I wonder...I hear that often, but is it really true that we see in 3D? I reckon what we see is 3D space projected onto 2D. Perspective, for example, does not exist in 3D space, but is an artifact of translating it onto a plain.
The Tower of Babel Translator, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
The city I currently live in goes back for more a millenium. I believe it was a Thracian city long before the Romans showed up.
The people that live in this city are none the wiser for that, and ancient history is not a replacement for a clear and inquisitive mind now, in the present. That sense of perspective you speak of only muddies the water. The first cities were founded in what is now Iraq, right? What good did that do to them?
I do not want to be the advocate of GWB here, but at the end what I mean is that we need not call Americans young and inexperienced as a nation. Nation states are a relatively new occurence, and the U.S. was formed before many contemporary European nations states existed as such.
This is a link to an interview with the General Designer of Russia's Korolev Space and Rocket Corporation. Interesting information about the Clipper space transportation system, and also about ion engine spaceships that they plan to send to the Moon and Mars.
This just in: "By measuring the abundance of several elements across the lunar surface, scientists can better constrain the contribution of material from the young Earth and its possible impactor to condense and form the Moon. Current models suggest that more came from the impactor than from Earth."
Source:ESA
I call BS. In fact, economists think the Dark Ages ended because of the Black Death. It decimated, no, killed nearly 1/3 of the population of Europe, while keeping land and houses intact. Once it was over wages went up, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Traditionally the vast majority of the population married someone within a small radius of their initial home. As larger numbers of people move further away there could be some interesting effects.
I am somehow reminded of the following:
"In the part of a federal equal-opportunity form where Randy would simply check a box labeled CAUCASIAN, Kia would have to attach multiple sheets on which her family tree would be ramified backwards through time ten or twelve generations until reaching ancestors who could actually be pegged to one specific ethnic group without glossing anything over, and those ethnic groups would be intimidatingly hip ones--not Swedes, let's say, but Lapps, and not Chinese but Hakka, and not Spanish but Basque. Instead of doing this, on her job app for Epiphyte she simply checked "other" and then wrote in TRANS-ETHNIC. In fact, Kia is trans- just about every system of human categorization, and what she isn't trans- she is post-."
--Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"
The way I understand it, the universe is an "island" of matter contained in an infinite "ocean" of space. The matter created in the Big Bang is a constant, though the galaxies are constatly flying outwards into the, well, nothing. I am sure there is some mythical quantum elaboration on this simplistic worldview (universview?), but that is how I imagine the current state of affairs:).
Yes, indeed, Myth was an experience to remember. The tone of the game was very dark, before you won the campaign, all the free cities were "reduced to ash and carrion" (damn, i still remember the quote from the game) by the undead armies of the Fallen Lords. Shiver, the most beautiful woman of an age past, made century-old trees wither and die simply by accidentally touching them. An interesting idea, the Fallen Lords. The heroes that saved civilization in the past inevitably return to destroy it. Is power corrupting or what? Great and chalenging gameplay.
Star Control 2 is one heck of a game. Exquisite sense of humor, great story about galaxy-wide genocide, ancient technology, and what not. Part 3 sucked, though. The "Melee" part of the game is also fun. It is being resurrected for contemporary Windows and Linux systems at http://sc2.sourceforge.net/.
Dude. Check your wikipedia. "The Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps the same face turned to the Earth at all times." And haven't you been looking at the darn thing? It stays the same. Seamingly does not rotate. Anyway, no rails needed. As for the Lagrange stations, if the observatories are to have human crews, it would be better for them to be on the Moon, where I suppose burrowing several meters down would give you realy nice protection from cosmic radiation. Also, oxygen can be produced locally, and not shipped from wherever.
Apart from being a part of the nuclear spring, is it possible that this particular New Horizons mission gets funding in order to gather information about the Pioneer anomaly?
oh man <anamexis> I was opening a coke, right --> Beefpile (~mbeefpile@cloaked.wi.rr.com) has joined #themacmind <anamexis> and it exploded <anamexis> ALMOST all over my keyboard <anamexis> but I got it away just in time <-- Beefpile has quit (sick fuckers) <anamexis>:<
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I wonder...I hear that often, but is it really true that we see in 3D? I reckon what we see is 3D space projected onto 2D. Perspective, for example, does not exist in 3D space, but is an artifact of translating it onto a plain.
