Diurnal Desynchronization/Winter Fugue

Aratzio wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:44:42 -0500, in
> alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, dave hillstrom <DaVe@MeOw.OrG>
> bloviated:
>
>>On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:26:16 -0500, mixed nuts
>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote:
>>
>>>mimus wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:03:54 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message
>>>>>news:fpve45$983$1@aioe.org...
>>>>>
>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:20 -0500, in
>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:02:07 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:33 +0000, Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:33:46 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:08:24 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:15:37 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:42:18 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:18 -0500, mimus
>>>>>
>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:48 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:12 -0500, mimus
>>>>>
>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:16 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:50:06 -0500, mimus
>>>>>
>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I overslept badly this morning, 'til almost noon-- watched
>>>>>
>>>>>the
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Memphis-Tennessee game last night *hic*-- and *damn* here I
>>>>>
>>>>>am finishing
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>my usual third and final pint cup of coffee and it's
>>>>>
>>>>>already dark . . . .
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The sun is gone! the sun is gone!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><weep>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><slurp>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you need metal halide. thats what you need.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I take metal halide all the time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Even throw a dashlet into the coffee basket.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>see, like, its all in the delivery. you need to stick it in a
>>>>>
>>>>>glass
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nodule and run electricity through it till it emits light.
>>>>>
>>>>>dig?
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Um . . . at what temperature does coffee start glowing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>if yer on shrooms, room temperature.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE INFRARED, IT ALWAYS DOES. Bah.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>not if its been sitting around for a while.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hey, if it's above O deg. K it's glowing.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Okay puzzle me this, what kind of detector would you use to detect
>>>>>
>>>>>an
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>object that radiates at 0.00000001 degrees kelvin.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>An electron moving through a wide wide magnetic field.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>HAH
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>A detector which is somewhat colder and something like 10^7 seconds
>>>>>
>>>>>(8.3
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>fortnights) to interact with some very low frequency photons.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>And how many photons will you be collecting?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Describe the radiator (of the order of a light-year in extent or larger)
>>>>>>>>and I could work out the specifics (if I felt like it).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The damn coffee cup.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Too small. The peak of the blackbody curve for 1 nK is at a wavelength
>>>>>>of 2897.768 kilometers. You need something much bigger than that to
>>>>>>radiate efficiently as a blackbody - a light year or two would work
>>>>>>nicely. You would, of course, have to build a similarly sized
>>>>>>refrigerator to perform the measurement.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ok, you guys are skating awfully close to maths. Cut it out or else.
>>>>>
>>>>>Smee
>>>>
>>>>We're trying to play with very-low-energy, very-low-frequency,
>>>>very-long-wavelength photons.
>>>>
>>>>You can emit or capture photons of any energy, frequency and wavelenth by
>>>>firing free electrons through magnetic fields but no-one listens to me.
>>>>
>>>><snit>
>>>>
>>>"Firing" is hardly the word - dribble maybe.
>>>
>>>You should use $3 words like 'bremsstrahlung' or 'cyclotron radiation'
>>>in any case.
>>
>>why? will he win a prize?
>
> Yeah, $3, ya dope.

See the FAQ regarding payment of honoraria.

--
nuts

 

