Re: Amazing-but-True Facts

2005-04-01 Thread dland
On Mar 31, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: == A M A Z I N G - B U T - T R U EF A C T S == They'd be more amazing if they were, in fact,

Re: reality glitches

2005-04-01 Thread Gary Denton
On Mar 29, 2005 8:51 AM, Alan Ackley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, Hi, David Brin mailed me the contact info for this mailing list group a few days back, and although I've no idea how this will connect with any past discussions, I thought I'd toss this little pebble in the pond;

Re: Time on TV

2005-04-01 Thread Gary Denton
On Mar 29, 2005 6:14 PM, John DeBudge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6 BEST DRAMAS ON TV NOW And the shows are:- Deadwood Veronica Mars Interesting note for people who do not watch both. The actress who plays Veronica Mars was also in a couple of Deadwood episodes. Needless to say,

Re: Amazing-but-True Facts

2005-04-01 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:18:31 -0600 That was 18 minutes and 30 seconds late! For shame, Ronn! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Amazing-but-True Facts

2005-04-01 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:01 AM Friday 4/1/2005, Erik Reuter wrote: * Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:18:31 -0600 That was 18 minutes and 30 seconds late! For shame, Ronn! Sometimes messages get held up in transmission rather than being delivered immediately after they are

Time, reality, and preception. (was: the question of reality glitches)

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Lidster
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackley Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:02 AM To: Brin-L@mccmedia.com Subject: the question of reality glitches On reality glitches; Aside from proving anything, I have a question or three; 1)

RE: the question of reality glitches

2005-04-01 Thread Nick Lidster
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackley Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:02 AM To: Brin-L@mccmedia.com Subject: the question of reality glitches On reality glitches; Aside from proving anything, I have a question or three; 1)

tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Alan Ackley
My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect of causing

Babel theory link

2005-04-01 Thread Alan Ackley
Link to a paper discussing low frequency interference with consciousness; http://www.geocities.com/nwbotanicals1/oak/newphysics/schumann.htm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Land
Honey? Where's my razor? -- Occam. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: reality glitches

2005-04-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Gary Denton wrote: I wish to apologise to any of you others I may have brought to this world with me. That was you? You bastard! Stop observing the universe! You're influencing it way too much with your pessimism! -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books

Re: reality glitches--QM

2005-04-01 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:03 PM Subject: Re: reality glitches On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Gary Denton wrote: I wish to apologise to any of you others I may have brought to

Re: reality glitches--QM

2005-04-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 1, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Dan Minette wrote: I haven't heard much from you since I started my QM tutorial. Did it make sense and give you something to mull over or wasn't I clear enough. Oh, I'm chewing it over. ;) Thanks again for all the work you've put in on it. I'm sure that I'll comment

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:37 AM Friday 4/1/2005, Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the

Re: Amazing-but-True Facts

2005-04-01 Thread Max Battcher
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: * In the late '90s, Microsoft secretly developed its own version of Linux, but shelved it after quality control researchers deemed it too stable. I can debunk this one. First of all: 70s/80s, Unix not Linux, Not Secret. During the Unix Wars when there were a large

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 1, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Alan Ackley wrote: Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. The stone at Mecca is not big. It's a meteorite

Crichton satire

2005-04-01 Thread d.brin
Stefan Jones offered the following (From: http://www.realclimate.org/) Doubts about the Advent of Spring A consensus view amongst climate scientists holds that the Northern Hemisphere will be warming this month, as spring is coming. This is thought to be due to the Earth's orbit around the sun

Brin: Re: Crichton satire

2005-04-01 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:23 PM Friday 4/1/2005, you wrote: Stefan Jones offered the following (From: http://www.realclimate.org/) Doubts about the Advent of Spring A consensus view amongst climate scientists holds that the Northern Hemisphere will be warming this month, as spring is coming. This is thought to be

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Dave Land
On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:37 AM Friday 4/1/2005, Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim)

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:34 PM Friday 4/1/2005, Dave Land wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:37 AM Friday 4/1/2005, Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky,

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect

glitched reality continues

2005-04-01 Thread Alan Ackley
Thanks to Nick Lidster for the elevating discussion of Plato’s cave. I won’t claim I’ve made it into the light yet, but I believe I may have gotten beyond staring at the shadows… Thanks also to Gary Denton for the apology. But I doubt you brought anyone along unless they were trapped in the

Re: glitched reality continues

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Alan Ackley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brin-L@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 5:52 PM Subject: glitched reality continues [SNIP] I think it is time for me to repost the Janelle story.G xponent Alternate History Maru rob

The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time

2005-04-01 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top100.html xponent Fun Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:37 PM Friday 4/1/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:08 PM Subject: Re: tower of Babel theory At 05:37 PM Friday 4/1/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a

Re: tower of Babel theory

2005-04-01 Thread maru
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:08 PM Subject: Re: tower of Babel theory At 05:37 PM Friday 4/1/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Clearly because they're

HAARP ufo's?

2005-04-01 Thread Alan Ackley
HAARP; High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It seems Arco owned a bunch of natural gas rights in Alaska, where no one needed the gas. They lobbied to get this weird thing built; a giant phased array antenna, fed by it’s own power plant. The original idea seemed to be to modulate