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ReconRat

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  1. I think the fuel filter is part of your fuel pump assy, bolted into the bottom of your tank. Not cheap. It's that way on fuel injection. It's that way on my 919. Also means it might be a fuel pump problem, and not the fuel filter. edit: are there any diagnostic flash codes?
  2. I always had a pool pass, and learned to swim and dive. Excellent exercise. Beats pole dancing easily. And skimpy bathing suits are perfectly acceptable behavior in a pool. edit: And yes, most all of the swimming pools are gone. Mostly sued out of existence. So this is what we get instead. Just another case of "careful what you wish for".
  3. I had an OSHP say the one rider with temps, of our group, couldn't get on state route 161. Not even a few yards to turn off again onto a lesser road. His temp might have even been expired. One of the girls riding passenger, had her motorcycle license, and we switched around to get all the bikes home. Made Mr No License ride backpack. No ticket, just checking us out. It was completely obvious to the trooper, just by looking, that one rider had no experience. This was many years ago.
  4. Just saw this in the news. It's possible all riders might be charged as responsible for the one fatal. Still unknown how many riders there were. They were too fast for people to count. Estimated 6 to 8 riders. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/06/reckless_motorcycle_ride_ends.html http://www.cleveland.com/brecksville/index.ssf/2011/06/reckless_riding_to_blame_for_i.html
  5. http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/urbana-man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-1180797.html Springfield news says Daniel D. Leedy, 60, of Urbana. Headed west on Ohio 739 in Union County when he went off the right side of the road and crashed into a utility pole shortly before 1 a.m. Black 2006 Harley-Davidson. And I'm wonder how many of these were a result of animals (deer) on the road. We'll never know. I generally only see deer at dawn or dusk, seldom late at night. RIP rider edit: ok, it's only Sunday morning. The weekend is only half gone. Here's a list of riders who didn't turn, late at night, and weren't wearing a helmet. And others with collisions with vehicles. Friday night on state route 732 South of Lakengren. Darryl Alcorn, 45, failed to negotiate a curve, without a helmet. Fatal. Friday 3am on Route 58 South of Jamestown. 48yo Scott Barnes of Conneaut, Ohio. 2009 Harley-Davidson Heritage Soft tail. Lost control. Fatal. Last Tuesday early morning on US 6 near Huron. 27-year-old Michael Tracht. 2008 Harley Davidson. Speed, alcohol, failure to turn left, no helmet. Fatal. Thursday evening on Hancock County Road 18, south of State Rt. 613 in Cass Township. Brian K. Lawson, 42. 1986 Harley-Davidson. Lost control. Injured. Last Tuesday 54-year-old Melissa Wolfe made a wide turn on her motorcycle onto state Route 222 from Slade Road in Clermont county. Hit by pick-up truck. Was wearing a helmet. Fatal. http://www.wlwt.com/news/28159980/detail.html#ixzz1P4JsxXOd 67-year-old from Grove City, collided with a car on U.S. 50 a half mile west of the Shattuc Road in Clinton County on Thursday morning. A 16yo ran off the road and over corrected and hit two of three motorcycles approaching. Fire. Fatal. Injuries. http://www.wjbdradio.com/?f=news_single&id=27439 And one injured on Route 10 on Saturday in Lincoln county... There's more, I'm just tired of saying this: Helmet Don't drink Slow down Defensive riding MSF lessons
  6. Saw it on Friday morning. No one posted it. Ignore the map shown, and google 770 Kinnear Rd., where he ended up. That isn't a tight curve on the freeway. Anyone who's been there wouldn't hardly even notice the curve. It makes no sense, and I haven't figured out why or how he and the bike would exit the freeway, supposedly over a guard rail, and down a hill. What you do have there is the exit to the shopping center and the OSU hospital and campus. The right lane is exit only, needed for heavy traffic at times. What you do have there is a bunch of idiot drivers that will do stupid stuff trying to get in or out of that right hand lane.
  7. I recommend any Cold Steel tomahawk, but particularly this one: Vietnam Fighting Tomahawk. A design based on traditional American Indian. I'm also rather impressed with this tiny one also: Smith & Wesson Paul Bunyan Hatchet http://www.smkw.com/webapp/eCommerce/products/hatchet/Smith+%26+Wesson%C2%AE+Paul+Bunyan+Hatchet+with+Nylon+Belt+Sheath/SW670.html
  8. There's 14.45 miles of trail at Clear Creek. The correct time to arrive is at dawn.
  9. I'd rather think the dark energy was caused by friction or interaction of visible matter against dark matter. But it's more likely to be just energy in empty vacuum that we suspect is out there everywhere. We just can't find it yet. Nor understand it or it's source, since it seems to be quite different. NASA finds 100 million mile wide magnetic bubbles on the outer edge of our solar system (heliosheath). This is the "bow shock wave" of our solar system. No one knew they were there, nor what it means. The Voyagers found them. Basically empty space is a froth of energy. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110609-magnetic-bubbles-solar-system-nasa-space-science/ http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/23dec_voyager/
  10. Yes, JRM is a nerd on occasions, and is extremely quick with an internet search. Now if he would just quit mass quoting entire countries and start writing his own stuff, I'd be happy.
