OH SHIT JET BOAT JOUSTING!

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Erm, most dog fighting was catching someone by surprise and bouncing them while retaining energy. All things being equal, the plane with the superior energy and no other intervening factors (1v1) will win purely because the opponent always ends up lower and slower, and can't make up that difference. The jet engine significantly increased the available energy to a plane, but the F35 won't be jousting against prop driven fighters...

You say the F35 is faster, but that is irrelevant (unless it's running away), energy is a heck of a lot more than max speed, and that's where the F35 is a turkey. Lift, drag, power to weight etc all factor in. The F35 is a classic Frankestein's monster, asked to do far too many things, and in that process compromising and contradicting itself constantly.

It's kinda telling that you say as soon as this plane get's in trouble, a squadron has to drop everything to run in and help it... For this sort of money, the plane shouldn't need help, particularly not from the grandpa's of the fleet.

Oh man. you're putting me on the spot with that question. I traded 1/2 ownership of a 128mac for my brother's old apple 2 and a shoe box of floppy's. I didn't go through 1/2 of them before I got kicked out of the house and he took it all back. I remember a few text games...hitchhikers guide among them. I think also defender, Montezuma's revenge sounds familiar, Wolfenstien, Beyond Wolfenstien, Cannonball Blitz, Centipede, choplifter, crystal castles, frogger, galaxian, joust, kung fu master, leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizards, lode runner, missile defense, moon patrol, qix, tapper, ultima (maybe ultima 2), and zork. That's all I recognize from the list.

sugar->metric system->which side of the road to drive on->jousting

Fuck yeah, videosift... epic thread!

@RFlagg, I'm almost certain I read somewhere that Napoleon changing the road side is an urban legend.

Yeah, as Payback noted, it's a different thing. A Joust is a rather long thing while a sword is much shorter and harder to fight across the hose with. That said my hypothesis could be very well wrong.

Actually, Jousting is different. That's battle. Passing oncoming horses to your left has to do with easily defending yourself when you're just travelling.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but when I have gone to the renaissance fair, the jousting was always done riding on the right hand side, with the shield being held in the left hand and the javelin held in the right, pointed diagonally across the horse. IF they are doing it right, that seems to contradict your statement.

The idea that an armored knight was helpless if he fell is a common myth, but no more than that. There might have been a few specialized cases of jousting armor that were actually that heavy, but nobody would go armored if all it took to beat them was to knock them over.

Im moving to Connecticut at the end of this year. I am looking forward to joining (one of) the local groups there, now that I know of the sport. Fencing and Kendo have always been too 'restrained' for me. This is most likely due to not understanding certain, set customs on my part, but from my perspective if my nature, and what I perceive as natural, oversteps some organizations predefine ruleset, I can't see it as a test of actual ability. You can most certainly find examples for and against that, but that's how I look at a particular structure prior to empirical evidence.
If I were to translate that to human understanding it would probably be: In the majority of competitive events throughout my life, when questioned on the 'why' of rules, 'just because' has been the overwhelming answer, rather than a rational understanding/explanation of the sport.
Anyway, I'm going to longsword some mother-fuckers in a few months, and I can't wait for that final joust and the claiming of the princess, silhouetted against that raging castle fireplace (Defender of the Crown reference, FYI).

Top Games I remember (in no specific order)

Galaga
Defender
Stargate (Defender)
Tac Scan
Tempest
Tron
Pac Man
Missile Command
Dig Dug
Joust
Journey (yes, based after the Band)
Centipede
Pengo
Gauntlet
Lunar Lander

This just looks like a healthy joust between fellow navy-men.

The point is not what I said, but what Ms. Trotter said. If you don't wish to discuss the video or Ms. Trotter's remarks, then I'm not going to waste my time pointlessly jousting with you.

The point is that Ms. Trotter falsely attempted to deceive people that the government would take away the weapon the mother used. So I will say again that this is a false statement. A lie, if you will. Or perhaps you can be the one to correct me and the legislators. Are they going to take away the mother's Remington shotgun? Again, I don't claim to be an expert on the legislation, but the legislators in the room seemed to indicate that they are, in fact, NOT going to take away the weapon she used. Is that incorrect? And yes, these are questions directed to you, I hope you can do a better job than Ms. Trotter at answering it.

Again, if you have a concern with the legislation, I suggest you take it up with an elected official, someone who can address your confusion adequately. Maybe you can actually constructively contribute to said legislation and play a positive role in the law-making process.