An Electric Train
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windshieldbug
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An electric train don't make much smoke, unless it's on fire. Even if it was, as long as the smoke is hotter than the surrounding air, it would just go up, and be subject to the prevailing air currents.
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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XtremeEuph
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windshieldbug
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Chuck(G)
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Shucks, Wayne, what's the 'lectricity for? The TV set?
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Daryl Fletcher
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windshieldbug
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tubatooter1940
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Schlepporello's question was a good one to throw out at us blowhards after the plane/conveyor thread.
We sometimes are so anxious to drop pearls on the group from our "vast" experience that we fail to see the problem or learn from it. I am one of the worst.
Failing, at first to realize that an electric train doesn't make much smoke, what smoke there is would hang in place over the train until some outside force moves it. Would the smoke rise? Maybe not on a really hot day.
My best buddy was in a hurry to arrive at a Florida campground before dark so he threw a towline to me on my little sailboat and dragged us at 10 knots down the ditch (intercoastal waterway) with his powerboat.
Two problems, 10 knots wasn't much to him but it was a wild ride on my little wooden 19 footer. My boat was shaking, rattling and rolling and steering required my full attention.
Problem number two, our 10 knot forward speed was equal to a 10 knot tailwind so the smoke from his outboard hung over us and stayed over us for 15 miles in 100 degree weather until we reached the campground.
My wife is still shaking her fist at me over that one.
This has little to do with Schlepp's premise but I'm an old blowhard tuba player and I thought I'd share.
We sometimes are so anxious to drop pearls on the group from our "vast" experience that we fail to see the problem or learn from it. I am one of the worst.
Failing, at first to realize that an electric train doesn't make much smoke, what smoke there is would hang in place over the train until some outside force moves it. Would the smoke rise? Maybe not on a really hot day.
My best buddy was in a hurry to arrive at a Florida campground before dark so he threw a towline to me on my little sailboat and dragged us at 10 knots down the ditch (intercoastal waterway) with his powerboat.
Two problems, 10 knots wasn't much to him but it was a wild ride on my little wooden 19 footer. My boat was shaking, rattling and rolling and steering required my full attention.
Problem number two, our 10 knot forward speed was equal to a 10 knot tailwind so the smoke from his outboard hung over us and stayed over us for 15 miles in 100 degree weather until we reached the campground.
My wife is still shaking her fist at me over that one.
This has little to do with Schlepp's premise but I'm an old blowhard tuba player and I thought I'd share.