The 10,000 Post Thread v2

[Skimbo 304]

2821

Want a topic? What about trains? Is anyone elles in here a Trainspotter?

If someone is interrested I'll post some pics of austrian trains =)

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

2822

I wonder if the Califnoria HSR will ber built. If it does, it will go right through Fresno.

[Frdm920 50]

2823

Train this morning was packed. So was the freeway, and then you had 4 buses to uni all pretty full leaving at the same time. Perth's transport system getting destroyed yet?

[Duke87 1,070]

(2824)

Funny you should bring up trains. Metro-North's New Haven line, which I ride to work every day, has started to get some new cars. I rode in one for the first time this morning...

They're SEXY!

[Muck308 55]

2825

Trainspotting. Awesome movie. I've seen it dozens of times.

As far as proper trains go... 'round these parts... we are... er, um... a little behind schedule.

[Frdm920 50]

2826

As a further note to my previous post:

TransPerth has had to provide commuters with 'late' slips

[Duke87 1,070]

(2827)

Hmm. MTA doesn't give out late slips. In my office, "train trouble" is just accepted without question as an excuse for being late.

Then again, our schedules are somewhat flexible, so it isn't a big deal. Not everyone can say that.

[astronelson 339]

2828.

I'm looking to see which of my posts I have been given reputation for. I'd like to find out what I'm doing right in them.

[Paulobergonci 673]

# 2829

lunch break, i dont have nothing to do, all the good sites are blocked, so lets post here

  Edited March 24, 2011 by Paulobergonci  

[AdoxxBE 289]

# 2830

Enjoy your lunch

[Larks2242 251]

2832.

I'm looking to see which of my posts I have been given reputation for. I'd like to find out what I'm doing right in them.

How do you do that?

[Timmystwin 201]

2832

My lunches consist of chips, as the school canteen is a complete rip off. £3 for pasta? Seriously? I should mention the pot you get it in is probably ~ 500ml.

[Muck308 55]

2833

I'm looking to see which of my posts I have been given reputation for. I'd like to find out what I'm doing right in them.

I think I upped one of yours but I forget which one.

[AdoxxBE 289]

3834

I got 1 by giving a comment to a STEX file

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

2835

I guess people really like my posts(but I noticed someone who had a reputation of 225).

[AdoxxBE 289]

2836

Wow, that's.. high?

[Skimbo 304]

2837

My trainpics can be found here >> LINK

Series 4020 is the one I ride every morning

It might not look like a traincar that can be liked, but thoose seats... more comfortable than any other trainseats on the system....

[Larks2242 251]

2838.

My trainpics can be found here >> LINK

Me thinks deviantart hates Obama.

[Duke87 1,070]

(2839)

You, my friend, need an adblocker.

[Frdm920 50]

2840

So commute to uni this morning 3 out of the 4 buses had their tag on/off machines broken.

Oh and we managed to get a bus that normally heads to a different uni redirected to ours

[Paulobergonci 673]

# 2841

its raining!

and im not in my bed under the blanket (

[Skimbo 304]

2842

@Paulo: Here the sun is shineing... at least it shone, now it's dark

[Larks2242 251]

2843.

why you need a blanket when its raining? It dries off

[Duke87 1,070]

(2844)

The point is that calm rain is soothing and, if it's in the morning, makes you want to stay in bed. Hence why it's "blech" when you get morning rain during the week, but lovely when you get it on the weekend.

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

2844

I though it was going to rain today(Forgot my umbrella at home), but it's nice and sunny here in Fresno-but cold.

[Skimbo 304]

I love morning rain on the weekend.... as long as I'm not planning to play golf that day

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[NMUSpidey 3,956]

2846

When I lived in Japan last year we would take the Tobu-Isesaki Line Tokkyuu to get to my in-laws' place. It would take about 90 minutes or so door to door. However because of the quake, the Ryoumou Tokkyuu trains aren't running which left me taking local trains to get to the shinkansen in Tokyo. What should have been about a two hour journey stretched well over three. Oh well, I made it alright. I'm not that into trains, though. Cars are more my thing (and I'm gonna wanna cry tears of anguish when my company gives me the keys to my am-stereo-equipped Daihatsu Mira).

[Larks2242 251]

2847.

I watched something intresting on rail tracks in Japan, they have springs to protect bridges in the event of a quake.

[Duke87 1,070]

(2849)

Technically speaking, even just a steel beam could be said to be a spring as it also follows Hooke's Law. But obviously with a much larger spring coefficient, in this case represented in a slightly different fashion as the elastic modulus or Young's modulus (29,000 ksi for steel), which gives you deformation proportional to stress rather than proportional to force (ε=σ/E rather than ε=kF. k=EA, σ=F/A).

Okay, now did anyone other than astro understand a word I just said?

  Edited March 26, 2011 by Duke87  

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

2850

Duke87, my eyes glassed over and I just read sounds hahaha. Of course, I'm not into math or physics, so...

I think usually the bridges hold up pretty well. Perhaps the bridge was ready for some routine maintenance and the earthquake moved up the timetable. I couldn't begin to speculate, however, but I do know that it makes travel a bit more onerous than it otherwise would have been.