While I am sure that this discussion could indefinitely continue to both humorously and with sincerity extol the virtue of rodents circling the planet at a high altitude while simultaneously rotating around their ship's axis. I think that the possibility exists that there is more to the article.
For instance, and perhaps old news, but the private funding and research of interplanetary travel; the Mars Society a notable example. To my understanding, the Society is not NASA run at all (?)
These people are seriously involved in creating a humanned trip to Mars, and not unlike open source, seek participation from skilled people to run a variety of research and experiments.
who doesn't use a slang term for things around their life? mine evolve constantly, and I really doubt that anyone from the outside would understand me communicating with my friends if we were really trying to hide things. This whole idea strikes me as completely worthless, but if it makes someone sleep better at night thinking that we are protected, I will not be the one to ruin the illusion.
I am wondering if the darn thing ain't still crawling around. I got to the office today and found a couple more in the mail box, not to mention these were from folks with whom I have never been in communication. (si habla espanole?) - so I wonder about the address book feature I seem to remember from last week?
Anyhow, the messages were the same, too attachments.
Yes I can tell we are all very intelligent people. There is really no sense in arguing one way or the other about global warming. Yes the Earth is a closed system, mostly. All the stuff on this planet has been shlepping around for a very long time and we have done little other than to concentrate, recombine and dissociate things. In the longest of scales, this really doesn't matter.
Add to this the complex patterns that make up our long term weather changes. Natural phenomena, varying eccentricities in our orbit over 100,00s of years, even a wobbling on our axis and changing our angle to the sun all make an impact on our long term weather patterns.
I am somewhat put out though by the lack of environmental concern expressed by many of the postings here. Really, I too plan on dying long before much of any change occurs on grand scale. But I am not so brash as to think that our development of non-naturally occurring substances are very good for my body, or the other living things on the planet. They impede my immune system and other bodily functions, and I don't even have much choice about them sometimes. I can choose what I eat, but not the air I breathe or the water I drink that the idiot above wants to pour motor oil into.
I can't really think of much reason why we should want to do anything about this though. This civilization has developed into one that really doesn't need natural diversity in our daily lives. Generally, our choices of meat and produce are a fairly limited list compared to what is out there. I mean, who eats penguins? (no not the ones in the tin;) )
So, I invite you to consider the impact that we do make. We backfill wetlands, destroy natural areas for new development while, at least here in Detroit, other brown fields lie vacant or abandoned. We throw all sort of crap in our lakes so we can't swim in them, pull a lot of water out of deep confined aquifers (research subsiding to learn more), and reduce a once chaotic landscape to simple geometry.
I don't want to come of as a rabid environmentalist. Honestly, these decisions lie with us the masses. What we choose as public policy will be the way things go. I am all right with this. But for anyone who claims not to appreciate diversity, try eating the exact same thing for every meal!
I don't know about you, but I'm amused by the 5 second delay in translation offered by the wearable. It would be like living in one of those poorly dubbed movies;)
True, a good idea. You'd f/mod the stereo signals properly phased on a carrier, then appropriately decode them on replay.
As for quad, thats the way I think it worked too. I believe the quad signals were cut into the bottom of the track in an inaudible frequency. The only way to get to them was with a special quad stylus which has to be aligned just so, or people would be tearing the grooves out (probably did) This made the records playable by a standard elliptical stylus or the like.
anybody know the quad matrix?
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While I am sure that this discussion could indefinitely continue to both humorously and with sincerity extol the virtue of rodents circling the planet at a high altitude while simultaneously rotating around their ship's axis. I think that the possibility exists that there is more to the article.
For instance, and perhaps old news, but the private funding and research of interplanetary travel; the Mars Society a notable example. To my understanding, the Society is not NASA run at all (?)
These people are seriously involved in creating a humanned trip to Mars, and not unlike open source, seek participation from skilled people to run a variety of research and experiments.
---ah, what the hell . . .
"PPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSSS
IIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
SSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEEE !!!!!!!"
Really though, all I can think of is:
"Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive"
who doesn't use a slang term for things around their life? mine evolve constantly, and I really doubt that anyone from the outside would understand me communicating with my friends if we were really trying to hide things. This whole idea strikes me as completely worthless, but if it makes someone sleep better at night thinking that we are protected, I will not be the one to ruin the illusion.
"abracadabra, b, abracadabra!"
Oh yes, my friend, grundigs are great. I imagine you are refering to a solid state model. You should hear their classic vacuum tube radios.
:| ---
they tune in like ten, clean amplification and offered exceptional AM reception too, with directional ferrite.
--Not to mention many (all?) had electrostats for the highs, good eqs and tuning eye tubes
---oh wait, this isn't the vintage radio discussion
00000pppss, my bad :|
Thank you both. And yes, takem to the street, we should throw a parade too!
I am wondering if the darn thing ain't still crawling around. I got to the office today and found a couple more in the mail box, not to mention these were from folks with whom I have never been in communication. (si habla espanole?) - so I wonder about the address book feature I seem to remember from last week? Anyhow, the messages were the same, too attachments.
Yes I can tell we are all very intelligent people. There is really no sense in arguing one way or the other about global warming. Yes the Earth is a closed system, mostly. All the stuff on this planet has been shlepping around for a very long time and we have done little other than to concentrate, recombine and dissociate things. In the longest of scales, this really doesn't matter.
;) )
Add to this the complex patterns that make up our long term weather changes. Natural phenomena, varying eccentricities in our orbit over 100,00s of years, even a wobbling on our axis and changing our angle to the sun all make an impact on our long term weather patterns.
I am somewhat put out though by the lack of environmental concern expressed by many of the postings here. Really, I too plan on dying long before much of any change occurs on grand scale. But I am not so brash as to think that our development of non-naturally occurring substances are very good for my body, or the other living things on the planet. They impede my immune system and other bodily functions, and I don't even have much choice about them sometimes. I can choose what I eat, but not the air I breathe or the water I drink that the idiot above wants to pour motor oil into.
I can't really think of much reason why we should want to do anything about this though. This civilization has developed into one that really doesn't need natural diversity in our daily lives. Generally, our choices of meat and produce are a fairly limited list compared to what is out there. I mean, who eats penguins? (no not the ones in the tin
So, I invite you to consider the impact that we do make. We backfill wetlands, destroy natural areas for new development while, at least here in Detroit, other brown fields lie vacant or abandoned. We throw all sort of crap in our lakes so we can't swim in them, pull a lot of water out of deep confined aquifers (research subsiding to learn more), and reduce a once chaotic landscape to simple geometry.
I don't want to come of as a rabid environmentalist. Honestly, these decisions lie with us the masses. What we choose as public policy will be the way things go. I am all right with this. But for anyone who claims not to appreciate diversity, try eating the exact same thing for every meal!
I don't know about you, but I'm amused by the 5 second delay in translation offered by the wearable. It would be like living in one of those poorly dubbed movies ;)
True, a good idea. You'd f/mod the stereo signals properly phased on a carrier, then appropriately decode them on replay. As for quad, thats the way I think it worked too. I believe the quad signals were cut into the bottom of the track in an inaudible frequency. The only way to get to them was with a special quad stylus which has to be aligned just so, or people would be tearing the grooves out (probably did) This made the records playable by a standard elliptical stylus or the like. anybody know the quad matrix?