The Rocketry Forum?

Milo is having connection problems with is ISP. The TRF server resides in his home but that doesn't do us any good unless he has a good pipe to the outside world (us)... :-(

here's to hoping it comes back to us soon! jim

Darian Rachal wrote:

I have suggested to all these cheapskate rocket companies to get good bulletproof offsite servers. I have even offered server space on one of my several servers. But no . . . . .

It is somewhat shocking we even learned WITH PUBLISHED TEST DATA yellow glue is better and stronger than epoxy, something I have been chirping to the senseless sheeple for 3 decades.

Jerry

Jerry,

You are truly God's Gift to Rocketry, nay, to Humankind.

To think that any mortal man could approach the perfection you have attained is truly awe-inspiring.

Thank you oh so very much for making time to share your wisdom with the common man.

--Lance.

Maybe I should put your effusive words on my website for ALL to see :)

I see you CAN argue with FREE and better.

I admit I do say, "I told you so" alot. But please keep in mind I did say, I told you it was going to happen, on every major obstacle to rocketry today (to the self-appointed or in some cases elected leaders)

What I find interesting in a socialogical horror sort of way is how few of those good suggestions, all with technical and popular support, happened to get done. One would think a few of them would have merit.

Guess not in some people's opinion :)

So they sue the ATF because they themselves cannot read and want a judge to read it to them by force.

Gimme a break.

Put my action where my words are? Yep. Ask NAR to put its action where its words are? Yep. (we have not seen the results from the 2003 Board vote at NARAM yet).

Jerry

I'm not sure of the *size* of TRF, but it's up there and growing. as for mechanical connection, his dish connection is his only option at this point. details would have to come from Milo as i'm just an interested user *S*

jim

Duane Phillips wrote:

Well said Dick. Having the forum hosted on Milo's machine gives us flexability, and space, that TRF would have to pay through the nose for in the comercial world! We would have to spend the time 'fundraising' for the site's resources, like so many other forums have to do; instead of talking about rocketry.

Like all good things in life, you don't realise how much you enjoy them, until they are not available!

- Cydermaster

- Dan Westley

are you sure? :)

I agree you will not see on most "model rocket chats". I learned what glue to use, how to make a piston launcher and 2000 other examples years ago.

However offering server space for other rocket chats is not beyond me. In fact since it is a domain name unique to them you would never even know it either.

I wonder how many chats you currently participate in actually use my server space?

Just the people at Jerry.

Oh .... how I'm missing the peace and tranquility of TRF. I'm only here 'cos I've got nowhere else to go to talk & read about rocketry.

Any port in a storm, eh? - Only trouble is, this port turns out to be Pearl Harbour! ;-)

- Cydermaster

- Dan Westley

OK, Dan, I have to ask: A "cydermaster" is proficient at making apple squeezin's?

Doug Thinking with autumn coming soon, a little hot cider with some cinnamon and a shot of bourbon sounds real good right now...

I do know what I prefer is not always optimal, but I still prefer it :) Just like most people prolly think you and I are both nuts for enjoying rocketry....

If only they had a free, reliable server you could go away and we would all be the happier. Can *I* give someone that free web space so I can stop hearing your incessant whining, that you are on rmr, in an rmr post, of course.

Jerry

Ask his heirs.

Funny, I go to TRF to read about and discuss rockets, I come here to read about the political aspects of the hobby, and laugh at the flame wars. The two forums are very different, each unique and valuable in it's own way. A few weeks ago, someone posted a link to a list of top posters, topics, average number of posters, ect., of RMR. The comment was made that the number of posters, and visitors to RMR has declined quite a bit over the past couple of years. I attribute this to the change of RMR's environment from an informative one when I first started coming here a few years ago, to the hostile, political, wandering environment it is today. Almost every thread goes off topic at some point any more, and quite often, ends up with a bunch of petty arguments. It is a shame to think, that RMR is usually the first place a newbie finds for discussion. I wonder how many newbies, and BARs have stumbled here, only to leave and continue the hobby on their own, without trying to find others in their area to enjoy the hobby with.

David Logan NAR#79313

"Jerry Irvine" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@news.verizon.net...

Probably alot fewer (15000).

But some to be sure. But how hard core do you have to be to put up with any era of rmr for more than a week before you decide in a fury which it is, stay or go :) ?

Yes and I would be free to disagree with it viamently right till they kicked me off too.

Mobley objected to fact posted in opposition to his lies. He wanted free reign to post half truths or non-truths with no effective feedback with full web access to disprove them.

Not many people are that negatively motivated. I can count them on one hand.

Jerry

Sounds like the homebrew equivalent of my favorite, Eiswein!

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Sorta, but not quite. Correct me if I'm wrong but, Eiswein is made from frozen grapes thereby upping the sugar content of the resultant juice when they're pressed. The pure water is frozen, and consequently the wine's sweeter with a little higher alcohol content. Applejack is "pre-fermented". When you freeze hard cider, you're essentially "distilling" out the water leaving all of the alcohol, and only a little water (enough to carry the esters that create the "apple" flavor). It ends up being pretty hot stuff!

Interesting effect tho', as when I've done this in the past, the water tends to "float" to the outside of the container and then freeze. What you're left with is roughly like a ball of brown-colored ice with a liquid center where the alcohol has remained. A few times I actually had to "peel" the milk jug away from the ice ball, and tap the thing (like getting milk out of a coconut) with a 16d nail.

It tends to be pretty stiff stuff. I've never measured starting, and ending SpGr, and I've not yet given it the "flame test". Maybe this winter...

Tod "Oh, Nature's Bounty!" Hilty