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. This may be a bit off-topic, but I want to see what you guys think. I have been studying the piezo-electric effect and its ability to create negative ions ever since my grandson and I found a stack of quartz rocks in our canyon in southern Colorado. I can't imagine a way that these rocks just fell of the cliff and ended up like this, or a flood put them there, they are the only rocks down in the canyon, and they face the valley. There is a spring-fed stream next to them, and we have found pottery shards and arrowheads. If negative ions and "disturbed" water add to a good feeling, then I feel that the first peoples to find this spring long ago raised generations there, why not? The quartz crystal must have been the "magic" that the ancient peoples understood and built "machines" like the pyramids that utilized this effect. The workers that built such things must have been well fed and "whistled while they worked". "Colorado Forest Beings" is such an interesting site in relation to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyvc4h08tCY&t=153s

Why can't we fight fires like Red Adair did using explosives to suck the air out? With the ever-increasing human started fires, especially in Canada, and the latest technology, we ought to be able to identify new fires quickly and air drop the s*it out of it. There will be a certain amount of collateral damage, but the fires will be stopped. We have plenty of pilots (drone pilots included) who would love the job. Dutchsinse and satellite images show it clearly. We can't catch the fire bugs, but we could put out the fires quicker if we really wanted to.

Thanks Vmedvil. I have been installing heated concrete floors and "snow melted" driveways since 1979 and my customers love the simplicity and efficiency behind them. They are like batteries that can take a charge and deliver long lasting heat. These new "air heated' foundations are a game changer in cold climates.

The foundation, and all the underground the grading and backfills, are primary that it gets done right, no going back. Hope all the builders out there take a serious look at this simple Swedish system, which might cost a little more but pays for itself very quickly and is the most "user-friendly" which counts most. I have been installing hot water warm floors in the San Juan Mountains since 1978 and my customers are very happy campers because they know their heating is simple and doesn't take a $100 dollar guy to fix stuff. This "air heated" system is a game changer but you have to get away from thinking concrete is just for holding houses up in the air. Here is a foundation system that not only holds the house up but is also the radiant heating for the home forever after with very few moving parts. It's provided by concrete floors (3" - 8" thick), with heat tubes imbedded with the steel. This system is tried and proven and just taking hold in the US, and the general contractors and their subs, are upset because they want their slab on grade and crawlspace foundations which tear up the property from the start and have nothing to do with heating. Why not have your low-cost heated floors, functioning water and sewer and electric, and solar orientation, as the basis for any home in a cold climate? Instead of building the house first then having the heat turned on last which is the way it's done 95% of the time. A two person LLC would do well buying property, building these functioning, heated and engineered foundations, and then selling to an owner/builder. I bet they'd sell like hot cakes. It hasn't been tried before. The "forced air" industry hooked up with general contracting and built so many houses with crawl spaces and a forced air system sometimes in a closet. High utility bills and a forgotten dusty crawlspace, (which you own by the way), and frozen pipes sometimes. Once you have the "any sized" foundation poured, then add heat to the tubes and two or three days later you have yourself a snow melt system, for the brutal winter building season, and then radiant floors long after. You also have the sewer hook ups roughed in and ready to use, electric on, and also the water on, so this is the start that a "smart" home is built on. Every day is a pleasure for the building crews, and some jobs even build the garage first for their heated shop and then let the general contractor come on board, to design and build a house over this already functioning site AND get the CO (what a pain that is) for the bank and homeowner. There are ways to put heat into the floors, but the slab doesn't care. Direct sunlight doesn't work. one, hot water, (gas, solar, electric) which is as simple as a water heater a circulating pump and 1/2" tubes. Two, hot air and a fan blowing into a 4" manifold tube. (Solar, gas, or electric) So simple I can't imagine heating a home any other way. Either way you don't see or feel the heat, but it's always available. The key is that the whole footprint radiates with no hot or cold spots, and there are days and days of energy in the floor/battery when the power goes out in 4 feet of snow and 5 below. (And none on your driveway) A cold climate subdivision could be laid out like a trailer park and all the heated foundations and groundwork done first and ready to go for the new owners instead of piecemeal with heavy equipment on the streets for the duration of the project. Just slide your house in if it's a prefab. Here's a concept picture.  Air heated footprint for house and garage and driveway if needed. Cost x dollars for two journeymen to build, pour, and get functional, then minimum utilities and complete comfort for anybody to follow. Heated Usable this? or unheated unusable that.

serving the San Juans. Hi infamos, I am an old plumber in the high mountains of Colorado (Telluride) and water is my trade. I learned it from a "crawlspace perspective", starting in 1973. I have fixed thousands of broken pipes due to freezing and here is my take on why bare hot water pipes freeze quicker. It may be due to the condensation on the outside of the pipe (especially copper). Hot water running and then the condensation on the outside forms and freezes, then the pipe gets cold enough to freeze the water inside it. (As long as it isn't moving water). So, a hot water pipe does seem to freeze quicker when condensation is present. Another thing about hot water flowing in a pipe is that when it hits a 90-degree bend, a molecule of oxygen throws off and creates a tiny pinhole in the pipe, and hot water recirculating pumps are a culprit of pinhole leaks. C:+o)

