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Originally posted by bobm111
Just to specifically reply to the part of your post that I highlighted - the CSM has been banging the drum of tech moon rebalancing almost since the day they were introduced. And the goon reps were banging it loudest of all. I realise that it makes for a good populist "The Man is keeping me down" narrative to believe the opposite, but the truth is sometimes inconvenient like that. Oh and CSM 7 has a wormhole player as chairman and another as secretary this year. Hardly dominated by nullsec blocs!
I am running for election myself this year, and I have made a tech moon and sov space industry rebalance a core part of my platform - not because I think that they have an effect on new players, but because 0.0 will be more fun for more people.
However your post does highlight one important recurring issue: new players are given incorrect information which leads to the false perception that they can only ever be oppressed untermensch. The skillpoint cap issue is another excellent example of this - skills are capped; you can only get them to level 5, and after you've maxed your skills for a ship, all you can do is diversify the range of ships you can fly.
CCP could do more to make it clearer that character advancement in EVE is fundamentally different from the level-based PvE grinders, and that "80 million skillpoints" doesn't mean "Can take on 10x 8 million skillpoint players and easily win even if drunk and naked" as it does in WoW type games.
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Originally posted by Dihoru
This is typical of the Eve playerbase attitude. It is also why I play the trial every three years and then quit. This way everyone is happy. I get to play a REALLY cool game for 14 days without paying and the Eve hardcore can get their jollies putting down a carebear for 14 days.
Eve deserves the half million subs it has. It is a great game. However, without having at least one totally safe zone the game will never be as popular as it could be. That is the decision of the players and that is the decision of CCP. No carebears wanted. Ok. My loss. See you in three years.
Originally posted by elocke
yep, EVE simply doesn't offer that kind of experience, and it would have to be pretty much re-written from the ground up as a different game in order to do so.
Dust 514 is CCP's first answer to this issue, but of course it's limited to PS3 owners (This isn't as big a limitation as people make out; second hand PS3s don't cost all that much more than a full price game, or even less if you're willing to get one with a broken bluray player).
CCP Unifex has dropped plenty of hints that CCP would like to attach more games to the EVE universe. If Dust is a success, I'd expect them to start on another similar project. I'd be more than happy to suggest a flight shooter-sim set in the many, many gas-giant environments that the EVE cluster contains. For the PC.
But this does run into the "No ideas that would take 150 dev-years to implement, please" limitation...
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I think the biggest thing is "fixing" 0.0, though I don't know how they'd do it. What I mean by that is that the huge alliances in null make it very difficult and intimidating for new players to break into it. If you are not a Goon or in TEST, you can't take part in the meta-game really. And it's that meta-game that most players want, I think. * *THIS IS AN EXAGGERATION TO MAKE A POINT**
Maybe there needs to be some kind of cost-effective means for small alliances to deal with large ones? Or, and while I hate to admit it, maybe they need to make high-sec less appealing so that people start moving in larger numbers to low or null, which by itself should create more conflict in null.
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Originally posted by tordurbar
It's pretty similar to the WoW playerbases's attitude towards people who want to turn WoW into a single-server PvP sandbox.
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Originally posted by svandy
Null does need reforming, but there are existing options for smaller alliances. For instance W-space is explicitly designed to stop large groups dominating the whole zone. And then there is NPC space for larger groups who want to be involved in 'The Great Game' without being in a bloc.
One of my long time hobby-horses is that in EVE geography dictates politics - the open, contiguous, low travel cost nature of sov 0.0 means that large groups are inevitable (Just as in the real world, as communcations and transport tech improved, powerblocs got larger and larger). I fully intend to ask CCP to consider adding new types of space to allow new modes of play that aren't really supported.
But on the other hand, lots of people like being part of a mighty space empire. There's no reason CCP shouldn't continue to enable EVE to support that kind of gameplay too.
But does this issue really matter all that much to someone who's never played EVE for more than a few days?
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Moongoo solutions have been offered on many occasions, like depleting moon materials, spread them around all regions, offer players different ways to get those materials apart from putting up towers in 0.0 which ofc will be blobbed by 100 supercaps the second you ever manage to take one.
The problem is CCP who acknowledge the problems, yet don't WANT to fix them because:
1: they are in the game themselves and heavily involved in those same alliances that benefit + control the moongoo markets.
2: you have ex-players like for example Soundwave+Darius Johnson working for CCP now and diverting the attention to adding less important content instead of fixing these gamebreaking issues.
