Scented candles -- if you're a married man, get used to the accursed things.
Or try an alternative. Manterns: scented candles for men. With soothing aromas like "Bacon cheeseburger" and "Sawdust", who could resist?
Commentors: what scents would you like to have wafting through your house?
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Or try an alternative. Manterns: scented candles for men. With soothing aromas like "Bacon cheeseburger" and "Sawdust", who could resist?
Commentors: what scents would you like to have wafting through your house?
Link via Jeff
Comments (39)
I bought a bunch for gifts, my BF, and of course myself :)
There is this small hole in the wall at my work that has a musty damp basement smell... for some reason it is nostalgic and actaully makes my mouth water... I know.. that is weird.
Other than that.. the smell of two stoke engines (for me it is dirtbike - but also speed boats in the summertime)
fresh cut grass with charcoal bbq
the very first smell of spring in the air - it is amazing
railroad ties
If your ever driving on a motorcycle at night - on an old country road on a warm summer night the smell of the sudden cold bogs/mist
Coffee and cig are nostalgic because of my dad
Fresh soil from the garden
My budgie even smells good
Personally, I think I would dig- fresh, cut grass; hot pavement after a rain; gun powder; sawdust; and sorority house. Nice.
It appears to be geared with the main rotor, but is likely pitched such that it doesn't provide any thrust to the left or right during flight. When the pilot wants to turn, he pitches the tail rotor blades to provide thrust.
If the tail rotor failed, the helicopter would be just fine, although it would have no ability to turn on its emergency descent.
actually it would start to spin uncontrollably with out the tail rotor, just because there is no powered axle between the main rotor and the main body of the helicopter doesn't mean that the friction from the rotor and where it is connected to the body isn't enough to cause it to start spinning. We don't live in a world with frictionless bearings. Also the fuel delivery system to the rockets probably add's a lot more friction to the main rotors axle.
It might not happen as quickly and violently as a normal heli would if it lost it's rotor, but if he were high enough, by the time he got the heli to the ground he could be spinning like a tea cup.
I like the noise of that thing- While most chopperbuilders work frantically on reducing or even cancelling the noise of their rotorblades as best as they can to make their choppers more useable in crowded areas, these guys come up with a system that wakes up the whole valley when they start up their machine. :-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jhpUJLhQfs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_Helikopter_Industrie_(NHI)
And an American prototype:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YH-32_Hornet
All designs failed...
The difference with friction as a force is two fold. First, obviously, is that it would be in the direction of the rotors, not the opposite direction. Second, we're talking an incredibly small amount of the output of the engine being transferred via friction (easily as low as .01%). Third, it takes much more energy to spin the heavier body of the helicopter than the rotors.
So it would take very, very little to cancel it out.