Talk about an "oh, FUDGE" moment... ;)

[Jstpssng]

This is the type of thing which I would have tried back in my younger days... if I had known then what I do now.

AH, Youth!!! :thumbsup:

Amateur-built aircraft that crash-landed on Standish road Sunday had crashed once before, CBS 13 finds


I'm just thankful that the pilot walked away to fly another day.

 

[dave1949]

This is the type of thing which I would have tried back in my younger days... if I had known then what I do now.

AH, Youth!!! :thumbsup:

Amateur-built aircraft that crash-landed on Standish road Sunday had crashed once before, CBS 13 finds


I'm just thankful that the pilot walked away to fly another day.

You are only as old as you feel! You need, really need, one of those powered para-sail things that buzz along above the tree tops at 30 mph.

Maine isn't a great state for sketchy aircraft. A road is about the only place to come down without "becoming one" with a tree.

 

[Jstpssng]

ER, I beg to differ with you... the ground is harder, and gravity is Much Stronger than it was 30 years ago!

Also, while I may have "bent" a few laws back then, the one law which I never could find my way around was the second law of physics...
i.e., "No two objects can occupy the same space at the same time."

 

[dave1949]

Things have changed, well--become known, since you were in school.

Pauli exclusion principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Integer spin particles, bosons, are not subject to the Pauli exclusion principle: any number of identical bosons can occupy the same quantum state, as with, for instance, photons produced by a laser and Bose–Einstein condensate."

I have no idea what that means, but maybe you can get a boson flying machine!

 

[texasjohn]

Dave, I think that I might be able to grok it if I just had a couple more drinks!:shocked:

 

[dave1949]

Dave, I think that I might be able to grok it if I just had a couple more drinks!:shocked:

The very strange world of particle physics. I Googled "particle physics for dummies" and the results look encouraging. Maybe some winter reading--just before nap time. I wonder if understanding matter and energy at that level is the key to creating some science fiction/Star Trek-types of technology?

 

[turnkey4099]

ER, I beg to differ with you... the ground is harder, and gravity is Much Stronger[B\] than it was 30 years ago!

Also, while I may have "bent" a few laws back then, the one law which I never could find my way around was the second law of physics...
i.e., "No two objects can occupy the same space at the same time."

You forgot the big one: The ground is a LOT further away than it was back then. Proved every time I try to tie my shoelaces.

Harry K