Comments on: NEW LIFE PRESERVER HAS TWO PROPELLERS http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:33:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1046293 Firebrand38 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:46:50 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1046293 Neil You're welcome. Nothings too good for Captain Video! The paradox of Wikipedia is that because of the contributions by the Great Unwashed you have to have already have some knowledge of the subject in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. Neil
You’re welcome. Nothings too good for Captain Video!

The paradox of Wikipedia is that because of the contributions by the Great Unwashed you have to have already have some knowledge of the subject in order to separate the wheat from the chaff.

]]> By: Neil Russell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1046288 Neil Russell Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:26:12 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1046288 FB, agree about the use of Wiki, but it's usually the first thing that pops up on a search. Fascinating links as always, thanks! FB, agree about the use of Wiki, but it’s usually the first thing that pops up on a search. Fascinating links as always, thanks!

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1046280 Firebrand38 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:30:48 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1046280 Neil I use Wikipedia very cautiously. Try this one for a dollar value of total losses http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/lange-photos-of-japanese-internment-show-a-different-light/ "“There is no way to really know how much they lost,” Mr. Okihiro said in an interview, but he cited a 1983 study commissioned by a Congressional committee estimating that, adjusted for inflation and interest, internees had lost $2.5 billion to $6.2 billion in property and entitlements." The "1983 study" can be found here http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/personal_justice_denied/chap4.htm I set it to chapter 4 which addresses property losses. Neil
I use Wikipedia very cautiously. Try this one for a dollar value of total losses http://timpanogos.wordpress.co.....ent-light/

““There is no way to really know how much they lost,” Mr. Okihiro said in an interview, but he cited a 1983 study commissioned by a Congressional committee estimating that, adjusted for inflation and interest, internees had lost $2.5 billion to $6.2 billion in property and entitlements.”

The “1983 study” can be found here http://www.nps.gov/history/his...../chap4.htm I set it to chapter 4 which addresses property losses.

]]> By: Githyanki http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1046274 Githyanki Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:10:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1046274 Stannous: the propeller fins look to be angled in opposite directions. Stannous: the propeller fins look to be angled in opposite directions.

]]> By: Neil Russell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045898 Neil Russell Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:03:20 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045898 FB; you got me to investigating exactly what did happen to the property of interred Japanese. There's a short tidbit at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment#Property_Losses but it doesn't go into a lot of detail. I'm still digging. As much as I have devoted time to studying the War, what went on inside our own borders is something of a blank spot to me. FB; you got me to investigating exactly what did happen to the property of interred Japanese. There’s a short tidbit at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.....rty_Losses but it doesn’t go into a lot of detail. I’m still digging. As much as I have devoted time to studying the War, what went on inside our own borders is something of a blank spot to me.

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045894 Firebrand38 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:20:06 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045894 He probably had to leave it in his house with his other possessions. He probably had to leave it in his house with his other possessions.

]]> By: Neil Russell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045892 Neil Russell Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:37:04 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045892 "By Feb 1943 this gentleman would have been in a relocation center for a year already." You think they let him take his floaty with him? ;) “By Feb 1943 this gentleman would have been in a relocation center for a year already.”

You think they let him take his floaty with him? ;)

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045886 Stannous Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:01:38 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045886 LOL @ Ryan I looked at this hours ago and the same thought has bugged me all day- If the cranks are at the same level as the propellers then using them would create a splashing motion that pushed back against water thereby halting all forward progress. That is assuming that the two cranks turn in opposite directions (so that the hand movement is going in the same direction). Or, if they are turning in the same direction wouldn't he then just spin in circles? LOL @ Ryan

I looked at this hours ago and the same thought has bugged me all day-

If the cranks are at the same level as the propellers then using them would create a splashing motion that pushed back against water thereby halting all forward progress. That is assuming that the two cranks turn in opposite directions (so that the hand movement is going in the same direction).
Or, if they are turning in the same direction wouldn’t he then just spin in circles?

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045863 Firebrand38 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:07:38 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045863 "Just think, 10 years later and he would have been arrested for spy activities" By Feb 1943 this gentleman would have been in a relocation center for a year already. “Just think, 10 years later and he would have been arrested for spy activities”

By Feb 1943 this gentleman would have been in a relocation center for a year already.

]]> By: Ryan http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045861 Ryan Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:04:56 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045861 Why refer to the guy as a "hand crank"? :) Why refer to the guy as a “hand crank”? :)

]]> By: Neil Russell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045853 Neil Russell Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:27:55 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045853 I seem to remember a clip of this guy featured in the movie "Gizmo". Just think, 10 years later and he would have been arrested for spy activities I seem to remember a clip of this guy featured in the movie “Gizmo”.
Just think, 10 years later and he would have been arrested for spy activities

]]> By: john http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045839 john Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:50:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/07/new-life-preserver-has-two-propellers/#comment-1045839 it would be reasonably difficult not to note them! it would be reasonably difficult not to note them!

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