Over ten years ago in Houston, Texas a tech came into the Channel 13 (if I remember correctly) station to fix a camera which has stopped working. In fixing the camera the guy crossed a couple of wires. When the camera crew turned the camera back on they suddenly had 3D TV! It was like looking through one of those view finders. From what they determined the camera was taking pictures from the two opposite lenses on the camera thus causing the depth to occur
The only thing I can think of that would cause that would be if the camera were flipping frames between two different but close angles.
ERGO, even frames = Left view & odd frames = right view.
If done fast enough, the effect will not be too disconcerting. If the contrast is also slightly shifted it helps on the 3D cues. The trick is to vary only the contrast along with the left / right eye views between frames. If you vary the hue or brightness the result will be vibrance shifts with are bothersome. The contrast shift results in a depth trick which helps the 3D.
Speaking of not eating pork: can you tell me why people in the Western culture don't eat dog meat?
That's a pretty easy one. Butt-sniffing and poop-eating. Talk about a prime way to transfer parasites. Dogs have got tons of worms, heartworms, tapeworms, ringworms, etc. Then we get onto the fleas & ticks and it gets even worse.
Cats suffer from the same issues, but not as badly because they don't tend to play in other cat's poop.
Any animal that is dumb enough to roll around in another dog's poop is certainly unsafe to be eaten.
Thank the genius folk who created the emulators. Without them I would not be able to enjoy the vast libraries of software that have been preserved by the software pirates. All of these programs would have been lost to the bitspace of deleted files if not for these important archivers which disregarded the concept of "only archive the public domain" and the "don't copy that floppy".
Every time a pirate ring gets busted I honestly weep for the software that will be obliterated by that short-sighted police raid. The next generations will never delight in what we enjoyed if everyone is forbidden from preserving these gems for the future. Even worse is the trend to release buggy betas as gold versions. Most pirates will not store the patched files as this requires sometimes 3 or more steps. The children in our future will see our games (the ones that survive by piracy) and think "Wow! This is buggy crap!" because they are playing the unpatched version and the patches no longer exist anywhere.
Business has a right to protect their profits, but history and culture doesn't give a damn when the hardware & OS's no longer exist. The people that actually wrote the software might care about a bit of a legacy when there is no profit from decades-old computer programming art. They should retain the right to make new versions of classic games and programs, but we the community request that we have the right to delight in the software of our more innocent years.
You're way off. Episode I takes place 32 years before A New Hope; Episode II, 22 years; Episode III, 20. Adding 50 years would put you somewhere around the Corellian Trilogy or the Hand of Thrawn Duology.
Excuse me for going fanboy here, but this is in a "Galaxy far far away". Who says the completely identical to humans but not actually humans people age at the same rate we do. And if there is a technology level akin to our current level, there is no real reason to have them age at all. But that is another rant for another time in a non-George Lucas / meta-fucked retcon universe.
yeah yeah, and in EIV, Obi Wan says that the Jedi defended justice in the old republic for over 1000 generations. In EI and II, it's 1000 years. Unless those Jedi breed really freaking fast.
I would suspect that is where the "force", "the force-push", and "Jedi mind tricks" come in handy. (Speaking of that I'm reminded of a joke.) Chinese man say, "He who pleasures himself always come in handy later on."
Clones are inherently inferior to their natural counterparts, at least in the Star Wars universe. They have a tendency to be flaky to the point of insanity. An example of this would be Joruus C'baoth, the dark Jedi clone employed by Admiral Thrawn. Cloning Jedi would make for some very unstable people with some very frightening powers.
You're like abused wives. You keep coming back for more, even though it hurts.
Damn and I was hoping in Episode 3 we find out Jar Jar Binks is actually the thinner version of Jabba the Hut. I figure Jar Jar (once he realized how badly he screwed over the Federation and after he grew a conscience) started over-eating to subsume his growing guilt, started a black-market trading operation to undercut the Empire financially, and finally lost his mind when he started eating his Queen Amidala dancer-substitute. Face it folks - Jar Jar is Jabba the Hut. Once you accept it, all of it makes sense.
After some time a person will reasonably conclude that: "One unique
marker is required for each pigeon that flies through the hole, if there are one
hundred pigeons in the group then the answer is one hundred
markers".
The simple answer is to get the female pigeons pregnant.
The more complex answer comes with non-integer decimal bases. You can get more
than a 100 pigeons worth of pigeons if they are stored in decimal base 9.67 in
place of base 10.
100 pigeons in base 9.67 = 106.4723296077... to
infinity.
How to calculate non-integer decimal conversions: (Note that
because the numbers past the decimal add to the absolute base value - base 9,
which has numbers 0 to 8, will in base 9.67 have the numbers 0 to 9 because the
values past the decimal point add +1 to the overall number
range)
Converting 100 (base 10) to (base 9.67) Take the number
100 Divide by 9.67 (one
division) =10.341261633919338159255429162358 Div ide by 9.67 (two
divisions) =1.0694169218117205955796720953834 (N ow we have a number less
than 9.67) First value is 1 Subtract the integer value (-1) Multiply by
9.67 =0.67126163391933815925542916235781 Second value is 0 Subtract
0 Multiply by 9.67 =6.4911 Third value is 6 Subtract 6 Multiply
by 9.67 =4.748937 First value beyond the decimal point is 4 (wash rinse
repeat) (Changing it to another base is slightly more complex, but is the
same basic routine. I cannot use RADIX conversion to do this quickly for
non-integer decimal bases)
Since you are increasing the number of digits
past the decimal point you are making an infinite transcendental number (except
in certain cases as Eric Landquist discovered). http://www2.edc.org/makingmath/studentWork/misc/er
iclandquist.pdf [edc.org] (Subtract the space Slashdot plops on the word
"ericlandquist.pdf" for the link to work.)
Quoting: Another joy
about continuing a project like this is that you know what has worked in
previous years, so you are better able to find and prove interesting re-sults
faster. My biggest joy that senior year was the discovery of a set of positive
irrational bases that produced similar results as before: integers with finite
repre-sentations and rationals with repeating representations in these bases. I
quickly found and proved several patterns with this family, which is the set of
all numbers (m + n^(.5)) where (m - 1)^2 < n <(m + 1)^2. This formed
the bulk of my senior year research.
3) The super soldiers were normal humans manipulated with the Gray's genes, dumb ass. Defacement kept them from getting infected, just face the fact that the virus needs an orifice to enter the body...even pores in the skin, so basically the aliens closed all orifices, including skin pores. Do you want a science book or something? [ Grammar corrected for reading simplification ]
So you're saying the Grays have no openings in their flesh? Wow, I'd think it easier to wear a snug transparent spacesuit than seal all of my bodily openings. That reminds me of a joke about a guy with a tight ass telling another fellow, "Just shut up!," when he had an inquiry about it. To which the reply was, "You are full of shit!," and the reply to that was a groaning, "I know."
