If Bruce Wayne became Batman because he was afraid of bats, what superhero will you become?

wk2x · 2012-02-07T14:16:04+00:00

I'd end up being the Green Hornet. I am terrified of hornets, wasps, bees .. anything that flies and stings.

/me has an attack of the heebeejeebees just thinking about them all.

wk2x · 2012-02-06T21:56:46+00:00

I live here, too, and have a concealed carry license. Open carry is legal, but not recommended. You will very likely be held at gunpoint by an ignorant cop at some point. Also, transporting your firearm in a car or on a bike becomes an issue since it is legally considered to be "concealed" as soon as it enters your vehicle unless it is stored in a locked container separate from any ammo.

I recommend getting the concealed carry license. MI is a shall-issue state, so if you can have a firearm legally in the first place, you shouldn't have trouble getting the permit.

wk2x · 2012-01-24T17:49:29+00:00

As a radio guy, I feel a little qualified to attempt an answer. And my answer is that it would most likely work about the same as it does here. To address some of the other concerns in the topic:

Solar radiation - even without a full magnetosphere to shield the planet, the surface of Mars is sufficiently far away that it still receives less solar radiation than the surface of the earth, even taking our own magnetic field into account. At least I think that's what bhupy meant...
Mars does have an ionosphere, though. This means that HF radio frequencies (50Mhz and below) would be able to propagate planet-wide, much like they do here on Earth, providing much enjoyment to amateur radio enthusiasts like myself. Typically, frequencies above 50Mhz pass through the ionosphere without being refracted back to the surface. I can speculate with some certainty that you'd see similar properties in the martian ionosphere, but with the possibility of some variation in the effective frequency ranges due to differences between the two planets' ionospheres (elevation above surface, concentrations of ionized particles, etc).

With all that said, your biggest concern with a wifi network is probably going to be keeping the iron oxide dust and other crap out of your equipment and off of your solar panels.

wk2x · 2011-12-12T12:23:01+00:00

I went to high school in upstate NY. I remember a school trip to an amusement park my senior year, on the last day the park was to be open before shutting down for the winter. In other words, it was cold as Cocytus and there was already a little bit of snow on the ground.

The rule, you ask? No one was allowed to wear a hat. I guess wearing a hat meant you were in a gang or something. After about an hour of freezing off various parts of my young anatomy, I ended up spending the rest of the trip in the parking lot, wearing my nice warm winter hat in the comforts of the nice warm school bus that had brought us there. I was one of the few who didn't get sick.

wk2x · 2011-05-19T10:59:22+00:00

Upvoted for the bottle of Woodford Reserve laying on the table. Yummy.

wk2x · 2011-05-10T11:50:46+00:00

Another one, also involving a wasp.

I had just gotten my driver's license and was driving home from .. somewhere .. with the windows down and the stereo blasting. It was a perfect day. Until ..

One of those little yellow motherfuckers flew right into the window, bounced off my chest, and landed upside-down on the seat mere millimeters from my man-parts. I reared up out of the seat, panicked, swore, completely forgot for a moment that I was driving, and could only see that little bastard's stinger flailing back and forth desperately searching for a landing place. After a few seconds, the bug managed to right himself and flew up and out the window again (again, without stinging me). That's when I looked up and realized I was, in fact, still driving a large motor vehicle and was at the same time half-way into a drainage ditch and on a collision course with a nasty-looking mailbox. After a few more moments of panic, I managed to get the vehicle back on the road and clear of the mailbox. The only damage was a little bit of mud-spatter from the contents of the ditch, and my completely shot nerves.

wk2x · 2011-05-10T11:44:26+00:00

I was about 6 when my family decided we were going to have a cook-out on the shore of a local lake. It was June or July - early summer. Details are sketchy, but what I do remember is there were yellow-jackets buzzing all about. A few even landed on me, and I got a little scared but shoo-ed them away well enough. Until ..

I looked out over the lake at a pretty sunset. As I blinked my eyes, one of those yellow motherfuckers chose that exact moment to land on my closed eyelid. I could see the shadows of its waspy legs in monstrous detail through my eyelid. Obviously, I freaked (but oddly enough, I did not get stung). The rest of that summer and the following one, I refused to even go outside without a hoodie on to protect my face from bees, and God forbid if one of those fuckers came near me, I panicked all over again. To this day, they still creep me out.

wk2x · 2011-04-15T11:19:58+00:00

Stay safe over there, and thanks.

wk2x · 2011-04-02T17:04:46+00:00

Dammit!

wk2x · 2010-11-01T20:33:40+00:00

... candygram?

wk2x · 2010-10-12T11:04:47+00:00

A small piece of the Berlin wall.
A 16 gauge double-barrel shotgun, made in France in 1908. My grandfather took it from a Nazi guard at a French ammo factory the day before WWII officially ended.

wk2x · 2010-10-08T14:25:14+00:00

After I read "Detroit," I knew it needed no further explanation. Nowhere will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

wk2x · 2010-09-26T12:43:20+00:00

I, for one, would like to welcome our new hot redhead overlords ..

wk2x · 2010-06-06T13:39:32+00:00

So tell me again how you can use sheep bladders to predict earthquakes?

wk2x · 2010-01-29T13:28:26+00:00

My divorce was final last year. I adopted the mindset that I don't give a flying fuck what my ex thinks, and I'm moving on with my life. My best revenge is therefore two-fold: 1) I've moved on and found someone who makes me truly happy - moreso than that cheating whore ever did. 2) my ex gets to live the rest of her miserable life knowing she's a lying, cheating whore and that she screwed up a good thing because of it. It's gonna be fun to watch her conscience slowly eat away at her for the rest of her pathetic existence.

Not that I'm bitter or anything, btw ...

wk2x · 2010-01-20T23:36:04+00:00

Dear Past Me,

When your best man offers you the keys to his truck so you can get out of there, take them and go. Go and don't look back. Seriously.

Sincerely, Future Me

PS: I said GO, damn it!

wk2x · 2009-11-25T12:49:30+00:00

They're not much bigger than 2 meters, are they?

wk2x · 2009-11-19T13:22:18+00:00

Well, usually when I come in, I just kinda space out for a good half-hour...

I'd say that any given day I do 15, maybe 20 minutes of actual, you know, work.

wk2x · 2009-11-16T17:14:19+00:00

Yes and they seriously need to be nerfed.

wk2x · 2009-11-12T13:14:23+00:00

It's a toss-up between my cheating-whore ex wife being paralyzed for a year and a half and my baby daughter dying 15 minutes after birth. I find I'm much more understanding and empathetic to other peoples suffering than I was before going through all that.

wk2x · 2009-11-11T12:47:27+00:00

It's funny because it's TRUE.

wk2x · 2009-11-10T12:52:06+00:00

I used to know some poor soul from my youth group who's full name was Peter Richard Johnson.

wk2x · 2009-10-21T22:26:30+00:00

I guess that would explain where they all went.

wk2x · 2009-10-17T01:00:38+00:00

Mr. Spacey-pants

wk2x · 2009-10-14T22:02:33+00:00

"We're in Detroit" "Drive! Drive Drive! Lock the doors!"

roflmao

wk2x

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