Some are heavy drug users.
Others are just lazy and/or clueless.
Others are just plain stupid.
Cats Are Not Right
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I will claim a first being as I am up and all. Looks like I won the flu lottery. Scatchy throat, phlem build up when I lay down, sinus congestion and a nasty cough that hurts. Got up so the trophy wife could sleep. She needs her rest so she can take care of me while I fight this off.
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Well don’t be spreadin’ it around here texcan! 😀 Hope you get feeling better. -
Who hasn’t had some liberal sneer at him, “Why don’t you conservatives go read a book?” This powerful critique of the intellectual deficiencies of my ideological brethren always cuts me to the bone. I’m usually so upset that I run weeping to my fine German touring sedan, completely forgetting to tip the nose-studded holder of a degree in Gender Neutral Puppetry who pointed out my educational failings while he fetched my latte.
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Heh. Reminds one of the Most Interesting Man in the World when he said:I don’t always talk to liberals. But when I do, I say “Large Fries.”
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A fine, upstanding gentleman from everyone’s favorite state arrested for double mullet fishing.
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Liberals – searching for a clue since mankind began
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Hard to imagine a cat gnawing on a cactus. I suspect a setup. Impossible to imagine that particular cat getting inside that particular jar. I suspect a photoshop. The other 2 are just cats. My boys go completely ape over catnip. It makes them very pugnacious so they don’t get it very often.
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Texcan: for symptom relief, I recommend you try Alkaseltzer Plus Cold fizzies. That always makes me feel better while any kind of respiratory ailment runs its course.
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I really don’t know that much about steve stockman, other than that he was the one who defeated the abjectly corrupt POS Jack Brooks who was
rapingrepresenting the Golden Triangle area of East Texas. What I find interesting is the level of spending by the John Cornholein camp in an attempt to demonize him. In the primaries it should be ABC, anybody but Cornwhat? All we need is 50% + one for ABC, then we pick the best of what is left. -
Miss Pink Sneakers “misled” everyone about key events in her life to make herself sound better.
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Did everyone see the expose about Wendy Davis over the weekend? Breitbart has a summary up now.
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Pyro and M42 are a-duking it out on the same story.
What is interesting to me are the trolls who insist on bringing up Duck Dynasty on that particular story. I am pretty sure the story was about the lying sack of crap Wendy “Kill the Babies” Davis. -
Yesterday I posted;
43 Super Dave says:
January 19, 2014 at 2:08 pm
I’m pretty sure that I just saw KatFish heading west on I-10 just east of loop 210 around Lake Charles. Three bikes/riders with the BACA logo on their jackets.
Then;
I might add that the BACA Riders exited before the loop.
And;
OK Shannon I’ll bite; Lead biker is on a mint green Harley, wearing a white helmet with a “HD 1″ sticker on the back. The mug inside the helmet was a bearded dude that LQQked like a KatFish. His bike had three flags on the trunk, one was BACA, one the Texas Flag and the other I’m not sure about since it was kinda’ wrapped up but it may have been one of those POW/MIA flags. Two other bikers with him and the one in the rear was riding a “Fake Harley”,…a Yamaha, I think. 😉So, KatFish, what say you?
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No matter. The Riefenstahl wing of the Democrat Party (aka the American media) will completely ignore Abortion Barbie’s transgressions.
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Oh and Mornin’ Gang
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About 14:00 yesterday afternoon I was heading west on the North Loop and saw a motorcycle fully engulfed in flames in the middle of the eastbound side between Shepherd and Ella. Looked like it had just happened. I didn’t see anyone on the ground. There was one guy leaning up against a concrete wall and a few people around him. I guess that could have been the driver but I don’t know. Didn’t watch the news to find out what happened.
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Who hasn’t had some liberal sneer at him, “Why don’t you conservatives go read a book?”
I can say i have never had a liberal say that to me. On the other hand I have had liberals tell me what to do with particular books. I respectfully declined the suggestions that in my opinion would be rather uncomfortable and probably impossible to accomplish.
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#16 Was she addressing the Marine Corpse?
