Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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This isn't true. The space pen was invented by a private company at the R&D cost of about a million; gov't had no part in it. There are far worse cases of gov't fraud, waste, and abuse out there, no need to invent lies.
It's a meme...you do realized cats don't go to restaurants and argue with blondes either right?
 
He did more than sell missles. I grew up in the small town that was the hub of the Contra excitement and worked at the airport where most of that stuff came in and out. My dad has some stories that would make you say hmmm
 
Hate to break it to you Mate.........they’re still in operation. Most of them were built in Winterthur. I’ll get you some pics of the steam engines on the ferry boats. 120 years old, look like they just left the factory......
Simply amazing ???

Hi Barn,

Went back and looked through my pics. Unfortunately, I didn't have a wide angle lens when I took the shots, so I only captured portions of the steam engines at a time. They're not coal powered and not knowing much about steam, I can only guess their boilers are fired with fossil fuels, I just don't know what. There was no odor of diesel and I think there would have been if they were using it. Anyway, we've been on multiple boats, some were/are steam powered, some have been "upgraded" to more "modern" diesel (I assume diesel electric). Like everything they do, the engines are spotless and like I said, look like they were just delivered by the factory. Pretty amazing for being over 110 years old,

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Here's a "not bad" video of the engine on the Schiller, which if memory serves me correct, is the same boat on which I took the above picture;

 
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