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Under the post of "Aint that grand"... I said my hubby was fantastic.. with a heart of gold and as big as Texas... well I am re-phrasing that to be as big as North America....
On Saturday, we went to the flea market, and had a blast as usual... We got back to the car and he said to me... "I bought you something for your birthday... Now my birthday isnt till the middle of February, so he had me wondering what the heck it was all about... he handed me a black velvet cloth...and in the cloth was
a Colt .380 Government Model, Series 80.....It is so totally sweet... and so is he....
The pic doesnt do this justice as the gun is MINT... yes.. MINT... I dont think there has been 10 rounds shot thru it.... the medallion is bright gold in color....
I couldnt have asked for a more wonderful gift... He is one in a million... that sweet ole' biker dude...my rough tough creme puff.... Love ya baby..and thank you from the bottom of my heart....
Lil' Stinker's Opinion
On Saturday, we went to the flea market, and had a blast as usual... We got back to the car and he said to me... "I bought you something for your birthday... Now my birthday isnt till the middle of February, so he had me wondering what the heck it was all about... he handed me a black velvet cloth...and in the cloth was
a Colt .380 Government Model, Series 80.....It is so totally sweet... and so is he....
The pic doesnt do this justice as the gun is MINT... yes.. MINT... I dont think there has been 10 rounds shot thru it.... the medallion is bright gold in color....
I couldnt have asked for a more wonderful gift... He is one in a million... that sweet ole' biker dude...my rough tough creme puff.... Love ya baby..and thank you from the bottom of my heart....
Lil' Stinker's Opinion
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THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I HAD SEEM EVERYTHING THEY CAME UP WITH A CAN YOU TOP THIS ROUTINE.
PERHAPS THE BEST PERFORMANCE I HAVE EVER SEEN..................
I DID NOT SEE A SINGLE MISCUE IN THE ENTIRE PERFORMANCE
Half time show at this year's Army-Navy basketball Game - Only the young could do this. CLICK ON LINK BELOW.
http://tinyurl.com/y9rxtr7
fixed it - sorry!
Edit: Same link...just Tiny. [:D][;)]
Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe !
Water Bridge in Germany .... What a feat!
Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering!
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany , as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg , near Berlin . The photo was taken on the day of inauguration. To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists. Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?
Taken from wikopedia..
The 918-metre Magdeburg Water Bridge (German: Wasserstra?enkreuz) is a navigable aqueduct water bridge in Germany, completed in October 2003. It bridges the River Elbe to connect two important German shipping canals; the Elbe-Havel Canal and the Midland Canal. The canals meet near Magdeburg on opposite sides of the river and lead to German's industrial heartland in the Ruhr Valley.
Canal engineers had first conceived of joining the two waterways as far back as 1919, and by 1938 the Rothensee boat lift and bridge anchors were in place, but construction was postponed during World War II. After the Cold War split Germany, the project was put on hold indefinitely by the East German government.
With the reunification of Germany and major establishment of water transport routes made the Water Bridge a priority again. Work started in 1997, with construction taking six years and costing _500 million. The water bridge now connects Berlin's inland harbour network with the ports along the Rhine river. The aqueduct's trough structure incorporates 24,000 tonnes of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete.
Until the opening of the water bridge in October 2003, ships moving between the Midland Canal and the Elbe-Havel Canal used a 12-kilometre, through the Rothensee lock, along the River Elbe and back up Niegripp lock.
Dont know if I could be on either level...
Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe !
Water Bridge in Germany .... What a feat!
Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering!
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany , as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg , near Berlin . The photo was taken on the day of inauguration. To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists. Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?
1, i take it the channel used to flo INTO the river?
2, how do they get the water to flow up hill to the top of the "bridge"
3, that engineering question is going to bother me for a a while,
i want to think just the water weight, however the boat would press down on the water adding weight, but it would displace water as well. so i will have to do some research, or go nuts that seems the only choice.
I think.
In fact, due to wave action and the bobbing up and down of the ships, the downward weight of the ships would increase on the transition between down and up.
made me think of how much blood our country has given to nations
that now are prosperus in comparison. Our infrastructure is
crumbling.[:(]
http://www.avignon-et-provence.com/tourisme/pont-du-gard/img/pont-du-gard-12.jpg
I do not think that is correct. The weight of the boats is also part of the total. What you are saying is that the mass of the boats goes away, as we all know is impossible. If you had this on a smaller scale, say a 3 gallon open bucket. Put it on a scale, then add a bunch of baseballs, the weight will increase with each baseball the actual weight of the baseball.
