interesting... although it seems very cheesy... the modeling isn't very impressive.

If anything, it definitely would be a collector's toy.. it can only go up in value; not many of them and diamond nd gold keeps going up ($$$) anyway. But maybe I'll spend my money on something a little more usefull like ... food. lol Mike RL

Alan's right. There's no complicated physics required (especially crock physics) to resolve it. The wheels on the plane are irrelevant- they have negligible effect on the forward motion of the plane. In fact that's the whole point of the wheels, unlike driven car wheels, plane wheels are there to isolate the plane from it's surroundings- i.e. to reduce the friction between the plane and the ground to the point that it is negligible.... until the brakes are applied. The wheels are irrelevant, the conveyor belt is irrelevant, the lift of the plane is irrelevant, the crux of the problem is simply: do jet planes propel themselves forward when their jet engines are fired up? Of course they do, whether they're on land, in the air or in a vacuum (well rocket engines in the last case). Now if the plane was in a wind tunnel which could match the velocity of the plane's jet engines, that would be a different problem altogether (but just as easily solved).

Dunno about being run over. It looks like he found a good stash of Haze.

Here's an idea... (Perhaps not a good one but if someone uses it they'll owe me big bucks!) Smokers of such electronic cigs will suffer the same social stigmas as do other smokers. Some of that suffering would disappear if the electro-cig user could do it more discretely. The solution is to build one into a cellular phone. The ElectroCigPhone user would simply hold the phone up to their head like they were taking a call. There'd be a little smoke sucking hole near the microphone. The user could take a drag while those around them assume they are just talking on the phone.

This is ridiculous, the prostate exam is nothing. For that matter neither is a biopsy if required -- like being snapped with a rubber band. Of course it requires that you visit a doctor more than once in 10 years....

@kwistenbiebel said: That was great . I wonder what Chuck Norris would have said... If he answered Bush to something Batman said, he would have to go back in time and convince Bush to say what he thought he said. Chuck Norris is always right.

Thats what I look like with nappy hair!

Just like XP and Vista, it comes with the computer but if, as in my case, it came with an older version, OS X 9.x Tiger, and you want to upgrade to OS X 10.x Leopard, you have to install and register it the same as you would and Windows operating system (hence OS by the way). Mike RL

ui, that was quick...

Just don't try to tell the dutch that windmills are the newest wind technology.... Chris

Indeed, we're already planning for next year. Gonna make sure we've got valid passports this time.

Gotcha!, yes that makes perfect sense. Indeed that only works as long as it stays online at the betaforum. Chris

Two boys were known in their town for being badly behaved, if there was any trouble in the town it was normally one of these two boys. Finally the mother of one of these wayward lads hears that a pastor in the neighbouring town has had a lot of success with this sort of situation. So she arranges for both of the boys to have a chat with the pastor. The first boy enters the church office and sits down on a uncomfortable chair in front of a large oak desk. The pastor looks at the boy and asks in a loud booming voice "Son, do you know where God is?" The boy's face drops but he doesn't answer. The pastor repeats the question but with more force. "Son, do you know where God is?" The boy begins to shake and his eyes begin to fill with tears but still no answer came for him. The pastor pulls closer to the boys and repeats the question. "Son, do you know where God is?" This is to much for the child, he leaps up in floods of tears and runs out of the church only stopping to by his partner in crime. He splutters out in between his sobs "I think we’re in real trouble this time. God has gone missing and they think we've done it!"

This it? http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=15472#p15472

modelhead you can count me in on the beta. Estimating withing SU would be beneficial.

I don't think Bush or anyone else in the administration deliberately went into Iraq to drive the price of oil up. Let's not forget about UN Resolution 1444 (I think that's the number). The price of oil is overwhelmingly driven by supply and demand variables. I think ALL of government is infected with moral hazard; from local to federal. This is a great term. Their lack of moral behavior creates a hazard for all of us. It's getting worse and the one thing that just really pisses me off is the lack of accountability. Vote Libertarian, I say.

To get to the old gallery section substitute f=9 at the end of the URL. For a good time go all the way back (about page 157) and look at the early examples by Grant Marshall, Ollie Bergman, Rein de Hart, Greg Laverdera, Allister Godfrey and others just to see what could be done with v2.

Looks like it has been quite some hike. Really great of you to share these images.

That's quite funny. Makes you wonder how such sayings get started.