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:34:23 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:02:01 -0800, <pscissons@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>"dave hillstrom" <DaVe@MeOw.OrG> wrote in message
>>news:f4a7s3td7k45p0gk9fji7vmu5cmfnhffn0@4ax.com...
>>
>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:21:38 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:58:43 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:38:44 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:18:49 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:20:14 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> >>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:03:49 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:33:46 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> >>>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:08:24 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:15:37 -0500, mimus
>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> >>>>>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:42:18 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:18 -0500, mimus
>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> >>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:48 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:12 -0500, mimus
>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:16 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:50:06 -0500, mimus
>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I overslept badly this morning, 'til almost noon-- watched
>>the
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Memphis-Tennessee game last night *hic*-- and *damn* here I
>>am finishing
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>my usual third and final pint cup of coffee and it's
>>already dark . . . .
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The sun is gone! the sun is gone!
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>><weep>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>><slurp>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you need metal halide. thats what you need.
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>I take metal halide all the time.
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>Even throw a dashlet into the coffee basket.
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> see, like, its all in the delivery. you need to stick it in
>>a glass
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> nodule and run electricity through it till it emits light.
>>dig?
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>>>Um . . . at what temperature does coffee start glowing?
>>> >>>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>> if yer on shrooms, room temperature.
>>> >>>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>>>And IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE INFRARED, IT ALWAYS DOES. Bah.
>>> >>>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>> not if its been sitting around for a while.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>>Hey, if it's above O deg. K it's glowing.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> ok, fellow geek, that depends. it depends on whether your IR
>>> >>>>>> receptors are ~sensitive~ enough to detect in that range. for
>>> >>>>>> instance, a high resolution IR imaging system that they now use on
>>> >>>>>> police copters would NOT be able to see a cold cup of coffee, as it
>>> >>>>>> blends PERFECTLY into the background ambient.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> so, neener.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>Pattern-recognition! neener right back!
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> if the coffee and cup are at the same temp as ambient, and the handle
>>> >>>> of the cup is not at right angles to you direction of view, it will
>>> >>>> look like any of a number of nondescript things. it could be a rock,
>>> >>>> or a loaf of bread, or a jar of something, or a can of campbells
>>soup,
>>> >>>> or a pen holder, or a picture frame, or the shrunken head of a
>>> >>>> squarehead swede, or that cube in hellraiser, or a small box full of
>>> >>>> flesh eating beatles, ad infinitum, ad nauseum...
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> even if the handle IS at right angles to your direction of view, you
>>> >>>> still wouldnt be able to tell whats in it, if anything.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> pattern recognition, which, as a slightly autistic person, i am quite
>>> >>>> familiar with on a personal basis, still needs cues in the pattern
>>for
>>> >>>> it to be recognizable from background noise.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> nyah!!!!!!
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>Now I'm wondering what I drank this morning.
>>> >>
>>> >> as well you should.
>>> >
>>> >Does Campbell's make a coffee soup?
>>>
>>> not yet. maybe you should write them.
>>
>>My son, when quite small, once asked for sheep soup. Darned if we didn't
>>find Campbell's mutton broth on the shelf. For future reference, it was
>>pretty horrible. They don't make it any more.
>
> damn

They might do a trout-stew.

If not, you can probably find some gourmet cat-food and add water.

--
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smeeter 11 or maybe 12

mp 10

mhm 29x13

Prang-nuts is prang-nuts, right? Whether you find
'em inna woods, or they're dispensed by a autofeeder.

< Laumer

 

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:44:42 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:26:16 -0500, mixed nuts
> <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote:
>
>>mimus wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:03:54 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>>>
>>>>"mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message
>>>>news:fpve45$983$1@aioe.org...
>>>>
>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:20 -0500, in
>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:02:07 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:33 +0000, Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:33:46 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:08:24 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:15:37 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:42:18 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:18 -0500, mimus
>>>>
>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:48 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:12 -0500, mimus
>>>>
>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:16 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:50:06 -0500, mimus
>>>>
>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I overslept badly this morning, 'til almost noon-- watched
>>>>
>>>>the
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Memphis-Tennessee game last night *hic*-- and *damn* here I
>>>>
>>>>am finishing
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>my usual third and final pint cup of coffee and it's
>>>>
>>>>already dark . . . .
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The sun is gone! the sun is gone!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><weep>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><slurp>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you need metal halide. thats what you need.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I take metal halide all the time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Even throw a dashlet into the coffee basket.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>see, like, its all in the delivery. you need to stick it in a
>>>>
>>>>glass
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nodule and run electricity through it till it emits light.
>>>>
>>>>dig?
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Um . . . at what temperature does coffee start glowing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>if yer on shrooms, room temperature.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE INFRARED, IT ALWAYS DOES. Bah.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>not if its been sitting around for a while.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Hey, if it's above O deg. K it's glowing.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Okay puzzle me this, what kind of detector would you use to detect
>>>>
>>>>an
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>object that radiates at 0.00000001 degrees kelvin.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>An electron moving through a wide wide magnetic field.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>HAH
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>A detector which is somewhat colder and something like 10^7 seconds
>>>>
>>>>(8.3
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>fortnights) to interact with some very low frequency photons.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>And how many photons will you be collecting?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Describe the radiator (of the order of a light-year in extent or larger)
>>>>>>>and I could work out the specifics (if I felt like it).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The damn coffee cup.
>>>>>
>>>>>Too small. The peak of the blackbody curve for 1 nK is at a wavelength
>>>>>of 2897.768 kilometers. You need something much bigger than that to
>>>>>radiate efficiently as a blackbody - a light year or two would work
>>>>>nicely. You would, of course, have to build a similarly sized
>>>>>refrigerator to perform the measurement.
>>>>
>>>>Ok, you guys are skating awfully close to maths. Cut it out or else.
>>>>
>>>>Smee
>>>
>>> We're trying to play with very-low-energy, very-low-frequency,
>>> very-long-wavelength photons.
>>>
>>> You can emit or capture photons of any energy, frequency and wavelenth by
>>> firing free electrons through magnetic fields but no-one listens to me.
>>>
>>> <snit>
>>>
>>"Firing" is hardly the word - dribble maybe.
>>
>>You should use $3 words like 'bremsstrahlung' or 'cyclotron radiation'
>>in any case.
>
> why? will he win a prize?

