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Amazing what I find while cleaning out my (desk) drawers

Swamp Rat 5!

Insane!

Kreutz wrote:

So from this we are no bigger then a gnat in the in the bigger picture of the Milky Way

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way'

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/galaxy-song- ... ython.html ]
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth


Monty Python

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@ Rick - You, sir, are not right!

Someone with too much free time builds replica of Homer Simpson's car



Why I have no idea

Marine unit in the 50s, notice the unit guidon.



Our three SAR Phrogs from MCAS Beaufort SC, BRAC closed the unit in 2005.

Oooh rah

Here's one airplane that I always thought was really cool, I remember seeing these flying over when I was a young tyke. Don't see any around any more.

big444man wrote:Here's one airplane that I always thought was really cool, I remember seeing these flying over when I was a young tyke. Don't see any around any more.

I'll bite. What is it?

AlanM wrote:

big444man wrote:Here's one airplane that I always thought was really cool, I remember seeing these flying over when I was a young tyke. Don't see any around any more.

I'll bite. What is it?

It's a Lockheed P61. Here is a link to more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_P-61_Black_Widow

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