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Post by CJS: The Last Fender Bender on Jun 28, 2009 23:57:46 GMT -5
Every couple of months or so, I particularly like to go in the summer and early fall, the rest of the year the DC weather is pretty nasty. How many trips did it take you to explore the whole facility? That picture reminds me of what I see off the I-5 every time I go to visit my grandparents... That's a rather unusual pose there...like the boobs just suddenly appeared and she's not sure where they came from. Heh, true. ;D So, anyway, you're back. How's your summer going? Alright. Been lounging around and watching the races at my friends houses since I don't get cable. Still have to read your stories.
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Post by eclogite on Jun 29, 2009 10:04:07 GMT -5
Every couple of months or so, I particularly like to go in the summer and early fall, the rest of the year the DC weather is pretty nasty. How many trips did it take you to explore the whole facility? That picture reminds me of what I see off the I-5 every time I go to visit my grandparents... ...http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/276582571_fcbe43e88d_o.jpg... Heh, true. ;D So, anyway, you're back. How's your summer going? Alright. Been lounging around and watching the races at my friends houses since I don't get cable. Still have to read your stories. I'm not sure you can see the whole thing in less than a couple of years, plus they are always adding and rotating exhibits, so it runs into kind of a perpetual project. The other part is that the working part of any museum, the collections, is many times the size of the public displays. This is where the meat of the museum is. As an example, the one I worked for, Texas Memorial, has a falrly large building on the UT campus, but the collections are mostly out at the Pickle Research Campus (named for a local congressman, not the condement). The paleontological and geological collections, alone, fill several airplane hangar sized buildings. Add to that the stuff out on loan to other museums and researchers and it's a pretty formidable mass of material. Nuke power, good stuff, we could stand to build a bunch more (France and Japan derive a higher percentage of their electrical power from nukes tha we do and we invented it). Yeah, you've got to be careful, things just appear out of the blue (cosmic rays, maybe?). One day you're walking along, minding your own business.....(I wonder if this has something to do with Drakken turning blue?) The Bob and Tom radio show used to run a skit in a similar vein about a rather unusual superheroine.
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Post by ShadigoIzayoi on Jun 29, 2009 14:14:09 GMT -5
THEY MEET!!! o.O
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Post by eclogite on Jun 29, 2009 19:10:00 GMT -5
Brassiers by Goodyear Airship?
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Post by CJS: The Last Fender Bender on Jun 30, 2009 0:54:54 GMT -5
Nuke power, good stuff, we could stand to build a bunch more (France and Japan derive a higher percentage of their electrical power from nukes tha we do and we invented it). How would you propose to do so at this time? THEY MEET!!! o.O Whatever ends up happening between them, I know Shadigo will like it. Brassiers by Goodyear Airship? Couldn't it be both? I've heard of stranger combinations.
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Post by eclogite on Jun 30, 2009 6:54:21 GMT -5
Fast track the approval process (this won't work in California, there are too many additional layers of regulation that are outside the federal nuclear inspection and approval proces), this would involve keeping the approval within the NRC and not using contractors. After 3 Mile Island, the media hype caused a lot of fear in the public (not to be confused with the chimerical "fear of college" that some have postulated Disney has), where in truth it just proved how safe US reactors are. The radiation coming from the venting was less than you experience from your home appliances. This unwarranted hysteria has blocked new plant construction since the Carter regime.
The President reversing the defunding of the Yucca Mountain facility would help, too. One of my professors performed the structural analysis on the mountain and it's about the safest place to stor the expended material that you could find. It's very stable, geologically and modern disposal methods make the natural radiation from uranium in the rock higher than that from the waste. This obviates the fear that somebody will dig it up in a 1000 years.
Goodyear Airship is the aviation arm of Goodyear, they build blimps, as well as space suits and other items used in flight and space travel.
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Post by ShadigoIzayoi on Jun 30, 2009 17:20:07 GMT -5
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Post by CJS: The Last Fender Bender on Jul 1, 2009 19:14:30 GMT -5
Goodyear Airship is the aviation arm of Goodyear, they build blimps, as well as space suits and other items used in flight and space travel. Sorry, I read the "by" in your previous statement as "or". I SWEAR I'M NOT UNDER THE INFLUENCE! Been to Akron, Ohio before? The disproportions are actually distracting to me in this piece. Mainly I find the legs to be too long.
