there is no evidence that any human has ever been killed by anything falling from outerspace. what may happen over the course of millions of years does not impact humans! as i said less than a million years from now whatever life is on this planet will not he humans. it may be our ancestors or not! about 5 billion years from now when the sun goes through its red giant phase the earth will be "eaten" of course long before then life may be extinct here anyway. i just think it important to worry about what is killing things today and in the not too distant future(less than 10,000 years or so?)
let us end with a quote... "we shall not cease from exploration. and the end of all our exploring. will be to return to the place we started and know it for the first time" ts elliot
about 20 years ago i read a blurb in the newspaper where this man slipped on his front poarch and fell into his rosebush and somehow a branch went into his throat and he choaked to death. a very unusual occurence to say the least. but i think this is more likely(no i did not crunch the numbers) than someone or vast numbers being killed by outerspace junk crashing to earth and causing wide spread destruction. i think we should spend our resourses on things like aides in africa. dealing with lost nuclear weapons or stupid politicians going to war and invading sovereign nations wasting billions of dollars and causing vast destruction for some asinine reason that no one understands. it seems to me when 5000 kids die everyday from diarrhea for lack of clean water and a couple of dollars worth of antibiotics then should we really spend a lot of resources on a possible cataclysm from space? let us face it--a million years from now the human race will be extinct--whether any life in existence then is our ancestors or not doesn't concern me very much. let us pass this ecosphere onto our children in better shape than we inherited it from our partents and let chicken little worry about the sky falling!
yes liquid nitrogen is great for freezing things, bananas, rose petals. warts, small furry animals(THIS IS A JOKE!) as an undergrad i was an assistant in the chemistry lab and was able to do a vast amount of "experimenting" with liquid nitrogen and sometimes with liquid He(you can freeze soap bulbes with it!) although it is somewhat expensive. of course sometimes the chemistry professor would ask about our monthly liquid nitrogen expenses and would explain at 77K it evaporates very quickly(;>>). after spending about nine years in college(better than working for a living) i paid a visit to my old chem professor and he mentioned to his then lab assistant that i was one of his best students but not to let me anywhere near his liquid nitrogen. i guess i was not a very good liar or a thief.
i don't know they had me going till i did a google search on "whitespace" and "newcode". of course i also have been convinced that this "war with iraq" thing is also an april fools joke but that bush got the date wrong(;>). of course i have also been waiting for the vote counters in florida to come forward and say "april fools'" bush really did lose the election!! yes i don't believe we are in kansas anymore either!
yes we have "smart" bombs and dumb politicians. we can spend trillions on "defence" but no universal health care. we can also spend billions on a complicated and ineffective "missle sheild" and spend 100s of millions on homeland defence while curtailing personal freedoms with something called the "patriot act". i think the land of the free is really land of the confused and home of the lobyist! back in the 60's i espoused the phrase "american love it or leave it." but it seems as i have gotten older and wiser i find it more appropriate to say "american change it or loose it!"
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there is no evidence that any human has ever been killed by anything falling from outerspace. what may happen over the course of millions of years does not impact humans! as i said less than a million years from now whatever life is on this planet will not he humans. it may be our ancestors or not! about 5 billion years from now when the sun goes through its red giant phase the earth will be "eaten" of course long before then life may be extinct here anyway. i just think it important to worry about what is killing things today and in the not too distant future(less than 10,000 years or so?)
let us end with a quote...
"we shall not cease from exploration.
and the end of all our exploring.
will be to return to the place we started
and know it for the first time"
ts elliot
about 20 years ago i read a blurb in the newspaper where this man slipped on his front poarch and fell into his rosebush and somehow a branch went into his throat and he choaked to death. a very unusual occurence to say the least. but i think this is more likely(no i did not crunch the numbers) than someone or vast numbers being killed by outerspace junk crashing to earth and causing wide spread destruction. i think we should spend our resourses on things like aides in africa. dealing with lost nuclear weapons or stupid politicians going to war and invading sovereign nations wasting billions of dollars and causing vast destruction for some asinine reason that no one understands. it seems to me when 5000 kids die everyday from diarrhea for lack of clean water and a couple of dollars worth of antibiotics then should we really spend a lot of resources on a possible cataclysm from space? let us face it--a million years from now the human race will be extinct--whether any life in existence then is our ancestors or not doesn't concern me very much. let us pass this ecosphere onto our children in better shape than we inherited it from our partents and let chicken little worry about the sky falling!
yes liquid nitrogen is great for freezing things, bananas, rose petals. warts, small furry animals(THIS IS A JOKE!) as an undergrad i was an assistant in the chemistry lab and was able to do a vast amount of "experimenting" with liquid nitrogen and sometimes with liquid He(you can freeze soap bulbes with it!) although it is somewhat expensive. of course sometimes the chemistry professor would ask about our monthly liquid nitrogen expenses and would explain at 77K it evaporates very quickly(;>>).
after spending about nine years in college(better than working for a living) i paid a visit to my old chem professor and he mentioned to his then lab assistant that i was one of his best students but not to let me anywhere near his liquid nitrogen. i guess i was not a very good liar or a thief.
flowerbear
flowerbear@phreaker.net
this is obviousely a trap by the NSA or GCHQ or perhaps even.....the INGUISITION!!!
be afraid be very afraid!!!
i don't know they had me going till i did a google search on "whitespace" and "newcode". of course i also have been convinced that this "war with iraq" thing is also an april fools joke but that bush got the date wrong(;>). of course i have also been waiting for the vote counters in florida to come forward and say "april fools'" bush really did lose the election!! yes i don't believe we are in kansas anymore either!
yes we have "smart" bombs and dumb politicians. we can spend trillions on "defence" but no universal health care. we can also spend billions on a complicated and ineffective "missle sheild" and spend 100s of millions on homeland defence while curtailing
personal freedoms with something called the "patriot act". i think the land of the free is really land of the confused and home of the lobyist! back in the 60's i espoused the phrase "american love it or leave it." but it seems as i have gotten older and wiser i find it more appropriate to say "american change it or loose it!"
but what is pornography?
pornography is in the groin of the beholder.
of course myrealbox.com is no longer accepting new accounts.
extreme programming involves card readers and a cdc 7700.
richard
ps forth never went away--just ask UPS (united parcel)