This Sounds Remarkably Like The Navy Had Something To Do With It...

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Nick I'm confident that you know what I mean!

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Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago

Babylon 5, Voice of the Resistance in Rumors, Bargains and Lies (Susan Ivanova):

"First, one brief announcement.
I just wanted to mention, for those who have asked that absolutely nothing whatsoever happened today in Sector 83 by 9 by 12.
I repeat, nothing happened.
Please remain calm."

Jan

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  Posted by CTYankee 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  Best damn Scifi series on television!
  
  "I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass. We live for the One, we die for the One."
  
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    Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago
    
    I agree. And it did not even make it into the list of 10 best TV SF shows! It should have been #1 (and TNG #2). Time to re-watch.
    
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      Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
      
      TNG? -- j
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        Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        The Next Generation (Star Trek with Cpt Picard).
        
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        Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        sorry -- my imagination didn't figure it out. . I have seen
        almost all of the episodes in that series!!! -- j
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        Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        Sorry back at me. I try not to use cant phrases or acronyms, because they often stop me dead in my tracks when I am reading someone else's writing. I do make exceptions for B5 (Babylon 5) and TNG, as you saw.
        
        Looking at clips from B5 yesterday makes me want to go back and revisit that series.
        
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        Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        I never enjoyed B5, but should, someday. . many, many fun things,
        and only so much time to do them!!! -- j
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        Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        It has an overall plot arc, which puts it a bit ahead of TNG (at least for the first 4 seasons - 5th season of B5 is forgettable).
        
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        Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        will try to work it in sometime ... just now, we're investigating
        all of the capabilities of the worksharp belt machine plus
        the turntable machine too. . very interesting. . just wish that
        I could get the turntable to rotate backwards!!! -- j
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        Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        That sounds like a fun investigation. I bet all of your knives are now Really Sharp!
        
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        Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        we're working on that ... some in the collection will never
        see any sharpening. . but the Buck 119 is now ready
        for shaving, for example (there is even a leather strop
        on the turntable rig). -- j
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        Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        I have one dagger, a memento from a friend who died (whilst I was giving him CPR) that is razor sharp. I deliberately keep most of my swords dull (one is sharpish). The other knives I use are clasp knives and camp knives...and my favorite kitchen knife, that I carefully sharpen with a stone and steel.
        
        I have a scythe that I have just peen-sharpened. I really need to hit it with the stone again sometime soon.
        
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        Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        I just looked for info on peen-sharpening, and found only this:::
        
        http://scytheconnection.com/peening-w...
        
        ingenious! . I could imagine using an old powered hammer
        for edge peening. . and even this text editor red-underlines
        the word peening. . sheesh. . underlined sheesh, also.
        dumb editor. . anyway, what technique did you use for
        peen-sharpening??? -- j
        
        p.s. sorry about your friend. . we have only memories
        for so many.
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        Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        True. He had a heart attack at work. Chris and I did CPR and tried to save him, but...
        
        I use a ball peen hammer to work the edge on an anvil. When you use a scythe, you sharpen it all the time (keep a stone in your pocket). Eventually you have abraded away the work-hardened edge - that is when you need to take the blade off and pick up the ball peen hammer.
        
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        Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
        
        you must be a good shot with a hammer, Jan! . that technique
        is tough and tedious.
        
        I have studied CPR several times, but never had to do it
        in a real situation. . must have been, and still be, rough
        for you and Chris to remember....... -- j
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Posted by MikeMarotta 10 years, 1 month ago

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones." -- Donald Rumsfeld.

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  Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  I remember it at the time. I think he was trying to say you cannot prove a negative.
  
  In general, I strongly agree what he's saying. It's good to know stuff. It's okay not to know stuff. It's really dangerous when you think you know something and are wrong or there's something out there you don't even know you should be asking about.
  
  I disagreed with the invasion and occupation and Iraq, but I always felt like Rumsfeld and I had similar thought processes.
  
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    Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
    
    and if you don't know that you don't know something important,
    like the invention of anti-grav boots, it's bad. -- j
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Posted by blarman 10 years, 1 month ago

That's hilarious. Thanks!

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Posted by jlc 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.

