Howdy Vorts,
Another link..
http://www.nextenergynews.com/
Richard
I've been a bit busy this last week so I'll just tidy up on the responses to
my thread.
Horace - I changed the ambiguous wording from our personal spaceship to
I then went on to calculate what size our individual “spaceship” would be
today within which we each metaphorically have to live our
Richard wrote:-
Howdy Vorts,
Another link..
http://www.nextenergynews.com/
This is a great digest site for partially baked technology...
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM, thomas malloy wrote:
Taylor J. Smith wrote:
Hi All,
Meanwhile, the oil glut is intensifying
as the U. S. miltary has been able to nullify Bush's
laughable sabre rattling, increasing the probability of
$40 per barrel oil before the end of 2008.
Nick Palmer wrote:
Richard wrote:-
Howdy Vorts,
Another link..
http://www.nextenergynews.com/
This is a great digest site for partially baked technology...
Howdy Richard, Nick,
A fun website. Thanks!
This site is assured to be as informative as where to find the latest
scuttlebutt on
- Original Message
From: R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts,
Another link..
http://www.nextenergynews.com/
Richard
Way cool site for the inventive mind and those seeking alternatives to
conventional methods !
Here is one such example of a product announcement (actual availability
Author-Authur wrote a short story 55 years ago - “The Nine Billion Names of
God” which has not received as much comment in the various obits which have
come out -- as the more famous Childhood's End ... which curiously, was
written at almost the exact same time.
One of my favs. Here's the whole short story:
http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/9billion_clarke.html
Terry
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author-Authur wrote a short story 55 years ago - The Nine Billion Names of
God which has not received as much
Thanks Terry for making this story available. Although Sir Clark
provides a cute tale, it resets on the hubris of the human belief that
God cares what we do and has any more or less interest than for the
billions of other aware life forms in the universe. In fact, the
salvation of our life
Edmund Storms wrote:
Thanks Terry for making this story available. Although Sir Clark
provides a cute tale, it resets on the hubris of the human belief
that God cares what we do and has any more or less interest than for
the billions of other aware life forms in the universe.
Yes, but
I realize the story is fiction and it does not represent Clarke's views.
In fact, the plot might even be considered sarcasm because it is based
on a simple-minded attitude that many people have about humans being
God's chosen people. Clarke might well have been poking fun at people
who think
Back in the late 1970s I actually had the fortune of being cast in a
small bit part for an amateur audio production of ACC's Nine Million
Names of God sponsored by our local Science Fiction community based
in Madison, Wisconsin. Thirty years later I remember very little about
the experience other
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:56 PM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He's dead!
Is he? He lives within us and on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXQ7rNgWwg
His last public statements.
Terry
Edmund Storms wrote:
I realize the story is fiction and it does not represent Clarke's
views. In fact, the plot might even be considered sarcasm . . .
Yes, gentle sarcasm, although he would not be a bit surprised if
someone took it seriously.
To me, the story is a simple allegory that
On 28/3/2008 2:56 PM, OrionWorks wrote:
I suspect that if anyone were to be so foolish as to conduct a seance
and attempt to communicate with the spirit of Arthur from the Great
Beyond all they would get back for their efforts would be disturbing
visions of a black void filled with stern
In reply to Nick Palmer's message of Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:30:59 -:
Hi Nick,
[snip]
The purpose of my
calculations was simply to blast these people out of their complacency with
simple maths that is easily checkable.
[snip]
In that case, might I suggest a table of numbers indicating exactly
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