@dale said: I am driven to become self sustaining. There is a lot in this statement Dale! Much of Western society have no idea about this. I still have fond memories when a child of my Grandmother carefully folding the brown paper from a parcel and rolling the string into a ball. It made sense! I always knew where to locate some brown paper or string. I am a subscriber the Mother Earth News and have been since I was a young lad looking forward to the annual BIG BOOK! Nowadays it digital, but that fine too. I would love for SketchUcation to have closer ties with Mother Earth News as I feel SketchUp would be a great tool for showing many of their green projects. [image: tiny-homes.jpg] Cozy, Affordable Tiny Homes Maybe I'll shoot them an email

is there anyone here , that is doing watercolors? anyone interested in a co-exhibition, here in Isfahan?

got my airline tickets in there, i think, i hope, for an upcoming flight. now, will my little airport be able to scan them? or will i only be able to use them coming back from a big metro area... hmm.

Wow. Pity about those flats. Looks dangerous.

@Pilou Etude-Blender.fr opens well for me too right now ! Nice a good companion in the learning process/ I'm going to learn "plein de bonnes choses", merci Pilou. **S

This is a great story, 3D printing has come on massively. The materials are really diverse now, can even print in stainless steel, bronze, brass, titanium, gold.... http://i.materialise.com/materials

@michaliszissiou said: @unknownuser said: I think we all use our snakes as pendulums Hey, you are too young for this.

Wait and see. There'll be an extended period of downtime this weekend.

Theoretically there's nothing 'wrong' with traveling faster than the speed of light. Just as in the same way there's no problems for us traveling slower than the speed of light. It's just there's a catch - at the speed of light you need infinite energy, have infinite mass, time stops etc... and if you are just 'near' the speed of light [either side] the effects are also quite problematical for your day-to-day life. This means that objects traveling very very fast on our side of the light-barrier can't readily accelerate without dire consequences, and in the same way objects traveling above the speed of light can't readily decelerate down towards the speed of light either. So ne'r the twain shall meet! We are talking about transporting information, as much as physical objects here... The 'alternative' idea of 'warping' space itself... so that an object has less of a distance to traverse in the same time-frame could have the same effect as traveling faster than the speed of light... but controlling the forces involved in doing this 'wormhole' [or similar] in a way that doesn't squish the traveling object so much that its information is lost, have not been worked out at all well! Since 'you' are going to be the most important bits of information in the object that is traveling this way, then your chances of 'you' still being 'you' at the other end are, at the moment, very slim... Also, let's say you did successfully go one way down this 'tube', then how would you return ? Any given 'wormhole' is probably going to be transitory and difficult to fine-tune in where/when it ends up at all, let alone doing it in the exact 'reverse' way - so you might easily arrive back before you left or return long after you departed, either way this would not a satisfactory result... Unfortunately 'Star Trek' et al is/was made with little basis in reality... Although I really do hope that someone somewhere manages to sort out this seemingly insoluble issue... I won't be one of the first volunteers...

@roger said: @utiler said: Thanks Steve. I think I'll stick to ratio or degrees, percentages seem thwart with danger! Fraught with danger! -- a warning from Captain grammar. Apologies, Captain. you're quite rite...

Maybe I'm lazy, but after reading "BUILT" in huge letters my brain shuts off and I just don't read the rest. You sure you want all that info in your card?

"Proof by rearrangement" [probably Pythagoras's method] avoids any algebra or calculations - it's just "drawing"... The first example is by far the simplest! [image: Pythag_anim.gif] [image: 220px-Pythagoras-2a.gif] [image: 220px-Pythagorean_theorem_rearrangement.svg.png]

Great suggestions. Thank you!

Unfortunately even the phpBB forum software does not recognise those brackets either. In the future, there should be a better way to list and share plugins however. This forum listing, though it's a very smart way Jim "hacked" it, has its limitations.

Thanks guys for suggestions. I haven't added the last few suggestions but will shortly.

Thanks for those comment Richard. I have also collected the list and posted here, LIST OF SKETCHUCATION BANNER ADVERTISERS http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=47786 As members can see all banners are of relevance to SketchUp

@lobster said: Probably even less after todays announcements. Had forgotten that he was so vocal about that whole shameful episode - his comments about the tragedy gave us a true taste of his attitude to the "man in the street".

Dale and Mike, Definitely you are safe with the use of iLetter as long as the word is spelt backwards... Have a look this... http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mp3s/apples-future-wont-be-brought-to-you-by-the-letter-i-20100312-q27r.html