Is this just a joystick, or am I missing something? I skimmed the claims, but they're a bit hard to follow because the figures are missing (seems to be a USPTO link problem).
About this blasted hole, I keep reading stuff like:
"Hubble Space Telescope observations have shown that at its heart is a black hole, containing the mass of about three billion stars compressed into a region approximately the size of our Solar system." (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=6427 )
size of our solar system? we could use the mean distance of Pluto to the Sun: 5 913 520 000 km ~ 6e9 km
size of a star? the Sun is supposed to be just below average, let's just use its size. radius : (695 000 km)/2 ~ 3.5e5
volume of the Sun: 1.8e17 km3
volume of the solar system: 9e38 km3
you can fit 5e12 (5000 billion) of our Suns into one of our solar systems.
The mass of three billion stars 'compressed' into the volume of our solar system would hardly reach black hole densities.
I cannot quite grasp how such a device can produce so much more energy than is needed to pump the water to the top. I only spent one hungover minute thinking about it and my fluid dynamics are rusty.
My mother gave all of mine away without even asking me!
Fischer Technik is a delightful system. It is not as twistedly versatile as Mecanno, where you can fold and bend pieces in very satisfying ways. It had this very precise feel: things just clicked smoothly if you got them right.
I've always seen Mecanno as mad tinkerer's stuff, and Fischer Technik as the real mechanical engineer's structural toolkit. They can both really open your mind to a lot of things. So can Lego, of course. So can nice building blocks (Cuisenaire Jumbo rods, I had fun with those until I was fifteen).
I have tried and tried to find Fischer Technik in Paris, France. Nobody has been selling it for years. Some stores told me they were handling their own distribution now.
The use of Zeitgeist (I am guessing that is the word you are referring to) goes back at least to English-language translations of Heidegger. Philosophers never could quite agree on a word or phrase that captured the weird sense of nostalgia for the present that seemed to emanate from that word. Spirit of the times just doesn't work. Maybe it's the much stronger association with soul-ghost-death in the German that does the trick.
There are many somberly connotated German words or phrases in the philosophical/psychoanalytical jargons. Blame Nietzsche, Wagner, and Freud.
That's what really made me smile (blew me away) in the press release: the first tangible (nameable) asset they list is their fairly recent acquisition Slashdot - followed closely by their even more recent acquisition Freshmeat.
Is it just me or was Andover rather uninteresting (completely unsexy) before those two sweet buys?
I've been to their site twice - after each of the aforementioned buyouts. Saw some interesting stuff there, but nothing that made me want to come back.
The brain cells the monkeys had lost (and the article made it sound like the pattern mapped to the human case) and the gene therapy restored were involved in regulatory activities.
So perhaps they had very little part in housing the memories themselves. They may have been involved more in flow control (various types of bus control?). Any neurologists out there?
But anyway, this (i.e. genes inserted into our DNA, as the article didn't quite describe it but I assume was the operative mode) is fascinating stuff, much more likely to have an enormous impact on our lives (and the future of our species) than nanotech, fusion energy, or IPv6.
Organizational chaos and a clever, ethically-minded Micros~1 employee.
I've looked at a few Micros~1 products in my day, but I haven't found any without the symbols stripped. Anybody else know what their record is for this kind of oversight?
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This is my favorite:
Number 115 on their list is a Method and apparatus for interfacing an elongated object with a computer system.
Is this just a joystick, or am I missing something? I skimmed the claims, but they're a bit hard to follow because the figures are missing (seems to be a USPTO link problem).
I believe this is a hoax or a mistake for all the reasons given by others.
However, I also believe that the laws of thermodynamics may well not hold in their conventional formulation under certain extreme circumstances.
Unfortunately, to my knowledge we still don't know how to create a new universe to harness the energy produced in a Big Bang-type event.
volume of our solar system 2e29 km3, sorry.
e m/\$sun;print \"system=\$system, sun=\$sun, ratio=\$ratio\\n\";"
But the ratio is correct (I copied the wrong line).
Here's my calculation (I left out factors that would cancel each other out):
perl -e "\$system=(6e9)**3;\$sun=(35e4)**3;\$ratio=\$syst
About this blasted hole, I keep reading stuff like:7 )
"Hubble Space Telescope observations have shown that at its heart is a black hole, containing the mass of about three billion stars compressed into a region approximately the size of our Solar system." (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=642
size of our solar system? we could use the mean distance of Pluto to the Sun: 5 913 520 000 km ~ 6e9 km
size of a star? the Sun is supposed to be just below average, let's just use its size. radius : (695 000 km)/2 ~ 3.5e5
volume of the Sun: 1.8e17 km3
volume of the solar system: 9e38 km3
you can fit 5e12 (5000 billion) of our Suns into one of our solar systems.
The mass of three billion stars 'compressed' into the volume of our solar system would hardly reach black hole densities.
What did they really mean?
I cannot quite grasp how such a device can produce so much more energy than is needed to pump the water to the top. I only spent one hungover minute thinking about it and my fluid dynamics are rusty.
Mecanno is French! So you can be certain Sir Kroto was not biased in its favor.
Fischer Technik is a delightful system. It is not as twistedly versatile as Mecanno, where you can fold and bend pieces in very satisfying ways. It had this very precise feel: things just clicked smoothly if you got them right.
I've always seen Mecanno as mad tinkerer's stuff, and Fischer Technik as the real mechanical engineer's structural toolkit. They can both really open your mind to a lot of things. So can Lego, of course. So can nice building blocks (Cuisenaire Jumbo rods, I had fun with those until I was fifteen).
I have tried and tried to find Fischer Technik in Paris, France. Nobody has been selling it for years. Some stores told me they were handling their own distribution now.
The use of Zeitgeist (I am guessing that is the word you are referring to) goes back at least to English-language translations of Heidegger. Philosophers never could quite agree on a word or phrase that captured the weird sense of nostalgia for the present that seemed to emanate from that word. Spirit of the times just doesn't work. Maybe it's the much stronger association with soul-ghost-death in the German that does the trick.
There are many somberly connotated German words or phrases in the philosophical/psychoanalytical jargons. Blame Nietzsche, Wagner, and Freud.
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That's what really made me smile (blew me away) in the press release: the first tangible (nameable) asset they list is their fairly recent acquisition Slashdot - followed closely by their even more recent acquisition Freshmeat.
Is it just me or was Andover rather uninteresting (completely unsexy) before those two sweet buys?
I've been to their site twice - after each of the aforementioned buyouts. Saw some interesting stuff there, but nothing that made me want to come back.
The brain cells the monkeys had lost (and the article made it sound like the pattern mapped to the human case) and the gene therapy restored were involved in regulatory activities.
So perhaps they had very little part in housing the memories themselves. They may have been involved more in flow control (various types of bus control?). Any neurologists out there?
But anyway, this (i.e. genes inserted into our DNA, as the article didn't quite describe it but I assume was the operative mode) is fascinating stuff, much more likely to have an enormous impact on our lives (and the future of our species) than nanotech, fusion energy, or IPv6.
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Organizational chaos and a clever, ethically-minded Micros~1 employee.
I've looked at a few Micros~1 products in my day, but I haven't found any without the symbols stripped. Anybody else know what their record is for this kind of oversight?
Actually, the Altair had audio built-in.
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