrogen energy density per volume is quite low at standard temperature and pressure. Volumetric energy density can be increased by storing the hydrogen under increased pressure or storing it at extremely low temperatures as a liquid. (DOE)" [What Darklight was saying] quote:Isn't hydrogen not only combustible, but EXTREMELY! combustible?Well you can blow yourself up if you don't discharge static at the gas pump as well. Hydrogen is flammable but I don't think it's volatile. Like the old movies where one jostle of the wagon would set off the TNT. quote: Therefore making it very dangerous to public safety to even consider retrofitting automobiles with hydrogen storage tanks?Possibly. So strong tanks get designed and fail safe delivery systems. Either that or reasonably safe delivery systems and we go back to full service stations where the attendant fuels your car. HAven't heard that the Deisel was designed to run off corn oil. The fact that will run on bio-deisel is interesting. And a little factoid I read somewhere said that the sap of a certain tree in South America was so strong it could run a deisel. I have also heard several other conspiracy theories about the 100 MPG carb and why it never got introduced. Look up some stuff on Smokey Yunick. He did some intersting stuff with engines.

quote:EDIT: I was incorrect. The combustion of any hydrocarbon (a compound with carbon and hydrogen, such as propane, for example) releases CO2 and H2O. When hydrogen reacts with oxygen to create combustion, it should only produce water. So uh...hell if I know.See; that's what I was thinking. quote:EDIT AGAIN: Now that I think about it, if it were only hydrogen in the combustion engine, just pure H2, then there would be nothing for it to react with, so nothing would happen. So there must be something else in the engine, correct? And this "something else" could produce the pollutant emissionsRemeber I'm still fixated on retro fitting current vehicles. They use plain old air as the other half of the fuel source (oxygen for combustion). Air is not oxygen, it's a mixture of Nitrogen (~78%), oxygen (~21%), and other stuff (Argon .9%, carbon dioxide .03%, other exotics in the hundreths of a percent.) So there is your "something else". The oxygen would react with the hydroegn in combustion producing heat, energy, and water. But there is probably plenty of oxygen to also react with the nitrogen and produce those nitrous oxides Darklight was talking about. Now if you were to have a separate tank containing containing only oxygen and fed both oxygen and hydrogen to the combustion engine in metered amounts then it's a different story. Good discussion. I just hope something gets invented before the oil runs out and we start having wars over the stuff.

quote:That is correct. What you are thinking of is a phase diagram.Least I haven't forgotten everything. quote:Incorrect, unfortunately. This is due to something called a mole.I had forgotten about moles. Drats. Oh gosh the calculations I used to do on moles. quote:Now, I was drawing up to a point for all of this, but I forget what it is and its dinner time, so I'll wrap it up later. I do that too. Over explain junk so people understand everything which just tends to confuse them and I forget where I was going in the first place. Probably that tanks would be huge like the other guy above said. My poor laymen's brain knows that hydrogen burns; just trying to figure out why it won't work as well as fuel cells. I think I have from the links and stuff. Then again the discussion about volume would apply to fuel cells as well. They would require x amount of hydrogen and oxygen as well. Both requiring tanks of some volume. Unless the fuel cell technology is so much more efficient then combustion. I can beleive that. I really think fuel cell technology or any technology using hydrogen with the only by-product is water is pretty cool. I think Bio-Deisel is neat too but don't wanna go off topic.

