Bill Engelhardt

And speaking of the mid 1950s.....

Ted Comstock (Briggs-Comstock)

Any Seattle Rainiers fans? This pic was from the year they won the pennant. They were a lot more fun than the major league stuff today. 

Bill Engelhardt

April 30, 1966

Al Peffley

Imagine,if you will....

• Buying local from a sales person that really cares about the fit & function for your purchasedproduct or service needs; and doesn't track your every online store interface actions, 24/7.
• freedom of speech to discuss observations of concern or interest to you
• a life without fear of man-made, gain-of-function viral pathogens.
• freedom to choose the health services you need or want.
• freedom to choose and buy all of the food that you want or need.
• low energy costs and no unjust control of energy resources (free market selection & development of energy resources.
• law & order in our big cities, like Seatle & Portland, like in the early 60's.
• enabling peace negotiations and not providing weapon supplies to non-American civil wars.
• a secure southern border without human & drug traffickingand inept management.
• a secure and verifiable American voting system.( Ref.; 2000 Mules movie this month.)
• Gregg & Bob's right to openly discuss current affairs concerning America without rebuke.if you don't like their topics, then don't read it -- there are lots of other distractions from the Clowns in America [CIA] Mockingbird programmed news narratives for your reading focus.This forum does not need to mirror censored social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc, does it? I don't see any vulgur language or 3rd party observations offered in either of their posts, just obvious concern.
• more tollerance and respect towards other Pirate's views and concerns about America's challenges and national leadership failures today.(who does not see these failed programs and actions?)

Yes, Macdonald's has unique french fries and a process [originally] to produce them. I worked at Mickey D's in my second year of college (making french fries.) The closest fast food, burger restaurant chain I have found to the original Mickey D's is In & Out Burger (as far as fresh-made processes, not pre-made microwaved food and burger& fries menu choices.)

YesBill, I liked taking the metro busses with my mother to going to my doctor appointments and shopping together in old downtown Seattle, but, I would never do that with my grandkids in today's unsafe and filthy streets urban environment.

Tim, Imagine trying to fill up and pay for diesel fuel for a Greyhound bus today and topay by the foot for an RV or park stall to camp. Some towns today will not allow youto park n city streets with that long of a vehicle. Cummins diesels were always superior to GM engines for large commercial vehicles. Dodge recognized this in their diesel-powered Ram truck offerings.

Yes, Ted, i have very fond memories of my father and I at the Rainiers' games ballpark having a hotdog and a Coke(him a beer) enjoying a ballgame for a family price entrance fee in the left field bleechers. It was a sad week the old Rainier'ballpark was torn down to be replaced by warehouses and an impersonal, new sports "King Dome" with its exagerrated seating/food prices and poor viewing from many "'Upper Seating levels.

It is now 2022. We should all be mature adults by now with a desire to speak our observations, respect others' observations, potect the childrens' future, and without promoting a culture of division and cancel culture discourse that is counter to our Constitutions (state & federal).

As faras the remodeled HHS Facility goes,You can bet that the newer high school instruction programs are as different as the students' perception of the world today. JFK's assassination by evil people in our timeby perpetraitors ingovernment and outside the USA governmnt was a verytrajic loss to our nation in many ways (certainlya great political and a cultural loss to us all, carried forward to today.)

Observed actions,failed foreign policies, and verified truth statements will hopefully never be successfuly canceled in American public or private opinion forums like this one .Discussion should be polite and respectful.

Please do your own research about the latest World War [that employs asymmetric information & bio-warfare tactics ] WWIII is being conducted on a worldwid scale by international dark force oligarchs, organized crime mafia networks, [DS]puppets, and WEF-organized bankers and nation state leaders.

Wake up America! This is not about political party politics; it is all abouthuman common good freedoms versus pure evil control of targetted, subjugated humans [transhumanism evolution programs].

To Gregg & Bob:   Dark to Light-- WWG1WGA.

Semper Fi to my US Marine Corps Friends (also a respected Branch of the US Navy), Oorah!

Cheers to all you fully awake HHSPirates,

Awake& Alive, (only by  God'S GRACE)

Al

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Al....... Thank You!