I used to make replica suits of armor as a hobby...but I ruined my hands doing it. Now, I just do a bit of metalwork (like, 15 min) at a time. This is not enough to maintain my skill level, let alone to become more skilled, so my metalworking abilities dwindle.

Jan

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  Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  and yet, you can wield a mean ball-pein hammer!!! -- j
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Posted by Olduglycarl 10 years, 1 month ago

Me too!...I know where I'm not! hahahahahahah
Good laugh...it's amazing that it works with all that gibberish. LMAO

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Posted by Thoritsu 10 years, 1 month ago

Brought to you by the same people as the Turboencabulator!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7...

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  Posted by BrettRocketSci 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  Ack! That's the one I was looking for! Thanks for posting here buddy!
  
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    Posted by Thoritsu 10 years, 1 month ago
    
    There is a remake associating it with Rockwell too.
    
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  Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  this is fantastic! . Thanks!!! -- j
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Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago

Sounds like the way the House tries to explain a new law to the Senate. Maybe that script was written by the same guy who wrote Obamacare.

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  Posted by Suzanne43 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  Or boehner and McConnell trying to explain why they can't do any push back against the Democrats.
  
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Posted by bsmith51 10 years, 1 month ago

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

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Posted by jceockwood 10 years, 1 month ago

one of my favorites.
Australian Politician Interviewed about oil spill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlTZ2...

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Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 1 month ago

This would be a good video to show when someone who says keep your presentation simple and easy-to-understand by explaining it without using equations.

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  Posted by MikeMarotta 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  Like this one, "The Expert"?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP...
  
  (I will put it up in Humor, also.)
  
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Posted by Owlsrayne 10 years, 1 month ago

Now, if we could hack those 50 No. Korean submarines missiles with those parameters they would end up hammering No. Korea. I think given that, would be an acceptable error!

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Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 1 month ago

hey, that's a perfect lay explanation of a sort of arithmetic averaging
which can be used in control circuits, say, to put an exoskeletal leg
in the spot where the human leg is. . it just sounds awful
because we're not taking notes and making diagrams!!! -- j
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Posted by jdg 10 years, 1 month ago

Gee, and I was going to blame Donald Rumsfeld.

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Posted by teri-amborn 10 years, 1 month ago

...yeah...
Now I understand why it is written in the OT: "Damascus is laid waste..."

In the Middle East who or what can tell where anything is??? (especially these days?)

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Posted by BrettRocketSci 10 years, 1 month ago

LOL. This has to be a parody or it's B.S. I spent 15 minutes on YouTube trying to find another video from the 1960s of a scientist speaking gibberish about a weapon system. That's what it reminds me of. Anyone know the video I'm thinking of?

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  Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  Is it this?
  https://youtu.be/2kwl1YRYy_g
  I think Star Trek, esp Voyager, modelled its technobabble of this.
  
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    Posted by VetteGuy 10 years, 1 month ago
    
    That's the one I was thinking of. Great stuff. LOL
    Thanks, CG!
    
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    Posted by strugatsky 10 years, 1 month ago
    
    There an even better version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKd...
    Watch hands and the body language - awesome! It's like sitting in the gallery in Congress!
    
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      Posted by BrettRocketSci 10 years, 1 month ago
      
      LMAO! Thanks strugatsky! I hadn't seen that before. Oh, how I need to get one of those "differential girdle springs" for one of my own projects here...nyuk nyuk.
      
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    Posted by BrettRocketSci 10 years, 1 month ago
    
    Yes, thanks! It's also linked above under a different video title. Brilliant smart comedy.
    
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  Posted by VetteGuy 10 years, 1 month ago
  
  I think I know the video. Guy in a lab coat talking total nonsense, just linking a bunch of unrelated buzzwords. I looked and can't find it either ...
  
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    Posted by SaltyDog 10 years, 1 month ago
    
    He's standing in front of a panel with two wheels and some gauges, and if I remember correctly, he describes it as an "atomic control panel" or some such. In reality, that's a dive control station simulator for 1950s era submarines.
    
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Posted by Technocracy 10 years, 1 month ago

Don't know whether to be pleased or disturbed that I can still identify all of those LOL

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