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Airsoftarms. Just visited them at lunch. They also said TM is the benchmark. Everyone copies the Tokyo Maru designs, but they did say whereas CA just copies them, ICS tries to copy them and improve them. Hop up, motor, gearing, etc. Eh, who knows. I liked the single pin breakdown for cleaning especially on the ICS. The TM didn't break down as easy. And the Classic Army gun's breakdown... Whoa, no thanks. 5 minutes on the ICS vs 1 hour of disassembly on the CA gun. Bleh. All three seemed like quality guns actually. But the TM and ICS seemed to have better features. So I held both. The ICS fit me better so I picked that one up, a tiny bit more than the TM but thats ok. I know the ICS will accept all TM internals so I figure I'm covered either way. It was nice to be able to go thru all three in person side by side. Thanks for the tip, John.

Anyone here do airsoft? Just got back from a trip with some folks from work who do this. My first exposure to it. I have done paintball a couple times. Had a blast and enjoyed it much more than the paintballing I did for a couple reasons. Less mess, better equipment, no jams, way more accuracy and range. Borrowed a friend's CA M4 and the damn thing felt almost identical to the real M4s I trained on as a squid. Biting the bullet. Ordered an AEG by ICS - the M4A1 with RIS and a red dot. Abit more than a quality paintball gun (bout $500 all told with accessories and maintenance gear), but I enjoyed it alot more so I think its worth the extra initial cost. Anyhow - was wondering if anyone on here played.

Battlefield 2 is out. That is all.

My guess: It was the sportbike. Hate to say it but among non-riders who are seeing a sport bike wrecked, they are thinking something along the lines of "ha, come-uppance". I catch alot less grief from cars when on the cruiser vs on the ninja even. Akula was this kid on a sportbike or a peddle bicycle?

WTG Akula. Course I already knew you were good seed, being Navy and all. I would've stopped. Question though - what was the driver of the Infinity doing all this time?

Yes. If you walk thru the doors having done A.P. Calculus in highschool and can start from there Q1, then you're still looking at 4-8 quarters of pure math. Starting at advanced calculus thru homogenius differential equations, thru linear algebra (has nothing to do with algebra despite the name, its calculus on steroids) then non-homogenious differential equations (that last is the good stuff, we're talking equations so complex that the real accomplishment is in figuring out if the equation actually has a solution or not. Not all do. Nevermind finding the solution. Some non-homogenius equations (with solutions) cannot have their solution found within the remaining time in the universe (not a joke). Enjoy. Basically you figure out if a solution even exists. Then you sit back and have a smoke, because unless god hands it to you while you're sitting on the crapper, thats pretty much all you can do with it. THEN, when you're all depressed over the fact that the equation you just spent a week proving has a solution but that you can forget ever finding that solution in your lifetime unless you have an epiphany while banging a sorority chick in your dorm room, or staring at a sunset eating a stick of jerky on a mountaintop, you take one last class where they teach you how to cheat and turn that non-homogenius unsolvable equation with a solution into a homogenius equation that kinda sorta acts the same, mostly, but that you actually CAN solve without the solution appearing to you during an epileptic seizure in a french garden. But the good news is you use the math. In the rest of the classes. Its not esoteric drivel. You're going to use it right away. ...and then you're prepared to understand VTEC.

A cat, a tart, and some clothes. Peter Jackson's not doing it. So it'll look almost as good as LOTR (except with Harry-Potter-clean outfits all grass-stain-and-mud free) but it'll have about as much soul and wit as "The Beastmaster". Thats my bet.

