You really should see these snails hunt and eat fish.
Yes, indeed! I lived in Hawaii for several years, was a SCUBA-diving shell collector and kept two aquaria--one with Textile cones (a molluscivore, i.e., eats other snails) and one with Striated cones (a piscivore). (Had to keep 'em apart, for obvious reasons.)
One Striated cone in my aquarium eventually learned that it was in a closed area. Normally, these fish-killers 'spear' their food and hold on to the barbed, radular tooth (through which the vemon is injected) until the fish is paralyzed (two or three seconds), then draw the prey into their extended, enveloping stomach. After that, they dig into the sand and digest for a couple of weeks; if they're lucky, they don't get eaten in turn by an Eagle Ray,... or one of those Textile cones mentioned above.
So, anyway, this one Striated cone quit holding onto the 'spear' once it hit the fish and, instead, would stroll around the aquarium until it found its meal! (In an embarassing faux pas, it once shot a dart through its own siphon and spent a couple of minutes trying to eat itself !)
Be glad these things aren't crawling around your garden; one shot from these could be your last! They are not too shy to defend themselves. Every year there are fatalities in the topical islands where some of the most venomous and aggressive varieties live.
This is SO MUCH like Daniel Galouye's SIMULACRON-3 fiction novel (1964) that I may have to move to adult diapers YEARS before I thought I would! Right down to the use of simulated populations responding to possible political scenarios, this is so effin' freaky.
If you have the nerves for it, read through it and you'll be sayin' "Oh, Shit!"
And, of course, it doesn't just depend on who programs the computers, but also who "interprets" the data, who "massages" the data, who "spins" the data,... blah, blah, blah,....
Well, "Anonymous Coward," when you quote chapter and verse of the Establishment Bible of Science, you miss the point. Besides, I gave up any kind church cr.. decades ago.
Heim did the brainwork and pulled QD and GR together by the mid-1950s. He had Quintessence AND "non-Newtonian" gravity figured out while other, "established" scientists were suckling at funding teats, working to get their nice homes, showpiece wives, kids and the things a successful scientist SHOULD have.
Remember that "Rocket Man" lyric?--
"And all this science, I don't understand; it's just my job five days a week."
That's for folks who see science as a job. Some of see us science as a means to attempt to understand where the hell we are.
Just be patient and see how this 'new' gravity thing shakes out. I've seen layer after layer of "valid" science go under in the past three or four decades. Some folks will go down with the ship, others will choose to survive.
PJ did what he wanted, when he wanted. He was in charge.
Take a look at PJ's FOTR, at the Bree gate crushing the gatekeeper, and before that look at the careful setup to plant the gatekeeper's face in the conciousness of the viewer. Then look at the back cover of the Ballentine Books releases of LOTR,... and, then,... think again!
Well, perhaps I could have made it clearer but I thought that,...
"...Burkhard Heim's unified theory from the 1950s. His work brought up the idea that gravity comes in several varieties, only one of which is experienced by us puny beings (so far). One of his additional gravitational entities is, today, called 'Dark Energy' although he named it 'Quintessence.' It is the other, however, which is the 'elephant in the room.' "
made it clear that Quintessence was NOT the elephant in the room. I continued with the gravitophoton and the fact that a non-Newtonian gravitaitional force, heretofore unmentioned by any other theory, had been measured. Heim called the shot well ahead of its discovery! He should get the credit.
Nice talk, but not one person wanted to mention the behemoth lurking over cosmology today,...
That would be Burkhard Heim's unified theory from the 1950s. His work brought up the idea that gravity comes in several varieties, only one of which is experienced by us puny beings (so far). One of his additional gravitational entities is, today, called "Dark Energy" although he named it "Quintessence." It is the other, however, which is the "elephant in the room."
Heim deduced that a messenger particle he called a "gravitophoton" could be produced by using a very intense magnetic field (>20 Teslas) to produce electron-positron pairs from the background vacuum. The gravitophoton would have two types, attractive and replusive. Sound fanatasic?!
Uh, uh! Last year, the findings of two+ years of careful experiments with rotating, superconducting disks were announced by the European Space Agency (ESA). See http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb364473.h tm . A non-Newtonian gravitational field has been conjured up and made to produce a measureable force in one direction and, upon accelerating the super-conducting disc in the opposite direction, have that non-Newtonian gravitational field produce a force in the opposite direction!
