hell yes - it disturbs me sometimes to see arrogant comments modded up when the thoughtful ones like this (and some others in this thread) are at zero - must be either because the moderators only stick around for five minutes after an article is posted or they simply like controversy.
If you ask me, this was some bitchin' shit - took my breath away, and yeah, the first thing I thought of was what an artist could do with this filtermaking technique...
I can't believe that no one has brought up this book, or the theory in it.
It is the most scientifically plausible, and certainly most interesting theory on the construction of the pyramids, and the author, who is geophysicist (not an egyptologist), goes through almost every one of the "mysteries" of the pyramids and puts forth a theory that takes care of all of the ones that don't have a bunch of supernatural hooplah associated with them.
The idea, as I recall, is that the pyramid blocks were actually poured into place, like concrete, but using a technique for liquifying and reconstituting stone that has only been rediscovered by modern science in the last fifty years. It explains how the pyramids were built so impossibly fast, why the stones fit together so tightly, why radar and sonic images within the pyramids don't tend to penetrate as far into the stone as they should (because the stone is still moist, which makes it more resistant to vibration than ordinary limestone), why there is water damage to the sphinx (which is below the great pyramids, so all the water used in construction would have flowed down around it)... and some other things I can't remember.
He even talks about how the technology was used to construct drinking vessels with necks so thing that tools couldn't even fit down inside them - they were poured stone.
I'm not trying to be kooky here - it is book that escapes all the new-agey bullshit and has a (from what I know about stone science) relatively hard scientific theory, with tons of support.
I'm just surprised that more people on here don't know about it, or that no one mentioned it... I suppose this story was about obelisks and not pyramids... OT, c'est la vie...
I understood the article, and I'm a filmmaker. If this stuff needs to be made so patronizingly simple, I suppose that "nerd" doesn't imply much beyond someone who likes star trek (but doesn't understand cosmology) and who plays video games (but can't necessarily code them). What is this, USA today?
I guess I just think it's odd that someone can get a plus 5 for regurgitating completely obvious information, with no take on it at all.
Now maybe if you'd thrown in some colored bar graphs with neutrino icons, you'd be on your way toward a serious journalistic career in this country...
Angelina's boobs don't jiggle that much - they're in a padded bra... lara croft can continue to be better than the real thing...
insert bitch about sexism and objectification of women here-
If you increase efficiency of the lines, more power will get to the customers.
In the article they say that 30,000 megawatts are lost due to line sag. Though I'm sure that such losses can never be completely negated, they can be minimized. Yes, california needs more generating capacity, but that doesn't mean it won't help to waste less of that energy in transmission.
as I reread your comment, I'm not even sure you read the article...
actually, usually if you dislike a commercial, it's because you're not in the target market...
Yes, yes, we all dislike all commercials, but really, that's what they shoot for... ever notice that the commmercials you think are really dumb are the ones that are advertising something you wouldn't buy anyway?
Okay, so plenty of people in the world don't get to see an episode until months later, what do they care whether it's posted to the internet one day before the episode airs in the US?
This post has *very* little to do with the implications brought up by the article; if shows are posted after the US air-date, they'll still be 6 or so months ahead of the European air dates, and no one needs a satellite to do that.
The article says that the people w/ the satellites aren't the problem - it's the stuff that's posted to the internet... and to people who are trying to bypass months-long lag times, a day doesn't really matter... seems like this is post is offtopic, at best.....
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please... law enforcement officers have relied upon the populace's ignorance of the laws to get convictions for decades (probably centuries). Don't be expecting them to abide by the "rules" if you don't know them.
I was pulled over when I was 18 for doing *absolutely nothing illegal* - it happened to be late, and someone had been stealing cars in the area recently. I ended up (stupidly) admitting that I had some weed on me (though I wasn't stoned).
Let me tell you, the cops pushed my ignorance of the law as far as they could (I'm sure *they* knew that what they were doing wasn't legal), and they ended up nailing me, so I guess they could say it was all justified.
