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(...) Thank you! You are welcome. I consider my work "Link-creations", copying is allowed as long as you link to my site. An e-mail would be nice too! (...) Yes, it's the red 9 tooth samsonite gear. I was very tempted to paint it black, but I (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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(...) It is a device used on an aircraft to measure airspeed. If you know the static pressure you are in, and you also know the apparent pressure that you are experiencing in the direction of travel, ("ram air") the difference can be used to (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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Hi Christian This is a really well put together MOC. I love the external details for the instruments and the use of rubber bands (LEGO rubber bands of course!). By the way, what is a pitot tube? Oh, and I never did get around to commenting on your (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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(...) Way cool. If you're not coming to Portland, someone ought to, with your permission, build a copy of this for the MiniMOC fly in at BrickFest PDX... Some questions: The "radial engine"... Is that an old samsonite gear or what? I wasn't clear on (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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(...) Correction: first solo crossing of the Atlantic. The first non-stop crossing took place in June 1919. More about that later... Christian (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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MOC: Spirit of St. Louis ===...=== What is Ryan NYP? That is the New York to Paris plane that Charles Lindbergh used for the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in May 1927: (URL) on the image to learn more about this MOC>> Charles Lindbergh (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.adventurers, FTX) !!
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Monthly MOC: Brown Racer ===...=== This is the next racer in the continued effort to make a racetrack filled with racers in different colors. This time it is Belmont Boscop in his Brown Binerva from Belgium: (URL) on the image to go learn more about (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.adventurers, FTX) !!
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(...) As I already said, maybe I don't correctly understand the work electionneering, but what I meant was that I don't want people linking to my site with the express message to "vote for Mr. X". Of course, here on Lugnet as on other websites, I (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Then there is certainly a problem. I have often seen posts in specific forums urging people to vote for a fig in their particular theme. You almost encourage that yourself by posting to the different Lunet newsgroups saying "these figs from (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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"James Wilson" <wilson_j_s@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HrEB4q.Iow@lugnet.com... (...) You'd loose that bet. A brief scan of the members country page tells us over 800 members are non US (compared to around 1500 US), and bearing in mind the site (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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Well, I would gladly encourage people to talk about the election of the MHoF and the candidates. I've posted many messages here to let people know about it and I am glad to see referrers to my site that I had never heard of before, some from Japan, (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Terry, Sorry - I re-read my last post and it came off a bit, er, grouchy... Bad day at work. But, the point was, A, this (Lego hobby, MHoF, etc) is all in fun, and B, people on LUGNet are going to lobby, electioneer, whatever you want to call (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Since you don't live in the US, you probably don't know that Qwest is a fairly large ISP. This means that the person abusing your voting system is probably a customer of Qwest. Another quick search yielded this email address to thier abuse (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) Interesting. I didn't know how to precisely ocate a IP before. Anyway, if you see this building explose in a few days, don't blame me, I didn't do it :-) Terry (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) However, I'd be curious to see the Demographiocs of Lugnet members. Anyway, it is true that many US AFOLs think they are alone... Terry (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) I've stopped reading your post about here... I didn't realize your post was a joke. Anyway, I am not perfect in understand some "jokes" in English and this one flew past me. However, on your "this a just a toy" sentence, I agree. But it (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) A quick Whois search on ARIN yielded this: OrgName: Qwest Communications OrgID: QWDL Address: 950 17th Street Address: Suite 1900 City: Denver StateProv: CO PostalCode: 80202 Country: US NetRange: 63.152.0.0 - 63.159.255.255 Maybe you could (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't beleive *most*. *Many* maybe, but the world is large (even if some USAmericans seem quite ignorant of it) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 1-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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(...) neither, apparently, is a sense of "humour" or fun. LEGO is a TOY (see below) (...) id' wager most LUGnet users are (...) if you change your mind, be sure to come in illegally - you'll get a green card faster... :-) (...) You seem to confuse (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Christian Lindblad has emailed me concerning this issue. He is NOT the one mas-voting, although he was the one inciting people to vote for Adventurers on his website. Therefore, I apologize to have thought it was him. All the facts I had (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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