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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Burmeister & Wain eight-cylinder double-acting two-cycle Diesel Motor N°2000 ¤, ca. 1932, which for thirty years was the largest diesel engine in the world, in the Diesel House museum at the H. C. Ørsted power plant in Copenhagen, presented by Ole Grone, Senior Vice President, MAN B&W Diesel (9:36).

It is so that your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

38 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. They have to keep this old engine on standby – ready to run when the wind doesn’t blow in Denmark.

  5. Bourque is reporting tonight that the Lockerbie bomber was set free so as to enable BP to strike a huge deal with Lybia for FUC-ING OIL!!! BASTARDS IN THE EXTREME!!!

  6. Very cool video, Vitruvius. Thanks for finding it and posting it.
    Nothing says “progress” like the aroma of partially-burned hydrocarbons!

  7. I read that…. a different bob… it;s almost too alarming, this idea that the Lockerbie bomber was used for leverage in a private oil company’s negotiations….
    that’s messed up.

  8. Now we learn that Dead Kennedy sent a letter with Obummer to give to the Pope asking for prayers as he battled his brain cancer. This is the same Dead Kennedy who stood for most everything the Catholic Church stood against.
    You know? You gotta wonder WTF was really wrong with this guy’s brain. For sure it wasn’t just cancer.

  9. There was a very martinet-like article in Thursday’s Globe from a couple of fruitcakes discussing the concept of gender (which apparently is the new sex) and sport. The authors are David Zirin, who is sports editor for The Nation magazine, and Sherry Wolf, who is the author of Sexuality and Socialism (it would be most unfortunate should the former ever have to be polluted by the latter). The context was the controversy surrounding Caster Semenya, who won the women’s 800-m at the recent world athletics championship and who has, rightly or wrongly, been subject of rumours regarding whether she is genuinely female. The authors say “the controversy reveals the twisted way international track and field views gender”, but in reality, it’s their own extremist viewpoint that is twisted.
    Naturally, they claim that the whole issue is a “minefield of sexism and homophobia”, and argue that track and field has a preoccupation with gender, “particularly where it crosses paths with racism”, managing to dig up a 50-year-old example to support the latter claim.
    They write that “gender – that is, how we comport and conceive of ourselves – is a remarkably fluid social construction”. And this: “Obviously there are some physical differences between men and women, but it is largely our culture and not biology that gives them their meaning.” All of this of course is Marxist nonsense, and has no connection to reality. It is precisely biology that by definition covers the field of sexuality. Cultural practices are secondary to the biological facts.
    “It’s time we break free of the notion that we are all ‘one or the other’. It’s antiquated, stigmatizing and says far more about those doing the testing than about the athletes tested.”
    More hogwash. Most of us are “one or the other”, and there is no “stigma” attached. If there was ever an example of the old saw that if the facts don’t fit the theory, the facts must be discarded, here it is.
    The authors observe that some individuals have both male and female characteristics, but even here their wording is laughable, referring to “anatomical features that are conventionally associated with both sexes”. To say for example that a penis is “conventionally associated” with maleness is ludicrous.
    “We should continue to debate the pros and cons of gender segregation in sport. But right here, right now, we must end sex testing and acknowledge the fluidity of gender and sex in sports and beyond.”
    The major pro is that women generally don’t compete to the levels of men, therefore without gender segregation, they’d win hardly anything. That’s why women sometimes have to be tested: to prevent cheating, inadvertent or otherwise.
    I wonder what’s their take on the female East German swimmers of the ‘70s and ‘80s who were on anabolic steroids? How “fluid” was their sexuality?

  10. The Lockerbie fiasco is being picked up by Fox News now. This thing is going to blow up in Britain’s big-time! How big is anyone’s guess but it should shame that nation forever.

  19. Whups – didn’t catch the double post.
    [Word to others: if you got a Movable Type error message after you post, it’s likely that your post got through.]

  21. I recently went on a cruise. I asked to tour the engine rooms. “Not after 9/11” was the reply. Sad.

  22. Interesting selection tonight. I remember first learning about diesel engines in the army and why they are so efficient. It made total sense to me, even though the video was hopelessly outdated (yet still relevant). In terms of raw ft-lbs of torque, you can’t get more bang for your buck than a two-cycle diesel engine.

  23. Oops. Should mention that the ‘hopelessly outdated’ video I mentioned in the above post is the video they showed to us in the army about how a diesel engine works, and not the one on SDA late night radio that we all saw. The SDA video is modern and somewhat relevant to current engines. The technology is still the same, but in the army video is was more about diesel powered submarines.

