Paolo wrote: Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:39 am You meant the Tower of Babel, right, River?

maybe...

...it was when River, Bob/3, moi, and myself spoke the same language... pre-history times...

I Wonder

How many active, "diss Romney/Ryan" threads do we really need?

We need an Omnibus Diss Romney/Ryan Thread to maintain a thread of coherent incoherency.

Moi

Shall we communicate or talk about communicating?

moi621 (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:07 pm I Wonder

How many active, "diss Romney/Ryan" threads do we really need?

We need an Omnibus Diss Romney/Ryan Thread to maintain a thread of coherent incoherency.

Moi

Shall we communicate or talk about communicating?

No. Almost all subjects eventually approach Willard's monumental unfitness to be president, Ryan's straight-faced hypocrisy, and the moral squalor in which the Republicans wallow, so every topic will eventually get to diss Willard & Co. Look how you managed to get this one to?

This has got to be the stuff of "wonderment"

A commercial airliner that would rotate 90 degrees in flight to change from sub sonic

to supersonic configuration.

I think I will watch from the ground,

http://news.yahoo.com/supersonic-flying ... 35257.html

An aircraft that resembles a four-point ninja star could go into supersonic mode by simply turning 90 degrees in midair.

The supersonic, bidirectional flying wing idea comes from a team headed by Ge-Chen Zha, an aerospace engineer at Florida State University. He said the fuel-efficient aircraft could reach supersonic speeds without the thunderclap sound produced by a sonic boom — a major factor that previously limited where the supersonic Concorde passenger jet could fly over populated land masses.

Zha's bidirectional flying wing kicks the general concept up a notch by essentially laying two flying wings on top of one another at a 90 degree angle, so that the aircraft faces one way for subsonic flight and rotates another way for supersonic flight. [Supersonic Biplane Design Stops Sonic Booms]

The midair transformation allows the aircraft to fly in its most fuel-efficient modes at both subsonic and supersonic speeds, Zha explained. Jet engines located on top of the aircraft in concept illustrations appear to rotate independently of the aircraft so that they can always point forward in flight.

Such midair spinning might sound unpleasant for people riding the aircraft. But a five-second rotation would only cause pilots and passengers to experience a "g-force" just one-tenth the force of gravity — less than what airline passengers experience during takeoff. . . .

The picture is Trekie. What else. Ok, Star Warsy.

Moi

I refuse to fly with a fox, in a box, or with green eggs and ham, I will NOT fly, Thank You.

I wonder

Has America adopted "9/11" for their holocaust experience. Like a scar on the national psyche.

I mean the days of hand wringing specials.

If someone told me to shut up about the Holocaust. Not that I dwell on it.

I would say, "Ok, then shut up about the non-holocaust of 9/11."!

Remember the Dough boys! Someone should.

Moi

I need to duck and cover now

Every generation has its tag line.

For my parents it was Pearl Harbor.

And actually, fewer people died in the Pearl Harbor attack than the Twin Towers attack.

The difference was in Pearl Harbor a country was attacking.

In Twin Towers a rebel group without a country attacked.

But, attacks are attacks.

The way the new Americans won the war against the British was via unorganized, non-uniformed rebel rebellion.

Worked then, and still works now and then.

When people are oppressed beyond their ability to withstand the compression, they eventually spring forth into action.

No, believe me, you weren't. I'm not bragging, but I found it to be an uncomfortably snug fit.

"NON SVM QVALIS ERAM" - QVINTVS HORATIVS FLACCVS

The previous post should have been titled "@turtle 12"

I Wonder

What if it is true?

Well it is Dallas. It would make a good extension for the Gulf of Méjico.

http://news.yahoo.com/unusual-dallas-ea ... 55288.html

"Three unusual earthquakes that shook a suburb west of Dallas over the weekend appear to be connected to the past disposal of wastewater from local hydraulic fracturing operations, a geophysicist who has studied earthquakes in the region says."

Blind Drilling is dumb. Fracking is the latest in Blind Drilling.

Moi the Wonderer

Hmmm, west of Dallas, that would be Fort Worth, a little south and it could be the Bush house.

We can only hope for a big I mean a big big quake caused by fracking and hope its right under the Cowboys stadium.

Then what will the republicans say, (ACT OF GOD).

River