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The sneer of choice for most “progressives” I encounter usually involves one of their bogeymen:
“Why don’t you turn off Fox News and think for yourself!!!”
“Why don’t you turn off Rush and think for yourself!!!”
and the ever popular:
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I just remembered Gracie is having a complete makeover. There is no telling what kind of bike he was on if indeed he was on the road at all. I haven’t spoken with him in a week or two. -
The rabid LTNs will always demonize to the greatest extent that which they fear the most. They fear most that which has the greatest potential to harm their cause. The intelligent LTNs understand that their policies can not succeed, they only hope to be among the elite who are at the top, ruling over we serfs.
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#7Hard to imagine a cat gnawing on a cactus. I suspect a setup.
Uhhhh no. I had a cat that gnawed on one of my cactus on a regular basis. I also had a dog that did the same thing. I watch the squirrels here at casa del squawko attack my cactus on a regular basis.
Impossible to imagine that particular cat getting inside that particular jar. I suspect a photoshop.
Not voluntarily but not photoshopped either. In fact this entire site is about growing bonzai cats. Mailonline has a story about the craze of cat stuffing. Way back in the early days of the intraweb (15 years ago) there was a guy in New York City that thumbed his nose at all the people that reported him for cruelty to cats after the ASPCA posted a notice there was nothing wrong with the practice of cat stuffing.
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I have had cats that would routinely rub up against cactus – on purpose.
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#22 Shannon, last Thursday he posted this;
1 Katfish says:
January 16, 2014 at 4:57 am
wow FIRST!
BACA International conference this weekend – *ROAD TRIP!!*That is why I thought it might be him, also I’ve never met KatFish but from the pictures I have seen, it looked just like him, but it may not have been.
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#3 Hamous, that was great.
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And speaking of FALLUJAH.
I am so fricken proud that we wasted our time and treasure to take that city only to see it retaken by the same people we outed. I am not angry at Obama for letting this happen. I have once again become extremely highly urinated off at GEORGE W. BUSH for not fighting that war to win that war.
I will spare y’all a rehash of the many battles Sarge and I had over how to fight a war in that country only to say BUSH did not battle to win. Afghanistan is another place that BUSH did not battle to win. And those people did exactly what i said they would do……. lay back till the opportunity arose to take back “what is theirs”.
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He probably rented or borrowed a bike.
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#13 & #22 – I did not get to peruse yesterday’s couch postings…………..
YEP that was US (myself, my Chapter Prez, and another patched chapter member – on a Harley clone YES but a Honda VTX 1800 not a Yamaha)……………..we exited for fuel – then jumped back on 10 just 2 exits to hit a Subway for lunch……….I arrived back home in Katy right at sundown. Our International Conference was exceptionally informative (as usual) and we had a BLAST!
The soon-to-be-published new chapter development program confirms the depth and breadth of the WAR we are in – in essence our present day warriors MUST strive to double our membership and chapters in the next 4-5 years (and to continue that level of growth into the future) to have a chance for our Great Grandchildren to finally be able to see a measurable reduction in worldwide child abuse (this statement using the very lowest end of the statistical ranges indicating the ‘repeat offense’ nature of pedophiles)……………
After a couple of years of data gathering we now have SCIENTIFIC hard copy evidence in multiple categories of the positive, measurable, and PERMANENT difference we make in our young HERO’S lives!!!!! That is HUGE to say the least!
AND we have 3 NEW chartered chapters:
France
South Carolina
South Dakota
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-RAH!!
p.s. Gracie’s completely rebuilt engine is smoooooooooooooooth as a baby’s behind!!
p.p.s. ‘usually’ Gracie’s wears 5 flags – I recently had a darn near NEW US Flag split down the spine and disappear on the road unbeknownst to me until I got home last weekend – I usually have the Stars & Stripes, Texas, POW-MIA, and 2 BACA flags -
I have a former co-worker that went into Fallujah right after we took it over. He lost a number of his Marine buddies over the year he was there. I haven’t talked to him lately but I can imagine what he’s feeling right now.
