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From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on 5 May 2010 17:52 On Wed, 05 May 2010 13:30:44 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > Steve Hix <sehix(a)NOSPAMmac.comINVALID> writes: > > > 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? > > Little tiny syringes? Little teeny syringes - to go with the little teeny license plates. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on 5 May 2010 17:49 On 5 May 2010 21:26:10 GMT Ian Gregory <ianji33(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > 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". The kid was Nanny Ogg IIRC. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on 6 May 2010 05:24 On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:07:23 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > OK, let's say not in any context that involves FTL travel actually > happening. Theoretical constructs that require large quantities of > exotic matter are firmly in "assume a can opener" territory. I thought the paper showing that the energy requirements to get a light atom to travel FTL in a Alcubierre warp could be reduced from around the mass of the universe to around three solar masses was promising - a few more reductions of that scale and it will start to look feasible. ISTR there being at least one arrangement that did not require any exotic matter too. I'm not inclined to write it all off as impossible yet - not while serious minded people who can actually produce exact solutions to the general relativity equations are still exploring the edge cases. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on 6 May 2010 06:12 On 05 May 10 17:12:47 -0800 "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > In article <slrnhu3tp2.30t.ianji33(a)zenatode.org.uk>, > ianji33(a)googlemail.com (Ian Gregory) writes: > > > On 2010-05-05, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > >> In article <hrsr4n$2t9$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > >> DRAMA QUEEN <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > >> > >>>> ba + (na)^2 > >>> > >>> Standard Usenet nitpicking: > >>> Why is one syllable added and the others multiplied? > >> > >> Actually, it's raised to a power, not merely multiplied. > > > > It is multiplied by itself but it would be more consistent to multiply > > by 2. Using "+" to stand for concatenation in the first equality with > > its usual meaning in the second: > > > > banana = ba + na + na = ba + 2*na > > > > Whereas using "*" in an equivalent way: > > > > banana = ba*na*na = ba*(na)^2 > > > > So what is the square root of Christmas? > > Halloween? No, wait, that's a radix change. DEC 25 = OCT 31. Ah so the square root is DEC 5. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
From: Bernd Felsche on 6 May 2010 07:45
Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote: >Walter Bushell wrote: >> 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... There can also be shafts. And chains. And wire rope. -- /"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | If builders built buildings the way programmers X against HTML mail | wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that / \ and postings | came along would destroy civilization. |