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Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
#31
RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
(April 30, 2019 at 11:59 pm)Jackalope Wrote: After doing a couple of them, I decided that there were far better mirrormakers than I, and given the sheer amount of time required to grind and figure a parabola or even a flat, I would pay someone else to do it.  My enjoyment was more doing the woodworking and mechanicals, sometimes having to invent ways to do things using what I had available.  The last one I did was a 12.5" f/4.5 truss tube design made from baltic birch and aluminum, and it would have taken forever to grind that deep of a parabola on that big of a piece of glass.  Screw that.

Well crap, we should have been rich! We could have made a nice, really big parabolic reflector using mercury and spinning it, to make a parabolic shape. Of course, it has to be on the earth for the gravitational acceleration and centrifugal reaction to make a nice parabola.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_mirror_telescope
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#32
RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
(April 30, 2019 at 8:18 pm)Jackalope Wrote: I can design and build a newtonian reflector.

Big deal  I can build a perpetual motion machine.

Well, be fair - I can convince some people that I can build one.

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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#33
RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
I've been told that I have disturbing knack for mimicking other people's voices. 
Great for laughs and freaking folks out, but not particularly useful.

I can also...

Hula hoop for several hours...yet nowhere near the World Record.

Trim eyelashes with surgical precision.

Making shockingly realistic-looking fake wounds. And vomit.

Drive backwards with nearly as much accuracy as I have driving forward. (And yes, smart-ass....I'm good at driving forwards.)
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#34
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I do a passable impersonation of Vyvyan from The Young Ones.
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#35
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Who can do that elbow double jointed thing?
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#36
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(April 30, 2019 at 11:14 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I've forgotten more math than you can shake a stick at, and am hard pressed to add two numbers together without a machine assist.

Ability to visualize the number line is over rated.

Somewhere along the way I acquired the ability to make the needle of an electroencephalogram move. Never had any use for it.
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#37
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(May 1, 2019 at 5:25 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Who's can do that elbow double jointed thing?

Can you be more specific. This could also be interpreted as a lesbian thing...
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#38
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My goodness, you're on fire today! Now shaddup and get back to work!
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Know God, Know fear.
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#39
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I usually shun the limelight, but, my hindsight is 20/10.
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#40
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(May 1, 2019 at 6:33 pm)ignoramus Wrote: My goodness, you're on fire today! Now shaddup and get back to work!

Day off.

You want to be on fire, too?
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