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If OXCART is the big news that makes me wonder about these particular accounts.

During the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles the military instituted a mandatory black out of the entire city of LA & fired 1400+ Anti-Aircraft rounds at a single, quoting the military, "unidentified aircraft." The shelling lasted more than an hour. Despite numerous confirmed hits the craft remained airborne and eventually flew off without ever being identified. (Read the 1942 LA times article).

In 1948 green fireballs were seen over the south-western skies of the US near nuclear weapons research sites. Famous meteoriticist Dr. Lincoln La Paz declared they weren't normal meteors. In 1949 the USAF started Project Twinkle under the direction of Dr. Anthony Mirarchi.

The study concluded in a now declassified report that cinetheodolites had tracked 4 objects traveling at an "altitude of ~150K ft" (~28.5 miles!), were "30 ft. in diameter", & traveling at an "undeterminable, yet high speed." Mirarchi went on to later criticize a Time magazine article that claimed there was no proof to support the existence of UFOs.

Mirarchi wrote, "There was too much evidence in favor of saucers to say they could have all been balloons. 'I was conducting the main investigation. The government had to depend on me or my branch for information.' He said he didn't see how the Navy could say there had been no concrete evidence of the phenomena." (see here for more details)

Also in 1948 Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a self-proclaimed skeptic, joined Project Blue Book as a scientific adviser. By 1969 when Blue Book was shutdown Hynek did an about face. He wrote several books, particularly, "The Hynek UFO Report" which repeatedly stated that the attitude of Blue Book was, "it can't be therefore it isn't."

He also gave an interview, available on YouTube, where he said, "I was there at Blue Book and I know the job they had. They were told not to excite the public, don't rock the boat, & I saw it [with] my own eyes. ... The cases that were very difficult to explain they would jump handsprings to keep the media away from that." He later went on to found the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).

July 13 - 29th of 1952, over the skies of Washington DC, numerous UFOs were seen by observers on the ground, in the air, & tracked on radar. The situation escalated & General Samford, the Director of Intelligence of the USAF, held an emergency press conference. When asked by reporters what people were seeing he suggested the lights on the ground may have looked like they were in the air because inversions act like an "air lens" & bend light rays. He added that something similar could have "tricked" radar in to thinking it was tracking aerial targets. (ufologie.net...)

In 1969 an Air Force scientific report titled "Quantitative Aspects of Mirages" (Menkello, F.G. Report No. 6112, USAF, Environmental Technical Applications Center) made it clear inversions strong enough to create the visual effect described during the 1952 press-conference could not exist in earth's atmosphere.

1956 at RAF Bentwaters, Lakenheath, & Sculthorpe an object was sighted by several military officers on the ground while simultaneously tracked on radar at 2 different stations. The object moved at ~4000 mph and was monitored for several hours during which two planes were scrambled.

When the 1st de Havilland Venom locked on to the object the UFO shot to the rear of the plane. The pilot tried evasive maneuvers, couldn't break free & eventually had to return to base to refuel.

The 2nd plane encountered mechanical difficulties as it flew within range of the object. The

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During the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles the military instituted a mandatory black out of the entire city of LA & fired 1400+ Anti-Aircraft rounds at a single, quoting the military, "unidentified aircraft." This lasted for more than an hour. Despite numerous confirmed hits the craft remained airborne and eventually flew off without ever being identified. (Read the 1942 LA times article).

In 1948 green fireballs were seen over the south-western skies of the US near nuclear weapons research sites. Famous meteoriticist Dr. Lincoln La Paz declared they weren't normal meteors. In 1949 the USAF started Project Twinkle under the direction of Dr. Anythony Mirachi.

The study concluded in a now declassified report that cinetheodolites had tracked 4 objects traveling at an "altitude of ~150K ft" (~28.5 miles!), were "30 ft. in diameter", & traveling at an "undeterminable, yet high speed." Mirachi went on to later criticize a Time magazine article that claimed there was no proof to support the existence of UFOs.

