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KOSMOGRAD, March 22-- After sending a final command to the Mir Space
Station, triggering its fiery descent, Russian Space Agency engineers
recieved an unexpected signal from the aging space station. A radio
message, in Russian, said, "Help me. I am stowaway. I thought this
would be fun, but now I come out of hiding. Please do not crash Mir!"
Russian officials were not sure what to make of the message, and were
frantically trying to contact Mir. However they admitted that at this
point the can see no way of boosting the ship to its proper
altititude.
As emails of support for the stowaway came pouring in, officials
seemed unwilling or unable to do anything. One suggested the message
was just a tape recording left by a disgruntled Cosmonaut. Another
dryly said that even if it is a real person no action should be taken.
"He vanted to be Kaptin of Mir. Vell, now the Kaptin must go down vith
de ship."
Just wondering, aren't there Infrared/Microwave Wireless systems also, eg like the way Palm Pilots talk
to each other. The article only mentions radio.
Can I assume that IR wireless won't work as well
here simply because radio waves diffract around large objects better?? Or can IR based wireless devices
be use here as well? And what of these? Can they be used for tapping into publicly available networks also? Thanks.
FACT: The Russian Government has taken out a $200 Million insurance
policy in case Mir comes down on somebody.
CONCLUSION: Its up to us to be clever enough to win that policy.
PLAN:
1.) Buy, Rent, Charter or otherwise take posession of a small
ocean-going cargo vessel in New Zealand. Hire your friends/relatives
to be your crew/employees.
2.) Conspicuously leave harbor w/ crew and "valuable cargo" of
diamonds, etc.
3.) A mile or two out to sea, put the ship on autopilot in the right
direction, and jump ship, swim back or use zodiacs.
4.) Using timer/remote control set off a distress beacon just after
Mir re-enters, preferrably with a tape recording saying "help me!"
Then set off an explosion in the fuel tank which will sink the ship.
Be sure to leave lots of life jackets & other flotsam on the deck for
the coast guard to find afterwards.
5.) Now, as the president of the company that lost the ship,
simply sue Russia for:
---$100 Million in lost diamonds
---$50 Million per lost crew/family member.
Sure your buddies will have to hide out for a while (like the
Great Train robbery guys) But is this foolproof or what?
The resolving power of this combined telescope will apparently be sufficient to see earth-sized planets
Whereas the article says:
The Keck Interferometer will be able to detect planets farther from their parent stars, helping to pave the way for future interferometers in space that will look for Earth-like planets, NASA said
To find Earths (at least directly) you have to go to space
Don't expect this for another 10 years or so.
Slightly OT, but the Zeta function, in addition to being of significance to primes is important to astronomy.
That's because to derive the thermal emission from eg. a star as a function of Temperature you need to integrate the Planck Blackbody Function, which gives Zeta(4) = pi^4/90
The result is known as the
Stephan-Boltzmann Law
Better yet: a translator/compression algorithm which turns that message (*) they put on all their
movies into the code. Then every movie would be an illegal circumvention device.
(*)"Any resemblance between this movie and persons
real or fictional is purely coincidenal" or something like that...
Yes, Linking is illegal, according to the
Kaplan ruling (as I understand it), but simply displaying
URL(s), as you did, and as 2600 now does is OK.
However Many Email programs such as those made by M$ and SUN convert plain text URL's into
links. So are these programs illegal? Are they
aiding and abetting circumvention devices?
I hated it when they found earth because, of
course it was modern day hollywood Earth they found. The whole previous premise of the show
was that these people were the predecessors of
us humans, hence their names were from our mythology. (Apollo & Adama = Adam).
This notion (great for sci fi) was fueled by the
Van Dannaken (sp?) idea of "Ancient Astronauts"
But when they reached earth the became "'80s Astronauts" big deal!
I got a phone call which contained pornographic
content (or illegal threat, etc.) so I guess
I can sue the phone company for allowing that
content to be transmitted over their lines, right?
According to the napster decision, Its up to the company to monitor all uses of its product, and
stop the illegal ones.
What's wrong with it is that current (local and National US) law enforcement WILL abuse this power. Given their past deeds (COINTELPRO, Rampart in LA, etc) you can bet they will use this information against legit citizens who are NOT committing crimes.
Example: Suppose there is someone the gov't considers "suspicious", call him Torvalds. Using this technology they can see who his friends are, and then using liscense plate scanner tech. the can see, eg if he's going over to the house of another "suspicious" person, call him Stallman. Now supose these two are planning to do something really revolutionary (though legal) The gov't will just put them both on ice for a few days/weeks, on false charges, so the event will not go off as planned.
Don't Believe could happen? It already has. Hoover had every hotel room MKL visited bugged before hand. And this past year, at both republican & dem. conventions, hundreds of protesters, especially leaders, were jailed on false charges ("put on ice") that were later dropped after the TV cameras had left.
Just taped an address to it, licked the stamps then dropped it in. Unfornunately, it was considered a "special item" or some such and required extra postage. So my friends had to go to the P.O. to pick it up and pay a little. When they did they found the postal employees throwing it around the office...
