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Here are a couple of more dreamy shots taken yesterday with the modified Helios 44-2. Note: no digital special effects have been used...

My friend Bill Stapp was in the army in about 1950. They asked for fifteen volunteers for the Marines. Bill volunteered. That was it...

Then buy the 80kg bike for your son and install the suspension seat post for comfort. Done. :smile:

What is the max rider weight for the bike on its datasheet?

No, that is false. Any road bumps are transmitted to the bike, not to the biker's feet pedaling on the ground. Lordy. Great, so run a...

Marines have quite a different reputation than Army soldiers. A common slang term for a Marine is "jarhead". If you join the Marines...

That may be as close as I'll get. Many of the strips are pretty esoteric and difficult to understand for a non-native. Thank you though...

With a little searching (not using AI, cough, cough), it looks like the reference may be to many bar fights involving Marines taking...

Fixed that for you. :wink:

BTW, depending on the diameter of the downtube on that seatpost and your kid's inseam, you may be able to get a standard seatpost with...

That scooter has solid rubber tires, so no wonder you felt the bumps! You need pneumatic tires to get that part of the suspension...

I'm not sure I like the metaphor of "standing above their pupils", at least in a STEM teaching environment. I've tutored numerous folks...

I'm all for pushing statistics over calculus. Calculus is very STEM-oriented. Statistics is much broader. Knowing how to read a study...

There is a lot of talk about QM and its counterintuitive behavior, which is commonly referenced in the media. It is reasonable to teach...

To be clear, you have made left turns more efficient when thermaling by making the plane asymmetric. When flying the Schweizer, I was...