Recruiting former players who encouraged exploiting and trying to break the game as developers/senior Staff is a baaaaad idea. :P
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Improved space. EVE's space looks good, but it's just an empty area for players and interactable objects to float in. I'd prefer something with more interesting content. For example, dynamic environmental hazards (toxic gas clouds, dangerous metorites, etc.) could be interesting. Then again, I'm not sure how well content like that would work with EVE's eccentric movement controls.
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content, because there is no content at all
well mate,
Despite the fluff the point is still huge alliances have and enormus passive income to operate with from moon goo and ccp continues to let it happen. It also could be called a monopoly where the price of moon goo effects many areas of the game like t2 ships . And ccp defending this monopoly time and again by letting it continue patch after patch. For newer players its hardly the skill point barrier you need to worry about. Ten low sp pilots can take down anybody in the game. But you can not get past the fact that certain alliances control the flow of key resources for building things thus controling the market.
Notice that the goo monopoly which the goons as well as others control is a game breaker and makes newer players slaves upon entering the game. notice since the big silent deal not to attack each others goo moons prices on t2 ships have trippled.
So crocodile tears do not inpress me and my warning to newer players is that as soon as you enter the game because of stuff like this you are being handled like cattle by the big alliances who have made deals with each other to not rock the moon goo boat. And ccp knows very well that this is 1 of the fundemental problems of the eve economy. Not to mention getting into 0.0 for small alliances except perhaps in providence where NRDS and no goo is found.
But weighed against losing these long time players ccp elects to turn the other way on such a fundemental issue. And being that like in real life these people have lobbies and elected polticians to smokescreen the whole issue doesnt help.
But it is a great game and i recommend people giving it ago but with open eyes. there are forces in this game which want to enslave you from the start.
Originally posted by Muke
Someone's been smoking some strong shit to even suggest those two points. I am not involved in 0.0 and haven't been for years but even I see the terribly bad logic you use because at current the "RMT machines" are Incursions and C5 and C6 wormholes, don't believe me? I have friends who make 1-2 bil a week casually doing Incursions and C5-C6 wormholes that are properly farmed will produce shit tons of value sleeper loot ( 20-30 man fleets can pull 100-200 mil per pilot per site, that's 2-3 billion isk per total in assets for 1 maybe 2 hours of work). Compared to these two Moongoo is a joke and if a serious alliance ever managed to lock down 10-20 C6 wormholes and farm them properly Goonswarm might be in allot of shit (sure the serious alliance couldn't field t2s because Goonswarm control that bottleneck but instead they could field retarded amounts of t1 and t3 ships and the only way Goonswarm could hope to hit them heavily enough to knock out their C6 farms would be to embargo ice harvesting in high-sec completely which in turn causes allot of angry high-sec and wormhole corps to join in on wailing on goonswarm, the only reason this has not happened yet is because no one has yet had the vested interest in doing this to my knowledge).
Ok unfortunately the op is trying to put up a smokescreen claiming that moon goo is hardly the issue. RMT and stuff is happening in whs. What a load of crap. Which brings us to how incursions were changed when the big alliances saw people making billions of isk in hi sec and fundementally breaking there power via moon goo. Why ccp nerfed the incursions to stop newer players from being independent of the big alliances. Faction war was first buffed then nerfed for same reason.
Worm holes politics certainly has nt effected the economy of the game and the big alliances control of key resources to control the market and if they ever do the big alliances and there lobbies and politicians inside ccp will put a stop to that.
Stop covering for these monopolists and players ruining the game so they can keep playing in there little sandbox. The last thing they want is Eve to grow beyond there control.
Originally posted by bobm111
Sounds like someone is a little bit sore he can't turn a profit in t2 production, take an example from one of my corp mates: tech 3 production while more skill intensive requires no moon products, it is all readily made with wormhole loot and with the venture frigate introduced you truly do not have an excuse not to (before mining gas could've been an issue, now if you spend a a couple of weeks training in gas harvesting and getting the frigate skill up to level 5 you have a frigate which can only be caught by interdiction bubbles and can mine with 2 turrets the output of 5).
As for the incursion "nerf", said nerf to quote one of my friends was "barely noticeable" considering professional incursion runners don't only run one type of incursion (only vanguards got hit with the nerf because they were too profitable considering their positioning in space and the ease with which they were done).
Now if you wanna continue spouting rhetoric which has about as much to do with EVE-Online as Zeus's ass be my guest but anyone with the capability of rational thought will see what your demagoguery is (hint: it has something to do with laziness and butthurt).
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Originally posted by Malcanis
Yeah, sorry bout that. But that's why I'm really looking forward to World of Darkness to see how they handle a living world feel and see if it has the same depth and style(in it's own genre of course) that Eve brings to the table.