They pay by the syllable, apparently.

--
tinmimus99@hotmail.com

smeeter 11 or maybe 12

mp 10

mhm 29x13

You want a job and a lizard to ride?

< _The Einstein Intersection_

 

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:13:16 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:44:42 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:26:16 -0500, mixed nuts
>> <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote:
>>
>>>mimus wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:03:54 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message
>>>>>news:fpve45$983$1@aioe.org...
>>>>>
>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:20 -0500, in
>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:02:07 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:33 +0000, Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:33:46 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:08:24 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:15:37 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:42:18 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:18 -0500, mimus
>>>>>
>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:48 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:12 -0500, mimus
>>>>>
>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:16 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:50:06 -0500, mimus
>>>>>
>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I overslept badly this morning, 'til almost noon-- watched
>>>>>
>>>>>the
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Memphis-Tennessee game last night *hic*-- and *damn* here I
>>>>>
>>>>>am finishing
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>my usual third and final pint cup of coffee and it's
>>>>>
>>>>>already dark . . . .
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The sun is gone! the sun is gone!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><weep>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><slurp>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you need metal halide. thats what you need.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I take metal halide all the time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Even throw a dashlet into the coffee basket.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>see, like, its all in the delivery. you need to stick it in a
>>>>>
>>>>>glass
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nodule and run electricity through it till it emits light.
>>>>>
>>>>>dig?
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Um . . . at what temperature does coffee start glowing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>if yer on shrooms, room temperature.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE INFRARED, IT ALWAYS DOES. Bah.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>not if its been sitting around for a while.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hey, if it's above O deg. K it's glowing.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Okay puzzle me this, what kind of detector would you use to detect
>>>>>
>>>>>an
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>object that radiates at 0.00000001 degrees kelvin.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>An electron moving through a wide wide magnetic field.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>HAH
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>A detector which is somewhat colder and something like 10^7 seconds
>>>>>
>>>>>(8.3
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>fortnights) to interact with some very low frequency photons.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>And how many photons will you be collecting?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Describe the radiator (of the order of a light-year in extent or larger)
>>>>>>>>and I could work out the specifics (if I felt like it).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The damn coffee cup.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Too small. The peak of the blackbody curve for 1 nK is at a wavelength
>>>>>>of 2897.768 kilometers. You need something much bigger than that to
>>>>>>radiate efficiently as a blackbody - a light year or two would work
>>>>>>nicely. You would, of course, have to build a similarly sized
>>>>>>refrigerator to perform the measurement.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ok, you guys are skating awfully close to maths. Cut it out or else.
>>>>>
>>>>>Smee
>>>>
>>>> We're trying to play with very-low-energy, very-low-frequency,
>>>> very-long-wavelength photons.
>>>>
>>>> You can emit or capture photons of any energy, frequency and wavelenth by
>>>> firing free electrons through magnetic fields but no-one listens to me.
>>>>
>>>> <snit>
>>>>
>>>"Firing" is hardly the word - dribble maybe.
>>>
>>>You should use $3 words like 'bremsstrahlung' or 'cyclotron radiation'
>>>in any case.
>>
>> why? will he win a prize?
>
>They pay by the syllable, apparently.

so, what yer saying is that ~they~ can be beneficial as well as being
the source of all evil, right?