The solution is to educate yourself and to fight policies like this one that allow the government "privileges" into examining your private life.
That's interesting... I too always have rooted for a universe that collapsed. It seems more cyclical that way, more tidy.
and on the subject of manifest destiny, or directional progress, perhaps you've read The Reflexive Universe by the guy who invented the bell helicopter. If not, it's a very interesting book, well worth the read (even if a lot of the quantum mechanics are well out of date).
If the latest is true, I guess we'll just have to rely on the last question
Y'know, on that note, I'm surprise I haven't read a comment yet (though I've only read about 80% of them) on the simple fact of copycat suicides and killings.
It's statistical fact (that's a generally oxymoronic term, I know, but the statistics on this effect are as conclusive as statistics can be), that widely publicized suicides of a certain type increase after someone starts a trend. It's just like naming trends, where a film character's name will spawn an entire generation of people naming their kids with similiar names. It seems to be at least worth paying attention to, if not entirely obvious, that we're in a similiar situation with suburban school killings. For whatever reason, there is a weirdly implicit suggestion that, if you're depressed, you can do something about it by getting back in a really big way, one that will give you a lot of attention. Why die suffering in misery when you can make the news, in other words?
the suggestion is out there... what do we do about it? I don't pretend to know (though pulling the cable from your tv is a good start IMHO)
P.S. I don't have any online resources to support my "statistical facts", but I've read of this effect in many books (for instance, "The Tipping Point," which is a fascinating look at points of inflection across science, nature, sociology, and economics)
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hell yes - it disturbs me sometimes to see arrogant comments modded up when the thoughtful ones like this (and some others in this thread) are at zero - must be either because the moderators only stick around for five minutes after an article is posted or they simply like controversy.
If you ask me, this was some bitchin' shit - took my breath away, and yeah, the first thing I thought of was what an artist could do with this filtermaking technique...
hell yes, I would dload that
more recently, they put shitty components in overpriced computers.
I can't believe that no one has brought up this book, or the theory in it.
It is the most scientifically plausible, and certainly most interesting theory on the construction of the pyramids, and the author, who is geophysicist (not an egyptologist), goes through almost every one of the "mysteries" of the pyramids and puts forth a theory that takes care of all of the ones that don't have a bunch of supernatural hooplah associated with them.
The idea, as I recall, is that the pyramid blocks were actually poured into place, like concrete, but using a technique for liquifying and reconstituting stone that has only been rediscovered by modern science in the last fifty years. It explains how the pyramids were built so impossibly fast, why the stones fit together so tightly, why radar and sonic images within the pyramids don't tend to penetrate as far into the stone as they should (because the stone is still moist, which makes it more resistant to vibration than ordinary limestone), why there is water damage to the sphinx (which is below the great pyramids, so all the water used in construction would have flowed down around it)... and some other things I can't remember.
He even talks about how the technology was used to construct drinking vessels with necks so thing that tools couldn't even fit down inside them - they were poured stone.
I'm not trying to be kooky here - it is book that escapes all the new-agey bullshit and has a (from what I know about stone science) relatively hard scientific theory, with tons of support.
I'm just surprised that more people on here don't know about it, or that no one mentioned it... I suppose this story was about obelisks and not pyramids... OT, c'est la vie...
hell yeah - I wish I had some mod points right now...
good response... thanks, I appreciate that...
I understood the article, and I'm a filmmaker. If this stuff needs to be made so patronizingly simple, I suppose that "nerd" doesn't imply much beyond someone who likes star trek (but doesn't understand cosmology) and who plays video games (but can't necessarily code them). What is this, USA today?
I guess I just think it's odd that someone can get a plus 5 for regurgitating completely obvious information, with no take on it at all.
Now maybe if you'd thrown in some colored bar graphs with neutrino icons, you'd be on your way toward a serious journalistic career in this country...
heheh - I was wondering if that was a translation error from a foreign language...
