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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, February 6, 2022 1:15 PM

Lastspikemike

Who let that tiger in?

I don't know but I don't think it was a very good idea.
 
We had a springer spaniel named Duke that looked more like a Saint Bernard with his attitude that looked almost exactly like that.
 
It was never a very good idea to irritate that dog and hard living with a dog that only likes you sometimes.
 
If you've ever seen one of those dogs that turns their head sideways while you're trying to reason with it, that was Duke.
 
Corners were a little difficult to come around in the house because you didn't know if Duke would be there.
 
But when you wanted to rest well at night you just left him in the living room.
 
 
 
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Posted by NorthBrit on Sunday, February 6, 2022 5:32 AM

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 The problem is, we humans have a hard time visualizing waves. 

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, February 5, 2022 9:26 PM

-E-C-Mills
The problem is, we humans have a hard time visualizing waves.

I love visualizing waves.

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Posted by mvlandsw on Saturday, February 5, 2022 3:08 PM

 A friend of mine lost a part at his workshop on Long Island. He found it on the floor of his new home 300 miles away.

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Posted by Overmod on Saturday, February 5, 2022 11:41 AM

Lastspikemike
Who let that tiger in?

Unless I'm mistaken, that's a liger, which is half lion...

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Posted by Overmod on Saturday, February 5, 2022 11:38 AM

Lastspikemike
Are you certain about that?

That's wicked.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, February 4, 2022 10:09 PM

-E-C-Mills
Everything is actually waves. The problem is, we humans have a hard time visualizing waves. Its much easier to visualize particles.

 

A wave is a particle in motion.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, February 4, 2022 9:06 PM

And she said that crap don't matter and you don't look any more intelligent with your glasses on the tip of your noseLaugh

In a Split Second after her comment I replied "Yes Dear".

 

 

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Posted by -E-C-Mills on Friday, February 4, 2022 8:35 PM

Keep in mind, quantum mechanics is actually wave mechanics. Everything is actually waves. The problem is, we humans have a hard time visualizing waves. Its much easier to visualize particles. The tiny parts we lose are there, we just cant see them becuase we are looking for a particle. Its actually a wavicle, a tiny bundle of waves. So to see them, we need to think like a wave. One might try drinking large amounts of caffeine to cause one to vibrate. Listen to music with a strong beat while searching for the part.

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Posted by Southgate 2 on Friday, February 4, 2022 2:33 PM

rrebell

WE are obviously really bored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Even trains only go so far towards offsetting winter doldrums.

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Posted by rrebell on Friday, February 4, 2022 9:57 AM

WE are obviously really bored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by dknelson on Friday, February 4, 2022 9:49 AM

gort! klaatu barada nikto

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Posted by NorthBrit on Friday, February 4, 2022 7:59 AM

When do you find the missing item?

After buying another one at twice the price of the lost one.  Then the lost one is there in front of you  like a flashing beacon.

 

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Posted by NVSRR on Friday, February 4, 2022 7:08 AM

Is that where this half used glue bottle come from..

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Posted by Little Timmy on Thursday, February 3, 2022 9:11 PM

You have all been sniffing the glue again .....

Wait, ...

Where did my glue go ...

Rust...... It's a good thing !

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, February 3, 2022 8:20 PM

dstarr

This isn't quantum mechanics, but I believe the fabric of our space time has myriad tiny holes,  each big enough to swallow anything the size of a 4-40 nut or less.  Those tiny parts you cannot find just fell thru one of the holes.  Where the holes go I have no idea. 

LaughLaugh
 
Hi David
 
For the record it's the time space continuum has...
 
My extraterrestrial friend ZyLordrin picked me up the other day to show me his new UFO.  I'm one of his favorite Earth humanoid specimen studies so that's why he has never considered me for any further scientific alien experiments.
 
Upon his arrival I was pretty impressed with his new ride from the last piece of junk he picked me up in.
 
What a saucer I'm telling you!  It was equipped with the new high pressure resistant fiber carbon multigrid Zinroyt frame and shelled with the new ultra-light titanium hybrid shell.
 
Inside the craft ZyLordrin showed me the new tri-gyroscopic electromagnetic propulsion system and my chin nearly fell to the floor.
 
We took off around 9:00 AM and I was a little bummed out when he told me he had to pick up a few more specimens before we left the atmosphere.
 
The last time I road in his saucer wasn't anything like the excitement of being in this new hybrid craft fully equipped with the most modern advancements of his time space continuum.
 
No faster than I had those thoughts  ZyLordrin took us through a Black Hole into tomorrow.
 
Now David,  I looked for all these small parts and pieces we all have lost in that black hole but I didn't see any as it was too dark and we were traveling too fast.
 
After we arrived in tomorrow,  Zylordrin turned his new craft around and took us all back through the same hole just as fast as when we came through it.
 
Here's my phone picture of Zylordrin's craft dropping us all back off.
 
 
The one thing I forgot was to ask ZyLordrin to look up the Earth's Lottery numbers on the internet when we were in tomorrow because he got me back around noon the same day I left.
 