I don't know. But that doesn't mean that God doesn't exist, it just means "I don't know". I don't know where YOU came from either, but that doesn't mean you don't exist.
I don't exist, but I'm answering you. This answer doesn't exist, but it is answering you. You did not reread this.
Stuff that died one million minus ten years ago
will turn into oil in ten years from now.
In some sort of
"presto-chango" method, or its actually alreadya viscous brown-black liqued with
some hydrocarbon chains already?We're using far more oil than is being created on a yearly
basis.
Actually it is feasable that oil could be created in massive
quantities on a daily basis provided the ingredients and the situations are
correct.
If you have a large deposit of trapped underground water,
carbon rich minerals surrounding the water, and carbon dioxide bubbling up
through it then oil can form quite easily given time.
This is the carbolic acid method of converting water into oil
(long hydrocarbon chains). There is another process called vacuum
decomposition which breaks down molecules in a vacuum under heat.
Most organic matter will break down into simple long hydrocarbon chains under a
vacuum and large amount of heat. If you want to create oil you've simply
got to have a large heat source (volcanic or geothermal) and organic matter in a
water solution (deep sea organisms). The other option is carbolic acid
leeching hydrogen atoms from nearby rock.
Keywords to search forin
GOOGLE [ vacuum
decomposition ]
http://www.google.com/search?q=vacuum+decompositio nGOOGLE [ vacuum pyrolysis
]
http://www.google.com/search?q=vacuum+pyrolysis
(Note that this method can happen underground so long as a
heat source is present)
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It's Dunkirk, Scbwachkopf, not Dunkurk. Duenkirchen is it's authentic German name. You may note that life in the 3rd Reich wasn't all that bad. They had clean boulevards, virtually no crime, no racial tension among citizens except of course for the lawful tensions between citizens and undesirables, free and unrestrained capitalism (this capitalism was so capitalist that they ended up with a lot of monopolies). If only they had invested more into their highly impressive technological advantage, chances would have been they had the first nukes. In which case, you would (if you qualify, of course;-) ) be able to enjoy all the benefits of a citizen of the 3rd Reich I listed above and more instead of having to put up with a Republic, which to put it into Senator Palpatine's words: "simply doesn't work!"
Dictatorships, like unions, only work if they are temporary and VERY short-lived. Once they become entrenched they eat themselves. Unions form in response to grossly incompetent and cruel mismanagement. The main goal should not be to create a worse situation, but to oust the corrupt leaders which threaten the lives and safety of the employees (citizens). When the union or dictatorship sticks around after the necessary goal is met then they have to create reasons to justify their existence. Washington was rightfully afraid of having a standing and idle army. Idle people with guns and no compunctions about seizing power are not a good mix. Soldiers that become minions of the state and not free-thinking individuals will not rightfully rebel if their generals declare war on the citizens of this nation. Unions which sit idle fall prey to greed and bribery. Dictatorships which become entrenched grow more greedy, oppressive, and power-hungry.
As with all absolute truths - America is made of people. These people are not to be pawns, not to be made into slaves, not to be made into exploitable resources, not to be milked like cows, not to be shorn like sheep, and not to sit idle in the presence of a overwhelming threat.
Chile is the perfect example of what is happening in America today under our Fraud President. We are going to royal hell and the lower class will be purposely unemployed (and buying no products and becoming a drain on the economy), the middle class will become the next lower class, and the upper class (as during Rotten Ronnie Reagan's ruinous rule along with George "Opium" H.W. Bush's criminal empire) will loot the wealth and damn our nation into stagflation poverty again. The greedy example of Chile is a perfect example of wealth breeding moronic suicide. The wealthy idiots thought they'd grab more of the pie and leave only the crumbs to the middle class. In the end they have pillaged, polluted, and damned their nation to ruin and then they will all flit off to the next nation to ruin it as well. They are like a cloud of locusts raiding a cornfield. They strip it bare and continue to the next field and the next until there are no more fields to devour. They count on there always being another cornfield to consume and give nothing back. They eat until they burst in their orgy of consumption and attack all who would stop them. These wealthy locusts move from nation to nation using front scams like the IMF & ENRON to enrich a few evil bastards (like the Bush Fraud Criminal Family) so they can come and consume our resources. The only difference is they have evolved somewhat and now allow the nations that are not their current victims to regrow some wealth as they feast and ruin their current victim. They are rapidly running dry of nations to consume right now as their greed and insatiable appetite for evil has driven most of the civilized world into crippling poverty. They don't invest (which would gain substantial and lasting returns though the cost of a slower feast is the trade-off) they just use their amassed wealth to lure gullible morons into throwing money into their front organizations like ENRON, Halliburton, Reliant, Exxon, etc and then they take the investor's money, ship it off to a tax-shelter in the islands, and say, "Oops! We went bankrupt! However did that happen?," as the wealthy locusts never put a dime of their own money into the front organization. Now they are here again to feast on America's wealth and most people have neither the money or power to kill the wealthy locusts before they kill us. We are here for them to devour and are nothing more than slaves and money sinks to be looted and exploited. All that we and our parents have worked hard for and gained are mere trinkets to be crushed underfoot as they empty the banks and leave us in a cesspool of pollution. They will get away with this as long as they live. They will create a dictatorship like the Nazis again here in America. They have to. They have to crush our natural instincts to rebel against tyrants. If they don't - we will seek their rightful extermination.
Thusly you see all of the old Nazi tricks coming once again to pass - the sedition laws, the villainization of a minority and eventual extermination of those minorities (it eliminates poverty & eliminates the crimes the poor will need to do to survive when they are denied their right to work for an honest living as they used to do), the excuse of all in power to do as they please unheeded by the police state laws against the working class, the rise of religion as a tool to subjugate the masses and squash rebellion when the oppressed seek compassion in a church without a soul, you will see the praise for conformity and the rewards of unquestioning fealty to their wealthy locust masters, you will see all media and news become ruled under a handful of moguls which will sanitize the news so as to further squash rebellion and the human response to unjust tyranny, and America will die.
The timetable for this will be the Nazi nightmare in 2008 until 2133, then the utter collapse in 2142, China controls the world in 2144, and then the future begins anew. The Christian church dies by its own hand in 2067 when it rebels for more power. Of course we DO NOT HAVE TO ENDURE THIS FUTURE. Nothing is set in stone. The key to prevent this is to stop living your ordinary lives and resist. Do not make the chains that will bind you. Do not give power to the tyrants that will rape you. Do not sit unarmed and helpless. Communicate with your neighbors and let them know they are not alone when the secret police come to steal their children and steal their parents and then force them into prison buses to the natural gas incinerators at the reconverted prison extermination grounds. Realize that this is the future if left unchallenged. One person alone can make a difference - many people working together can stop a nightmare which should never be allowed to happen. It is that simple and that horrible.
Remember, he called Pinochet a relatively benign dictator. He didn't say that Pinochet was benign on his own merit.