This makes talk about 'branes and Big Bangs idle chit-chat. Nor are these results a one-shot fluke. Two-hundred-plus runs were made, and the results studied for eight months, before the scientists doing the experiments could convince themselves that they weren't nuts! Their published work is here -- http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/gsp/Experimental _Detection.pdf
Of course, well-established scientists don't need to hear about this. It sort of means a lot of what they know is wrong.
PJ owns LOTR now. HE paid off Christopher, and Chris has to bite the bullet while PJ disses Dad. Maybe that's why Chris has put out a "new" JRRT book,... to divert attention, or something,... (like make more money).
If you look at my review ( http://cowrys.org/~makuabob/FOTRrevu.html ), you'll find my explanation that PJ never met an old man he respected. That's why the fight scene between Gandalf and Sauruman was so vicious, AND why Denethor was degraded to the point being absolutely ludicrous! None of that crap advanced the story! PJ has no sense of dignity for the aged, from what this directorship indicates.
Ugh! That's enough! Just writing about PJ makes me want to puke!!
Methinks you know too little of Mr. Jackson's disregard for JRRT.
Recall, if you will, FOTR the movie, when our 4 lads arrive at the gate of Bree. The viewers are VERY carefully shown the gatekeeper's face, several times, to impress it upon the memory. Then later, while the town sleeps, a scene shows that same gatekeeper hunched over, in front of a candle, smoking a pipe. Now, flash away to RL (Real Life) and the back cover of the Ballentine Books releases of LOTR; there you will see JRRT, smoking his pipe.
In the movie, the actor's appearance, and his pose, were hand-picked to resonate with the readers of the triolgy and,... now that Mr. Jackson has their attention, recall what happened next...
Well,... remember?............. No?
Totally contrary to the book, the gatekeeper then goes to the gate upon hearing a noise (and not the simple bar across the road, as in the book, but a massive wooden gate) and,... is crushed to death by the Ringwraiths as they ride in.
Jackson very carefully set that scene up to p... on/off the readers of the books! There's your "credit" to JRRT from Mr. PJ himself! Any comment by Jackson to the contrary is BS, pure and simple.
As for all the UI comments, I recall (yep, I'm an oldie!) when Adventure (yes, circa 1970) was the ONLY computer adventure game. Your imagination had to do it all...
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Yes, indeed! I lived in Hawaii for several years, was a SCUBA-diving shell collector and kept two aquaria--one with Textile cones (a molluscivore, i.e., eats other snails) and one with Striated cones (a piscivore). (Had to keep 'em apart, for obvious reasons.)
One Striated cone in my aquarium eventually learned that it was in a closed area. Normally, these fish-killers 'spear' their food and hold on to the barbed, radular tooth (through which the vemon is injected) until the fish is paralyzed (two or three seconds), then draw the prey into their extended, enveloping stomach. After that, they dig into the sand and digest for a couple of weeks; if they're lucky, they don't get eaten in turn by an Eagle Ray,... or one of those Textile cones mentioned above.
So, anyway, this one Striated cone quit holding onto the 'spear' once it hit the fish and, instead, would stroll around the aquarium until it found its meal! (In an embarassing faux pas, it once shot a dart through its own siphon and spent a couple of minutes trying to eat itself !)
Be glad these things aren't crawling around your garden; one shot from these could be your last! They are not too shy to defend themselves. Every year there are fatalities in the topical islands where some of the most venomous and aggressive varieties live.
This is SO MUCH like Daniel Galouye's SIMULACRON-3 fiction novel (1964) that I may have to move to adult diapers YEARS before I thought I would! Right down to the use of simulated populations responding to possible political scenarios, this is so effin' freaky.
If you have the nerves for it, read through it and you'll be sayin' "Oh, Shit!"
And, of course, it doesn't just depend on who programs the computers, but also who "interprets" the data, who "massages" the data, who "spins" the data,... blah, blah, blah,....
Heim did the brainwork and pulled QD and GR together by the mid-1950s. He had Quintessence AND "non-Newtonian" gravity figured out while other, "established" scientists were suckling at funding teats, working to get their nice homes, showpiece wives, kids and the things a successful scientist SHOULD have.
Remember that "Rocket Man" lyric?--
"And all this science, I don't understand; it's just my job five days a week."
