Stealth Bomber Geometry
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Dauntless
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Sacred geometric patterns, above, built based on a proportional relationship between the diagonal of a square and the square root of two (a sacred number).
The stealth bomber, below, clearly expresses the same pattern.
Cosmic stuff, eh? I remember some guy getting on a forum and saying he needed troops, demanding to know where he could get troops. So of course I got some good laughs with my response to him, but I did get him a link to see the 'Star Wars' parody, 'Troops.' (On patrol with the men and women of the Imperial Storm Troops on that fateful day in the Tatooine desert.)
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26628
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Philistine
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Someone else asked this about a year or so ago (maybe less) - I think it is on the Stealth owners thread maybe. Of course none of the owners were prepared to offer up the measurements/specs, and that then of course led into one of the regular debates on this forum about whether Stealth Bombers are overpriced or not. If I recall rightly I tried to introduce the concept that something can be very expensive but still be good value. Uncharacteristically for me I think I made use of the analogy of high class hookers, which are very expensive, but that doesn't mean they aren't good value. I just want everyone to stop for a moment and think about high class hookers, take a deep breath, and let's not start that debate again please.
sico
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So, analogously, if someone were to ask for the geometry of a high class hooker, they could expect similar backlash on this forum. :|
Philistine
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
I think the problem is that if we try to keep the analogy going, the Stealth Owners are like clients of the high class hooker, who have paid good money, and the OP is like a person tapping on the hotel door saying "Excuse me buddy? Do you mind if I come in and take some measurements? I am thinking it would be waaaay cheaper if I just built my own.... You don't mind do you?"
But maybe I am getting mixed up, because to be honest as long as they were very quick and didn't waste too much of my paid hour, I would be happy for the OP to come in with his digital calipers and take some measurements, no skin off my nose as it were, might give me a chance to catch my wheezy breath and rest my sore arms from having to support my own body weight.
Maybe the analogy should be that the Stealth owners view their bikes like their wives, so the OP is knocking on the door of their marital bedroom asking to come in and take measurements of the missus.
Actually the more I try to think of a justifying analogy the more I come up stumped. Come to think of it if I owned a stealth I would be more than happy for someone to get the geometry/measurements of it, but then again I probably would be happy for someone to get the geometry of my wife, but at the end of the day there would be a lot of measuring in both cases, and I am way too lazy for that. How did we get here again?
How overpriced are Bombers eh? I could build one myself waaay cheaper.....[please note this last sentence is in the font "12 point Facetious"]
John in CR
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Philistine, you chose the absolute worst example possible of you get what you pay for, because with hookers it's only you get something you want for whatever amount of money you're willing to pay. Plus what can be had for free is always better. 8)
Philistine
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Maybe I am misunderstanding your point John, but if you are suggesting that hookers are homogenously price inelastic I disagree.
I actually think hookers are a pretty good example of "you get what you pay for", they operate in a very competitive and liquid market, and the range of quality of service (along with price) is extremely wide, and the exponential improvements in the amenity of the good as the price increases can be viscerally appreciated by the consumer. If you take another luxury item, such as wine for example, in my opinion a very limited number of people can genuinely taste the difference in amenity between a $50 bottle of wine, and a $5,000 bottle of wine (in fact I would propose that even if they could taste the difference, they are tasting a difference in qualities, not the quality itself), but any man with a beating heart can blind taste the difference in quality between a $50 an hour hooker and a $5,000 an hour hooker, and there will be no argument by anyone anywhere as to which is of the higher quality. And there is an interesting reason as to why there is this difference between those luxury goods, hookers are done in private (usually), whilst wine drinking is done in company (usually). So in my opinion people pay $5,000 for a bottle of wine for the amenity of status (which means the premium has no relationship to the quality of the good really), whereas people don't pay $5,000 for a high class hook to show off, noone is watching, they do it because they have tried it before, and they consider the amenity they will get to be worth it. There will of course be those who shake their head and think that is way too much money to spend, but that doesn't mean the consumer isn't paying a fair market price for a very real and genuine (as in visceral, as opposed to conceptual) amenity.
That will of course depend on your definition of "better". There is a large amount of literature dedicated to the human tendancy, when given a binary option, to choose an item of less amenity for free, over an item of vastly higher amenity for a very cheap price, and is rooted deep in the human preference for risk aversion. So I suspect you might be right that our strong preference for free/low amenity over cheap/high amenity, will mean that funnily enough we probably experience more subjective pleasure in the acquisition and consumption of the thing we didn't really want for free, over the thing we did want which was cheap. But if I only ate at the soup kitchens that let my kind in for free, I would have a pretty unsavoury diet.
How did I make this whole thread a philosophical meditation on hookers?.... We aren't even in the Biker Bar...... I'll get my coat......
Apologies to the OP.
Quick, someone start a fight about how overpriced Stealth Bombers are....
crusoe
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Haha, I read the thread topic and thought no way, I just asked that very question (1 yr ago or something). And boom link to my thread already!
Good job asking the question though RAPHZ400 - that's the first step. Sure you might get ripped on a little bit, like I did, but the wealth of knowledge that presented itself afterwards was worth the haggling! The links in my thread helped me a lot so they should prove useful to you also.
Good job asking the question though RAPHZ400 - that's the first step. Sure you might get ripped on a little bit, like I did, but the wealth of knowledge that presented itself afterwards was worth the haggling! The links in my thread helped me a lot so they should prove useful to you also.
full-throttle
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So you are saying to find the geometry of a classy hooker you need to hit the web for some p0rn :?Ratking said:
docnjoj
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Thanks guys! You just made my day with this thread! I can't wait to show it to my wife when she gets home from work. Nah, not hooking!
otherDoc
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RAPHZ400 said:
Only hurts the Stealth fanboy group(SFG btw), the rest of us is open source and like to share. Its all about protecting IP I guess, but I have never understood the drama around the bomber.
I don't get why some people are so hostile when they don't even own Stealth.
full-throttle
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Hostile??
We're just taking a piss :lol:
We're just taking a piss :lol:
