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Sure cartman found a way to hmm excrete out of his mouth. And we all know that southpark is always correct. If southpark can do it, anything is possible. Kidding of course. But I guess it would make an interesting news title.

That's pretty neat.

That's a very good thing to know - that SHE wants the help and it wasn't forced on her. That means she recognizes there is a problem and wants to change, and she'll be more willing to do so. Family can be so frustrating at times, going through that now. I have a mother who's really sick in and out of the hospital, they don't know that's going on...another grandmother who's in the same boat, a lot of alcoholics, it goes on and on...but she's not alone, and when she comes around to realize that she'll be able to help herself more. Family problems don't last forever, no problem does. God bless the both of you, and I'll keep yall in my prayers.

Ah misread sorry. Still odd though.

Normal body temp for a hamster is 97.1-99.5F (36.2-37.5C)

Unfortunately they don't, however I'll continue looking around. Someone mentioned looking at Universities, which is my best advice. Most of the programs I know are offered through Universities and colleges here. They give you a chance to get hands on experience with that program, and meet people in the field. So even if you can't get into a workshop for the programs you want, at least try to speak with as many people as you can. Also...if you talk to one person always try to get a second opinion about the field...especially if it's something negative. What one person loves about a job, another may hate. So talk to many and start networking now. Again, I'll keep searching. I have a good friend in the UK who may know something, just hard to get in touch with him with the time difference.

Being a 16 year old today is hard...we were all 16 once too. So many pressures from friends, family, work, money, boys (at least some let that bother them) it's important for girls to fit in. Everyones already hit the nail on the head. Be her friend. Don't change your ways for her, be the friend she knows. It'll help her in the long run. Also, in todays world it's very easy for someone to just prescribe meds get their money and go on about their business. It would be really good for them to try to figure out why she feels this way, then work on a treatment plan based on HER. It's easy to call someone depressed and give them meds...without helping them at all.

I don't know of any in the UK, know a few in the US. I know you didn't want to, but if your willing to travel let me know and I'll see what I can do. Otherwise I apologize for not being of more help.

I understand now. I was thinking a little too literal. I fly airplanes, and this is something that's just beyond rediculous. I had to put aside the REAL way to fly a plane and try to visualize this. Once I did, I caught on. The airboat and ice examples helped a lot. Thanks padren and tycho.

Medication. Atlas Air carries race horses all the time and it works wonderful. I also know a lady who flies greyhounds around the US to new owners who adopt them. There's many things you can do with airplanes and animals. Have to put your mind to work.

My boss at my old lab up in Ithaca flew a charter jet a few times each month - and he was president of the research institute. You can do both.

You could certainly do both. I'm not into flying just a few times each month though, that's my passion and my life. I'm trying to get with an airline, which takes up a lot of your time. Flying is everything to me, and I just don't think I'd be 100% happy elsewhere. I wont graduate school with much to owe, which is what I'm aiming for. I'll find a way to combine both, probably not as a DVM (I'll leave that as a backup) but there's plenty of ways to get involved with both animals and aviation. Obviously nothing in our future is written in stone, so who knows how things will play out. Only time will tell.

I'm gonna have to go with YT here. That's the same concept as a power on stall. You can stall an aircraft will full power, we do it all the time for practice. Once the stall "breaks" you have to lower the nose, decrease angle of attack and get the air flowing over the wings again. Maybe if you throw in a 50kt gust you'll get it airborne, that certainly happens in storms.

Maybe I'm still looking at things too much through the windscreen here...but I just don't see the thing flying.

Airspeed is everything. If you can get an IAS of around 50, it'll take off. I still can't visualize this happening and still have my doubts, but I'll take yalls word for it. Not like this is something we use in aviation everyday anyway. lol. Yall know physics very well, I don't - heck of a lot smarter than I'll ever be. *bows down*

I get what your saying. Next time I go flying I'll see if they can't build me a big belt and we'll try this - joking of course. :D Thanks a ton.

I get what you mean...but how are you developing the lift with no airflow then? I think that's why I'm confused here. Thanks.

That has a lot to do with how an airplane flies. Though certainly, as long as there's enough lift...it will fly. You also don't need to reach takeoff speed in order to get airborne, consider ground effect...the aircraft will get off the ground before having sufficient airspeed to climb. (ie soft field takeoffs)

I don't think I get the scenario then. If the belt moves as fast as the aircraft is supposed to be going, how are you getting airflow over the wings? No airflow, no lift...unless you throw in a huge gust or something. That's always fun to handle in a real plane.

Keep in mind that an aircraft can stall at ANY airspeed, not just Vso/Vs. Stalls occur when the critical angle of attack is exceeded.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original post has the aircraft sitting at the end of the "rwy"...as the airspeed accelerates, the belt would equal the speed going in the opposite direction. If there is no forward motion of the aircraft, you wont get any indication of airspeed in the cockpit (IAS - indicated airspeed). The ASI works based on the comparison from the pitot tube (senses ram air) and the static port. We use IAS to base our rotation speed, since groundspeed and IAS can be VERY different due to head/tail/cross winds. I've had an indicated airspeed of 100, but the GPS showed my GS as being 130.

Like someone mentioned, the only real airflow will be from the prop...which isn't sufficient enough to produce the lift required to rotate. It does however effect lift...this is why the nose drops when you reduce power...and climbs when you add power.

If you don't have enough lift, your not going very far.

Did I misread the original post?

Dang this is definitely an outstanding forum. I had no idea how many states there were. I've been browsing the site now for a few hours, and decided I had to join. I'll try not to ask any stupid questions, seeing as yall are well beyond my knowledge but I definitely plan to learn a lot.

I'm in undergrad school for biology/pre veterinary medicine. It's not the field I'm going directly into, but I find it very facinating to me. I'm deep into aviation, not exactly a scientific field if you will...but biology/veterinary medicine is a wonderful back up for me in the event, God forbid, I could never fly.