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[Quick_Nick]

My wife and kids were in a bus crash this morning: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/20/2718669.htm. They got out OK, albeit shaken, but one of the seven passengers sent to hospital was our neighbour, 35 weeks pregnant. Here's hoping she is OK.

Yikes! I hope everything is okay!
Also, the car owner is quite lucky things didn't turn out worse for him. It doesn't get much more dangerous than a burning car.

 

[tblaxland]

Lucky pedestrian: a security cam video of a bus crash in Perm'

:blink: Very lucky indeed.

Yikes! I hope everything is okay!

I just got back from their place. Everything seems OK so far, a bit sore but no permanent damage. Now comes the hard part - convincing my 3 yo daughter that it is OK to get on a bus again...

Also, the car owner is quite lucky things didn't turn out worse for him. It doesn't get much more dangerous than a burning car.

Yes, but I do wonder at his wisdom of opening the bonnet when smoke was coming from under it. I may have done the same, but I keep a fire extinguisher in the car. I've also been meaning to get one of these: http://www.lifehammer.com/

 

[SiberianTiger]

:blink: Very lucky indeed.

According to the report, the bus had its automatic clutch failed and rolled down like this not stopping until "it reached the monument of St. Nicholas at the city square".

 

[Bj]

Well well... it has been exactly 1 year since I have started college and now I have started my Junior year. Though I don't think that I will be able to pull Junior/Senior in this next year again, the the classes are getting more intense... Even better news I will be able to pay for the next semester entirely, though that will only leave about $200 left... and this semester I am going to be taking web design with Flash and Dreamweaver. Hopefully I can get through the class on the trial versions alone, ahh well here's to another year of stress

 

[2552]

There's a Thanks button on posts now? Cool!


Moved here for posting this randomly on the forum

 

[TSPenguin]

I like this number

 

[n72.75]

What number.

 

[TSPenguin]

987

 

[spec10]

You want a *really* big ship? Build a giant engine... face it's thrust towards the sky... turn it on... that's one big spaceship

actually ... i'd love to try that is it possible to move a celestial body in orbiter or are they locked on some internal rails?

 

[Eagle]

Zeroth limitation: Innovation
Primary limitation: $
Secondary limitations: Regulations (EPA, FAA, Pissed off Congress, etc)
Tertiary limitations: Time (see money)
Minor Concerns: Physical limits

Wouldn't it be easier to build a base and a factory on the moon, ship all the materials there , and launch from there?

Or just assemble on orbit where launch acceleration, total mass, atmosphere and most non operational requirements become a non issue.

Bonuses for using asteroids as material as there's no gravity well to pull out of. If you plan far enough ahead (see time and money) you can nudge them into any orbit you want.

 

[T.Neo]

Well, considering the apparent size of the lunchers in this image, I think it's safe to say that the answer is: Very Big.

 

[Eagle]

moved

 

[T.Neo]

So I did pick on him, nothing too terrible, but certainly not nice.

That's not good. I'd expect far more mature behavior from an Orbinaut.

But still, extremely funny story. :rofl:

 

[Eagle]

That's not good. I'd expect far more mature behavior from an Orbinaut.

But still, extremely funny story. :rofl:

I was even more of a punk in Elementary School. Back then I was 4ft tall, 80 lbs and had a 3 man crew.

 

[Artlav]

"New Russian Nuclear Doctrine‎".
What do you hear about it on the west?

 

[SiberianTiger]

"New Russian Nuclear Doctrine‎".
What do you hear about it on the west?

What do you hear about it on the east?

 

[Artlav]

What do you hear about it on the east?

Nothing but blog talk, thus the question.

 

[Unstung]

I finished a new signature:

(I took the pictures of the plane and sky.)
Version 4, updated 1 November.

 

[SiberianTiger]

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Is anybody aware of a forum-embeddable countdown timer?

 

[Belisarius]

No sorry, but in the tradition of randomness I'd like to share with you this story of a plastic surgeon who married a girl whose body he found repugnant just so he could use her to create his ideal woman...

Plastic surgeon weds dowdy girl then builds ideal wife

This is what they call taking your destiny into your own hands