I want to know whether the meteor appeared from Earth to come from the direction of the Pleiades constellation that the Mayans would later prioritize in their studies with the world's most sophisticated pre-industrial astromomy.
It's already an interesting coincidence that the people whose empire was built on the site of the most influential astronomical event in "recent" Earth history would have such sophisticated astronomy. I wonder what they discovered about the part of the sky from which the meteor seemed (to the dinosaurs) to appear. The Mayan name for the Pleiades is "Tz'ab", "the rattlesnake's tail", which is pretty resonant with a meteorite that killed the lizards ruling the world.
I also wonder if our current complex space sciences can reconstruct the path of the meteor from its origin, by studying the trajectories of the remaining solar system objects, and projecting back 65My to a slightly larger population. A lot has happened, but astronomers' deductions have made much of very little for quite some time.
20mm wavelength seems to be 17KHz (at sealevel in air), which isn't very "ultra" sound. To levitate the 3 meters radius of adult humans (with extended arms/legs), we'd need 6m wavelength. That's about 0.04Hz, which is infrasound. How much energy would have to input to an infrasound generator to levitate a 100Kg person?
Do you know that all those examples of easily carrying lethal chemicals on planes is just more support for my point that prohibiting little fluid bottles on planes is stupid?
That's not "ironic". That's my point. Did I make any point about Polonium, except that its availablility makes the toothpaste restrictions look stupid? Didn't I mention that these stupid restrictions should be discarded?
So I need to calm down about my toothpaste being prohibited, when poisons can be mailordered and secreted in a ballpoint pen?
What is wrong with people reading this thread who think that just because Polonium isn't quite as deadly as advertised, that it's sensible to prohibit millions of air travelers from taking shampoo on vacation?
I'm not talking about remote people with joysticks or other realtime UIs. I'm talking about remote people doing the air traffic control planning, the way they do now, but distributed in the air and on the ground, instead of purely locally. And flight crews just looking over each others' shoulders.
I'm talking about automated systems monitored by real people, with real people on the planes having the final say over the control of their planes, going manual if necessary.
And live streamed telemetry, including A/V, supplementing the black boxes.
Thanks for the professional insider validation of my approach to these scenarios.
I think the stuff you're talking about is even more reason to put pilots together in a virtual "room" by telepresence network. To watch over each others' shoulders. Redundant crews and controllers, each depending on each other. That would make the whole world a lot smaller, and put experienced pros immediately on top of any emergent situation. Also good for mitigating the risks of training new crew. The new system could provide so much safety and redundancy that piloting would become more competitive, while opening the flight deck to lots more amateurs.
And opening the way to extending the system to independent, even individual, pilots. Without sacrificing safety or increasing costs. Flying cars!
They're selling 0.1uCi for $69, which is 3x the 0.03uCi lethal dose.
So embed the Po dots in a candy, or a free beer, or something else attached to the giveaway.
Are we really discussing the operational details of poisoning 10-100% of Chicago? Or are we talking about the absurd simcurity measures that hurt only harmless Americans and our open society?
I can't take a toothpaste tube on a plane, but Osama can mailorder enough nuke poison to kill all of Chicago on Christmas morning, embedded in gift certificates.
Enough of this simcurity that pretends to secure us.
The hundreds of thousands of dead/wounded/terrorized people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel and NYC know that all this aerospace tech is making war more terrible for the people against whom it's perpetrated. It's less terrible to a video nation like the "flyover states". Your "Compassionate Conservatives " at work.
All those countries are looking to have the "because we've got the big bombs" basis for geopolitical action that is almost all the US has left after Bush's foreign policies. And Bush is looking for any scary enemy with missiles to justify his Star Wars missile defense project, to squeeze even more $TRILLIONS out of the US and the world. China would love to have a nuclear ally preoccupying the US, driving up our national debt that they own, and rationalizing their own militarization of space.
The "US" people want regime change. The US Republican government, which has sold our debt to China while sending our manufacturing power there, most certainly does not want anything rocking the boat that's keeping them, and their bribers, rich.
That's funny, the Congress disagreed totally with you when it wrote the FISA, after the last uncontrolled tyrant, Nixon, spied on us with the CIA and NSA. And the Federal judge disagreed with you, too. Bush and his lawyer Gonzales seem to agree with you, though. There's a legal authority to respect.
"It has been reported"? What is this, Fox News? The FISA court has granted practically every warrant, including post-facto warrants, that Bush has asked for.