--
dave hillstrom mhm15x4 zrbj

<This space for rent.>

 

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:10:47 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:34:23 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:02:01 -0800, <pscissons@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>"dave hillstrom" <DaVe@MeOw.OrG> wrote in message
>>>news:f4a7s3td7k45p0gk9fji7vmu5cmfnhffn0@4ax.com...
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:21:38 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:58:43 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:38:44 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:18:49 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:20:14 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> >>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:03:49 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:33:46 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> >>>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:08:24 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:15:37 -0500, mimus
>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> >>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:42:18 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:18 -0500, mimus
>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:48 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:12 -0500, mimus
>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:16 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:50:06 -0500, mimus
>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I overslept badly this morning, 'til almost noon-- watched
>>>the
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Memphis-Tennessee game last night *hic*-- and *damn* here I
>>>am finishing
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>my usual third and final pint cup of coffee and it's
>>>already dark . . . .
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The sun is gone! the sun is gone!
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>><weep>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>><slurp>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you need metal halide. thats what you need.
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>I take metal halide all the time.
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>Even throw a dashlet into the coffee basket.
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> see, like, its all in the delivery. you need to stick it in
>>>a glass
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> nodule and run electricity through it till it emits light.
>>>dig?
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>Um . . . at what temperature does coffee start glowing?
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>> if yer on shrooms, room temperature.
>>>> >>>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>>>And IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE INFRARED, IT ALWAYS DOES. Bah.
>>>> >>>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>> not if its been sitting around for a while.
>>>> >>>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>>>Hey, if it's above O deg. K it's glowing.
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> ok, fellow geek, that depends. it depends on whether your IR
>>>> >>>>>> receptors are ~sensitive~ enough to detect in that range. for
>>>> >>>>>> instance, a high resolution IR imaging system that they now use on
>>>> >>>>>> police copters would NOT be able to see a cold cup of coffee, as it
>>>> >>>>>> blends PERFECTLY into the background ambient.
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> so, neener.
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>>Pattern-recognition! neener right back!
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> if the coffee and cup are at the same temp as ambient, and the handle
>>>> >>>> of the cup is not at right angles to you direction of view, it will
>>>> >>>> look like any of a number of nondescript things. it could be a rock,
>>>> >>>> or a loaf of bread, or a jar of something, or a can of campbells
>>>soup,
>>>> >>>> or a pen holder, or a picture frame, or the shrunken head of a
>>>> >>>> squarehead swede, or that cube in hellraiser, or a small box full of
>>>> >>>> flesh eating beatles, ad infinitum, ad nauseum...
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> even if the handle IS at right angles to your direction of view, you
>>>> >>>> still wouldnt be able to tell whats in it, if anything.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> pattern recognition, which, as a slightly autistic person, i am quite
>>>> >>>> familiar with on a personal basis, still needs cues in the pattern
>>>for
>>>> >>>> it to be recognizable from background noise.
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> nyah!!!!!!
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>Now I'm wondering what I drank this morning.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> as well you should.
>>>> >
>>>> >Does Campbell's make a coffee soup?
>>>>
>>>> not yet. maybe you should write them.
>>>
>>>My son, when quite small, once asked for sheep soup. Darned if we didn't
>>>find Campbell's mutton broth on the shelf. For future reference, it was
>>>pretty horrible. They don't make it any more.
>>
>> damn
>
>They might do a trout-stew.
>
>If not, you can probably find some gourmet cat-food and add water.

thanks. youre so helpful, going out of your way to look up recipes
for your omnivorous brethren.