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Post by eclogite on Jul 1, 2009 19:31:27 GMT -5
If not, why not?
Oh yes, I had many relatives in the Akron-Canton area. To this day I tend to associate Christmas with the smell of vulcanizing rubber.
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Post by CJS: The Last Fender Bender on Jul 1, 2009 22:43:00 GMT -5
Because I'm a clean young man... except for my perverseness and horniness that costs me my friendships with the opposite sex. But other than that... clean. Oh yes, I had many relatives in the Akron-Canton area. To this day I tend to associate Christmas with the smell of vulcanizing rubber. That's a shame, I'd hope the food would smell good enough to counter that.
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Post by garnetblack on Jul 1, 2009 22:52:49 GMT -5
Goodyear Airship is the aviation arm of Goodyear, they build blimps, as well as space suits and other items used in flight and space travel. Sorry, I read the "by" in your previous statement as "or". I SWEAR I'M NOT UNDER THE INFLUENCE! Been to Akron, Ohio before? The disproportions are actually distracting to me in this piece. Mainly I find the legs to be too long. Agreed.
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Post by CJS: The Last Fender Bender on Jul 1, 2009 22:56:04 GMT -5
Sorry, I read the "by" in your previous statement as "or". I SWEAR I'M NOT UNDER THE INFLUENCE! Been to Akron, Ohio before? The disproportions are actually distracting to me in this piece. Mainly I find the legs to be too long. Agreed. Long time no post. Want a whiskey?
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Post by Charlotte C on Jul 1, 2009 23:33:03 GMT -5
Alright. Been lounging around and watching the races at my friends houses since I don't get cable. Still have to read your stories. Meh...don't feel obligated. I sometimes just don't feel like reading a long story. I remember not having cable. Where I grew up, it wasn't even available until after I had moved out for college. We had one of those big old satelite dishes for a while, until they scrambled all the channels. Then my dad rigged up some sort of descrambler that worked for a while, but the cable networks finally got too high-tech for him to get around their annoying signal-scrambling...annoyingness. So, do you have a favorite NASCAR driver? If so, who and why?
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Post by ShadigoIzayoi on Jul 2, 2009 18:46:08 GMT -5
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Post by eclogite on Jul 2, 2009 20:51:01 GMT -5
That's one of your better ones. What's the source.
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Post by ShadigoIzayoi on Jul 3, 2009 20:26:14 GMT -5
That's one of your better ones. What's the source. CLICKERS!!
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Post by CJS: The Last Fender Bender on Jul 4, 2009 12:16:18 GMT -5
Meh...don't feel obligated. I sometimes just don't feel like reading a long story. Kind of what's going on on this end, but I did make a promise, so I'll finish your story and read the one shots. Already getting to kissy face in chapter two... ;D I remember not having cable. Where I grew up, it wasn't even available until after I had moved out for college. We had one of those big old satelite dishes for a while, until they scrambled all the channels. Then my dad rigged up some sort of descrambler that worked for a while, but the cable networks finally got too high-tech for him to get around their annoying signal-scrambling...annoyingness. Thankfully I would just need one of those digital boxes to fix my problems. So, do you have a favorite NASCAR driver? If so, who and why? Mark Martin. I just like his driving style, and it's good to see him back in winning form despite the fact that he drives for Hendrick motor sports. He's on his way out of the series though, and it seems Kyle "douche bag" Busch will take his place. Not only is he a talented and entertaining driver, he also plays the role of the villain in the Cup series now, and I do tend to root for the villains in my forms of entertainment. He's still a douche though. Others that come to mind are Jeff Burton, Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart, Juan Montoya, and Marcos Ambrose. Still seems a bit odd to me, but the coloring and shading is nice. Another human airbase. *lands his aeroplane*
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Post by ShadigoIzayoi on Jul 4, 2009 14:24:21 GMT -5
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Post by Loser7 on Jul 6, 2009 2:42:37 GMT -5
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Post by garnetblack on Jul 7, 2009 15:33:35 GMT -5
Long time no post. Want a whiskey? I have posted, just not here. Still could use a drink or five.
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