No, I mean he will have to wait a long time to hear it.... living dust whose life processes moves hundreds of thousands of times slower than organic chemical process will take a long time to say anything. I envision the conversation going like this:
Day 1
Dusty: "Ugly..."
Scientist: "Yes, yes?" Day 2
Dusty: "...bags..."
Scientist: "Okay." Day 3
Dusty: "...of..."
Scientist: "For the love of God, somebody shoot me!" etc...
You may have to wait a long time. According to this article on the same subject from New Scientist, the plasma-crystal processes underlying such aliens would run more than a hundred thousand times more slowly than the biochemistry of Earth.
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Gotta cover your ass so that the investors can't sue you when they discover it was all a scam.
Perhaps the ancient atmosphere had more O2 that was burned up in the asteroid impact. More O2 might have lead to more available chemical energy to the muscles. At the very least it would explain the larger size of ancient insects. The size of an insect is partly limited by their ability to get O2 to the rest of their bodies without the benefit of lungs.
And they're claiming to be first, when critters like Steffan O'Sullivan's FUDGE has been doing this for a long time.
I think that the license FUDGE is released under is very close in spirit to the GPL. Grey Ghost Games publishes FUDGE and FUDGE supplements, but the system itself is free to download and distribute. Check out Steffan O'Sullivan's website; he wrote FUDGE with the help and feedback of gamers on rec.games.design. You can find many websites with supplements, modified versions, etc. The author encourages this.
I think the above mentioned idea of contacting Linux companies for any infomation and support is a very helpful one. Additionally, there are projects dedicated to supporting the use of Open Source software in education. I just did a quick search on Google and found some sites. This site, K12 Linux, is aimed at helping teachers and administrators use Linux in elementary and high schools. Another link is SEUL/edu, a sub-project of SEUL, the Simple End User Linux. It is a discussion group for those interested in using Linux for education.
From an article at CNN on Jupiter's radiation affecting the chance for like on Europa:
Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field of any planet, Chyba says, more than 10 times stronger than Earth's. When protons, electrons and other particles from space get trapped in Jupiter's magnetosphere, they are accelerated to extremely high velocities.
There is an article in the Sept. 98 issue of Wired that addresses the same issues on a personal level; the writer looks for a medium to preserve a dying friend's voice and poetry.
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No, I mean he will have to wait a long time to hear it.... living dust whose life processes moves hundreds of thousands of times slower than organic chemical process will take a long time to say anything. I envision the conversation going like this:
Day 1
Dusty: "Ugly..."
Scientist: "Yes, yes?"
Day 2
Dusty: "...bags..."
Scientist: "Okay."
Day 3
Dusty: "...of..."
Scientist: "For the love of God, somebody shoot me!"
etc...
You may have to wait a long time. According to this article on the same subject from New Scientist, the plasma-crystal processes underlying such aliens would run more than a hundred thousand times more slowly than the biochemistry of Earth.
He's just missing the Delta brainwave.
Wouldn't that be fun? Global spontaneous combustion of electronic devices as the magnetic reversal progresses. End of civilization anyone?
And if you really want Kazaa, you can download it off of Morpeheus. Heh.
"Lost In Space" did this already to drill for deutronium fuel. After all, the Jupiter 2 went up in 97'.
Perhaps the ancient atmosphere had more O2 that was burned up in the asteroid impact. More O2 might have lead to more available chemical energy to the muscles. At the very least it would explain the larger size of ancient insects. The size of an insect is partly limited by their ability to get O2 to the rest of their bodies without the benefit of lungs.
I think that the license FUDGE is released under is very close in spirit to the GPL. Grey Ghost Games publishes FUDGE and FUDGE supplements, but the system itself is free to download and distribute. Check out Steffan O'Sullivan's website; he wrote FUDGE with the help and feedback of gamers on rec.games.design. You can find many websites with supplements, modified versions, etc. The author encourages this.
I think the above mentioned idea of contacting Linux companies for any infomation and support is a very helpful one. Additionally, there are projects dedicated to supporting the use of Open Source software in education. I just did a quick search on Google and found some sites. This site, K12 Linux, is aimed at helping teachers and administrators use Linux in elementary and high schools. Another link is SEUL/edu, a sub-project of SEUL, the Simple End User Linux. It is a discussion group for those interested in using Linux for education.
There is an article in the Sept. 98 issue of Wired that addresses the same issues on a personal level; the writer looks for a medium to preserve a dying friend's voice and poetry.