On a side note, they should make an Eve movie or tv show but have it be mature similar to the Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, Spartacus or Game of Thrones. I'd be hooked.
Originally posted by Dihoru
Actually mate was making dreads which do not require moo goo.But you miss the point is there a monopoly on moo goo in eve? Does it effect t2 productions? Is there a hidden agreement not to touch the moo goo holy cow. Is there a lobby and politicians who time and again have sabotaged doing anythin about it and has ccp done anything about it.
This is hardly retoric but facts widely known.
and your arguement about t3s and whs basically proves my point it does not effect the monopoly now present in central parts of eve via moo goo.
But once again eve is a great game unfortunately some of these so called alliances are destroying eve thru there power and monopolist tendencies. and people who decide to take up eve should do so with there eyes open.
And i have" friends" to doing incursions who tell quite a different story.
Originally posted by elocke
While not CCP made, and I doubt you donno it but still:
(3 gets a bit more dramatic).
Say one thing about the Eve fans, they're dedicated to their game
Unfortunately its niche, and my free trial tryout bored me almost to death, so there's pretty much nothing that could make me want to subject myself to this game again
Originally posted by pinktailz
EVE's content is the interaction with other players.
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Originally posted by bobm111
You are apparently not aware that no one alliance or even bloc has a monopoly on any kind of moon goo, particularly since CCP reintroduced Alchemy, and now Technetium can be synthesised from (IIRC) Cobalt and Platinum, two pretty common and widely distributed moons. Since when Technetium has fallen to ~1/3 of its peak price (ie: to just below the level of the cost of synthesising it).
You seem to be an excellent example of someone who has been enraged by misleading propaganda into thinking that you're much worse off that you really are. Might I suggest that you get your information from a wider range of sources?
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Providing Links to Skip Repetitive Navigation
This section explains how to design applications to help satisfy the following Section 508 standard:
1194.22(o) A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links.
Use page anchors to enable users to jump to other areas of a page. For example, if a page contains a group of navigation links or a series of four or more text buttons in a row, users who navigate using the keyboard might not want to tab through those links or buttons every time they visit the page. You can enable them to skip repetitive page controls by adding a page anchor labeled "Skip Toolbar and Navigation Links" before the repetitive controls. You might also want to provide a way for users to return to the repetitive controls, if they need them, by including another page anchor labeled "Return to Toolbar and Navigation Links" to take them back.
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Insert a push button/hyperlink object on the page using PeopleSoft Application Designer.
Locate the new object immediately before the controls to be skipped.
Open the properties for the new object.
On the Type tab, change the type to Hyperlink, add a record and field name, and change the destination to Page Anchor.
Leave the related control blank. You add this information after you create the return object.
On the Label tab, enter a label using the Message Catalog.
On the General tab, enter a page field name and select the Enable as Page Anchor check box.
The page field name is used as a reference later in the PeopleCode.
Add another push button/hyperlink object to the page after the repetitive controls that you want to skip.
Open the properties for the new object.
On the Type tab, change the type to Hyperlink, add a record and field name, change the destination to Page Anchor, and enter the page field name for the first object (the name that you entered on the General tab of the properties for that object) in the Related Control field.
On the Label tab, enter a label using the Message Catalog.
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Open the properties for the first object again and enter the page field name of the second object in the Related Control field on the Type tab.
Click OK, and then save the page.
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I don't understand the joke I guess. His serve is literally the only thing Isner has. And his serve is only good because of his height. He can't break Top-40 pros' serves, but they can't break his serve, so a huge percentage of Isner sets go to tiebreakers, which he often manages to eke out by 2 points.
Look at his match with Anderson yesterday. EVERY set went to a tiebreaker. It's ridiculous.
What happened at Wimbledon a couple of years ago.. a set going to 60 points or whatever it was.. will never happen again because nobody has such a disparity between his serve and playing ability.
Isner is a Futures player with a (nearly) GOAT serve. That's about it. If anybody can't see how height plays a role in that, I don't know what to tell them.
Well, you could argue his movement would be much, MUCH better, and possibly his groundstrokes too, if he was shorter. His net game too. I think it all ties back to movement though, it would make the rest of his game better. In reality Isner's groundstrokes aren't THAT bad -- but he lumbers around the court horribly, which is why he has little success on his return games. When he gets a hold of one, he can rip it, and his 1-2 punch (big serve followed by forehand) is effective, because he doesn't have to move as much and has time to hit the forehand. His putaway forehand is actually pretty darn good. He can still break you if you don't move him around. Unfortunately for him, tennis isn't a stationary sport.
