Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-17 Thread \0xDynamite
Sorry for this little diversion, If light travels at a. different speed for different colors in order to account for the rainbow of a prism, how fast is the. speed of light then? >>> >>> The speed of light is a physical constant. The frequency (or >>> wavelength) of a photon

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-17 Thread jim bell
On Friday, May 17, 2019, 10:55:25 AM PDT, \0xDynamite wrote: >I think you answered part of my question, which was partly didactic to force science to get more rigor in its explanation.  I think I will have to content myself with this because I know that rainbows and the sky being blue

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-17 Thread Douglas Lucas
Hey cypherpunks / nerdcoin hoarders, On 5/12/19 6:59 PM, \0xDynamite wrote: > If light travels at a. different speed for different colors in order > to account for the rainbow of a prism, how fast is the. speed of light > then? Is there real physics to optics? How can light know what >

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-17 Thread Steven Schear
The area of consciousness studies suffers from clarity of definition which is a major constraint on research outside the mainstream narratives. A good example is the widespread dismissal of Jaynes', "The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind", mostly due to reviewers

Re: EMP missile

2019-05-17 Thread Steven Schear
See also https://www.ausairpower.net/dew-ebomb.html On Thu, May 16, 2019, 3:19 PM jim bell wrote: > Air Force has deployed missiles that could fry electronics of Iran > https://mol.im/a/7037549 via http://dailym.ai/android > > >

Re: OFFTOPIC: physics question

2019-05-17 Thread \0xDynamite
>>I think you answered part of my question, which was partly didactic to > force science to get more rigor in its explanation. I think I will > have to content myself with this because I know that rainbows and the > sky being blue will NEVER be explainable by science. > Mark > > No, the reason

Re: EMP missile

2019-05-17 Thread Steve Kinney
On 5/16/19 6:18 PM, jim bell wrote: > Air Force has deployed missiles that could fry electronics of Iran > https://mol.im/a/7037549 via http://dailym.ai/android > The article as a whole reads like a "defense" contractor's press release: Bombastic, overblown, factually inaccurate (i.e.

how to background mutt external viewer applications

2019-05-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
A hint is here: http://www.guckes.net/Mutt/setup.html To make it work, do e.g. the following in $HOME/.mailcap as follows (the following is to be on one line): application/pdf; (mv %s %s-\; evince %s-\; rm -f %s-)& sleep 0.2s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" Couple keys: - mv mutt's temp file to a