No, no, no. Pinochet wasn't a relatively benign anything. Thousands killed, tens of thousands tortured. Pinochet was one of the really top-level international criminals of the last century, not perhaps in the same bracket as Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot, but certainly at the top of the second rank.
Here's a quote from Pat Robertson's "The Turning Tide" (pages 45 - 47)
THE LATIN MIRACLE
I arrived in Santiago, Chile, to negotiate television airtime for our CBN programs right after the overthrow of Salvador Allende. Allende was an apparently nonthreatening theoretical Communist who was the first and only Communist ever elected with the avowed aim of introducing communism to a free society. Predictably, the world's liberal press lionized him, but almost from the outset it was apparent that the application of his theoretical liberal nonsense to real-life government was destroying the nation.
One airline manager in Santiago sketched out for me the situation that developed. Allende and his fellow liberals believed that free-market capitalism and traditional middle-class thinking were diseases that needed to be destroyed before the perfect communist society could be built. Therefore, he deliberately set about to destroy all of the existing institutions --- particularly those concerned with the production and distribution of goods.
Of course, the outcome was predictable. The nation was plunged into economic chaos, with shortages of everything. First, inflation, then the black market, and, of course, the blundering attempts of government to "fix" all the things their destructive policies had caused. The combination of all these factors literally crippled the nation.
My informant told me with tears in his eyes of the suffering his family endured under Allende --- how he was unable to obtain the simplest necessities of life --- not even baby food for his hungry child. A free election had put Allende in power in Chile in 1970, but a military coup in 1973, led by General Augusto Pinochet, took him out.
Little was ever printed in the liberal press in this nation about the excesses and failures of the Allende government, but suddenly the media turned on the conservative regime of Pinochet with a vengeance. Western readers were barraged with a steady drumbeat of stories about "repression in Chile," "human rights abuses in Chile," "torture in Chile," "right-wing extremists in Chile." WIlliam F. Buckley reported with his usual wit that if Chile would just rename itself "the People's Republic in Chile," the world's press would begin to applaud it.
In truth, what Pinochet did may have seemed brutal, but he did apply common sense to a very volatile situation. He jailed about two thousand communists who were certain to be fomenting counterrevolutionary activity. Some were executed. For a limited time he instituted martial law in order to keep economically prostrate nation from falling into total anarchy.
Slowly the new leader stabilized the currency, fostered the rebuilding of the economy, privatized state-owned enterprises, and stimulated exports. He restored representative-constitutional democracy and finally paved the way for free election of a president in 1989 to replace himself.
When I arrived in Chile shortly after the coup, I expected from what I had read in the press accounts to find a police state with mass arrests, spying, repression, and brutal torture. Instead I saw attractive young couples strolling about in the balmy evening air, laughing, enjoying ice cream cones, holding hands, and embracing. I thought, [italics] If this is torture, I know a few young fellows back home who wouldn't mind a couple weeks of it. [end italics]
[End quote from book]
And we all know that "attractive young couples enjoying ice cream cones" are perfectly good reasons to applaud mass murder, secret police squads, and insane totalitarian dictatorship. The world sure must be wonderful for soulless non-Christians like Pat Robertson and George Worthless Bush because it sucks really bad when a murderous unelected traitor of a Fraud President gives $43 million of American taxpayer dollars to the Taliban, stops all investigations into his family's close business partners, covers up his own & his father's & Rotten Ronnie Reagan's misdeeds by Presidential edict, has prior knowledge of the terrorism crashbombing of the World Trade Centers, prevents fighter jets from intercepting the crashbombing planes, funnels money into Enron in the guise of "tax refunds" when Enron paid no taxes for the past five years along with rampant destruction of records of their criminal actions, hires numerous Enron flunkies into his cabinet, and it just goes on and on and the sheeple are dead silent on impeaching and arresting this criminal tyrant!
I guess we can expect no less from the traitor George Worthless Bush who got a cushy hideaway in the military and which he later fled on a criminal desertion of duty because his drug tests came back guilty. The American people sure should honor the wishes of a fraud who snorted cocaine and got stinking drunk every day of his life for 45 years! The people who bow in fealty to this monster should be killed as they have renounced their basic human conscience long ago and are menaces to our nation.
That still wouldn't work as it doesn't put out a proper 29.97 fps NTSC signal...it's some 25 fps variant that I think is used in some South American countries. It converts the color information to something resembling NTSC (they don't say if it uses 3.58 MHz or 4.43 (?) MHz color burst), but the framerate is unaltered.
That said, if you have a video-capture or TV-tuner card in your computer, there's a fair chance you can kick it into PAL mode. The machine on which I'm typing this has a generic four-port Bt878-based capture card; playing with one of the unused ports in GraphEdit, the property page for the capture filter had a couple of options for NTSC, maybe a dozen for PAL, and a few for SECAM. IIRC, the All-In-Wonder Radeon in my home system has some similar options.
Thanks! I've seen the TV-Tuner cards going for $50. I was going to suggest the APEX DVD player too as that is the "Everything" bit of wonderful hardware that would do the job well.
Something very much like this was released by a mysterious company called Mega Joy -- an N64 controller that contained 50-odd Nintendo games. The Register has details. [theregister.co.uk] A friend of mine bought this and likes his a lot, although he's not much of a gamer. The Reg mentions them selling for ten pounds in the UK; I think my friend says his was about ~$20.
It seems you can't buy them any more, of course. There are none listed on eBay, and googling for them some time back didn't turn up anything, so I assume Nintendo burned down the factory producing them, and seeded the ground with salt.
Downside is this blurb - "(This product is not designed to work in the USA or any other country using the NTSC system.)" Sorry, unless you've got a PAL TV set or got a PAL converter (or an old Amiga monitor that can display a PAL signal [hint hint]) I guess you cannot use it.
Here's a site with a PAL > NTSC converter for $59 http://www.xbox-online.net/flash/x6c.htm (Sorry about it being on a BugBoX website, still at the moment it is the cheapest I've found)
Another note - DAMN! They have MAPPY on it. I love that cute mouse being chased around by adorable kittens with a delightful tune in the background as they rebound off trampolines to each level.
One more thing Jackie Chan! (Found this in the search) http://www.protectv.com/ Q. How does PROTECTV work? A. PROTECTV works through the captioning that runs through television programming, videos, and DVD's. PROTECTV works with both the audio as well as the written captions that are available. Every time an offensive word is spoken it is compared to a dictionary of over 400 words and phrases and if the word or phrase matches, it is deleted from the soundtrack and captioning. The viewer will experience a momentary gap in the audio and for viewers reading the captions, the undesirable written word is replaced by XXXX's.
(Goes into old lady Jewish mode) "Go ahead... discuss."
Using IO and local storage; looks like they want to create a "web within the web" - except here they control the client and all the content. No more pesky 'open standards'. And, of course, if you want to create content, you'll have to pay the man...
I'm getting sick of this.
