It's gotta stand out in print, be something drunk folks remember, and fit on the marquee.

"I got yer beach chair swingin' ya goombah."

Most heads are a standard thread and easily removable by hand. Sometimes a small wrench might be needed. The hose kits are readily available wherever plumbing supplies are sold, and typically fit on the standard threaded outlet.

Yes. Park at Penns Landing, ferry over and back.

I know a fella who pannelled his computer room with those things.

I have no experience with them but I'm told that there are smartphone apps which will do this.

Yes, I felt the Bell. When it was at Independence Hall. In the 60's I'd guess.

If you know where it is--because I, alas! do not--you can look it up on FlightRadar:

https://www.flightradar24.com

I'm sure the squirrels don't see it that way. "We'll live like kings!"

But this is pointless. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Again: "The signal chain all the way though is typically garbage these days anyway. Cheap headphones, choppy digitization, noisy devices. 75% of your customers are not even equipped to discern the difference." Nobody knows the quality of the source here so whatever appears at the other end is meaningless anyway.

Sure, you can make the argument that efforts to appease the 25% of folks who have invested the $3k-to-$5k (or more--sometimes much more) necessary to make a high level of source detail clearly audible at the other end are simply wasted. You're broadcasting color television signals to viewers who only have black-and-white sets.

But this is not the same as asserting that it's not even there to begin with, or that intentionally degrading your signal to make it cheaper to provide is not, at some level, disingenuous. Of course it is.

But lots of people are perfectly willing to make the trade-offs offered, of course: price against quality against convenience. Pick any two, as they say. But there are also plenty such as OP here who are not even fully aware of how much they are missing, or how much their expectations have been lowered. And it always saddens me when the good-faith efforts of talented musicians and meticulous recording engineers are essentially flushed away.

But, to be sure, the only one whose ox is really being gored is the last one on the chain --the consumer.

Better than what? Streaming? Those signals are squished. Which is the fancy-schmancy technical term for compressed. Those folks are not gonna make any effort to make a full-bandwidth data stream available when most people can't tell the difference or even care anymore. Shit costs money.

The signal chain all the way though is typically garbage these days anyway. Cheap headphones, choppy digitization, noisy devices. 75% of your customers are not even equipped to discern the difference.

And for the other 25% you can make 'em pay extra for a lossless signal.

It's a great business model. Take a medium, chop substantial portions of it away to make it simpler and cheaper to broadcast, and then charge a fee to have the deleted portion put back. "Oh, you want all of it? Well there's gonna be a charge for that. Pixels don't grow on trees, y'know."

Literature is history.

Well, they have pumps to pump the water out. Maybe the pump has failed.