Bush has been violating the perfectly clear FISA that would have suited his claimed needs perfectly. Why not get a warrant? Because he's a tyrant creating precedents for his gang's Unitary Executive monarcy, unaccountable to either Legislative or Judicial branches. And because he's probably spying on political and economic competitors, or trying to create the ability for a tyrant to do so without getting caught or punished.
Why are you so into this criminal presidential behavior? What's wrong with just using the FISA?
That's why I am talking about an even better system. Why should all my tax money get spent on invading countries and spying on my fellow Americans? I want it spent on real security, for everyone. Not the simcurity they've been faking for years, while making us less safe, especially in the air.
A system like this, once evolved, could solve the biggest problem with flying cars, safe navigation. Which I'm not waiting for anyone else to tell me how to do, especially in the government.
People are used to treating politicians like nobility, after millennia of class traditions. Celebrity culture is the ultimate expression. And power is always used to avoid accountability for risk.
We should hold our politicians to a higher standard than private citizens, as the public trust makes pefect audits impossible, and our exposure to their risks is greater than in private.
Fortunately, the US government is based on competition among powers and accountability. The party system, especially the Republican Party, has created conspiracies to thwart those separations of powers that have made government unaccountable to itself or the people, especially the past 6-12 years. But now the opposition Democratic Party controls the more powerful branch, the Legislative. And there are many ways to start impeaching.
Asking how is the very beginning, after the crimes have been committed.
There's no reason to get rid of the black boxes. And the streamed telemetry can be fully redundant, especially with the sky full of satellites and other planes.
Pilots control the plane through turbulence, and probably course corrections - for the fun of it, mostly. I'm proposing that they spend their time engaged in air traffic control, which scales up the AT controller population exactly when there are more planes to control. Distributed around the world, in a network.
Really, your arguments are like complaining that if we hook our computers into an "Internet", then we'll lost the familiar reliability of our hard drives and current human operators.
I want my pilots to take the same risks I take while flying in their plane.
I want those risks to be as low as possible. We should put these drone navigation/steering controls into planes with pilots. Let the pilots steer for 15 minutes an hour, to keep them engaged. Let them analyze the air traffic data, with visual confirmations, for their airspace, shared with each other and on the ground. Keep all the telemetry streamed to the global network in realtime, instead of trapped in mysterious black boxes on the endangered planes. Put their bodies on the line, and their minds to work on keeping everyone safe.
We can use these automations and networks to completely revolutionize air safety. From accidents, collisions, hijackings, onboard sickness and other other incidents. Don't just put pilots out of work: make the investments in the crew return many times more, with more effective use of their skills and motivations.
You have a natural tendency To squeeze off a shot You're good fun at parties You wear the right masks You're old but you still Like a laugh in the locker room You can't abide change You're at home an the range You opened your suitcase Behind the old workings To show off the magnum You deafened the canyon A comfort a friend Only upstaged in the end By the Uzi machine gun Does the recoil remind you Remind you of sex Old man what the hell you gonna kill next Old timer who you gonna kill next I looked over Jordan and what did I see Saw a U.S. Marine in a pile of debris I swam in your pools And lay under your palm trees I looked in the eyes of the Indian Who lay on the Federal Building steps And through the range finder over the hill I saw the frontline boys popping their pills Sick of the mess they find On their desert stage And the bravery of being out of range Yeah the question is vexed Old man what the hell you gonna kill next Old timer who you gonna kill next Hey bartender over here Two more shots And two more beers Sir turn up the TV sound The war has started on the ground Just love those laser guided bombs They're really great For righting wrongs You hit the target And win the game From bars 3,000 miles away 3,000 miles away We play the game With the bravery of being out of range We zap and maim With the bravery of being out of range We strafe the train With the bravery of being out of range We gained terrain With the bravery of being out of range With the bravery of being out of range We play the game With the bravery of being out of range
When the Republican Congress gave "fast track" authority to Clinton so he could make "Communist" China a "Most Favored Nation" trading partner, those staunch "anticommunists" claimed that China would become dependent on the US market, increasing our political power to force them to make changes. Economics, human rights, security - all would gain American influence, while we got cheap products and they got money to develop into a freer country that didn't threaten us or the world as much.
North Korea is totally dependent on its connection to Chinese economy. Since we supposedly gained that influence over China, N Korea has become a nuclear terrorist. What has handing unfair access to our markets to China (which still protects its markets from us) delivered on its promise? Other than control over us, both economically and in security threats from their rogue Communist partner next door?
Imagine cybersex where you can touch the actual bodies as UIs to control the lighting, heating, music, cameras, vibrators. In the room and across the Net.
These sensors on a bodyglove could make teledildonics not only practical, but portable and spur-of-the-moment.