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Biomimicry technological innovation inspired by nature is one of the hottest ideas in science but has yet to yield many practical advances. Time for a change. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have mimicked the structure of mother of pearl to create what may well be the toughest ceramic ever produced.
Through the controlled freezing of suspensions in water of an aluminum oxide (alumina) and the addition of a well known polymer, polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), a team of researchers has produced ceramics that are 300 times tougher than their constituent components. The team was led by Robert Ritchie, who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
"We have emulated nature's toughening mechanisms to make ice-templated alumina hybrids that are comparable in specific strength and toughness to aluminum alloys," says Ritchie. "We believe these model materials can be used to identify key microstructural features that should guide the future synthesis of bio-inspired, yet non-biological, light-weight structural materials with unique strength and toughness."
The results of this research were reported in the December 5, 2008 issue of the journal Science, in a paper entitled: "Tough, bio-inspired hybrid materials." Co-authoring the paper with Ritchie were Etienne Munch, Max Launey, Daan Hein Alsem, Eduardo Saiz and Antoni Tomsia.
Mother of pearl, or nacre, the inner lining of the shells of abalone, mussels and certain other mollusks, is renowned for both its iridescent beauty and its amazing toughness. Nacre is 95-percent aragonite, a hard but brittle calcium carbonate mineral, with the rest of it made up of soft organic molecules. Yet nacre can be 3,000 times (in energy terms) more resistant to fracture than aragonite. No human-synthesi
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Superconducting wire
Superconducting wire is wire made of superconductors. When cooled below its transition temperature, it has zero electrical resistance. Most commonly, conventional superconductors such as niobium-titanium are used,[1] but high-Tc superconductors such as YBCO are entering the market. Superconducting wire's advantages over copper or aluminum include higher maximum current densities and zero power dissipation. Its disadvantages include the cost of refrigeration of the wires to superconducting temperatures (often requiring cryogens such as liquid helium or liquid nitrogen), the danger of the wire quenching (a sudden loss of superconductivity), the inferior mechanical properties of some superconductors, and the cost of wire materials and construction.[2] Its main application is in superconducting magnets, which are used in scientific and medical equipment where high magnetic fields are necessary.
Often the superconductor is in filament form in a copper or aluminium matrix which carries the current should the superconductor quench for any reason. The superconductor filaments can form a third of the total volume of the wire.
- 1 Important parameters of SC wires/tapes/conductors
- 2 Types of Wire
- 3 Preparation
- 4 See also
- 5 References
Important parameters of SC wires/tapes/conductors[edit]
The construction and operating temperature will typically be chosen to maximise :
- Current density (see images below for examples).
Types of Wire[edit]
LTS(Low Temperature Superconductor) Wire[edit]
LTS wires are made from superconductors with low critical temperature, such as Nb3Sn(niobium-tin) and NbTi(niobium-titanium).
HTS(High Temperature Superconductor) Wire[edit]
HTS wires are made from superconductors with high critical temperature(high-temperature superconductivity), such as YBCO and BSCCO.
Wire drawing[edit]
The normal wire drawing process can be used for malleable alloys such as niobium-titanium.
Surface diffusion[edit]
Vanadium-gallium (V3) can be prepared by surface diffusion where the high temperature component as a solid is bathed in the other element as liquid or gas.[3] When all components remain in the solid state during high temperature diffusion this is known as the Bronze Process.[4]
Chemical vapor deposition[edit]
CVD is used for YBCO coated tapes.
Hybrid Physical-Chemical Vapor Deposition[edit]
HPCVD can be used for magnesium diboride.
The powder-in-tube (PIT, or oxide powder in tube, OPIT) process is often used for making electrical conductors from brittle superconducting materials such as niobium-tin[5] or magnesium diboride,[6] and ceramic cuprate superconductors such as BSCCO.[7][8] It has been used to form wires of the iron pnictides.[9] (PIT is not used for YBCO (Yttrium barium copper oxide) as it does not have the weak layers required to generate adequate 'texture' (alignment) in the PIT process.)
This process is used because the high-temperature superconductors are too brittle for normal wire forming processes. The tubes are metal, often silver. Often the tubes are heated to react the mix of powders. Once reacted the tubes are sometimes flattened to form a tape-like conductor. The resulting wire is not as flexible as conventional metal wire, but is sufficient for many applications.
There are 'in situ' and 'ex situ' variants of the process, as well a 'double core' method that combines both.[10]
See also[edit]
- Niobium-titanium easier to handle
- Niobium-tin difficult to handle
- ^ "Characteristics of Superconducting Magnets". Superconductivity Basics. American Magnetics Inc. website. 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
- ^ "Superconducting wire breaks record". Physics World. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
- ^ "Elementary Pinning Force of Grain Boundaries in Supereonducting V3Ga Tapes". Bibcode:1986JaJAP..25L.792M. doi:10.1143/JJAP.25.L792.