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#28 Squawk: It is a pillar of islime to negotiate with the infidel if and only if it will improve your position. Islime demands that any treaty with the infidel must be broken within 10 years, and that 10 year period is to be dedicated to strengthening islimes position so that when the treaty is broken islime will be victorious.
I find it appalling that our so-called best and brightest in leadership, while openly proclaiming to be fighting against radical islimist fundies, can miss this crucial detail.
Our governments seem to be compelled to assume that the rest of the world shares our moralities and sensibilities, oblivious to the fact that stance is proven wrong at every encounter. -
Glad to hear Gracie is back on her feet.
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32 Bonecrusher
with all due respect and I am not flaming you here……….
Ya ain’t telling me anything i do not already know. I have been studying these humanoids from the time I was in the service a million years ago, It is all i can do right now to keep from screaming “I told you so” to a whole bunch of people. I hate/loathe this.
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I am so fricken proud that we wasted our time and treasure to take that city only to see it retaken by the same people we outed.
You left out the most important…
The lives of the Service members that were cut short or changed forever. -
Hamous
May he rest in peace.
The notes with the video you posted refer to this strangest of weather phenomenona:
From Wiki:Kopperl was founded in 1881. Named after Galveston banker and railroad tycoon Moritz Kopperl, the town was established as a regional shipping point along the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway. The population peaked at 329 in 1904 before declining to 225 by the 1970s, a figure it has maintained fairly consistently since.[1]
Shortly after midnight on June 15, 1960, a freak meteorological phenomenon struck the community when a dying thunderstorm collapsed over Kopperl. The storm had rained itself out, and with little to no precipitation to cool the resulting downdrafts, superheated air was expended upon the community in the form of extremely hot wind gusts of up to 75 MPH. The temperature increased rapidly, peaking near 140° Fahrenheit (60° Celsius); twenty degrees above the official all-time high for the state of Texas. The storm, known as “Satan’s Storm” by locals, soon became part of local folklore. -
No doubt global climate change was to blame.
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Just imagine waking up at midnight to 75mph 140 degree winds.
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Good morning Hamsters. Foggy 46 early on and fog lifting some around 8:30. It returned thicker than at first and almost blotted out the house across the street and the one behind us. Southerly breeze started clearing it out around 10, and now all is clear sky and sunshine. Beautiful day ahead. Planning to enjoy it before the next cold front arrives.
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You left out the most important…
Uhhh no i didn’t
we wasted our time and treasure
But I am glad you are paying attention.
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Reminds me of an exam question in Meteorology.
Suppose you are flying an airliner through a cloud at an altitude of 36,000 ft (~226 hPa). In order to provide a breathable environment inside the cabin, airlines bring in outside air and use it to ventilate the cabin. If the desired pressure inside the cabin is approximately that found at 10,000ft of altitude (~697 hPa), what must be done to the incoming air? -
Treasure is generally meant the actual money spent to buy stuff that the Service members then apply their talent to over a period of time to enable them to kill the other PDB’s and break their stuff.
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I am so steamed about the events in Iraganistan I purposely choose to keep things short and a bit terse in my comments. Trust me it is the men that gave their all that are foremost on my mind.
We have not won a war since WWII. That is very telling, but the reality is that “wins” only last for a short period of time when you think about it. Peace is simply the absense of war….. nothing more. As time passes people forget, leaders change and ingrained prejiduces and hates reemerge. People do what people always do…… strive for power and then do what it takes to get that power and control over another.
I am a realist and I understand that “defeating” the likes of the Taliban and Al Qaeda really amounts to beating their numbers back to a substantial level of powerlessness. That is a bloody task to take on. The idealism always lives and and it just waits till it can rear its ugly head again. It seems to me those period of time for the few “wins” this country has had in recent years has grown smaller.
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Peace is simply the absense of war
I go for a stricter definition.
Peace is the absence of the desire for war. i.e. there is peace between the US and Canada; there is not peace between the US and Iran, because there is a desire on Iran’s part to attack the US somehow at a moment of opportunity. -
I go for a stricter definition.
