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[Gryphin]

This slide rule helped get us to the moon. It was my fathers when he worked on the guidance control systems for NASA.
http://www.windingstream.com/Photos/.../My%20Wall.htm
I'm sure I have his book of log table somewhere. hmm, make a good addtion. Mind you I don't know how to use it.
Can you imagine trusting slide rules with your life today?

[Loser]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
I'm sure I have his book of log table somewhere. hmm, make a good addtion. Mind you I don't know how to use it.
Can you imagine trusting slide rules with your life today?

I dig your decor, Gryph.

It's not that hard to figure the slide-rule and log book out. Just sit down with them sometime and start messin'.

[Cipher7071]

Actually, the technology behind the sliderule could still be used to obtain greater accuracy than the ones we used 30 years ago. If you wanted 6 place precision instead of three, all you'd have to do is make one, oh...about a thousand feet long (not counting travel). Not even a quarter mile, no problem. Let's see...to operate it you'd need two pickup trucks with winches, periodic sources of lubrication, and a bicycle to get you back and forth to the hairline.


"The great tragedy of science...the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." (T. H. Huxley)

[Andrés]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I am surprised that more people like Trooper, Andres, and even John don't make more ship sets. Hell even Kwok was on a roll there with Moray and the ships he made for STNG mod he was working on.

Oh, I really enjoyed making shipsets as much as you say you did.
It's just that I've been a little distracted lately, and I'm hitting the limits of the outdated computer I'm suck with, so having to struggle with a slow working 3dsmax and having to wait a long time to have ships rendered doesn't sound very atractive.