Yup, there's already been issues with Pension Fund managers using pension pools as cash reservers for businesses or investing pensions in shady deals, like that Enron thing. Am getting ready to start up a mutual fund for my daughter (7 years old). Who knows what the job market's going to be like, in 15 years?
I thought the latest theory was that Oort cloud disruption occurred as our sun fluctuated up and down through our arm of the galaxy, as we circle around the core?
2000 years data transmission isn't that difficult or expensive. Just roll out some high fire stoneware clay slabs, about 1" thick and get to work with letter stamps. A nice glaze will help but isn't really necessary. Granted, you'll likely not get the density they're achieving here but, if you go with a fine grain clay like porcelain, you should be able to lithograph/etch microfiche size stuff onto it.
I've already been planning on what I want to put in my grave jar: smaller jar with my cremated remains, small jar with a mix of ancient Roman and modern coins, a 512k Mac, a modern bronze knife and some kind of text slab. Maybe I'll also do up a small bust or drawing on clay of myself as well. Nothing like messing with future archaeologist students.
Ooh, new idea; a funerary urn shaped like a 512k Mac. That would be cool!
The entire set would then be buried down about 10' or so, with a few feet of soil, a few big rocks and then more dirt on top, with a bristle cone pine tree planted over it.
Put a few of them in cometary type orbits, with appropriate gear to survive an unpowered reentry on Earth? Stage them to come down about once every 500 years?
Niven & Pournelle: Footfall. Is about Earth being invaded by elephantine aliens, who developed their culture/tech by finding etched blocks of crystal (granite? Been a decade or so since reading it) with various bits of knowledge on them. Simpler concepts were distributed more frequently and in easier to find places while more advance knowledge was put in more inaccessible locations (fusion power on cube in ocean trench or mountain top?). Course, the folks who had come up with this knowledge were a totally different race that had blown themselves up with war and such.
H. Beam Piper had a story about recovering a lost language, on an alien planet; Omnilingual.
Going through a school/university, they come across a periodic chart and a chemist explains to a linguist why elements will always be the same, regardless of who 'discovers' them. Is good story about a cunning linguist.
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Yup, there's already been issues with Pension Fund managers using pension pools as cash reservers for businesses or investing pensions in shady deals, like that Enron thing. Am getting ready to start up a mutual fund for my daughter (7 years old). Who knows what the job market's going to be like, in 15 years?
There's no chance that your ballot is going to affect the result...
Heh. I voted for McCain in 2000 primaries and then, after seeing the dirty tricks BushCo pulled out, voted for Nader. In Florida.
1. Somehow get women to expose their breasts.
2. ???
3. No restraining orders?
Diamond: When you only want the best for your grill.
Co-lo on Titan?
Jeff Goldblum!
Man, had to stop reading that interview. Kept hearing Jeff Goldblum answer all the questions, what with the stops and starts.
Tricksy V'Ger, we hates you!
In space, no one can hear you scream Ow!?
I thought the latest theory was that Oort cloud disruption occurred as our sun fluctuated up and down through our arm of the galaxy, as we circle around the core?
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is.
-HHGTTG
Didn't get a low ID number and is now too embarrassed?
But will they grow shrimp up there?
Sure. And they might use the granite disks as a nutcracker. Peasants and noblemen alike burned Rome's buildings to make lime.
This has been my intro to Paizo as well. Does the HC look as good as the PDF? Production in online version looks totally professional.
Yup. Got the free beta download and it looks pretty good. Figure we'll try a game with it and see if it's worth grabbing the hard cover.
So... the entire universe may just be an infinite porn collection encoded in matter and energy? Damn it! Where's the key?
I'd just put an arrow pointing at my slashdot number. They'd know what it means.
Or make it out of ceramic. If you make a fired/glazed slab and then encase it in unfired clay block and then bury it, should last a good long time.
I thought the Rosetta Stone wasn't meant for future peoples but was just some kind of official proclamation dealing with taxes or something.
2000 years data transmission isn't that difficult or expensive. Just roll out some high fire stoneware clay slabs, about 1" thick and get to work with letter stamps. A nice glaze will help but isn't really necessary. Granted, you'll likely not get the density they're achieving here but, if you go with a fine grain clay like porcelain, you should be able to lithograph/etch microfiche size stuff onto it.
I've already been planning on what I want to put in my grave jar: smaller jar with my cremated remains, small jar with a mix of ancient Roman and modern coins, a 512k Mac, a modern bronze knife and some kind of text slab. Maybe I'll also do up a small bust or drawing on clay of myself as well. Nothing like messing with future archaeologist students.
Ooh, new idea; a funerary urn shaped like a 512k Mac. That would be cool!
The entire set would then be buried down about 10' or so, with a few feet of soil, a few big rocks and then more dirt on top, with a bristle cone pine tree planted over it.
'1eet speak?
Put a few of them in cometary type orbits, with appropriate gear to survive an unpowered reentry on Earth? Stage them to come down about once every 500 years?
Niven & Pournelle: Footfall . Is about Earth being invaded by elephantine aliens, who developed their culture/tech by finding etched blocks of crystal (granite? Been a decade or so since reading it) with various bits of knowledge on them. Simpler concepts were distributed more frequently and in easier to find places while more advance knowledge was put in more inaccessible locations (fusion power on cube in ocean trench or mountain top?). Course, the folks who had come up with this knowledge were a totally different race that had blown themselves up with war and such.
It should be the other way around? Man was pulled from Woman's body? That's just whack!
H. Beam Piper had a story about recovering a lost language, on an alien planet; Omnilingual .
Going through a school/university, they come across a periodic chart and a chemist explains to a linguist why elements will always be the same, regardless of who 'discovers' them. Is good story about a cunning linguist.