I quit "daring" so much, awhile back, but I always put training first on the lists. As far as Hang Gliding goes, I saw the transition into "para chute gliders", in the late 80's. They came in droves, all across the country, and now, the air framed fliers and the parachutes floating around, wasn't much fun, and there were so many, sometimes. That has been a conundrum for me, to see the performance numbers on a king post hang glider, that have been there since the late 70's, and the new numbers on these "para glider" wings, shocks me why anyone would choose a wing that you couldn't penetrate in a moment, or at all, sometimes, and then there is the "partial collapse" part of it in a "paraglider". The two, "airframes" are so completely different, but somehow the ushpa marketing campaign included the "hanging" part of the word, so they considered themselves in the "Hang Glider" family, pretty crafty actually. Nothing to be done about how many people are buying these Chinese made paragliders, and training how to fly them, (and there are allot of them), but training a pilot to fly a "flex wing airframe", is harder to learn for sure, but easy to master. That's the nature of today's recreational flying though, they just want to do it quickly, and be a paying member of a club. Back to the "wind machine", for me it would be a way that new Hang Glider Pilots could "take a first ride" on this, have a video of their "static flight", with music, and at the same time feel the pure beauty of the craft above them. You have to learn ground handling sometime, why not learn it well, right off the bat. But how to build this portable "wind machine" is still beyond my limited skills for now. Your post to me about the 4 wills wing gliders that were tested, was the best. I have been looking for the same comprehensive documentation for a "paraglider" wing, but nothing to match Mr. Dees' paper. There should be one though, so people could make an honest decision, especially be it that, "collapses" have taken so many lives in the PG world, and quite a lot less in HG. The risk reward part of it is high for PG, and for me again, being able to penetrate, is job one, something a paraglider can't do naturally. Bottom line is training, training, training. Boy, I'm a new guy and longwinded and off topic, but, "at least we have the wind". That picture of your airplane upside down is awesome, I can tell that you are a "stick and rudder guy"? and love to fly. Thanks again.

I am never interested or scared of going "straight down". ha. It is hard to push the stick forward when you are looking at the ground, but It's absolutely necessary sometimes or the wing doesn't fly, or you die, in a hang glider it's opposite, you pull the control bar in, to gain penetration. Thank you for sending that link to me, it was the best I've seen. I was born in 1946, right into an American Airlines DC-3 that my dad was flying, had my private license in Torrance Ca. during high school, where surfing and hang gliding were "invented" ha. Then moved to Telluride Co. in 1970, where High Mountain Hang Gliding was "invented", So I really was lucky and related to the file you sent. I am sending a link, of John Heiney training video called "In and Out", that shows how to properly, "ground handle" a Hang Glider, in 20-25 mph. wind. The first part is what i'm talking about, and with music, outstanding. https//:www.youtube.com/watch?v=-shwu0e3H-w Trying to figure out in my mind, how to create the same effect, using "fans of some kind, off camera., pointed at a Hang Glider. Maybe it would take too many fans to be practical, I don't know. It would be worth a shot though. it would make a good "trainer".

Is the 6db. safety level being "not trusted" by pilots on ILS approaches? With the scramble for wider band widths, ILS approaches could be problematic in the future. This is Juan Brown's estimation of the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=942KXXmMJdY

I'm totally with you on Pink Floyd. I have two cuts that I listen to while watching the La Palma volcano. Mammagamma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ1jzgms0_E and luciferama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnSTKlk-ao zJ1jzgms0_E

Do you need "thrust" to attain maximum velocity? Will inertia get you there? Like the inertia of a foot launched, "flex wing" Hang Glider aircraft, which perfectly uses gravity, incline, and penetration among other things, to fly at its' maximum velocity (unknown). The Hang Glider Wing has a human pilot, let's say he weighs 180 lbs, attached to the C/G by a harness, (which is the only connection to the wing) and let's say the glider weighs 60 lbs. In the air, the L/D in relative wind, determines it's velocity. Would there be a formula (does the "drag equation" apply?) to find the maximum velocity and time, of such an aircraft in flight, considering that it may be one of the most perfect flying "machines" ever built. No "thrust", no moving parts to speak of, no ailerons, no rudder, just weight shift under the C/G, and it flies perfectly. As far as maximum velocity and time goes, a pilot named John Heiney has performed 50 full loops in his king post Hang Glider, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph to do it. This week is the anniversary of the Wright Brothers flights in their gliders, which I believe led to the king post hang gliders of today, the geometry is basically the same. Just for fun, here is a video of some bowsprit king post Hang Gliders, using gravity, incline and penetration to attain velocity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kolh88UF94E =========================================================================================================

Hello, I am new here, and I'll tell you how the Urantia Book came to me. In 1978 I was a plumber on a job in Colorado, and my new helper had a copy of this book, which he let me read. As I did, I became so engrossed, that I got a copy for myself. The "author(s)" were of no interest to me, because the content is the most important. It is so complex, that I could only read parts at a time, but all the parts put together became one idea in my head. Now here's my question to the forum. On page 421, "seraphic organization", I found these numbers (only place in the book where there are numbers like this), which reminded me of Nicola Tesla's theory of "3', "6", and "9". In this piece below, I see, 12 pairs=3, 24 seraphim=6, 144 pairs=9, 288 seraphim=9, 12 battalions 1,728 pairs=9, 3,456 seraphim= 9, a seraphic unit 20,736=9, or 41,472 individuals=9, a legion 248,832=9, or 497,664 individuals=9, 12 legions 2,985,984 pairs=9, 5,971,968 individuals=9, 12 hosts 35,831,808 pairs=9, or 71,663,616 individuals=9. To me, the numbers 3, 6, and 9, equate to energy, where the number 9 controls. Am I crazy, or was Nicola Tesla a "sleeping subject" or the other way around? or are these numbers in my Urantia Book just coincidence?