quote:Hydrogen is normally a gas at room temperature, and storage as a gas would require massive containers or extreme pressure. Storing it as a liquid would require super cold temperatures. Yeah I remember from chemistry there is a pressure temperature curve that states at which temperature/pressure what state an element will exist in. And some temperature/pressures they can exist in all three states at once. quote:Because hydrogen is also the simplest element, it can even leak through the strongest containers which can be problematic for storing it for long periods. Ya got me there. Perhaps an internal coating of some sort. Think. It won't be stored for long periods of time in vehicles. I imagine the consumption would be about the same as gasoline, diesel, or propane. It WOULD be stored for long periods at the plant or fuel stations. So those places would have to be super tight. Come to think of it hydrogen being the simplest element wouldn't it have more molecules per volume than a comparable amount of propane? So these as yet un named containers could p[ossibly made stong enough to hold hydrogen, be smaller in volume, yet deliver the same amount of power as anything out there. Just thinking out loud. You can probably tell I have no chance of getting into M.I.T. quote:Argonne National Laboratory also found that cracking hydrogen molecules from natural gas and then compressing the gaseous hydrogen so it can fit into a tank on a vehicle actually emits larger quantities of two air pollutants than refining gasoline does:So don't crack it off natural gas. Yeah yeah the perfect world don't exist and I realize cracking hydrogen off of anything would require far more energy (thus cost) than it could ever deliver as a fuel. Something about the law of conservation of energy. quote:Then there's the pollution created when the hydrogen is burned in an internal combustion engine. Based on thier projections of emission levels from a full-size pickup, they concluded that the truck would spew out about the same amount of nitrogen oxide and soot whether it's burning hydrogen or gasoline.Now I'm confused. How so? When Hydrogen burns when it comes into contact with oxygen and energy (heat) right? The single electron in hydrogen attaches to one of the |"spare" spots in oxygen's valence electrons. Another hydrogen comes in and takes up the other spare spot thus completing oxygen's spare spots and making water a stable mineral. Where is this soot coming from? Are you saying that the other elements in air also react inside the engine and produce these pollutants? That I can beleive after thinking about it. quote:Who do you think funds these types of projects, it's usually the Oil companies. Let's face it, they're in the Energy Business and if there's money to be made in Energy, they will be the first in line to do so.At a jab at big business it would be hilarious if someone else invented the thing and the oil companies went the way of buggy whip manufacturers. But that's not gonna happen because they already have the distribution network. While it would cost a great deal to convert gas stations into hydrogen stations I think it would cost a great deal more for someone new to build a distribution network from the ground up. I still like Mr. Fusion from Back to the Future though.

[rp]He invites everyone else all nice and proper like but pokes us with a stick. I say we trash the place. [/rp]

quote:Another Azimov story that made it to the big screen was Bi-Centennial Man with Robin Williams. That was a very sad story. I refused to see the movie. Didn't wanna cry. Kirby the Robot stories were pretty cute and uplifting for younger readers.

Ok, I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no more. (Popeye the Sailor man I think) Actually you just reminded me of this thread. Ummm, Hydrogen BURNS. Alagasco (ALabama Gas Company) has Propane, Butane, Whatever-ane powered vehicles. Insteads of this weird ass fuel cell junk why not just put hydrogen in a tank and retro fit current vehicles? I know retro fitting would work. I drive a 1958 Towmotor forklift that has been converted to propane. Why the heck do they feel the need to convert it to electricity to run electric motors? Perhaps hydrogen would be less powerful than propane. Those Alagasco trucks I was talking about don't have a lot of power. Although my forklift is geared low enough it has no problems. And it uses hydraulics for lifting so no problem there either. Yes, yes, the engine drives the hydraulic pump but there is plenty of power for what it does. Just a general rant directed at no one in this thread.

Guy "ARGO" Campbell? Wow. It has been a while.

I especially like the last one. The following I received in email: Are ya havin' a Bad Day???? Well, then, consider this............................... In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 a.m., regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents. The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 a.m., all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crossses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits. Just when the clock struck 11:00, Pookie Johnson, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner. Having a Bad Day???? The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska was $ 80,000.00. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both. Still think you are having a Bad Day???? A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman. STILL think you're having a Bad Day???? Two animal rights defenders were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly. The two helpless protesters were trampled to death. What?? STILL having a Bad Day???? Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "Return to Sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. There now, feeling better????

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I think I understand now. This whole time I thought you were confusing subspace with NULLSPACE. I thought you were trying to convince Cruis.In back to NULLSPACE to retire where all us old fogeys hang out.

Not a year old. Only 8 months.

You edit the PDF manual so that you can download it to your PDA and then call that PDA a "Tricorder" a la Grizzle and Nakaleen. (shivers)