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Hmm, I am a little baffled that every time I cut bits out of sheet of plywood, it always leaves the sheet looking like a B2 bomber.
Some shapes and patterns turn up again and again because they work, the circle, the arch and so on. So it's...
* convergent evolution on the parts of plywood and
jet bombers
* the B2 is made out of plywood
*trees are so bored at ending up as wardrobes, they are trying to acquire the ability to fly, so as to escape the human race.
B2 Bomber
https://drive.googl...CQbjMFhteV9EYnZnRFE
[not_morrison_rm, Oct 29 2017]
A piece of plywood
http://pop.h-cdn.co...498906-b-2still.jpg
[not_morrison_rm, Oct 29 2017]
Horten HO IX/ HO229
https://en.wikipedi.../wiki/Horten_Ho_229
Astonishing [8th of 7, Oct 29 2017]
Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera
http://www.migall.f..._ccds/wfpc_ccds.htm
The Universe is messing with your head, but there's uncertainty about the amount of fun derived [lurch, Oct 29 2017]
Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident
https://en.wikipedi...e_Base_B-2_accident
Loud and VERY expensive... [8th of 7, Oct 30 2017]
Why Winston, what big ears you have...
https://theworldatw...Star+Wars+Parallels
https://theworldatwar.wikispaces.com/L.+Star+Wars+Parallels [RayfordSteele, Oct 30 2017]
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In WW2, because of light alloy shortages, the Germans built jet aircraft like the Volksjäger and the Natter out of wood. |
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The British built the Mosquito of plywood, not so much because of a shortage of metal but more because it was a really good design. |
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B2's make extensive use of carbon fibre. Wood makes extensive use of cellulose, also a carbon-based fibre. |
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But we think it's mostly because the Universe is having fun messing with your head. |
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//Germans built jet aircraft like the Volksjäger and the
Natter out of wood// |
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Accidental foray into stealth design perhaps? |
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//they are trying to acquire the ability to fly, so as to
escape the human race.// |
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Thank you for joining my cause of smashing the kingdomist
arrogance of the evil animals that are poisoning and
destroying this beautiful planet. |
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Plants are pretty, peaceful and kind (except for venus
flytraps which are hateful little bastards) and simply want
to be left in peace to populate the planet and make it
pretty. Then here come the fascist pig animals, us humans
being at the forefront of the assault on these peaceful,
beautiful beings with sap thirsty vegetarians leading the
holocaust following psychopathic murders like Adolph
Hitler*
(a big time vegetarian) as they rampage through these
delicate creature's fields, killing, maiming and destroying,
just so they can sit on their carbon blueprinting butts and
have their kale salad while extolling the virtues of their
murderous diet that kills millions, nay, billions a year. |
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That's, one, two three, four.... eighty words in one
sentence.
*Plus bonus points for including Godwin's law, so let's tally
my points, |
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80 word run on sentence times 2 for including Godwin's
law,
sanctimonious factor of, I'm giving this a solid 10, for a total
of....1,600 on the rant scale. |
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But seriously, I think you have the captions crossed in your
pictures no? |
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Drat, drat and double drat ! You beat us to it ! Aww, Ref ! Unfair ! |
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// Accidental foray into stealth design perhaps? // |
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Actually, that was the Horten HO-IX, the granddaddy of stealthy flying wings. |
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I know it well. Gotta say, at the risk of being ten times worse
than Hitler*, that's a beautiful friggin' design. |
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And NotM, bun for anything starting a discussion about the
mysterious but deadly B2. |
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// psychopathic murders like Adolph Hitler* (a big time vegetarian) // |
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Not only veggie, but a teetotaller .... you can't trust 'em, nasty bunch. |
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But he did like dogs (right up to the point he had his dog Blondi poisoned in the bunker, that is). |
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Winston, on the other hand, guzzled brandy, smoked like a chimney, and never stinted on the foie gras, venison and roast beef; and while he had numerous faults, being a psychopathic genocidal murderer probably wasn't one of them. |
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I'll take the psych profile you've begun on these two guys to
the next step: |
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One was very human and derived pleasures out of simple
things, cigars, getting drunk, good food and lots of it. Liked
the world around him and sought to defend it. |
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The other considered himself above the common man who
needed to derive HIS pleasure from molding the world to fit
HIM. |
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So if I ever find myself wanting to change the world and
throw everybody who disagrees with me in death camps,
(not that I've ever done the latter, not even secretly) I'll
light a cigar, pour a snifter of brandy, eat some foie gras
and
ponder that great (half) American, one of my top 3 heroes,
Winston Churchill. (The other two are Gene Roddenberry
and some guy you've never heard of.) |
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Another thing we have in common. |
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Read his entire WWII history, I have. |
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Yoda turning into, you are. |
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Could you make something out of little baffles? |
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//the erroneously sensed negative angle of attack caused the
computers to inject a sudden, 1.6g, uncommanded 30-degree
pitch-up maneuver.// Ouch. |
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It's not called "die-by-wire" for nothing, you know. |
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In this case, no-one died, but that was only because they had ejector seats. |
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//the erroneously sensed negative angle of
attack caused the computers to inject a sudden,
1.6g, uncommanded 30-degree pitch-up maneuver.// |
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Like I said, mysterious and deadly. |
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Judge me by my syntax, do you? Up with this sort of
nonsense, I should not put. |
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Fun with this, I could have. |
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The key to unlocking our potential, continuous effort is, not
strength, not intelligence. |
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