- ^ Dew-Hughes, D. "Solid-state (bronze process) V3Ga from a V-Al alloy core". Bibcode:1978JAP....49..327D. doi:10.1063/1.324390.
- ^ Lindenhovius, J.L.H.; Hornsveld, E.M.; Den Ouden, A.; Wessel, W.A.J.; Ten Kate, H.H.J. (2000). "Powder-in-tube (PIT) Nb/sub 3/Sn conductors for high-field magnets". IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 10: 975. doi:10.1109/77.828394.
- ^ B. A. Glowacki, M. Majoros, M. E. Vickers, B. Zeimetz (2001). "Superconducting properties of the powder-in-tube Cu-Mg-B and Ag-Mg-B wires". arXiv:cond-mat/0109085.
- ^ Sheathed or Powder-in-Tube Conductors
- ^ Beales, Timothy P.; Jutson, Jo; Le Lay, Luc; Mölgg, Michelé (1997). "Comparison of the powder-in-tube processing properties of two (Bi2−xPbx)Sr2Ca2Cu 3O10+δpowders" (PDF). Journal of Materials Chemistry 7: 653. doi:10.1039/a606896k.
- ^ Y. Ma et al. (2009). "Fabrication and characterization of iron pnictide wires and bulk materials through the powder-in-tube method". Physica C 469: 651–656. arXiv:0906.3114. Bibcode:2009PhyC..469..651M. doi:10.1016/j.physc.2009.03.024.
- ^ T. Nakane, K. Takahashia, H. Kitaguchia and H. Kumakuraa, T.; Takahashi, K.; Kitaguchi, H.; Kumakura, H. (2009). "Fabrication of Cu-sheathed MgB2 wire with high Jc–B performance using a mixture of in situ and ex situ PIT techniques". Physica C: Superconductivity 469: 1531–1535. Bibcode:2009PhyC..469.1531N. doi:10.1016/j.physc.2009.05.227.


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Studly Adventurer
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In like 1990, I was westbound on I-80, at about I-35, coming into Des Moines Iowa. There was a VERY ominous looking storm ahead, but the last time I had checked the weather (3 hrs prior) there hadn't been anything bad forcast. Started to ride under the "edge" of the storm cloud, when the wind went from a breeze to what felt like 60 MPH.....the motorhome ahead of me began to sway, and after a few steering corrections it went into the ditch. I had slowed to like 30, and despite starting out in the right lane and leaning to the right at what felt like a 45 degree angle, I still ended up on the left side shoulder....the wind pushed me across the equivalent of two lanes. It was the evening traffic rush, and I just knew I was gonna get mowed over from behind. The rain hit moments later, and I bailed off at the next exit, and rode out the storm (which lasted maybe 10 minutes) at a gas station.
The other time I got scared chitless, was on I-70 beween KC and Topeka Ks. They had repaved the highway....brand new asphalt.....the kind of "black" that just absorbs light. No lines painted, and no street lights. To make it worse, it starts raining. I see something ahead, but couldn't even really be sure if I was seeing anything other than black......turns out, it was a road gator....the whole damned tread surface.
I missed it by just inches....the wife, who was following in the car, went right over it. Ripped the spoiler off the front of the car....took me what seemed like 30 minutes to stop shaking. I kept imagining me hitting that thing, and tumbling down the highway with the wife and kids having front row seats to the event.
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In my early 20s I lived in Portland, OR and rode an RD400. I met a buddy of mine for dinner and we had a couple of drinks (I know, like I said I was in my 20s). After dinner we were going to his dad's house in an area of town I'd not been to.
He was driving his muscle car and we headed up I-5 and then took an exit I thought I was familiar with. I had a good line and (thought) I knew the exit well, so I blew his doors in.
Well. Wrong exit. It tightened up WAY faster than the exit I remembered.
I held my turn best I could but I was fucked. I should paint the correct picture. This was an overpass with "jersey barrier" along both edges and at least a 50' drop off over the barrier.
I drifted to the outside edge of the turn with both tires skidding and was past the fog line, on sand and waiting for impact because the jersey barrier was only a foot to the other side of the fog line.
The impact never came and I rolled out the far end of the turn coasting.
My buddy blew by me and down the road. I didn't hit 35mph the rest of the night.
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I recall one occasion some 44 years ago when I had a semi drift over to my lane and begin to take a corner. As I was enclosed between the kerbing, the rear of the truck cabin, and the truck's nearside rear wheels - I had no option other than to also take that corner.