  11. That's incredible. I'd think it would have to fire out of battery to do that. Either a head space issue or a slam fire or both. Here's a return link I found, for their product service center in the USA. But I'd call, fax, or email first: http://tactical.desktopmarket.com/catalog/information.php?info_id=8 http://tactical.desktopmarket.com/catalog/information.php?info_id=15 http://tactical.desktopmarket.com/catalog/contact_us.php?osCsid=4311619c46b2e20254481a70bbdfdab9
  12. I beat the rain in to work. Nobody else on bike did, they got wet. Although I enjoy riding in the rain sometimes, I'm not a big fan of playing lightning rod.
  13. Actually, it's both moving too fast and moving too slow. There's missing dark matter pulling on existing visible matter, making move slower. And missing "dark energy" which is assumed to be pushing or pulling on existing matter, making it move faster. The problem is with the dark energy, it really is a big unknown. Even the never ending expansion of the universe is in question. There just isn't enough data to make assumptions like that. It is only what we see now, by looking at what happened in the distant past. We have no clue what is happening currently in the universe, since it is simply too far away.
  14. Yes, keeping up with that. The other missing mass might be the discovery of dark mass blocking light from stars that they don't orbit. Wanderers. A Kepler other type discovery, while looking for planets in other solar systems. Either cold planets out of orbit or dead stars or both. Apparently assumed to be a lot of them out there that we can't see. It's the dark energy that still remains a mystery. This week, discovery of super atoms. Although I think it would actually be a super molecule. Iron with 8 magnesium in a shell. (I'm thinking of M&Ms.) Magnetic with conductive properties. Possible candidate for data storage. edit linky: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/06/08/researchers.discover.superatoms.with.magnetic.shells
  15. I haven't read that book. I will now. The US Air Force has also made similar claims about stuff. Anti matter, anti gravity, quick trips to Mars, etc. I still don't think it all works quite right or as well as it should. But somebody somewhere is trying really hard to make it happen. There's a thing about humans, that NASA has noticed. We'll take a type of propulsion engine, and push it till it will go as fast as it can. Steam, reciprocating, jet turbine, rocket, etc. When the limit is reached, we start looking for something better, and find it. And do the same thing over again. We've reached those limits again, and something new is on the horizon.
  16. Well, an anti-matter engine still needs to carry regular matter to react with. So that would be like... water for fuel. Which is still heavy. Too heavy to be practical. But there are novel designs that get around that. Use the heat of the anti matter reaction, to generate standard electrical power in a heat cycle turbine with generators. Then generate propulsion with something like an ion engine that runs on electrical input and ion output. Maybe not the best power output, but it's always on and has a lighter airframe. (spaceframe?) Until some one invents a null gravity device, we won't be going anywhere too fast with ordinary reactive mass propulsion. But even that is possible, since it's rumored to already be in use experimentally. edit: btw, the US Navy claimed to have perfected an anti matter drive back in the mid 90s. Although they admitted to a small problem, the containment for the anti matter was about 1000 feet in diameter. Sort of a round aircraft carrier. I would imagine somebody has a smaller one by now. But there still isn't a steady supply of anti matter to use for fuel yet.
  17. Not to worry, when it melts clear through the earth, it will come out somewhere in the ocean off the coast of Argentina.
  18. Wondering if it's like pulling the pin on a hand grenade. "oh shit now what do we do with it?"
  19. yurp, I have had loans for $500 and $300. Understandable when paychecks were ten times smaller.... (and a loaf of bread was a nickel blah blah blah)
  20. That's funny. City Air Force. Or... hard points on tiny helicopters with tiny smart weapons... Don't laugh, it's doable. Standard practice when you owe money to the Federal government, is for them to take everything you have and sell it. It won't get any better any time soon.
  21. lowest bid contractor, what did you expect? Literacy?
  22. Police have been chasing cameras since cameras were invented. What has changed, is cameras are everywhere, both theirs and ours and everyone else. And every phone is a quick reacting camera. I remember photographing street riots in years past, but you had to be both quick and fast, and a bit sneaky, if you wanted to keep your camera.
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