Yup. Assuming the father was prediposed to be attracted to the mother, so with the "son" = Father, II, be so disposed. Same is true for the
mother, she'll be just as attracted to her "son" as she was to his replica 20 years before.
What if there are a son and daughter, they'll fall in love with each other and with their mother and father!!
It also happened in 1989 of course, Oct 17,
during the world series. But that was because
of the Loma Preita earthquake. From across the
bay in Berkeley, I could see SF pitch black
except for the huge marina fire, which I saw through my small telescope. It was a good night for stargazing.
I agree. The only drawback of Canada is the cold.
However after 4 years of GWB inspired global
warming, Canada should be just right. Can anybody
say "Surf Vancouver"?
Seattle Times gives dimesions as:
"roughly nine feet tall and several feet wide"
However a crude estimate of the
image
suggests that indeed the dimesions are 1x4x9 feet.
Reason this comes under Christmas Cheer:
FBI secretly suspects that the CCs were lifted by
Santa whose normal Elvin work force were all laid off, due to their jobs being shipped overseas under NPFTA (North Pole Free Trade Agreement).
The only way he could fulfill his duty was to acquire 3 million CCs. 3 million x $5000 limit = $15 billion. Enough for him to buy a $5 toy
from Etoys.com for every Christian child on earth.
The trouble with the proposed Pluto Express is
that you fly out there for 10 years then you spend
a few hours whizzing by the planet and never see
it again. An orbiter would be much more advantagous since you could stay there until the atmosphere freezes which would be interesting to watch. Of course its more expensive also.
But why does this mission (PKE) cost 500 M$?, = 2X Mars missions. Once you launch it you
just sit there for years. Also I think they
should look into more creative plantet flyby manuevers to pick up speed.
Thanks for those picture links. The photos of the inside remind me of the Tarkovsky film "The Stalker" where a radioactive meteorite creates a massive zone of destruction, which, if penetrated
by a "stalker" guide, gives those who enter it
certain strange powers.
The irony is that "The Stalker" was made BEFORE Chernobyl.
There is a really cool open source project called,
LyX. (www.lyx.org)
LyX is the first What-you-see-is-what-you-MEAN
(WYSIWYM) document processor. Right now it seems to be geared to preparing scientific papers, but the possibilites are quite numerous...
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KOSMOGRAD, March 22-- After sending a final command to the Mir Space
Station, triggering its fiery descent, Russian Space Agency engineers
recieved an unexpected signal from the aging space station. A radio
message, in Russian, said, "Help me. I am stowaway. I thought this
would be fun, but now I come out of hiding. Please do not crash Mir!"
Russian officials were not sure what to make of the message, and were
frantically trying to contact Mir. However they admitted that at this
point the can see no way of boosting the ship to its proper
altititude.
As emails of support for the stowaway came pouring in, officials
seemed unwilling or unable to do anything. One suggested the message
was just a tape recording left by a disgruntled Cosmonaut. Another
dryly said that even if it is a real person no action should be taken.
"He vanted to be Kaptin of Mir. Vell, now the Kaptin must go down vith
de ship."
Just wondering, aren't there Infrared/Microwave Wireless systems also, eg like the way Palm Pilots talk to each other. The article only mentions radio. Can I assume that IR wireless won't work as well here simply because radio waves diffract around large objects better?? Or can IR based wireless devices be use here as well? And what of these? Can they be used for tapping into publicly available networks also? Thanks.
My get rich quick scheme for Mir.
FACT: The Russian Government has taken out a $200 Million insurance
policy in case Mir comes down on somebody.
CONCLUSION: Its up to us to be clever enough to win that policy.
PLAN:
1.) Buy, Rent, Charter or otherwise take posession of a small
ocean-going cargo vessel in New Zealand. Hire your friends/relatives
to be your crew/employees.
2.) Conspicuously leave harbor w/ crew and "valuable cargo" of
diamonds, etc.
3.) A mile or two out to sea, put the ship on autopilot in the right
direction, and jump ship, swim back or use zodiacs.
4.) Using timer/remote control set off a distress beacon just after
Mir re-enters, preferrably with a tape recording saying "help me!"
Then set off an explosion in the fuel tank which will sink the ship.
Be sure to leave lots of life jackets & other flotsam on the deck for
the coast guard to find afterwards.
5.) Now, as the president of the company that lost the ship,
simply sue Russia for:
---$100 Million in lost diamonds
---$50 Million per lost crew/family member.
Sure your buddies will have to hide out for a while (like the
Great Train robbery guys) But is this foolproof or what?
Umm....maybe. After this "direct detection" was announced, another group, with BETTER detection capability, failed to find the claimed signal.
