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I think they pulled that plastic grill right off a basement dehumidifier, and that black plastic crap glued onto the ass? WTF is that? This thing is 4 steps down from the stock car.

Saleens have NEVER looked good.

None of them.

Ever.

EVAR!

THOSE FUKKING ASSTASTIC GRAPHICS ON THE SIDE HAVE GOT TO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Branding? More like cattle cauterizing.

Hello Saleen, 1986 called, it wants its styling back.

$70,00 - $80,000 ?

I reverse my original opinion, you can keep it.

Yes I know you can't buy a better performing car at that pricepoint, but I'm not paying $80k for any vette.

...course this means the chances of the CTS-V getting the LS7 are slimming down. Damn shoulda bought that 04 CTS-V in Dec at Chesrown...

Crap n stuff

The M3s tend to blow up their engines real nice.

You have entirely too much hair to buy the vette.

The SRT-10s are graemlins/supergay2.gif

Get the 02 GTS.

And once again - no I'm not a recruiter, but I need folks for a couple of my projects and a couple of these are not my projects but I'm in a scratch-your-back-they'll-scratch-mine position with them so I'm helping them out too:

Here they are, if you can do any of these, send me a PM / resume:

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1. 39 data Warehouse Consultants at Nationwide. There is a variety of roles that they need. They need to have Informatica and Teradata skills for all of them. They range from Architects to modelers to developers to testers to conversion personnel.

2. Senior Vignette Consultant - Must have Vignette V7 and strategic Architecture background.

3. Developer - C, SQL, AS400.

4. QA/Test Analyst - J2EE, DB2, Test Q/A, AIX, HP, Websphere, Unix.

5. Technical Writer.

6. Developer - Hyperion Essbase, SQL, Oracle.

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And let me say this again also: if you want to make real money in Columbus, hell anywhere in Ohio, learn C#. It is so hard to find good C# people right now its disgusting - I know of one C# developer position in Cincy that went for $120k. Salary. For a Developer. C++, java, VB - you're looking at half that. Java's a little better, but the shortage of US citizen C# people at the moment is disgusting. Its all H2 and visa holders.

Anyone that knows C++ and has some time on their hands, and is interested in a really ground floor opportunity please PM me immediately.

This can be an "after hours / at home" type thing to start off that has a HUGE potential to take off, but we're under a time crunch.

Originally posted by 182mph:

ZX11 nice.. but so far tank will be the only one bringin somethign worth while to the table

...Turbo Hayabusa. ... I saw one of those run 8.66 in Cleveland last year. 11's aren't anywhere near competition for that thing. I don't think thats what it is.

Where's this happening btw? Is it sort of all over?

Originally posted by 182mph:

 

1. Rob - Turbo Lightning (from a dig)

2. Sam - Sprayed Vette (from a dig)

3. Dave - Big Block Chevetee (dig or roll)

4. Rigsby - 04 Yamaha R1 (dig or roll)

5. Steve - 00 Trans Am (dig)

6. Rutan TA - 98 Trans Am (dig or roll)

7. EvilEvo - 03 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII (dig or roll)

8. Eatonup - 03 Cobra (roll)

9. NurkVinny - whatever he brings to play (dig or roll)

10. Mowgli - ZX11

11. Turbotank - 94 turbo FZR1000 (dig)

Originally posted by Doug:

graemlins/wtf.gif 360 Stradale, 911 turbo, gallardo yes,... Enzo no.

Hmm - watched the vid, and to my dumbass ears it sounds like they liked it. They really wanted to hate it - like all the nippon drivin nancyboys on here want to - and yet... Went on the "cool wall". (loved the groans of the crowd too - damn europe hates america right now - I LOVE IT)

Actually - I agree with everything they said. Too bad they won't test the upcoming Cobra.

The Discovery channel also does shows about the Loch Ness Monster.

Efficiency != Power

Show me exactly where and who tested the Biefeld-Brown field effect in a pure vacuum. I am genuinely curious.

An experiment by members of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) - I'm also a member - was done, and they published in the journal (1 February 2004, vol. 42, no. 2) a report of thier experiements in vacuum and concluded the Biefeld-Brown field effect is actually a misinterpretation of Corona Wind. Being an Aero engineer myself that closed it for me.

