The We Are All Prime Numbers Complaint Thread
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LOL
The approaching planes aren't very loud at all, but the ones taking off are flooring it, and that's loud enough to shake the windows.
We are all a prime number right now!
LOL, for now I think I like it! I was trying to come up with names for it and most just fell kind of flat.
Let's go with it for now and if I change my mind, I'll email you on Sunday.
Back in the late 60s during my college years I flew Eastern Air Lines from Buffalo to Melbourne, Florida in Boeing 727's. They sometimes used the rear stair entrance. Nice plane and a workhorse but it was really noisy and belched black smoke (as you can see in the photo). I don't know why they called it a "WhisperJet". Perhaps it was psychological pre-conditioning. If you sat in the last row your head was right next to the engine and you had to shout your drink order to the stewardess.
The one that used to split my ears was the MD-80. That was one loud-azz plane.
I still fly with earplugs in my carry-on. But most often they are to shut out the sounds of the screaming baby that always seems to be nearby. Those are always louder than any mere jet engine!
...I think the moniker was meant for those riding inside the plane as like the VC-10, all the engines were at the rear of the plane. They still were a "bit" quieter than the pure turbojet powered DC-8s, 707s/720s, and Convair 880s as they used a fan-bypass engine.
Speaking of smoky, the Convair 880s were the worst
I haven't flown for over thirty years now--never go anywhere anymore--but flew a lot in 727's back then. It had this odd way of feeling like it was hanging in midair at some point during the climb just after takeoff. The flight I remember the most, though, was between Puerto Rico and St. Thomas a week after a crash in St. Thomas. Hubby and I were the only passengers (in coach, there were about 5 in first class). The waitress came to us with a tray of drinks and said. 'Here, take the whole thing' and laughed. We did some pretty fast drinking because the flight was only 20 minutes!
Wait is this a new thread in the new forums?
Yes, but my son will be pleased when they get out of the habit of waking up at 2:00am for fun and games. Beds are usually included in the race track.
Bah, that's just kittens kittening the right way. :D
Yes, my two (4 years old now) had a fave game of clambering up the wardrobe and then diving off, using the bed as a trampoline. Usually when they decided it was morning food-o-clock (even when we didn't agree with them)
never mind
Good morning fellow primes!
Or should I capitalize that, "Primes!" Nice pickup on that, Scavenger.
who was the prime guy on transformers?
sentinel prime?
i've never rendered Aiko6. don't think i've seen an aikobot for 6. wanna try my rotka morphs on a bottish g2f
waiting for my grocery delivery. rendering makes me super hungry. my last bag of cheesedoodles.
i need to order a bunch of those plastic-ee storage cases for my kncick-knacks. was thinking i'll leave out a couple of pieces and swap em every couple of weeks. luv the music box Boyds. >.< no wonder i have no money for a washing machine.
Optimus Prime, an Autobot, was the main "good guy". I don't know all the other characters.
In one of the movies, the main Decpticon called Optimus "brother". Now, I often use the word "brother" to signify connectedness with another fella who doesn't share any parents with me, sort of like how I may call somebody "good friend" even if we don't go out and shoot pool on weekends.
But for a moment, if they were truly brothers and Optimus was a Prime, then would that make the other brother a Prime too? I don't know. I always took "Prime" in the context of the Transformers world to mean "first", but maybe not since there's a whole generation of dinoformers that I didn't know about. Maybe it's more like 101 is a prime number, but 102 is not.
In Ann McCaffreys world (Tower and the Hive) Primes are those that have the highest level of strength in both telepathy and teleportation (T&T)
Pern dragons and firelizards my favie dragons. Menolly impressed 9 firelizards
Dinoformers? i'm behind the times.
Stephanie 6 smokes? and glugs beer? when i was a youngin in the 70's this was a recipe for reform school.
tee hee. oh, i know, we need a custom beer label, what would be a good beer name for the complaint thread?
uh oh, is she trying to hitch hike?
made cheesedoodles all gone
Two items of Stonemason I want but are too new to be on sale but too old to be on into sale.
...in my old SF story the term "Prime" referred to the "whole" of being as well as balance.
It was also a numeric value equal to 64 ("100 base 8") in the Sabrinno culture as they counted in 8s having only 4 fingers and toes (in their aincent times, each toe was used as a place keeper after 8 was reached on the fingers, yeah, an odd counting system). This made for an interesting situation between different cultures which developed different counting bases.
The term also was used to denote the pinnacle of whatever it was applied to. Prime Command was in essence the "Starfleet" of the Protectorate which was a federation of four major founding interstellar "nations" in the area of space where the story was set (the next arm of the galaxy inwards towards the centre). Humans were the outsiders and our "nation" was not some nice happy liberal minded federation that eschewed the notions of money and wealth, but a heavily commerce driven organisation loosely patterned after the old Hanseatic League called the Consortium, that had it's foundations in commercially based exploration and subsequent exploitation of resources in space (the central administrative and financial capital was located in the Singapore Megaplex).
The first contact between humans and another major interstellar culture was with the Sabrinno League (one of the four founding members of the Protectorate) which led to the Midway Accord that established construction of a neutral trade zone (kind of like a complex of free floating "O'Neill-like" colonies) at a system located in the rift between the galactic arms at roughly the midpoint between the two interstellar powers (as the Protectorate was wary of letting just any old ship from a culture they barely knew, entering their space). All commercial ships capable of the journey between the two powers were required to make a "technical" stop here for inspection before receiving the necessary clearance passcodes to proceed on to their destinations. Most often Midway, served as a transfer point (a "hub" if you will) for travellers and trade between the Consortium and Protectorate, as permits for direct operations between the two nations were strictly limited through a bilateral agreement (similar to how international air travel here in RL was before "Open Skies").
The station had it's own defence forces that were manned equally by Sabrinno, Sestrii, Da'alen, Kandar, and Umanati (as humans were called) personnel. The Protectorate had this thing about "balance", even though collectively, they outnumbered the human contingent at the station 4 to 1. Military vessels from either side (including individual member nations) were prohibited from entering the region by treaty unless it was threatened by a yet undiscovered hostile force (of course, Prime command stationed a "Tempest" contingent at a "failsafe" point nearby on a rotating basis, while the Consortium maintained a "scientific research outpost" on a seemingly insignificant planetary system a day or so jump away).
I originally developed this scenario over three decades ago and the roots of the idea (the Sabrinno culture) go back as far as 1975-76.
rum or vodka? really shouldn't ...
i luv red velvet cake icing
Chuck it up to another reason why those movies were a travesty to the whole Transformers universe. Those movies needed a new director and writer. They should kick start that franchise all over again and keep anyone involved with the first travesty far away. LOL!
why did he change girlfriends in the 3rd movie?
was funny when he went for job interviews. 'i saved the world' 'medal from the president'
was sounding a lil bitter
...bugger, subscriptions no longer carry through when a thread is split.or merged.
Only if you hadn't seen the comments which were split. AFAICR they used to not carry over even then.