BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 06:23 PM

"...clone Ronald Reagan"

Oh goody! Then we can have an endless string of nice, friendly, senile old guys who deregulate and trickle down and allow rampant abuse by those holy 'businessmen' who created most of this mess.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: DougR
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 06:31 PM

Clone the Gipper? Excellent idea!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 06:41 PM

somehow, I figgered YOU'D like that idea, Doug.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 07:18 PM

Someone mentioned that the gun turrets on the Bismark weren't "bolted down". Well, no gun turret is bolted down, exactly, because if it was it couldn't rotate! ;-) But I know what they meant. The Bismark's main gun turrets were held in place simply by the force of gravity. They were seated in circular receptacles, and rotating on massive ball bearings. There was no way those extremely heavy armoured turrets were coming out of their seated positions unless the ship capsized, in which case it was a moot point, because if the ship capsizes then you have lost not only the turrets but the entire ship.

This was done on some other capital ships too, not just on the Bismark. If the ship did capsize, then the turrets would fall freely out of their barbettes and sink separately to the bottom.

There is really no practical reason why a battleship-sized gun turret needs to be fastened down to its barbette (the cylindrical column on which the turret rests and rotates). Its own weight is quite sufficient to keep it in place as long as the ship doesn't capsize and sink.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: olddude
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 07:23 PM

JELLO

it is the tool of the DEVIL

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:21 PM

I may well live too long.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 01:11 PM

I am seriously afraid that PDQ will get a clue.
That he will stop posting silly wanking shit, thereby producing a butterfly effect making Mudcat and the wider virtual world go all silent, in a collective breath hold, waiting for the other shoe to drop precipitating the inevitable catastrophic system shutdown of global proportions.

What? It could happen.


Sorry! I got a hangover from the Salma Hayek thread.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 02:48 PM

nawww...VT, not a chance!

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 02:58 PM

(well...we 'may' have global catastrophes anyway, but since pdq is wired to produce....uhhh...what you said, I'm not sure we can officially blame him.)