Angelina's boobs don't jiggle that much - they're in a padded bra... lara croft can continue to be better than the real thing... insert bitch about sexism and objectification of women here-
It's okay, he's with me.
gps?
why not use fairtunes?
If you increase efficiency of the lines, more power will get to the customers.
In the article they say that 30,000 megawatts are lost due to line sag. Though I'm sure that such losses can never be completely negated, they can be minimized. Yes, california needs more generating capacity, but that doesn't mean it won't help to waste less of that energy in transmission.
as I reread your comment, I'm not even sure you read the article...
...you jump off a cliff while wearing the magnets, what happens?
Would you believe these claims if someone else made them?
It is intelligent, if flaming.
BTW, I'm beginning to think I'm lost; is this still the site of, "Stuff that Matters"
actually, usually if you dislike a commercial, it's because you're not in the target market...
Yes, yes, we all dislike all commercials, but really, that's what they shoot for... ever notice that the commmercials you think are really dumb are the ones that are advertising something you wouldn't buy anyway?
hey knucklehead... did you *read* to the end of the article to see what childish and 'fluffy' predictions this guy made 20 years ago?
Why can't someone try to think about the future in a constructive way?
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Okay, so plenty of people in the world don't get to see an episode until months later, what do they care whether it's posted to the internet one day before the episode airs in the US?
This post has *very* little to do with the implications brought up by the article; if shows are posted after the US air-date, they'll still be 6 or so months ahead of the European air dates, and no one needs a satellite to do that.
The article says that the people w/ the satellites aren't the problem - it's the stuff that's posted to the internet... and to people who are trying to bypass months-long lag times, a day doesn't really matter... seems like this is post is offtopic, at best.....
ummm... air currents.
I thought about that for about 2 seconds.
please... law enforcement officers have relied upon the populace's ignorance of the laws to get convictions for decades (probably centuries). Don't be expecting them to abide by the "rules" if you don't know them.
I was pulled over when I was 18 for doing *absolutely nothing illegal* - it happened to be late, and someone had been stealing cars in the area recently. I ended up (stupidly) admitting that I had some weed on me (though I wasn't stoned).
Let me tell you, the cops pushed my ignorance of the law as far as they could (I'm sure *they* knew that what they were doing wasn't legal), and they ended up nailing me, so I guess they could say it was all justified.
The solution is to educate yourself and to fight policies like this one that allow the government "privileges" into examining your private life.
That's interesting... I too always have rooted for a universe that collapsed. It seems more cyclical that way, more tidy.
and on the subject of manifest destiny, or directional progress, perhaps you've read The Reflexive Universe by the guy who invented the bell helicopter. If not, it's a very interesting book, well worth the read (even if a lot of the quantum mechanics are well out of date).
If the latest is true, I guess we'll just have to rely on the last question
yeah, when are they going to rerelease a new remastered version on 70mm? I've been waiting for years to see a decent print.
Did the fact that american audiences didn't like "eyes wide shut" kill that possibility?
Y'know, on that note, I'm surprise I haven't read a comment yet (though I've only read about 80% of them) on the simple fact of copycat suicides and killings.
It's statistical fact (that's a generally oxymoronic term, I know, but the statistics on this effect are as conclusive as statistics can be), that widely publicized suicides of a certain type increase after someone starts a trend. It's just like naming trends, where a film character's name will spawn an entire generation of people naming their kids with similiar names. It seems to be at least worth paying attention to, if not entirely obvious, that we're in a similiar situation with suburban school killings. For whatever reason, there is a weirdly implicit suggestion that, if you're depressed, you can do something about it by getting back in a really big way, one that will give you a lot of attention. Why die suffering in misery when you can make the news, in other words?
the suggestion is out there... what do we do about it? I don't pretend to know (though pulling the cable from your tv is a good start IMHO)
P.S. I don't have any online resources to support my "statistical facts", but I've read of this effect in many books (for instance, "The Tipping Point," which is a fascinating look at points of inflection across science, nature, sociology, and economics)