Mirachi wrote, "There was too much evidence in favor of saucers to say they could have all been balloons. 'I was conducting the main investigation. The government had to depend on me or my branch for information.' He said he didn't see how the Navy could say there had been no concrete evidence of the phenomena." (see here for more details)

Also in 1948 Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a self-proclaimed skeptic, joined Project Blue Book as a scientific adviser. By 1969 when Blue Book was shutdown Hynek did an about face. He wrote several books, particularly, "The Hynek UFO Report" which repeatedly stated that the attitude of Blue Book was, "it can't be therefore it isn't."

He also gave an interview, available on YouTube, where he said, "I was there at Blue Book and I know the job they had. They were told not to excite the public, don't rock the boat, & I saw it [with] my own eyes. ... The cases that were very difficult to explain they would jump handsprings to keep the media away from that." He later went on to found the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).

July 13 - 29th of 1952, over the skies of Washington DC, numerous UFOs were seen by observers on the ground, in the air, & tracked on radar. The situation escalated & General Samford, the Director of Intelligence of the USAF, held an emergency press conference. When asked by a reporters what people were seeing he suggested the lights on the ground may have looked like they were in the air because inversions act like an "air lens" & bend light rays. He added that something similar could have "tricked" radar in to thinking it was tracking aerial targets. (http://ufologie.net/htm/usa1952.htm)

In 1969 an Air Force scientific report titled "Quantitative Aspects of Mirages" (Menkello, F.G. Report No. 6112, USAF, Environmental Technical Applications Center) made it clear inversion strong enough to create the visual effect described during the 1952 press-conference could not exist in earth's atmosphere.

1956 at Bentwater/Lakenheath an object was sighted by several military officers on the ground while simultaneously tracked on radar at 2 different stations. The object moved at ~4000 mph and was monitored for several hours during which two planes were scrambled.

When the 1st DeHavilland Venom locked on to the object the UFO shot to the rear of the plane. The pilot tried evasive maneuvers, couldn't break free & eventually had to return to base to refuel.

The 2nd plane encountered mechanical difficulties as it flew within range of the object. The US sponsored Condon Report had this to say, "

I'm pretty sure someone has RAIDed every storage device in the world by now, if only to see if it can be done.

http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

Bad - Sure, you can buffer those floppies into a pile at 2.88MB/s, but can your drive read the data that fast? Methinks not.

Sure it can. Just build a floppy drive raid and you're all set.

Too high-tech. A RAID array of floppies sounds more likely.

1. Project Twinkle - In Dec 1948 a strange new phenomenon was repeatedly observed in the southwestern skies of the US near top secret nuclear weapon research sites. The phenomenon consisted of bright green lights moving, generally, horizontally though the night sky and then dropping downward slightly and going out. After these had been observed many times in the late 1948 and early 1949 Dr. Lincoln La Paz, a famous meteoriticist, declared that they weren't normal meteors. He told the Air Force and the FBI that if these weren't special devices resulting from our own US research that they might be Russian and were a potential threat to vital nuclear weapon research installations. An investigation began March 1950 under the direction of Dr. Anthony Mirachi. Over the course of the year, using a series of cinetheodolites, the team was able to determine the objects were traveling at an "altitude of ~150K ft" (or ~28.5 miles high, much higher than any man-made craft could fly at that point in time), were "30 ft in diameter"[2], and traveling at an "undeterminable, yet high speed." A year and a half later the project was no closer to identifying the objects and the project was shelved.
   
   What's interesting is how it was shutdown.
   
   In November, 1951, Dr. Elterman, the new project Director (Mirachi retired in 1950[3]), who also worked at the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory (APL) of the Geophysical Research Division (GRD) of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL), wrote the final report.
   
   According to Dr. Elterman's report, Project Twinkle was a dismal failure: "no information was gained." He recommended it be discontinued. His recommendation was accepted. But was it a failure? Was "no information gained?" The data reduction report (now unclassified [2]) tracked and measured four unidentified objects near the White Sands Proving Grounds!
   
