Roll on the 20th June

[fletcher]

Note to all .. anyone who has built a spoked wheel that is only secured at the hub/axle [and I have] will be aware how difficult it is to 'balance' the wheel - that's often why we have rims i.e. to get the geometric splits correct [or thereabouts- fine tuning still required] - when you have what in effect is 4 spokes then there is great potential for the geometric weight division not to be equal for all sectors - this leads to a wheel that acts like a pendulum & wants to 'keel' i.e. find its point of rest or balance where the CoM is lowest & there is the least amount of Potential Energy in the system.

It is something that should be looked out for & fair testing can only be done by reversing all tests & comparing measurements [assuming you don't make your wheel more rigid & perfectly aligned & balanced]  - alternatively fix a backing plate & rim of some sort to which balancing weights can be attached if required.

P.S. well done PP - examples are always good 

[The Eskimo Quinn]

it is only fair to show the newtonian view, "unedited", so i gave purepower the credit he desrves with his own page.

what did billy the kid say??

go ahead I'll make you famous

[itanimuLLi]

Don't know much about history
Don't know much Newtonia
Don't know much about science fic
Don't know much about the physics I took
But I do know that S.O.G. will do.
And I know that Archer knows
What a wonderful, wonderful world this would be.

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
I don't know what a slide rule is for
But I do know one and one is three
And if this one could be S. O. G.
What a wonderful, wonderful world this would be

GO ARCHER GO
Let them calculate.
The only thing what counts that on the 20th you`l give them the answer.

[DarkStar_DS9]

itanimuLLi,

I actually prefer John Mayer's song "Gravity":

Gravity
Is working against me
And gravity
Wants to bring me down

...

Oh gravity
Stay the hell away from me
Oh gravity
Has taken better men than me
Now how can that be?

Regards,

Rainer

[AB Hammer]

@itanimuLLi

OUCH!! nothing worst than a bad filk song. And then you sounded like a cheer leader! LOL

@DarkStar_DS9

And adding another bad filk, is a double OUCH!

Yes we will see how full of whatever Quinn is in a week. I have learned in this game that we can easily fool ourselves so, don't give him to much flack if he fails but be prepared in case he does have something. Even if it is not OU there still may be an advantage to something that may be useful somewhere else.
Quinn hates it when I call it the giant drinking bird. But that was only a suggestion.   LOL