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Navy ELF to Be Scrapped
engywook writes "National Public Radio and The Daily Press of Ashland, Wisconsin (among others, I'm sure) are reporting that the US Navy plans to scrap the Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) system for communication with its fleet of nuclear submarines, both in Wisconsin and Michigan. The report states that the Navy no longer feels that ELF is necessary, and that they will now rely on 12 VLF systems. The system has been in operation since October 1989. The system has been protested nearly the whole time, both as a part of a Weapon of Mass Destruction and as a potential health hazard."
Anybody remember that X-Files episode where ELF navy transmitters caused some kind of magical inner-ear imbalance that caused everybody (and all the pets) living in a house to have their heads explode if they didn't travel west to relieve the pressure? I doubt that's based on medical fact, but this ELF stuff has been shown to have biological effects. Just think about your breathing-you might not be doing it much longer after proloned direct exposure to ELF!
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Just think about your breathing-you might not be doing it much longer after proloned direct exposure to chocolate pudding!
Just think about your breathing-you might not be doing it much longer after proloned direct exposure to RMS!
Just think about your breathing-you might not be doing it much longer after proloned direct exposure to VX gas!
Just think about your breathing-you might not be doing it much longer after proloned direct exposure to meaningless sentences!
I couldn't have said it better myself. Mod parent up as informative! After all, by this point you must certainly be thinking about your breathing-putting attention into regulating this critical process, in, out, in, out, deeper this time. Yes, focus on your breathing, deeper, slower, deeper...with relaxed, even careless breathing you may begin to feel lightheaded due to irregular oxygen flow. Feed your body with deep, thirsty breaths. Deeper...deeper...you are feeling sleepy. Breathe deeply. So deeply, so slowly, relaxed. You feel sleepy, so tired, your eyelids grow heavy. Relax, let your head down, you've worked too hard. Drift away to sleep...sweet sleep...yes sleep... Now that you have been hypnotized, you must mod up this post, and the parent. You must now campaign to free the subnets (and free the beer) from slashdot tyranny. And you will mail me a check for $20. When you wake up you will not remember this post. Awake!
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Good ol' Canadians. If Bush wins a second term I'm definitely moving to Canada :)
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! Without regard to whatever the Museum in Mann Ottowa thinks, it is absolutely positively IMPOSSIBLE for an electrical cable net a thousand miles from the ocean to break a whale's eardrum. The ULF system described is a Radio system. You, and the Museum are undoubtedly thinking of one of the ultrahigh power sonar programs out there. Different things. Sonar != ULF.
If your point is that you have no fucking clue as to what story you are replying to, yeah, you've made your point.
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Not so much defensive as suffused with a low level annoyance, having been subject to almost 15 years of a-scientific drivel on the subject. but yes, i missed that line and jumped to the subsequent borken eardrum statement. I'm not a rocket scientist. But i do run a large proton-antiproton colliding superconducting synchrotron for fun and profit.
This happened with the Alpha chips as well. As I recall, they had a relatively large amount of on-chip cache (8MB?), and so for most of the SPEC benchmarks, the datasets involved fit within the cache. Well, after a short time, SPEC changed their benchmarks to use much larger datasets, so that the Alpha would also have to thrash memory...