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  The heart, lungs, liver, stomach, spinal cord and intestines are typically less than 2" from the outer surface (unless the person is very obese).

Interesting. Much as I hate to agree with Howard Stern, I also wonder about long term voice damage doing that at such a young age. I've traditionally avoid all these musical "talent" shows simply because they've got little to do with music and lots to do with popularity. Perhaps this is the next generation's Joan Jett or what's her name from Arch Enemy.

Speaking of new technology, check this out...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqqJs0mqH9M

    A coworker built a green house at his place.  He made us quite jealous eating fresh, home grown veggies all winter.         Use your grill or a turkey fryer to boil the water.  Works just as well and keeps the heat out of the house.  The AC works hard enough already...

Some states have reciprocity agreements regarding taxes on such things.  I bought a car from my uncle in MI several years ago.  I paid 4% MI sales tax instead of 8% TN sales tax.  He gave me a document that I gave to the county clerk stating I'd already paid the tax.  Either FL doesn't have one with TN or the seller didn't know that.

  True, just like bikes.  Max engine speed is mostly a function of how much air the engine can pump (after all, an internal combustion engine is nothing more than a pump) and how much stress the bottom end can handle.          Interesting concept.  Can't immediately grasp why that would have any effect on compression ratio, but interesting nonetheless. 

  Works good for my son's Red Ryder....  ;)

Computer controlled pneumatic valves aren't new, they've been used in F1 for years.  That's how F1 engines achieve such high revs' (18k-20k rpm).  Those systems aren't known for their durability, but since it's F1 they don't care about 250,000 mile reliability.  I'd guess hyper car makers are in a similar situation... no one puts 250,000 miles on a Koenigsegg.  He even says the test Saab has gone 60,000 km's under normal driving conditions.  That's not quite 40,000 miles.. hardly a testament to durability.  I agree that it's the wave of the future, but it's got a long way to go before you see an F150 with pneumatic valves. 

  Another vote for Beltman belts.  I've worn mine daily for at least 5 years.  It's great.

    Interesting (and frightening).  My wife doesn't like the idea of carrying gun on her person while at home.  Though we do keep the doors locked and as someone said, I've replaced the strike plate screws with 3" deck screws.    Seems this situation would force the mom into a pretty terrible decision.  Run for the gun, or run for the kids?  Clearly there isn't time for both.  Since this mom didn't have a gun handy, I'd say she made the right choice.  She's just fortunate the outcome wasn't worse. 

  While the triggers are typically pretty good, it's likely cylinder timing and the sights than hold most SA revolvers back.  Exactly as the OP highlighted, the front blade is something like 4-6 MOA wide.  And it's pretty easy to fix the trigger on an MK series. 

    :popcorn:

I wonder how long it took him to kick through the door?  How much time would that give you to react?

Ever thought of Auto-X?  It's a fantastic way to teach kids car control in a closed environment.  While you may see some guys with fancy "race cars", any decent street car will work fine with a small amount of prep.    http://www.trscca.org/indexFull.html

    You'd better.  :)

Cumberland County Playhouse in Crossville... We've seen several shows and it's always excellent.  http://www.ccplayhouse.com/static/shows.html   Barter Theater in Abingdon, VA is likewise excellent.  There's a number of B&B's nearby that can make for a really nice get-away weekend.  It's a beautiful area with lots of other stuff to do.  http://www.bartertheatre.com/   We typically prefer the comedies as 21st century life has enough drama for my taste.  I can immediately think of 3 or 4 shows we've seen where my stomach hurt the next day from laughing so hard.  Generally, I recommend you sit as close as possible.  Nothing like literally being a few feet away from the actors. 

While I agree that the burden of safety lies with the shooter, if they modified the stage they should at least give anyone who shot before the modification the option to re-run the stage.  There's the argument that you'd get an unfair advantage doing it twice, but the same applies to those to shot it after the modification. 

    We used to can a lot when I was a kid.  Dad loved green tomato pickles and we had tons of them.  I think it wore me out on them because the only pickles I eat anymore are either sweet or spicy.  If/when I get back into it, I'll do the heating on the grill.    Mostly I need more garden space.  I had planned to build at least one raised bed but spent more time/money than I expected building stairs and a walkway and just didn't get it done.  It'll be on the list next spring. 

Yep, the smiley is cool.  Who did the logo on the back?  Mine doesn't have that... I think.  I'll look when I get back home. 

    I recall reading something that said the tank wasn't full.  They'd only put enough fuel on board for the flight plan.  The 747 can carry a huge amount of fuel and they wouldn't fly with the excess weight unless they had to. 

Good news!

Looks like a control cable failure or something.  Terrible thing. 

Good stuff.  I was late getting my garden planted this year.  Hope to start getting cucumbers and tomatoes in another week or two.  We've gotten a few green beans.  The snap peas were growing fine and just turned brown and died, I haven't a clue what happened.    We've talked about getting into canning but it doesn't look like we'll have enough yield this year to bother.  We froze a bunch of tomatoes last year and they were great for salsa, spaghetti, etc. through the winter. 

Here's why I think it was military and not shoulder fired... Shoulder fired missiles are heat seeking. The missile would impact one of the engines and more-or-less obliterate it. The engines from TW800 were found mostly intact. The effective range of most shoulder fired missiles is about 15,000 ft. TW800 was reported to be at about this altitude when the explosion occurred, at the extreme range of the missile. If there was a central fuel tank explosion (and yes, there is wiring inside the fuel tanks), most of the aircraft would've been blown to smithereens. The fuel tank in question is huge... 20,000 gallons or so. If there was enough fuel vapor, air, and heat that a spark could've ignited the vapor in a tank that big, there wouldn't be such big pieces of the fuselage directly above the tank. Remember the home gas explosion in Indy a while back? There was nothing left. Since the missile didn't hit the engines directly, it could've been two things: 1) A proximity explosion. The shrapnel damaged the structure and caused the plane to break up in flight. 2) An unarmed radar guided missile. That would impact the fuselage directly and just punch a big hole which would cause the plane to break up. But that's just my uneducated opinion.... :tinfoil: :)

    Interesting that you've actually seen one.  The only mines I've ever seen had very low (5' or less) ceilings.  Wouldn't be fun living there.    I also wonder about the stability of the mine itself.  Sure seems like mines dug more than 100 years ago wouldn't exactly benefit from the latest methods and safety standards.  But the pictures of it look pretty nice.