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The most scared I ever was on a bike was when my father found out I had bought a MOTORCYCLE!
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My wedding day in '98. I was on my '93 CBR1000F. The CD for "thee dance" was at my parent's house and I was getting ready for the wedding. A normal 30 minute trip only took 10. The scary part was the big left hand sweeper. At normal speed it's nothing but at 130 I started on the white line, apexed ( a little early) on the double yellow through the passing lane. I had the bike leaned all the way over. My foot, foot peg, and centerstand were all dragging as I started difting back throught both lanes toward the white line and the field/trees. I had to stay in the thottle or lose stability. I came out of the turn just as I met the white line again. I did have a helmet on but other than that it was shorts and a T-shirt. I did ruin a nice pair of hiking boots. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have walked away from that one! As it turned out "thee CD" was in the cage at the wedding the whole time. I told her the story and she still married me.
I did a lot of dumb things on that bike but it seemed like fun at the time.
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In the early 90s I was stationed in Boulder, CO and took a lunch time ride up Flagstaff mountain. As I was headed up I began to feel my "oats" and turned up the wick on my 1982 Yamaha 650 Maxim. I came around a blind RH turn with the rock wall on the right with a sheer drop off beyond the left lane. As I entered the turn a delivery truck appeared in my lane barrelling down on me. I jerked into the left lane hoping there wasn't another vehicle there. Fortunately, there wasn't, eh at least for a second. Just as I was feeling a bit better when another vehicle appeared in my new lane. I jerked back into the original lane. I had never scraped much until then... I didn't lose it, but nearly. Got to the top of the mountain and sat there for 20 minutes shaking. Had other moments but this one really stood out.
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Riding back to NYC from upstate New York at dusk.... deer EVERYWHERE on the highway I've never been more alert in my life!
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I was probably more scared on certain circumstances when I was learning to ride on a MX100 Yamaha back in the day than I have been of more life threatening riding ever since.
The last time I accepted that I may die without an option was when I put myself on a raised highway for a long night ride home in pouring rain... but then I rode into a Tornado Warning area that got far uglier than I could have imagined (stupid me, I initially could sorta see into the distance and darkness, and figured I might see a tornado coming at me... problem is that when you're finally in the bad storm cell, you ain't seein' shit). Accepting death (the whole two times I have ever done it) and being scared are two totally different things.
I watched a tractor trailer that I caught up to almost get blown over onto me, then I was being pushed over more than two lanes at a time, and riding at a severe lean to stay straight, with visibility down to feet with the heavy sideways rain. It wasn't an issue of stopping, it was an issue of not even seeing the shoulders or what was around or past them, and thus not really having place to pull over to. One just doesn't simply stop on I-95 in Florida, no matter what the visibility or danger is, unless one accepts being rear-ended... so I had no choice but to keep pressing on while even the only two trucks on the highway (all others seemingly got the message and were parked at the rest stop we passed earlier in the storm) slowed to about 5 MPH. Again, it wasn't ever a consideration of being scared, but what I should do if given the opportunity, and what I was presented with that caused me to ride on in very severe and life threatening conditions. Really, it was indescribable how bad it was, but then I've been there before in other ventures. Some day it has to catch up to me. I know that.
I'm probably more scared of some social interactions (this, having prior successfully been a teacher for five years where one is always on stage) than I am of the close calls and what-evers that active living (such as riding and working with a demolition company) brings about.
I get more scared in dreams when I lose a loved one, or some other hyper-real dream, than motorcycling in south Florida's traffic, feeder bands, and its other severe weather can bring. I sometimes wonder if this lack of 'being scared' would change if I had children, but all I know is what most seem to call being scared is either just an experience or just another adrenaline rush to me.
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NC, 2002: rode into lightning storm on Brown Mountain with son and two friends. Stopped, parked, huddled, took five jolts of stray voltage over ten minutes or so.. On shot split an 18" tree trunk my 380 was leaned against. All the bikes started after the shocks. God was there.
Pikes Peak, 2006: Son on a KDX, daughter on an XR100 (street legal, barely) myself on a 250EXC. Passing a log truck going uphill, son in the lead. Daughter follows, Suburban coming downhill as she pulls out to pass. You can;t imagine the terror. The Suburban pulls off the road, everyone lives. I was ready to quit riding bikes. Half an hour later we're at the top; Half an hour after that we're racing downhill with dead engines. Decided not to quit riding, only to ride a lot more intelligently. And to never tell daughter to follow her brother when he passes...This one wakes me up at night a few times a year.
