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19-July-2006, 04:45 PM
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Wouldn't a nice Google logo look nice over the fireplace. 
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19-July-2006, 04:57 PM
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Yes, a fireplace desktop background
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19-July-2006, 07:28 PM
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Is it only me, or is the Wright flyer going backwards?
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19-July-2006, 07:37 PM
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Of course it's going backwards. It's patterened after a duck, and like all canards, ducks do indeed fly backwards.
What they should do is develop even larger bills, fly forwards (this would take some serious rearranging of the feathers, I'm afraid), and use that bill like a giant rudder. Alas, they must cope with the much smaller and less effective tail feathers, which lead to a surprising number of crash landings as they attempt to set down on slippery surfaces, such as ice.
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19-July-2006, 07:59 PM
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I meant that on the google logo, it flies as if it's NOT a canard design, and that's backwards.
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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep. Big Don Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.
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19-July-2006, 08:45 PM
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It's cool - if that were the front, the canards would be horizontal, not vertical. See here. You just can't see the front in the stylized illustration.
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20-July-2006, 02:32 PM
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Ok, so it was just me.
I'd forgotten they put the rudder behind and only the elecator in front.
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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep. Big Don Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.
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