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eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
24,361
15,113
directly above the center of the earth
That hangs on my studio wall as a cover from the Weekly World News from 1991. The caption reads: "Farmer shots 23 pound grasshopper". It's cropped at the bottom, so I've never seen the above text. Any back story ? Everyone who comes to the studio asks about it.
https://books.google.com/books?id=H-4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=23+pound+grasshopper&source=bl&ots=rIEvb6e8dv&sig=Rk5d10HkPcjzIfdnxK8eYpXcNK4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RVVdVZr7CtPZoATW-4P4Ag&ved=0CB0Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=23 pound grasshopper&f=false
 

jackalope

Mental acuity - 1%
Jan 9, 2004
7,701
6,108
in a single wide, cooking meth...
Enabler.

I was going to write a long explanation but will opt for the short one. Direction is wrong if you are describing acceleration, Get your fucking free body diagrams right.
Grumpy engineer is grumpy...hopefully this will right the wrong I committed -



Full disclosure, its been well over 20 years since I've drawn a FBD, so physics has changed a lot in that time :thumb:
 

Wumpus

makes avatars better
Dec 25, 2003
8,161
153
Six Shooter Junction
That hangs on my studio wall as a cover from the Weekly World News from 1991. The caption reads: "Farmer shots 23 pound grasshopper". It's cropped at the bottom, so I've never seen the above text. Any back story ? Everyone who comes to the studio asks about it.
The place where I found claims it's real, but I doubt that.



Not here but pretty neat-o. -- http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/