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:46:43 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:13:16 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:44:42 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:26:16 -0500, mixed nuts
>>> <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote:
>>>
>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:03:54 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>"mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message
>>>>>>news:fpve45$983$1@aioe.org...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:20 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:02:07 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:33 +0000, Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:33:46 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:08:24 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:15:37 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:42:18 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:18 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>
>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:48 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:12 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>
>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:16 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:50:06 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>
>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I overslept badly this morning, 'til almost noon-- watched
>>>>>>
>>>>>>the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Memphis-Tennessee game last night *hic*-- and *damn* here I
>>>>>>
>>>>>>am finishing
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>my usual third and final pint cup of coffee and it's
>>>>>>
>>>>>>already dark . . . .
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The sun is gone! the sun is gone!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><weep>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><slurp>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you need metal halide. thats what you need.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I take metal halide all the time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Even throw a dashlet into the coffee basket.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>see, like, its all in the delivery. you need to stick it in a
>>>>>>
>>>>>>glass
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nodule and run electricity through it till it emits light.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>dig?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Um . . . at what temperature does coffee start glowing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>if yer on shrooms, room temperature.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE INFRARED, IT ALWAYS DOES. Bah.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>not if its been sitting around for a while.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hey, if it's above O deg. K it's glowing.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Okay puzzle me this, what kind of detector would you use to detect
>>>>>>
>>>>>>an
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>object that radiates at 0.00000001 degrees kelvin.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>An electron moving through a wide wide magnetic field.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>HAH
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>A detector which is somewhat colder and something like 10^7 seconds
>>>>>>
>>>>>>(8.3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>fortnights) to interact with some very low frequency photons.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>And how many photons will you be collecting?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Describe the radiator (of the order of a light-year in extent or larger)
>>>>>>>>>and I could work out the specifics (if I felt like it).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>The damn coffee cup.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Too small. The peak of the blackbody curve for 1 nK is at a wavelength
>>>>>>>of 2897.768 kilometers. You need something much bigger than that to
>>>>>>>radiate efficiently as a blackbody - a light year or two would work
>>>>>>>nicely. You would, of course, have to build a similarly sized
>>>>>>>refrigerator to perform the measurement.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ok, you guys are skating awfully close to maths. Cut it out or else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Smee
>>>>>
>>>>> We're trying to play with very-low-energy, very-low-frequency,
>>>>> very-long-wavelength photons.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can emit or capture photons of any energy, frequency and wavelenth by
>>>>> firing free electrons through magnetic fields but no-one listens to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> <snit>
>>>>>
>>>>"Firing" is hardly the word - dribble maybe.
>>>>
>>>>You should use $3 words like 'bremsstrahlung' or 'cyclotron radiation'
>>>>in any case.
>>>
>>> why? will he win a prize?
>>
>>They pay by the syllable, apparently.
>
> so, what yer saying is that ~they~ can be beneficial as well as being
> the source of all evil, right?

They could be if They'd pay up.

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mp 10

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:07:58 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:46:43 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:13:16 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:44:42 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:26:16 -0500, mixed nuts
>>>> <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:03:54 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message
>>>>>>>news:fpve45$983$1@aioe.org...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:20 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:02:07 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:33 +0000, Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:33:46 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:08:24 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:15:37 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:42:18 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:18 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:48 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:12 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:16 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:50:06 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I overslept badly this morning, 'til almost noon-- watched
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Memphis-Tennessee game last night *hic*-- and *damn* here I
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>am finishing
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>my usual third and final pint cup of coffee and it's
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>already dark . . . .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The sun is gone! the sun is gone!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><weep>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><slurp>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you need metal halide. thats what you need.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I take metal halide all the time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Even throw a dashlet into the coffee basket.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>see, like, its all in the delivery. you need to stick it in a
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>glass
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nodule and run electricity through it till it emits light.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>dig?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Um . . . at what temperature does coffee start glowing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>if yer on shrooms, room temperature.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE INFRARED, IT ALWAYS DOES. Bah.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>not if its been sitting around for a while.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hey, if it's above O deg. K it's glowing.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Okay puzzle me this, what kind of detector would you use to detect
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>an
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>object that radiates at 0.00000001 degrees kelvin.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>An electron moving through a wide wide magnetic field.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>HAH
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>A detector which is somewhat colder and something like 10^7 seconds
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>(8.3
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>fortnights) to interact with some very low frequency photons.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>And how many photons will you be collecting?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Describe the radiator (of the order of a light-year in extent or larger)
>>>>>>>>>>and I could work out the specifics (if I felt like it).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>The damn coffee cup.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Too small. The peak of the blackbody curve for 1 nK is at a wavelength
>>>>>>>>of 2897.768 kilometers. You need something much bigger than that to
>>>>>>>>radiate efficiently as a blackbody - a light year or two would work
>>>>>>>>nicely. You would, of course, have to build a similarly sized
>>>>>>>>refrigerator to perform the measurement.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ok, you guys are skating awfully close to maths. Cut it out or else.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Smee
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We're trying to play with very-low-energy, very-low-frequency,
>>>>>> very-long-wavelength photons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can emit or capture photons of any energy, frequency and wavelenth by
>>>>>> firing free electrons through magnetic fields but no-one listens to me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snit>
>>>>>>
>>>>>"Firing" is hardly the word - dribble maybe.
>>>>>
>>>>>You should use $3 words like 'bremsstrahlung' or 'cyclotron radiation'
>>>>>in any case.
>>>>
>>>> why? will he win a prize?
>>>
>>>They pay by the syllable, apparently.
>>
>> so, what yer saying is that ~they~ can be beneficial as well as being
>> the source of all evil, right?
>
>They could be if They'd pay up.

