In the terminator series- soon to be expanded to its fourth installment- time travel only works on naked bodies. I am amused to think that we may have to esort to this for ultimate security.
Even so, when you read about smuggling in prisons and elsewhere, there's alot you can hide inside a body.
I predict Martian bacteria will be similar to Terran bacteria, because they come from the same source- either Earth or Mars. On the average, there may be a meteor impact energetic enough to launch Mars rocks to Earth and vice-versa every hundred million years. (Physics & the asteroid belt favors more frequent Mars releases.) Fifteen Mars rocks have been found on Earth so far- probably many more have arrived in the eons. And these appear pretty young- less than a few tens of millions of years since impact.
Rock is a great insulator. Fresh meteorites are cold inside. At least 45% of the shuttle Columbia has been found in Texas, despite the rentry stress, including intact video tapes, worms, and computer disks.
The Martian surface may have stablized faster than the Earth after these planets formed. So life may have arisen their first, then seeded Earth via meteors. Life has been more abundant on Earth, so may have seeded Mars.
Terran life has been found in all kinds in extreme conditions. Its found in superheated geysers- above the 100 degrees centigrade. Its been found at the base of millions of years old glaciers in Antarctica. Its been found in the ice itself. Its been found floating on dust ten miles up in the atmosphere. Its been found in every deep drilling hole its been looked for, up to eight miles deep into the earth.
Frederick Pohl's Heechee series
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Altered Carbon
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· Score: 3, Informative
Pohl's ten or Heechee novels deal with digitized consciousness. One alien race keeps them in a pouch on the body as instant advisors- sort of like Dune's Other Memory. In other Pohl novels humans get digitized into the computer and find an alternative digital universe, not unlike the Matrix. Digitized humans can live at electronic speeds, or much faster than in the flesh.
A federal appeals court is small potatoes compared to the Supremes. Remember Y2K where they halted the Florida recount and put in office the presidental candidate with the smaller popular vote. If SCOTUS can be swayed this easily, whats to stop one the world's most influential companies against an appeal court?
You get what you pay for. Most business software development is no longer done in the countries where the customers are. There is poor understanding of the what the software should do.
Denver is the HQ city of Regal Theaters,
a holding company that has purchased about half of the movie theatres in the country when the chains overbuilt and went bankrupt a few years ago. They've mostly converted to digital here, so I am pretty much forced to watch that format for new releases.
Digital is fine for CGI films like Nemo, and the numerous "comic book" films this summer. But I do notice pixelation artifats for some types of non-CG scenes.
Compaq's (then called DEC) search engine called Alta Vista was king of the hill in its time. It was fairly comprehensive and gave some reasonable rankings. But DEC couldnt turn it into a decent business, and better algorithms like google came along. History could repeat itself again.
Boulder CO overrun by SUVs
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A Mighty Wind
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· Score: 1
Environmental hypocrisy is everywhere. When I went hiking in Boulder CO yesterday, I had to be extra careful dodging all of the gas-guzzling SUVs on the road.
All these sources of energy were initially touted as caheap and "clean as a dime". However, after large scale implementation, all have some environemental problems. Dams cause silting, blighting and fish kills. Wind and solar require vast land area for reasonable power amounts. Solar cells have dirty manufacturing chemicals. Nuclear was suppose to "free and unlimited" int he 40s and 50s, but we've seen several disasters since. Geothermal has brine waste and induced seismicity problems.
At least nowadays people think a little ahead before trashing the environment.
If warm climate is a factor, then it was warm 110,000 and 60,000 yearts ago- well after the new homo sapien skull discoveries. You have to explain why civilization did start then.
Homo sapiens lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer-fisher life for the first 90% of their existance-
much like the aborigional populations did. It sis thought they full language capabilities by 50,000 years ago, when most of the world was quickly occupied by humans. However it is one of the great mysteries why poepl did start vivilization until the end of the last glaciation.