Gregg Wilson

Hi Al,

I'm with you all the way. Don't throw in the towel.

Robert Bramel

Dunning-Krueger 

Gregg Wilson

Robert,

You should be very careful about making a statement about one's presumed inability to personnaly assess their actual ability. Your simplistic statement is a kiss off of some else's opinion - without specifically stating your difference with their statements.

Ted Comstock (Briggs-Comstock)

It's funny, I had the impression that there was a general consensus that this "Highline High School, Class of '64" page was about, er, HHS, '64, its people, memories, etc., and OFF politics. I guess my memory is acting up again.

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

This is not the first time that the purpose of our site has been questioned.  The site is great for being able to know how old friends and classmates are doing.  I just wish that the many that have not joined the site for one reason or another would do so. They are missed. 

I appreciate all of the 60’s memorabilia that has been shared. Thank you for those posts.

We all have personal opinions on world problems, religion, politics, etc. and some feel the need to express, educate, or debate those differences.  I respect the opinions of those that do so, but perhaps a better approach would be for one of the computer whizzes out there to set up a page for such debates.   Post the address on our school site so that anyone that wishes to participate can, and those that wish to follow along can also do so, leaving our page for what I assume was the original purpose.

Tim Jones (Jones)

Well said Linda...

Karen Buck (White)

I'm with Tim - Well Said Linda!! Thanks

Janet Magneson (Engelhardt)

Thanks, Linda,

Carol Tucker (Schnorr)

Well said Linda.  I haven't posted before, but I think it is important to keep this Forum for the purpose it is intended.  

Michael Gray

Thanks Linda

Al Peffley

Robert, I learned something new from your post. I hope that the negative aspects of the 1999-initiated psychiatric theoretical studies on personality traits were not aimed at my varied, collective responses post to the prior postings on the Forum.

I tried the User Forum option but could not find a topic to address cultural topics other than the "Vietnam War" or "General" in that forum on this website. I guess my first try at joining again at posting in the Message Forum to respond to current posting was only supported by a few classmates (judging from the comments after my post response.)

Thank you classmates for the positive private messages with your thoughts and observations about this forum content and posts in it.I did renew half a dozen old friendships with classmates that I had not seen in many decadesthrough these postings and the private messages function . Being a male,I make observations like a male and a military vet. I have never been known to be shy, highly intellectual, or "politically correct". I traveled a lot for Boeing and LTV Aerospace and also during my stint in the Navy. I have a unique aerospace/emergency management professional career and degrees in Marine Biology (AS), Business Admin. Marketing/Finance (BS), and over 25 years in Engineering disciplines experience(EE & System Engineering). I have no graduate school degrees in anything. I am who I am.

As far as keeping up on classmates, I think the Profiles pages(if members use them) and the "In Memory" notifications have been adequately designed for that purpose. Frankly, with the exception of  posts about certain individuals who have passed on and music, hobbies, and vehicles/boats we have interest in there is little private life news discussed in the "Message" Forum posts. I am pretty sure that only a few folks would be interested in my hobby projects, sports interests, or coffee group retired social life experiences.

I have not seen any published rules or restrictions, word limits, topic limits, or a definition of the topic "politics" on this website so far. So, the general assumptions of a few dictate the acceptable content limitations to posts by those who make the rules on the fly, so to speak? I get it.

I'm with Gregg, Virgina, and Bob, on our nation's current affairs' concerns. Banning their comments on the forum will not make their and many of us who have observations and concerns go away. America is still our home unless we moved away to expatriate to another cultureto work and live.The Bill of Rights is still the supreme law of our USA Republic. I am a sovereign, American Patriot vet, and I'm not ashamed of it! RIP Mulf & Jim Pollard, & many others who gave their life in serving our unique Republic form of governing.

Peace be with you.

Al

Bill Engelhardt

Paul is looming up on 80 (June 18). 

Karen Buck (White)

Wow - how time flies!!! Brought tears to my eyes, but I REALLY appreciate the memories and I'm wondering the same thing about me except I want to say "When I'm 104."

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Bill...........Paul, still looks like a kid! Still cute! Nice picture
 

Tim Jones (Jones)

When I'm 64!  Well past that now...