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Was on an after dinner ride near Natural Bridge Virginia (outside Lexington) on Friday, June 29.
As we rode down off the Blue Ridge towards Natural Bridge, we commented that it looked like rain was going to roll in later.
Just after passing through Natural Bridge on US-11 heading back towards Lexington, the storm's gust front hit. We were in a bit of a "tree tunnel" and leaves and limbs were flying. Trees were waving and swirling. I thought we were riding straight into a tornado.
Just then, I heard a loud crack, and the sound of a (what I thought was a small) tree falling. I could see it out of the corner of my eye, and could feel some of the twigs at the ends of the branches hit my hands.
We rode a few hundred more yards, then determined to turn around and seek shelter back at Natural Bridge at the motel. Well, our way was blocked by a very large Sycamore tree. The tree was a couple feet in diameter and blocked the road from ditch to ditch. This was the tree that nearly hit us a few moments before.
A scary damned thought. And the storm was growing even more violent. Trees were cracking and popping all around. We got back on the motorcycle and headed towards Lexington. A mile up the road (felt like a lot more), and we were to safety! A fireman motioned for us to pull into the Natural Bridge Volunteer Fire Department's fire house, which we did.
We were there from 9pm until after midnight. It was a crazy storm! And, the thought of that tree missing us by feet as we rode on US-11 will never leave me.
It wasn't until the next morning that we learned how bad that storm had been, and how many people had been affected in WVA, VA, and MD.
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If you'd been on some kind of big dualsport you could have just ridden those barricades like a banked corner. C'mon, man, build those skills, try something new!
I keep having flashbacks to other close calls as I read this thread. This one reminded me of rounding a corner up in the mountains of Wyoming one fine afternoon and finding a cow shit slick all across the road. There is nothing slicker than wet cowshit on asphalt, in my experience. I damn near hit a delineator post as I slid off into the gravel and got it lined back up to keep riding, sewing machine foot going like crazy. I realized later (when I caught up with the rig) that the shit came from a cattle hauler truck - as he rounded the turns the accumulated shit from all the cows in the trailer slopped out in a nice fan arrangement onto the asphalt, and only in the corners, of course. Gawd.
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Dumba$s Jarhead
Joined: Aug 2008
Location: Woodland Park, CO
Oddometer: 3,213
At the very instant the moron 17 year old kid T-boned my rear right pannier after "not seeing me" this would have been two miliseconds before my right shoulder impacted the ground and things went black I got better.
We are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.
Studly Adventurer
Joined: Dec 2009
Location: Chicken Necker Side
Oddometer: 694
Two times I was really scared. The first was when a "buddy" dared me to go off of a motocross jump at speed. I actually closed my eyes as I left the jump,but landed smoothly saying to myself "Damn lets do that again"
The second time was when I entered a 6 hour enduro,It was a LeMans start with the small bikes closest to the first turn. I got a very good start being about 10th from the leader .Going into the first turn some SOB rode over my foot,that reminded me there were another 160 riders behind me and I better not fall.
Wacky Bongo Boy
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: El Segundo, CA
Oddometer: 7,644
First one that comes to mind, as paraphrased from my only ride report, heading to Palmdale, CA from Lake Tahoe:
Down over the mountain and back on 395, it started raining and sleeting immediately. Unfortunately, the clouds were hangin' too low and scraped across the mountains, emptying their contents all along my ride; north of Bodie all the way to Lake Tahoe and from Lake Tahoe all the way down past Bishop. Stoimin'/rainin'/frownin'.
There was a (small) rockslide on the road next to Mono Lake.. instead of just driving around it (there was NO on-coming traffic), the lead car in the pack I was approaching slammed on their brakes and stopped completely in the road. At this point, I was ignorant of the rockslide but the road was a river, I hit my brakes fairly hard.. and there goes the rear end. The back tire wanted to catch up with the front by coming around my left side; here's the wind-up and the pitch.. didn't happen. Right as it caught traction again the bike snapped into a wicked shimmy that I had to dance on top of to control. It was all over in about 1.5 seconds. Thank God for my following distance. I stopped with space to spare. Pulled over at the next gas station where some Harley riders were taking a break and we laughed about the "pucker factor."
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KOCHI: Sambasiva Sarma took four wickets as Cordiant Sports Foundation, Ernakulam, shocked defending champion State Bank of Travancore by five wickets and marched to the final of the second Muthoot Pappachan Foundation Twenty20 cricket tournament at the BPCL Kochi Refinery Ground, Ambalamugal, on Saturday.
