Re: The Periodic Table of Dessert

2003-07-16 Thread TomFODW
http://www.eblong.com/zarf/periodic/closeup.html Ah. I've seen a different poster with the same title, that had pictures of the desserts...mmm...desserts... :::drools::: Tom Beck Sweet Tooth Maru www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org I always knew I'd see the first man on the

Re: God, Religion, and Sports Medicine

2003-07-16 Thread Robert J. Chassell
On 9 Jul 2003, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I was trying to write from the 'neutral agnostic' position, while acknowledging that I in fact am a person who has had numinous experiences. But I cannot prove that scientifically to someone who has not experienced such a

Re: GOP axis of hate

2003-07-16 Thread Matt Grimaldi
The Fool wrote: http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jul/07072003/commenta/73077.asp Is U.S. Congress being led by grand old gay bashers? By Harold Meyerson Special to The Washington Post Scalia's justifications for discriminatory conduct sound terribly familiar. Change homosexual to Negro

Project Orion

2003-07-16 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Project Orion by George Dyson 2002, Henry Holt and Co ISBN 0-8050-7284-5 (pbk) Recently, George Dyson wrote a book on Project Orion, a project on which his father, Freeman Dyson, worked in the late 1950s. The project designed a heavy spaceship that could carry people to other

Re: Project Orion

2003-07-16 Thread TomFODW
They use a Project Orion type spaceship in the Niven/Pournelle novel Footfall to launch a military mission to the F'i'thp conquered space station. That was the first place I ever heard of Project Orion (and a lot of other unconventional weapons ideas from the past, such as Thor). Tom Beck

RE: Project Orion

2003-07-16 Thread Horn, John
From: Robert J. Chassell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Project Orion by George Dyson 2002, Henry Holt and Co ISBN 0-8050-7284-5 (pbk) Recently, George Dyson wrote a book on Project Orion, a project on which his father, Freeman Dyson, worked in the late 1950s. The project

Re: Project Orion

2003-07-16 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project Orion by George Dyson 2002, Henry Holt and Co ISBN 0-8050-7284-5 (pbk) No Orion spaceships were built. One reason is that the US Air Force, who liked bombs, could not figure out a reason to explore the solar system. NASA, on the

Re: Project Orion

2003-07-16 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Bryon Daly wrote: Couldn't Orion be assembled in orbit to avoid the atmosphere effects? It certainly would be far far more expensive to do that way, but if the atmospheric detonations are the biggest hitch... The whole point of this Orion thing is to put stuff into orbit. Going from

Brin-L Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Sloan II
This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it just started a little while ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction

Re: Project Orion

2003-07-16 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bryon Daly wrote: Couldn't Orion be assembled in orbit to avoid the atmosphere effects? It certainly would be far far more expensive to do that way, but if the atmospheric detonations are the biggest hitch... The whole point of this Orion thing is

Re: The Boob Timeline

2003-07-16 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Boob Timeline Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:20:33 -0500 http://www.dribbleglass.com/boobs/index.htm *Approved By Men Everywhere Hey! I posted this story from ananova a few months back and Alberto said it never happened! A Brazilian woman is

Re: Project Orion

2003-07-16 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked Couldn't Orion be assembled in orbit to avoid the atmosphere effects? It certainly would be far far more expensive to do that way, but if the atmospheric detonations are the biggest hitch... Yes, and indeed, in the 1960s, Werner Von Braun and

Let's talk about

2003-07-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
streaming audio ;-) I investigated those USB memory things. While the concept is good, they are unpractical for my situation. I want enough music to listen to for nine hours. For a $99 256MB stick, it'd take me three days, or three sticks, to get enough music for one day. I don't know how,

practical joke

2003-07-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
This is bad. Work appropriate. http://www.sparklet.com/~royce/trams/hair/ Kevin T. - VRWC curly ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Thanks! (Was Re: Revealed: food companies knew products wereaddictive)

2003-07-16 Thread Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Revealed: food companies knew products were addictive Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:48:31 -0400 Welcome back, Jose! I'd been wondering why I hadn't seen any posts from you in a

New Armin pictures

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Sloan II
I finally posted these pictures of Armin and family in the Alps, three weeks after I got his email. Why did it take so long? I just plain got an attack of the lazies. ;-) But, I think the results are worth the wait. I went directly to Armin's FTP site (with his permission, of course ;-) ) to

RE: Why we cast novels

2003-07-16 Thread listmail
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:24:08 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I especially miss the novelty LP album covers (like my original Led Zeppelin III cover with the picture wheel in it) and the double albums with suitable-for-hanging-in-your-dorm-room trippy artwork inside. It's a real shame: the death

Re: Let's talk about

2003-07-16 Thread Russell Chapman
Kevin Tarr wrote: streaming audio ;-) http://launch.yahoo.com/ I tried it at work and it worked, very crisp stream.g. I know if I like it, it will stop working. So I'll record at home. I think I'd rather it didn't work - I get good quality sound, good playlist, BUT I only get the

Re: God, Religion, and Sports Medicine

2003-07-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert J. Chassell wrote: Some science fiction readers ask whether a sapient artificial intelligence, with the intelligence, the emotions, and the wisdom of a human, but not his looks, are out because they are not built in God's image, or whether they are in. (I once had a long discussion

RE: Political Compass

2003-07-16 Thread listmail
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:02:11 -0700 (PDT), Deborah Harrell wrote: Couple of years ago at a party, some guy actually asked me my sign...I managed not to laugh, but only just, and womanfully refrained from snapping Off Limits! ;-) I thought that was old enough that it was nostalgically quaint now.

Re: Political Compass

2003-07-16 Thread Doug Pensinger
Deborah Harrell wrote: --- Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Here are a couple of links to pages giving an explanation (with pictures, which I can't post on this list): http://www.firstlightastro.com/skiesabove/archive/010915.shtml

Trudeau on political differences

2003-07-16 Thread listmail
Maybe it's just me, but Sunday's Doonesbury reminded me of past list discussions. http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=2003 0713 http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2D961745 Dean ___

Re: God, Religion, and Sports Medicine

2003-07-16 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert J. Chassell wrote: Daniel Defoe satirized this kind of distinction making by describing a war between those who broke the pointed end of an egg and those broke the more gently rounded end. Everyone agrees that major decisions should not be based

New pictures of Jose

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Sloan II
I've just added a couple of pictures of Jose to the memberpix page. Thanks to a lot of help from Dean and Dee, I came up with a silly title for the first picture. The other picture is a pretty cool cartoon: http://www.sloan3d.com/cgi-bin/memberpix.cgi?person=jose

Re: New pictures of Jose

2003-07-16 Thread Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just added a couple of pictures of Jose to the memberpix page. Thanks to a lot of help from Dean and Dee, I came up with a silly title for the first picture. The other picture is a pretty cool cartoon: