I put some new sources on the "Texas Longhorn" Talk page. I'd be interested in your opinion. Cheers, Johntex 00:45, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Nice pics, thanks! - can you do the same for Juniperus osteosperma? I've just started the page for it - MPF 17:21, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
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Thanks for the great tarantula picture. Would you please consider uploading your picture to the "commons"? That way people all over the world could use your photos in Wikipedia articles without having to do anything about copying them over to their own areas. Thanks. P0M 01:16, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
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Can you take the typo out of this pic? It's 'yield', not 'yeild'. Also, it is better to use reference numbers in a pic rather than text, so it can be used in other language articles.
Also, the scale of the pic is not correct; the yield strain is less than 1% of rupture strain. MH 18:01, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
>What do you mean about "reference numbers"
>It's hard to show both the slope of the elastic portion of the curve and the full width of the plastic portion in a plot that doesn't take up the entire page.
> I've made another go of it - What do you think?
> another go...
The line shows the engineering stress (using the original cross section), the dotted line shows the true stress (using the true cross section, with contraction).
I think your sources must be in error, unless it refers to some other asphalt lake (though I am only aware of just the two asphalt lakes in the region - the one in Trinidad and the one across the Gulf in Venezuela). I have never come across anything called Lake Trinidad. Walter Raleigh reports that the area was called La Brea (as the town still is called). Pitch Lake loosely translates La Brea. The oldest map of Trinidad I have seen is from ~1800, just after the British conquest. While I don't have a copy of it, I have looked quite carefully at reproductions of the map, and I feel that something as unusual as "Lake Trinidad" would.
I have asked my sister to see what she can find - she has done consulting work in La Brea a couple times, so she's more likely to have come across the name than I would have. Guettarda 18:53, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I got two beautiful pictures (see Commons:Mustang) of Utah mustangs by Jaime Jackson and I added one into Mustang (horse) article.--Alex brollo 05:59, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
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I appreciate your even handed discussions. It's always refreshing when someone who knows what they are talking about takes the time to spell it out. Thanks again.--MONGO 02:36, 28 April 2006 (UTC) |
Hi Toiyabe, As a civil engineer, I wonder could you help answer some of my questions about the NIST report on the collapse. (The discussion on Talk:Collapse of the World Trade Center is getting very cluttered with noisy arguements, so I thought I'd move our converstaion here)
One of the components of the NIST explaination for the collapse is the sagging of the floor trusses due to heating. The metal trusses heat and expand, and then bend downwards, ultimately pulling the outer wall inward to begin collapse. But I don't understand why these trusses would bend downwards. Heated metal expands in all directions, but the important increase in dimention would be in length. So the expanding truss should lengthen and push the walls outward. They should only buckle if the outer wall is strong enough to resist the expansion outward pressure. And this buckling would only continue while the outer wall provided resistance. Remove the resistance and further truss expansion should push outward again. I don't understand why NIST assume the trusses could buckle, bend downwards, and then later continue buckling with enough tension to pull the outer wall inward. Am I missing something?
(This is a genuine question. I'm not suggesting any conspiracies. My understanding is that the buckled floors were seen by eyewitnesses and I have seen videos of the outer wall caving inward before collapse.)
Thanks for your help. Seabhcán 11:59, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
I am trying to understand why there are so few Wikipedians who are graduate engineers. Once I get a grasp on that, perhaps I may be able to formulate some ideas on how to attract more experienced engineers to become Wikipedians. It would be very helpful if you would respond to these a few questions:
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"Man, this is a lot of work dealing with you guys" as you put it...and amen to that. It's a combination of politics, misinformation and even as far as anti-American bias that fuels these people. I forget where I saw it, but someone prominent stated that this is the mother of all conspiracy theories. Maybe in time it will calm down, but even with all JFK now gone more than 40 years...there are still those that question (maybe for good reason) if there was a lone gunman. I would be more likely to believe in Bigfoot, UFO's and multiple hitmen for JFK then the conspiracy theories about 9/11. Thanks for your well put, calm and educated comments.--MONGO 01:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
hello Toiyabe. i nominated the cui-ui article you created (and cited you as the originator) for main page mention in the "Did you Know?" column. The editors have consequently selected your article for main page mention. good work with creation of this article.