The host, Muthoot Ernakulam CC 'A', thriving on mediumpacer Anandakuttan's five-wicket haul and P.V. Manikantan's lively half century (53 off 25 balls, 3x6, 5x4), also entered the final after beating Globstar Telecom CC (Aluva) by 17 runs.
The scores: SBT, Tvm 131 for eight in 20 overs (V. Suresh 26, Sambasiva Sharma four for 25) lost to Cordiant Sports Foundation, Ekm 133 for five in 16.4 overs (Arun Paulose 35, Thejus 39 n.o., K.Chandrasekhara three for 31).
Muthoot ECC 'A' 173 for nine in 20 overs (P.V. Manikantan 53, Abdul Samad 37, M.E. Sanuth four for 35) bt Globstar Telecom, Aluva 156 in 19.2 overs (V.S. Shiju 37 n.o., Anandakuttan five for 14). — Principal Correspondent


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| CherryBlossomFlower chapter 1 . 10/19/2011
Hi! Cherryblossomflower here,
Once again; That was amazing.
its clear that you've had some bad experiences, and its touching to see that you write to help get over them, thats what i do.
this poem was very emotionally powerful, it made me feel, which is a very good thing in a poem.
Kepp Writing!
| HalfPast12 chapter 1 . 10/15/2011
This one is so sad, and you could feel it in the words that you used. I think the best part was the last few lines because you really were expressing the pain you felt, even though you wouldn't let your pain surface.
Absolutely beautiful! x
| CityGirl419 chapter 1 . 10/11/2011
Awwwh. I want to cryyy. :(
So sad. So true.
I love it. Loved reading it. Good job. (:


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methods to provide better information to air crews as part of the effort to cut
the risk of controlled-flight-into-terrain (CFIT), recommends a new
pan-European strategic plan.
newly-published strategic agenda from the Advisory Council for Aeronautics
Research in Europe (ACARE) – a joint governmental/industry body set up last
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eliminating the majority of causes identified as primary contributors to such
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Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu will celebrate his 64th birthday on Saturday as the culmination of his 2,750-km-long padayatra is just a week away.
Mr. Naidu will take a break after a public meeting at the grounds of the engineering college of Andhra University near Gajuwaka in Visakhapatnam district. The party has made elaborate arrangements to mobilise a huge crowd and has even constructed a 100 ft. pylon to mark the occasion.
He will focus on the annual 'Mahanadu' of the party next month and has planned to take up a bus yatra in June to cover the remaining areas of the State well ahead of elections next year.
However, Mr. Naidu will have a tough time chalking out his tour in Hyderabad and surrounding areas due to traffic problems. They account for 33 Assembly constituencies.
Party sources say he has made over a hundred promises to various sections of people while addressing 750 public meetings.
There were also party declarations and assurances on local issues for each district such as the completion of Pranahita – Chevella for Adilabad, Polavaram for West Godavari and Information Technology hub for Kakinada – Rajahmundry.
The policy decisions that he proposed to implement at the State-level included waiver of crop loans, nine-hour uninterrupted power supply for the farm sector and free education from KG to PG for poor families.
Special Correspondent adds from Narsipatnam: A summer shower greeted Mr. Naidu on his completion of 200 days of yatra here on Friday.
He resumed his walk from Emanuel Educational College at Tamaram and addressed a roadside meeting at Racahapalli Junction, one km away, where he cut a cake to mark the occasion.
"No one has so far completed such a difficult task. I have taken it up to understand your problems and extend my support in solving them," he said.


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Patna: Apparently annoyed at the Centre "ignoring" Bihar interests, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has written a book explaining why the State should be granted a special status.
Mr. Kumar started writing the book, 'Special Category Status: A Case for Bihar', about a year ago after his efforts to get the special category status failed.
"I have written a book on the conditions prevailing in the State and to convince the nation about the need for granting special status to Bihar ... you will come to know about the details once it is published," he told PTI.
The 80-page book is to be published by the Asian Development Research Institute, a non-governmental organisation.
The book is expected to be released by economist and writer Lord Meghnad Desai on Friday.
Immediately after taking over the reins in November 2005, Mr. Kumar got a resolution unanimously adopted by the Assembly seeking the special status and conveyed the message to the Centre.
Mr. Kumar "is understood to have highlighted the delaying tactics of the Centre in granting the special category status to Bihar which he was trying to develop with scant resources at his disposal," said a senior official attached to the Chief Minister's Secretariat.
Poverty and backwardness were not new to Bihar. Other States were also facing these problems but the Centre accorded a special status to many of them to help them grow, the official said.
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The book is understood to have blamed the Centre for the "sluggish growth" of the State due to poor flow of institutional finance and inadequate Central assistance. — PTI