   In contrast to Dr. Elterman's report the original director, Dr. Anthony Mirachi, responded to a Feb, 1951 Time's article written in collaboration with Dr. Urner Liddel of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. debunking UFOs, saying:
   
   "There was too much evidence in favor of saucers to say they could have all been balloons. 'I was conducting the main investigation. The government had to depend on me or my branch for information.' He said he did not see how the Navy (i.e., Dr Liddel) could say that there had been no concrete evidence on the existence of the phenomena." [4]
   
   Dr. Mirachi, included classified details about Project Twinkle which nearly landed him in very hot water (source contains more details). [5]

1. Project Twinkle - In Dec 1948 a strange new phenomenon was repeatedly observed in the southwestern skies of the US near top secret nuclear weapon research sites. The phenomenon consisted of bright green lights moving, generally, horizontally though the night sky and then dropping downward slightly and going out. After these had been observed many times in the late 1948 and early 1949 Dr. Lincoln La Paz, a famous meteoriticist, declared that they weren't normal meteors. He told the Air Force and the FBI that if these weren't special devices resulting from our own US research that they might be Russian and were a potential threat to vital nuclear weapon research installations. An investigation began March 1950 under the direction of Dr. Anthony Mirachi. Over the course of the year, using a series of cinetheodolites, the team was able to determine the objects were traveling at an "altitude of ~150K ft" (or ~28.5 miles high, much higher than any man-made craft could fly at that point in time), were "30 ft in diameter"[2], and traveling at an "undeterminable, yet high speed." A year and a half later the project was no closer to identifying the objects and the project was shelved.
   
   What's interesting is how it was shutdown.
   
   In November, 1951, Dr. Elterman, the new project Director (Mirachi retired in 1950[3]), who also worked at the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory (APL) of the Geophysical Research Division (GRD) of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL), wrote the final report.
   
   According to Dr. Elterman's report, Project Twinkle was a dismal failure: "no information was gained." He recommended it be discontinued. His recommendation was accepted. But was it a failure? Was "no information gained?" The data reduction report (now unclassified [2]) tracked and measured four unidentified objects near the White Sands Proving Grounds!
   
   In contrast to Dr. Elterman's report the original director, Dr. Anthony Mirachi, responded to a Feb, 1951 Time's article written in collaboration with Dr. Urner Liddel of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. debunking UFOs, saying:
   
   "There was too much evidence in favor of saucers to say they could have all been balloons. 'I was conducting the main investigation. The government had to depend on me or my branch for information.' He said he did not see how the Navy (i.e., Dr Liddel) could say that there had been no concrete evidence on the existence of the phenomena." [4]
   
   Dr. Mirachi, included classified details about Project Twinkle which nearly landed him in very hot water (source contains more details). [5]

You don't need the Onion for floppy raid...

Emphasizing the “I” in RAID.

[...]only to find when you got home, disk #40 had a bad sector in the readme.txt file and the entire archive was bad?

The simple fact is, is that setting up a RAID on a Mac is about as simple as it gets. Yes, it's software RAID, but you'll make me laugh if you say you need hardware RAID for a home file server. I've got an old G3 iMac like the one running the floppy RAID - cheap-as-dirt and dead silent because it has NO fan - with a couple of FW400 boxes. Works like a charm. No drivers to faf around with (have you ever tried to reinstall Windows onto RAID? Jebus!). Runs Connect360 to get media to the Xbob, iTunes for streaming, email (postfix) and webserver (apache).

They must of been looking at the big Interchange near there
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=60016&ie=UT F8&z=15&ll=41.987057,-87.870326&spn=0.014195,0.042 787&t=k&om=1
http://whereroadsmeet.8k.com/Interchange/il-i90-i1 90.htm

For some other snake robots, check out these links:

http://www.snakerobots.com/

http://arctangent.8k.com/snake/snakemain.htm

I very highly recommend this method:

http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

It should scale up nicely to 1PB.

You can do it even cheaper. Check out this page:

http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

That guy uses floppies in a RAID setup using a macintosh.

So, my guess is that you do not even need any raid cards. Just a 2nd hand iMac, and about 150,000 USB floppy drives. Of course, you might have to stack a USB hub or two in there.

If you can get your hands on old USB Zip drives, you should only need about 2500 of those.

Who says I don't know how to save a buck. Who needs expensive RAID cards?

Let me know how it turns out.

That's about right. I estimate it at 15-20. It's nice that the article summary repeated a fact that most people overlook: that digital is a long way from approaching medium- and large-format film. More details here.

Floppy RAID is still the most perverse such hack.

