Posted on 10/21/2008 3:01:43 PM PDT by gsdallas
Some of the posts on here are so so so amusing! Let's see, the implication that any woman who doesn't support Sarah is a lesbian? That any one who supports Obama is "unwashed"? The more comments I read, the more taken aback. What happened to actual conservatism? Did you all catch the McCain bug where if you disagree with someone you vilify them? Anyone care to come out of the woodwork and speak realistically?
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You won! I’m off to cook beans :-).
We won’t talk about my house with the dog hair dustbunnies hiding in odd corners and books stacked up everywhere.....
3 things wrong with Levenworth as compared to the REAL Germany:
1. Streets WAY too wide.
2. Not every roof is orange clay tile.
3. Too many people smiling.
Other than that, it’s dead-on. :)
That’s OK!
Instead of vacuuming around the cages like I usually do, today, I used a Swiffer Duster. Lordy!! You’d have thought I had an executioner’s axe! LOL! The vacuum noise makes them break out into song, but the duster was from Parakeet Hell!
And now my vacuum is full...I love that I have no bags to buy!
LOL, right on every count.
I love that about my Dyson Supervac, too. Just empty the collection bin into the trash can, and back to sweeping up cat hair and crumbs.
Yepper! I didn’t know it sould be so easy!
Of course, the last vacuum I had lasted since 1994...and it got quite a work-out.
When it died, I had to get another, post-haste, but with limited funds. So far, so good.
Congratulations! You have a lot of pet debris, but not as much square footage as I have to deal with, nor as many people tracking dirt in and scattering crumbs :-).
Trust me...I would rather have the square footage!! LOL!
And I have had, but not in the last two years.
The two vacuums I had before this one were both Hoovers, and I had them each about the same length of time.
The first one had a HUGH area to cover, and was just as sturdy as it could be, even though the kids liked to chase the dog and cat with it...
Cat crumbs?
You try to fill it up.
LOL!
Not for me! I have claustrophobia, so the more space and windows I have, the better I feel!
Gave in to the encroaching dark winter and put up some lights this afternoon -- a day early.
I try not to do anything on Sunday that isn’t absolutely necessary. There is often “the ox in the mire” that one has to take care of, but if it can be done on Saturday, or wait until Monday, that’s when I’ll do it.
After all, on Sunday, the Lord rested!
You'd be surprised how much mess kittehs can make with their food.
Ah, that explains why you didn't want to go into the atmosphere of Venus.
Rest assured, it is not a confining space, considering that the habitable area on Venus, which is fifty kilometers up in the atmosphere of the planet, is equivalent to the entire surface of planet Earth.
But that's not all!
Venus colonization will be three dimensional. For those who like warmer weather, just settle a little deeper into the soup. Going down will be like going South.
So the range of habitability is not only the equivalent of a planetary surface, but also a vertical multiplier of virtually unknown value!
The ultimate population possible on Venus could be hundreds of billions of souls! It is essentially only limited by what we can spin out of the raw materials, and they are quite simply vast.
We will make the air for flotation, and the vessel for containing it, out of the mega-ocean of carbon dioxide atmosphere on the planet. Now that is a carbon-sequestration project worthy of Humanity's attention!
Remember that here on the Flying Castle, our "windows" are made out of Aluminum OxyNitride, known as AlON. With sheet carbon fiber, and buckytube cables for strength, our floating cities will be safe and stable.
If aluminum seems to be a limiter, I suppose we'll have to mine some from other places, such as Mercury or the Jovian moons. I'll bet the streets are paved with the stuff out there.
And further note, that these multitudes of floating cities will not have to be "tethered" to an asteroid or anything. They will simply float like a cork on the ocean. They will be "cold air balloons" full of oxygen and nitrogen, which provides "lift" in Venus' carbon dioxide atmosphere.
Do you know what the worst-case scenario might be? That we would have so many cities in the sky of Venus that its surface might actually start cooling down!
OK...
Claustrophobia is the reason I wanted the library and the observatory. When my “cell” gets to be too confining, I want at least two places to go to relieve the anxiety.
For now, I will trust your expertise!
Kittehs are not nearly the neat eaters that dogs are. Dogs have a tendency to lick the floor and bowl and anything else that even smells like food.
My sweet PV would eat the hard food, but if a piece broke off, he wouldn’t touch it. It had to be the whole piece. I’d find the tiny pieces around his dish like so many shriveled appendages of mutant Smurfs.
No rest right now. I had an aborted software install that may result in the Linux box being toast when it restarts. Naturally this is when every backup capability I have goes south.
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