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Optimistic Cynic |
On a more practical note, the Ashley Book of Knots has thousands of knots in it (and how to tie them), the majority of which are actually useful. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
An interesting thing: Knots can exist only in space with three macro spatial dimensions. With two or fewer there isn’t enough freedom for any knot other than the unknot to exist. With four or more there is so much freedom that all knots will loosen to the unknot. Serious about crackers | |||
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Spread the Disease |
The professor that taught the only math class I ever made a C in has his PhD in "knot theory". The class was Discrete Mathematics. I want to throw up just thinking about it. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
I have a copy and it is very handy to any sailor "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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| Victim of Life's Circumstances  |
I can tie a bowline, a uni knot and a truckers hitch along with a few more. Bowline is the most useful and the uniknot is most versatile. Palomar is a good easy fish hook knot. ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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| drop and give me 20 pushups |
The knots that I can tie are known as "hatchet knots" because it will take a hatchet to do away with the knot. ..... drill sgt. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
From the school of "If you can't tie a knot, tie a lot."  "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Experienced Slacker |
Did anyone skip ahead or have the time to kill to watch most of the video? There was some pretty nerdgasmy stuff. | |||
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My Dad was nautical and an engineer, loved knots. I was nautical, until I moved to the desert, and was terrible remembering knots. I actually could splice at one time, snelled my own hooks, even tied Bimini Twists, couldn't do any of those 20 years later. I took a canyoneering course 19 years ago, learned several helpful knots, I'd need as refresher to do them today. ________________________________ "Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea. | |||
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| If you see me running try to keep up  |
That's what I learned. | |||
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Don't Panic |
That was very interesting. Abstract, yes, but practical bits show up at the end, for example how to use some aspects to avoid cord tangles in the real world. | |||
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He opens with two ways to knot a shoelace. I ran across that about a year ago. Keeping my shoes tied mowing or exercising was a constant battle. The knot never comes undone now, how come almost everyone learned the wrong way to tie a shoe lace as kids? Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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| Member |
I’m going to have to look into the shoelace knot. I’m usually pretty quick with a square knot or truckers hitch. The bowline I can tie in my sleep. That about sums up my knot knowledge. | |||
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| Master of one hand pistol shooting  |
I am impressed and curious on Matt's soft shackles. They are kind of a knot on a rope loop. I think... | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
That about sums up 99% of the knots one needs IMO. Those and a decent fishing knot. Taut line hitch is good too, but a trucker's hitch will suffice. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I have an app on my phone called Grogg Knots. I also go to YouTube if I'm looking for a particular function. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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