We know that the distribution of galaxies is in thin sheets surrounding large voids.
Now, how do we get the voids? Intelligence capable of creating a breakdown in fundamental physical constants must arise, if only rarely and randomly distributed across the universe; say once per million galaxies per billion years.
What happens when they build a device capable of varying some of the physical constants that create the universe as we know it?
Perhaps a new large empty void in the universe?
How would the universe look, if that's been happening? Like this?
Is this going to use all that dark fiber optic cable that was put in place just before the dot bomb happened?
Let's see, break the cables out from the telephone switch box and then dial up the other side of the planet?
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The heat has to be filtered before the light is concentrated -- or the glass fiber would melt at the focus.
One way -- long used for microscope illuminators -- is a thin sheet of material at an angle in the light path that reflects (rejects, loses) the infrared, and passes the visible wavelengths.
The picture from the current article shows a thin flexible glass fiber bundle glowing brightly (presumably they'd wrap it in something reflective? Or maybe it's not losing all that much, or that's how it distributes the light, that wasn't clear).
I recall early attempts at this failed because of failure to remove the heat -- and at the bright spot where the focused sunlight was to enter the light guide, the glass melted or the optical glue caught fire.
Think as a researcher instead -- you can't prove a negative in science (you apparently can in politics, at least for decades at a time while avoiding action).
200 studies. At the standard for significance, five percent of those -- ten -- would be expected to show an effect by random chance alone.
100 studies -- ten times what you'd expect from random chance -- reported an effect.
--> There is an entire field of industrial chemistry using microwave pumping of chemical reactions to selectively favor one reaction path or another, changing the yield and outcome of batch production. There is no doubt at all that moving molecules around with microwaves changes chemical reactions. Nobody's sure HOW yet.
--> "No proven mechanism" -- it works, they don't know how it works, whether rearranging the pattern or movement of molecules alters the rate at which certain reactions happen.
--> "No proven mechanism" -- legally, you can't prove HOW it could happen so it can't happen (that's the legal/regulatory approach).
So we have an effect that's solid enough to build industrial chemical plants on, but not solid enough to believe is possible legally.
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What do you think of intelligent life on earth? I think it would be a good idea.
The long wire between the phone and the headset can also be a source of signal, sometimes stronger than what is measured from the intended antenna as I recall. Searching for info is needle-in-haystack right now with all the crap being published about this, but it was discussed a few years ago.
You have to actually test for the situation, not assume that making a change will solve the problem.
One relatively likely solution is using a hollow tube instead of a wire for the earpiece; sound travels fine from phone to ear that way. And the microphone for voice-to-phone should (test!) be electrically isolated from the phone's amplifier.
Heck -- just put optical transducers in, use a little light guide instead of a wire for the entire headset. Problem solved.
But maybe making a safe headset would be like making a safe cigarette -- the lawyers would never let it happen if it could be considered an admission of liability.
Someone's written software that lets the Macintosh rotate what's on the screen, as I understand it, so if the screen is turned 90 degrees to "portrait" mode, the text remains readable -- if I understood the story. (Not Apple's software; third party software.)
Forget about the motion sensor aspect, all I want is to be able to tell the Mac that it has a monitor in portrait position -- like used to work.
You said, > Except real security preparedness requires > thinking like a burglar, and thinking > "out of the box"--but the folks that > do aren't the same that make policy.
What IT needs is people who think like sheepdogs --- they have a large flock of dumb, herd animals to protect from a world full of wolves and mountain lions.
Burglars think in terms of destroying a thousand dollars of value to get away with ten dollars worth.
You don't want that kind of thinking in IT.
People who think like burglars -- successfully -- are making a million a year by selling newly contrived securities, by writing complicated business deals, by helping large corporations write contracts to outsource their IT departments.
People who think like burglars -- successfully -- go to business school or law school and make a nice living making money doing things that slower, dumber people will later do so ineptly that they get caught in embarrassing ways, and the tricks used are made illegal.
By then, the people who think like burglars -- successfully -- will have moved on to destroying some other large repository of value so they can grab one percent of it and move on.
Burglars and successful businesspeople pick the low hanging fruit, break down the branches of the tree to grab what they can, and move on.
On first take, I figured this was about criminals who were using the GPS system to keep track of their targets -- if you're out on the freeway, you're not home guarding the house.
Are there any net resources you can point to for amateurs in need of taxonomy?