Heh Well I have no desire to go to war with you. 🙂
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18 Hamous says:
January 20, 2014 at 9:28 am
RIP Steven FromholzWhat Steven Fromholz, along with Guy Clark and Robert Earl Keen, did for me was to allow me to imagine what my life would have been like had I been born in Texas instead of NH.
Texas Trilogy combined with Texas 1947 gave me the image of a Father recounting stories of his life as a young boy. Desperadoes Waiting For A Train gave me the image of a Grandfather, and The Front Porch Song gave him a name, Jack Boyette. Toss in The Road Goes On Forever, The Man In The Big Hat Is Buying, LA Freeway, Texas Cookin, and Come On Down To Texas and you can have a pretty good imaginary childhood and adolescence, free of snow drifts, frozen boogers, boring food, and loudmouth, inconsiderate, impolite, and overly self confident idiots.
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#30 Katfish
Amazing that SD spotted you and enough detail to surmise that it was you, as each pursued a weekend trip. No wonder he is called SUPER Dave! -
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Obviously.
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Filter out the birds and bugs?
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Here’s the original story on Wendy Davis from the Dallas paper.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20140118-as-wendy-davis-touts-life-story-in-race-for-governor-key-facts-blurred.ece -
Sarge
Somehow I have been unaware until now of the documentary film Heartworn Highways.
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If you’ve ever wondered about how to understand foreign relations – this pretty much explains the whole thing!
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55 Shannon says:
January 20, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Sarge
Somehow I have been unaware until now of the documentary film Heartworn Highways.
Check it out on Wiki.I posted some excerpts here on the couch before. My favorites are this version of Pancho and Lefty (which has to be in the running for Perfect Song) and this one by Steve Earl.
I’ve been looking for the DVD for a long while that isn’t priced higher than a weeks groceries. Unless Australian DVDs will play in my laptop.
The scenes done in Guy and Joanna Clark’s kitchen are a bit bittersweet after reading that Texas Monthly article.
But you posting about it here caused me to go looking for it (as you can see) and I found the sound track here and bought a copy. -
Post in the bucket
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#55 Sarge mentioned that documentary a couple years ago. He had found a link to a site where you could stream it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be available any more.
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But here it is on youtube.
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#48
Obviously.
What else?It has to be cooled off because pressurizing it causes it to heat up.
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Never mind. Just a trailer.
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#50 😀
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You can rent it for $1.99 or buy and download for $5.99 on Amazon.
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Amazing that SD spotted you and enough detail to surmise that it was you, as each pursued a weekend trip. No wonder he is called SUPER Dave!
The NSA does not have anything on SUPER Dave. 🙂
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Katfish is distinguishable even by those who haven’t met him.
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Popped back into the office…saw the mention of fog.
Hubby and I saw one of the coolest fog formations Sunday morning on our way to mass. Sims Bayou separates our neighborhood from another, and we have to cross over a bridge to get to our church. I’m used to seeing mist above the water. I’m used to seeing heavy patches of mist above the water. What we saw Sunday morning resembled a snake for as far as we could see – a round cylindrical shape made up of very dense fog, with just the fuzziest of edges. It looked like I could grab it and pull on it, if I’d been able to get hands around it. It must have been over 15 feet high. It came up as high as the bank, but did not spread out to fill the entire bayou – it was a snake shape, following the curves of the bayou, and only above the water surface and not over any land. The “snake” was very dense and very white, not at all transparent or thin-looking. It was so striking, Hubby actually stopped to take pictures of it before we went inside. Of course, it was gone by the time we came out after mass.
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#34 Squawk: No flames felt whatsoever, bro. I used your post to repeat and highlight the disconnect between the behavior of our State Department (full of dip$#its) and reality. We got creamed by the Soviets on a regular basis, got out negotiated in Viet Nam, the middle east is a CF and we keep doing the same thing, making the same stupid mistakes and expect different results.
Note to state department: The rest of the world does not share your utopian views so friggen get over it. -
#67 TT
Let’s see those fog pix.
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I don’t have them, and Hubby’s not terribly technologically literate (I was amazed that he could take the pictures on his phone. We don’t have smart phones, and transferring the pix could be a real PITA.