Here's a quick synopsis:

With its theoretical origins dating back to the early 1920s, the Biefeld-Brown effect was believed to be responsible for the generation of thrust in capacitor configurations exposed to high voltage. This thrust was claimed to be unrelated to corona wind phenomena and to exist in vacuum. These claims, although only published in patents, survived until recent publications for very advanced propulsion concepts. Brown's and similar work, as well as credible theoretical and experimental studies relating to the Biefeld-Brown effect, are reviewed. Moreover, an experiment was carried out to investigate any thrust not related to corona discharges. No thrust was detected within the accuracy of the experimental setup. This puts new boundaries on any anomalous Biefeld-Brown force. Measurements indicate that such anomalous force must be at least five orders of magnitude below corona wind phenomena and must have at least a two orders of magnitude higher power-to-thrust ratio compared to traditional electric propulsion thrusters. Hence, even if the effect exists, it would not be attractive for space propulsion. The obtained results suggest that corona wind effects were misinterpreted as a connection between gravity and electromagnetism.

[ 29. December 2004, 05:46 PM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

Guys, my wife's dutch. We go there twice a year to visit her family. Every year. Been going for the past 7 years without miss.

Trust me. There are damn near as many fat-ass Europeans as Americans.

However they are fanatically desperate not to believe so.

[ 29. December 2004, 04:34 PM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

Like lightsails. When everything else is zero, even teeny thrust becomes a factor.....

It would be cool if something like this existed in useable quantities, but I don't think this is it.

However, I *do* believe there is hope for reactionless thrust. Once we truly figure out gravity (quanta interaction, waves, space curvature, pixie dust, WhateverItIs) - which we still don't fundamentally understand, then we'll know better what to push against. smile.gif

They didn't do it in a vacuum. They couldn't have. Its been shown by others experimentally that in a vacuum there's no measurable thrust at all for any device using the Bieman-Brown field effect.

The conclusion being either

1) there's no effect at all - it doesn't exist

2) its so small its worthless - meaning previosu measurements of this possible additional effect were in fact measurement errors of the ion wind effect.

As far as I'm concerned I'm not going to say it doesn't exist as an effect. But I can say that at best we know the biggest it can be is still smaller than the vacuum experiments used to test it could measure, which is extremely miniscule.

Some good entertainment there, but its misleading. Of course, for the $29 cost of a CD you too can have all the details.

In short this thing is flying from the same ionizing effects used in these air purifiers.

http://images.sharperimage.com.edgesuite.net/all/en/images/products/si637snx_pip.jpg

We've got two of these type puppies in our house and if you put your hand in front of it you can feel the breeze. Enough there to easily lift their balsa-wood and tinfoil models.

The Biefeld-Brown field effect thrust they spend a lot of verbage on on that webpage to say thats where their thrust is coming from is a load of hooey in this application.

"In other words, the Biefeld-Brown effect would create thrust by pushing against the fabric of space itself, and as a result would require no propellant to function -- making it a highly-interesting potential method of creating thrust." ..yeah, so?

We're talking several orders of magnitude less thrust than the air movement. The air movement isn't an enhancement as they want you to believe - it IS the real thrust here. In a vacuum this thing would go nowhere. Their thrust is coming from the air.

Anyhoo, the Biefeld-Brown effect is still an interesting potential phenomenom, but its not even been proven to exist, its thrust force hasn't been isolated from other effects well enough to me measured, much less its having a real practical application, and people have been trying for years.

Go here to read a good treatment of it.

Also, amazingly, for once, the Wikipedia entry for something doesn't completely suck. Here's the wiki entry for it.

[ 29. December 2004, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

Originally posted by Ricochet:

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4. M1 Abrams

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Interesting reporting of it on Al Jazeera.

This is a real tragedy.

A tangent: I get a kick sometimes out of watching Al Jazeera report on things like this where they can't blame it on the USA. They sure try though, they haven't yet blamed this on Rumsfield, but they'll come up with something.

The Red Cross article they have, the one picture they put in there, has Japanese red cross workers.

[ 28. December 2004, 11:18 AM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]