Look at what i did

[owly]

Speaking of surfing and Hawaiians in the old days, the only people who was allowed to surf was the Ali'i Nui (the Kings) all the regular people could do was watch the Ali'i Nui do it. They was the inventors of surfing. Here a fun fact for ya they was the fastest snow boarders in the world up to the 19 century, they would reach speeds up to 90 mph, i bet you wouldn't have guessed that.......

[owly]

Here's one of my fav fancy knots, "The Star Knots' i would tell you how but it's easier to show you.....

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-tie-a-star-knot-2

[owly]

Don't want to triple post but i wanted to show you my cat of 9 tails i'm making the kind bowsain mates used to whip sailors with it's made of all sailor knots.....



And apart of my whip is a Mathew Walker knot 9 lead, it's a little blurry but you can see the basic design of the knot.....



Oh before Atla can call it gay well it could be gay or it can be heterosexual lol

[Gerien]

As someone who has "appreciated" a cat o' nine tails, I must say I'm impressed.

And yes, I know I just made it gay again.

[Nagash]

What's appreciable about such a thing?

[MoP]

w t bloody f?

[owly]

What's appreciable about such a thing?

When i make them to sell i charge 150.00 to 200.00 for one whip.......

[Immigrant]

*shakes head* you know that explains a few things about my ex-navy mates

[owly]

lol

[Gerien]

Scientists see the light over knotty problem
January 19, 2010 by JLister

Reader warning: the following article may hurt your brain.

Scientists in Britain have pulled off an amazing trick: they’ve tied light into a knot.

The project was led by Dr Mark Dennis of the University of Bristol. He explained that though we see beams of light as a straight line — imagine using a torch in a darkened room — the light is more accurately described as flowing like water.

The result of this flow is optical vortices, lines along which the intensity of the light beam falls to zero, meaning they are completely black and impossible to see.

However, in the same way that a hologram can manipulate light so that we see an image apparently floating in mid-air, it can also direct the flow of light, creating and controlling the optical vortices.

So how do you take this set-up and create a knot? Why, by using knot theory of course. That’s a genuine field of mathematics which aims to solve puzzles such as whether a complex knot would undo into a straight line or a loop.

There’s more to it than just playing with bits of string however: it can also help explain the way DNA strands form and can even identify chiral molecules. These are molecules which appear in two seemingly identical shapes but can’t be superimposed, as with a human’s left and right hands (hence the way both parties in a handshake must use the same hand).

Two sets of chiral molecules may have different properties, which can cause problems if they are misidentified as identical, the most notorious example being the harmful effects of Thalidomide where researchers unwittingly only tested the safe variant of the chiral molecules.

Back to the light research, the scientists used knot theory to create knotted holograms (the colored lines in the image above), which in turn manipulated a laser beam and created the optical vortices needed to knot the light (the colored patterns in the image).

The geeky question is, of course, what this means for the future of lightsaber combat. But there are practical benefits to the work: the techniques involved give us the potential for greater control over the use of lasers, which could be useful in techniques such as speed gun cameras or automatic height measurement devices.

The research is also an example of taking an idea from pure mathematics and turning it into a physical effect.

[owly]

Damn what will they think/do next......

Classic find

Maybe we moved a step closer to bending time

[Immigrant]

But there are practical benefits to the work: ...speed gun cameras

lol naturally

[Nagash]

Since when are those sodding things beneficial?!?

[owly]

What's appreciable about such a thing?

i realize i was wrong in interpreting your question, every single knot you see on my whip i'm making is a working knot of days of the sail ships. It's mostly stopper knots with fenders and different brads. Every single knot on my whip is a actual knots they used in a sail ship.........

[Nagash]

Still..... there is no use for a whip. Especially not in the bedroom.

[MoP]

That depends on the obedience of your partner at that moment, I'd say.

[owly]

i never used a whip in bed, i have what you might call 'natural talent'