imagine. ~they~ have a tardy payables department.

--
dave hillstrom mhm15x4 zrbj

<This space for rent.>

 

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:36:57 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:07:58 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:46:43 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:13:16 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:44:42 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:26:16 -0500, mixed nuts
>>>>> <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:03:54 -0800, pscissons wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>"mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>news:fpve45$983$1@aioe.org...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:10:20 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:02:07 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mixed nuts
>>>>>>>>>>>><melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>mimus wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:33 +0000, Aratzio wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:33:46 -0500, in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>bloviated:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:08:24 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:15:37 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:42:18 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:18 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:48 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:12 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:16 -0500, dave hillstrom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:50:06 -0500, mimus
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>><tinmimus99@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I overslept badly this morning, 'til almost noon-- watched
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>the
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Memphis-Tennessee game last night *hic*-- and *damn* here I
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>am finishing
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>my usual third and final pint cup of coffee and it's
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>already dark . . . .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The sun is gone! the sun is gone!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><weep>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><slurp>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you need metal halide. thats what you need.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I take metal halide all the time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Even throw a dashlet into the coffee basket.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>see, like, its all in the delivery. you need to stick it in a
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>glass
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nodule and run electricity through it till it emits light.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>dig?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Um . . . at what temperature does coffee start glowing?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>if yer on shrooms, room temperature.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And IF YOU CAN SEE IN THE INFRARED, IT ALWAYS DOES. Bah.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>not if its been sitting around for a while.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hey, if it's above O deg. K it's glowing.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Okay puzzle me this, what kind of detector would you use to detect
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>an
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>object that radiates at 0.00000001 degrees kelvin.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>An electron moving through a wide wide magnetic field.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HAH
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>A detector which is somewhat colder and something like 10^7 seconds
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>(8.3
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>fortnights) to interact with some very low frequency photons.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>And how many photons will you be collecting?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Describe the radiator (of the order of a light-year in extent or larger)
>>>>>>>>>>>and I could work out the specifics (if I felt like it).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>The damn coffee cup.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Too small. The peak of the blackbody curve for 1 nK is at a wavelength
>>>>>>>>>of 2897.768 kilometers. You need something much bigger than that to
>>>>>>>>>radiate efficiently as a blackbody - a light year or two would work
>>>>>>>>>nicely. You would, of course, have to build a similarly sized
>>>>>>>>>refrigerator to perform the measurement.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Ok, you guys are skating awfully close to maths. Cut it out or else.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Smee
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We're trying to play with very-low-energy, very-low-frequency,
>>>>>>> very-long-wavelength photons.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can emit or capture photons of any energy, frequency and wavelenth by
>>>>>>> firing free electrons through magnetic fields but no-one listens to me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <snit>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>"Firing" is hardly the word - dribble maybe.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You should use $3 words like 'bremsstrahlung' or 'cyclotron radiation'
>>>>>>in any case.
>>>>>
>>>>> why? will he win a prize?
>>>>
>>>>They pay by the syllable, apparently.
>>>
>>> so, what yer saying is that ~they~ can be beneficial as well as being
>>> the source of all evil, right?
>>
>>They could be if They'd pay up.
>
> imagine. ~they~ have a tardy payables department.

They have a standing offer to let you make your case to and hear the legal
department laugh at you.

--
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smeeter 11 or maybe 12

mp 10

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