Karl, that is one hell of a point!!!! LOL
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Nuf said?
Karl
NCE über alles!
There ya go, Rich solved the whole thing. The Mayans made the world's first track diagram. Complete with crossovers and reversing loops
A few hundred years before the first model railroad, but we will overlook that one
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Teen Steam Fan,
Is that a copy of track diagram that the one Mayan is holding?
I ask because I see several reverse loops connected by those crossovers.
Rich
Alton Junction
Good one Teen Steam Fan!
Joe
It is now 3 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes,and 0 seconds until Friday, December 21, 2012 at 11:11:11 AM (UTC time).
I am still waiting for the latest pour of Woodland Scenics Realistic Water to completely clear.
I just hope that it is all done in time. I want this layout to be completed before it is all over.
mactier_hoggerSome of our boneheaded politicians up here in Canada believe that the world is only 5000 years old!
I think one could easily make an argument that the "world" began with human's current recorded history. There may have been world's before that but they were certainly not ours.
When the Mayan calendar runs out, I'm switching to the Playboy calendar. I like all kinds of models.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Well Rich, now that you asked, she always did seem to have this thing for BIG BOYS. Thanks for the suggestion.
Sam
rdgk1se3019 I think it is time to lock this thread....... .......end of the world mayan crap......... ............AIN`T GONA HAPPEN PEOPLE.
I think it is time to lock this thread.......
.......end of the world mayan crap.........
............AIN`T GONA HAPPEN PEOPLE.
It's NOT!!!
Oh No, I just blew the rent money on a brass locomotive!!!
Maybe we could send some nukes to the sun and blow it up on Friday, that's better than telling my wife we can't pay the rent.
Paul
Did it appear to you like ANYONE in here was taking it seriously and thinks it's going to happen?
We are laughing at the doomsday predictors and having a little fun.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
ollevon I hope your right about the Mayans Rich, because if its not on the 21st, it will be the 25th for ME, if I don't go out a buy my OH her Christmas gifts. I'm waiting for the 22nd to do that. Think that's a good plan? Sam
I hope your right about the Mayans Rich, because if its not on the 21st, it will be the 25th for ME, if I don't go out a buy my OH her Christmas gifts. I'm waiting for the 22nd to do that. Think that's a good plan?
Sam, I like the plan.
Meanwhile, keep a close eye on the OH, and monitor her cell phone conversations. She may attempt to contact the aliens and barter your layout in exchange for her own safety.
What kind of steam engine are you planning to buy her in the event that we reach the 22nd?
O311HRS West Coast time. I wonder if I should set the alarm? Come to think of it, I think I will. If I get up and nothing happens, I'll just take the oppourtunity to pee and that will save me getting up an hour later anyway.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Lehigh Valley 2089 rdgk1se3019 I think it is time to lock this thread....... .......end of the world mayan crap......... ............AIN`T GONA HAPPEN PEOPLE. Tongue in cheek stuff, no one here is really taking it seriously. Besides, I wouldn't believe any end-of-the-world stuff unless there was some actual proof of it. Not only that, we started talking about astronomy more here, really interesting topic.
Tongue in cheek stuff, no one here is really taking it seriously.
Besides, I wouldn't believe any end-of-the-world stuff unless there was some actual proof of it.
Not only that, we started talking about astronomy more here, really interesting topic.
If this thread is to be locked, can we wait till Saturday to do it?
That way, we still have through Friday to communicate on this important issue.
Not knowing how it might end, perhaps we can offer up our layouts as ransom in exchange for an agreement not to destroy us.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
rdgk1se3019 ............AIN`T GONA HAPPEN PEOPLE.
Thanks for letting me know. That gives me time to go out and buy a lottery ticket for Friday's big draw. At 14,000,000 to 1, I know my turn is just around he corner.
What's the hurry?
It will all end anyhow on Friday.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Steven SYep, but we've got about four billion years before we need to worry about that. Besides, that's about the same time the sun will be expanding into a red giant, so colliding with Andromeda will be the least of earth's worries.
But if you were using a 'fast clock' wouldn't this speed up the process?? Shoot, at the rate I am going I will need that kind of time to ballast the track.
There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....
NittanyLion Lehigh Valley 2089 Steven S NittanyLionWe're not even entirely sure where the center of the galaxy is anyhow. Actually they know precisely where it is. Astronomers spent 16 years tracking the stars that orbit the black hole at the center of our galaxy. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/12/09/unprecedented.16.year.long.study.tracks.stars.orbiting.milky.way.black.hole Steve S They even have a slight idea as to where we are in our own little galactic group called "The Local Group" including the Milky Way, Andromeda, and many smaller satellite galaxies orbiting the two monster galaxies. They even know that, in some time from now, we are to collide with Andromeda. In my book, if you still have a plus/minus on how many kiloparsecs, you haven't nailed it down yet. Yes, functionally we know that its right around Sagittarius A* but if you're going to need to have something more precise than a 1,000 ly window for something to "align" with it. Eh, whatever though. I'm more of a planetary astronomer in my amateur astronomy and I only got a C+ in that one astrophysics class I took. Did better in the other astronomies!