That's for folks who see science as a job. Some of see us science as a means to attempt to understand where the hell we are.
Just be patient and see how this 'new' gravity thing shakes out. I've seen layer after layer of "valid" science go under in the past three or four decades. Some folks will go down with the ship, others will choose to survive.
PJ did what he wanted, when he wanted. He was in charge.
Take a look at PJ's FOTR, at the Bree gate crushing the gatekeeper, and before that look at the careful setup to plant the gatekeeper's face in the conciousness of the viewer. Then look at the back cover of the Ballentine Books releases of LOTR,... and, then,... think again!
"...Burkhard Heim's unified theory from the 1950s. His work brought up the idea that gravity comes in several varieties, only one of which is experienced by us puny beings (so far). One of his additional gravitational entities is, today, called 'Dark Energy' although he named it 'Quintessence.' It is the other, however, which is the 'elephant in the room.' "
made it clear that Quintessence was NOT the elephant in the room. I continued with the gravitophoton and the fact that a non-Newtonian gravitaitional force, heretofore unmentioned by any other theory, had been measured. Heim called the shot well ahead of its discovery! He should get the credit.
That would be Burkhard Heim's unified theory from the 1950s. His work brought up the idea that gravity comes in several varieties, only one of which is experienced by us puny beings (so far). One of his additional gravitational entities is, today, called "Dark Energy" although he named it "Quintessence." It is the other, however, which is the "elephant in the room."
Heim deduced that a messenger particle he called a "gravitophoton" could be produced by using a very intense magnetic field (>20 Teslas) to produce electron-positron pairs from the background vacuum. The gravitophoton would have two types, attractive and replusive. Sound fanatasic?!
Uh, uh! Last year, the findings of two+ years of careful experiments with rotating, superconducting disks were announced by the European Space Agency (ESA). See http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb364473.h tm . A non-Newtonian gravitational field has been conjured up and made to produce a measureable force in one direction and, upon accelerating the super-conducting disc in the opposite direction, have that non-Newtonian gravitational field produce a force in the opposite direction!
This makes talk about 'branes and Big Bangs idle chit-chat. Nor are these results a one-shot fluke. Two-hundred-plus runs were made, and the results studied for eight months, before the scientists doing the experiments could convince themselves that they weren't nuts! Their published work is here -- http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/gsp/Experimental _Detection.pdf
Of course, well-established scientists don't need to hear about this. It sort of means a lot of what they know is wrong.
PJ owns LOTR now. HE paid off Christopher, and Chris has to bite the bullet while PJ disses Dad. Maybe that's why Chris has put out a "new" JRRT book,... to divert attention, or something,... (like make more money).
If you look at my review ( http://cowrys.org/~makuabob/FOTRrevu.html ), you'll find my explanation that PJ never met an old man he respected. That's why the fight scene between Gandalf and Sauruman was so vicious, AND why Denethor was degraded to the point being absolutely ludicrous! None of that crap advanced the story! PJ has no sense of dignity for the aged, from what this directorship indicates.
Ugh! That's enough! Just writing about PJ makes me want to puke!!
Recall, if you will, FOTR the movie, when our 4 lads arrive at the gate of Bree. The viewers are VERY carefully shown the gatekeeper's face, several times, to impress it upon the memory. Then later, while the town sleeps, a scene shows that same gatekeeper hunched over, in front of a candle, smoking a pipe. Now, flash away to RL (Real Life) and the back cover of the Ballentine Books releases of LOTR; there you will see JRRT, smoking his pipe.
In the movie, the actor's appearance, and his pose, were hand-picked to resonate with the readers of the triolgy and,... now that Mr. Jackson has their attention, recall what happened next...
Well,... remember?............. No?
Totally contrary to the book, the gatekeeper then goes to the gate upon hearing a noise (and not the simple bar across the road, as in the book, but a massive wooden gate) and,... is crushed to death by the Ringwraiths as they ride in.
Jackson very carefully set that scene up to p... on/off the readers of the books! There's your "credit" to JRRT from Mr. PJ himself! Any comment by Jackson to the contrary is BS, pure and simple.
... (see http://cowrys.org/~makuabob/FOTRrevu.html
As for all the UI comments, I recall (yep, I'm an oldie!) when Adventure (yes, circa 1970) was the ONLY computer adventure game. Your imagination had to do it all...