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I live here, full time (Cape Coral), worked in Bonita, visit Naples periodically. I don't frequent the rooms here, do not play in tournaments/leagues, so take all this with a suitable grain of salt. My impression is that the largest and most active room is Diamonds in North Cape Coral (it may...

Thoughts, as I am going through something similar (though having a wife with far different tastes makes it difficult): Bar variations, depending on your tastes - wine racks, beer taps, nice glasses or liquor, even a fancy coffee/expresso maker if that's more appealing. Big screen TV for...

Wow, thanks for the insight. As I said, curiosity, but you guys clearly know more about it than the guide did.

Would tables back then have been built to order? It seemed about the right size for the room (the room itself is original size, if restored). I thought the cues and racks looked surprisingly current though also.

We were in New Orleans at the Destrehan Plantation wandering around when they showed us a room (which we could not enter, just look through glass) which was the billiard room. I asked the guide if it was period authentic, and she had no clue, saying "A University provided it when they helped...

We did a Skype session and I learned a lot. Very helpful. Still digesting. Sadly leaving for a pool-less couple weeks on vacation, so hope I do not forget it all.

Is it unscientific? A lot of very scientific theories today wonder if time is an illusion. Some very literate types wonder how we would tell if our existence turns out to be a simulation. What is the origin of conciousness, can internet bots achieve it? How can one tell the difference in a...

That's OK. I also haven't defined what "I" am, and how "I" know I exist, so knowing how "I" am held down to the earth is the least of my worries. Prove you exist, and are not a figment of my imagination, and I'll define gravity for you.

Well, not if you actually believe, the Flat Earth society (yes, there is one) says that gravity is a side effect of the earth accelerating upward: https://wiki.tfes.org/Universal_Acceleration You can't make this stuff up... well, I couldn't make it up. Though... how about hollow earth...

Approximately 30 feet and a fall of 1.4 seconds will get you to about 30 mph. Getting a frozen rack standing on end to have it hit the lead ball is left as an exercise to the student.

Of more interest is that the interest in this topic has been dropping as well. I has halved at each new posting, and was not high to begin with. As the Engineer said, paraphrased, "interest is close enough to zero for practical purposes". ---- caution politically insensitive matter below ---...

This is moot. If you are trying to think of terminal velocity as the speed at which an object dropped from a near infinite distance would strike the earth given that nothing else interfered (i.e. air, other planets or suns), this is simple to calculate and a small number relative to the speed...

There are simple equations for this, just run the math. I never understand why people argue about well understood math. The terminal velocity is inversely proportional to both the square root of the drag coefficient and the square root of the cross sectional area. You can imagine things all...

9.8 m/s^2 is the earth's gravity acceleration at the surface, it's not a velocity at all, much less a terminal velocity.

Your question does not really make sense. Terminal velocity is usually defined as the velocity in air, how fast is the fastest it will continue to fall. The velocity of an object falling toward earth from "very far" with no air, assuming they both start with zero relative velocity, and...

Sounds like junior high gym class, and maybe answers the questions asked elsewhere whether Pool was a sport, or why it is not flourishing, if that's the pervasive attitude. I hope that's an outlier. My one experience is watching a pickup tournament at a local bar, and from just watching the...

I am new to this whole area but I think you guys are worried over the wrong terminology. "Custom" vs "Production" are not necessarily antonyms. I think when most people here talk about the value of a custom cue they speak of a piece of art. Art's value comes from how it appeals to one for...

Oh, not at all. I do a lot of sports photography and am quite good at it, but I know people who do video well, and there's a HUGE difference. I don't even try shooting sports video, just stills. And no, they are DSLR's, a D5 and D800 in this case. Which are probably better than cell phones...

Last first, thanks; I have one of the best (from what I read) lined up though it will be September - Scott Lee. I like that last quote. I started out trying the squared off snooker type stance a lot of videos recommend (and there's a discussion around here also). My body just doesn't do that...

Indeed. I started putting some 3000K ones in, which are just a bit bluer than incandescent, but it was enough difference it was driving me nuts so ended up swapping about twice as many incandescents as I intended (these were in cans). The other problem is a lot of cheap junk from china is not...