I've done a flora on 40 acres of wildland -- some 300+plant species, keyed out (Jepson's California flora) and a few of the native grasses characterized with gross DNA fingerprints (extract, Western blot).
The botanist who did the flora trained several local highschool kids -- all of whom got into college, perhaps helped by the summer job.
So -- I wish you WOULD go on and on about this, in a thread here or on a website somewhere.
Willy Ley once remarked that analysis is all very well, but you can't tell how a locomotive works by melting it down and analyzing the mess. DNA barcodes seem much the same to me, interesting but not enough information, and as you say enticing people away from the real work that's needed.
What source are you using for the numbers -- simple airburst, fireball not touching the ground, I think?
The authors footnote their estimate: "a surface burst explosion of 300 kt produces a 300-square-km fallout plume that delivers a 48-hour whole-body dose of 450 centiGray. This would be lethal to half the exposed adult population._13/"
-- 13. Glasstone S, Dolan PJ (eds). The Effects of Nuclear Weapons. Washington, DC: US Department of Defense and US Department of Energy. 1977.
And they agree with you that on a global, average basis, vaporizing a fission plant would not add greatly to the global, average total fallout, as you say.
Their scenario was written when India, Pakistan and China were all threatening one another:
"...However, only around 12% of this dose would be delivered in the first 20 years, with the rest being delivered over thousands of years.....
"... levels of global fallout would only be marginally increased if... vaporised... India's 10 nuclear reactors (i.e., adding an estimated 1.5 mGy to gamma ray doses from lower latitude Northern Hemisphere fallout). Bombing nuclear reactors, however, would dramatically increase the area contaminated with hazardous local fallout... explosion of a one-megaton bomb on a one-gigawatt reactor has been estimated to cause a fallout plume delivering total external gamma-ray doses of 100 centiGray per year around 530 km long and up to 70 km wide _4/
[4]. Pittock AB, Ackerman TP, Crutzen PJ, et al. Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War. (SCOPE 28) Vol 1: Physical and Atmospheric Effects. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. 1986. _______ Air-cooled, graphite-based reactors burn when opened. Downwind, nearby, results vary according to the wind and weather. But -- built with no containment structures, these wouldn't require nuclear attack to break open. A mob could probably do it with hand tools and ignorance of the consequences. Or a few guys with an airplane.
Genie Inside! Do NOT uncork. Warning. Bottle is fragile.
http://www.ippnw.org/MGS/V6N1Wilson.html
"... Bombing nuclear reactors, however, would dramatically increase the area contaminated with hazardous local fallout within the attacked country. For example, the explosion of a one-megaton bomb on a one-gigawatt reactor has been estimated to cause a fallout plume delivering total external gamma-ray doses of 100 centiGray per year around 530 km long and up to 70 km wide [4]....
> Johnny Bnemonic-style memory expansion is > possible, how can patent holders and companies > owning "trade secret" IP be protected from > information pirates?
Standard methods already developed include prefrontal lobotomy, electroshock, and chemical memory erasure ("twilight anaesthesia").
Check the fine print on your shrinkwrapped employment contract, once they allow you to open and look at it (that'll be the day you decide to leave the company).
Slashdot Mirror
This completely inverts the legal meaning of the term "commuted sentence."
Good analysis.
Corrected:
http://www2.aao.gov.au/2dFGRS/
should take you here:
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
Final Data Release - 30 June 2003
The malformed link in the previous post somehow takes you directly to a black hole. Don't go there.
Why think small?
We know that the distribution of galaxies is in thin sheets surrounding large voids.
Now, how do we get the voids?
Intelligence capable of creating a breakdown in fundamental physical constants must arise, if only rarely and randomly distributed across the universe; say once per million galaxies per billion years.
What happens when they build a device capable of varying some of the physical constants that create the universe as we know it?
Perhaps a new large empty void in the universe?
How would the universe look, if that's been happening? Like this?
http://http//www2.aao.gov.au/2dFGRS/
Think big!
Look! Here's a source for dark fiber, we can send sunlight wherever it's needed!
....
BUSINESS/FINANCIAL DESK | May 21, 2002, Tuesday
TECHNOLOGY; Metromedia Fiber Files for Bankruptcy
ABSTRACT - Metromedia Fiber Network Inc, telecommunications company backed by billionaire investor John W Kluge, files for bankruptcy
Is this going to use all that dark fiber optic cable that was put in place just before the dot bomb happened?
Let's see, break the cables out from the telephone switch box and then dial up the other side of the planet?
