Your Favorite Threads

There was this one about a bathtub.

Yeah... the bathtub that proved to be (almost) bulletproof!

Must have been painted with something special.

Er, what bathtub?

By a long chalk, some of the better challenges.

Anything that has to do with (real) advances in energy technology; whether it's gaining efficiencies with fossil fuels, LNG, CNG, solar, etc., or energy storage, which is a big one. Smaller, more powerful batteries are always on my radar.

Emerging technology, like the new uses for graphene, your fusion thread, etc.

There's so much cool stuff happening, it's hard to keep up with.

Which makes it a good time to remind members, that if you see something cool, post a thread. You don't have to hang out and baby sit it, and respond to all posts.

There have been a few, not unlike the recent bullet-proof paint thread, where in spite of almost universal panning by all the really smart people here, the OP refuses to accept that they (OP) might be wrong.

Some of the over-unity, save the world, types just can't tolerate the concept that they may just not "get it".

The ones with the funny cat videos
Del
Errrrr or is that Youtube?

I am particularly fond of the hydrogen generators, and the vehicles they power.

Duct tape!

Me too.

I like the variety of subjects, you never know what's next....also like to keep track of what's happening in the world in an international forum....I guess if I had to pick a favorite area it would be transportation....or energy....I also feel qualified to get any cavalier running.....and know way more about old barber chairs than I need to....feel like I could teach school in India for some reason....have become a computer expert by necessity....and feel like I could write a doctoral level thesis on any subject....

These are my favorite threads:

I was wearing these threads when I first charmed Doorman's Chick.

Hey, it was 1975 . Doorman's Chick is pleased that it's no longer 1975, and is very pleased this suit stays packed away in the plaid suitcase in the attic.

Not a photo of me, but man, was I stylin' in the '70's. Platform shoes and all!

No beard, but I recall a muttonchop sideburns sort of thing that I had going on.

I think that we're ALL glad that the seventies styles are gone.

I think in the 70's, I saw you in some movies I saw at a bachelors party. Dirk Diddler was your stage name right?

Those shoes...............................................................OMGYou went out in public like that?
Doorman's Chick isn't the only one who is glad that period is gone!
Fortunately I have no pix of my stylish '70s period clothes.

<...Packed away...>? That one has high calorific value!

Environmental issues and the problems involving recyling.

Some, like re-using sea-land containers and solar power supplies consume more resources than they can ever produce or recover, and some are wonderful but often underfunded like the water hyacinth into bio-fuel project which never got off the ground.

The cult of the automobile is my pet peeve. Most expensive luxury in the modern age.

My favorites have been the relativity, quantom mechanics and cosmology. Many of them in Jorrie's blog. Sadly most of the participants (including Jorrie) have drifted away or been kicked off the site. I also miss Sparkstation.

Hear, hear!

I suspect the jingoistic bias and flat out denial of science by several of our most vocal members have driven most of these now missing participants away.

...or the opposite.

A lot of the people that have gone MIA, were here during the BBT days, guest postings, endless arguments, etc.

Maybe they miss the excitement.

I'm still in touch with some of them on FB. Aside from being banned, boredom seems to be a common theme.

Some of us still lurk.....

Roses are red.

I'm hoping that this is a call-out for English Rose.

Her blog stories where are classics!

Her wit and wisdom, and the way she presented it is admired.

Second-hand reports suggest ER is still around though neck-deep in a new work role; missed though very welcome on return. Watch this space.

Update 19th Feb 2014: ER is alive and kicking, and working in South Wales [the reader unqualified in Geography is invited to use Google Maps to find out where that is]. At the last report, there were 10262 unread CR4 internal messages to be deleted. Such is the fondness and high regard...

I flirt with committing myself to something more productive, but I keep getting sucked back in.

I need a job where I can get paid, and jabber on CR4...like Lyn.

Are you any good at snow shoveling?

Not any more...but thanks for the offer.

Grew up in Ct, and had to have the driveway cleared in time for my Dad to go to work; which meant 4 AM wakeups a lot of the time.

Shoveling snow for neighbors, was a great way for a kid to make money though.

You do a great job of pretending to work, but you still seem to find plenty of time to stir the pot here.

Correction:

I spend far too much time on here. Just ask my wife.

I was already asleep, and just got up to throw some more wood on the fire...and here I am...couldn't head back to bed without checking in.

Wouldn't want to miss anything.

Sparkstation's avatar.

Jorrie's still around. Maybe he hasn't had time to write blogs.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/comment/993111/Re-Space-Warps

He's still a member, but isn't here much. I think he started his own site, but I apparently didn't keep track.

I think he was more dedicated to astronomy than engineering.

I looked the other day when this thread started, and there are approximately 68,000 registered members, but there has always been a relative few that would be considered "regular" posters.

Right now there are 121 online, and 11 registered users. It's been that way since I joined, with a max of about 30 "regulars".

Personally, I don't really have a social life, which is the way I want it...so I look at CR4 as a place to shoot the bull also. If I knew people in real life that had my same interests, I wouldn't be on here much either, but my friends are not tech oriented at all, so their stories bore me...nor are they interested in mine.

I do what I can, to keep Lyn's, (and other's), blood pressure at elevated levels.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/12160/The-Antiscience-Part-I and part II, he's back with http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/24223/Sugar-da-da-da-da-da-da-by-Roger-Pink

My favorites have been the ones where multiple people argue over how helicopters operate and all of them are wrong...

My favorites are the nutty, idiotic, lack of common sense, irrational and "What the H__LL!" threads. I think it is because they remind me of life here with dysfunctional relatives and "friends".

Good Luck, Old Salt

So if there was a thread about an indoor pool pond, upside down heavy equipment in it, with Superman, and a cat hanging from the ceiling (it wasn't Del, thankfully), that would be great, wouldn't it?

Barchetta-

Definitely a great one, but probably only a medium great one. Now if the indoor pond was frozen and the USA Olympic figure skaters were playing hockey against the Russian Women and the USA men's and women's Hockey Teams was doing figure skating and Ice Dancing now that would be a great one. For a really greatest one, one that deserves honorable mention on the general section of CR4, if you put Frankenstein's Monster as the USA goalie and Superman doing half pipes through the upside down heavy equipment now that is the ultimate GREATEST.

I'm sure the great minds at CR4 could come up with some connection between these great events and engineering so that any stuffy engineers would accept it as engineering. Any suggestions?

Good Luck, Old Salt

Honestly, I can't really say it's a "thread or topic". It's all the information written or linked in the member posts. There isn't a week (hell - most times not a day!), when one person or another doesn't feed my brain some new goodies.

When I am at work and checking out CR4 during a break, if I come accross some gem or other, I simply "send link by email" to my home email. That is one fat folder after this long!

I agree with that.

While some of it is knowledge I will never need or use, it is still knowledge I never would have possessed.

THIS! THIS is why I love CR4! It doesn't have to be USEFUL! It only has to be something I didn't know. And often even something I didn't know I didn't know, and didn't know I wanted to know!

This is the reason for my love of CR4. Thank you all.

What is a SKY HOOK.

It is hanging on the end of the flight line.