Before all the superannuated socialists who largely populate this list get
your knickers in a twist, you should perhaps read Mr. Crichton's book.
I have read all of Michael Crichton's books including this one. It's really
not up to his normal standard in terms of being a novel. It's kind of sec
Harvey,
Thanx for the answers there, a 1976 Scientific American article
shows that it can be done, but I have not yet read this article.
Here is the actual order 5 perfect cube, which can be magnified
http://cboyer.club.fr/multimagie/English/Perfectcubes.htm
This cube contains all the intege
> From: "Jones Beene"
> BTW... Just reading the mind of Terry Blanton (the other SciFi
> movie trivia-freak on vortex) in the context of "Total Recall"
> ..."Strange Days" and "Brainstorm".
M, Natalie Wood . . . "INSIDE Daisy Clover" . . . now THAT's a ride.
What did Wagner and Walk
One comment on JR's earlier speculation:
Past tragedy and misery are reborn as today's theme parks.
Someone in Virginia recently started a weekend retreat for
people who want to reenact Vietnam war battles, the way people
reenact Civil War battles. I recall as a child I rode one of
these amus
> From: OrionWorks
> A fine example of evolution at work.
Ah! The Samurai Crab! From Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. Not natural selection
at work . . . artifical selection:
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~sctien/samurai_crabs.htm
> Jed Sez:
> An interesting observation about human psychology:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/opinion/06tierney.html
>
> QUOTE:
>
> [Jim] Judkins is one of the officials in charge of
> evacuating the Hampton
> Roads region around Newport News, Va. . . .
>
> Instead of relying on a "Go
OrionWorks wrote:
I haven't read Mr. Chrichton's book on Global Warming, so I can't say if
he is or or is not arguing the position of excess Co2 build up in our
atmosphere.
I have not read the book either, but the book reviews say he denies that
CO2 is a contributing factor, for the reasons
> From: OrionWorks
> Terry, have you read his book?
To be fair, here's an opposing viewpoint:
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2004/story12-13-04b.html
Upon further reflection of Chrichton's comments as quoted by Terry it does
appear at least from my point of view that the author of "The Andromeda Strain"
is indeed a skeptic in terms of believing in increased levels of Co2 as the
cause of Global Warming.
We may still be missing the boat.
Forg
> From: OrionWorks
> Terry, have you read his book?
Yes, quite enlightening. Here's a review:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04361/431735.stm
> Edmund Sez:
>
> An interesting point. This same point can be made about
> cyanide. An average person weighs about 80,000 gm. It
> takes about 50 mg of NaCN to kill an average person,
> which is only 0.0022 inches on the football field.
> Obviously, a person can not be harmed by such a small
>
An interesting observation about human psychology:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/opinion/06tierney.html
QUOTE:
[Jim] Judkins is one of the officials in charge of evacuating the Hampton
Roads region around Newport News, Va. . . .
Instead of relying on a "Good Samaritan" policy -- the fant
An interesting point. This same point can be made about cyanide. An
average person weighs about 80,000 gm. It takes about 50 mg of NaCN to
kill an average person, which is only 0.0022 inches on the football
field. Obviously, a person can not be harmed by such a small distance.
No wonder the
Terry Blanton wrote:
Michael Crichton makes an interesting analogy in his book on Global Warming:
. . . And how much of the remaining three inches is carbon dioxide? One inch.
"You are told carbon dioxide has increased in the last 50 years. Do you
know how much it has increased, on our footbal
Michael Crichton makes an interesting analogy in his book on Global Warming:
"Imagine the composition of the Earth's atmosphere as a football field. Most of
the atmosphere is nitrogen. So, starting from the goal line, nitrogen takes you
all the way to the 78 yard line. And most of what's left is
R.O.Cornwall wrote:
Global warming like most things in science *under investigation* is properly
a hypothesis some would call it conjecture.
What is wrong is to plunge the world into recession on the whim of someone's
*pet theory* . . .
I do not buy this. Suppose, for the sake of argument, we
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John.
Some options to consider for geothermal/ground source heat pumps.
1, Build a new house with a water storage "vault" beneath the floor similar to
Al Capone's hidden room that Heraldo Rivera opened in the mid 80s.
2, Flood your basement for the duration.
3, Rent a ba
Jones Beene wrote:
Actually, it is a well-known phrase from "Thus Spake Zarathustra" written
by the brilliant but controversial German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Brilliant? In my opinion he was world-class jerk, and I despise the notion
that suffering is good for people.
i.e. will th
http://www.physorg.com/news6141.html
"Results showed that the microbes in about a half a liter of rumen fluid
fermented, liquefied feed extracted from the rumen, the largest chamber of a
cow's stomach produced about 600 millivolts of electricity. "
I mentioned the other day that a tremendous typhoon was approaching Japan.
It struck the southwest islands about 12 hours ago, and it is just passing
out to sea again. It may hit Hokkaido later. It covers one of the largest
areas on record, and in some areas it produced 1300 mm of rain in a 24-h
> From: "Jones Beene"
> What doesn't kill me, postpones the Inevitable
That's 'Adversity':
http://despair.com/indem.html#viewall
I like 'Potential'. ;-)
> From: Grimer
> I know someone who runs his second hand diesel on cooking oil from
> the local Tesco.
Does he have to use diesel to start the engine and switch to the fish & chips?
