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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 1:43 am
(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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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 5:46 am
(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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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 4:26 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2019 at 5:42 pm by Athene.)
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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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 4:52 pm
I do a passable impersonation of Vyvyan from The Young Ones.
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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 5:25 pm
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Who can do that elbow double jointed thing?
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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 5:42 pm
(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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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 6:33 pm
My goodness, you're on fire today! Now shaddup and get back to work!
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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 6:51 pm
I usually shun the limelight, but, my hindsight is 20/10.
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RE: Uselss skills/qualifications! (#2) [NOT SUPER SERIOUS]
May 1, 2019 at 7:25 pm
(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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