Gryphin
December 13th, 2003, 10:17 PM
(not wantting to highjack Atrocities thread)
Originally posted by Cipher7071:
Actually, the technology behind the sliderule could still be used to obtain greater accuracy than the ones we used 30 years ago. If you wanted 6 place precision instead of three, all you'd have to do is make one, oh...about a thousand feet long (not counting travel). Not even a quarter mile, no problem. Let's see...to operate it you'd need two pickup trucks with winches, periodic sources of lubrication, and a bicycle to get you back and forth to the hairline. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What do you really think they are hiding in Area 51? (oops, sorry dad I shouldn't have told them that but they won't belive me any way)
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Originally posted by Loser:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Gryphin:
[qb]I'm sure I have his book of log table somewhere. hmm, make a good addtion. Mind you I don't know how to use it.
Can you imagine trusting slide rules with your life today? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I dig your decor, Gryph.
It's not that hard to figure the slide-rule and log book out. Just sit down with them sometime and start messin'. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Glad you like the wall. I have plenty more mother Boards if you want to do the same.
[ December 13, 2003, 20:23: Message edited by: Gryphin ]
Originally posted by Cipher7071:
Actually, the technology behind the sliderule could still be used to obtain greater accuracy than the ones we used 30 years ago. If you wanted 6 place precision instead of three, all you'd have to do is make one, oh...about a thousand feet long (not counting travel). Not even a quarter mile, no problem. Let's see...to operate it you'd need two pickup trucks with winches, periodic sources of lubrication, and a bicycle to get you back and forth to the hairline. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What do you really think they are hiding in Area 51? (oops, sorry dad I shouldn't have told them that but they won't belive me any way)
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Originally posted by Loser:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Gryphin:
[qb]I'm sure I have his book of log table somewhere. hmm, make a good addtion. Mind you I don't know how to use it.
Can you imagine trusting slide rules with your life today? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I dig your decor, Gryph.
It's not that hard to figure the slide-rule and log book out. Just sit down with them sometime and start messin'. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Glad you like the wall. I have plenty more mother Boards if you want to do the same.
[ December 13, 2003, 20:23: Message edited by: Gryphin ]