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> Amazingly enough even in the depths of Slashdot,
> there appear to have been no postings or
> discussions about it.

Because it was old news when the site was founded?

The Scroungers Guide to Satellite TV
By Gary Bourgois
Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, The Birdwatcher's Report

Scrounger's guide to Sat TV

http://www.nmia.com/~roberts/scrounge

Free to air Sat receivers

http://www.tech-faq.com/free-to-air-receivers.html

If you don't want to go TV, you can make spiffy outdoor table canopies from them, or use them for home solar thermal alt energy projects, once you have a tracker. I've seen them used for the tops/roofs on backyard small buildings as well.

"But you have taken it to a whole new level by not reading an article you are telling us about "

*Ahem*. As guygee already pointed out, they were storing the AP in aluminum shipping containers as well as plastic drums and open bins. And not only have I read the WP article, I've read a couple of reports on the PEPCON distaster. This one is from the United States Fire Administration, and covers the fire and emergency response in detail. This one is mainly concerned with how the blast wave and projectiles, and the resulting damage, progressed.

I believe you owe me an apology.

maybe that is when Quetzalcoatl returns to collect his gold...

I for one welcome our ancestral overlords!

It's like Homo neanderthalensis, recognisable as a precursor to ourselves, but a completely different beast.

Sorry to be nitpicky, but you chose completely the wrong example to use as an analogy.

Homo Neanderthalensis . . . yeah, they used to be seen as a precursor to "humankind", but that was due in a large part to the fact that scientists, unfortunately for the accuracy of results and theories, are human . . . archaeologists and paleontologists inherited from their cultures a huge burden of preconceptions about what "human" is, and combined with some of the initial findings of the Neanderthals being actually terribly diseased and atypical examples, along with the misclassification of any artifacts left behind as instead being left behind by Homo Sapiens . . . well, it's only recently (relatively speaking) that the scientific community has started to wake up to the rather non-linear relationship of "us to them".

Now, naturally, conclusions are far from certain. At some point the Neanderthals diverged; but it's hard to argue that then the human race continued on and left them behind, the actual demise of the Neanderthals is a trickier business. Arguments range from interbreeding (we're all Neanderthals!) to ourbreeding (as in, humans moved into Neanderthal territory as climates changed, and like rabbits we just outpopulated them, pushing them away), to war (stone age style), combinations of all the above, and more. What is at least certain, though, is that the Neanderthals weren't, uhh, of the nature that you describe them as being.

Some random sources for cross-reference:

Descent of Man - Neanderthal
Even a random religous tract from 1998 notes that Neanderthals are "no longer thought to be lineal ancestors of Homo Sapiens".
There's also some in-depth information here and here, and etc.

Not sure why I spent that brief period of time dredging all that up, I'll probably either be ignored or modded (probably rightfully, though unfortunately it's a policy that squashes interesting tangential discussion) off-topic. Oh well!

Ahh... Funny commersials.

This dutch one is a legend: Want to learn english?.

> There is no significant historical evidence pre-ice age that homo sapiens were anything more than small nomadic bands

Just because you are ignorant of them, doesn't mean there are none:

- Why do the Pyramids and Sphinx show water erosion

- Granite Coffer show sign of super-advanced drilling techniques.
Spiraling patterns show this drill capable o drilling 1/10th of an inch per second. The best we can do thru granite is 1/100th.

- Eeboom and Belting found ancient gold trinkets of working aircraft models , once scaled up.

- A machined 3D relief map 120-million years old in a 1-ton stone, with inscriptions.

I could go on, but the best place of proof, that includes photos, is
Gods of the New Millennium : Scientific Proof of Flesh & Blood Gods by Alan F. Alford

Another OK reference is Shift of the Ages

Peace

http://www.nmia.com/~sphinx/images/mars/face.jpg Now imagine that the face wants to look at something else. Its going to leave some pretty big valley's in it moves along the surface.

Check out this link to read more on it. Also this link has some interesting info.

Anybody remember the explosion that happened in Las Vegas in 1988? It was a couple megaton blast produced by conventional explosives...well solid rocket fuel anyway. It is recorded as one of the largest explosions of all time.

I was wrong about Goedel, but let's talk Turing.

Remember, you can use a TM to make statements or prove/disprove theorems about TMs.

Provided you have a longer tape. According to this page, a Turing machine has among its parts "a head that can read, write, and move along an infinitely long tape that is divided into cells" (strong mine). In the real world there is no such thing as infinite RAM. An emulator in general has to have more registers than the system it's emulating; otherwise, registers will spill to RAM, which is a Bad Thing for an emulator that runs at such a low level, unlike user-space game console emulators that can spare a few bytes.

Oh, BTW, the Brainfuck language is one of the smallest (eight instructions) Turing-complete languages in existence.