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Katfish is distinguishable even by those who haven’t met him.
I can attest to that. First time I met him was in a dive here in the barrio. I walked in, looked around, and walked right over to him and said “You must be Katfish.”
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Ohhh gooody gooody goooody, I finally get to be king.
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January 20, 2014 at 1:02 pm (Edit)#48
Obviously.
What else?It has to be cooled off because pressurizing it causes it to heat up.
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#73: Ya gotsta add some water vapor to the mix, because there ain’t none up there.
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Ya also gotsta add some oxygen to the mix because at that altitude, there ain’t enough.
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What else?
IF you say add some friggen nutmeg, I’m gonna call BS!
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Hey, what about those birds and bugs I suggested a while back? Whatcha gonna say about those, huh?
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(He thinks a woman doesn’t know those things won’t be found at 36,000 feet… Snicker.)
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add some friggen nutmeg
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Ya gotsta add some water vapor to the mix, because there ain’t none up there.
Huh?
I guess this animated wator vapor map is wrong.
And what is the “vapor trail” behind airplanes.
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Oh yeah it is NUTMEG
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72 Bones
They will also visit Normandy, along with Charles, this summer to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Wow, It seems like yesterday that president Reagan was there on the 50th.
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The man, OjugEars, is so foul that the White House is gonna hafta be steam cleaned from top to bottom, and then repainted. Not to mention that all the silver and china is going to have to be replaced after it goes missing and is reported to be broken.
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#s 50, 63, & 66 – Gracie is not too tough to spot – she’s covered with reflective BACA stickers on both sides and the rear as well as the 2 BACA flags on her trunk
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#71 – was a GREAT night of BLUES eh Hammy? (I sooooooooooo WISH the Shadowcasters would go back to doing gigs again)
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I just received this invitation to my neighborhood’s “night out” program this year. It will feature (emphasis mine):
DPS Trooper Standifer will discuss new State laws, gun laws, and the Castle Law
HPD Mounted Patrol
HPD Victims Services Unit
Metro Police and K-9 Unit
Armed Citizen Project – deterring crime by empowering neighborhoods
Armor Glass – security films, “armor your glass” from breach by burglars, hurricanes, etc.
Transtar Motorist Assistance ProgramNope, not in California, New York, or Chicago!
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Well there ya go…… NOW it is out there.
Let’s nationalize Fox News: Imagining a very different media
Bye, Rush! If corporate media disappeared, and the people had their voices heard, here’s what it might look like
FRED JEROMEYes he is talking about socializing media. By gawduhhhhhh if we socialized the news we would get objective reproting because the news organizations would no longer have to depend on ad revenue.
“It would be foolish to expect objective reporting: not because journalists are bad people, but because of the economic structure of the organizations they work for,” Arundhati Roy wrote in 2011. “In fact, what is surprising is that despite all this, occasionally there is some very good reporting. But overall we have silence, or a completely distorted picture.”
this my friends is one scary read and one scary writer.
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Remember what I was saying about irreconcilable differences last week?
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes that pro-life activists, along with anti-gay activists and supporters of the Second Amendment, are not welcome in his state.
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#84 KatFish Yup, I knew that you were going to Orlando, saw bikers heading west on I-10, noticed the BACA jackets, wondered ifin’ it might be you and then seeing the lead BACA dude on a Harley that looked a lot like someone that I saw in the old LST pictures. It’s not “Rocket Science” is it. 😉
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Oh, and I’m watching “Andromeda”. I don’t remember watching it when it was on TV, so I’m delighting in some of the rather droll banter amongst the crew.
Yesterday, Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) was heading into a potentially dangerous encounter, and Beka Valentine was trying to dissuade him from going, stating some statistics that were discouragingly negative. Hunt responded (not verbatim, but close): “Well, you know me and numbers Beka. Sometimes I just like to buck the odds because I one day I may be walking around lucky and not even know it!”
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Ya gotsta add some water vapor to the mix, because there ain’t none up there.
We’re flying in a cloud.
