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Re: WEAV - Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
Fully agree about all of them "Flying Cars"! A couple at least have even gotten to the harware stage. . .. Or, so they claim. Whatwith the art of CGI these days you can never be all that sure anymore. = Too Many Scammers.
With this WEAV, U of F claims its a lack of a power supply that's their excuse. ~ But, they're "Working" on it! ~ = Yeah. Right!? So, if I claim that I can supe up your Pinto with an FTL Drive that doubles as a Time Machine, do you think I can get folks to start throwing money at me??? They would only have to wait until the technology catches up to my Tekno-Fantasy and then we could all get filthy rich selling the kits at WalMart! --- Hey, its as feasible as UF's BS.? Damn, I wish I had gone and gotten a BS degree at that University of Scammers school like all of these Flying Whatsit conmen! I've been working too darn hard all my life! LOL Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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WEAV - Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
It's been about ten years since the University of Florida announced its plasma powered "Flying Saucer" notion to the world and everybody from PopSci to NASA jumped on the idea, . . . but I'm STILL waiting to see even that small six inch working prototype they were talking about. = Anybody got anything "new" on this???
THIS is why I will always miss the Good Old Days of pre-computer drawing boards. = Ya got an IDEA? Then build a prototype and see if it works. -- Not this Teaser BS of, "Well, it (kinda-sorta) ~ works ~ on the computer!" = It seems easier these days for a bunch of eggheads to sell a Tekno-Fantasy to everyone, then for a writer to sell even a Best Selling original story idea to HollyWeird! LOL Keep It FUN! Dan G? |
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FIRST MAN
Caught a trailer for this last week while on the road and thought that it looked GREAT! --- I was kinda surprised that anybody was doing anything about space not involving Spandex or pure SW type Tekno-Fantasy. I guess that we can thank THE MARTIAN's big box office. THANK YOU MARTIAN!!! . . . Still, I was also surprised that since there STILL seems to be tons of Zombies out there who think the Moon landings were all fake, that a studio would risk the online "Flat Earther" type flack blitz. --- But, DAMN! this looks GOOD!!!
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Re: [CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia
BTW Terry, you might find this Victorian Age Mil-Hist-Fiction novel (or the whole series even for that matter) rather interesting. = A. Vanner's BRITANNIA'S SHARK: The Dawlish Chronicles April-Sept 1881. It features your Steam Cannon among other items. Like Holland's Submarine.??
? Keep It FUN! Dan G? |
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Re: [CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia
Found this about the Hilton Head Steamgun. Nice illustration of the gun and a bit of details.
?? I remembered that the "Dynamite Cruiser" USS VESUVIUS used three steam guns to fire dynamite loads on Santiago, Cuba during the Span-Am War with good results. (Yeah, I love my Navy Odd Ducks as much as I love Odd Birds. LOL) But was still stripped of her guns shortly afterwards and converted to torpedos, only to be decommissioned a couple of years later.? You might try hunting under "Dynamite Cannon or Gun" for more info. ? Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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Re: Shared Article from AOL: Creepy skull-shaped asteroid approaches Earth
WOW!!! This Is SOOOOO COOL!
I can not believe that we haven't been inundated with Doom & Gloom "prophecies" from all the usual online nutter sources. --- Or did I just miss them? I sure don't remember hearing about any in 2015 when this thing passed by a lot closer. It would seem to me that 2015 TB145 would have been prime meat for them. ---- Hmmmm, ya think maybe we should go start some on FarceBook just to see where they go??? <evil grin> LOL But even without all that this Skull shaped rock would seem perfect for a SyFy channel B-movie or an old Pulp SF story. (both???) = Invading aliens using the shape to intimidate us primitive humans on their way in? (The 2015 pass was just a flyby probe of our reactions and defenses. This time it is The Real Deal!) -- The Classic home base of Space Pirates? -- A space borne Skull Island home for a giant alien King Kong/Godzilla Kaiju type space monster(s)? -- The Empire's new Death Star Squared? The "Eyes" are not one, but TWO Super Lasers!!! (Disney has always gone to unbelievably great heights to market its new flicks and this is just their latest promo idea. LOL) --? --- Or we can Turn Back The Clock and take a look at ancient Norse mythology that describes how the world was created from parts of the body of the first being, a Giant, named Ymir. Has his head come back looking for the rest of himself? What did the old Norse know about our cosmos that we don't??? And -- What About The TIMING -- of this flyby??? . . . I mean, Come On! This SKULL Shaped Rock zooms by on HALLOWEEN??? -- TWICE!!! --- Just Aliens yanking our chains and having a good old Halloween Trick of a treat at our expense, or something far more sinister and dark of a more SUPERNATURAL nature??? Yeah, WAY COOL!!! LOL Thanks for sharing, Terry!!! Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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[CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia