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I think so, too. That's why the coincidences are interesting. The sensible reaction is to want to know more facts.
I want to know whether the meteor appeared from Earth to come from the direction of the Pleiades constellation that the Mayans would later prioritize in their studies with the world's most sophisticated pre-industrial astromomy.
It's already an interesting coincidence that the people whose empire was built on the site of the most influential astronomical event in "recent" Earth history would have such sophisticated astronomy. I wonder what they discovered about the part of the sky from which the meteor seemed (to the dinosaurs) to appear. The Mayan name for the Pleiades is "Tz'ab", "the rattlesnake's tail", which is pretty resonant with a meteorite that killed the lizards ruling the world.
I also wonder if our current complex space sciences can reconstruct the path of the meteor from its origin, by studying the trajectories of the remaining solar system objects, and projecting back 65My to a slightly larger population. A lot has happened, but astronomers' deductions have made much of very little for quite some time.
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100% Flamebait
So even the simplest criticism of the fake security that makes us unsafe is "Flamebait". No wonder we're stuck with it.
20mm wavelength seems to be 17KHz (at sealevel in air), which isn't very "ultra" sound. To levitate the 3 meters radius of adult humans (with extended arms/legs), we'd need 6m wavelength. That's about 0.04Hz, which is infrasound. How much energy would have to input to an infrasound generator to levitate a 100Kg person?
Do you know that all those examples of easily carrying lethal chemicals on planes is just more support for my point that prohibiting little fluid bottles on planes is stupid?
That's not "ironic". That's my point. Did I make any point about Polonium, except that its availablility makes the toothpaste restrictions look stupid? Didn't I mention that these stupid restrictions should be discarded?
So I need to calm down about my toothpaste being prohibited, when poisons can be mailordered and secreted in a ballpoint pen?
What is wrong with people reading this thread who think that just because Polonium isn't quite as deadly as advertised, that it's sensible to prohibit millions of air travelers from taking shampoo on vacation?
I'm not talking about remote people with joysticks or other realtime UIs. I'm talking about remote people doing the air traffic control planning, the way they do now, but distributed in the air and on the ground, instead of purely locally. And flight crews just looking over each others' shoulders.
I'm talking about automated systems monitored by real people, with real people on the planes having the final say over the control of their planes, going manual if necessary.
And live streamed telemetry, including A/V, supplementing the black boxes.
Redundancy and openness. Safety.
Thanks for the professional insider validation of my approach to these scenarios.
I think the stuff you're talking about is even more reason to put pilots together in a virtual "room" by telepresence network. To watch over each others' shoulders. Redundant crews and controllers, each depending on each other. That would make the whole world a lot smaller, and put experienced pros immediately on top of any emergent situation. Also good for mitigating the risks of training new crew. The new system could provide so much safety and redundancy that piloting would become more competitive, while opening the flight deck to lots more amateurs.
And opening the way to extending the system to independent, even individual, pilots. Without sacrificing safety or increasing costs. Flying cars!
Maybe I'm wrong, and it takes more than 0.03uCi to kill someone.
So we're talking about killing 10% of Chicago? Is that OK with you?
In fact, what I'm talking about is the fake security like prohibiting liquids on airplanes that is total nonsense to anyone not totally insane.
Care to downplay that, while you're working so hard?
Is it required of Anonymous Cowards that you think that I can reply only in disagreement, rather than agreeing and amplifying the point?
They're selling 0.1uCi for $69, which is 3x the 0.03uCi lethal dose.
So embed the Po dots in a candy, or a free beer, or something else attached to the giveaway.
Are we really discussing the operational details of poisoning 10-100% of Chicago? Or are we talking about the absurd simcurity measures that hurt only harmless Americans and our open society?
OK, Christmas cookies. Or maybe free beer, probably even more popular in Chicago (like anywhere else).
At $69:0.1uCi, for a lethal dose of 0.03uCi, that's $66M to poison every Chicagoan. Before the volume rate discount.
I can split hairs with you all day long. It still doesn't get my toothpaste on a plane.
I can't take a toothpaste tube on a plane, but Osama can mailorder enough nuke poison to kill all of Chicago on Christmas morning, embedded in gift certificates.
Enough of this simcurity that pretends to secure us.
The hundreds of thousands of dead/wounded/terrorized people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel and NYC know that all this aerospace tech is making war more terrible for the people against whom it's perpetrated. It's less terrible to a video nation like the "flyover states". Your "Compassionate Conservatives " at work.