Its more difficult than civil engineering and mechanical engineering, but I would say less difficult than electrical engineering (for the e-mag discipline subset, not the circuitry subset). I say that because by my sophomore year my structure classes I was doing problem solving that I later saw was on my civil engineering roommates senior year graduate courses. If you are good at physics you should have no problem. And even if you suck at chemistry, you'll have no problem. I suck at chem but always just intuitively "got" physics, so I sailed. My hardest time actually of the whole undergrad curriculum was with the inorganic chem I needed to take as a pre-req. You'll learn structural engineering beyond C.E.'s and fluid flow dynamics beyond what M.E.'s learn int total within the first 2 years. After that initial grounding you pretty much have to decide what it is you're going to do: fluid flow, structures, orbital mechanics, propulsion, etc. Make that choice and then tailor your curriculum for the remainder. Its not hard to choose - by your 2nd year you'll know what you like most. As for the job market - its a high capital field. Everything costs alot in the world of aero/astro. Therefore, only big companies do it, or small companies contracting to big companies. And the big companies pretty much live/die from defense. Sure there's commercial, but aside from Boeing and Airbus the reality is that as goes Defense, so goes the Aero community. Until we get more celebs and millionaires going into space on recreation. Thats not a joke. Right now there's no immediate reason/need for people to go into or be in or live in space. There's not. Anything you hear is circular logic. But we should continue to go. Its just all long term reasons. Anyhow, root for folks like Rutan and his SpaceShipOne. Root for Sigorney Weaver taking a ride on Branson's first space tour flight. What they're doing is the short term future of the private astro industry. Go there for the thrill seekers, get good at going there. Get it cheap. THEN someone can make the case for staying there.

total measured as landing distance from launch or flight distance logged?

Is this a Pro-Am type event? I don't have a PhD, only have a couple Bachelors, Aeronautical Engineering and Astronautical Engineering... do you have to prove that $20 limit for new "off the shelf" components? It'd have to be new, because used for 20 bucks I could score some gyros, and an engine and enough fuel to put 10 miles down... Materials only, or total cost? No wait, I won't compete. Oh hey did I mention how swamped I am at work this summer? I can't play. But have fun and post pics! *cough* C# developers PM me. *cough*

OT: I get a kick watching as you guys slowly slide into the old person phrases.

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... it takes THREE licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop? Just ask the friggin owl. http://www.uwm.edu/People/alkolata/Mr.%20Owl.gif [ 06. July 2005, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

When did Discovery channel start carrying Top Gear? This is excellent news.

If he gets out he'll be dead inside of a month anyway.

Aren't the Norwegians the most depressed people on earth? Or is it the Swedish? One of them sells alot of those light therapy beds to their citizens. Enjoy the steppes! Wish I was there - always wanted to look behind the old Iron Curtain.

Gasoline is not at high pressure and Gasoline does not contain the same specific energy of hydrogen. Do not underestimate the safety problem being overcome in research right now, its not insignificant. There's a reason hydrogen is used on the space shuttle and gasoline isn't used in any rockets.

Better than the one from the 50s?

Probably NWS Porn stars with lightsabers

I just did - they're not. Pulled up beside one on the lot. Felt its stuff, felt mine. Mmm. Felt mine some more. Yes. Moaned softly. Felt some more. Closed eyes. Felt some more. Got kicked off lot... what?

The "dongs" part cracked me up. Love that show. My car doesn't dong at all those things. The shifter does suck. Loads better than other cars with the T56 *cough* Cobra *cough*, but its no Acura thats for sure. Nothing a UCC shifter won't cure. The interior of the V is way better than a Grand Prix. Ugh. Thats insulting. Put down the crack pipe. And remember, on their "cheap comment", to keep things in perspective - with the exchange rate, that Caddy costs $81,000 to the Brits. Its all relative. Too bad they didn't get to do a dry weather run on the track, I'm sure its time would have been higher up the board. Even so, it placed, not too shabby. Notice how close it was (wet) to the Noble's (dry) time? I would have laughed out loud had it beat it on a dry run. And Stig - I'm sure your opinion was formed the moment you ran off the side of the track trying to stick with the V. smile.gif Nice choice of tunes for the solo run though. graemlins/thumb.gif Anyway - I love that show. I feel special having gotten the Top Gear bashing. [ 23. June 2005, 03:02 PM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

Wah. Ok here's a smaller link, not the whole thing but editted down. Be gentle on the retrieving. V section of Top Gear show.

Love that show. Best part: Stig in an Audi S4 vs Jeremy in a V - the quote: "An American saloon that outhandles european cars? Ha ha ha ha, no way, we'll see..." *later* "Oh. My. God. How in the $%^@* is this possible?". But even so, Top Gear wouldn't be Top Gear talking about an American car, any American car, without a dig on the interior: "I can't put my finger on it *pause* but the interior feels cheap." You can't put your finger on it because its not you limey bastard, you're just prejudiced. But since its in your contract that you have to make a comment on each and every american car interior on your show regardless or you'll get fired, I forgive you, thats ok I love you anyway Jeremy. Enjoy the car alarm in your GT. The Stig losing to a 'merikan caw.