Harry P.

I built the roof of wooden slats (which will eventually be covered with "waterproof" canvas in a later step). First up, I cut a bunch of wooden slats to length and width. These were actually cut from the leftover wooden "sprues" from various wooden model ship kits! (Never throw anything out... you never know if some apparently useless stuff will come in handy some day)... Next, I "weathered" the wood by dunking the slats into some diluted black and brown acrylic paint, wiping them off, and popping them into the dehydrator to speed up drying. And here they are, all glued in place to form the tractor's roof...

Why has nobody ever climbed the ice wall to see what was on the other side?

Oh... and also... today, November 18... it was 62 degrees! It's actually been in the 60s for about a week or two now. Me likey...

I had brunch the other day with my two daughters. They live downstate, about a three-hour drive, but worth every minute on the road to see them.

I love those two hot rods! Welcome aboard... we're glad to have you!

I wonder how many flatheads are also pastafarians?

Good looking little car! And I agree with Bill, that's a very sharp color. Of course, being 6'7", I'd never be able to fit into one...

What is that shade attached to?

It's not that I'm worried about them. It's that I can't understand how anyone with a "normal" level of intelligence and a "normal" level of logic and reason can possibly believe something that is so easily disproved! It's not like religion. Very smart people can believe in a given religion, while others can think those beliefs are weird and completely disagree with them, but nobody can actually prove their religious beliefs are wrong... so we give them a certain leeway no matter how much we may believe otherwise. We don't necessarily think of them as stupid or uninformed, because our own religious beliefs are also unprovable and no more or less valid than the other guy's beliefs. But you can easily prove that the Earth is not flat in such simple terms that a child could understand the concept. So how can someone, in spite of indisputable proof otherwise, still believe the Earth is flat? I don't get it. I would love to meet one of these people and talk to them one-on-one, just to see what they think about other topics...

But you miss the point, grasshopper... The flatheads believe that the Earth is stationary and the sun, moon, and planets all revolve around it. Ok. So if that is the case, the flat Earth must be horizontal, right? Otherwise all the water in the oceans would slosh to one side. So the flat Earth must be horizontal. And since we have day and night, the sun must therefore revolve around the flat Earth in a vertical orbit, so that the flat Earth is illuminated during the day, while the sun is making its orbit overhead... and the flat Earth is dark while the sun is orbiting "under" the Earth. Right? So if that's the case, it would be daylight everywhere on Earth at the same time, and it would be dark (night) everywhere on Earth at the same time. Either the sun would be in that part of its orbit where it is above the flat Earth's horizon (daytime) or below it (nighttime). But in reality, we have different areas of the Earth sunlit (daytime) and in darkness (nighttime) at the same time. That can only possibly happen if the Earth is round, and the part facing the sun is in daylight while the side away from the sun is dark (night). Like I said... flat Earth theory blown away. Period.

Mmmmmm...cheese...I like cheese...

There is one so obvious fact that blows the idea of a flat Earth so completely out of the water that I can't understand how anyone can possibly believe the Earth is flat. And that is this: at any given time, it is daytime on one side of the Earth, and nighttime on the opposite side. Because the Earth is round and while one side is facing the sun, the other side isn't! This can be proven beyond any doubt. And this phenomenon would be impossible if the Earth was actually flat. Case closed. So how can there still be people who believe the Earth is flat when it is so easily disproved?

Yes, mirrors would be nice... Nice model. Weird color, but nice.

After I painted the wheels, I mounted the tires, and then drove a drill bit tightly into the axle hole. Then I chucked the bit into a variable-speed drill... Using a fairly slow speed and very coarse sandpaper, I sanded the tires down. Here is a "before and after" comparison...

The "leather" belt is made of a thin strip of heavy white paper painted brown...

The finished roof supports, and more misc. details added...

More roof supports modified... these are for the rear roof support...

This site only allows a very small amount of space to upload images directly from your computer, because this site is NOT meant to be a photo hosting site. Can you imagine the amount of storage space we would need if this site hosted all of the photos we constantly post here? The right way to do it it to open a photo hosting account, like Photobucket. Photo hosting sites are designed to do just that... host (or store) your images on their servers. Load all your images into albums on your photo hosting site, then you post the link to your photois here in your posts, not the actual photo. The photo stays parked on your photo hosting site's server, taking up their space, yet we can still see the image here in your posts because you posted the link to the image here, not the image itself. I have used Photobucket for many years, have hundreds (maybe thousands) of photos posted there, and still am at only 22% of my FREE account capacity.

Why not? And who is?

My favorite Chris Issak song (yeah, I know it was written by Neil Diamond)... but I really like the "special guest" on this one..,

Would Buddy Holly be considered rockabilly? I would think so. And I like him, too! Especially Rave On and That'll Be the Day. For some reason, when I think "rockabilly" I see a standup bass in the mix.

I like Chris Isaak. Not a huge fan, but I think he's good. I guess it all depends on how wide a net you cast with the term "rockabilly." Fer instance... would Rockpile/Dave Edmunds fit into your definition? Stray Cats? I like both.

One more question... if an airliner comes to the "end of the Earth," what happens to it?

Oooooh... ok... that explains it, then! Ooops... not quite. Why is the water in the oceans liquid, yet there's an ice wall around the edges of the flat Earth? Wouldn't all areas of a flat Earth be pretty much the same distance from the sun? How do the flatheads explain that? How do they explain that while it is daylight here, it is night in other parts of the world? How could it possibly be simultaneously daytime and nighttime at the same time in different areas of a flat Earth? Sheesh... this flat Earth thing is so easy to blow holes through, I can't believe there are actual human adults that believe it. How scary those people must be!

What I can't understand is that there are literally dozens of ways to prove the Earth is not flat. But there is not even one way to prove that it is flat... yet some people believe that it is actually flat! In the face of overwhelming proof that the Earth is round, you have to be seriously short on logic and critical thinking to actually believe the Earth is flat.