The original humanoid races were "the music of Eru", inherently goody-goody, and immortal. There is some suggestion if they were killed in war or accident they could reincarnate in Middle Earth, or their spirits dwelt in Valinor, the home of the god-like beings who ran the show.
Men, and other similar races like the hobbits,
were both good and evil. They could choose either. However, they died and their spirits left Middle Earth to where God only knows. Death was considered potentially a benefit by immortals who grew weary with time.
The original race of men in Toklein's universe live for centuries like the Biblical patriarchs. Their lifespans declined as the original high civilization declined. Also the line of kings has immortal Elvish ancestors, which confers additional longevity.
Aragon's 87 years pales compared to his betrothed Arwen's many centuries. She is practically cradle-robbing. And her father, Agent Smith, no I mean Elrond, is an immortal Elf and many thousands of years old. Because Elrond and Arwen have some human blood, they can choose to become human, age, and die.
Some states prohibit unemployment to "fired" (with cause) workers. A layoff is termination without cause. Firing is dnagerous to employers, because they bear the burden of proof should a lawyer shark come after them.
"V" (and "Independence Day") start out the same as Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", a favorite of mine. A single huge alien ship suddenly appears above each of Earth's major cities. The aliens stay hidden for a while because they are repulsive reptiles. Then the stories diverge. Childhood's aliens are merely subcontractors for another more powerful race with apocalytic intentions. "V" degenerates into a cops-and-robbers action series.
The most frustrating thing about pen-writing is the lack of an easy erase function. (OK, there is white-out). Most of my errors are in the initial writing where I want to fix the spelling of the word I just wrote.
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In the terminator series- soon to be expanded to its fourth installment- time travel only works on naked bodies. I am amused to think that we may have to esort to this for ultimate security.
Even so, when you read about smuggling in prisons and elsewhere, there's alot you can hide inside a body.
I predict Martian bacteria will be similar to Terran bacteria, because they come from the same source- either Earth or Mars. On the average, there may be a meteor impact energetic enough to launch Mars rocks to Earth and vice-versa every hundred million years. (Physics & the asteroid belt favors more frequent Mars releases.) Fifteen Mars rocks have been found on Earth so far- probably many more have arrived in the eons. And these appear pretty young- less than a few tens of millions of years since impact.
Rock is a great insulator. Fresh meteorites are cold inside. At least 45% of the shuttle Columbia has been found in Texas, despite the rentry stress, including intact video tapes, worms, and computer disks.
The Martian surface may have stablized faster than the Earth after these planets formed. So life may have arisen their first, then seeded Earth via meteors. Life has been more abundant on Earth, so may have seeded Mars.
Terran life has been found in all kinds in extreme conditions. Its found in superheated geysers- above the 100 degrees centigrade. Its been found at the base of millions of years old glaciers in Antarctica. Its been found in the ice itself. Its been found floating on dust ten miles up in the atmosphere. Its been found in every deep drilling hole its been looked for, up to eight miles deep into the earth.
Pohl's ten or Heechee novels deal with digitized consciousness. One alien race keeps them in a pouch on the body as instant advisors- sort of like Dune's Other Memory. In other Pohl novels humans get digitized into the computer and find an alternative digital universe, not unlike the Matrix. Digitized humans can live at electronic speeds, or much faster than in the flesh.
A federal appeals court is small potatoes compared to the Supremes. Remember Y2K where they halted the Florida recount and put in office the presidental candidate with the smaller popular vote. If SCOTUS can be swayed this easily, whats to stop one the world's most influential companies against an appeal court?
You get what you pay for. Most business software development is no longer done in the countries where the customers are. There is poor understanding of the what the software should do.
Boeing did 707, 727, 737, 747, 767, 777. (Maybe I missed few.) Now they are promoting the 7E7.
Denver is the HQ city of Regal Theaters, a holding company that has purchased about half of the movie theatres in the country when the chains overbuilt and went bankrupt a few years ago. They've mostly converted to digital here, so I am pretty much forced to watch that format for new releases.
