If you hear a refutation of the new discoveries, be careful. Before coming into conclusions try to find if this is the product of a scientific discussion, how correctly people step up with their arguments, or if this is another mass-media show between Hoagland-alikes and Horowitz-clones.
Huh?
It is specious to compare "it might not be water" caution with the likes of Hoagland (alien ruins on the moon anyone?)
Since when has a conspiracy theory favoured the boring side of an argument?
of NASA's aqua-focussed spin on everything Mars related.
The Mars program's stated goal is the detection of water on Mars - therefore every possible shred of evidence for that conclusion is being reported, with no discussion at all of any alternative interpretations.
A couple of very interesting
opinionpieces at spacedaily.com recently sum up some alternative theories.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love it to be true. But there's a distinct water-mania in the current NASA press machine...
I had considered that for encryption, the same type of idea could be done to "encrypt" paper content, by taking a particular "pixel" and placing it in a different position on the page, apparently at random. Using the same "key", everything can be put back into place. Fairly simple concept.
You're too late, by about 20 years! Lenslok was developed in the 80's as a copy protection mechanism for early computer games, mostly on the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64.
A special lens was distributed with the software. When the game started, it displayed a seemingly random pattern on the screen. You hold the magical lens up to the screen to unscramble the code.
This was plagued with problems - most notably that because we all used TV sets as monitors, with different sized pixels and so on, it was sometimes near-impossible to correctly descramble the code.
Ah, those were the days!!
PS You can get a
Lenslok emulator for Windows - gotta love geek nostalgia!
I have a friend who works on a similar idea in the rteatment of schizophrenia and other hallucinatory mental illnesses.
They use VR and graphics technology to simulate the visual and auditory hallucinations that sometimes accompany these diseases.
NewScientist had a small
writeup
Last year here in Australia a couple of guys were jailed for exactly this.
They had been involved in a car accident with a well-known author, and offered not to give evidence (ie assist a criminal investigation) if he paid them hush money.
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It is specious to compare "it might not be water" caution with the likes of Hoagland (alien ruins on the moon anyone?)
Since when has a conspiracy theory favoured the boring side of an argument?
The Mars program's stated goal is the detection of water on Mars - therefore every possible shred of evidence for that conclusion is being reported, with no discussion at all of any alternative interpretations.
A couple of very interesting opinion pieces at spacedaily.com recently sum up some alternative theories.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love it to be true. But there's a distinct water-mania in the current NASA press machine...
You're too late, by about 20 years! Lenslok was developed in the 80's as a copy protection mechanism for early computer games, mostly on the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64.
A special lens was distributed with the software. When the game started, it displayed a seemingly random pattern on the screen. You hold the magical lens up to the screen to unscramble the code.
This was plagued with problems - most notably that because we all used TV sets as monitors, with different sized pixels and so on, it was sometimes near-impossible to correctly descramble the code.
Ah, those were the days!!
PS You can get a Lenslok emulator for Windows - gotta love geek nostalgia!
They use VR and graphics technology to simulate the visual and auditory hallucinations that sometimes accompany these diseases. NewScientist had a small writeup
They had been involved in a car accident with a well-known author, and offered not to give evidence (ie assist a criminal investigation) if he paid them hush money.
It's exactly the same thing here with the RIAA.
This, we call Haiku?
Algorithmic poetry:
Basho would loathe us
if banal haiku
is a linguistic challenge
retarded you are