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Cipher7071 · #1 December 10th, 2003, 12:53 AM

Now I know why there are so many good-looking shipshets out there. I should have known there would be a design tool for such things...must be much faster than doing them in "Paint." And, hey!! I actually have a sliderule and book of logarithms. Have to admit they don't get used much any more, though.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 December 10th, 2003, 01:52 AM

you forgot a few RPG sourcebooks in your glass case. need to do something when the computer's not working.

Narratio · #3 December 11th, 2003, 06:15 AM

Also a combined corkscrew / bottle opener and a few cases or bottles upon which to use the bottle opener.

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #4 December 11th, 2003, 11:01 PM

And a big wrench to turn off the water main. Drink water from the pipes and hot water heater.

And a big wench to....

Gryphin · #5 December 12th, 2003, 01:45 PM

This slide rule helped get us to the moon. It was my fathers when he worked on the guidance control systems for NASA.
http://www.windingstream.com/Photos/.../My%20Wall.htm
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?

Loser · #6 December 13th, 2003, 02:36 AM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
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?

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'.

Cipher7071 · #7 December 13th, 2003, 09:23 PM

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.

"The great tragedy of science...the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." (T. H. Huxley)