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From: Jennifer Usher on 5 May 2010 16:00 "Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo(a)eircom.net> wrote in message news:20100505061439.f6406795.steveo(a)eircom.net... > Yes in a context relevant to FTL travel - check the references > listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive for warp bubbles > applied to FTL travel. Eh, he just stole the idea from Zefram Cochrane. ;-) -- Jennifer Usher
From: Walter Bushell on 5 May 2010 17:03 In article <michelle-F0B9BA.12014205052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <10.125.61921.wTzChGc.250.501(a)amhuinnsuidhe.net>, > Nollaig MacKenzie <nollaig(a)amhuinnDELETEsuidheCAPS.net> wrote: > > > > We know how gravity warps space-time? When did this happen? > > > > Better to say: gravity is warped space-time. > > Gravity sucks. No, no, no. "There is no gravity; the Earth sucks." " -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: Ian Gregory on 5 May 2010 17:26 On 2010-05-05, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > Every time I try to eat one of those long yellow fruit > I get a floating-point exception. > > ba + (na)^2 A kid was apparently heard to say "I know how to spell banana, I just don't know when to stop". Ian -- Ian Gregory http://www.zenatode.org.uk/
From: Jennifer Usher on 5 May 2010 17:32 "Michelle Steiner" <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote in message news:michelle-FF5D9F.13153205052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi... > In article <4be1ce55$0$5233$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > "Jennifer Usher" <jennisuzan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Yes in a context relevant to FTL travel - check the references >> > listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive for warp >> > bubbles >> > applied to FTL travel. >> >> Eh, he just stole the idea from Zefram Cochrane. ;-) > > That's pretty good, considering that he will probably die before Cochrane > will be born. Time travel, anyone? Maybe he is friends with the Doctor. -- Jennifer Usher
From: Peter Flass on 5 May 2010 17:51
Walter Bushell wrote: > In article <hrqoft$enh$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote: > >> Yeah!!! Where the hell would the world be today without the >> three-phase electric motor??? All the "heavy industry" plants rely >> on this workhorse, and Tesla invented it. > > Ah, I remember a exhibit in the Smithsonian museum in Washington D.C. of > a steam powered factory. The ceiling was entirely belts, because every > machine was belt powered. > I had a summer job in a factory like that for a couple of years. I believe it was electric and not steam, though I wouldn't swear to it, but all the machinery was driven by a series of belts. |