Janne
This sounds like the SUPERCOOKIE mentioned in the article not so long ago. Given that FLASH & JAVA can ID your computer without cookies this sounds like the perfect MAGIC LANTERN delivery system. It sounds like it is time to remove FLASH from my system & Macromedia as a corporation in America.
Worse, they brainacs who design our cars have decided the headlights should stay on during daylight hours. I find this annoying, confusing, and dangerous.
Uh, you have experienced little issues like fog, rain, snow storm, dust storm, cloudy day... etc.
Many motorcycles drive with their headlights on during the brightest parts of the day (it makes them more visible to drivers and safer for their own travel) as do some car drivers.
Pessimists... you need to consider the advantages of a Microsoft car:
your car would seek out and destroy the competition.
the hood would be welded shut. No worrying about it ending up at the chop shop for parts.
its sheer size will trump any SUV on the road today.
Damn right. The Microsoft car will be the size of a van for the "Mini" version. The later versions will be the size of a tractor and require the engine of a tractor. In fact it will be a tractor - just called a car because that is what Microsoft does. The sad thing is that the Microsoft "car" will be slower driving than walking, guzzle 3 gallons of gasoline per mile, catch fire frequently, explode once a month, be built entirely of plastic and plaster, and stop working for no fathomable reason.
The future version of the Microsoft "car" will be the size of a bus, be on fire all of the time, emit choking fumes, screech violently and constantly, and will require the driver to put it in "reverse" just to move forward. It will also cost $18 million dollars per "car" and Bill Gates will say, "All of your problems with our automobile are *user* problems not software & hardware issues." Then Microsoft will be AMAZED and AMUSED that the government ends up investigating them and Microsoft will act like asses in the courtroom and dance about saying, "If you hurt us the American economy will go into depression and Republicans will defend us, as all junkie whores defend the pimps that use & abuse them so long as they get their hourly cocaine dosages."
Just out of curiosity, have you ever taken a class on nuclear energy? The "fact" that a tablespoon full of plutonium could kill every human on earth is the most blown out of proportion ridiculous fact ever. Consider this, uranium is a natural element. It exists everywhere, everywhere! Directly under you right now is uranium. Uranium and plutonium are both alpha particle emitters. Alpha particles cannot penetrate your skin, thus the only danger lies in inhaling them, and even this is a slight danger since you would have to inhale a large amount of it for it to have any chance of staying in your lungs and doing any damage. In order for a tablespoon of plutonium to kill everyone it would have to be inhaled and then each person would have a 1 in 30,000,000,000,000(maybe another set of zeros, not sure) chance that their particle of plutonium would cause cancer in them that they could eventually die from.
A few precautions: While uranium is not dangerously radioactive in the amounts you'll be handling, if you plan to make more than one bomb it might be wise to wear gloves and a lead apron, the kind you can buy in dental supply stores.
Plutonium is one of the most toxic substances known. If inhaled, a thousandth of a gram can cause massive fibrosis of the lungs, a painful way to go. Even a millionth of a gram in the lungs will cause cancer. If eaten plutonium is metabolized like calcium. It goes straight to the bones where it gives out alpha particles preventing bone marrow from manufacturing red blood cells. The best way to avoid inhaling plutonium is to hold your breath while handling it. If this is too difficult wear a mask. To avoid ingesting plutonium orally follow this simple rule: never make an A-bomb on an empty stomach. If you find yourself dozing off while you're working, or if you begin to glow in the dark, it might be wise to take a blood count. Prick your finger with a sterile pin, place a drop of blood on a microscope slide, cover it with a cover slip, and examine under a microscope. (Best results are obtained in the early morning.) When you get leukemia, immature cells are released into the bloodstream, and usually the number of white cells increases (though this increase might take almost 2 weeks). Red blood cells look kind of like donuts (without the hole), and are slightly smaller than the white cells, each of which has a nucleus. Immature red cells look similar to white cells (i.e.. slightly larger and have a nucleus). If you have more than about 1 white cell (including immature ones) to 400 red cells then start to worry. But, depending upon your plans for the eventual use of the bomb, a short life expectancy might not be a problem.
(Sure a teaspoon might not kill the world, just an area the size of Utah - depending on how the high-atmosphere winds disperse it).
You conveniently ignored the part with the laser turrets. Once people see others get vaporized by the dozens, they will quickly make the appropriate association.
Ah, but then the problem would be... [ Laser turrent vaporizes people +
People get angry & blast laser turrents =
"What was buried here that was VALUABLE enough to defend with lethal force?" Then the mass excavation begins. ]
[ On the upside the Plutonium isotopes could power the turrents for a pretty long time ]
Want a better idea? Build something that nobody ever visits or would want to visit: A perpetually running slide show of the winners of the "least interesting vacation spots". Another choice would be to put a ambient-radiation powered subsonic nausea-inducing highly-redundant chain of emitters which kick on for a day then switch to another emitter for the next day. If any emitter fails then the other emitters change the routine so as to spread the wear and tear for a long time. Or they could each be sealed in highly rust-proof containers which open and begin emitting when the current emitter fails.
Heck, the best trick would be to seal the area over in our best and hardest materials. A primitive culture would never be able to penetrate it and a smart culture would know how to avoid or handle dangerous radiation. Leaving it a bare uninteresting patch of earth is for the best. If it kills any primitive culture that builds over it, then they still cannot dig it up to endanger other folks. It would be nice to protect cavemen or preindustrial cultures from our deadly radioactive waste, but any marker we left would just be left as a curiosity spot from the "ancients". It would be far better to just wrap it in lead, cover it with super-strong barrier materials, and then cover it with plain dirt.
I bet it's RF energy excited sustained plasma, ala the microwave plasma ball experiments on that microwave site.
Tried it. Then I figured out there was a metal ring in the base of the candle (for molding purposes to keep the wick upright) which was causing the plasma discharges. All other experiments with burning toothpicks failed. The candle test failed completely once the bottom area holding the metal ring was cut off.
I'm not so sure that blue LED lighting "can make a huge difference in the lives of villagers in rural areas where being connected to a power grid is not an option and probably never will be."
Uh, there is a windup flashlight that is powered by a spring and that runs a regular flashlight bulb. A quick GOOGLE for "windup flashlight" gives me a LED flashlight called the FREEPLAY. The other flashlights on that site cost $27 for a radio/flashlight +rechargeable battery +spring power. The solar-powered +rechargeable batteries bicycle light is $20.
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Over ten years ago in Houston, Texas a tech came into the Channel 13 (if I remember correctly) station to fix a camera which has stopped working. In fixing the camera the guy crossed a couple of wires. When the camera crew turned the camera back on they suddenly had 3D TV! It was like looking through one of those view finders. From what they determined the camera was taking pictures from the two opposite lenses on the camera thus causing the depth to occur
The only thing I can think of that would cause that would be if the camera were flipping frames between two different but close angles.
