One Of My Very Own
PERRY COMO - CATCH A FALLING STAR
NEWSY BITS
A reminder that Venezuela is still fighting and protesting for democracy and freedom, and given I hadn't seen it on here for a while, I thought it might we should remind people of their struggles.
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If you don't know what this will mean to you, please do some research.
Not "may", will.
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China's Space Station Will Crash To Earth Within Months
In 2016 Chinese officials confirmed they had lost control of the space station and it would crash to Earth in 2017 or 2018. China’s space agency has since notified the UN that it expects Tiangong-1 to come down between October 2017 and April 2018. Since then the station’s orbit has been steadily decaying. In recent weeks it has dipped into more dense reaches of Earth’s atmosphere and started falling faster. Impact - southern part of the Earth below Great Lakes latitude.
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Several young men with huge beards said that they went to a upscale bar and had trouble getting served. They accused the bartend of folically profiling them.
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JUST LANGUAGE
or
THE THINGS THAT COME OUT OF SOME PEOPLE'S MOUTHS
My grandfather was a guard in an Alabama prison where the black prisoners worked in a coal mine. I can guarantee you he was a Cracker.
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Color doesn't matter. Black or white, take off the skin and we're all red and screaming.
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LANGUAGE WITH PICTURES
No. I don't accept free anything, cause I don't want to have to remember the pay back.
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Why, when they are just going to strip the bed and wash the sheets once you've left.
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I hardly ever loan friends or relatives money. I figure out what I can comfortably give them, then just make a gift of it.
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An Uber driver
An Uber driver
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Marriage is legally betting half your stuff that you can tolerate her for the rest of your life because you are currently fucking her.
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NON-LANGUAGE ITEMS
Canada's Governor General
Goes after Flat Earthers, Global Warming Deniers, Astrology, Homeopathy. She's also a former Astronaut.
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"After a 21-year-old Pakistani woman was forced by her family to marry a relative, she and her boyfriend plotted to poison her new husband with a tainted glass of milk. But the plan backfired, and she accidentally killed 17 relatives instead."
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"A new scanning technique has revealed what scientists believe is an empty space within the Great Pyramid at Gizeh. While it might be an architectural feature intended to limit the load upon the hallway beneath it, it could be a huge room. They also detected a smaller void at a different spot in the pyramid."
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Where the hell is the foot-wash-off guy?
Jesus Christ, that's disgusting.
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Could this possibly be true?
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I email my wife recipes she will never make, and she emails me home renovation videos I'll never do. It's a fun game we have played for 25 years.
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2 comments:
What's wrong w/dirty feet? I like them aesthetically. In my youth my friends and I all went barefoot for half the year. One could tell who was a real hillbilly when kids got together for tag in the vicinity of a gravel drive; softskins would daintily dart across whereas we sticks-kids would skid and slide and run around in the rocks. The redneck tomboys who could keep up with me had feet every bit as thickened and splayed as my own, and I loved them (and their feet).
Oh, and the dirty foot photo from last Friday's post (the bondage-contemplator) was a self-portrait, and not at all disgusting! fwiw, finding them in such a state would be a fine excuse to offer to clean them...
What is it with us and feet? I think we also went on about high heels vs pointe shoes. Also minimalist/barefoot style footwear.
Regarding the fuselage cutaway: nah, the walls needn't be very thick. Actually, the main load-bearing structure in a plane like that is the exterior sheet metal skin, not the stringers and other internal bits. See this image for to appreciate how thin the main load-bearing part of the plane actually is:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Fuselage-747.jpg
The skins on modern airliners are on the order of 2-4mm thick in most areas of the plane (~1/16th to ~1/8th inch). The internal structures do bear loads but they mostly serve to transfer loads into the skin and to keep the skin in shape. It's the shape that makes it strong.
Imagine an I-beam: the central stick doesn't bear much load, it really just keeps the load-bearing parallel pieces apart from each other (i.e. "in shape"). Same with the fuselage: the internal beams and whatnot keep the skin tube-shaped so that stresses can be spread efficiently around its surface.
Or imagine a beverage can: pressurization takes the place of the central part of the I-beam or the stringers in the fuselage and keeps the walls of the can evenly spaced apart and transfers loads to them. Its walls are like 0.075mm thick (many humans have hair almost twice that thick) but while pressurized it can support a 200lb person.
Or think of a bird's hollow cylindricral bones. I could ramble on but it's all the same principle: fixing the relative positions of objects with high tensile strengths can make structures which are very strong indeed. Or even more simply: shape is important.
Something seemed off about my comment in recollection, so I checked and I apparently clicked the random link button on the bottom of the page before posting my comment and kept reading assuming I'd moved to a more recent article, so I ended up responding to a post from 2013 here on this one from Friday, November 17, 2017. Heh! My absent-minded insomniac reading-brain strikes again.
http://folioolio.blogspot.com/2013/09/tuesday-1761.html
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