Lehigh Valley 2089 Steven S NittanyLionWe're not even entirely sure where the center of the galaxy is anyhow. Actually they know precisely where it is. Astronomers spent 16 years tracking the stars that orbit the black hole at the center of our galaxy. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/12/09/unprecedented.16.year.long.study.tracks.stars.orbiting.milky.way.black.hole Steve S They even have a slight idea as to where we are in our own little galactic group called "The Local Group" including the Milky Way, Andromeda, and many smaller satellite galaxies orbiting the two monster galaxies. They even know that, in some time from now, we are to collide with Andromeda.
Steven S NittanyLionWe're not even entirely sure where the center of the galaxy is anyhow. Actually they know precisely where it is. Astronomers spent 16 years tracking the stars that orbit the black hole at the center of our galaxy. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/12/09/unprecedented.16.year.long.study.tracks.stars.orbiting.milky.way.black.hole Steve S
NittanyLionWe're not even entirely sure where the center of the galaxy is anyhow.
Actually they know precisely where it is. Astronomers spent 16 years tracking the stars that orbit the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/12/09/unprecedented.16.year.long.study.tracks.stars.orbiting.milky.way.black.hole
Steve S
They even have a slight idea as to where we are in our own little galactic group called "The Local Group" including the Milky Way, Andromeda, and many smaller satellite galaxies orbiting the two monster galaxies. They even know that, in some time from now, we are to collide with Andromeda.
In my book, if you still have a plus/minus on how many kiloparsecs, you haven't nailed it down yet.
Yes, functionally we know that its right around Sagittarius A* but if you're going to need to have something more precise than a 1,000 ly window for something to "align" with it.
Eh, whatever though. I'm more of a planetary astronomer in my amateur astronomy and I only got a C+ in that one astrophysics class I took. Did better in the other astronomies!
The way I see it, if they have it narrowed down to less than 500 light years, it would be a very big accomplishment, especially when you are talking interstellar space as far out as 5,000 light years, and 20,000 light years in intergalactic space.
NP2626m sure the above was an absolutely inappropriate response, seeing how it is the end of the Earth coming! Or, is it the end of the universe? I guess someone needs to clarify this! There I go again, using too many exclamation points!
As far as the end of both the Earth and Universe, we still have a long way to go, especially the universe. Depending on what happens to the universe, it could take 100 cosmological decades ( roughly 1 google years) for it to die, and that's if it goes through "The Big Freeze".
As far as Earth? Life may have another 2 billion years, and the planet might have 4 billion more years.
To answer your question, the Mayan calender may have been referring to Earth specifically, but I am not really sure.
richhotrain I'm beginning to worry about you, NP2626. With the end less than one week away, what have you done to prepare, particularly as it relates to your layout? Apparently nothing! Nothing !!! Who, me!? I'm building a Northern Pacific Bay Window Caboose from a wood kit, having a very enjoyable time, too! I'm sure the above was an absolutely inappropriate response, seeing how it is the end of the Earth coming! Or, is it the end of the universe? I guess someone needs to clarify this! There I go again, using too many exclamation points!
I'm beginning to worry about you, NP2626.
With the end less than one week away, what have you done to prepare, particularly as it relates to your layout?
Apparently nothing!
Nothing !!!
Who, me!? I'm building a Northern Pacific Bay Window Caboose from a wood kit, having a very enjoyable time, too!
I'm sure the above was an absolutely inappropriate response, seeing how it is the end of the Earth coming! Or, is it the end of the universe? I guess someone needs to clarify this! There I go again, using too many exclamation points!
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
Some of our boneheaded politicians up here in Canada believe that the world is only 5000 years old! Our current Prime Minister is one of them
Dean
30 years 1:1 Canadian Pacific.....now switching in HO
Texas ZepherI would still like to learn where that idea came from. December 21 is simply the end of the 13th Bak'tun.
A Spanish explorer probably saw this and thought that is what it ment, and then all this hype came up probably because the Mayans were in tune with the Earth and universe.
And what do you think I'm talking about here, Geared Steam, reality?
NP2626 It started with the guy with the brown suit and spider hair-do on History 2 telling us it was going to happen and he read it on the wall of the site of where ancient aliens landed! Good Gawd guys, get with the program, here! The earth is 4-5 billion year old! Yet for some stupid reason we humans all think, Oh, yea, I'm so important that it absolutly makes sense that it will end in my lifetime! So, let' change the discussion: In years, days, hours, minutes and seconds, how old is Earth?
It started with the guy with the brown suit and spider hair-do on History 2 telling us it was going to happen and he read it on the wall of the site of where ancient aliens landed! Good Gawd guys, get with the program, here!
The earth is 4-5 billion year old! Yet for some stupid reason we humans all think, Oh, yea, I'm so important that it absolutly makes sense that it will end in my lifetime!
So, let' change the discussion: In years, days, hours, minutes and seconds, how old is Earth?
Good Gawd, this thread is tongue in cheek, you know, like humor? It makes you laugh, well most of us anyway.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/
NP2626 I'll give 4.5 billion X 365 to 1 the world doesn't end on the 21st! Any takers?
I'll give 4.5 billion X 365 to 1 the world doesn't end on the 21st! Any takers?
Since you won't be here to pay off, could I have my winnings in advance? Preferably in cash since there won't be time for a check to clear.
Thanks