ERGO, even frames = Left view & odd frames = right view.
If done fast enough, the effect will not be too disconcerting. If the contrast is also slightly shifted it helps on the 3D cues. The trick is to vary only the contrast along with the left / right eye views between frames. If you vary the hue or brightness the result will be vibrance shifts with are bothersome. The contrast shift results in a depth trick which helps the 3D.
Speaking of not eating pork: can you tell me why people in the Western culture don't eat dog meat?
That's a pretty easy one. Butt-sniffing and poop-eating. Talk about a prime way to transfer parasites. Dogs have got tons of worms, heartworms, tapeworms, ringworms, etc. Then we get onto the fleas & ticks and it gets even worse.
Cats suffer from the same issues, but not as badly because they don't tend to play in other cat's poop.
Any animal that is dumb enough to roll around in another dog's poop is certainly unsafe to be eaten.
I've got an emulator around here somewhere...
Thank the genius folk who created the emulators. Without them I would not be able to enjoy the vast libraries of software that have been preserved by the software pirates. All of these programs would have been lost to the bitspace of deleted files if not for these important archivers which disregarded the concept of "only archive the public domain" and the "don't copy that floppy".
Every time a pirate ring gets busted I honestly weep for the software that will be obliterated by that short-sighted police raid. The next generations will never delight in what we enjoyed if everyone is forbidden from preserving these gems for the future. Even worse is the trend to release buggy betas as gold versions. Most pirates will not store the patched files as this requires sometimes 3 or more steps. The children in our future will see our games (the ones that survive by piracy) and think "Wow! This is buggy crap!" because they are playing the unpatched version and the patches no longer exist anywhere.
Business has a right to protect their profits, but history and culture doesn't give a damn when the hardware & OS's no longer exist. The people that actually wrote the software might care about a bit of a legacy when there is no profit from decades-old computer programming art. They should retain the right to make new versions of classic games and programs, but we the community request that we have the right to delight in the software of our more innocent years.
You're way off. Episode I takes place 32 years before A New Hope; Episode II, 22 years; Episode III, 20. Adding 50 years would put you somewhere around the Corellian Trilogy or the Hand of Thrawn Duology.
Excuse me for going fanboy here, but this is in a "Galaxy far far away". Who says the completely identical to humans but not actually humans people age at the same rate we do. And if there is a technology level akin to our current level, there is no real reason to have them age at all. But that is another rant for another time in a non-George Lucas / meta-fucked retcon universe.
yeah yeah, and in EIV, Obi Wan says that the Jedi defended justice in the old republic for over 1000 generations. In EI and II, it's 1000 years. Unless those Jedi breed really freaking fast.
I would suspect that is where the "force", "the force-push", and "Jedi mind tricks" come in handy.
(Speaking of that I'm reminded of a joke.)
Chinese man say, "He who pleasures himself always come in handy later on."
Clones are inherently inferior to their natural counterparts, at least in the Star Wars universe. They have a tendency to be flaky to the point of insanity. An example of this would be Joruus C'baoth, the dark Jedi clone employed by Admiral Thrawn. Cloning Jedi would make for some very unstable people with some very frightening powers.
And this would be bad for the Empire in what way?
You're like abused wives. You keep coming back for more, even though it hurts.
Damn and I was hoping in Episode 3 we find out Jar Jar Binks is actually the thinner version of Jabba the Hut. I figure Jar Jar (once he realized how badly he screwed over the Federation and after he grew a conscience) started over-eating to subsume his growing guilt, started a black-market trading operation to undercut the Empire financially, and finally lost his mind when he started eating his Queen Amidala dancer-substitute. Face it folks - Jar Jar is Jabba the Hut. Once you accept it, all of it makes sense.
Almost any mathematical theory works if you 'ignore' certain variables.
Physicists have been doing this for a long time.
I'm a theoretical physicist, at least I think I am. I cannot be certain. It is just a theory I have.
After some time a person will reasonably conclude that: "One unique marker is required for each pigeon that flies through the hole, if there are one hundred pigeons in the group then the answer is one hundred markers".
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The simple answer is to get the female pigeons pregnant. The more complex answer comes with non-integer decimal bases. You can get more than a 100 pigeons worth of pigeons if they are stored in decimal base 9.67 in place of base 10.
100 pigeons in base 9.67 = 106.4723296077... to infinity.
How to calculate non-integer decimal conversions:
(Note that because the numbers past the decimal add to the absolute base value - base 9, which has numbers 0 to 8, will in base 9.67 have the numbers 0 to 9 because the values past the decimal point add +1 to the overall number range)
Converting 100 (base 10) to (base 9.67)
Take the number 100
Divide by 9.67 (one division)
=10.341261633919338159255429162358
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=1.0694169218117205955796720953834
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First value is 1
Subtract the integer value (-1)
Multiply by 9.67
=0.67126163391933815925542916235781
Second value is 0
Subtract 0
Multiply by 9.67
=6.4911
Third value is 6
Subtract 6
Multiply by 9.67
=4.748937
First value beyond the decimal point is 4
(wash rinse repeat)
(Changing it to another base is slightly more complex, but is the same basic routine. I cannot use RADIX conversion to do this quickly for non-integer decimal bases)
Since you are increasing the number of digits past the decimal point you are making an infinite transcendental number (except in certain cases as Eric Landquist discovered).
http://www2.edc.org/makingmath/studentWork/misc/e
(Subtract the space Slashdot plops on the word "ericlandquist.pdf" for the link to work.)
Or
http://www.google.com/search?q=eric+landquist+non
(Subtract the space Slashdot plops in the word "non-integer" for the link to work correctly.)
Quoting:
Another joy about continuing a project like this is that you know what has worked in previous years, so you are better able to find and prove interesting re-sults faster. My biggest joy that senior year was the discovery of a set of positive irrational bases that produced similar results as before: integers with finite repre-sentations and rationals with repeating representations in these bases. I quickly found and proved several patterns with this family, which is the set of all numbers (m + n^(.5)) where (m - 1)^2 < n <(m + 1)^2. This formed the bulk of my senior year research.
3) The super soldiers were normal humans manipulated with the Gray's genes, dumb ass.
Defacement kept them from getting infected, just face the fact that the virus needs an orifice to enter the body...even pores in the skin, so basically the aliens closed all orifices, including skin pores. Do you want a science book or something?
[ Grammar corrected for reading simplification ]
So you're saying the Grays have no openings in their flesh? Wow, I'd think it easier to wear a snug transparent spacesuit than seal all of my bodily openings. That reminds me of a joke about a guy with a tight ass telling another fellow, "Just shut up!," when he had an inquiry about it. To which the reply was, "You are full of shit!," and the reply to that was a groaning, "I know."
Where did God come from then.
I don't know. But that doesn't mean that God doesn't exist, it just means "I don't know". I don't know where YOU came from either, but that doesn't mean you don't exist.
I don't exist, but I'm answering you.