Gregg Wilson

We are not 16 years old but we are 76 years old. So, adult subjects are appropriate on this message board.

I propose one:

Why is deuterium oxide toxic? (a fact)

Conventional chemistry theory states that that is impossible. Coventional chemistry theory states that deuterium consists one proton, one neutron and one electron. The bonding between the deuterium atom and the oxygen atom is by electron bonding. Conventional chemistry theory makes that bonding the same as between a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom. (if you like, there are, of course two hydrogen atoms and two deuterium atoms.) Chemical bonding determines whether a structure is toxic or not toxic.

Fact overrules theory.

Any thoughts, unless you are still 16 years old.

Ken Becker

Great question, Gregg. Through the power of Google I learned that if one drinks too much heavy water (deuterium oxide) some of the the body’s H2 is replaced with D2 which inhibits mitosis ( you can look that up). My only previous knowledge of heavy water was that the Germans were making it in a Norwegian dam during WWII to support their atom bomb project, and there was a movie about the Brits efforts to blow the dam up.  I’ll have to find that movie and watch it again  

Gregg Wilson

To explain why deuterium oxide is toxic while the water molecule is not, we must go back to the force of gravity:

F  =  G*m1*m2/r2 where G is the gravitational constant; m1 is the mass of object 1; m2 is the mass of object 2; r is the distance between the center of mass 1 and the center of mass 2.

This equation does not explain the how and why of the force of gravitation. If one has an accurate estimate of masses and distance, one can calculate the force of gravity.

I now quote Isaac Newton:

"That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it."

This means the the force of gravity is NOT attractive.

The correct definition of how and why of gravity was formulated by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier as a kinetic theory in 1690 and then developed by Le Sage of France in 1748. This theory proposed a mechanical explanation of Newton's gravitational force in terms of tiny unseen particles impacting on all material from all directions.

Any two bodies partially shielding each other from impinding particles, results in a net imbalance in the pressure by the impacting particles, which tends to drive the bodies together - giving the impression of attraction.

Further research in astronomy indicated that particles - now called gravitons - are about 10 to 20 orders of magnitude smaller than a proton. In order to have an instantaneous effect, their velocity is about 20 billion times faster than the speed of light. Again, based on astronomical evidence, a graviton has free travel distance of about 3,000 light years until it collides with another graviton.

These matters are dicussed in the book "Pushing Gravity".

Next time: the nature of light.

Bill Engelhardt

In answer to your question, Ken. The film came out in 1955 (a Saturday feature at Coy's Hi-Line).  Richard Todd had the lead, having starred a few years earlier in Disney's Robin Hood (1952). 

Gregg Wilson

Three centuries ago, it was understood that light was a wave passing through the "luminiferous aether" - a medium. In 1887, Michelson and Morley conducted an experiment to measure light speed in one direction and then in an orthogonal direction. They found the difference to be about 8 km/sec at sea level. Not knowing of a gravitational flux, they concluded that there was no light carrying medium. The light carrying medium was pinned against the Earth by the gravitational flux. Later experiments by the COBE satellite, demonstrated that Earth was moving at 365 km/sec through the light carrying medium as it existed between galaxies, where it is at rest.

All experiments on light demonstrate it is a wave. Since it has a wavelength and a frequency, it must be a wave. A wave must occur within a medium. This medium has been labelled as Elysium. Much like the ocean, which has the water molecule as it's basic particle, the Elysium has a fundamental particle called the elyson. They are normally at rest, unless something interfers. In a wave, the particles do not move with the wave, but impart their momentum on to the next particle and so on and so on.

The temperature of the Elysium, between galaxies, is about 2 degrees Kelvin. This occurs because the gravitons are impacting the elysons, thus converting kinetic energy over to thermal energy.

Whether we select a proton or an atom or a dust particle or an asteroid or a planet and so on, they have one thing in common: they are in the way. The gravitation flux pushes the Elysium up against the entity. This leads to a thicker Elysium, and finally a liquid Elysium on the surface of the entity. This compressed Elysium has a viscosity. The velocity of light is reduced by this thicker Elysium and especially by liquid Elysium.

Next time: the proton.