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Best E-mails of the Week December 31, 2006

After serious & cautious consideration.....your contract of friendship has been renewed for the New Year 2007 !

It was a very hard decision to make. So try not to screw it up!!!

My Wish for You in 2007

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words ............

May 2007 be the best year of your life!!!

Happy 2007!

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THIS IS A FIRE RAINBOW, THE RAREST OF ALL NATURALLY OCCURRING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA.

THE PICTURE WAS CAPTURED ON THE IDAHO/WASHINGTON BORDER. THE EVENT LASTED ABOUT 1 HOUR.

CLOUDS HAVE TO BE CIRRUS, AT LEAST 20K FEET IN THE AIR, WITH JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF ICE CRYSTALS AND THE SUN HAS TO HIT THE CLOUDS AT PRECISELY 58 DEGREES.

Either that or you need a good photo shop software package. (:

For car lovers:

"Acceleration" (as defined on Keith Black's website)
>
> One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower
> than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500. Under full
> throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitro methane per
> second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25%
> less energy being produced.
>
> A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the
> dragster's supercharger. With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the
> supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a
> near-solid form before ignition.
>
> Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. At the
> stoichiometric (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by which
> quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are
> determined) 1.7:1 ir/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front
> temperature measures 7,050 deg F.
>
> Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the
> stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric
> water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
>
> Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of
> an arc welder in each cylinder. Spark plug electrodes are totally
> consumed during a pass. After halfway, the engine is dieseling from
> compression, plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1,400 deg F. The engine
> can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
>
> If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in
> the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow
> cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
>
> In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an
> average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph (well before
> half-track), the launch acceleration approaches 8G's.
>
> Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed
> reading this sentence. Top fuel engines turn approximately 540
> revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the engine must
> only survive 900 revolutions under load.
>
> The redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm. Assuming all the
> equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING
> BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000.00 per second.
>
> The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for
> the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is
> 333.00 mph (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66' of the run (09/28/03
> Doug Kalitta).
>
>
>
> Putting all of this into perspective, picture this scenario: You are
> driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette
> Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and ready to
> launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of
> a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast
> across the starting line and pass the dragster at an honest 200 mph. The
> "tree" goes green for both of you at that moment. The dragster launches
> and starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an
> incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds,
> the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a
> quarter mile away from where you just passed him.
>
> Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200
> mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he
> passed you within a mere 1,320 foot long race course.
>
> ... and that my friend, is ACCELERATION!
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