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I keep going back and forth on this. Apparently, fin keels are better (and preferred) than full keels for racing because they 1] are...

I think we've explored this before in another thread. I offered the rough-n-ready description that - with a few notable exceptions* -...

Popes and cardinals must be natural enemies. Whenever the pope population in the Vatican decreases, the cardinal population skyrockets...

Who would have thought, that more than one member could be mesmerised by pricing alone, into providing such good advertising on this...

So the moral of the story is that you can lead a horse to water but there's a prep cost?

TIL that bringing your boat to your mechanic is like going to your doctor. You take off all your clothes in front of a stranger and they...

Wait'll he hears about baby oil...

"The effect is not unlike the acceleration due to real gravity." OK, it's not a 100% match. The water is emitted in at 55 degrees from...

Gravity due to mass is zero. Artificial gravity due to rotation is 0.5g. (see specs, top-left in diagram) It's a rigid tower, 110m...

Not a lot of people know this but a lot of these scenes were filmed on Earth to save production costs.

Now don't give up too quick... Are there many overpasses between your home and your fave campgrounds? Have you measured them? :oldbiggrin:

I also liked the 2010 follow-up film. It was fun and cleared things up to a degree. It was of course not so ground breaking since 2001...

2001 is a classic, without a doubt.

That is unfortunate. Have you heard the expression "You can't think outside the box if you don't know what's in the box?" School...

And there's nothing wrong with that. It's not a shortcoming of the observer, nor is it a "problem". Art is a communication between...