One thing came to mind when reading this:

http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

Cheap hardware, commodity interface and storage media, dirt cheap... Now, you'd need over 18 million of the things for the low-end capacity, but they'd be easily replaceable, probably hot-swappable, and might actually be somewhat durable ;)

I'd pay good money to get a tour of a company with rows and rows of iMacs with 127 floppy drives hanging off each one... :)

http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

Sorry someone beat you to it.

The current forecasts of several serious astrophysics forecasters, based on several current solar and astrophysical phenomena, is that substantial cooling is likely over the next 10-40 years, over the log(CO2) forcing. The Irkutsk crowd http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/981669/po sts, Corbyn http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/weather_pr .htmland Landscheidt http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/Calen/Landscheidt-1.ht mlstate this quite emphatically in different ways. Stay tuned.

Maybe back to 70s (worried about global cooling and bell bottoms again). Guess the warming was nice while it lasted...

But changing it to devices might inspire more people to do this.

>> manly RAID 5?

Yeah, really I'd prefer raid 5 too, but TFA was about a "poor mans" raid array.

More or less on-topic: take a look at this guy's really pointless raid 5 setup. Very cool.

That's when your exposure SHOULD be one thing by mathematics, but it doesn't come out right - so you have to change it to something else that SHOULD be wrong instead.

Erm...

All it means is that the mathematical model the camera is using is only valid for typical situations. Like a lot of things, the reciprocity characteristics of film can be modeled in various ways. If you might recall from your math courses, models are typically valid for only a given domain. For example, we might model a non-linear system of differential equations by pretending it's a linear system around a certain point. The model we develop for that point is not necessarily going to be valid anywhere else. The same is true for the reciprocity models. The tables are only good for certain values. Beyond that, correction is needed.

I'd really like to see some smart chemist or mathematician try to figure that one out!

It is figured out because there are tables and tables of reciprocity data.

Take a gander at this for instance.

http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/Calen/Landscheidt-1.ht ml

I'd like to know if you could run the OS off a FDD Raid (provided you had about 500, of course)

Yeah, but all we found in Iraq was this.

Yeah, why force yourself to move to a more reliable, faster, cheaper, and all-around better standard when you can pretend you're saving a few cents and put up with losing data every so often?

Of course, if you really want to get modern space and performance out of a floppy drive, you could always do this. Good luck getting it on a keychain, though.

Put System swapfile, temporary internet files and temp folders on a Flash memory RAID array

Use USB 2.0 Flash sticks and RAID striping. Silent, unlike the SCSI volume, low-power and also very fast.

Beowulf clusters are old news. RAID is trendy now.

The problem is actually worse in a lot of other countries.

For example, in France, a professional photographer must pay 5,000 euros per day for a license to use a tripod when taking photographs of public buildings like the Palace of Versailles. If you can't prove that you are a professional photographer, you may not buy a tripod permit at any price.

Looks like you're the stupid one, after all. But of course, lefty soreheads who belittle the USA are usually ignorant malcontents who don't realize how good they have it.

-ccm

Oh, and you can't boot OS X from a USB RAID. I'm pretty sure you can boot from an IDE RAID (I mean an OS X software RAID, not a hardware RAID where the computer never sees the individual drives), and maybe even from a Firewire RAID, but USB is right out.

Yep, here's the link.

Some guy has done this already here's his site (it seems to be down at the moment?). But not to make this post completely worthless, here's a guy who made a raid out of floppy drives.

he should stick one of these on it: http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

Bascially he says the science behind global warming is dubious at best and has allowed us to get to where we are without scientific proof.

I've posted the link before, but this is another great opportunity to mention the brilliant USB floppy disk drive RAID. It really is a shame that USB doesn't support more than 128 devices per root hub ;)

When did you provide links to the information you were presenting?

You had stated the marijuana user mantra, that has been repeated often in 'High Times' and by many of the marijuana user's that I have interacted with throughout the years. It doesn't matter if you read that publication or not, I have read and had those statements recounted to me from that publication and have heard that gospel preached by many users of marijuana.

Heck, I used to believe that same thing myself!

Here's some links... The first one gives me reason to question whether or not Marijuana should be made legal...

