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 Jun 21 2006, 02:11 AM
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QUOTE (abalone @ Jun 20 2006, 05:55 PM)  I keep opening up the new posts in this thread in the misplaced hope that some of them may actually be news about NH, silly me! I can dig it...but NH has a long, strange journey to complete...you gotta expect a little bit of side chatter... 
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jun 21 2006, 03:36 AM
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three pages of this merits a new thread
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Jun 21 2006, 07:19 AM
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Good call Alan.
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Jun 21 2006, 11:03 AM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 16 2006, 10:26 AM) Ah! Right! Do you mean something like 'these are small, but close by, but those are big, and far away' by any chance? You'd really have to get an agreement between all the appropriate authorities - but that would, of course, be an ecumenical matter. A cup of tea, Father? Bob Shaw Ah yes, that gritty documentary about the life of Catholic Priests on a remote Irish Island parish. I have a friend from Donegal who knows them all  .And as for Bishop Brennan - Hello Len! Have we had "head of a pin" "candle/mobile phone on the moon" "gnats fart on beta pictoris"... Nick "Tea fer everyone - Ahhhh go on, go on, go......" |
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Jun 21 2006, 11:57 AM
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I like the one about magnetars being able to wreck the credit cards in
everyone's wallet if one passed by Earth from 100,000 miles away. Of course they should add that such an object would also do a little bit more than just harm your credit rating. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/magn...ion_050201.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 27 2006, 06:21 PM
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We have a winner:
Tracking Earth's Wobbles Down to the Size of a Cell Phone http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl0627.html And they can't just say "ranging in size from that of a sheet of paper down to that of a cell phone", but they ahve to specify the size of the sheet of paper... -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Jun 28 2006, 12:36 PM
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Ha! - and I notice they also casually equate a yard with a meter when everybody knows that a meter is one whole cellphone longer than a yard.
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Jun 28 2006, 01:23 PM
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QUOTE (ngunn @ Jun 28 2006, 01:36 PM) Ha! - and I notice they also casually equate a yard with a meter when everybody knows that a meter is one whole cellphone longer than a yard. Do you think any of them worked at JPL on MCO? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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