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Earthrace; Cool boat!
Topic Started: Jul 21 2008, 06:29 AM (28 Views)
Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
Heard about this boat on Science Friday: carbon neutral, powered by biodiesel, hemp-composite inner hull; it just set a world record for circumnavigating the globe. But I think the coolest thing is the wave-punching hull; designed to go through tall waves at high speed rather than riding over them, and to tolerate being submerged up to 20 feet underwater. Imagine seeing that through the window!

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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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SWEEEEEET!!!!
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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