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  • Ratchet2501
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    #1951
    Re: The random thought thread

    Originally posted by SwisSeV
    Hmm, what a week it has been.

    Went to the Doc's for a routine check up last week. A day later I was diagnosed with late stage cancer.

    My doc says I need chemo and radiation asap. I think I'm going to move into a specialized hospital in Texas or somewhere on the west coast by next week.

    Anyway, I won't be around anymore.

    Wish me luck......
    Give em hell brother!

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    • Iowatech
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      #1952
      Re: The random thought thread

      Killdozer? Not quite. More like Soylent Green's riot trucks.
      Open the links at your own peril.
      Still, MUAHAHAHAHA!
      Last edited by Iowatech; 03-27-2017, 02:53 AM. Reason: More links!

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      • Iowatech
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        #1953
        Re: The random thought thread

        Originally posted by Iowatech
        Killdozer? Not quite. More like Soylent Green's riot trucks.
        Open the links at your own peril.
        Still, MUAHAHAHAHA!
        Here's a YouTube of the thing. You only need to watch it halfway though, as it starts over then (when you see the donuts for the second time).

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        • slimslob
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          #1954
          Re: The random thought thread

          Originally posted by Iowatech
          Killdozer? Not quite. More like Soylent Green's riot trucks.
          Open the links at your own peril.
          Still, MUAHAHAHAHA!
          Originally posted by Iowatech
          Here's a YouTube of the thing. You only need to watch it halfway though, as it starts over then (when you see the donuts for the second time).
          I think a snowplow train would also work.

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          • Iowatech
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            #1955
            Re: The random thought thread

            Space X launched a rocket recently that had their first recycled first stage. I got to see most of the the feed of that flight.
            Also, the lounge area that used to be on Boeing 747s. I've only been on a 747 once during the flight back to CONUS from one of the humanitarian missions while I was probably in the Reserves. It may have been a cargo conversion (it was an Evergreen Airlines aircraft, and if I am wrong I sincerely apologize!), but since there was only several hundred people on board it was a fairly pleasant flight. So if fate and circumstances allow you to travel on a 747, I encourage you to consider it a positive thing.
            Finally, if you are in the northern hemisphere and the sky is clear, you might look for the Fool's Comet Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak. Theoretically it should be visible with binoculars in the northern sky now, but the link will have some coverage of it too.

            As always, open the links at your own peril.

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            • Iowatech
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              #1956
              Re: The random thought thread

              Ugh, sauerkraut is supposed to be sour, not sweet.

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              • TheBlueOrleans
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                #1957
                Re: The random thought thread

                Originally posted by Iowatech
                Ugh, sauerkraut is supposed to be sour, not sweet.
                Per Google Translate (however accurate that may be) that would be "nicht sauerkraut".
                Somewhere there is a tree working hard to produce oxygen for you to live, NOW GO APOLOGIZE TO IT!

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                • Iowatech
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                  #1958
                  Re: The random thought thread

                  Isaac Newton says we can't have flying cars? Aw...
                  Well, if that's the case, this will do:

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                  • Iowatech
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                    #1959
                    Re: The random thought thread

                    Morels.jpg

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                    • BLADE
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                      #1960
                      Re: The random thought thread

                      you have a great dog

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                      • fixthecopier
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                        #1961
                        Re: The random thought thread

                        Remember when you were young and would just leap over small fences with no effort?



                        The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

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                        • Geo
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                          #1962
                          Re: The random thought thread

                          Originally posted by fixthecopier
                          Remember when you were young and would just leap over small fences with no effort?



                          http://i.imgur.com/cA3Gu9z.mp4
                          Thanks for depressing me....

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                          • Iowatech
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                            #1963
                            Re: The random thought thread

                            How to turn an enemy into a friend.
                            Also, actual science on why shoelaces become untied. I always tuck the loose ends in between the tongue and the upper, so most of the time I don't have that problem. It looks less sloppy that way too.
                            As always, open the links at your own peril.
                            Speaking of shoes, you ever notice that some of the cheaper ones have ridiculously long shoe laces? Wal Mart used to have some cheap but decent looking shoes that were pretty comfortable and had a facsimile of the Vibram boot sole that worked well enough in the mild winters here. But the shoe laces were long enough that I could have used them on my steel toed boots that I had to keep in the car because OSHA.
                            Heh, the time I went to Fort Leonard Wood, the support shop we were working in made us wear corrugated metal covers on our boots. We affectionately nicknamed them moose lips.
                            Last edited by Iowatech; 04-15-2017, 04:10 AM. Reason: Footwear tech

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                            • Iowatech
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                              #1964
                              Re: The random thought thread

                              Seems like a good tip.
                              As always, open he link at your own peril.

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                              • mrwho
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                                #1965
                                Re: The random thought thread

                                Originally posted by fixthecopier
                                Remember when you were young and would just leap over small fences with no effort?



                                http://i.imgur.com/cA3Gu9z.mp4
                                I never did, so getting old is just adding wrinkles to an otherwise unathletic body...
                                ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
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                                'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'

                                Ibid

                                I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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