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Like maybe, radically different? Watching longtime piston-pounder mechanics wrap their heads (and knuckles!) around a turbine engine is an educational experience.
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Like maybe, radically different? Watching longtime piston-pounder mechanics wrap their heads (and knuckles!) around a turbine engine is an educational experience.Turbines are a bit different from diesels and I've read they require more maintenance.
Since I am convinced that the Ukraine issue is not going to end before years end (if the Russians are not going to bring in considerable elements of their own army), time for the Ukrainians is running out, not just to defend but to counter attack sucessfully, they need these goodies yesterday and not somewhere around August/September.
Never mind the word turbine - it's a multi fuel engine just as others use like e.g. the Leo II. Electronics yes sure - but operating them isn't the same as inventing those electronics.
F-16 over Ukraine and Russia - yep would be great sight
I.H. in green and yellow! "Red" is a dirty word here!"International Harvester", indeed!
The polarization is entirely media driven. Aside from a few crackpots with megaphones, most people get along just fine.
I disagree, Greg. It's driven by a political process in which ardent loyalists select party candidates who then seek to implement the desires of their supporters when in office. Any attempt to work across the aisle is seen as weakness and, come the next election, you can guarantee there will be a competitor who's further to the right or left (depending on the party) of the incumbent, so the ardent loyalists can push to even more extreme representation.
The above problem is exacerbated by the information age which gives everyone a mouthpiece, and in particular it gives politicians a megaphone for their parochial perspectives...and they use them to keep the ardent loyalists on-side. It doesn't help when "fake news" is used as a mantra to disbelieve anything in the media...which pours fuel on the fire noted above.
I'm not saying the media is innocent but it's not all their fault. Some of it is structural and baked into the established processes, and some of it is just a lack of common decency in modern society. As a people, we've forgotten how to disagree without being disagreeable. .
I'll shut up now because I've already jumped too deeply into political issues.
And down here at the grassroots, most of us still give our neighbors the benefit of the doubt.There is truth to what both of you say.
I propose a new acronym: T4MF (Tip Toeing Through The Mine Field) for when current discourse drifts into forbidden territory.There is truth to what both of you say.
I like my humor the way I like my martinisLike maybe, radically different? Watching longtime piston-pounder mechanics wrap their heads (and knuckles!) around a turbine engine is an educational experience.
That's the way Mom makes 'em!Dirty?
Harvey Wallbanger's more my style: sweet tasting and lethal, with a hangover to reinforce your guilt complex.I like my humor the way I like my martinis.
There is truth to what both of you say.
Karma?Gosh, the Russians just seem to have stuff blowing up or catching fire a lot recently. I wonder what could be going wrong?
Dude!Karma?
Only if I'm hurt. Apparently.Blowing up stuff in other countries is an "illegal action?"
Blowing up stuff in other countries is an "illegal action?"