Ever get your hands on some geoduck?
http://www.cses.washington.edu ... ures/GeoduckPhoto_BIG.jpg
I'd just eat it like a popsicle.
Now you gotta change your avatar to say "Other Hand of Mod" :magnify:
Well, I guess God didn't want you to be a vegetarian.
But if God wanted bacteria & parasites to be so :yummy: why do they make us so :tombstone?
Shucks, so we taste good to animals?
I reckon those who have eaten human flesh without cooking or seasoning were pretty damn hungry at the time. You'd be surprised at what tastes good when you're starving (Grandpa's WWII POW memories come to mind).
As for the meat as meat, it's not that different from mammal to mammal. I had (recently deceased) a friend who had the experience of eating part of a girl served to him in a stew (Belgian Congo). He recalled the meat as being suspiciously tender, but not unlike something he would expect to be served. This just made it seem more barbarious to eat any flesh...
Does it really? When was the last time you enjoyed meat without any vegetables (sauce/seasoning) or salt or anything else to alter the flavour? Well, if it was recent, you're not very normal.
Perhaps a better question to ask would be: why don't you always prefer your meat unseasoned and by itself? Variety is the ____ (I'll give you a hint, it's not meat) of life--that's why.
Bottom line: meat is... rather bland. It can be made great, but so can vegetables...
A gimp is someone who walks with a limp... or... http://youtube.com/watch?v=v1Cn7n17wxE
Some cars are tenors, some are basses... not a lot of basses have solo albums on the market, or are memorable (name a few), but damn are they fun to sing with!
Precisely what interests me about any machine is that it is highly effective. The moreso, the merrier. I hold closely to the doctrine that Form should follow Function. Effective looks good and, IMO, sounds good as well.
I'm sure the R10 would be buckets o' fun to drive regardless of how it sounds or how memorable it will be--either way, I will not jump on the dis-the-R10 bandwagon simply because it's different.
w/r/t cows: stop farming them. problem solved. :magnify: (eating them has the opposite effect, idjuts!)
Methane aside, a lot more people could be fed with the same land and money by only growing plants than by growing plants and feeding steers and feeding people steers.
it'd even be healthier... :shhh:
Methane aside, a lot more people could be fed with the same land and money by only growing plants than by growing plants and feeding steers and feeding people steers.
it'd even be healthier... :shhh:
What's wrong with the R10? Winning not cool enough for you guys?
-1 there could be better improvements, and I'd list some again, but Scawen has said he has no interest in doing anything more for mouse users as "it's just something to tide you over till you get a proper wheel." 
What's so special about this county, anyway? Maybe one of you foreigners can enlighten me...
American top fuel propaganda (trivia)
This was one of those email forwards (so take it with a grain of salt), but I thought it was nevertheless interesting enough to post.
Apologies if it has been posted before. It's probably old, anyway... discuss.
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One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 6 rows at the Daytona 500.
Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 gallon of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster supercharger.
With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition.
Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitromethane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph well before half track, the launch acceleration approaches 8Gs.
Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence.
Top Fuel Engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
Including the burnout the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm.
It takes 1500+hp just to turn a top fuel blower.
The pressure coming out of the headers can provide 1000lbs of down force. When a cylinder goes out, it can actually steer the car due to loss of down force on one side.
There is so much torsional twist in the crankshaft (up to 20 degrees at the big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to try and re-phase the valve timing closer to synchronization with the pistons.
The car will be going over 60mph before the rear wheels cross the start line, 300 inches.
The Bottom Line; Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated US $1,000.00 per second. The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 mph (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66' of the run (09/28/03 Doug Kalitta).
Putting all of this into perspective:
You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06 (or blown Viper). Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment. The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him.
Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race course.
Apologies if it has been posted before. It's probably old, anyway... discuss.
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One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 6 rows at the Daytona 500.
Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 gallon of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster supercharger.
With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition.
Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitromethane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph well before half track, the launch acceleration approaches 8Gs.
Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence.
Top Fuel Engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
Including the burnout the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm.
It takes 1500+hp just to turn a top fuel blower.
The pressure coming out of the headers can provide 1000lbs of down force. When a cylinder goes out, it can actually steer the car due to loss of down force on one side.
There is so much torsional twist in the crankshaft (up to 20 degrees at the big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to try and re-phase the valve timing closer to synchronization with the pistons.
The car will be going over 60mph before the rear wheels cross the start line, 300 inches.
The Bottom Line; Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated US $1,000.00 per second. The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 mph (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66' of the run (09/28/03 Doug Kalitta).
Putting all of this into perspective:
You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06 (or blown Viper). Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment. The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him.
Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race course.
Now look in the mirror and watch your eyeballs twist as you do it...
I agree with the other point.
Wasn't rudi turbo 15?
I started at that age back in 2002.
I started at that age back in 2002.
Rev counter (or your ears if you're not tone deaf) not good enough for you on a straight? the units of measurement are a little arbitrary, are they not?
That seems to be more distracting than helpful to the majority; might end up waiting to hit x speed and miss your braking point or something.
I'll add that you should be able to tell how good your corner exit was on the corner exit.
Time to get a new bike altogether? It's a sign.
Ahhhh I finally see why they call # the "pound" key...
ogod. it's supposed to be barry white, not jabba the hut!
Gang raping isn't funny... besides, their dicks would slip out!
Not even from the famous Montgomery Flea Market?
Yeah; I meant they had to expand (flaten?) the frontal area to comply with the law, and then it left them scratching their heads as to what to do with it all the extra space/flatness... gee, make the grille bigger! :doh:
Actually, if you see the new and old side-by-side, you can see that the grill is no (well, isn't much) bigger; there's just black under the license plate instead of a real bumper.
Here's one that's been "fixed" with some kind of kit:
Before:
Better, but no dice... there's just something about the top of the grill which always arches too high or something... and the metal border...
Actually, if you see the new and old side-by-side, you can see that the grill is no (well, isn't much) bigger; there's just black under the license plate instead of a real bumper.
Here's one that's been "fixed" with some kind of kit:
Before:
Better, but no dice... there's just something about the top of the grill which always arches too high or something... and the metal border...
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