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Mr__Bill
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Ever wonder where you are?
05-28-2009, 12:59 PM
Click here for a story about a scientist at the Observatoire de Paris who basically invented GPS for interstellar travelers.
bill, who does not yet need a gps to find his way home from the doughnut shop
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05-28-2009, 01:05 PM
I think I can see my house from here.
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05-28-2009, 02:44 PM
Thank you, THANK YOU!!!
Finally I can place myself, and can go home!
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
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05-28-2009, 03:08 PM
one question
Who took the picture?
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05-28-2009, 03:13 PM
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Who took the picture?
Me!
Be afraid, be very afraid. I'm here to steal all your wood.
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05-28-2009, 03:30 PM
I pretty much always know where I am. Knowing where I'm going is another matter entirely.
Ed
Do you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here...
https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained
For a kickback demonstration video
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/910584...demonstration/
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05-28-2009, 03:47 PM
Well, if that's where I am, somebody point out Texas for some of our Texan friends. Oh, wait a minute, I think I spotted a Trebuchet down to the left there........
Bernie
Owww -- That spinnin' thang hurt!!
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05-28-2009, 04:30 PM
No matter where you go, there you are...
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05-28-2009, 07:53 PM
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I pretty much always know where I am. Knowing where I'm going is another matter entirely.
Ed
I just ask my wife.
From the "deep south" part of Canada
Richard in Smithville
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05-28-2009, 09:51 PM
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I just ask my wife.
Mine tells me where I'm going without my having to ask...
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