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haresfur

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Posted: Mar 27, 2024 - 6:21pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

The Midshipman’s Hitch Knot is promoted by Ashley (ABOK # 1993, p 325) as the only knot to tie in the following unlikely but critical circumstance: you fall overboard and catch hold of the line which you have prudently left trailing astern and find yourself hanging on with difficulty. Before you tire, you manage to bring the bitter end of the rope around your back. You then have to tie a suitable knot to make a loop around you. A bowline cannot be tied under load. Two Half Hitches will slide and constrict you. The Rolling Hitch is the answer. Even as the second turn is tucked “up” into the correct place, the major strain is taken and the final Half Hitch can be tied with less urgency.





That actually looks relatively useful because tying off a taut line is always a pain. I probably would have tried to look the end and tie a figure 8, which would be awkward while you are hanging on for dear life.
islander

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Posted: Mar 27, 2024 - 6:20pm

 Bill_J wrote:


Easier & safer to not get on the boat.


Harder to catch that fish tho.

#notwhatshipsarefor
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Posted: Mar 27, 2024 - 5:21pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

The Midshipman’s Hitch Knot is promoted by Ashley (ABOK # 1993, p 325) as the only knot to tie in the following unlikely but critical circumstance: you fall overboard and catch hold of the line which you have prudently left trailing astern and find yourself hanging on with difficulty. Before you tire, you manage to bring the bitter end of the rope around your back. You then have to tie a suitable knot to make a loop around you. A bowline cannot be tied under load. Two Half Hitches will slide and constrict you. The Rolling Hitch is the answer. Even as the second turn is tucked “up” into the correct place, the major strain is taken and the final Half Hitch can be tied with less urgency.





Easier & safer to not get on the boat.
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Posted: Mar 27, 2024 - 4:11pm

The Midshipman’s Hitch Knot is promoted by Ashley (ABOK # 1993, p 325) as the only knot to tie in the following unlikely but critical circumstance: you fall overboard and catch hold of the line which you have prudently left trailing astern and find yourself hanging on with difficulty. Before you tire, you manage to bring the bitter end of the rope around your back. You then have to tie a suitable knot to make a loop around you. A bowline cannot be tied under load. Two Half Hitches will slide and constrict you. The Rolling Hitch is the answer. Even as the second turn is tucked “up” into the correct place, the major strain is taken and the final Half Hitch can be tied with less urgency.



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Posted: Mar 4, 2024 - 5:04am

 Manbird wrote:



LSMFT


because fluxnark?
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Posted: Mar 1, 2024 - 5:20pm

 miamizsun wrote:


"AI isn't our second brain, it's our third hemisphere."

- some guy on the internet





LSMFT
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Posted: Feb 28, 2024 - 10:43am



"AI isn't our second brain, it's our third hemisphere."

- some guy on the internet


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Posted: Nov 6, 2023 - 4:29am

morning reflection:
baffled that my grandmother was a sir isaac newton fan

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Posted: Oct 5, 2023 - 6:28am

 black321 wrote:


don't get hijacked by your emotions




i agree
esp when you can get hijacked by someone else's emotions
it saves the me the trouble


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Posted: Oct 4, 2023 - 12:23pm

 oldviolin wrote:



don't get hijacked by your emotions


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Posted: Oct 4, 2023 - 12:09pm


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Posted: Sep 29, 2023 - 3:20pm

 Manbird wrote:

sporkely
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Posted: Sep 29, 2023 - 1:38pm

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Posted: Sep 27, 2023 - 2:54pm

 oldviolin wrote:
Math seamless pattern with handwriting — Stock Photo, Image


rude
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Posted: Sep 27, 2023 - 12:00pm

Math seamless pattern with handwriting — Stock Photo, Image
miamizsun

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Posted: Sep 27, 2023 - 7:33am

"If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our Universe, but in a mangled form, which contains information about what you were like, but in an unrecognizable state. It is like burning an encyclopedia. Information is not lost, if one keeps the smoke and the ashes. But it is difficult to read."

— Stephen Hawking, Information Loss in Black Holes, 2005


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Posted: Sep 25, 2023 - 8:08am


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Posted: Jul 30, 2023 - 5:44pm

 oldviolin wrote:

If I remember correctly, electricity will jump through the air at 20 volts per millimeter or thousandth of a meter. If a lightning bolt is 20 kilometers in length you can do the math. It's a lot by the time it strikes a tree...



Actually a lot more to get a spark to jump the gap - just about 75,000 volts per inch (3000 volts per milimeter).  You can sustain an arc with less once you have ionized the air in the gap, but it takes a bunch to get it going. 
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Posted: Jul 18, 2023 - 7:26pm

 Manbird wrote:
 oldviolin wrote:

If I remember correctly, electricity will jump through the air at 20 volts per millimeter or thousandth of a meter. If a lightning bolt is 20 kilometers in length you can do the math. It's a lot by the time it strikes a tree...
No, YOU"RE a lot plus striking trees makes me noxixous and it's cruel. (I'm telling bill)
 
Tell him you big baby. I don't care. You can even tell William.
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Posted: Jul 18, 2023 - 4:50pm

you should get friendly with your Yamanaka factors
the sooner the better

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