Digital is fine for CGI films like Nemo, and the numerous "comic book" films this summer. But I do notice pixelation artifats for some types of non-CG scenes.
Compaq's (then called DEC) search engine called Alta Vista was king of the hill in its time. It was fairly comprehensive and gave some reasonable rankings. But DEC couldnt turn it into a decent business, and better algorithms like google came along. History could repeat itself again.
MJ w w/o THC
Environmental hypocrisy is everywhere. When I went hiking in Boulder CO yesterday, I had to be extra careful dodging all of the gas-guzzling SUVs on the road.
Appears around that day too. I know which I'll be watching first.
All these sources of energy were initially touted as caheap and "clean as a dime". However, after large scale implementation, all have some environemental problems. Dams cause silting, blighting and fish kills. Wind and solar require vast land area for reasonable power amounts. Solar cells have dirty manufacturing chemicals. Nuclear was suppose to "free and unlimited" int he 40s and 50s, but we've seen several disasters since. Geothermal has brine waste and induced seismicity problems.
At least nowadays people think a little ahead before trashing the environment.
If warm climate is a factor, then it was warm 110,000 and 60,000 yearts ago- well after the new homo sapien skull discoveries. You have to explain why civilization did start then.
Homo sapiens lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer-fisher life for the first 90% of their existance- much like the aborigional populations did. It sis thought they full language capabilities by 50,000 years ago, when most of the world was quickly occupied by humans. However it is one of the great mysteries why poepl did start vivilization until the end of the last glaciation.
The original humanoid races were "the music of Eru", inherently goody-goody, and immortal. There is some suggestion if they were killed in war or accident they could reincarnate in Middle Earth, or their spirits dwelt in Valinor, the home of the god-like beings who ran the show.
Men, and other similar races like the hobbits, were both good and evil. They could choose either. However, they died and their spirits left Middle Earth to where God only knows. Death was considered potentially a benefit by immortals who grew weary with time.
Arwen is 3/4 then, but still has the choice to decide. So do her brothers. Does one of her brothers get killed at Helm's Deep in the movie?
A & A's children are only 1/4 Elven (plus the smidgen from Aragon's side). They dont have a choice.
The original race of men in Toklein's universe live for centuries like the Biblical patriarchs. Their lifespans declined as the original high civilization declined. Also the line of kings has immortal Elvish ancestors, which confers additional longevity.
Aragon's 87 years pales compared to his betrothed Arwen's many centuries. She is practically cradle-robbing. And her father, Agent Smith, no I mean Elrond, is an immortal Elf and many thousands of years old. Because Elrond and Arwen have some human blood, they can choose to become human, age, and die.
I was vague to avoid being a spoiler.
Some states prohibit unemployment to "fired" (with cause) workers. A layoff is termination without cause. Firing is dnagerous to employers, because they bear the burden of proof should a lawyer shark come after them.
One STORE to rule them all,
One STORE to find them,
One STORE to take them all,
And in the Darkness bind them.
In Arkansas* where shadows lie.
(*HQ of WalMart)
Oops, thtat word is trade-marked.
"V" (and "Independence Day") start out the same as Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", a favorite of mine. A single huge alien ship suddenly appears above each of Earth's major cities. The aliens stay hidden for a while because they are repulsive reptiles. Then the stories diverge. Childhood's aliens are merely subcontractors for another more powerful race with apocalytic intentions. "V" degenerates into a cops-and-robbers action series.
The most frustrating thing about pen-writing is the lack of an easy erase function. (OK, there is white-out). Most of my errors are in the initial writing where I want to fix the spelling of the word I just wrote.
If you can get away with it, you can get away with it. The average person is a petty crook.
"The Hobbit" TV cartoon
"Lord of the Rings: Part 1" Bashki's movie cartoon
"Lord of the Rings: Part 2" TV Cartoon
"Lord of Rings" Jackson trilogy