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    Deepwater Bathymetry

    Greetings, I'm looking for whatever bathymetry I can find in the region around the Aleutian trench. I'm already talking to people from the NGDC, NOAA, USGS, NIMA, and we have some CDs from the OAML. If anyone knows of anything else, I'd love to hear about it. By the way, this is just a...
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    Any Car Can Be Fast

    Rod, I think the VW Paradise rail (flat 4 cyl. aircooled configuration with turbo, nitrous, and injection) made a couple 1/4 mile passes in the high 6s. Chris Bubetz's turbo Bug got into the 8s, I've seen slow motion video where the suspension is unloading when he hits 2nd, and three of his...
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    intake cross section & torque

    Hi, I was talking to someone yesterday about trying to improve performance by converting a 1641cc VW engine from single port heads to dual ports. He made the statement that I might actually be better off in this instance (dunebuggy with big tires - thus high geared) sticking with the single...
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    Automotive Fuel Cells

    How many people ride horses to work anymore? ....but we still have all kinds of horse racing, horse jumping, horse shows, etc, etc, so when Rod's zipping around in his spaceship, I suspect I'll still be shining the chrome on my VWs for a Sunday drive! When (if) fossil fuels run out, I might...
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    seismic activity and undersea slope stability

    I'm conducting research for a project which requires me to make some predictions on undersea slope stability in the event of an occurence of seismic activity. Apparently this will be an exercise in comparing and combining historical data with quantitative models, and an inexact science at best...
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