From the article: The piston will gradually stop the pendulum over 20 swings or so, avoiding any sudden forces. Then, 11 hours later, when it will be 1 pm British Summer Time, the piston will gently set it ticking again
So if lightning strikes the clock at 8:00 am, it will be stopped at 1:00, and no one will be able get their time machine back to the future...
From what I understand, the bullet itself doesn't directly kill you. It just causes a hole to appear in any number of organs so bad that you can bleed to death.
Not only do they post boring crap no one cares about, but they have to make sure that only like 3 people will be able to know what boring crap theye're talking about...
But just in case there is anyone reading this who does believe it was all a fake, you should read this site. It adresses every argument I have ever heard for the hoax "theory" and bings up an interesting point. How else can you explain that anyone with a big enough laser can bounce it off the mirror the astronauts put up there?
I use xp because it is my gaming platform. Win2k directx support sucks, winxp's doesn't. Aside from that and a prettier gui, there isn't really muche difference between the two.
On a similar note, my high school computer science teacher was equally retarted. Her previous "job in the industry" was a content provider for the old AOL bbs, and her knolege has not advanced beyond that point. I frequently lost credit for doing assignments 2 or 3 weeks before they were assigned instead of listening to the lecture where she explained how to write the program I had written 2 or 3 weeks ago.
So when I added a couple lines of javascript to the school's site to display embarassing (read: photoshoped) pictures of her and the principal the day after graduation, she had to have a student fix it. Teaches a web design class, can't find a two-line javascript statement. Oh, and she still suspects the student (a Junior at the time) because they were able to find and fix the problem...
Not exactly...
If I rember right, it was one of his "wonder materials", some sort of high-density plastic foam that expanded from storage in the nose of the plane to absorb the impact.
I would trust a database such as this, if it was truly anonomous and only released names when there is really a genuine cause for alarm. (i.e. John Doe buys 20 gallons of kerosine, 100 lb. of fertilizer, and rents a truck...) Assuming the government is trustworthy (and I'm not sure, there) the system would be used only to alert authorities to potential terrorist activity.
Of course such a system would have to be connected to the rest of the world through some medium, to be able to collect data, and if it's on a large network, it can and will be cracked. So perhaps it's not such a good idea after all...
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Having worked at a McDonalds, I believe it...
The last article was from the "try-it-again department."
...They certainly did
make that 3...
From the article:
The piston will gradually stop the pendulum over 20 swings or so, avoiding any sudden forces. Then, 11 hours later, when it will be 1 pm British Summer Time, the piston will gently set it ticking again
So if lightning strikes the clock at 8:00 am, it will be stopped at 1:00, and no one will be able get their time machine back to the future...
the parent, that is, not my request for moderation...
SOMEONE MOD THIS UP!
From what I understand, the bullet itself doesn't directly kill you. It just causes a hole to appear in any number of organs so bad that you can bleed to death.
It's already been done... check out mmd3
same here...not that I actually find it usefull..
The numbers come out quite nicely for 1 in. stacks of IBM 90-column punch-cards per square fathom...there are 1,234 of them.
there is evidence that the rate of speciation is actually much higher than we might think...
You must do something about your terrible sense of humor!
...is filing for a patent on the use of ones and zeros to represent data.
there si a google toolbar for mozilla. The newer versions work great.
Not to mention the Geocities link...
Not only do they post boring crap no one cares about, but they have to make sure that only like 3 people will be able to know what boring crap theye're talking about...
But just in case there is anyone reading this who does believe it was all a fake, you should read this site. It adresses every argument I have ever heard for the hoax "theory" and bings up an interesting point. How else can you explain that anyone with a big enough laser can bounce it off the mirror the astronauts put up there?
The angular momentum would make changing direction a bitch, but then I'm sure there's a claever engineering solution...
me too...
what we need to do next is do away with the hour, minute, etc. As in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky.
I use xp because it is my gaming platform. Win2k directx support sucks, winxp's doesn't. Aside from that and a prettier gui, there isn't really muche difference between the two.
On a similar note, my high school computer science teacher was equally retarted. Her previous "job in the industry" was a content provider for the old AOL bbs, and her knolege has not advanced beyond that point. I frequently lost credit for doing assignments 2 or 3 weeks before they were assigned instead of listening to the lecture where she explained how to write the program I had written 2 or 3 weeks ago.
So when I added a couple lines of javascript to the school's site to display embarassing (read: photoshoped) pictures of her and the principal the day after graduation, she had to have a student fix it. Teaches a web design class, can't find a two-line javascript statement. Oh, and she still suspects the student (a Junior at the time) because they were able to find and fix the problem...
Try looking in thinkgeek's poster section. particularly interesting is the linux kernal map.
Not exactly...
If I rember right, it was one of his "wonder materials", some sort of high-density plastic foam that expanded from storage in the nose of the plane to absorb the impact.
There are a few simple ways around the "grey goo" problem:
1) Put a cap on how many copies of itself a bot can make.
2) Add some sort of mechanism to the bots to only allow duplication when there are less than some number of bots in the surrounding area.
3) Only allow bots to reproduce when told to do so by Humans.
4) provide som sort of "master kill signal" (i.e. a specific radio frequency) that will cause all bots reciving it to cease functioning.
5) Any of several other ideas I didn't just think of in the past 2 min.
And how do we know the goo would be grey, anyway?
I would trust a database such as this, if it was truly anonomous and only released names when there is really a genuine cause for alarm. (i.e. John Doe buys 20 gallons of kerosine, 100 lb. of fertilizer, and rents a truck...) Assuming the government is trustworthy (and I'm not sure, there) the system would be used only to alert authorities to potential terrorist activity.
Of course such a system would have to be connected to the rest of the world through some medium, to be able to collect data, and if it's on a large network, it can and will be cracked. So perhaps it's not such a good idea after all...