Re: OFF TOPIC Iraqi aluminum tube story finis

2004-10-07 Thread leaking pen
no, what im saying is that in terms of troop deployment overseas in anything but defensive posture, we are under un control. we should NOT attack people unilaterally that have not attacked us. iraq did not attack us. period. and since weve killed more people in iraq so far than saddam has in the

Re: Need CAD/CAM VTOL drawing

2004-10-07 Thread Mike Carrell
Jed wrote: > If anyone out there enjoys using these CAD/CAM drawing programs, please > contact me by private e-mail. I would like to commission a drawing of a > futuristic six-engined, wingless VTOL airplane, if you can imagine such a > thing. A rough sketch would be fine. It does not have to be

Re: Academic web sites held for ransom (but who cares?)

2004-10-07 Thread Steven Krivit
I pity the poor slob who has nothing better to do with his/her life. At 06:14 PM 10/7/2004 -0400, you wrote: It appears that someone is going around buying up old, defunct academic conference web sites and holding them for ransom, by advertising pornographic products on them. See, for example: I

Re: OFF TOPIC Iraqi aluminum tube story finis

2004-10-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
> 1. well, since theres been testifiying in front of > congress and leaks > and unaltered originals sent to media, yeah, > actually, we do know for > sure. I'm just saying there is a lot more to this whole situation than meets the eye, on both sides. > 2. the us is a signatory to the un. the

Need CAD/CAM VTOL drawing

2004-10-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
If anyone out there enjoys using these CAD/CAM drawing programs, please contact me by private e-mail. I would like to commission a drawing of a futuristic six-engined, wingless VTOL airplane, if you can imagine such a thing. A rough sketch would be fine. It does not have to be detailed and it c

Academic web sites held for ransom (but who cares?)

2004-10-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
It appears that someone is going around buying up old, defunct academic conference web sites and holding them for ransom, by advertising pornographic products on them. See, for example: ICCF10 conference http://www.iccf10.org/ Robotics 2000 and Space 2000 conference. Albuquerque, NM, USA, Februa

Infamous Popular Mechanics article now on line

2004-10-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/2004/8/dangerous_science/ Sort of infamous. With some people. Actually, I am glad they published it. - Jed

[Fwd: Joy of discussion]

2004-10-07 Thread Frederick Sparber
So far all I can come up with for an answer Ed, is "42".    :-)   Frederick .. On 10/7/04 12:46:36 PM   Ed Storms wrote to Frederick and

Artificial muscles

2004-10-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: Electroactive Polymers As Artificial Muscles - Capabilities, Potentials And Challenges http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/ndeaa-pub/EAP/EAP-robotics-2000.pdf Figure 11 is neat! - Jed

Re: Joy of discussion

2004-10-07 Thread Kitzmiller
- Original Message - From: RC Macaulay Before he passed, my geologist friend and I enjoyed comparing views. Mine was the earth expanded versus his.. the continental drift. His view being that the evidence shows plate tectonics are dynamic. My view.. that the continents could not have drift

Stepper Motor thoughts and questions.

2004-10-07 Thread Keith Nagel
Hi All. I'm hoping some of you folks can give me some advice. I've been working with stepper motors from old hard drives; an excellent source for such things. They each come with a controller card, and vary in speed from 5000-15000 rpm depending on the make and model. The problem I run into is th

[OT] Syrian/Israeli Peace?

2004-10-07 Thread Terry Blanton
"Syrian President Bashar Assad is offering to make peace with Israel and says he is ready to cooperate with the United States in stabilizing Iraq, a former senior State Department official said Wednesday." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485831.html Is Assad smoking from the same hookah as K

[Fwd: Joy of discussion]

2004-10-07 Thread Edmund Storms
--- Begin Message --- I have a few question as a simple observer of things I know little about.  If the speed of light changed, would not the speed of the electron around the nucleus also change?  Would not the rate of reactions within nature and within the body not change in proportion?  In oth

Re: Time as a constant ???

2004-10-07 Thread Nick Reiter
Gentlemen, Back in 2000, I attended a little informal meeting at University of Arizona in Tucson at the Astronomy Department on alternative models of gravity. One of the people I met at that time was the department contrarian astronomer, Dr. Bill Tifft. Tifft's speciality was the observation of

Re: OFF TOPIC Iraqi aluminum tube story finis

2004-10-07 Thread leaking pen
1. well, since theres been testifiying in front of congress and leaks and unaltered originals sent to media, yeah, actually, we do know for sure. 2. the us is a signatory to the un. the us has agreed to the uns controll in issues that are not about defense. in fact, the whole reason we went in

Re: Time as a constant ???

2004-10-07 Thread leaking pen
im missing the last part of the statement. provided that constant changes... wouldnt that make it a variable. and time IS a variable, dependant upon velocity. On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:58:55 -0500, RC Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could we consider time as the only constant, provided

Re: Time as a constant ???

2004-10-07 Thread Mike Carrell
Jones wrote: > > A few years back (25 years to be exact) a fine, > nominally-secular, BBS series debuted on American public TV > called "Connections" which is enlightening to merge with > some of later more open-minded spiritual ideas of Bill > Moyers. James Burke, the "Connections" master-mind, >

Joy of discussion

2004-10-07 Thread Frederick Sparber
Richard Macaulay wrote:   "My view.. that the continents could not have drifted " apart" since the east and west side of land masses " fit". The discussion reached a point of maturity with each "cutting the other some slack" whereas he could grant me slack that the earth could have expanded .

Re: Electronium & Carbonation of H2O/D2O

2004-10-07 Thread Frederick Sparber
A battery of experiments involving microwaving water, ranging from distilled,(and melted hailstones from a recent deluge) and various concentrations of salts, indicate either the presence/transfer of the electronium particle, or complex  (loss tangent) interaction behavior of the 2.45 GHz micro

Joy of discussion

2004-10-07 Thread RC Macaulay
Before he passed, my geologist friend and I enjoyed comparing views. Mine was the earth expanded versus his.. the continental drift. His view being that the evidence shows plate tectonics are dynamic. My view.. that the continents could not have drifted " apart" since the east and west side