From: Terry Sofian tsofian <CoastDefense@...> Date: Sunday, September 23, 2018 Subject: [CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia To: Hivequeen <Hivequeen@...>, S1889 <S1889@...>, CoastDefense <CoastDefense@...> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Murdoch Does anyone know more about his steam cannon? Also does anyone know about the steam cannon allegedly installed at Hilton head? __._,_.___
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Re: BOOK REVIEW - Sea Miner; Major E. B. Hunt's Civil War Rocket Torpedo 1862-1863 | Naval Historical Foundation
The Soviets got one to work darn well in the late 1970s. The VA-111 Shkval using a solid-fuel rocket engine and supercavitation. But again, a MAJOR jump in both the technology and materials available between the ACW and the Atomic Age Cold War of the 1970s. = I seriously doubt Hunt's version could have been made to work anything like he had hoped, if at all, with what he had to work with. = Another Vintage Age Dream Weapon right up there with Fulton's Underwater Cannon. (at least that survived actual testing) = An interesting and innovative FUN addition to a purely Vintage SCI-FI/Weird War story along with Nemo's Nautilus, Tesla's Death Ray, Griffin's Spaceships, etc, etc . . . but, IMO, just not actually feasibly achievable for the times.
And, like I said, I would be greatly interested in seeing the results of someone, anyone, who could make this work using only the materials and tech available to Hunt himself.? ? Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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Re: Unemployment after Alien Contact
That's kinda a Wide Ranged Question, ain't it??? = It would all depend on the type, timing and publicity of the "Contact". As well as the Known and Unknown intentions of the Aliens themselves. All would impact various jobs in various ways. (Not to mention your ability to collect your unemployment benefits if you happen to be one of those unfortunates!!! LOL)?
A lot of difference between a bunch of sneaky Grey perverts kidnapping thousands of people each year, and a mass assault by super tech weapon wielding stormtrooper squid-insectoid-robots. Or shape shifting lizards looking to take over our world governments for their own agendas, and spacefaring tourists that are only here for our guacamole, a Coke and a souvenir t-shirt. Or used super tech salesmen looking to make a fast "buck" from a planet full of ignorant backwater world primitives by using a bunch of Flash, Shock & Aw to dazzle the local-yokels into buying a whole lot of WAY OUTDATED junk, and the lone ambassador landing in Central Park with his giant robot to tell us we have to change our evil ways or else. Or . . . . . Yeah, Sci-Fi has given us a darn big mix over the years of just what an Alien Contact ~ might ~ be like. --- Just pray it ain't poetry spouting VOGONS!!!! LOL Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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Re: BOOK REVIEW - Sea Miner; Major E. B. Hunt's Civil War Rocket Torpedo 1862-1863 | Naval Historical Foundation
ACW Naval history has always been rather fascinating to me. This book sounds rather interesting, but I'm not too sure that I'll add to my Want/Wish List any time soon. Without coming out and actually saying such in so many words the reviewer too sounded rather disappointed in the book's lack of solid resource material and the writer's need to base much on conjecture. As the reviewer also pointed out with regards to the rocket-torpedo's velocity estimates, I would think that even if Hunt was unaware of, or just chose to ignore basic hydrodynamics (he was ARMY and not NAVY after all. LOL) then at least the author should have done a bit of simple research himself. = A bit slipshod and not a good sign for a "History" book, to my way of thinking, no matter what the author's background. --- Vintage SF/Weird War and the Tekno-Nerd-Kritics could have ~ probably ~ let him get away with it. ~ maybe ~ (LOL) But certainly not in an historical text.?
Sadly, I'm sure that history will hold hidden many great inventors and their inventions who perished in similar disasters only to fade forever in memory with the dispersal of the smoke. Was Hunt's invention The Great naval innovation the author thinks it was??? --- Personally, I'm not all that sure. . . . A Different approach, certainly. Feasible and Functional with the technology and materials of the time period??? . . . I doubt it would have performed as advertised. --- And even if he did get it to work, then there is that whole making it "Sailor Proof" issue. = Would sure love to see the Myth Busters (or even just some Annapolis Naval Academy engineering students) give it a good run through! Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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