Come on... Ours is a welcoming creed, this is just to show that even the hillbillies are welcome! Seriously, I am making a weak joke there - do I need the olde english nazis on my arse for that? It's not even my first language. Relax and bask in the sparking glory of St. Tesla!
A bicycle would be perfect - you get gears, bearings, metal tubes. All you need to build a sturdy, autoclavable hand centrifuge with probably a lot more power than the salad thingmajig. Screw and tape it together if you can't weld, and off you go.
I say, we set July 10th as a date then, St. Tesla's birthday. If I actually find some time, my plasma speaker project shall be ready until then, so I may fill the air with glorious sparks! All hail the Master!
While this is surely a worthwhile endeavor for a young novice of the Church of St. Tesla, St. Tesla's day should be a great opportunity to just try your hands on some electronics.
Just follow these simple commands:
Thou shalt not presente your body as a path for ye electrone to reach ground, lest ye be smitten down. Thou shall only manipulate HV circuits with one hand, keeping the other behind your back, lest thou presenteth a path for ye electrone through thine hearte and be smitten down. Thou shalt not touch a big-arsed capacitor without discharching it before, lest ye be smitten down. Thou shall always remember that woode is only an isolator below a certain voltage, lest it presenteth a path for the electrone and filleth yer room with holy flame and smoke. Thou shall always use a decent head-sink for yer MOSFETs, lest ye olde magick smoke escapeth.
Keep that in mind and rise from the lowly status of novice!
The tendency to worship someone, something is strong in humans, and the image of Nicola Tesla has the tendency to expand to super-human proportions in the mind of many a geek. Still, I'd rather have someone bow to the shrine of St. Nicola occasionally than to channel the irrational part we all carry into something less harmless. How about we declare a St. Tesla's Day, where everyone has to sacrifice 1 kWh of energy by doing pointless but spectacular HV experiments with lots of sparks, ozone and thunder?
Careful there. Reckless playing with things like that can very well release the Many-Angled Ones from their fractal prisons. You do not want that to happen. At least not while you are in the vicinity.
You mean a slow motion train wreck involving a train with a wild assortment of psychos off their medication dressed up as clowns, with the occasional oddball costumed as imperial trooper or wookie? Hey, that's why I come back to this site...
All true, but when, if you get the humanoid robot right, it can't just use the vacuum cleaner, it can mop the floor, clean the toilet, cook dinner, change lightbulbs, and do basically everything needed in my household, whatever task is around. The roomba will still work great vacuuming the floor, but it'll sit pathetically in its corner, whining sadly while the humanoid bot outclasses him in every other task. I agree though, that we are not remotely at this point. Given that, it is little more than a publicity stunt to put a bipedal on the moon. That doesn't mean, however, that we should not continue researching humanoid robots - or, let me rephrase that, multipurpose robots able to use any tool you throw at them. The main problem is not the number of legs, heck, let it be quadruped - the main problem to solve is the dexterity. For true tool-using multipurpose robots, it would probably be best to give them highly dexterous hands and flexible arms. There's been a lot of success in that field lately - just look at this video.
We are showing our age here... On the topic of learning experiences while gaming, playing the Infocom classics probably improved my English (as a second language) grades more than anything else.
Slightly offtopic - but this is just about the only point where the German translation of Fallout 3 shines. They call it the "Garten Eden Erstellungs-Kit" here - abbreviated GEEK.
We DO have a manned presence in Antarctica, all year round, doing interesting science. We have been doing that for years. At the moment, we do NOT need more land to colonize, so why colonize Antarctica? Could we just move on please, and get a continuous manned presence outside of LEO, doing interesting science? That, and perhaps into the deep oceans.
Chicken... fried... unicorn? With country gravy? What is this? Unicorn, redneck-wannabe-style? Listen, here's the recipe for unicorn: Shoot unicorn. Rip out choice cuts. Break off horn. Skewer cuts on horn, roast over fire, preferably gasoline fueled. While cuts are roasting, feast on unicorn's raw heart and liver.
Lord almighty, are there any real men left this day and age?
Hey, don't complain - usually we just link to a blog, which links to another blog linking a twitter feed with a tinurl-obfuscated link to another blog finally linking to a tabloid article. When you worked yourself through that link chain, you have all the information you need to google for the original source, which, of course, is behind a paywall.
An appropriate ArmA II scenario in hard mode then - dropped into some forest behind enemy lines, no map or mission markers, just your map and compass for navigating, patrols all over the place.
Make that reading skills or logical thinking skills. I suppose a couple of games of Civilization or other strategy games wouldn't hurt the kids either. Well, it might give them some weird ideas about history... Just had my Roman Empire getting absolutely laid to waste by the friggin' Zulu again, myself, but hey, at least the game teaches them logical thinking and staying focussed.
