Fastest EVER

[SomeSailor]

Here's a claim to fame.

NASA's "New Horizons" spaceship will launch tomorrow and become the FASTEST thing ever built by mankind!

36,000 miles per hour! It will pass the MOON in just 9 nine hours!

There's a cool factor to that... :D

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/141063main_on_pad-m.jpg

NASA "New Horizons" (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html)

[bradvo]

If they built one that would do trawler speeds just think of the fuel savings :roll:
But would be a whole lot funner to watch as it finally made orbit. We would all have stiff necks :)
Brad

[SomeSailor]

yada yada ... :)

[bradvo]

Just helping ya with the slow down Mike, nothing like an 8 knot Rocket :lol:

[SomeSailor]

No help needed there... I'll be thinkin' of ya in traffic tomorrow... that'll slows the pace down about right... :D

[Roel Jansen]

About the same time for us to fly to the US coming March! Not even metioned the connecting flight and transportation time. :D
Wish we could ski on the Moon!

[bradvo]

Traffic, what traffic. I am still on weekend- think I can work and still do engine room maintenance :D My traffic woes do not start until Thursday this week.
I only work about 4.5 months out of the year when you include in my vacations.
Brad

[SomeSailor]

About the same time for us to fly to the US coming March! Not even metioned the connecting flight and transportation time. :D
Wish we could ski on the Moon!

It makes you think the whole manned Mars missions are more practical. They're saying the first launch is September 2007 for the crew support payloads and then in 2009 for the first manned missions. Very cool stuff... but no snow there Roel.

NASA Mars Mission (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mars/marslaun.html)


I only work about 4.5 months out of the year when you include in my vacations.

That's similar to my situation here :D

I do anything I want during the week... and then I do anything the wife wants on the weekends. 8)

[bradvo]

My problem with all this time off is it does not include the weekends I used to have. So it makes for a crappy situation for the wife and I to have time off together- if I had a bigger bank roll I could tell her to quit, but then she makes the boat payments so you see how that would end up.
I am trying to find a job within our organisation that would put me back on a Monday thru friday so we can cruise more often , but i have to say I love my new schedule.
In the mean time I hope to get some small jobs completed, i need to get back down to the boat and do some clean up aftger yesterdays work- but again seems like 1 day in the bilge requires about a week for my back to get better- I am really getting fed up with this, pain is driving ne bananas and I am missing getting some things done- i am not the type of guy who sits around well, I like to be doing something.
Brad

[SomeSailor]

I can appreciate that. Wife still runs her business so we're tied to that during the week. But it is nice for me because I can get all my stuff done on my time... and then do family stuff on the weekends.

Simple stuff like catching a movie on a Tuesday afternoon, or taking the dog for a walk just cause I can, or flying because there's a 2 hour sunbreak this afternoon. There are a million reasons why the rat race isn't appealing, but it would be nice to have an extra $80K a year... :)

... but then I'd be sitting there in traffic hating life the rest of 'em.

What was that Michael Douglas movie again? The one where he gets stuck in traffic and loses it?

[bradvo]

I think it was called "Falling Down" But not for certain.

[SomeSailor]

Thats the one... That'd be me in traffic... :D

I'll be out there somedays and not paying attention to the time when I'll get in a snarl and think... "What the heck? Is there an accident ahead?" and realize it the workadays headed home... none look (or drive like) real happy. :(

[bradvo]

Being it is still dark when I leave workl i just get in the car pool lane- I cannot believe how much time I shave off my commute, I mean crap, everyone else is doing 10 and the car pool lane is flying by with no tie ups. So it has become a habbit for now to join in on the cruising. That one Burien cop coming home form work kinda spooks me once in awhile but I think he is thinking along the same lines I am- just get home.
Brad

[SomeSailor]

It's only a $86 dollar fine and I figure most people play their luck.

I had a kid that worked for me on the USS CONSTELLATION, that I noticed go through the HOV lane instead of paying the Coronado Bridge toll one morning coming to work. He would simply hold his ballcap up in front of the passenger seat headrest.

When we were coming up the brow, I started teasing him a bit, and he explained he'd been doing it for over two years and never got caught. At $1.00 a trip he was well ahead of the $110 fine. Made good sense to him.

I guess its just an ethical thing as well.