Guys, Just a quick strangeness update...
My "energetic particle" model for the link between seismic/sinkholes and Hurricanes/Low Pressure Systems is predicting the most likely destination for Hurricane Sandy is Albion, NY, the site of a LARGE sinkhole which shutdown the Erie Canal for a couple of weeks this Summer in July/August. It appears that Hurricane particles orbit for a couple of months before their decay takes them underground and the low pressure system approaches the seismic/sinkhole. I locked in on it yesterday and the last 4 NOAA model updates are moving it towards center also. They had an earthquake there today... "Energetic Particle" is my kinder/gentler name for a micro black hole or dark/collapsed matter. They gradually collapse the Earth from their gravitational pull with each pass. I think they come in all sizes, down to well, maybe CF and/or Neutrino size... Stewart http://darkmattersalot.com On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> >> >Even if the producer felt that way, the programs arriving on earth would >> >have left Alpha centauri five years earlier, and there would be no way of >> >knowing how much is in the pipeline. >> >> That's why it is pointless without FTL communications. >> > > I would not say pointless. Not at a distance of 5 LY. As other people here > pointed out, there was profitable trade between Europe and East Asia when > the round-trip took a year or two. (It took that long mainly because of > trade winds, I think.) > > 5-year latency is short enough to live with and still make some meaningful > commercial contracts . . . Although I guess it is a 10-year round trip, a > contract is meaningless. Call them agreements. Exchange programs. You can > still exchange ideas and help one-another progress and do scientific > research, for example. > > At a distance of 20 LY I think any outward transmission from Earth would > be philanthropic. It would not benefit the people here. Any question they > might have would be answered too late. Any collaboration in research or the > arts would take too long. I expect we would continue broadcasting, as a > favor to the pioneers in other star systems, not with any hope of profit or > benefit to ourselves. Not in the short term of one human lifetime, anyway. > > I suppose eventually a message coming from Sirius A might be of some use > to us. It might be a smash-hit movie or novel. The theme of romantic life > on the frontier is always popular. > > Drifting ever more off-topic . . . > > Long term communication at great distances (and long time spans) is > problematic because of linguistic drift. All languages change inexorably. > The rate of change varies, depending on living conditions. People who go > off into the wilderness in small groups tend to preserve their dialect. > That is why American English is older than British English, and why we > still pronounce our "r" in words like "car". People who went into the > American wilderness in 1700 sounded strange to the British by 1800, whereas > those in Boston continued to be influenced by changes in Britain, and they > too dropped their "r." In Cambridge, Mass you "paak your caaa in Haavard > yahd" (Park your car in Harvard yard). > > Broadcasts from 400 LY away will sound like English circa 1600 does to us. > Like Shakespeare. With many words we no longer use, and many that have > changed in meaning, such as "brave" meaning "beautiful, wonderful." Brave > in the modern sense makes the famous quote from the "The Tempest" "O brave > new world" quite different from what Shakespeare had in mind. He used that > world a lot. Try looking for "brave" here, and you will see it has little > to do with courage; i.e., "brave utensils," "a brave lass" and a ship being > "tight and yare and bravely rigg'd": > > http://shakespeare.mit.edu/tempest/full.html > > (By the way, the last person who used the word "yare," and used it > perfectly, was Lauren Bacall. She practically embodies it.) > > A lot of people have trouble understanding Shakespeare. See the reviews > here: > > http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Coriolanus/70175130 > > - Jed > >