All those countries are looking to have the "because we've got the big bombs" basis for geopolitical action that is almost all the US has left after Bush's foreign policies. And Bush is looking for any scary enemy with missiles to justify his Star Wars missile defense project, to squeeze even more $TRILLIONS out of the US and the world. China would love to have a nuclear ally preoccupying the US, driving up our national debt that they own, and rationalizing their own militarization of space.
The "US" people want regime change. The US Republican government, which has sold our debt to China while sending our manufacturing power there, most certainly does not want anything rocking the boat that's keeping them, and their bribers, rich.
That's funny, the Congress disagreed totally with you when it wrote the FISA, after the last uncontrolled tyrant, Nixon, spied on us with the CIA and NSA. And the Federal judge disagreed with you, too. Bush and his lawyer Gonzales seem to agree with you, though. There's a legal authority to respect.
"It has been reported"? What is this, Fox News? The FISA court has granted practically every warrant, including post-facto warrants, that Bush has asked for.
Bush has been violating the perfectly clear FISA that would have suited his claimed needs perfectly. Why not get a warrant? Because he's a tyrant creating precedents for his gang's Unitary Executive monarcy, unaccountable to either Legislative or Judicial branches. And because he's probably spying on political and economic competitors, or trying to create the ability for a tyrant to do so without getting caught or punished.
Why are you so into this criminal presidential behavior? What's wrong with just using the FISA?
That's why I am talking about an even better system. Why should all my tax money get spent on invading countries and spying on my fellow Americans? I want it spent on real security, for everyone. Not the simcurity they've been faking for years, while making us less safe, especially in the air.
A system like this, once evolved, could solve the biggest problem with flying cars, safe navigation. Which I'm not waiting for anyone else to tell me how to do, especially in the government.
People are used to treating politicians like nobility, after millennia of class traditions. Celebrity culture is the ultimate expression. And power is always used to avoid accountability for risk.
We should hold our politicians to a higher standard than private citizens, as the public trust makes pefect audits impossible, and our exposure to their risks is greater than in private.
Fortunately, the US government is based on competition among powers and accountability. The party system, especially the Republican Party, has created conspiracies to thwart those separations of powers that have made government unaccountable to itself or the people, especially the past 6-12 years. But now the opposition Democratic Party controls the more powerful branch, the Legislative. And there are many ways to start impeaching.
Asking how is the very beginning, after the crimes have been committed.
Oh, I believe it. I just want more, without the less.
There's no reason to get rid of the black boxes. And the streamed telemetry can be fully redundant, especially with the sky full of satellites and other planes.
Pilots control the plane through turbulence, and probably course corrections - for the fun of it, mostly. I'm proposing that they spend their time engaged in air traffic control, which scales up the AT controller population exactly when there are more planes to control. Distributed around the world, in a network.
Really, your arguments are like complaining that if we hook our computers into an "Internet", then we'll lost the familiar reliability of our hard drives and current human operators.
I want those risks to be as low as possible. We should put these drone navigation/steering controls into planes with pilots. Let the pilots steer for 15 minutes an hour, to keep them engaged. Let them analyze the air traffic data, with visual confirmations, for their airspace, shared with each other and on the ground. Keep all the telemetry streamed to the global network in realtime, instead of trapped in mysterious black boxes on the endangered planes. Put their bodies on the line, and their minds to work on keeping everyone safe.
We can use these automations and networks to completely revolutionize air safety. From accidents, collisions, hijackings, onboard sickness and other other incidents. Don't just put pilots out of work: make the investments in the crew return many times more, with more effective use of their skills and motivations.
"The Bravery of Being Out of Range" by Roger Waters
When the Republican Congress gave "fast track" authority to Clinton so he could make "Communist" China a "Most Favored Nation" trading partner, those staunch "anticommunists" claimed that China would become dependent on the US market, increasing our political power to force them to make changes. Economics, human rights, security - all would gain American influence, while we got cheap products and they got money to develop into a freer country that didn't threaten us or the world as much.
North Korea is totally dependent on its connection to Chinese economy. Since we supposedly gained that influence over China, N Korea has become a nuclear terrorist. What has handing unfair access to our markets to China (which still protects its markets from us) delivered on its promise? Other than control over us, both economically and in security threats from their rogue Communist partner next door?
Shadows are real, but they're not objects. They're an absence of light traveling from an object.
Now, if you'd tried "all real objects are 4D", you might have something. Though really objects are fractal, as time isn't even an integer dimension.
I'd explain it to you, but you wouldn't believe me.
Imagine cybersex where you can touch the actual bodies as UIs to control the lighting, heating, music, cameras, vibrators. In the room and across the Net.
These sensors on a bodyglove could make teledildonics not only practical, but portable and spur-of-the-moment.