  24. Had an opportunity to sail on one of our old O-boat diesel submarines in 1990. I knew I wasn’t in Kansas when I was standing between two 20 cyclinder diesel engines banging away to charge the batteries. Sweet.

  25. Erik, that was probably along the lines of an easy to understand excuse. Engineers are notorious for keeping anyone but those required to run the plant from entering the holy of holies 🙂
    Been in the Navy for almost 19 years and have yet to get into the engineering spaces while underway.

  27. Who would have thought? Canadian Gun Nutz embraces islam…
    Aug 13, 2009 – 12:33 PM – by greentips
    CGN will not tolerate any activities or speeches, that make our members, which could be of any “race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability” feel unwelcomed in our online community. We embrace all Canadians that believe in ownership and legal usage of firearms.
    If you do not agree to this principle, you shall turn around and leave now.

  28. Mutiny on the Good Ship “Lollipop”?
    Rep. Barney Frank wants action to to restrict the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending powers and subject the central bank to a complete audit.
    Later – “Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that the bill would compromise the U.S. central bank’s policy-making independence and could undermine financial markets and the economy.”
    also- “Frank expressed unease at what he called the Fed’s power to “lend money to anybody they want” in emergency circumstances.” (cough)
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Rep-Frank-eyes-Fed-audit-rb-3402785272.html?x=0

  31. MSM in the USA is controlled by the party of the O’Democrats.
    This report does not mention that Fumo is a Democrat of the O’Democrats.
    MSM in North America is a liberal-left-socialist owned propaganda organ; communism’s Pravda was also.
    …-
    Headline:
    “No place for titans.
    Behind bars, Fumo to go from king to serf”
    urlm.in/cyse

  33. No surprise…comments on the ‘Dramatic title winner’ at CTV have been closed.
    Methinks CTV didn’t like the bashing the Libs and media were getting in the comments…lol…

  35. The Collector creepy and pretty cool, albeit in hair-raising way: Google maps this address: 1556 Walnut Ave Antioch CA.
    Then grab the little guy and zoom down to the street view. Look at the house with the whit picket fence, and scroll north (left). Watch the Antioch kidnapper follow the google car. Very cool.

  37. Politics Today: Cheney vs. Obama
    **Former VP Cheney critical of Obama administration handling of CIA interrogation controversy…
    **President Obama returns from vacation to increased tensions among lawmakers as well as his supporters…
    **Sen. Hatch says health care reform is less likely without the late Sen. Ted Kennedy…
    **Joe or Vicki Kennedy, or someone else to fill Kennedy’s seat?
    ==
    ‘Special Report’ Panel on the Obama Administration’s CIA Probe
    Monday, August 31, 2009
    FOX News contributors Fred Barnes, Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer with guest host Shannon Bream
    This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from August 28, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
    FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: The approach of the Obama administration should be to come to those people who were involved in that policy and say “How did you do it? What were the keys to keeping us, the country safe over that period of time?”
    Instead they’re out there now threatening to disbar the lawyers who gave us the legal opinions, threatening, contrary to what the president originally said, they will go out and investigate the CIA personnel who carried out those investigations.
    SHANNON BREAM, GUEST HOST: That was former vice president Dick Cheney telling Chris Wallace exactly what he thinks about the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into alleged abuses by CIA interrogators.
    Let’s get reaction from our panel: Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard; Juan Williams, news analyst for National Public Radio, and the syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer.
    =====
    Obama agenda: More Cheney buckshot Posted: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:14 AM by Domenico Montanaro
    Filed Under: Barack Obama
    On FOX yesterday, Cheney said of Attorney General Holder’s decision to open up investigations into some CIA detainee abuses, “I think it’s a terrible decision. President Obama made the announcement some weeks ago that this would not happen, that his administration would not go back and look at or try to prosecute CIA personnel. … We had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from al Qaeda,” Cheney said. “The approach of the Obama administration should be to come to those people who were involved in that policy and say, ‘How did you do it? What were the keys to keeping this country safe over that period of time?'”
    The New York Times: “Mr. Cheney described the inquiry as an ‘intensely partisan, politicized look back at the prior administration’ intended to placate the left wing of the Democratic Party. ‘It’s clearly a political move,’ he said. ‘I mean, there’s no other rationale for why they’re doing this.’”

  38. Revnant Dream was right….posted a couple of weeks ago that a trade for oil was the reason for letting the Lockabee bomber go.

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