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  1. Justa Jim

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    #5 Justa Jim, Sep 18, 2012
    Thank you Professor MM, for that enlightening perspective. :D

    Jim
     
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    #6 CHKMINI, Sep 18, 2012
    Chuck, a boring day at the salt mines?
     
  3. Justa Jim

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    #8 Justa Jim, Sep 18, 2012
    I'll bet you drive the Dragon with a slide rule in one hand. :)

    Jim
     
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    #2 Nathan, Sep 18, 2012
    Funny, I just read that and was thinking it would be a good thing to post about and link to.
     
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    #3 works4me, Sep 18, 2012
    Great minds think alike...and so do we!

     
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    #4 Metalman, Sep 18, 2012
    Is it a true oval or is it really and obround track? Ovals would be much harder to run than obround's.....
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    Of course driving the path of a oval on an obround track could give some centrifugal advantage. NASA does it all the time with satellites....
     
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    #7 Metalman, Sep 18, 2012
    Yeah.... We have several oblong punch dies in our arsenal.... It's not everyday I get to use oblong on a sentence.....

    OBLONG, OBLONG, OBLONG....

    There.... Got my fix for the day....

    I've been workin on the railroad.... All the oblong day....

    OK, I'm done now....
     
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    #9 ScottinBend, Sep 19, 2012
    :lol::lol::lol:
     
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    #10 rkw, Sep 19, 2012
    Not necessarily either.

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    #11 Metalman, Sep 19, 2012
    Nope..... I KEEP BOTH HANDS ON THE BIG ROUND THING, when I'm driving the Dragon.....:D

    The slide rule gets tossed in the boot.....
     
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    #12 Justa Jim, Sep 19, 2012
    I just saw the "engineer" coming out in ya MM. If you drove in the WRC, your pace notes would not only have the degree and direction of the next turn, but the coefficient of drag, based on barometric pressure, in relation to the phase of the moon. Your co-driver would be one busy person. :lol:

    Jim