For some weird reason, I have never experienced a brownout in Germany with currently 16% renewable energies in the mix. I did, however, while I was working in California for a year. I suspect your brownout problems are caused by an ancient grid infrastructure and poor management. There is nothing inherently unmanagable about huge supply/demand fluctuations in a flexibly constructed grid.
Isn't it said that the Lloigor came first from Andromeda to the ancient continent of Mu, ruins of which have been discovered off the coast of Japan near Yonaguni? Note that Darl McBride, a Mormon, follower of an ancient cult thinly disguised behind a vaguely Christian veil, has spent two years in Japan as "missionary" for said cult. What his real purpose was in these travels is left to speculation. Did he travel to the peaks of Mount Yaddith-Go to meet the Many-Angled Ones there? What alliances might have been negotiated there? Might it not be that McBride's alleged brother, the "lawyer" still pursuing his mission of Chaos, is indeed a Lloigor, a Many-Angled One in human disguise, spawn of this unholy alliance?
I thank you for your insight, good Sir, for you are surely a scholar of great knowledge.
One might read Revelation on this, indeed. Whom to trust though? John, or Abdul Al'hazred, the Mad Arab, whom the voices of the desert demons brought a glimpse into the darkness? The final answer I'll leave to scholars of a greater mind than me. The chaotic, mindless nature of SCO's pursuit, however, leads at least this humble scholar of the Mysteries of the Arcane to believe that the Old Ones, whose minds are chaos, utterly incomprehensible to mortals, are the force responsible. Should not the Beast be more determined, more focused in its battling? I shall ponder over Junzt's "Unaussprechliche Kulte", that Black Book, over the Liber Ivonis and the Pnakotic Manuscripts, which just recently happened to find their way into my possession in an ancient Hyperborean translation. Surely the wisdom of the Great Race of Yith and Ancient Kadath will shed light on this Unspeakable Evil, which has risen in the West? Small is my hope, though, that they might lead us to safety, small my hope of throwing these Creatures of Chaos Darl McBride brought upon us back in the Abyss from whence they spawned.
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Come on... Ours is a welcoming creed, this is just to show that even the hillbillies are welcome! Seriously, I am making a weak joke there - do I need the olde english nazis on my arse for that? It's not even my first language. Relax and bask in the sparking glory of St. Tesla!
Whatever it is, I am sure it will be accompanied by glorious discharges and an earth-shattering kaboom! For the Greater Glory of St. Tesla!
Well, obviously it's to nuke the site from orbit, you know why. Then again, They might just want us to think that. They always do...
You mean pure grain alcohol and nothing but pure grain alcohol? K'Breel told my that they care very much for the purity of their bodily fluids.
A bicycle would be perfect - you get gears, bearings, metal tubes. All you need to build a sturdy, autoclavable hand centrifuge with probably a lot more power than the salad thingmajig. Screw and tape it together if you can't weld, and off you go.
I'm in.
I say, we set July 10th as a date then, St. Tesla's birthday. If I actually find some time, my plasma speaker project shall be ready until then, so I may fill the air with glorious sparks! All hail the Master!
While this is surely a worthwhile endeavor for a young novice of the Church of St. Tesla, St. Tesla's day should be a great opportunity to just try your hands on some electronics.
Just follow these simple commands:
Thou shalt not presente your body as a path for ye electrone to reach ground, lest ye be smitten down.
Thou shall only manipulate HV circuits with one hand, keeping the other behind your back, lest thou presenteth a path for ye electrone through thine hearte and be smitten down.
Thou shalt not touch a big-arsed capacitor without discharching it before, lest ye be smitten down.
Thou shall always remember that woode is only an isolator below a certain voltage, lest it presenteth a path for the electrone and filleth yer room with holy flame and smoke.
Thou shall always use a decent head-sink for yer MOSFETs, lest ye olde magick smoke escapeth.
Keep that in mind and rise from the lowly status of novice!
The tendency to worship someone, something is strong in humans, and the image of Nicola Tesla has the tendency to expand to super-human proportions in the mind of many a geek. Still, I'd rather have someone bow to the shrine of St. Nicola occasionally than to channel the irrational part we all carry into something less harmless. How about we declare a St. Tesla's Day, where everyone has to sacrifice 1 kWh of energy by doing pointless but spectacular HV experiments with lots of sparks, ozone and thunder?
Careful there. Reckless playing with things like that can very well release the Many-Angled Ones from their fractal prisons. You do not want that to happen. At least not while you are in the vicinity.
You mean a slow motion train wreck involving a train with a wild assortment of psychos off their medication dressed up as clowns, with the occasional oddball costumed as imperial trooper or wookie? Hey, that's why I come back to this site...
What, has someone finally ported Doom to the Mac?
Hehe, well, the German censorship crap was easily patched out. It was basically just less violence.
