A cop in the US?
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I like the looks of it viewed purely as a graphic design, but as a map itâs almost the exact opposite of what Harry Beck did when he focused entirely on the topology of the route (because that is what really matters when you want to know how to get from station A to station B).
Iâd need to try it out, but right now I want to say that it is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a useful map for using the tube. Also, a far cry from the sheer elegance of the Helsinki tube map.
And while weâre at it: Mornington Crescent.
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Did you know there is a Fish Doorbell with a webcam?
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Aw, I want to ring the fish doorbell!
(One of the siteâs âCutest Fish Photosâ 
)
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Gives new meaning to fish eye lens, thereâŚ
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Hang on, are you playing by the 1893 Warrington Convention rules? If so, that move is only legal if Ravenscourt has been rochaded. Did I miss that?
Under the current standard rules, I think youâd have to go Black House Road, Burnt Oak, then widdershins around to Hatton Cross for that to be a legal move and I donât think youâve got enough points for that.
Youâd need 97 points, unless of course you used the Pengebury Variation to loop around the gyratory in which case itâs 58.
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What now?
a) Youâre thinking of Finchley Central,
and
b) Tudor Court Rules, maybe, amongst good friends, Trumpingtonâs Variations (unless itâs a leap year),
not to mention
c) youâre in Nidd anyway.
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Of course, youâre right. My bad. Carry on.
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It is only available at 5 stations on the Circle line â so perhaps it will pass the time for commuters on Circle and District lines as they glance up from their Dante-inspired trips.
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Zero engineering experience with any solids here. The only significant experience I ever had with solids was emotional and involved Thiokolâs SRBâs on the Challengerâs STS51L flight⌠and, following that, a couple of years later during Discoveryâs STS26 flight when our entire test organization as one watched that flight on monitors at Canoga Park. No one relaxed until its SRBs were tossed. Not a little cussing over them and some âget the fuck off our bird you fuckers!â
That all said, scraping out the innards (assuming just doing that is safe) only leaves one with pieces that would still be dangerous to have around, and then how would one get rid of them? Ignite all the fiddly pieces in a safe environment and in a safe way? And who would be allowed to accept the hogged-out pieces for safe disposal? And just disabling/removing the ignition source stills leaves one with a shell filled with dangerous material. And does said material become unstable over time, with that still posing some danger? I do not know⌠and my childhood experience with ESTES hobby rockets amounts to zilch here.
If your question is purely academic (I have a feeling that it isnât), then securing the rocket in a suitable thrust mount at a safe location then â from a great distance â igniting the engine would be a way to go. Iâd say thatâs how youâd âremoveâ the engine from the rocket and with (theoretically) no ignitable material left; the age of the material (and how the rocket was stored) could be a factor as far as that. Big fat remaining questions abound. Bottom Line: Your âfriendâ should contact Thiokol for whatever procedure they use to 100% inert their Genie forever.
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Exactly. Thatâs why I tripped over the term âinertâ in the Bellevue PDâs press release. Simply disabling or removing whatever ignition system the motor had but leaving the fuel in place might qualify as rendering it âinertâ, as in âcanât be ignited as designedâ, but would mean itâs still a pipe bomb waiting to happen.
I do assume, however, that the Air Force had a protocol to not only remove the warheads, but make hardware like this safe before they took it out of service and sold it for scrap or gave it to museums or whatever.
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Just light some gas in it and itâll take care of itself.
Just like my brothers would have done as teens.
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âblowed up real goodâ
yup. just like me and DB as kids.
stupid boys. surprised we made it to our 60s. but, see⌠i would soooo want to see that baby fly!
[sans warhead, obvs]
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But thatâs the fun bit!
Could go in âJust Plain Assholesâ too
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