Posts by openair

  • Space - The Final Frontier

    Elon Musk may be a screwball, pot smoking flake, but he gets things done. And, he pushes others. How many all electric cars would be on the market without Tesla? How many self driving cars without Tesla? Are they perfected? No. Is there a perfect mouse trap???

    He invents, he innovates, he challenges. If he can talk a dozen or ten or six people to go n a one-way trip to Mars, more power to him. How many people left Europe 300 years ago and had a round trip ticket back? Only the Captain and crew, and a lot of them died.

    As the song says, "You might be right, I might be crazy, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for."

  • Can't find rattle source

    Only a couple of thousand miles on it, but kick the muffler and see, Sounds tinny, so it could be in the exhaust someplace.

    Maybe I'll just turn the radio up and forget it. That, at least, would make the radio worth something.



    :BLUESS:

  • Can't find rattle source

    I rarely ride without a helmet, but when I do, I can hear a metallic rattle sound. Sounds like it's coming from under the hood area. With helmet on, I usually don't notice it. Sounds more like something loose than something catastrophic. Has anyone else had this experience? If so, what did you track it down to?

  • So this happened... 🤦‍♂️

    Reminds me of the story of the old farmer who kept lending things to the young neighbor who was just getting started in farming. Evey time the young guy asked the old timer for something, he would say, "You can borrow anything on the farm except my wife and my pickup."

    Finally, curiosity got the best of the young man, and he asked why that was always his reply?

    "Well," said the old farmer, "my wife is young and the truck is old. It would be pretty easy to throw a rod in either one of them."

  • Space - The Final Frontier

    If no one in history ever took a chance, the human race would still be present only on the African continent. People gradually made their way to Europe, then the Far East and on to Australia, North America and South America. A few thousand years later, someone headed out across the unknown expanse of water and Europeans (descendants of the first Africans to venture North) started a new immigration into the "New World".

    Luckily for the rest of us, not everyone considers our explorations to be of no worth.

    One day, Earth will not be habitable. To set on our collective backsides and call our present condition "good enough" is to be short sighted and risk the end of human presence in the universe.

  • Space - The Final Frontier

    I lived in Kissimmee when the Challenger blew up. We were all standing on the lawn of City Hall, and all the cheering stopped when the twin contrails appeared. We knew what it meant.

    The Human Race MUST go into space. We will lose brave souls along the way. Just . . . not this time. Nor the next time, nor . . . . . . .

    Quote by Rhysling, the Blind Poet, from "The Green Hills of Earth", written by Robert Heinlein:

    "We pray for one last landing

    On the globe that gave us birth

    Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies

    And the cool, green hills of Earth."

    If you've never read the story, find it, read it. Classic Scifi.

  • Corona Virus

    Quote from Bigdog

    If the government ordered a everyone stay home order For a month and we will pay you for one month, this would all be over. A month ago

    So, for the greater good, YOU would have gone along with it.


    Yeah, sure.

  • Corona Virus

    Not on FaceCrap, Twitter nor any of the other ANTIsocial media sites.

    If FaceCrap were shut down tomorrow, the world would be a happier, kinder, more truthful place.