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RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:53 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Maybe we should ask Alfred. [:D]
We were both wrong; not even if the projectiles were round. A round object radius=1 has volume ~4.189, a round object radius=6 has volume 904. 904^1/3 (cube root) = 9.669.
I they were square, 2x2x2 would have a volume of 8. 12x12x12 would have a volume of 1728. 1728^1/3 (cube root) = 12.
Or rectangles, 2x2x10 would have a volume of 40. 12x12x60 would have a volume of 8640. 8640^1/3 (cube root) = 20.520.
Maybe cube root is an approximation that somebody worked out for 1/6th scale for that actual shape of projcetile?
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:20 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Maybe we should ask Alfred. [:D]
We were both wrong; not even if the projectiles were round. A round object radius=1 has volume ~4.189, a round object radius=6 has volume 904. 904^1/3 (cube root) = 9.669.
I they were square, 2x2x2 would have a volume of 8. 12x12x12 would have a volume of 1728. 1728^1/3 (cube root) = 12.
Or rectangles, 2x2x10 would have a volume of 40. 12x12x60 would have a volume of 8640. 8640^1/3 (cube root) = 20.520.
Maybe cube root is an approximation that somebody worked out for 1/6th scale for that actual shape of projcetile?
Good analysis. A cylinder of radius 1 and length 5, which is a close approxmation, would have a volume of Pi*r^^2*L = 15.7 and one six x the size would be 3391.2....which is a ratio of exactly 216 ....which is 6 cubed.
This is exactly the answer CaptDave provided and he even stipulated it was an approximation. [:)]
I say he earned himself a brand new Ventura GR V with the snazzy paint scheme.
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:49 pm
by witpqs
Upgrade him to a PBJ if he has the miles?
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:52 pm
by witpqs
Deleted.
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:20 pm
by Squamry
You could just borrow the one outside Aldershot railway station -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanaplin/4178045095/
Greg
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:32 pm
by sprior
They've got some at Southwick Fort too but I don't have a towing bar:
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:16 pm
by Cap Mandrake
How much fun would it be to put one in your yard, lower the elevation and aim it an annoying neighbor. [:)]
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:18 pm
by sprior
Load canister.
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:40 pm
by Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: sprior
Load canister.
Beehive round at 70 yds. [:)] Trim the hedge while your at it.
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:49 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Pharmacy instructions have been simplified to 3rd grade levels and are no longer even full sentences....more like steam of consciousness notions.
"Chew and swallow" as if the average patient would chew the pill and keep it in their cheek pouch. Today, I picked up a medicine (no, it wasn't Cialis) that said "Swallow whole". That's all it said.
So I asked the clerk
Me: Do I swallow the whole bottle?
Nice Asian clerk: These instructions.
Me: Right, but my question is what do I swallow whole? The bottle or just one pill?
Nice Asian clerk: <several seconds of processing information then her eyes grow wide...well, wider> Oh, no sir! Just one pill at time!
Me: Oh, thank you. You've been very healpful!
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:51 pm
by Disco Duck
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Pharmacy instructions have been simplified to 3rd grade levels and are no longer even full sentences....more like steam of consciousness notions.
"Chew and swallow" as if the average patient would chew the pill and keep it in their cheek pouch. Today, I picked up a medicine (no, it wasn't Cialis) that said "Swallow whole". That's all it said.
So I asked the clerk
Me: Do I swallow the whole bottle?
Nice Asian clerk: These instructions.
Me: Right, but my question is what do I swallow whole? The bottle or just one pill?
Nice Asian clerk: <several seconds of processing information then her eyes grow wide...well, wider> Oh, no sir! Just one pill at time!
Me: Oh, thank you. You've been very healpful!
Sounds like my Sister trying to sign up for Obama-care. She didn't understand a paragraph so she called up the help line. They read the paragraph back to her. She told them she could read what it says, she just didn't understand what it meant. So they read it back to her again.
She still believes Obama will straighten everything out if the GOP will just get out of the way.[&:][&:]
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:27 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: sprior
They've got some at Southwick Fort too but I don't have a towing bar:
Is that a UFO coming down to pick up the 25lber?
Maybe it would be nice of the guys with the skinny necks to drop the piece off at your place on their way back to the Andromeda galaxy?
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:32 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Disco Duck
She still believes Obama will straighten everything out if the GOP will just get out of the way.[&:][&:]
Will Obama personally read the paragraph back to her? He does have a nice speaking voice.
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:42 pm
by sprior
Here's a picture of a tank parked just down the road:
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:43 pm
by sprior
And the one parked behind it:
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:44 pm
by sprior
And the ferry to France:
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:45 pm
by sprior
And some birds:
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:46 pm
by sprior
The bandstand has sunk:
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:02 pm
by poodlebrain
ORIGINAL: sprior
The bandstand has sunk:
It looks more like it ran aground, despite the proximity of the lighthouse.
RE: "Fukoku Maru, pal!"
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:08 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: sprior
And some birds:
...which is why these birds are angry.