best regards and i look forward to editing with you on other articles Covalent 04:00, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Toiyabe, regarding your edit to Geotechnical engineering, is the old CBR design method no longer in use anywhere? I practice in California, where we've switched over completely to R-Value-based design, but I was under the impression that the AASHTO design method is still in use. Argyriou 21:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Knowinging your interest in engineering and soil properties, I think you may be interested in responding to questions I posted at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Soil#Soil_types:
Conflicting particle size criteria needs to be resolved and affects the following articles: ...
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Hi. I just added a section the Collapse of the World Trade Center article that might need your expert vetting. I think I got most of your suggestion in there. Anyway, check it out.--Thomas Basboll 23:46, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Good work. I like the way you reworked the paragraph. It got me thinking though whether the point good be made in wholly non-technical language. I'll read it a few times and maybe suggest something in the talk section.--Thomas Basboll 19:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestions. I've had a go at it. There's probably still some mopping up to do.--Thomas Basboll 19:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I thought I'd elaborate my response from the Talk:Collapse of the World Trade Center page a bit, and get your thoughts on it if you have time. My concern has been to show that it is natural to compare aspects of the WTC collapses with aspects of CD. At bottom, I've been trying to convince myself that the fact that I've allowed the collapses to puzzle me for a few months isn't a sign that I'm completely, you know, whacked out. Like Sunder, Bazant here shows a modicum of respect for the layman who entertains the thought that you need CD to get the apparent facts to jibe with physical theory. The fact that building demolitions can generate data for understanding the WTC collapses validates this intuition at least partly. For the purpose of this WP article, it's an argument for mentioning CD, in passing, as we have done. But looking into Bazant's work is curiouser and curiouser. He seems to have responded (PDF) to a Russian emigre engineer named Cherepanov, who has what is almost a conspiracy theory about the engineering community [1], and, while he also doesn't argue for CD, proposes strange (new?) principles, "fracture mechanics", to explain precisely the features of the collapse that the CDers emphasize. Cherepanov even explicitly says he can sort of understand what might have led David Ray Griffin to believe that CD would be necessary; and Bazant, in this paper we're talking about, also at least gives CTers a passing mention. Finally, Bazant emphasizes the surprise that engineers felt when the buildings came down. All this is nice to hear for someone who has too often heard CDers dismissed for even thinking there was a mystery.--Thomas Basboll 07:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Given your interest in conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11, I thought you might be interested in one that was up for review. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks I urge you to carefully examine Wikipedia's policies and rules, and then carefully consider whether you have an opinion on the matter. Your friend. Morton DevonshireYo
Further background about harm: I dislike it for implication and POV reasons. One can harm an animal while destroying its habitat or harm it by hitting it with a car or even by passing a law which protects its predators from being hunted. OTOH selective hunting, especially of ruminents, is designed both to take an animal home and to help the herd. If someone wanted to harm an animal they could do no worse than pass an anti-hunting law which would allow it to overbreed.
I also object to the use of kill as it is pejortive and is not the standard US terminology. Reading just about any US conservation related material you'll see that my favorite word, harvest is actually the correct term, however some of the Brits object to that word as being a weasel word. Trilobitealive 21:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi! User:Rotten Stone wants to start up a project on trucks to make that area better, like it has been done on automobiles, motorcyckles etc. Since you have put several notes on truck and trailer related pages, I was wondering if You would like to join? So far it seems we have only 3 europeans listed, so maybe a US pov could be nice. Please feel free to check User:Rotten Stone/WikiProject Trucks and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Trucks to see what it's about. --G®iffen 12:53, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Toiyabe, I've proposed a pretty major change on a section I know you worked hard on at the collapse of the WTC article. [2] Just want to make sure we don't proceed without you. Best, --Thomas Basboll 20:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thought you might want to participate in a discussion at Talk:Ephedra regarding whether the genus article or medicine article should be at Ephedra, and what to call the medicine article if there is a switch.--Eloil 04:50, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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