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Join Date: Sep 2007
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As long as the wind puts more torque on the prop than it does drag on the vehicle, it will accelerate, even if that's directly into the wind that's spinning the prop. No reason a prop can't rotate while facing into the wind. Think of those classic pond-pumping windmills in farming regions with vanes on the back to automatically keep their prop facing into the wind.
Blackbird isn't using its prop for thrust from accelerating air backwards; it's got a mechanical linkage between the prop shaft and the wheels. It's a windmill on wheels, rather than an airplane without wings, turning a wheel to move rather than turning a wheel to grind grain (or whatever other work you built the windmill to do). |
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#2042 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
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Somebody pulled over a PC: Rattlesnake, uranium, whiskey found during traffic stop
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: near Houston
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Earth, mostly
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MO, U.S.A.
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Why would he need a permit in Oklahoma to leave it in the glove box? Heck, after Nov. 1 Oklahoma becomes another Constitutional Carry State, and you wont need a permit to conceal carry.
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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#2047 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
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This will end well...
Could 2019 be the year humans open the first portal to a shadowy dimension which mirrors our own world? Scientists in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee hope so, and have completed building equipment they are to test this summer which may allow us the first glimpse of a parallel universe which could be identical in many ways to our own, with mirror particles, mirror planets and possibly even mirror life. That is according to Leah Broussard, the physicist behind the project, who described the attempt to reveal a hidden shadow world as “pretty wacky” in an interview with NBC last week. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-a8987681.html |
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#2048 | |
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Earth, mostly
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#2049 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Contact with the Federation went worse for the Empire -- they get Mirror Spock inspired to rebel with the aid of alien tech. Probably didn't work out well for Mirror Kirk. Federation gets...yet another interesting report from Enterprise. Whether you're the Source or Reflection, breaking the mirror is bad.
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#2050 |
Join Date: Sep 2007
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In the shadowy mirror dimension, they are the good guys, with their own TV shows featuring a shadowy mirror dimension.
(I always liked the way they redid the credit sequence for the mirror universe episode in Enterprise.) |
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blueberry muffin, fermi paradox |
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