The heat has to be filtered before the light is concentrated -- or the glass fiber would melt at the focus.
One way -- long used for microscope illuminators -- is a thin sheet of material at an angle in the light path that reflects (rejects, loses) the infrared, and passes the visible wavelengths.
The picture from the current article shows a thin flexible glass fiber bundle glowing brightly (presumably they'd wrap it in something reflective? Or maybe it's not losing all that much, or that's how it distributes the light, that wasn't clear).
I recall early attempts at this failed because of failure to remove the heat -- and at the bright spot where the focused sunlight was to enter the light guide, the glass melted or the optical glue caught fire.
Yes!
Think of those 'rubber sheet' diagrams -- showing the distortion of space by gravity as a nice smooth event.
Now those four probes are out where they ought to be getting close to 'flat' space far from the sun -- and they're finding what could be wrinkles.
There's your 'space warp' -- if you can show there's any such thing.
No, better cut the funds FAST. It's not in the Bible, so we don't want to risk discovering it.
You're thinking politically here.
Think as a researcher instead -- you can't prove a negative in science (you apparently can in politics, at least for decades at a time while avoiding action).
200 studies. At the standard for significance, five percent of those -- ten -- would be expected to show an effect by random chance alone.
100 studies -- ten times what you'd expect from random chance -- reported an effect.
--> There is an entire field of industrial chemistry using microwave pumping of chemical reactions to selectively favor one reaction path or another, changing the yield and outcome of batch production. There is no doubt at all that moving molecules around with microwaves changes chemical reactions. Nobody's sure HOW yet.
--> "No proven mechanism" -- it works, they don't know how it works, whether rearranging the pattern or movement of molecules alters the rate at which certain reactions happen.
--> "No proven mechanism" -- legally, you can't prove HOW it could happen so it can't happen (that's the legal/regulatory approach).
So we have an effect that's solid enough to build industrial chemical plants on, but not solid enough to believe is possible legally.
------
What do you think of intelligent life on earth?
I think it would be a good idea.
The long wire between the phone and the headset can also be a source of signal, sometimes stronger than what is measured from the intended antenna as I recall. Searching for info is needle-in-haystack right now with all the crap being published about this, but it was discussed a few years ago.
You have to actually test for the situation, not assume that making a change will solve the problem.
One relatively likely solution is using a hollow tube instead of a wire for the earpiece; sound travels fine from phone to ear that way. And the microphone for voice-to-phone should (test!) be electrically isolated from the phone's amplifier.
Heck -- just put optical transducers in, use a little light guide instead of a wire for the entire headset. Problem solved.
But maybe making a safe headset would be like making a safe cigarette -- the lawyers would never let it happen if it could be considered an admission of liability.
Hubble can see in wavelengths that don't make it to the ground.
For ground based telescopes to equal Hubble, you'll need to either remove the atmosphere, or fix Hubble (or replace it).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_w indows_for_warships/
Security?
They're very smart -- and they only live for maybe three to five years.7 5_361.shtm
http://naturalhistory.broaddaylight.com/nmnh/FAQ_
What this planet needs is longer-lived squid, who can learn to use tools.
>ten percent
But that's the cover charge -- everything after that is free.
>socialism
ROTFL
Just ask yourself,
how much would Jesus charge.
Someone's written software that lets the Macintosh rotate what's on the screen, as I understand it, so if the screen is turned 90 degrees to "portrait" mode, the text remains readable -- if I understood the story. (Not Apple's software; third party software.)
Forget about the motion sensor aspect, all I want is to be able to tell the Mac that it has a monitor in portrait position -- like used to work.
I'm still using my Radius Pivot, as the second monitor on my G3 Powerbook Pismo.
Of course the pivot feature hasn't worked since OS 7 or 8 or something.
Maybe there's something in this new approach that will let me once again turn the Pivot monitor to Portrait. I sure hope so.
I just hate landfilling still functioning tools.
Oh, inches, meters, whatever.
This isn't rocket science. It's economics.
You need irrational enthusiasm among investors to make this kind of thing work.
They should have called it
.....
"The No Vote Left Behind Act"
That'd satisfy the need the Administration has to name things using code words, like
"Help America Vote" - help citizens vote Right
"Can Spam" - yes, legally, now you can
"No Vote Left Behind" - leave the "No" votes behind, tally the "Yes" votes
You said,
> Except real security preparedness requires
> thinking like a burglar, and thinking
> "out of the box"--but the folks that
> do aren't the same that make policy.
