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  1. You'll want to check for roof leaks really carefully before you get too far with the floor. It shouldn't have gone soft that fast unless it was getting wet somehow.

     

    The biggest culprits are usually around vents or seams.

  2. I'd first figure out what your budget is going to be.

     

    I can't imagine the floor replacement will be cheap since any cabinets are built on top of it.

     

    Most of the electrical will be 12v. you can probably troubleshoot yourself if you can figure out where the wires run.

  3. Guys, it's a Mustang GT.....no one with half a clue is paying anywhere close to $50k for one. If you aren't getting it for invoice then you haven't bought enough cars, if you aren't getting one for BELOW invoice then you just aren't trying..lol

     

    It's not even work if you're not good at negotiation. Spend $50 and join Mustang Club of America, get an X Plan pin, buy car.

  4. Saying that Nexflix uses large amounts of an ISPs bandwidth is thinking about this incorrectly.

     

    The ISPs customers are using large amounts of bandwidth streaming movies. Where those streams come from is not really relevant, could be Netflix or 100 other streaming sites.

     

    The ISPs customers are using the service they paid for. If providing that level of service is unsustainable then the ISP oversold by too much. They should be charging customers more or lowering g the speed of their plans. Not trying to extort cash from the severs their customers chose to visit.

  5. Keep yer Texas in TEXAS, hombre. We need a TSA filter between us and the hurricaney craziness of the Durty South. :p Plus, srsly doe, I'm not sure how Hyperloop would be influenced by the Mississippi River...

     

    I do wonder - if you see the video on their Hyperloop One website - about how much electricity is needed to create the vacuum needed downstream in the pipes. I notice the sultry British woman's voice says the "car" needs very little electricity to propel it to 670mph, but it seems like the supporting systems will all need a HUGE amount of electricity! :lol:

     

    This is very exciting, considering that the greatest resource this system will consume - electricity - is the one renewable resource that Elon has done more to make commercially viable in creation, use, and sustainability than anyone else in decades.

     

    Oh, yes...I'm also curious what the tubes will be constructed with, since airplane fuselages go through thousands of pressurization cycles but eventually succumb to metal fatigue. I know that they are made out of thin aluminum for lightness and rigidity, but would a composite or concrete Hyperloop tube survive decades of use? Hundreds of thousands of vacuum/pressure cycles?

     

    Once Hyperloop is opened, anyone want to do a Kickstarter to put a Yugo in one from Chicago to Columbus? 670mph, the fastest a Yugo has ever gone before? :gabe:

     

     

    I would guess the plan is to only pull the vacuum once and re-pressurizing would be a big deal.

     

    To get the cars into and out of the loop they would use airlocks which just leaves a small volume to evacuate.

  6. I was on a back road coming home a few years ago and was greeted with the site of a Jeep Cherokee flying through the air. When the front hit it then rolled 3 times before coming to a stop. It had run off the road into a ditch and hit where a driveway crossed.

     

    I stopped and a car coming the other direction stopped. When the two of us got to the jeep which was destroyed but right side up we didn't see the driver so we assumed they had been ejected. We started to look in a wider area.

     

    Another car had stopped and they found the driver, who was now in the back seat totally covered with car parts and junk. We managed to get the door open to get access to him. Luckily the driver of the 3rd car was an ER nurse or I would of been the one with the most medical training.

     

    The driver was already grey at that point, he'd suffered some sort of medical issue probably a while before he crashed. The nurse started CPR and we waited.

     

    8 minutes after the 911 call - the local reported showed up.

     

    11 minutes after - a deputy arrived

     

    17 minutes after - finally the paramedics got there

     

    At this point they called life flight in which was another 40 minutes before they arrived and picked an LZ.

  7. Deer Creek is nice, some of the sites are in an open field but others are almost totally private.

     

    AW Marion is a tiny campground but usually pretty quiet. No showers or flushing toilets but they have water and a dump station.

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