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originally posted by: penroc3
a reply to: Baddogma
the triangles exist. i have never seen miles long craft but triangles nonetheless with extreme 'flight' characteristics.
i say 'flight' because it isn't aerodynamic flight as the public understands it.
i think you hit the nail on the head, IF there were users here with strange sightings they would self identify themselves, and if it was a op then you can get their i.p and watch these people and see what they share with others.
i think there was allot of truth in his story, but the best way to get someone to believe a lie you have to sandwich it between two truths
Hudson realized that these creatures were the metal-working gnomes of whom the natives had spoken. One of the bushy-bearded chaps spotted the explorer and his men and welcomed them with a cheer. The short men surrounded the crew and drew them into the firelight and the dance. Hudson and his men were delighted with these strange, small creatures, and with the hard liquor that the gnomes had brewed. Long into the night, the men drank and played nine-pins with the gnomes while Henry Hudson sipped at a single glass of spirits and spoke with the chief of the gnomes about many deep and mysterious things.
Realizing at last how late it was, Hudson looked around for his men. At first, he couldn't locate them. All he saw were large groups of gnomes, laughing and joking as they sprawled around the fire. Then, to his astonishment, he recognized several of the gnomes as his crewmen! They had undergone a transformation. Their heads had swollen to twice their normal size, their eyes were small and pig-like, and their bodies had shortened until they were only a little taller than the gnomes themselves.
Hudson was alarmed, and asked the chief of the gnomes for an explanation. It was, the chief explained to Hudson, the effect of the magical hard liquor the gnomes brewed. It would wear off when the liquor did. Hudson wasn't sure that he believed the little man. Afraid of what else might happen to him and his crewman if they continued to linger in such company, Hudson hurriedly took his leave of the gnomes and hustled his severely drunken crewmen back to the Half Moon. The entire crew slept late into the morning, as if they were under the influence of a sleeping draught. When they awakened, the crewmen who had accompanied Hudson up into the Catskill Mountains, aside from ferocious headaches, were back to normal.
...
Every twenty years, the spirits of Henry Hudson and his crew returned to the Catskill Mountains to play nine-pins with the gnomes, and to look out over the country they had first explored together on the Half Moon. Now and then, one of the Dutch settlers living in the region came across the spirits as they played nine-pins. They claimed that any man foolish enough to drink of the spirits' magic liquor would sleep from the moment the spirits departed the mountain to the day they returned, twenty years later. Most folks discounted the story, although several members of Rip Van Winkle's family swore it was true. True or false, wise folks who walk among the Catskills in September do not accept a drink of liquor when it is offered to them. Just in case.
originally posted by: TheBadCabbie
originally posted by: penroc3
a reply to: Baddogma
the triangles exist. i have never seen miles long craft but triangles nonetheless with extreme 'flight' characteristics.
i say 'flight' because it isn't aerodynamic flight as the public understands it.
i think you hit the nail on the head, IF there were users here with strange sightings they would self identify themselves, and if it was a op then you can get their i.p and watch these people and see what they share with others.
i think there was allot of truth in his story, but the best way to get someone to believe a lie you have to sandwich it between two truths
I wanted to add my perspective that from an engineering point of view, with black triangles as neutral buoyancy craft, the bigger the triangle the better for some applications. I've done some looking at the concept and crunched a few of the numbers.
A triangle with a 10m base and a 10m length, from memory works out to a few hundred pounds of payload or something like that probably, using fairly conventional equipment to build it and make it go. This is just rough figuring on my part, and lighter weight materials could improve efficiency.
I think a 20m triangle would possibly give you a few tons of payload. I'll be posting some figures once I get around to figuring it again. When you get up to a 50m wide by 50m long triangle, you've got some serious airlifting capacity. A 100m wide by 100m long triangle dirigible should be able to lift hundreds of tons, or at least a few dozen tons. Should be more than 50 tons, with a 100m triangle.
Of course they are usually observed to be equilateral triangles and not isocoles triangles, but that's beside the point that bigger is better for some things. You could move a lot of stuff around with a big dirigible like that, like an army, or a bunch of tanks, or well just about anything I'd guess...
Just from this I have no trouble believing the big ones are real. A few of those in your hangar would be pretty handy lifters to have around. A few loaded up with autoguns and howitzer ala Puff The Magic Dragon would be fearsome weapons, even without laser beams or whatever. Anyway, bigger can certainly be better as triangles go, you can bet they've got a few big ones out there.
faires on the other hand originally were not at all like tinkerbell and were quite nasty
Just as a curiosity, why would it be important not to look at them? Any insights?
being a friendly type i assume most intelligent creatures to be so as well unless in danger