Harte Posted August 12, 2019 #76 Share Posted August 12, 2019 58 minutes ago, Hanslune said: The bladder has a capacity of six to 18 liters. Link to source there are also very small images there if you click on them will give rather dramatic close up images of an elephants dissected organs. http://wildpro.twycrosszoo.org/S/0MProboscidae/Elephantidae/elephas/Elephas_maximus/06EleMaxAMDetail.htm Think I'll pass on that. Maybe later, unless they include recipes. Harte 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #77 Share Posted August 12, 2019 1 minute ago, Piney said: Oil seeps. The stuff was highly flammable. The biggest mystery of them all IMO. It had to have been condensate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #78 Share Posted August 12, 2019 5 minutes ago, Harte said: Er... That's not floating. Harte No, but filled with helium or hydrogen..plausible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #79 Share Posted August 12, 2019 7 minutes ago, Piney said: Not very accurate ones. I had to Google this, which shows my age. My oldest son played Magic the Gathering. Ha! I got the idea from a Gojira album. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #80 Share Posted August 12, 2019 7 minutes ago, Awlsew said: The biggest mystery of them all IMO. It had to have been condensate. Worthy of another topic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted August 12, 2019 #81 Share Posted August 12, 2019 6 minutes ago, Awlsew said: The biggest mystery of them all IMO. It had to have been condensate. Read. Including the links to other articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_seep 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted August 12, 2019 #82 Share Posted August 12, 2019 12 minutes ago, Harte said: Maybe later, unless they include recipes. Trunk soup with toes floating in it....yum..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #83 Share Posted August 12, 2019 3 minutes ago, Piney said: Trunk soup with toes floating in it....yum..... The sharpest part of an axe is the toe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted August 12, 2019 #84 Share Posted August 12, 2019 5 minutes ago, Awlsew said: The sharpest part of an axe is the toe. You realize your talking to a Indian logger and carver don't you? The whole "chainsaw theme" should give it away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #85 Share Posted August 12, 2019 3 minutes ago, Piney said: You realize your talking to a Indian logger and carver don't you? The whole "chainsaw theme" should give it away. Ok. The green backgroud was suggesting CGI and pacing 'the chain'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted August 12, 2019 #86 Share Posted August 12, 2019 1 minute ago, Awlsew said: Ok. The green backgroud was suggesting CGI and pacing 'the chain'. Well, I'm more than certain I don't look like a cute and fluffy murderous bunny. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #87 Share Posted August 12, 2019 19 minutes ago, Piney said: Well, I'm more than certain I don't look like a cute and fluffy murderous bunny. Murder is not involved when one paces the chain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harte Posted August 12, 2019 #88 Share Posted August 12, 2019 51 minutes ago, Awlsew said: No, but filled with helium or hydrogen..plausible. Actually, no it's not plausible. WAY too heavy. There are bouyancy calculators online that will show you this. Harte 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #89 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Just now, Harte said: Actually, no it's not plausible. WAY too heavy. There are bouyancy calculators online that will show you this. Harte A modified whale carcass and helium would not have been capable of making a balloon? No bones, just the outter tough blubber and skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanslune Posted August 12, 2019 #90 Share Posted August 12, 2019 14 minutes ago, Awlsew said: A modified whale carcass and helium would not have been capable of making a balloon? No bones, just the outter tough blubber and skin. Helium and hydrogen tend to escape most materials. Gold beater's skin was the only thing they might have had that would contained the gas but then they didn't know that. Said skin was used in most airships of the 19th and early 20th century Quote Goldbeater's skin is the processed outer membrane of the intestine of an animal, typically an ox, valued for its strength against tearing. The term derives from its traditional use as durable layers interleaved between sheets of gold stock during the process of making gold leaf by goldbeating, as a batch process producing many "leaves" at the same time. In the early modern production of airships, application of its high strength-to-weight ratio and reliability were crucial for building at least the largest examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbeater's_skin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #91 Share Posted August 12, 2019 4 minutes ago, Hanslune said: Helium and hydrogen tend to escape most materials. Gold beater's skin was the only thing they might have had that would contained the gas but then they didn't know that. Said skin was used in most airships of the 19th and early 20th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbeater's_skin Whale skin does hold gas. If the weak spots were sewed up to prevent leakage.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #92 Share Posted August 12, 2019 (edited) Besides, Gojira wrote a song about it, it has to be true. Edited August 12, 2019 by Awlsew 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awlsew Posted August 12, 2019 Author #93 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Just speculation of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereologist Posted August 12, 2019 #94 Share Posted August 12, 2019 (edited) On 8/10/2019 at 9:18 PM, Earl.Of.Trumps said: That's a great point. I'd love to see it. Remember when they made a scaled up version of the small egyptian airplane and it FLEW! link It's not an airplane. It's a fish. Calling it an Egyptian airplane is laughable. I see I am late to the party and that was covered pages back. Edited August 12, 2019 by stereologist 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereologist Posted August 12, 2019 #95 Share Posted August 12, 2019 There was a Nova episode in which they looked at the Antikythera device. Using hand tools a person on the show makes a gear with the prime number of teeth. They also showed an interesting portion of the mechanism which modeled the 19year cycle of the Moon. It was pointed out that the device not only predicted lunar eclipses but assigned a color to them. The video shows the x-rays of the machine and discusses ideas and corrections made to the research into what i t did. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted August 12, 2019 #96 Share Posted August 12, 2019 4 hours ago, Piney said: Plague number 3 was swarms of flies/gnats. Plague number 6 was a pox. But any Rabbinical Scholar or Israeli archaeologist will tell you Moses was fictional, like Atlantis. DON’T SAY THE “A” WORD!!! 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted August 12, 2019 #97 Share Posted August 12, 2019 3 hours ago, Awlsew said: Well it depends on the level of decay. Humans have always been quite inventive. A whale carcass does explode, but it does not disintegrate. Besides, you folks brought up the notion of animal 'parts' for a balloon. I am just saying the only animal part viable for a ballon would be a whale. How do you propose to stop the decomposition? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted August 12, 2019 #98 Share Posted August 12, 2019 11 minutes ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said: DON’T SAY THE “A” WORD!!! Australia? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted August 12, 2019 #99 Share Posted August 12, 2019 3 hours ago, Piney said: Australia? Given how our government’s behaving, we’re more the A Hole. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Pettytalk Posted August 12, 2019 #100 Share Posted August 12, 2019 48 minutes ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said: Given how our government’s behaving, we’re more the A Hole. You get a big F for your going down that rabbit's big hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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