This answer doesn't exist, but it is answering you. You did not reread this.
Puzzle that my imaginary friend.
Stuff that died one million minus ten years ago will turn into oil in ten years from now.
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tires
http://www.gch.ulaval.ca/~darmstad/va_pyr.html
PyrocyclingTM
http://www.enviroaccess.ca/fiches_4/F4-03-95a.html
Hot Solution To A Large
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In some sort of "presto-chango" method, or its actually alreadya viscous brown-black liqued with some hydrocarbon chains already? We're using far more oil than is being created on a yearly basis. Actually it is feasable that oil could be created in massive quantities on a daily basis provided the ingredients and the situations are correct. If you have a large deposit of trapped underground water, carbon rich minerals surrounding the water, and carbon dioxide bubbling up through it then oil can form quite easily given time. This is the carbolic acid method of converting water into oil (long hydrocarbon chains). There is another process called vacuum decomposition which breaks down molecules in a vacuum under heat. Most organic matter will break down into simple long hydrocarbon chains under a vacuum and large amount of heat. If you want to create oil you've simply got to have a large heat source (volcanic or geothermal) and organic matter in a water solution (deep sea organisms). The other option is carbolic acid leeching hydrogen atoms from nearby rock. Keywords to search forin GOOGLE [ vacuum decomposition ] http://www.google.com/search?q=vacuum+decompositi
It's Dunkirk, Scbwachkopf, not Dunkurk. Duenkirchen is it's authentic German name. You may note that life in the 3rd Reich wasn't all that bad. They had clean boulevards, virtually no crime, no racial tension among citizens except of course for the lawful tensions between citizens and undesirables, free and unrestrained capitalism (this capitalism was so capitalist that they ended up with a lot of monopolies). If only they had invested more into their highly impressive technological advantage, chances would have been they had the first nukes. In which case, you would (if you qualify, of course ;-) ) be able to enjoy all the benefits of a citizen of the 3rd Reich I listed above and more instead of having to put up with a Republic, which to put it into Senator Palpatine's words: "simply doesn't work!"
Dictatorships, like unions, only work if they are temporary and VERY short-lived. Once they become entrenched they eat themselves. Unions form in response to grossly incompetent and cruel mismanagement. The main goal should not be to create a worse situation, but to oust the corrupt leaders which threaten the lives and safety of the employees (citizens). When the union or dictatorship sticks around after the necessary goal is met then they have to create reasons to justify their existence. Washington was rightfully afraid of having a standing and idle army. Idle people with guns and no compunctions about seizing power are not a good mix. Soldiers that become minions of the state and not free-thinking individuals will not rightfully rebel if their generals declare war on the citizens of this nation. Unions which sit idle fall prey to greed and bribery. Dictatorships which become entrenched grow more greedy, oppressive, and power-hungry.
As with all absolute truths - America is made of people. These people are not to be pawns, not to be made into slaves, not to be made into exploitable resources, not to be milked like cows, not to be shorn like sheep, and not to sit idle in the presence of a overwhelming threat.
Chile is the perfect example of what is happening in America today under our Fraud President. We are going to royal hell and the lower class will be purposely unemployed (and buying no products and becoming a drain on the economy), the middle class will become the next lower class, and the upper class (as during Rotten Ronnie Reagan's ruinous rule along with George "Opium" H.W. Bush's criminal empire) will loot the wealth and damn our nation into stagflation poverty again. The greedy example of Chile is a perfect example of wealth breeding moronic suicide. The wealthy idiots thought they'd grab more of the pie and leave only the crumbs to the middle class. In the end they have pillaged, polluted, and damned their nation to ruin and then they will all flit off to the next nation to ruin it as well. They are like a cloud of locusts raiding a cornfield. They strip it bare and continue to the next field and the next until there are no more fields to devour. They count on there always being another cornfield to consume and give nothing back. They eat until they burst in their orgy of consumption and attack all who would stop them. These wealthy locusts move from nation to nation using front scams like the IMF & ENRON to enrich a few evil bastards (like the Bush Fraud Criminal Family) so they can come and consume our resources. The only difference is they have evolved somewhat and now allow the nations that are not their current victims to regrow some wealth as they feast and ruin their current victim. They are rapidly running dry of nations to consume right now as their greed and insatiable appetite for evil has driven most of the civilized world into crippling poverty. They don't invest (which would gain substantial and lasting returns though the cost of a slower feast is the trade-off) they just use their amassed wealth to lure gullible morons into throwing money into their front organizations like ENRON, Halliburton, Reliant, Exxon, etc and then they take the investor's money, ship it off to a tax-shelter in the islands, and say, "Oops! We went bankrupt! However did that happen?," as the wealthy locusts never put a dime of their own money into the front organization. Now they are here again to feast on America's wealth and most people have neither the money or power to kill the wealthy locusts before they kill us. We are here for them to devour and are nothing more than slaves and money sinks to be looted and exploited. All that we and our parents have worked hard for and gained are mere trinkets to be crushed underfoot as they empty the banks and leave us in a cesspool of pollution. They will get away with this as long as they live. They will create a dictatorship like the Nazis again here in America. They have to. They have to crush our natural instincts to rebel against tyrants. If they don't - we will seek their rightful extermination.
Thusly you see all of the old Nazi tricks coming once again to pass - the sedition laws, the villainization of a minority and eventual extermination of those minorities (it eliminates poverty & eliminates the crimes the poor will need to do to survive when they are denied their right to work for an honest living as they used to do), the excuse of all in power to do as they please unheeded by the police state laws against the working class, the rise of religion as a tool to subjugate the masses and squash rebellion when the oppressed seek compassion in a church without a soul, you will see the praise for conformity and the rewards of unquestioning fealty to their wealthy locust masters, you will see all media and news become ruled under a handful of moguls which will sanitize the news so as to further squash rebellion and the human response to unjust tyranny, and America will die.
The timetable for this will be the Nazi nightmare in 2008 until 2133, then the utter collapse in 2142, China controls the world in 2144, and then the future begins anew. The Christian church dies by its own hand in 2067 when it rebels for more power. Of course we DO NOT HAVE TO ENDURE THIS FUTURE. Nothing is set in stone. The key to prevent this is to stop living your ordinary lives and resist. Do not make the chains that will bind you. Do not give power to the tyrants that will rape you. Do not sit unarmed and helpless. Communicate with your neighbors and let them know they are not alone when the secret police come to steal their children and steal their parents and then force them into prison buses to the natural gas incinerators at the reconverted prison extermination grounds. Realize that this is the future if left unchallenged. One person alone can make a difference - many people working together can stop a nightmare which should never be allowed to happen. It is that simple and that horrible.
Remember, he called Pinochet a relatively benign dictator. He didn't say that Pinochet was benign on his own merit.
No, no, no. Pinochet wasn't a relatively benign anything. Thousands killed, tens of thousands tortured. Pinochet was one of the really top-level international criminals of the last century, not perhaps in the same bracket as Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot, but certainly at the top of the second rank.