Put a hole in the side of your bucket (the channel on both sides of the bridge) than add your floating weights. Same but different, thing happens if you fill a glass with icecubes and than fill it to the rim with water. Note that the ice cubes are above the top of the glass? What will the water level be when the ice melts, lower, overflowing, or the same?
Just because it is floating weight doesn't mean that it is vanished weight.
Doug
I do not think that is correct. The weight of the boats is also part of the total. What you are saying is that the mass of the boats goes away, as we all know is impossible. If you had this on a smaller scale, say a 3 gallon open bucket. Put it on a scale, then add a bunch of baseballs, the weight will increase with each baseball the actual weight of the baseball.
Baseballs float. If you had the bucket completely full at the beginning, the weight would remain the same. If the bucket was half full, the weight would increase until the water level reached the brim, and then it would remain constant.
The canal structure has to be designed for a certain water level. So long as the water is maintained at that level, anything that floats can be put in it and the load will be constant.
Brad Steele
This thing might qualify as a loch or a canal, but it doesn't really look like either to me. They might have to come up with a new word to describe this thing. I don't know how it works but my guess is it uses a series of lochs to move vessels up to and down from it. Whatever they call it, it is amazing. I'd hate to have to navigate it.
The first question which comes to my mind is "what are they moving to make it worth half a billion euros?"
I think Don McManus and screwobama have it right. When you talk about a ship's tonnage, you are talking about the volume of water it displaces.
Don McManus basically has it right - if the water level in the bridge stays constant, there is no change in weight. But - I think that the shape of the bridge will not allow that displaced water to get out the ends easily, so the water level in the bridge will actually rise as a boat passes through (increasing the weight on the structure.
I think that you have to figure in the weight of the boats due to the long, narrow shape of the canal bridge. Yes, the boat displaces the same amount of water, but that water would have to be displaced outside of the bridge for there to be no effect on it's structure.
Don McManus basically has it right - if the water level in the bridge stays constant, there is no change in weight. But - I think that the shape of the bridge will not allow that displaced water to get out the ends easily, so the water level in the bridge will actually rise as a boat passes through (increasing the weight on the structure.
How do you figure that the weight will remain the same as long as the water level does? A boat and water do not have the same density, therefore they have difference weights.
As far as the ships being insignificant, this is also not true. The boats pictured are undoubtedly 30-50 tons. That is significant.
To all those that think the boats weight dissapears; this is more a question of common sense than a question of physics. Obviously their mass and hence weight DO matter and DO figure into the equation. The weight measured under the bridge were it on a scale will increase exactly per whatever weight is added to the water. Are you saying that if the boats sunk, THEN their weight would be added because they were not floating?
Water does not have magical properties as some of you apparently think. It is not like filling a balloon with helium. Mass is mass and gravity acts upon mass.
Again, this is a question of common sense!
Again, this is a question of common sense!
Obviously not common enough.
Brad Steele
Dont know if I could be on either level...
Really?
You on the level here?
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made me think of how much blood our country has given to nations
that now are prosperus in comparison.
This country is falling because of our own greed, our own stupidity....its not another country's fault...
As far as the ships being insignificant, this is also not true. The boats pictured are undoubtedly 30-50 tons. That is significant.
The boats pictured are not boats. They are SHIPS.
The boats pictured are not boats. They are SHIPS.
Hey you old salty dog, give me the definition of ships and boats. I'm all ready with ya on pistols and revolvers...
Boat displaces water, water disperses over X amount of area. The smaller the area the higher the water table.
Go to a marina, jump in the water and toss a scale under any boat you wish. If you really wanted to see where the weight went you would have to monitor water level.
Hey you old salty dog, give me the definition of ships and boats. I'm all ready with ya on pistols and revolvers...
Some vessels are in a gray area and could go either way, and in some cases it's a matter of semantics, such as submarines and patrol gunboats, but a generally accepted definition of a boat is a vessel which can be loaded onto another vessel.
Most seagoing blue-water vessels are ships.
Fill a five gallon bucket to the rim, place it on a scale and weigh it. Then float a base ball on the water, the displaced water flows over the rim and out of the bucket. The bucket's total weight remains the same because the baseball weighs the same as the water that flowed over the rim. If the base ball sinks then the weight of the bucket will increase because the ball weighed more than the water it displaced.
Was just making an observation on the contrast I've been noticing
lately.
The water level in the canal or water bridge does not go up or down when a ship enters or leaves. A ship is not picked up and set into the canal or water bridge. It enters and leaves by a series of lochs where all water displaced by the ship is already displaced in the loch. The ship enters and leaves on a level plane with the same water displacement all the way.
By the way, I make no claim to being an artist (unless somebody wants to buy some pictures). [:D]