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Hamous: I think that Rick Perry should make a TV commercial inviting all of the pro-life, pro-2nd amendment and pro-family supporters in New York to move to Texas. In return we can send them Austin. :))
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More droll bits from Andromeda:
Dylan Hunt: Slipstream: it’s not the best way to travel faster than light, it’s just the only way.
Beka Valentine: Where did you get the candles?
Tyr Anasazi: I rendered them from the fat of my enemies.[on her father’s funeral]
Beka Valentine: You didn’t miss much. “Eject cargo pod: yes/no?”Tyr Anasazi: I have faith in nothing but this – when the universe collapses and dies, there will be three survivors – Tyr Anasazi, the cockroaches, and Dylan Hunt, trying to save the cockroaches.
(FYI – “Rommie” is a name for the Artificial Intelligence that is/manages the warship Andromeda. The crew interacts with her and her android reincarnation as if she’s a real person)
Rommie: I just want a day where I can build missiles and tweak fire control in peace.
Beka Valentine: We need to find you a hobby.
Rommie: That IS my hobby.Trance Gemini: And they even have a guild devoted entirely to the art of abdomen dancing.
Dylan Hunt: Trance, that’s Iridano sign language, and I think you just made a rather naughty suggestion to Harper.
Trance Gemini: Oh, well, fair is fair. Harper made a rather naughty suggestion to nearly half the women there at the reception. Without success, I might add.Dylan Hunt: Rev, have any of your prayers been answered?
Rev: Many, just not today.[Watching two aliens fall to their deaths after being thrown off a bridge]
Tyr Anasazi: Mine hit first.
Dylan Hunt: Yours was fatter.Tyr Anasazi: Want to kill me? I’d prefer you give it some real effort and stop wasting my time.
Dylan Hunt: Missile tubes 1 through 5.
Rommie: Are you sure that’s necessary?
Dylan Hunt: It’s chasing us and that’s rude. We’ll teach it some manners.[Harper gives Dylan a detailed explanation of a myth]
Dylan Hunt: Mythology… it’s all Greek to me.[Rommie hacked into a computer system, opening a door]
Dylan Hunt: That’s my girl.
Rommie: I prefer ‘warship.’
Dylan Hunt: I prefer ‘girl.’
[Rommie shoots the attackers shooting at them]
Dylan Hunt: Okay, ‘warship.’Dylan Hunt: Don’t beat yourself up.
Telemachus Rhade: A Nietzschean never beats himself up – we’re self-absorbed, not masochistic.Dylan Hunt: Just keep your PMA charged and on-line.
Beka Valentine: PMA?
Dylan Hunt: Positive Mental Attitude
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Beka Valentine: Positive Mental Attitude my Perky Mortal A$$.Beka Valentine: Wait, let me guess. You want me to fly the Maru into the teeth of what amounts to an interstellar hurricane just so that I can shut down yet another Seamus Harper science experiment thereby saving all of our butts from certain doom.
Dylan Hunt: Emphasis on doom.
Beka Valentine: Copy that. Oh, do me a favor – tell Harper that when I get back, I will be fitting him with a self-kicking butt. Should save us a lot of trouble in the future. Maru out!
Trance Gemini: Is there something wrong with Harper’s butt?Dylan Hunt: You must be confusing me with someone who gives a ship.
Beka Valentine: One misstep and your IQ’s my ring size.
Beka Valentine: Tyr, ya don’t have to come. I know how hard it is for you to beat that Nietzschean self-preservation gene.
Tyr Anasazi: You know, that ” Nietzschean self-preservation gene,” as you call it, can’t be passed down unless a breeding partner makes herself available. Proving one’s worth as a husband and father requires taking risks.
Beka Valentine: So all these dangerous, macho things you do – it’s to impress the chicks?(And a High Guard Captain and his warship/AI are very, very close, almost symbiotic)
Rommie: Hector must have been a fine replacement.
Dylan Hunt: Hector? Oh, yeah, well, he was more than fine, he was – he was great. I mean he…
[Dylan notices Rommie looking a bit offended]
Dylan Hunt: …Ah, but he could never be, you know, what – what you are.