What IT needs is people who think like sheepdogs --- they have a large flock of dumb, herd animals to protect from a world full of wolves and mountain lions.
Burglars think in terms of destroying a thousand dollars of value to get away with ten dollars worth.
You don't want that kind of thinking in IT.
People who think like burglars -- successfully -- are making a million a year by selling newly contrived securities, by writing complicated business deals, by helping large corporations write contracts to outsource their IT departments.
People who think like burglars -- successfully -- go to business school or law school and make a nice living making money doing things that slower, dumber people will later do so ineptly that they get caught in embarrassing ways, and the tricks used are made illegal.
By then, the people who think like burglars -- successfully -- will have moved on to destroying some other large repository of value so they can grab one percent of it and move on.
Burglars and successful businesspeople pick the low hanging fruit, break down the branches of the tree to grab what they can, and move on.
On first take, I figured this was about criminals who were using the GPS system to keep track of their targets -- if you're out on the freeway, you're not home guarding the house.
Not yet, eh?
Thank you.
Are there any net resources you can point to for amateurs in need of taxonomy?
I've done a flora on 40 acres of wildland -- some 300+plant species, keyed out (Jepson's California flora) and a few of the native grasses characterized with gross DNA fingerprints (extract, Western blot).
The botanist who did the flora trained several local highschool kids -- all of whom got into college, perhaps helped by the summer job.
So -- I wish you WOULD go on and on about this, in a thread here or on a website somewhere.
Willy Ley once remarked that analysis is all very well, but you can't tell how a locomotive works by melting it down and analyzing the mess. DNA barcodes seem much the same to me, interesting but not enough information, and as you say enticing people away from the real work that's needed.
What source are you using for the numbers -- simple airburst, fireball not touching the ground, I think?
... vaporised ... India's 10 nuclear reactors (i.e., adding an estimated 1.5 mGy to gamma ray doses from lower latitude Northern Hemisphere fallout). Bombing nuclear reactors, however, would dramatically increase the area contaminated with hazardous local fallout ... explosion of a one-megaton bomb on a one-gigawatt reactor has been estimated to cause a fallout plume delivering total external gamma-ray doses of 100 centiGray per year around 530 km long and up to 70 km wide _4/
The authors footnote their estimate: "a surface burst explosion of 300 kt produces a 300-square-km fallout plume that delivers a 48-hour whole-body dose of 450 centiGray. This would be lethal to half the exposed adult population._13/"
-- 13. Glasstone S, Dolan PJ (eds). The Effects of Nuclear Weapons. Washington, DC: US Department of Defense and US Department of Energy. 1977.
And they agree with you that on a global, average basis, vaporizing a fission plant would not add greatly to the global, average total fallout, as you say.
Their scenario was written when India, Pakistan and China were all threatening one another:
"...However, only around 12% of this dose would be delivered in the first 20 years, with the rest being delivered over thousands of years.....
"... levels of global fallout would only be marginally increased if
[4]. Pittock AB, Ackerman TP, Crutzen PJ, et al. Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War. (SCOPE 28) Vol 1: Physical and Atmospheric Effects. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. 1986.
_______
Air-cooled, graphite-based reactors burn when opened. Downwind, nearby, results vary according to the wind and weather. But -- built with no containment structures, these wouldn't require nuclear attack to break open. A mob could probably do it with hand tools and ignorance of the consequences. Or a few guys with an airplane.
Genie Inside! Do NOT uncork.
Warning. Bottle is fragile.
http://www.ippnw.org/MGS/V6N1Wilson.html
"... Bombing nuclear reactors, however, would dramatically increase the area contaminated with hazardous local fallout within the attacked country. For example, the explosion of a one-megaton bomb on a one-gigawatt reactor has been estimated to cause a fallout plume delivering total external gamma-ray doses of 100 centiGray per year around 530 km long and up to 70 km wide [4]....
> Johnny Bnemonic-style memory expansion is
> possible, how can patent holders and companies
> owning "trade secret" IP be protected from
> information pirates?
Standard methods already developed include prefrontal lobotomy, electroshock, and chemical memory erasure ("twilight anaesthesia").
Check the fine print on your shrinkwrapped employment contract, once they allow you to open and look at it (that'll be the day you decide to leave the company).
So, THIS is the big chance for catch-and-release.
Heck, with this lead up, high-school science fair kids could have a chance at landing at least a beacon, if not an ion engine.
It'll go away, but certainly it ought to take a tag along with it.