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 “André Gide: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

 Apropos of Nothing: Romeo Void - Never Say Never Lyrics Artist: Romeo Void Album: Warm, In Your Coat If time itself was his demeanor There'd be no sunlight or a glimmer Of sunlight landing on the street Sunsuit girls must be discreet Sunsuit girls must be discreet Nursing their fathers locked inside They masqueraded as his bride I might like you better If we slept together I might like you better If we slept together I might like you better If we slept together But there's something In your eyes that says Maybe that's never Never say never The slump by the courthouse With windburn skin That man could give a fuck About the grin on your face As you walk by, randy as a goat He's sleeping on papers But he'd be warm in your coat I might like you better If we slept together I might lik

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Ref. http://trimaran-san.de/die-kettenkurve-oder-wie-ein-mathematiker-ankert/ In a nutshell, the main results are : The guidance of using a fixed scope like use 3 times or 5 times the water depth as length of chain, etc., is not adequate. It is not enough in shallow water, and it may be too much in very deep water. And it does not depend on the wind strength at all, which is rather odd. We consider this guidance to be dangerous, at least for the novice. Our results do depend – among other parameters – also on the wind strength. Neglecting swell and waves, the result is very simple, based on the catenary equation: Minimum required chain length is L = square_root( Y ( Y + 2 a )), where the parameter a depends on the wind strength, on A eff , which is the effective cross section of the vessel towards the wind – i.e., the windage area – as well as on the mass m of the chain per meter. Y is the water depth at the anchor (and not the vessel!). This simple non-linear catenar