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The Combo Club
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Built like tanks lol. My old '68 YBA1-A went down a flight of cement stairs at a gig and was good to go still lol.
Pete Traynor is famous for having done that once ... and successfully. It was a one-time demonstration. Stories like this do grow legs.
Technically he did it twice including that video I posted lol. I swore I saw a interview with Pete saying they did it with a few different prototypes when they were coming out with different models in the beginning though.
I can vouch for mine having been hell-for-stout. Traynor did good!
No, but Pete sure seemed confident it was gonna run. Think any other brand today would feel as comfy tossing one of their amps 20’ down?
So, who has a tube combo they want to send me? I need to see what all this “tube” fuss Is about; apparently you can throw them off roofs and such? Seems perfect for a house full of kids...
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Designing and building a construct to be thrown off a roof and keep the contents intact (on our case, an egg) was a first semester of first year university requirement for all students. The only fail grades I can recall went to those who never turned in their work. <shrug>
Probably has some relevance to falling combo amps. Or not.
For science
Probably has some relevance to falling combo amps. Or not.
And you begin my Sunday morning with such a beautiful sentiment. Thank you, Lady M!
Was doing that fun activity with our elementary ELP students (the brainiac bunch) in 1988 at my old three-story building. We built our egg carriages out of whatever they could get their hands on. My favorite was a giant mixing bowl of strawberry jello with the egg safely centered.
Out a two-story window it went and splat it went right on the cement in front of a side door. Needless to say, the jello spread out like a bulletproof exploding upon impact and the poor egg failed to survive.
It all was a huge mess, but the team decided the other students should see it so we left the attempt there until the next rain. The custodian wasn’t as jubilant about it.
As you said, M, for science.
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and the clearest indication why I chose to remain firmly on the humanities side of the aisle
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Oh, the humanity! If you think science is messy, it seems absolutely squeaky clean compared to the humanities. In physical science there is a demonstrable success & failure, reinforcement of principles, a way to plan and proceed with confidence. Humanities, by contrast, seems to be collections of anecdotes with Forrest Gump authoring the ultimate underlying principle: "You never know what you're going to get." And art? "One person's trash is another's treasure."
Humanities have examples of every conceivable situation with every conceivable result. In that respect, perhaps quantum theory is the ultimate unification of science and humanities. Augh!
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Oh, the humanity! If you think science is messy, it seems absolutely squeaky clean compared to the humanities. In physical science there is a demonstrable success & failure, reinforcement of principles, a way to plan and proceed with confidence. Humanities, by contrast, seems to be collections of anecdotes with Forrest Gump authoring the ultimate underlying principle: "You never know what you're going to get." And art? "One person's trash is another's treasure."
Humanities have examples of every conceivable situation with every conceivable result. In that respect, perhaps quantum theory is the ultimate unification of science and humanities. Augh!
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Said like a man who had to sit through the most boring humanities classes in his life. “So true, you are,” said someone impersonating Yoda! BTW, he liked performing the science experiment way more than writing a reflection on it!
Well, according to my research there is not a lot of difference between arts and science, because at the core of science is not a set of facts but a set of values. The facts of science have changed over time - e.g. the caloric theory of heat vs the kinetic theory of heat - but the values are mostly the same; predictability, falsifiability, accuracy, simplicity and so on. Arts often also relies values - this is most obvious in ethical and political theory - and many of the claims made by the arts side are better known than science. It is more widely accepted that murder is wrong than space-time is relative, as one example. So both parts of the academy can be slippery or firm depending on where your are standing.
And so sayeth the Doctor to end this riveting discussion science vs. art. I say this because I’d like to know who’s courageous enough to offer a counterpoint to his point! And he has a good one too. But that man a new Hofner!
That was me literally five minutes ago...
