Hrm - would that be the historically documentable wasteful side effect of the beuaracracy? I can never spell that word right...
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Laboratory
here's the funny part...
It's been done.
And that was 5 years ago.
I don't have the exact numbers atm -- but I'm pretty sure that 20 miles up, the air is about as thin as Marrs if not thinner. Wonder what the gravity is up there? (and yes, the force of 1g gravity is measuread at sea level, it slowly reduces the further away from the mass of the earth)
It's
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Laboratory
Yep - let that be a lesson to nay sayers... never say never!
From a physics standpoint, there should not have been a question about whether or not a drone could fly on Marrs - it's just an engineering challenge to fit the math. A near vacuum atmosphere, like say the one on Luna, is a far stiffer challenge, but still not impossible.
I wonder if a set of ionic impulse engines attached to a
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Laboratory
Chris Catignani Wrote:
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> Here's the reverse engineered code:
>
>
> From LogRhythm :
>
> "...the software assigned letters of the alphabet
> to high-pitch tones, eg: an 18kHz sound translates
> into an 'A', and 19.125kHz is a 'P'. Pairs of
> these characters are used to i
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sansahansan
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Paper Lens
I'm having issues with swallowing this tale...
I can't find anything to solidly debunk it, but I have found several 'devices' that allegedly use it.
However, normal TV audio frequencies don't hit ultrasonics...
See, it'd make no sense to me why a TV manufacturer would spend money on a higer audio frequency than humans can hear -- e.g. up to 15-20k
A
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Paper Lens
Do you think it possible that a printed engine might be able to meet a higer demand for precision in a cheaper fashion than machined?
Frankly, if it is conductile material, couldn't you use a form of electroplating to literally print metal? Atom by atom almost.
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> I think that's a liklier scenario. It was also
> over 1000 years ago, again, long enough for any
> disease to kill everyone it was going to kill
> without impacting the larger groups.
I think it's worth noting that the impact of infectious disease on native populations is seems to be poorl
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Ancient History
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> True, but the longest journey begins with the
> first step. In this case whatever they bring up
> there has to be non-toxic, non-flammable and
> non-allergenic, and if it works on the ISS it will
> probably work on earth. OTOH if it pollutes the
> ISS it will probably pollute the earth.
I thi
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Laboratory
Jammer Wrote:
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> What I'm saying is the supposed security the
> checkpoints offer will become less & less
> secure without an enormous increase in expense to
> update or replace them.
> This is to the betterment of those selling,
> upgrading, & staffing the checkpoints, &
> the detriment of every
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Laboratory
Jammer Wrote:
>
> If an assassin can get close enough to his
> target... good night Charlie.
>
> Jammer
>
Erm... hasn't that always been the case?
If someone (A) wants to kill someone else in specific ( then B will die eventually, if A is patient enough and tries hard enough...
Getting close = success at almost any era. Famous case of the KGB + umbrella
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
Firstly, a 3d printer is considerably different than your standard ink printer.
The newer ones are becoming much closer to a laser printer in many regards -- precise drop of polymer, precise shots of laser to 1) warm the temp and change the color or 2) carve even the drop into proper shape on a different axis (hence beautiful curves)
Consider the design of a shell containing an inner shell co
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Laboratory
Jammer Wrote:
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> I believe two facts are quite pertinent...
>
> 1) Weather & patterns are being really
> affected, look at this eastern Pacific hurricane;
> it went from a strong thunderstorm to the worst
> hurricane on record in 24 hours? & I believe
> humanity is contributing to (but not solely
> re
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
manbeef.com anyone? old hoax ;0
otoh... try china on a google search for ordering man flesh ;0 scary.
Also, human flesh has been found in mcdonald burgers and various others...
Meat is generally unclean... the strongest arguement I've heard for going vegetarian.
And hot dogs? That's the worst. I watched the video years back, kept eating them...
Learned to cook and now
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sansahansan
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Humanities
It's not Licnes - it's Lignes. It's french, from English 'Line' or 1/12th of an English inch prior to standardization (which is why 12 lignes is slightly longer than 2.54 cm/1 inch)
French and/or watchmakers still use the Lignes measurement for watch parts.
However, in this case, the markings require a little interpretation ;0
Speaking to the bottom si
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Coffee Shop
Chris Catignani Wrote:
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> Two measurements on this caliper: m/m (milimeters)
> and licnes (??).
>
> I have looked and looked and cant seem to make any
> since out of it.
>
> The calipers are antique and made in Japan.
> Im thinking is may be a misspelling...but of what
> originally.