Or, will the engine start on the cooking oil?
You've probably heard the old homily "What Doesn't
Kill You Makes You Stronger" a hundred times, perhaps even with some passing
acknowledgement that it probably contains a kernel of truth (depending on how
you have been personally affected by the short-term circumstances).
Actually, it is
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Thank you for
forwarding the link. Dropped an email to my local rep to give me a
quote. I will share with the class what I find out...
8^)
-john
-Original Message-From: Frederick Sparber
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005
8:21 AMTo:
Here is something some here might find interesting...
http://www.goodideacreative.com/wheelockmtn.html
Not sure if they are worth the money or not yet.
-john
-Original Message-
From: Wesley Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 7:48 AM
To: vortex-l@eskimo
At 03:39 pm 06/09/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>John,
>I'll look into this. I'm not expert here. I think my friend is talking a.se,
>once he said diesels are capable of efficiencies of over 80%.
>
>I imagine if you kick a hole in the footwells and stick your feet out like
>the Flintstones you can have an
--- Frederick Sparber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jones Beene asks.
>
>
> " "Seven" is a number that is entrenched in
> mysticism at many levels - but why? "
>
> Because it is the result of dividing the "42", the
> answer Arthur Dent got when he asked the computer
> the meaning of life by 6 ?
John,
I'll look into this. I'm not expert here. I think my friend is talking a.se,
once he said diesels are capable of efficiencies of over 80%.
I imagine if you kick a hole in the footwells and stick your feet out like
the Flintstones you can have any amount of efficiency you desire :) Or get
Din
Was that a Diesel conversion?
LPG won't ignite in a CI engine so it is usual to use a small amount of
diesel (usually the idle qty) as an ignition charge.
I can see how a diesel can get 90 MPG on diesel with the LPG in addition.
Regards
JohnH
Just as a PS - you cant run a vapour through diesel inje
> From: R.O.Cornwall
>
> Mike, your tone is patronising.
>
> Y2K was hype to get programmers jobs and make academics look clever. Yes it
> did ameliorate to some extent BUT the spiel was that it was all too late and
> global meltdown was imminent.
Not wishing to get in the cross fire here.
I ha
Vo,
Not the link I was looking for but this is quite good apart from some
opinion which may grate.
(Also donate to these philanthropic services if you can as I must do here
too. 'Mere public' can organise their affairs without state intervention -
sometimes.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjectur
Taken by barge to the Cape no doubt.
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=3324392.9984428&e=218503.999775696&datum=nad83&u=6
Forwarded Message
From: Michael T. Huffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:vortex-l@eskimo.com
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: O.T. The Good Old Days.
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:05:31 +0200
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 03:54 -0500, Frederick Sparber wrote:
> I also hold the world's recor
Further to this topic:
http://www.greenfuel.org.uk/
Have a look at the FAQs.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 September 2005 12:05
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: RE: 90mpg
Exactly what I thought and told my fri
Exactly what I thought and told my friend. Swings and roundabouts. Also I
can't see how the fuel injection system couldn't be modified, diesel is
thick and viscous even liquefied gas flows easily.
I don't like the idea of losing space to the tanks and I don't like the idea
of getting in an acciden
I ran a BMW 525 years ago with LPG conversion and never got a great success
from the conversion - You had to drive it harder to get the same engine
effort - suggestion a lot less bang per buck from LPG
The cost saving on fuel was offset by the "heavy foot" required to maintain
the same speed
rg
Yeah, I'm sceptical too. Normally the bigwigs in Sevenoaks with £60-80K top
of the range RRs doing 8mpg could care less about fuel consumption. My
friend John does occasionally come up with bloopers - 90mpg!?
Anyway, when I next drive by there I'll get it.
I like the one about red diesel and fals
What does he drink??
But seriously I haven't heard of an LPG conversion doing anything else than
less MPG. Is this using standard parts or some new system? 800 quid just
sounds like a usual run of the mill job, definitely not enough for anything
major.
Can you get the name of the conversion place f
Vo,
A friend of mine who is a very good mechanical engineer reckons that the
local gas conversion place in Biggin Hill is getting Land Rovers to do 90mpg
on LPG with no modification to the engine (yeh!?). It costs about £800.
Amazing.
R.
...
Website
http://luna
Mike, your tone is patronising.
Y2K was hype to get programmers jobs and make academics look clever. Yes it
did ameliorate to some extent BUT the spiel was that it was all too late and
global meltdown was imminent.
All we ask is proportion and measure in public announcements.
-Original Me
Yes Jed I agree on several points:
Y2K was man-made and avoidable. Yes the action probably prevented a lot of
difficulties (everyone complains when there is lack of service but takes it
for granted when it works...) but the gurus still kept on saying, even in
spite of the works that it was doom an
Ancient history revisited.
I was stationed at "Site Baker" from Jan 52 to April 53. Keeping
the radio transmitters (up by the radio tower) online.
I also hold the world's record for outrunning a two-ton atomic
artillery shell mounted on a 4-wheel dolly (~ 15 kiloton yield) in a sloping tunne
I like your argument but the idea of a system that self winds at the
level on gravity potentials may be looking at the wrong level. May
science fiction writers have argued in favor of civilizations that can
manipulate the cosmos technologically. God may indeed have added a
winder to the univers
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