Link One

Here's a High Times piece that ignores much of the additional scientific information in the previous link, in order to 'justify' the legalization movement. Perhaps the writer suffered from memory loss revolving around the rest of the scientific information that was available at the time the discovery of the brain receptor he wrote about...

The following quote comes directly from the above listed 'High Times' article...

This latest research confirms and explains Hollister's 1986 conclusion about cannabis and addiction: "Physical dependence is rarely encountered in the usual patterns, despite some degree of tolerance that may develop."

It says 'rarely encountered in the usual patterns' that doesn't mean that physical dependence is rarely encountered, just that the usual patterns, like the intense almost crazy cravings for the drug aren't usual. Even 'High Times' agrees with me that Marijuana is physically addictive!

You really don't have to like the facts, just understand the facts exist. I am still for the legalization of marijuana, but you won't ever see me using it. That's just not something that is part of my life, for many reasons.

I am not preaching and saying that anyone shouldn't use marijuana or any particular drug, I am just pointing out the fact that it is indeed addictive. I also qualify that by stating that it is well known that the withdrawal symptoms are quite minimal, in comparison to a great many other drugs and that many current and past users of marijuana simply don't believe they are or were ever addicted, because withdrawal is so minor.

Here's a guy who built a software RAID using USB floppy drives on OSX.

Apparently when people actually go and measure Maldives sea level history they find that it's recently been falling, not rising and at least one fishing boat route is no longer used because it's fallen enough that they scrape bottom now along a non-growing subsurface bit of geology.

I couldn't agree more. Spend that $50 and get a hardware RAID controller; especially with a 500Mhz processor! Don't get me wrong; I've used Linux software RAID in the past and it performed very well. I didn't have the luxury of being able to spend any money though. Everything I did was from "scrap".

And don't forget, just because you have RAID it doesn't mean you don't have to back up your data!

You also don't say what sort of drives or motherboard you have. Most motherboards have 2 IDE controllers (4 devices). Some of the newer boards also have SATA, but you're not going to have 8 ports there either. Heck, if you get a decent mobo it will have a RAID controller built in. Of course, a decent mobo wouldn't support of 500Mhz CPU ;-)

Another issue is the power and requirements; I trust you have sufficient power and cooling?

From the limited information available, I see thing you can do with these 8 drives is to split them across 2 machines, each with 4 drives in, identical configs. Configure the Software RAID-5 across 3 drives, with 1 hot spare. One machine can be used to backup the other machine.

Or, you can backup everything to floppy disk

On the contrary. The evidence is quite good.

I have no freaking clue what you are talking about the Earth's magnetic field. For one, it has *NOTHING* to do with global warming.

Read this and this and then get back to me. The magnetosphere blocks solar radiation from penetrating the lower levels of the atmosphere.

About the sun, well, let's see. Sunspots are actually cooler areas of the Sun. So the more sunspots, the cooler the sun!

Read this and then get back to me. Sunspots are indicators of higher solar activity.

any self respecting beowulf cluster has RAID floppies.

There's also the idea of a flywheel (that was just one of a random googling...) Store the power in a moving wheel with lots of inertia, if the power goes out, generate electricity from said wheel. Not sure how cheap they come, but probably safer than batteries and doesn't need fuel like a generator...

doesn't even exist. It is a scam that can't even come up with names to the consensus. What? Don't believe me? Here's my proof It even comes with sources for you who like to disprove. We will face Global cooling before the infamous desert world Global Warming portrays.

Every time I want to use one of my old floppy disks, I encounter a problem of bad sectors. It's up to the point that when I absolutely need to carry data on FD (old computers with no usb, no CDRW and no internet), I copy it twice on each of two disks.

Is it going to be the same for CD as they get older ? I am considering moving my data archive from CD to hard drives with RAID.

Ah this reminds me of this story : http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

What "death of floppies" article would be complete without a link to Floppy RAID!

take a look at this raid 0 floppy setup: http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

yes, I know that it would cost more and we would still have moving parts. It's also slower.
But just imagine a room with ~21300 FDD (30 gigs) stacked to the ceiling blinking and spinning like mad.

It's been done! Check this USB floppy disk drive RAID out.