How to Beat a Speeding Ticket for Motorists

[Argentum Vulpes]

Pickle as in "the tricky/complicated situation" ?

For instance, "You're in quite the pickle!" ?

/Yeah sorry about being AFK

Nope, and this fits into my next clue:

If you forget/lose your pickle you will be in quite a pickle.

 

[drizzle]

I admit it, my mind is totally messed up with this game.. I miss PF chess :/

 

[flatmaster]

Is a pickle some sort of portable storage like a USB flash drive?

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

nope, I'll give the next hint tomorrow.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

Hint for today.

There is a mini version of a pickle that can clip to your belt loop.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

Ok still got people stumped, the next hint is a twofer:

A pickle can be very simple to a fancy computer system, and it can operate one to many in the same box.

 

[flatmaster]

Is a pickle a key fob?

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

Not quite.

Although you might need a key fob to operate some more advanced pickles. The most common device that is run by a pickle, that I see, has a "CM" logo on the side, although in other applications "CM" is not often found.

 

[edward]

The woman in the video has a pickle.

 

[lisab]

A remote control?

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

Yup you got it Edward.

A pickle is used to operate lifting motors, after power is run, but before the main console control is run.

 

[edward]

OK here is an old one in a way, although the jargon is still used in a certain area.

THRUST RING

 

[edward]

Those two words say a bit too much on Google. A third word between the two narrows it down.

Think Cold War.

 

[edward]

Next clue: underground

 

[edward]

There were long cylindrical objects under ground and and they were attached to something.

 

[flatmaster]

ICBM? I'm guessing its the hardware that attaches the warhead to the rocket rather than astronauts.

 

[edward]

It is related to an underground ICBM. What would an underground ICBM be attached to at the bottom? Place that word between thrust and ring and Google will show you a picture of a thrust ***** ring.

 

[flatmaster]

I suppose the thrust ring is the piece that attaches the motor or engine to the rest of the rocket and transfers the thrust forces. This piece would be rather boring unless there's thrust vectoring. For vectoring, this piece would need to sustain a large load along the axis of the rocket while allowing the motor to pivot, but not rotate.

 

[edward]

You are getting closer. The engines did have thrust vectoring via another assembly that could also be cold war jargon. They are still used on modern rockets to allow the vectoring of the engines.

Think bigger. What is the entire missile attached to? That three word part in all underground silo's was also suspended by large springs that could absorb the shock of a nearby nuclear blast.

 

[flatmaster]

the Thrust ring is the mount that holds the rocket from the bottom and vibrationally isolates it. It must be a ring rather than a plate so that the exhaust gases can go through the middle.

 

[edward]

the Thrust ring is the mount that holds the rocket from the bottom and vibrationally isolates it. It must be a ring rather than a plate so that the exhaust gases can go through the middle.

Close enough, a typical thrust mount ring looked like the one in the pictures below. There are no engines on the missile in the pictures. Put your cursor on the picture and you can see it from all angles. The next page shows it from the top.

http://nonplused.org/panos/titan_missile/27/silo-07_03.html

The Minuteman missiles had a weird setup with the springs mounted to the bottom of the silo and a cable that ran up and over a pulley that was secured to the silo wall. The cable run down from the pulley and attached to the thrust mount ring.

It isn't all history yet we still have about 500 Minuteman III missiles in service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minuteman_III_in_silo_1989.jpg



You're up.

 

[flatmaster]

"Snakebite"

It's not the drink

Hint: A snakebite is a particular failure mode for a certain piece of equipment.

 

[flatmaster]

Hint: A snakebite failure always has two punctures (like a snake bite).

 

[edward]

That would be a flat tire usually on a bicycle that is typically caused by hitting something. The tire and tube are "pinched." This leaves a puncture on each side of the tube.

 

[flatmaster]

Yep. One often gets snakebites from under-inflated tires that compress more easily. You're up Edward

 

[collinsmark]

And here I was suspecting it had something to do with magnetic fields. <Oops>. Sunspots always occur in pairs because sunspots' source are magnetic fields. For every magnetic field going "into" a particular sunspot, there is another coming "out of" of another sunspot. (So to speak, that is. Magnetic fields going "into" or "out of" is just a convention of direction; it doesn't indicate that something is actually moving from one to the other. It's just an arbitrary convention). Gauss' Law for magnetism hints that they must always come in pairs.

But boy, I was wrong on this snakebite thing. Sunspots are very different than bicycle tire flats.

 

[edward]

Sorry for the delay. This should be an easy one.

Pacing

 

[flatmaster]

Does pacing have to do with controlling the rate at which something happens?

 

[lisab]

Or oscillation, such as "pacing to and fro"?

 

[edward]

Does pacing have to do with controlling the rate at which something happens?

No it doesn't Edit: make that controlling the rate very, very indirectly.