Entering the "Forum".....

Life here is simple...but we are not that totally remote and isolated!

Thank you CR4!

CR4 is beneficial and entertaining!

It's widens and expands my horizon.

See you around.

We have some parking areas but no parking meters.

Parking fees had been paid off long ago!

GOOD!! You could get quite a hernia trying to fit one of those coins into a parking meter!!

Bill

I ended up at Global Spec and then CR4 after starting some research about submarine batteries on Wikepedia and then went to the Varta Battery site and then went to Global Spec. Got into this discussion from the Off Topic Discussion. I have gotten wrapped up in the place as well. I try to read more and more beyond my full understanding, and sometimes actually keep my mouth shut.

The off topic discussion and the two spawned discussions really do suggest that a Political Science Section would benefit the Threads as a category option other than off topic.

That section or option of content description would address what affect the science being discussed might have in the toolbox of humanity.

Imagine that Oppenhimer and Einstein and Roosevelt met online at CR4 as a why for the Political Science Section. Wonder when Mr. Gore will get here. Is he?

Should be.

It is a terror and tragedy that logic and science, inventions that in the common toolbox would provide so much more heavan on earth if only applied ethically by those in power, who are definitly not now the working classes.

Here we go into the bottleneck.

We have the technology to get through it, but Politics as they are, and are going imply strongly that Mankind will vanish before it has to.

An awful lot of the people addicted to CR4 know what they are talking about. If I had a National Budget I'd buy most anything Global Spec offered for sale according to CR4 reviews.

Of course my goal is to make a nation of airports that gets taken over by the UN and I am very anti Weapons of Mass destruction due to the undue threat they present to the Working Class, of which I am one.

So I would be buying technologies that helped run my airports and spaceports most efficiently.

There is precedent for the rejection of certain weapons in history, notably the rejection of firearms by the Japanese from the 1300s to the 1500s. The political science of what caused that as applied to Weapons of Mass Destruction is a study of interest worthy of the Political Scientist, and the scientist.

Hence to bring the two together in agreement over what to do with what is known, is a worthy goal, and why I suggest a Political Science Section, or content description option along with the "off topic".

Trancendian,

There's been some wild & wolley discussion as initiated by Masu about future energy, enjoy!

I'm not a fan of air travel the efficency is low, We need to improve mass transit, increase flexibility whlie mimicing the amount of personal space of the auto.

Then the SlotCar infrastructure is for you!

The long haul airplane ride is more efficient than the short plane ride if the car rides and spy on lines are factored into the total time.

One time I took a bus so I could carry a pistol and knew otherwise I couldn't carry the pistol. I did end up needing the pistol.

The other guy had a knife.

I knew I was going to Chicago.

Battery car to slot on the street for the upsized SlotCar is the way to go if the power slot is powered by Solar etc. The Big Slot Car mimics the personal space of the auto.

It is also on the Grid.

Do you remember the slotcar tracks?

Imagine a battery car that gets to the slots. There is your flexibility.

No passing. Get in line.

Get off grid. Go a bit. Home.

Transcendian

Have the nav system wake me up when we're @ my exit. You could still have multiple lanes going progressively faster, the further you're trip the faster the lane you travel. only enough self propulsion for short trips.

all that's the easy stuff, what sort of transisitional solutions are there?

I love the slot cars. I got my first non-slot when I was about 10 years old. Very fun - then we could really race!

At the semicon factory we are building, they employ an overhead track system for conveying wafers from one process to the next. It is an overhead wonder to watch. Little shuttles about 2ft³ whizzing along making turns and smartly slowing and speeding up, with their $100k lots snugly in place. Dozens of them just an inch or second away from, but not quite ever involved in, a collision. Then the polite little "beep, beep" sounding with gentle trailings of the asian persuasion. None of the sharp BEEP BEEP's of a backing caterpillar D7. Down the 15' vertical feet, tethered by four flexible strands that are as high-tech themselves as my old Apple IIe.

Zip. Whir. Whiz. beep shhh beep shhh. All the politeness and industriousness one would expect from a company named Daifuku.

cr3

... you painted a nice image there.

_{beep beep}

Del

I found CR4 while searching some stuff via GlobalSpec, although I can't recall how I found GlobleSpec.

I lurked for awhile, just reading various threads and then I came across this thread and decided to post my first response.

I have no idea why I wanted to make my first impression devoid of paragraphs, but alas there are none present.

When I was first lurking, it was for two primary benefits… augment my knowledge and laugh… CR4 has been a source of both and had never let me down.

We have some amazing membership here; I have yet to find a similar pool of knowledge or social conscious in a single location. To this day I still feel like the new guy though, hesitant to interrupt the conversation between admirable colleagues.

And, even though I check this site daily, during the week, I have yet to scratch the surface of it's content. Evident by the fact that I just found this thread 3 years after it was posted, haha.

It is like the Matrix though… it can suck you in and by the time you come up for air, you realize that a significant portion of your day is gone. But I for one, find it hard to justify a better way to spend ones time than in the presence of those that have so much to contribute, and are willing to do so freely.

CR4 is a Godsend to those of us that still have so much to learn. For me, although I work in the engineering field, I have yet to complete my formal education. Straight from High School I went into the military. And, once I got out of active duty, life started; limiting me to college part-time at night, never being able to take more than 2 classes at a time. Add switching majors a few times, extensive business travel when I worked for an OEM, and multiple military deployments, my 'formal' education is still ongoing.

As such, I am gracious to have a tool such as CR4 available to me to augment my education. I have always been the type of person to frequent technical book stores and libraries, teaching myself what I needed to know in that moment. CR4 is worlds better though because not only is it applied knowledge, you make me laugh to.

Of all the time sinks I have ever had in my life, CR4 is worth every second and I'm honored to be a part of it.

JavaHead