Rommie: And that is?
Dylan Hunt: The air that I breathe.
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We’re flying in a cloud.
I missed that key point. Ifn you are flying through a cloud at 36000 feet, it is prolly bumpy so fasten your seat belts. Perhaps take some of the water out of the compressed incoming air so the people don’t get a cold shower?
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#91
We’re flying in a cloud.
I thought about that while driving to the store. You’d say that you would have to remove a lot of moisture I.E. water. The reason I didn’t mention it is because on almost all turbine powered aircraft, turbo jets and turbo props the pressurization comes off bleed air from the turbine bucket and it is very hot 500-600 deg F,…I think? So the water has already been cooked out of it.
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I allus suspected WB was flying in some kinda cloud.
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FWIW; When you compress air at any pressure level there will be some moisture, more in humid areas and less in the desert. The closer you are to sea level the denser the air will be. That said, at higher altitudes you would be trying to pressurize the air down to at least 8000 feet so it will become denser. SO, to make a short story long which I have done, when we run our 4500 HP, 27,500 CFM compressors the outlet temperature is 600 deg F and it is sent through a chiller that drops the temperature to 70 deg F and then it goes through a water separator and since the humidity here in Clear Lake is very high, the separator makes several gallons of water an hour. A lot more than an air conditioner.
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less in the dessert
I like my desserts moist.
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#98 Hambone
I like my desserts moist.
Yup, I know my fingers type faster than the old brain can think. Dang, have you been taking lessons from wagonburner? 😉
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News you can use. This is a pretty good idea.
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It’s like a fungus – hard to get rid of.
Welcome to liberal hell. -
Uncle Buck meets Abortion Barbie.
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Little is known about my early childhood but there is photographic evidence that I always enjoyed the finer things of life.
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A little old man shuffled slowly into the “Orange Dipper”, an ice cream parlor in Naples , and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.
After catching his breath he ordered a banana split.
The waitress asked kindly, “Crushed nuts?”
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Mosquito at 36000 feet.
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ok, listen up, people
Chemistry-boy can check my math, etc.
If we assume that the temperature at our flight altitude is -45C, using the ideal gas law we see that compressing from 226 hPa to 697 hPa will raise the temperature to approximately 430C (or ~805F). This is an approximation, given that air with solid water suspended in it is not an ideal gas, but we can approximate because as we shall soon see, there really isn’t much water there, despite being a cloud.
Given that we’re in a cloud, the relative humidity is 100% (i.e. fully saturated). But recall that this is at 36,000ft and -45C. Warmer air can hold more water, as can higher temperature air. If we add no moisture to the air, the relative humidity at our target temperature of approximately 22C would be about 0.42%, which is very, very dry – to the point that the passengers would experience nosebleeds and other ill effects.
So we need to add quite a bit of water to the incoming air after we run it thru a really good heat exchanger. Enough to raise the humidity to about 50%.
The upshot is that you can’t “cook the water out” by compression or heating; in this case, there is no water to speak of. -
#87 Squawk
Fred Jerome is in serious need of confinement for the good of humanity. What a far freakin’ out maroon on wheels. Obama would undoubtedly applaud this guy’s prose if read through a haze of one or two of his youthful indulgences. Lordy, wonder what the rest of the book contains. How much do you suppose the publisher charged the contributing authors to produce this thing? -
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Whatevah you say, cloud boy. -
#91 Pyro
We’re flying in a cloud.
Are there clouds at 36,000 feet?
/mskeptical42/ -
Super Dave is a stalker.
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#92 FA
In return we can send them Austin.
And half of Dallas.
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Sure am glad Sharapova lost because now I can watch the Aussie Open with sound.
I’d almost prefer listening to Mushburger call a football game. -
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Cirrus clouds can form at 39,000ft.
The tops of severe thunderstorms can reach in excess of 50,000ft. -
Wow! At 50,000 feet you are more than halfway to space. 17 miles up as I recall.
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Thanks for an entertaining thread today, Cloud Warrior.
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