Are you a chess player?

2007-01-31 Thread Jim Sharkey
If you are, have you ever checked out www.redhotpawn.com? It's correspondence chess via the Internet. I got turned onto it a week or so ago, and I'm digging it. I hadn't played in *years*, and now I have several games going on. If you check it out and want a game, I'm TemplarFO. Jim The

Weekly Chat Reminder

2007-01-31 Thread William T Goodall
As Steve said, The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of

RE: What science fiction writer are you?

2007-01-31 Thread Dan Minette
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:02 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: What science fiction writer are you? Charlie Bell wrote: On 31/01/2007, at 2:35 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:

Re: What science fiction writer are you?

2007-01-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Dan Minette wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:02 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: What science fiction writer are you? Charlie Bell wrote: On 31/01/2007, at 2:35 AM,

Endless Universe Made Possible By New Model

2007-01-31 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Endless_Universe_Made_Possible_By_New_Model_999.html A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North

SKY-MAP.ORG

2007-01-31 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://sky-map.org/ GoogleEarth? Heh! I got the Universe Baby xponent Beauty in The Distance Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Endless Universe Made Possible By New Model

2007-01-31 Thread Charlie Bell
On 01/02/2007, at 1:20 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: This cycle happens an infinite number of times, thus eliminating any start or end of time, Frampton said. There is no Big Bang. Um... I thought Big Bang theory doesn't rule out a prior Big Crunch. What they're doing is presenting a new

Re: What science fiction writer are you?

2007-01-31 Thread Jo Anne
Hi List -- OK, so once again I'm waaay off everyone else here. I'm William Gibson (?)! And if I change the glass being the wrong size to the glass being full, I'm Ursula K. LeGuin (??)! (I couldn't make up my mind about the glass). H... Jo Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Endless Universe Made Possible By New Model

2007-01-31 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 1/31/2007 8:54:36 PM, Charlie Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 01/02/2007, at 1:20 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: This cycle happens an infinite number of times, thus eliminating any start or end of time, Frampton said. There is no Big Bang. Um... I thought Big Bang theory

Re: Endless Universe Made Possible By New Model

2007-01-31 Thread Charlie Bell
On 01/02/2007, at 2:13 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: IOW, will the daughter universes be as favorable for life as ours, or will they be random iterations? Very tiny, almost unmeasurably small, bits of our universe are favourable to life. This whole fine tuning set of arguments strikes

Re: What science fiction writer are you?

2007-01-31 Thread Doug
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:13:25 -0800, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31/01/2007, at 10:05 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Question(Are you a total dork when dealing with the opposite sex?, 8); A(I probably offend a lot more people than I realize I do., acdgnpuvz);