Here's a quote from Pat Robertson's "The Turning Tide" (pages 45 - 47)
THE LATIN MIRACLE
I arrived in Santiago, Chile, to negotiate television airtime for our CBN programs right after the overthrow of Salvador Allende. Allende was an apparently nonthreatening theoretical Communist who was the first and only Communist ever elected with the avowed aim of introducing communism to a free society. Predictably, the world's liberal press lionized him, but almost from the outset it was apparent that the application of his theoretical liberal nonsense to real-life government was destroying the nation.
One airline manager in Santiago sketched out for me the situation that developed. Allende and his fellow liberals believed that free-market capitalism and traditional middle-class thinking were diseases that needed to be destroyed before the perfect communist society could be built. Therefore, he deliberately set about to destroy all of the existing institutions ---
particularly those concerned with the production and distribution of goods.
Of course, the outcome was predictable. The nation was plunged into economic chaos, with shortages of everything. First, inflation, then the black market, and, of course, the blundering attempts of government to "fix" all the things their destructive policies had caused. The combination of all these factors literally crippled the nation.
My informant told me with tears in his eyes of the suffering his family endured under Allende --- how he was unable to obtain the simplest necessities of life --- not even baby food for his hungry child. A free election had put Allende in power in Chile in 1970, but a military coup in 1973, led by General Augusto Pinochet, took him out.
Little was ever printed in the liberal press in this nation about the excesses and failures of the Allende government, but suddenly the media turned on the conservative regime of Pinochet with a vengeance. Western readers were barraged with a steady drumbeat of stories about "repression in Chile," "human rights abuses in Chile," "torture in Chile," "right-wing extremists in Chile." WIlliam F. Buckley reported with his usual wit that if Chile would just rename itself "the People's Republic in Chile," the world's press would begin to applaud it.
In truth, what Pinochet did may have seemed brutal, but he did apply common sense to a very volatile situation. He jailed about two thousand communists who were certain to be fomenting counterrevolutionary activity. Some were executed. For a limited time he instituted martial law in order to keep economically prostrate nation from falling into total anarchy.
Slowly the new leader stabilized the currency, fostered the rebuilding of the economy, privatized state-owned enterprises, and stimulated exports. He restored representative-constitutional democracy and finally paved the way for free election of a president in 1989 to replace himself.
When I arrived in Chile shortly after the coup, I expected from what I had read in the press accounts to find a police state with mass arrests, spying, repression, and brutal torture. Instead I saw attractive young couples strolling about in the balmy evening air, laughing, enjoying ice cream cones, holding hands, and embracing. I thought, [italics] If this is torture, I know a few young fellows back home who wouldn't mind a couple weeks of it. [end italics]
[End quote from book]
And we all know that "attractive young couples enjoying ice cream cones" are perfectly good reasons to applaud mass murder, secret police squads, and insane totalitarian dictatorship. The world sure must be wonderful for soulless non-Christians like Pat Robertson and George Worthless Bush because it sucks really bad when a murderous unelected traitor of a Fraud President gives $43 million of American taxpayer dollars to the Taliban, stops all investigations into his family's close business partners, covers up his own & his father's & Rotten Ronnie Reagan's misdeeds by Presidential edict, has prior knowledge of the terrorism crashbombing of the World Trade Centers, prevents fighter jets from intercepting the crashbombing planes, funnels money into Enron in the guise of "tax refunds" when Enron paid no taxes for the past five years along with rampant destruction of records of their criminal actions, hires numerous Enron flunkies into his cabinet, and it just goes on and on and the sheeple are dead silent on impeaching and arresting this criminal tyrant!
I guess we can expect no less from the traitor George Worthless Bush who got a cushy hideaway in the military and which he later fled on a criminal desertion of duty because his drug tests came back guilty. The American people sure should honor the wishes of a fraud who snorted cocaine and got stinking drunk every day of his life for 45 years! The people who bow in fealty to this monster should be killed as they have renounced their basic human conscience long ago and are menaces to our nation.
That still wouldn't work as it doesn't put out a proper 29.97 fps NTSC signal...it's some 25 fps variant that I think is used in some South American countries. It converts the color information to something resembling NTSC (they don't say if it uses 3.58 MHz or 4.43 (?) MHz color burst), but the framerate is unaltered.
That said, if you have a video-capture or TV-tuner card in your computer, there's a fair chance you can kick it into PAL mode. The machine on which I'm typing this has a generic four-port Bt878-based capture card; playing with one of the unused ports in GraphEdit, the property page for the capture filter had a couple of options for NTSC, maybe a dozen for PAL, and a few for SECAM. IIRC, the All-In-Wonder Radeon in my home system has some similar options.
Thanks! I've seen the TV-Tuner cards going for $50. I was going to suggest the APEX DVD player too as that is the "Everything" bit of wonderful hardware that would do the job well.
Something very much like this was released by a mysterious company called Mega Joy -- an N64 controller that contained 50-odd Nintendo games. The Register has details. [theregister.co.uk]
A friend of mine bought this and likes his a lot, although he's not much of a gamer. The Reg mentions them selling for ten pounds in the UK; I think my friend says his was about ~$20.
It seems you can't buy them any more, of course. There are none listed on eBay, and googling for them some time back didn't turn up anything, so I assume Nintendo burned down the factory producing them, and seeded the ground with salt.
Quick GOOGLE result for "Meja Joy"
http://www.paramountzone.com/megajoy.htm
http://www.gadgets.co.uk/megajoy2.html
Downside is this blurb - "(This product is not designed to work in the USA or any other country using the NTSC system.)" Sorry, unless you've got a PAL TV set or got a PAL converter (or an old Amiga monitor that can display a PAL signal [hint hint]) I guess you cannot use it.
Here's a site with a PAL > NTSC converter for $59
http://www.xbox-online.net/flash/x6c.htm
(Sorry about it being on a BugBoX website, still at the moment it is the cheapest I've found)
Another note - DAMN! They have MAPPY on it. I love that cute mouse being chased around by adorable kittens with a delightful tune in the background as they rebound off trampolines to each level.
One more thing Jackie Chan!
(Found this in the search)
http://www.protectv.com/
Q. How does PROTECTV work?
A. PROTECTV works through the captioning that runs through television programming, videos, and DVD's. PROTECTV works with both the audio as well as the written captions that are available. Every time an offensive word is spoken it is compared to a dictionary of over 400 words and phrases and if the word or phrase matches, it is deleted from the soundtrack and captioning. The viewer will experience a momentary gap in the audio and for viewers reading the captions, the undesirable written word is replaced by XXXX's.
(Goes into old lady Jewish mode)
"Go ahead... discuss."
Using IO and local storage; looks like they want to create a "web within the web" - except here they control the client and all the content. No more pesky 'open standards'. And, of course, if you want to create content, you'll have to pay the man...
I'm getting sick of this.