The original group then admitted that the supposedly directly detected planet was not so bright
Why all the controversy?
the signal was 20000 times fainter than the noise
Repeat:
the signal was 20000 times fainter than the noise
More than you ever wanted to know about this star
----
cliamer: IAAPA
The resolving power of this combined telescope will apparently be sufficient to see earth-sized planets
Whereas the article says:
The Keck Interferometer will be able to detect planets farther from their parent stars, helping to pave the way for future interferometers in space that will look for Earth-like planets, NASA said
To find Earths (at least directly) you have to go to space Don't expect this for another 10 years or so.
Slightly OT, but the Zeta function, in addition to being of significance to primes is important to astronomy. That's because to derive the thermal emission from eg. a star as a function of Temperature you need to integrate the Planck Blackbody Function, which gives Zeta(4) = pi^4/90 The result is known as the Stephan-Boltzmann Law
Better yet: a translator/compression algorithm which turns that message (*) they put on all their
movies into the code. Then every movie would be an illegal circumvention device.
(*)"Any resemblance between this movie and persons
real or fictional is purely coincidenal" or something like that...
However Many Email programs such as those made by M$ and SUN convert plain text URL's into links. So are these programs illegal? Are they aiding and abetting circumvention devices?
This notion (great for sci fi) was fueled by the Van Dannaken (sp?) idea of "Ancient Astronauts" But when they reached earth the became "'80s Astronauts" big deal!
I got a phone call which contained pornographic
content (or illegal threat, etc.) so I guess
I can sue the phone company for allowing that
content to be transmitted over their lines, right?
According to the napster decision, Its up to the company to monitor all uses of its product, and
stop the illegal ones.
What's wrong with it is that current (local and National US) law enforcement WILL abuse this power. Given their past deeds (COINTELPRO, Rampart in LA, etc) you can bet they will use this information against legit citizens who are NOT committing crimes.
Example: Suppose there is someone the gov't considers "suspicious", call him Torvalds. Using this technology they can see who his friends are, and then using liscense plate scanner tech. the can see, eg if he's going over to the house of another "suspicious" person, call him Stallman. Now supose these two are planning to do something really revolutionary (though legal) The gov't will just put them both on ice for a few days/weeks, on false charges, so the event will not go off as planned.
Don't Believe could happen? It already has. Hoover had every hotel room MKL visited bugged before hand. And this past year, at both republican & dem. conventions, hundreds of protesters, especially leaders, were jailed on false charges ("put on ice") that were later dropped after the TV cameras had left.
Just taped an address to it, licked the stamps then dropped it in. Unfornunately, it was considered a "special item" or some such and required extra postage. So my friends had to go to the P.O. to pick it up and pay a little. When they did they found the postal employees throwing it around the office...
Yup. Assuming the father was prediposed to be attracted to the mother, so with the "son" = Father, II, be so disposed. Same is true for the
mother, she'll be just as attracted to her "son" as she was to his replica 20 years before.
What if there are a son and daughter, they'll fall in love with each other and with their mother and father!!
Could someone mention how one files an Amicus brief in this case? Tanks.
It also happened in 1989 of course, Oct 17, during the world series. But that was because of the Loma Preita earthquake. From across the bay in Berkeley, I could see SF pitch black except for the huge marina fire, which I saw through my small telescope. It was a good night for stargazing.
That was very informative.
I agree. The only drawback of Canada is the cold. However after 4 years of GWB inspired global warming, Canada should be just right. Can anybody say "Surf Vancouver"?
1964. Its Richter magnitude 9.2. Pictures are here See also: http://www.tsunami.gov/tpic.htm
More properly, thats:
1^10 : 10^10 : 11^10
Seattle Times gives dimesions as: "roughly nine feet tall and several feet wide" However a crude estimate of the image suggests that indeed the dimesions are 1x4x9 feet.
Reason this comes under Christmas Cheer: FBI secretly suspects that the CCs were lifted by Santa whose normal Elvin work force were all laid off, due to their jobs being shipped overseas under NPFTA (North Pole Free Trade Agreement). The only way he could fulfill his duty was to acquire 3 million CCs. 3 million x $5000 limit = $15 billion. Enough for him to buy a $5 toy from Etoys.com for every Christian child on earth.
I think they are going with Linux now because windows source code (with its NSA backdoors ) is in the hands of somebody in St. Petersburg.
The trouble with the proposed Pluto Express is that you fly out there for 10 years then you spend a few hours whizzing by the planet and never see it again. An orbiter would be much more advantagous since you could stay there until the atmosphere freezes which would be interesting to watch. Of course its more expensive also. But why does this mission (PKE) cost 500 M$?, = 2X Mars missions. Once you launch it you just sit there for years. Also I think they should look into more creative plantet flyby manuevers to pick up speed.
Thanks for those picture links. The photos of the inside remind me of the Tarkovsky film "The Stalker" where a radioactive meteorite creates a massive zone of destruction, which, if penetrated by a "stalker" guide, gives those who enter it certain strange powers. The irony is that "The Stalker" was made BEFORE Chernobyl.
There is a really cool open source project called, LyX. (www.lyx.org) LyX is the first What-you-see-is-what-you-MEAN (WYSIWYM) document processor. Right now it seems to be geared to preparing scientific papers, but the possibilites are quite numerous...