> The (bot
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Coffee Shop
Har I was just reading that article before I came here.
However, I take issue with the fact that the dimming seems to be inconstant, intermittent, and at random intervals.
That kinda argues against an intelligent/rational approach to energy harnessing.
a VLA of mirrors (ideal for collecting solar energy) would certainly cause dimming - but only at regular, predictable intervals. Indeed,
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Laboratory
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> LOL Sansahansan...I was reading an interesting
> 'paradox' about pi
Well, yah, Pi is a paradox, as it implies that no circle can ever be considered mathematically perfect (from which any number of fallacies and false theories are derived)
> or it's creation. Draw a point
> in space th
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sansahansan
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Humanities
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I tried to read the article and got bored. People
> love symmetry and for some reason the irrational
> numbers give it to us. Of course it isn't perfect
> but it's as close as we can get.
Good summary of the engineer's answer to the xeno's paradox...
Xeno: If you must always t
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sansahansan
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Humanities
I find it funny that I just came from google news, where I read this article: , and the first post (new) I read here was your post where you talk about hacking an iphone...
Silent, but deadly.
1) I'm not an apple fan
2) I'm not a 'tie it all together' fan (at least, not that much)
3) I use a wifi system in my house today. The next house? I'm going back to '
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Coffee Shop
I've been thinking about this since it was commented in another thread about a 'small cranium' hominid...
Are we still hung up on thinking that a small brain equals lesser intelligence?
Then explain why a whale isn't hyper-intelligent?
I think we underestimate some of our ancients/early hominids by following the logic that that since they were primitive and had small
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Laboratory
Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> All of that seems kind of advanced cognition for a
> being not much smarter than a chimp.
'Not much smarter than a chimp'
Well, first off, chimps are smart enough as is - it wouldn't take much past them to generate a concept of 'exile' or 'banishment unto death' or
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Laboratory
Not without precedent... consider the Stalin purges, or the Hitler purges.
To flip the coin around, without projecting modern era cultural values...
Why not the infant ?
Perhaps she was the equivalent of a witch and offspring? Or demonic offspring the mother wouldn't abandon?
Or wife & child of a political dissident?
In my honest opinion, the oubliette/prison is the sim
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sansahansan
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Laboratory
While a few years is more than sufficient for disease exchange, you've nailed the head with the 'abortive and hostile'
Hard to exchange disease if your extremely aggressive and hostile in any open contact.
From what I can tell of the sagas (as a layman, worse than an amatuer) there wasn't even much trading done the meadows... it was mostly 'we hate them' on bot
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Ancient History
Since everything is pure speculation based on the simple premise of 'more data needed' (which, I'm sure, is why the paper didn't get into peer reviewed status yet - having read through most of it)
Here's my speculation: Oubliette.
Trouble makers? Political dissident? Social structure strong enough that it's not just beat down and beat down? Instead, exile
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Laboratory
Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Yeah but outside there is moon and starlight. Once
> your eyes adjust you can make out quite a lot and
> SEE anything sneaking up on you. ANYTHING can lurk
> in the dark. That's why we hominins are afraid of
> it!
Yep - exactly what I meant in the other thread
Outside > Inside Cave
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Laboratory
You're fully responsible for your own opinion.
For me... I trust the human species will wipe itself out shortly (shrotly in geological terms, though not in astronomy terms).
Just think about the ways life on earth could end:
Nuclear war -- Your style of fire and bang, Ragnarok, Armageddon, etc etc as predicted throughout every age on Earth ;0
Asteroid/Catacysmic Catastrophe (like
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Apocalypse
Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> Roxana Cooper Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Ah, so you think H. Naledi was hiding in the
> cave
> > from other H. Naledi and that was the threat
> that
> > frightened them over the Dragon's Back?
>
> Someone else mentioned th
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Laboratory
Err wait ... y'all seem to be implying the map has been debunked...
References please to the debunking? This one I had actually come to have a little faith in and I'll be dissappointed to find it's been debunked.
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Humanities
> And so yes to anyone who is religious and believes
> in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation we are
> in the end times. And for you who are not
> religious even you must feel a sense of foreboding
> as our planet continues to be decimated.
>
> And it is all around in the movies, and books and
> even in comics and video games, good fighting
> evil, end o
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sansahansan
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Apocalypse
Don... for future reference ;0
Good tips & advice there
And thanks for the definition of google-fu, apparently I've been using it incorrectly.
What's the term for persistent synonym rephrasing of search terms combined with cross-referencing multiple sites or even backtracking in order to research what search terms to use, when searching for detailed information
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sansahansan
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Coffee Shop