Janne
This sounds like the SUPERCOOKIE mentioned in the article not so long ago. Given that FLASH & JAVA can ID your computer without cookies this sounds like the perfect MAGIC LANTERN delivery system. It sounds like it is time to remove FLASH from my system & Macromedia as a corporation in America.
Worse, they brainacs who design our cars have decided the headlights should stay on during daylight hours. I find this annoying, confusing, and dangerous.
Uh, you have experienced little issues like fog, rain, snow storm, dust storm, cloudy day... etc.
Many motorcycles drive with their headlights on during the brightest parts of the day (it makes them more visible to drivers and safer for their own travel) as do some car drivers.
Pessimists... you need to consider the advantages of a Microsoft car:
your car would seek out and destroy the competition.
the hood would be welded shut. No worrying about it ending up at the chop shop for parts.
its sheer size will trump any SUV on the road today.
Damn right. The Microsoft car will be the size of a van for the "Mini" version. The later versions will be the size of a tractor and require the engine of a tractor. In fact it will be a tractor - just called a car because that is what Microsoft does. The sad thing is that the Microsoft "car" will be slower driving than walking, guzzle 3 gallons of gasoline per mile, catch fire frequently, explode once a month, be built entirely of plastic and plaster, and stop working for no fathomable reason.
The future version of the Microsoft "car" will be the size of a bus, be on fire all of the time, emit choking fumes, screech violently and constantly, and will require the driver to put it in "reverse" just to move forward. It will also cost $18 million dollars per "car" and Bill Gates will say, "All of your problems with our automobile are *user* problems not software & hardware issues." Then Microsoft will be AMAZED and AMUSED that the government ends up investigating them and Microsoft will act like asses in the courtroom and dance about saying, "If you hurt us the American economy will go into depression and Republicans will defend us, as all junkie whores defend the pimps that use & abuse them so long as they get their hourly cocaine dosages."
God forgive me being pedantic but there's no such thing as a turrent.
Oops. Sorry. I did misspell that word. Turret is the correct spelling (I've just always called it "turrent"). Thank you for correcting that.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever taken a class on nuclear energy? The "fact" that a tablespoon full of plutonium could kill every human on earth is the most blown out of proportion ridiculous fact ever. Consider this, uranium is a natural element. It exists everywhere, everywhere! Directly under you right now is uranium. Uranium and plutonium are both alpha particle emitters. Alpha particles cannot penetrate your skin, thus the only danger lies in inhaling them, and even this is a slight danger since you would have to inhale a large amount of it for it to have any chance of staying in your lungs and doing any damage. In order for a tablespoon of plutonium to kill everyone it would have to be inhaled and then each person would have a 1 in 30,000,000,000,000(maybe another set of zeros, not sure) chance that their particle of plutonium would cause cancer in them that they could eventually die from.
Hmmm... and here's a page on making your own nuclear bomb (for fun & recreation I suppose).
http://www.tetrica.com/tutorials/bomb1.html
A few precautions:
While uranium is not dangerously radioactive in the amounts you'll be handling, if you plan to make more than one bomb it might be wise to wear gloves and a lead apron, the kind you can buy in dental supply stores.
Plutonium is one of the most toxic substances known. If inhaled, a thousandth of a gram can cause massive fibrosis of the lungs, a painful way to go. Even a millionth of a gram in the lungs will cause cancer. If eaten plutonium is metabolized like calcium. It goes straight to the bones where it gives out alpha particles preventing bone marrow from manufacturing red blood cells. The best way to avoid inhaling plutonium is to hold your breath while handling it. If this is too difficult wear a mask. To avoid ingesting plutonium orally follow this simple rule: never make an A-bomb on an empty stomach. If you find yourself dozing off while you're working, or if you begin to glow in the dark, it might be wise to take a blood count. Prick your finger with a sterile pin, place a drop of blood on a microscope slide, cover it with a cover slip, and examine under a microscope. (Best results are obtained in the early morning.) When you get leukemia, immature cells are released into the bloodstream, and usually the number of white cells increases (though this increase might take almost 2 weeks). Red blood cells look kind of like donuts (without the hole), and are slightly smaller than the white cells, each of which has a nucleus. Immature red cells look similar to white cells (i.e.. slightly larger and have a nucleus). If you have more than about 1 white cell (including immature ones) to 400 red cells then start to worry. But, depending upon your plans for the eventual use of the bomb, a short life expectancy might not be a problem.
(Sure a teaspoon might not kill the world, just an area the size of Utah - depending on how the high-atmosphere winds disperse it).
You conveniently ignored the part with the laser turrets. Once people see others get vaporized by the dozens, they will quickly make the appropriate association.
Ah, but then the problem would be...
[ Laser turrent vaporizes people +
People get angry & blast laser turrents =
"What was buried here that was VALUABLE enough to defend with lethal force?" Then the mass excavation begins. ]
[ On the upside the Plutonium isotopes could power the turrents for a pretty long time ]
Want a better idea? Build something that nobody ever visits or would want to visit: A perpetually running slide show of the winners of the "least interesting vacation spots". Another choice would be to put a ambient-radiation powered subsonic nausea-inducing highly-redundant chain of emitters which kick on for a day then switch to another emitter for the next day. If any emitter fails then the other emitters change the routine so as to spread the wear and tear for a long time. Or they could each be sealed in highly rust-proof containers which open and begin emitting when the current emitter fails.
Heck, the best trick would be to seal the area over in our best and hardest materials. A primitive culture would never be able to penetrate it and a smart culture would know how to avoid or handle dangerous radiation. Leaving it a bare uninteresting patch of earth is for the best. If it kills any primitive culture that builds over it, then they still cannot dig it up to endanger other folks. It would be nice to protect cavemen or preindustrial cultures from our deadly radioactive waste, but any marker we left would just be left as a curiosity spot from the "ancients". It would be far better to just wrap it in lead, cover it with super-strong barrier materials, and then cover it with plain dirt.
I bet it's RF energy excited sustained plasma, ala the microwave plasma ball experiments on that microwave site.
Tried it. Then I figured out there was a metal ring in the base of the candle (for molding purposes to keep the wick upright) which was causing the plasma discharges. All other experiments with burning toothpicks failed. The candle test failed completely once the bottom area holding the metal ring was cut off.
I'm not so sure that blue LED lighting "can make a huge difference in the lives of villagers in rural areas where being connected to a power grid is not an option and probably never will be."
Uh, there is a windup flashlight that is powered by a spring and that runs a regular flashlight bulb. A quick GOOGLE for "windup flashlight" gives me a LED flashlight called the FREEPLAY. The other flashlights on that site cost $27 for a radio/flashlight +rechargeable battery +spring power. The solar-powered +rechargeable batteries bicycle light is $20.
http://windupradio.com/
But the Michelson-Morley experiment showed that there is no ether.
That's good. Ether puts me to sleep.
(Waits for comedic drumroll...)