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Pffft! You're late!

Never said I was a smart fucker, now did I...?

Very proud work, TC! FYI, one President's Day many years ago, I strapped on some AT skis at the small ledge on climber's left right where the Pearly Gates starts to neck down very narrow. I got in about three turns before catching an edge, made one more turn on just one ski, then tumbled the remaining 500-odd feet or so towards Crater Rock. After I cleaned up the yard sale, I shot straight for the Hogback, catching air as I schussed over the assembled horde there, landing in the Devil's Kitchen. Without missing a beat, I booked for the top of the Palmer, never looking back. The rest of my crew (not on skis) said it looked pretty cool. After the wipe-out, that is...

Oh, and as an update on my pirate kitteh Phydeaux (mentioned above in the Cap'n Morgan post), the little fucker rallied like a sum'bitch when he heard he was gonna be put down. Little bastard snapped right out of it, and now, after almost $900 and three trips to the vet, sub-q fluids and some meds, he's luv'n life. He's gained about a pound in the past 3 weeks, and he's sleeping in my lap as I type this right now. Lucky little bastard... He's got to live quite a while now to amortize out this latest emergency...

Just wait 12 hours after you've made your first twelve repeats, once it has become night. Same direction, same speed. Except it doesn't really "count" once you pass 11:11:11 "am", cuz that whole "am" "pm" thing is horseshit. Sticking to a 24-hour (often referred to as military time) format only allows this to occur for half the day. 11:11:11 "pm" is really just 2311:11. It's just not the same as in the morning... No wait, you've already burned up the 12 hours that you'd have to wait if you were not flying around the earth at 917 mph. So if you were in flight for the first 12 hours, you would just keep right on going past the 12th iteration until you hit #24. Oh, shit, I don't know... Fuck it! Have you bought that damned longitude book yet?

These two, tonight, shall I drink, hmmmm...?? [img:left]http://www.cellartracker.com/new/labels/182663.jpg[/img] [img:right]http://www.rachelleb.com/images/2011/05/maryhill_winemakers_red_2009.jpg[/img]

Patience you should have, youngling... Yoda sez...

You can get that when you've lost your way. Or forgotten your MLU...

WTF?? We're in the middle of the page, dood...

Yup. Default preferences are set up to show 25 posts per page. Every multiple of 25 gets you a new opportunity.

It died out some time back, but it's been making a resurgence in the last day or so. So HAWT right now...

That was an awesome episode!

pssfftt...book learnin elistist! BTW, what's an elistist? Someone who makes up distribution lists for mass email campaigns...?

Thought I'd dredge up this thread from last year, since I haven't seen anything here today about the topic and I didn't feel like starting another one when we already had one. My personal thanks to all veterans - serving, retired, or laid to rest.

What? They're real, ya know...

Aren't they a couple months too early for a centennial?

You never told me if you got the job after touching Cain's umlaut...

That's what attracted your attention in the video? What? Was there something I missed?

Not made up... scrivener

0:06 Why does an American flag in 1964 have only 48 stars on it...??

rob- All kidding and yucks aside, if you're interested in a fine read in layman's terms, this is a very good book about the solution to the mariner's age-old problem of determining one's longitude. Up until John Harrison's invention, sailors could fix their latitude (north/south of the equator) at sea quite easily from celestial observations using a sextant to determine the angle between the horizon (the sea) and a pole star (Polaris, in the constellation Ursa Minor, for sailors in the Northern Hemispere, while sailors in the Southern Hemisphere used the constellation Southern Cross as a pointer to a very faint southern pole star, Sigma Octantis). But they could not place themselves on the globe longitudinally (how far east or west had they traveled?). Needing both lat and long to fix your position at sea, sailors were pretty much "lost" if they lost their compass bearing by running afoul of storms, lack of wind, etc. and pretty much just had to wander around the ocean in a general direction of where they were going until they bumped into something. Harrison solved that nasty little problem, and did away with all of that nonsense with the invention of his sea clock.

Well, what is time anyway? Reminds me of this exchange: Chung Mee: Opium is my business. The bridge mean more traffic. More traffic mean more money. More money mean more power. Lawrence Bourne III: Yeah, well, before I commit any of that to memory, would there be anything in this for me? Chung Mee: Speed is important in business. Time is money. Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money. Chung Mee: Money is Money. Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is time again?

Oh, you wouldn't want me to do that. She'd never forgive you.

But did you get the job?

The magic of this event can be enjoyed again and again, but only for up to twelve times. The event is unique to each time zone, but only for 12 hours when the entire globe is considered. This is because the time difference between any two adipodes is only one half of a day. Therefore, were we able to travel fast enough, we would only be able to experience the joy of this event for a maximum of twelve times. How fast would one need to travel to enjoy this event repetitively? Why, that depends upon your latitude. If you're at the equator, you would need to travel faster than if you were at one of the poles. Although the degrees of longitude to be traveled would be the same every hour (360/24=15), the nautical mileage (or statute, whichever you prefer) would be different, in relation to where you are on the latitude line. Say that you are very near either of the poles. All that would be required of you would be to take a step around the pole in a very small circle every hour to relish this momentous occasion again and again. Now picture yourself at the equator. In order to cover that same 15 degrees of longitude in one hour, you would have to travel 22,000 miles/360 degrees * 15 degrees = ~917 miles. So if you were flying in a fighter aircraft, you could easily accomplish this, with enough fuel and/or mid-air refueling operations. Of course, you would want to fly as low as possible to reduce the total mileage traveled, which would consume fuel faster than if you were flying at a higher ceiling, where the jet's turbofan engines are more efficient. But that's a whole other discussion... What direction would you travel? That's easy. Since more eastern time zones experience any point in the day sooner than more westward time zones, one would have to travel from east to west (since you cannot easily travel back in time with our current technology). Take, for example, a sunrise in New York City... It is still before dawn in Detroit. It is two hours before dawn in Denver. It is three hours before dawn in Seattle. So in order to witness the sunrise in all of these places, one would need to travel the breadth of each of those intervening time zones in no more than one hour. By the same reasoning, you would have to do the same thing (move east to west) to enjoy the 11:11:11, 11/11/11 repeatedly.