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KCN wrote: Leapfrogging:

I'd take that "greenspace" over surface lots, anyday.

Well, when the big one happens, there will be two kinds of buildings: those that were earthquake-proof, and those that weren't. If its bigger than a 7.5, then they're all going to look the same....rubble.  No matter how you slice it, there are still no residential codes for earthquakes in Cape Gir...

Eminent Domain is fine with me, as long as it is used for purely great reasons, and everyone supports its usage, such as derelict old buildings that need to come down.  Sometimes it just has to be used.....like in the "Just Right" building demolition, but other times it is purely wrong to ...

The KFVS-TV building in Cape Girardeau is about 10 stories and three blocks from the Mississippi, and I vaguely remember reading that it's earthquake-proof. If a big earthquake happens, it wont matter whether or not the building is listed as "earthquake proof".  I remember the titanic bei...

....But then it may be 100 years or more before there are any significant earthquakes. Or it could happen tommorow.  Everyone talks about how southern California is overdue for the "big one", but what many people don't realize is that right now, the New Madrid fault line is a bigger risk...

Magnum and Mamba are not the same thing.  Mamba has a helix for one, whereas Magnum is a pretzel.  Magnum has tunnels, Mamba does not.  Mamba reaches top speeds on 2 drops, Magnum does not.  Mamba is smooth, Magnum is not.  They were not even designed by the same companies.  If you want a goo...

I hate to be picky, but I will be anyway. Cedar Fair operates seven amusement parks...not dozens. Also, when Cedar Fair adds a large coaster it usually isn't a copy of another. The inverted coaster they just added at Knott's isn't a copy and the floorless at Dorney Park has a friggen loop as soon a...

Incredible Hulk is not a floorless coaster. It's just a regular old sit-down looping coaster (with a launch). Check out the link I provided above for Hydra for an example of a floorless coaster. Or, check out this link: http://www.rcdb.com/ig502.htm Matt Yeah, you're right, I rode it and I thought ...

What kind of equity are you talking about?  How about $280 million in airport renovations?  $27 million for a new police academy?  $7 million for the Shoal Creek police station?  100 new police officers north of the river?  What about all of the new roads, highways, bridges that are being buil...

Wow, I wasn't expecting a new coaster.  Good News!  Inverted sounds pretty cool, I've never actually been on one. You really arent missing out on much.  I found that the only good seat on these kinds of coasters are the front seats, and it takes forever to get through the lines because of this.  ...

So Batman is an example of a floorless coaster, right? No, ill explain... Regular inverted is with you dangling in a chair with your head closer to the track.  The track is above you, Like batman.  Floorless are much less common right now.  The seating is similar, as in the arrangement and amount o...

Oh, and the name is pretty much confirmed for our new coaster. It will be called "The Patriot" and permits point to the ride being at the front of the park behind or in the place of what is now Beat Street (behind RipCord). I thought Rip Cord was more centered in the park.  I just read th...

Wow, I wasn't expecting a new coaster.  Good News!  Inverted sounds pretty cool, I've never actually been on one. I wouldnt get too excited.  Were likely going to get a generic copy of something else, seeing how ceder fair owns ceder point and worlds of fun, along with dozens of other parks.  Ced...

Anybody on here a wiz at Photoshop, that would like to help me out on a couple of tasks? One will likely get published in the paper- If so, send me a private message. Just so everybody knows, im great at photoshop and can do wonders with it, the only problem I have is that I am strapped for time. 

I have a 1984 - 2004 News Library impeccably documented and indexed. This News Library covers all news events and every C-SPAN program recorded from dawn to dusk each day from 1984 - 2004. It consists of 20,000 or more VHS tapes used once to record and edit out all commercials boxed and inventoried...

I've heard that too, that there is a difference between the two sources of stem cells.  Regardless, we are holding the rights of potential people above the rights of actual people.  According to that line of thinking it will not be long before masterbation is made ilegal (and I'm not kidding). Sa...

I suppose the design could be better, but a wall of glass might seem semi cool from street level.  I dont really care much for any of the designs were stuck with now, I just hope we can get an arena built. 

Any idea of the average cost per sq. ft on arena's?

I thought that embryonic stem cells were favored because they're better. I don't know why, but remember reading that in several news reports. No, there just easier to collect when you dont have to seperate them from the blood cells.  It takes alittle longer and costs alittle more to do stem cell re...

Kearney does have a bit of a downtown.  Its a square alot like liberty's, but theres more businesses.  I bet there are some nice rural roads to.