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From: Steve Hix on 5 May 2010 23:04 In article <tph-7F1291.13115405052010(a)localhost>, Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote: > In article <sehix-5388C3.11023105052010(a)5ad64b5e.bb.sky.com>, > Steve Hix <sehix(a)NOSPAMmac.comINVALID> wrote: > > > In article <slrnhu29n6.2eu.gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com>, > > "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com> wrote: > > > > > Thomas R. Kettler wrote: > > > > That explains why honeybees have been dying by the millions. People > > > > having been telling them they can't fly! > > > > > > > ><http://www.greenearthfriend.com/2009/01/colony-collapse-disorder-ccd-hon > > > > eybees-dying-by-the-millions/> > > > > > > They have been dying by the millions because of a disease they had > > > no immunity to. There is now a vaccine for it, > > > > How in the world do you administer the vaccine to the little honeys? > > Tiny little syringes and a whole lot of patience. :}
From: Charles Richmond on 5 May 2010 23:54 JF Mezei wrote: > Gordon Bell has a web site that is focused on the history of Digital. > Despite being hosted on microsoft web site, it appears to be benign and > won't delete all your files. > > http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Digital/DECmuseum.htm Is this like the "History of the World" according to Mel Brooks??? -- +----------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | | | | plano dot net at aquaporin4 dot com | +----------------------------------------+
From: Mensanator on 5 May 2010 23:59 On May 5, 10:40�pm, Lewis <g.kr...(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > In message <hrsprq$i5...(a)news.eternal-september.org> > � Peter Flass <Peter_Fl...(a)Yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > jmfbahciv wrote: > >> Michelle Steiner wrote: > >>> In article <1b39y7n47b....(a)snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net>, > >>> �Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > > >>>> None of the three is remotely plausible. > >>> That's what "they" said about almost every innovation. > > >> You cannot innovate physical laws of nature. �Human innovation > >> is merely taking advantage of those laws. > > > But there are always cases current knowledge doesn't cover. �Newton's > > laws described the universe quite well until science began to accumulate > > a number of cases they didn't cover, then Einstein came along. �I think > > we're beginning to hit situations that relativity and/or quantum physics > > dont't cover, and, by the way, how do you mesh those two anyway? > > For example, the paths of the Voyager and Pioneer spacecrafts are still > being tracked. They do not match the expected path. The 'error' is > small, but consistent. > > As far as I know, no one has the faintest idea why. Why don't they just blame it on Dark Matter like they do everything else they can't explain? > > -- > I CANNOT ABSOLVE SINS Bart chalkboard Ep. AABF14- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
From: Charles Richmond on 6 May 2010 00:15 Walter Bushell wrote: > In article > <michelle-C54688.23171004052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > >> In article >> <7b6d8ba5-ffab-4d20-b345-7085cf663b13(a)b18g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >> Mensanator <mensanator(a)aol.com> wrote: >> >>>> That reminds me of the story about the guy who travels back in time to >>>> take Newton a calculator, thinking it would advance science. He is in >>>> the process of demonstrating some things when the answer happens to >>>> be, "666." Newton does not take that one well at all. >>> What was the problem? Summing the integers from 1 to 36? >> set x to 0 >> repeat with i from 1 to 36 >> set x to x + i >> end repeat > > 37*18 > > Sum of integers from 1 to n is ((n+1)*n)/2. > > And you don't even need induction to prove it. hint n-1 +2 = n+1 > etcetera. > Another "proof": 1 2 3 4 5 ..... (n-2) (n-1) n + n (n-1) (n-2) (n-3) (n-4) ..... 3 2 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ (n+1) (n+1) (n+1) (n+1) (n+1) ..... (n+1) (n+1) (n+1) The "sum" line above has "n" number of (n+1), but adding those up gives you *twice* the sum of (1..n). So divide by 2. -- +----------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | | | | plano dot net at aquaporin4 dot com | +----------------------------------------+
From: Charles Richmond on 6 May 2010 00:19
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. > Sure, a steam powered factory. You can sort of make that work for weaving machines. But think of a car assembly line using this time of steam powered factory with belts transferring the motion... -- +----------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | | | | plano dot net at aquaporin4 dot com | +----------------------------------------+ |