I'll look forward to the next time ZyLordrin stops by and wonder why John wonders why I don't sleep so well at nightLaugh
 
Smile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Posted by Southgate 2 on Thursday, February 3, 2022 8:03 PM

My experience has proven that with regard to all the theories, principles and laws discussed above, the size of the lost article is not part of the equasion. It's the importance of the lost part that dictates how hard it will be to find. 

Why, I can find a Kadee knuckle spring with the greatest ease, regardless of how far it flung, and 2 or 3 more while I'm at it, because I have more than a lifetime supply of spares.

But drop that one off part off a locomotive, a part that is important, and of which you only have ONE.

Regardless of it's size, there WILL be a corner, crack, crevice, cavern, chasm, -whatever size space is required to swallow it- ready and waiting to consume it and demand far more time and effort to release it than it would have taken to locate or produce a replacement regardless of how difficult that may be.  And that's only IF it is ever found, All too often, this does apply to tiny hardware, creating the illusion that size is the determining factor. 

Nope. Not size. Importance. 

Indisputably proven in my own workshop countless times. Even recently. 

 

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Posted by Attuvian1 on Thursday, February 3, 2022 7:13 PM

selector

. . . Not by Feynman, not by Fermi, not by von Neuman, or Szilard, Oppenheimer....nobody.

 
Pehaps by Otte or someone in his circle?
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Posted by selector on Thursday, February 3, 2022 7:11 PM

Yeah, that's it, spring theory.  Well done!

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Posted by NVSRR on Thursday, February 3, 2022 7:10 PM

maybe springs work different since the b rass changes color and mass as they develop the oxide so the physics would be different. as they slip through dimensions when dropper.  Taking a long nonlinear path before reappearing in this dimension.

or just simply spring theory.

 

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Posted by selector on Thursday, February 3, 2022 7:08 PM

While still in grad school, the late Edward Teller, the 'father' of the hydrogen bomb, was advised by Heisenberg, his advisor, to attend a lecture by Einstein.  Teller did, and left completely dejected and hopelessly confused.  The lecture was on quantum mechanics.  Teller's good friend, Schwinger, seeing his good friend so unhappy, asked him what the problem was.  Teller wailed, "I am hopelessly stupid."  He had seen others nodding and smiling as Einstein spoke, while Teller became more and more lost.  Schwinger put his arm around Teller and said, amicably, "My friend, we are all stupid."  Only later did Teller come to realize that even Einstein didn't understand quantum theory.  Nobody does.  Not yet.  We know how to use it, we know its qualities, but they are not yet explained. Not by Feynman, not by Fermi, not by von Neuman, or Szilard, Oppenheimer....nobody.

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Posted by NVSRR on Thursday, February 3, 2022 7:07 PM

well that kind of fits with my idea of two objects in the same space cannt be done.  if the part-tiod picks up a dropped screw from in this dimension, then it must drop one somewhere else back into this dimension to deal with those two screws not occupying the same space.

 

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Posted by Attuvian1 on Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:57 PM

My late brother was disturbed by the problem that the amount of lint produced in his laundry room surely must have exceeded the sum of that retrieved from the dryer's lint filter and what entered the family vacuum cleaner.  He therefore posited the existence of a body in space that he dubbed the "lintoid".  Regrettably, he passed away before publishing his theory and preliminary reasearch.

As his closest sibling, I now feel obliged through family principle to promote his views - with corollaries appropriate to my own concerns and interests.  Ergo, could there also exist a "parts-toid"?  Will it someday be discovered by intrepid stellar travellers who will muse over the mysteries of their function and materials?  Surely this must be supportable by any number of the notions expressed above.

We might name the new corollary "Brother Elias' Cat." Whistling

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Posted by dknelson on Thursday, February 3, 2022 4:20 PM

Thank you, Mr. Data.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, February 3, 2022 4:19 PM

NVSRR
They go back to the suplier you will go to in an effort to buy more. unbeknownst to you, you keep buying the same one repeatedly.

Now that is a business model that will always work.

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Posted by selector on Thursday, February 3, 2022 4:16 PM

MisterBeasley

 

 

 

That might be one I dropped about ten years ago working on my layout.

 

That would involve both superposition and entanglement.  Super-position being the quality demonstrated in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (Schrodinger's Cat), and entanglement being the faster-than-light (-and-should-be-impossible) exchange of information between two particles sent in opposite directions, but who remain 'connected' by a frame reference.  If you change the spin of an electron and its opposite, both flying off in opposite directions, the other will instantly change its spin.  How is this possible when the two are separated by, say, two or three light seconds?  So, the screw you found was the twin of the one he dropped.  Case solved.

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Posted by NVSRR on Thursday, February 3, 2022 3:43 PM

It will slip through a warm hole. They go back to the suplier you will go to in an effort to buy more. unbeknownst to you, you keep buying the same one repeatedly. 

 

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Posted by ricktrains4824 on Thursday, February 3, 2022 2:57 PM

I know exactly where all those little holes in time and space lead...

Never-Never Land. 

Because you will Never-Never find those little screws, nuts, or springs again! Laugh

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, February 3, 2022 2:36 PM

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Just drop a small screw or spring on the floor and it simply slips through the folds reality, never to be seen again.

Laugh  Yes  Big Smile

My youngest daughter used to have a miraculous ability to find lost screws and springs. Since she moved out, I believe they have all been slipping through the folds of reality.

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