All true, but when, if you get the humanoid robot right, it can't just use the vacuum cleaner, it can mop the floor, clean the toilet, cook dinner, change lightbulbs, and do basically everything needed in my household, whatever task is around. The roomba will still work great vacuuming the floor, but it'll sit pathetically in its corner, whining sadly while the humanoid bot outclasses him in every other task. I agree though, that we are not remotely at this point. Given that, it is little more than a publicity stunt to put a bipedal on the moon. That doesn't mean, however, that we should not continue researching humanoid robots - or, let me rephrase that, multipurpose robots able to use any tool you throw at them. The main problem is not the number of legs, heck, let it be quadruped - the main problem to solve is the dexterity. For true tool-using multipurpose robots, it would probably be best to give them highly dexterous hands and flexible arms. There's been a lot of success in that field lately - just look at this video.
We are showing our age here... On the topic of learning experiences while gaming, playing the Infocom classics probably improved my English (as a second language) grades more than anything else.
Slightly offtopic - but this is just about the only point where the German translation of Fallout 3 shines. They call it the "Garten Eden Erstellungs-Kit" here - abbreviated GEEK.
We DO have a manned presence in Antarctica, all year round, doing interesting science. We have been doing that for years. At the moment, we do NOT need more land to colonize, so why colonize Antarctica? Could we just move on please, and get a continuous manned presence outside of LEO, doing interesting science? That, and perhaps into the deep oceans.
If you want to know about Mars and transhumans, read Dan Simmon's Illium and Olympos. Not sure if we want that to happen...
Chicken... fried... unicorn? With country gravy? What is this? Unicorn, redneck-wannabe-style? Listen, here's the recipe for unicorn:
Shoot unicorn.
Rip out choice cuts.
Break off horn.
Skewer cuts on horn, roast over fire, preferably gasoline fueled.
While cuts are roasting, feast on unicorn's raw heart and liver.
Lord almighty, are there any real men left this day and age?
Hey, don't complain - usually we just link to a blog, which links to another blog linking a twitter feed with a tinurl-obfuscated link to another blog finally linking to a tabloid article. When you worked yourself through that link chain, you have all the information you need to google for the original source, which, of course, is behind a paywall.
Then they should focus the gaming badge on playing flight sims, to train up the new drone operators which will be needed in huge numbers soon.
An appropriate ArmA II scenario in hard mode then - dropped into some forest behind enemy lines, no map or mission markers, just your map and compass for navigating, patrols all over the place.
Make that reading skills or logical thinking skills. I suppose a couple of games of Civilization or other strategy games wouldn't hurt the kids either. Well, it might give them some weird ideas about history... Just had my Roman Empire getting absolutely laid to waste by the friggin' Zulu again, myself, but hey, at least the game teaches them logical thinking and staying focussed.
For some weird reason, I have never experienced a brownout in Germany with currently 16% renewable energies in the mix. I did, however, while I was working in California for a year. I suspect your brownout problems are caused by an ancient grid infrastructure and poor management. There is nothing inherently unmanagable about huge supply/demand fluctuations in a flexibly constructed grid.
Isn't it said that the Lloigor came first from Andromeda to the ancient continent of Mu, ruins of which have been discovered off the coast of Japan near Yonaguni? Note that Darl McBride, a Mormon, follower of an ancient cult thinly disguised behind a vaguely Christian veil, has spent two years in Japan as "missionary" for said cult. What his real purpose was in these travels is left to speculation. Did he travel to the peaks of Mount Yaddith-Go to meet the Many-Angled Ones there? What alliances might have been negotiated there? Might it not be that McBride's alleged brother, the "lawyer" still pursuing his mission of Chaos, is indeed a Lloigor, a Many-Angled One in human disguise, spawn of this unholy alliance?
I thank you for your insight, good Sir, for you are surely a scholar of great knowledge.
One might read Revelation on this, indeed. Whom to trust though? John, or Abdul Al'hazred, the Mad Arab, whom the voices of the desert demons brought a glimpse into the darkness? The final answer I'll leave to scholars of a greater mind than me. The chaotic, mindless nature of SCO's pursuit, however, leads at least this humble scholar of the Mysteries of the Arcane to believe that the Old Ones, whose minds are chaos, utterly incomprehensible to mortals, are the force responsible. Should not the Beast be more determined, more focused in its battling? I shall ponder over Junzt's "Unaussprechliche Kulte", that Black Book, over the Liber Ivonis and the Pnakotic Manuscripts, which just recently happened to find their way into my possession in an ancient Hyperborean translation. Surely the wisdom of the Great Race of Yith and Ancient Kadath will shed light on this Unspeakable Evil, which has risen in the West? Small is my hope, though, that they might lead us to safety, small my hope of throwing these Creatures of Chaos Darl McBride brought upon us back in the Abyss from whence they spawned.