... would suggest one modification for our Mississippi service - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller s rather than conventional screws.
What advantages does a VSP offer over an azimuth thruster? It seems to me that a Z-drive would be mechanically simpler and accomplish the same thing.
Just looking at the illustrations, the Voith Schneider doohickey would probably work in shallower water. The Mississippi River is fairly shallow.
For shallow waters, some kind of pump-jet thruster would probably work better than either one of them.
]]>There are of course any number of possible routes to postulate which don't go near any notable existing water and require you to excavate the entire distance, through heavily populated regions to boot. Given such an abundance of far worse possibilities, the route suggested is an inexplicably poor choice as an example of undesirable applications of nuclear explosives. But the clear and precise identification of the two end points does have some flavour of a reference to some project from humorous fiction or conspiracy theory that I am not aware of.
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]]>Schools weren't there when I was. I worked near the bottom of Yost near HW 30. We would go to a pizza beer joint in that shopping center some Friday's after works.
Yost was plenty wide for two way traffic. It was one of those cobblestone streets I mentioned. Fun in the snow. Over the hill Braddock was in serious decline. Car stolen twice was abandoned there. There's a documentary about the town and the mayor. He's now the Lt. Gov of the state. And not a typical pol in any way shape or form. I visited the area a few years ago. Braddock would make a good movie set for a zombie movie. Multiple buildings literally overgrown with vines.
]]>You can add that to the problem that personality questionnaires are notoriously unreliable, not lead because respondents often adopt a 'persona'; obviously, internal consistency checking will not pick those up. I have no idea what '84T' measures, but excluding a large proportion of the sample because you don't like the answers is, at best, statistically dubious - and, in this case, might indicate something about the reliability of the REST of the data.
Checking how many of those concerns are probably causes of error would need a lot of research, and careful analysis of the data. That's why I said 'alarm bells', not that it was nonsense.
]]>We're saving them for when we want to excavate a canal from Cheboygan, MI to Rochester, NY."
I don't get the reference. It looks like all you have to do is blow up the Niagara area, but is it supposed to imply any more than that?
At 1775, Robert Prior makes an oblique reference to nuking Memphis under the guise of removing the I-40 bridge à la Project Plowshare?
I vaguely recollect monsewer Prior resides in Canada. I merely suggested (with the same seriousness of intent as his original proposal) an alternative use of the Plow along the straight line connecting those two cities. Tit for tat. "Measure distance" between the two cities on Google Maps to see where that straight line traverses.
Should it turn out I am mistaken about where "M RP" lives, I will withdraw the suggestion and we can instead nuke wheresoever it is he does live.
]]>Think of it as an urban renewal project :-)
You could even get bipartisan support! Democrats could be swayed with infrastructure and renewal funding for the newly-expanded shoreline, while Republicans would be satisfied because they could honestly tell their supporters they voted to nuke a Democratic-leaning area.
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