Recent content by 2milehi

Camaro...sorry pet peeve I have.

Those poles (with the suction cup) also extend.

I was quite surprised to see an astronaut wearing glasses on a maiden voyage. Say things went pear shape and Bob & Doug have to utilize their pressurized suits. Bob has some issue so it's up to Doug to do some manual piloting of the craft. They are one mishap away from mission failure (Doug...

I am more familiar with dc motors. It appears that the armature is lap wound. I could imagine that you have a single open and you would be measuring the rest of the laps and arrive at the 31 Ω value. But you have two sections that are 180° apart and both measure 31 Ω. This appears to be...

Do not make projectile launchers like a rail gun or a spud gun.

Nuclear weapons - man had the ability to wipe life off this planet. Not something to be proud of.

Some random bullet fired into the sky from a gun/rifle miles away?

In a lot of these crashes where a sensor causes a screwy reading, I don't understand why the pilots don't go into manual mode and fly the plane until the issue gets resolved.

The pitot tubes frozen up because the plane flew through storm clouds.

You don't miss children until you have them.

That is the problem with "soft" On/Off switches. Don't keep flammables on a stove top with "soft" On/Off switches.

I saw a gal that had the below image tattoed behind her ear (she worked in a restaurant). I told her that it has been decades since I had organic chemistry and asked what the molecule was. She said the tattoo was LSD. Guess she was really moved by acid.

Helicopter

Split by hand with an ax or a maul. And we make a fire daily in the cold season (living at 9100 ft).

SOH - Sin θ = Opposite/Hypotenuse CAH - Cos θ = Adjacent/Hypotenuse TOA - Tan θ = Opposite/Adjacent Learned that in 10 grade, 32 years later it still sticks with me.