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Full Moon?

08/27/2009 5:13 AM

Judging by the quality factor/intelligence factor/rationality factor/dumb factor of the current crop of really dumb ass questions, I can only conclude that there is a full moon everywhere on the planet tonight, and a lot of you are not wearing your tin foil hats!
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08/27/2009 5:16 AM

Freedom of expression is a wonderful thing.

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08/27/2009 5:34 AM

I think the prob may be that someone has turned my tin foil hat inside out, so it's transmitting rather than blocking...
Can you send me a presentation on censer application?
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08/27/2009 5:35 AM

That and a design procedure for 120kV/220kV transformers, please?

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08/27/2009 5:40 AM

And, "how we can convert reciprocatory motion into rotatory motion?" is one of my favorite selections of the evening/morning/afternoon. But, there are so many...........
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08/27/2009 5:36 AM

No, but I actually do know why tin(Al) foil is dull on one side and shiny on the other!
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08/27/2009 6:01 AM

Do share it.

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08/27/2009 6:09 AM

OK. the foil is double thickness during it's last pass through the forming rolls. The rolls are polished, so the outside takes on the shiny finish of the rolls and the inside is dull since it's pressing against itself, not the rolls.

There you have it! And neither side is preferred to be the outside. Either side will do, during use.
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#29
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08/27/2009 8:14 PM

I also saw that on "how it's made". Now why does everyone call it "tin foil"? It's aluminum foil; no tin in it.

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08/27/2009 8:27 PM

Blame it on the "Brits".
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Re: Full Moon?

08/27/2009 8:47 PM

Te guy who invented te stuff had a speech impediment. He branded it "THIN FOIL" but spoke of it as Tin Foil. And dats te real trueff!
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08/27/2009 6:13 AM

D'oh, you could have let him stew a while...he was just dieing to tell us.

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08/27/2009 6:42 AM

Stew in aluminium foil? Slurp!

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08/27/2009 6:02 AM

My vote goes to /0K=/0C or /0F ?

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08/27/2009 6:10 AM

It is a target rich environment tonight.
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08/27/2009 6:25 AM

They are comin' in thick and fast...
Thick being the operative word...we need a muppet filter.
I started writing a scathing reply but just couldn't be arsed in the end...
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08/27/2009 6:31 AM

It's a Perseid of ignorance! TAKE COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T LET IT GET ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Turn your hat around! Remember, the shiny side has to be out to repel the dumb waves. Or is it the dull side??????????????????
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08/27/2009 7:06 AM

Ah earthling. Drat! You noticed. We thought to distract you with the Michael jackson story long enough for us to rotate the moon about so that our UFO hangars would be on the earth's side. Now we'll have to try something else (perhaps a story about Michael Vick?) to get us time to perfect our stupid ray.

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Re: Full Moon?

08/27/2009 7:34 PM

TVP You got it wrong Michael is the "Dog Star" not the moon

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08/27/2009 7:07 AM

You want to make a bet.

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08/27/2009 9:39 PM

Please stop torturing that pussy with the aluminum headgear. there are much more receptive "pussies" in the universe than the one you have selected "ilegitimo ne carborundum! Just my opinion OZZB

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08/27/2009 7:40 AM

I"M LOOKING FOR A CORN STOVE !!!

Anybody got one??????
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08/27/2009 7:55 AM

Try Stinky Pete.

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08/27/2009 8:05 AM

My calendar doesn't call for a full moon until next Friday, so hopefully that doesn't mean we'll have another week of the same.

Don't let that cellphone jammer spammer get you down with his multiple, inane postings, though. I doubt we'll see the likes of him again around here.

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08/27/2009 10:40 AM

I believe he's actually trying to sell that cr*p.

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08/27/2009 10:47 AM

Yea, you'd think he would've stopped when people were getting annoyed with him in the first of his many posts. Some of them have since been removed, while another was closed. Hopefully he gets the hint... but then again, I might be overestimating his persistence. Here's to hoping...

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#19

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08/27/2009 8:06 AM

I've never seen tin foil. Mine is aluminum.
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08/27/2009 11:54 AM

It's a hold over from older times when thin metal foils were made from tin.
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08/27/2009 3:06 PM

Yes, I know. My EE forebears wound their own capacitors from the tin foil in Hershey bars. I've just never seen any, and I doubt that most other people have, so I wonder why it's still in use.
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08/27/2009 3:54 PM

My EE forebears
Yeah, well... Golidlocks used my whiskers in crystal sets
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08/27/2009 3:57 PM

My grandfather strung his violin with your guts!
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08/27/2009 4:42 PM

Wow! There's a fight brewing here!
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08/30/2009 10:18 AM

I use my cats whiskers by applying them to artists brushes for extra fine details, like eyelashes or wrinkles in portraits. And yes Del, I wait for them to fall out before using them.

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08/30/2009 10:28 AM

We have a fine collection of fallen whiskers in a little pot
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08/27/2009 8:17 AM

What about the two infinities and an unity ?

1) Pi = infinity

2) No of stars = infinity

3) 0/0 = 1

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