The Tower of Babel Translator, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
The city I currently live in goes back for more a millenium. I believe it was a Thracian city long before the Romans showed up. The people that live in this city are none the wiser for that, and ancient history is not a replacement for a clear and inquisitive mind now, in the present. That sense of perspective you speak of only muddies the water. The first cities were founded in what is now Iraq, right? What good did that do to them?
I do not want to be the advocate of GWB here, but at the end what I mean is that we need not call Americans young and inexperienced as a nation. Nation states are a relatively new occurence, and the U.S. was formed before many contemporary European nations states existed as such.
This is a link to an interview with the General Designer of Russia's Korolev Space and Rocket Corporation. Interesting information about the Clipper space transportation system, and also about ion engine spaceships that they plan to send to the Moon and Mars.
This just in: "By measuring the abundance of several elements across the lunar surface, scientists can better constrain the contribution of material from the young Earth and its possible impactor to condense and form the Moon. Current models suggest that more came from the impactor than from Earth." Source:ESA
I fear something terrible may have befallen K'Breel, or his gellsacs...
I call BS. In fact, economists think the Dark Ages ended because of the Black Death. It decimated, no, killed nearly 1/3 of the population of Europe, while keeping land and houses intact. Once it was over wages went up, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I believe parent is Calvin and Hobbes reference. Therefore, mod up.
Traditionally the vast majority of the population married someone within a small radius of their initial home. As larger numbers of people move further away there could be some interesting effects.
I am somehow reminded of the following:
"In the part of a federal equal-opportunity form where Randy would simply check a box labeled CAUCASIAN, Kia would have to attach multiple sheets on which her family tree would be ramified backwards through time ten or twelve generations until reaching ancestors who could actually be pegged to one specific ethnic group without glossing anything over, and those ethnic groups would be intimidatingly hip ones--not Swedes, let's say, but Lapps, and not Chinese but Hakka, and not Spanish but Basque. Instead of doing this, on her job app for Epiphyte she simply checked "other" and then wrote in TRANS-ETHNIC. In fact, Kia is trans- just about every system of human categorization, and what she isn't trans- she is post-."
--Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"
"genetically engineered rice containing human genes"
So, it tastes like chicken?
A møøse once bit my sister.
Life should have never walked out of the water.
The way I understand it, the universe is an "island" of matter contained in an infinite "ocean" of space. The matter created in the Big Bang is a constant, though the galaxies are constatly flying outwards into the, well, nothing. I am sure there is some mythical quantum elaboration on this simplistic worldview (universview?), but that is how I imagine the current state of affairs :).
If I am not mistaken, the dispute was between Grance and Japan, and it has already been solved in favor of France.
Yes, indeed, Myth was an experience to remember. The tone of the game was very dark, before you won the campaign, all the free cities were "reduced to ash and carrion" (damn, i still remember the quote from the game) by the undead armies of the Fallen Lords. Shiver, the most beautiful woman of an age past, made century-old trees wither and die simply by accidentally touching them. An interesting idea, the Fallen Lords. The heroes that saved civilization in the past inevitably return to destroy it. Is power corrupting or what? Great and chalenging gameplay.
Star Control 2 is one heck of a game. Exquisite sense of humor, great story about galaxy-wide genocide, ancient technology, and what not. Part 3 sucked, though. The "Melee" part of the game is also fun. It is being resurrected for contemporary Windows and Linux systems at http://sc2.sourceforge.net/.
Dude. Check your wikipedia. "The Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps the same face turned to the Earth at all times." And haven't you been looking at the darn thing? It stays the same. Seamingly does not rotate. Anyway, no rails needed. As for the Lagrange stations, if the observatories are to have human crews, it would be better for them to be on the Moon, where I suppose burrowing several meters down would give you realy nice protection from cosmic radiation. Also, oxygen can be produced locally, and not shipped from wherever.
Apart from being a part of the nuclear spring, is it possible that this particular New Horizons mission gets funding in order to gather information about the Pioneer anomaly?
well i've never been to missouri, but i can hardly imagine any ways in which it can be better than bulgaria :-p
oh man :<
<anamexis> I was opening a coke, right
--> Beefpile (~mbeefpile@cloaked.wi.rr.com) has joined #themacmind
<anamexis> and it exploded
<anamexis> ALMOST all over my keyboard
<anamexis> but I got it away just in time
<-- Beefpile has quit (sick fuckers)
<anamexis>
force disorder pumps?
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