The Longest Thread Ever!

[BadNick]

236 ate 1, which made me hungry 2.

[Jetée]

New Page... I don't often get to reprise this role anymore - how do I make it better?



(BadNick beat me by the proverbial two clicks.)

[BadNick]

psychedelic venison!

Jet,
I would say "two clicks" is a lot shorter than two minutes, which can be almost an eternity.

[Jetée]

I know; but as you know me, my sense of timing is screwy (two minutes later is "on-time" for me).

It's the perfectionist trait. Whence I would have been early, I kept tweaking until I was late.
(is this a poem?)

[BadNick]

Originally Posted by Jetée

...(is this a poem?)

and you know it

What seems to be the longest running high school football rivalry is the one between Norwich Free Academy (Norwich, CT) and New London High School (New London, CT). It started in 1875 with their Annual Thanksgiving football game, soon to be meeting for the 149th time on Thanksgiving Day 2010. Go Team!!!

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Perfectionist traits
find their self-satisfaction
in knowing they are.

(...Hell, man, I just make stuff up;
the dreams I have are often scary,
but I'm not afraid to fail.)

EDIT: (& you'll notice BadNick beat me by 7 "clicks" on that one while I was fretting about syllables.)

[Jetée]

I count your syllables on my fingers.
Those haiku artists that can do it in their head, to wit, and in step & on-time, and most incredibly, with rhyme...

Rockstars.

[Jetée]

It wasn't so long ago, was it (later, alligator)?

Cat protects people from vicious hungry alligator

Cat protects people from vicious hungry alligator

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Cat, so very cool!
Had to "share" it to my wall,
& give you thumbs up!

[ring]

Greetings, TLTE dwellers.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Proclamation of Psychological Independence

[jewels]

Nice, Ring. Perfectly imperfect.

[BadNick]

I like that, too, ring.

It also reminds me of how nice it feels when someone accepts something about me just the way I am, even when I was not being so accepting of myself.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

YouTube - "Them Tummy Gummers/A Major Thang" Mason Williams

YouTube - "Them Tummy Gummers/A Major Thang" Mason Williams

[jewels]

I forgot I had 4 hours of vacation tonight. Don't remember why, but I'm home!

[Jetée]

What do you do in your down time, jewels?

How do you find yourself?

(/super-shill)

[BadNick]

I remember that post by you, Jet. I love that vid! It made me feel good and positive and happy, although I recall periods in my life where that wouldn't have been the case about being alone. I wish I had that much insight and comfort about being alone when I was younger.

---------- Post added at 11:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:00 PM ----------

Originally Posted by jewels

I forgot I had 4 hours of vacation tonight. Don't remember why, but I'm home!

Centered in central central, I hope.

[Jetée]

too much concentration, tho, can have negative alter-effects.



However many incarnations of this story that have been produced,
(and if you are thinking what I am thinking) I just believe all one
needs to do is let go. Don't hold a grudge.
(But to a child, revenge is like the sweetest metaphorical candy they can indugle in; it's scary.)

Why don't I have a better blog?

[jewels]

I was alone with spending time with one of the girls last night.

Downtime (I'm reading this as unwind)? Reading, surfing, music, mini-projects, DVR ...

What do you do in your downtime, J?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

//Guess what I don't think?
(TRICK QUESTIONS HAVE NO PLACE HERE.)
I can't define it.//



2x(3+6)=9+9

[jewels]

Piglet!

[Ourcrazymodern?]

They're so much cuter
before they grow big enough
for their processing.

[BadNick]

I wish I could get a pet piggy.




Is it Possible to Travel to Another Star? : Discovery News
Analysis by Robert Lamb



At last count, exoplanet hunters have dead-eyed 495 distant worlds. Granted, none of them are "Earth-like," but what will we do if such a world finally pops up? Will we be able to travel there in person or send a probe? Or are our interplanetary relationships doomed to remain long distance?

The Tau Zero Foundation takes this question very seriously. The nonprofit group encompasses scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and writers who all share a common goal: to conduct research into interstellar flight technologies.

According to Centauri Dreams writer Paul Gilster, one of the founders of Tau Zero, getting to another star isn't beyond reach. Getting there within a human lifetime? Now that's a problem.

"Technically, if we could point one of our Voyagers at Alpha Centauri, we could get it there," Gilster says. "But it would take over 70,000 years. The problem comes with how we can shrink those travel times."

Yet the prospect of traveling to another star within a human lifetime does not violate the laws of physics. Several interstellar travel methods are mere centuries away from becoming a reality, provided it remains something that human societies want to achieve, according to Gilster.

Solar Sails
One way to travel to another star is to catch a ride on waves from our own sun. As laid out by solar sail pioneer Gregory Matloff, photons from the sun could push against lightweight, reflective sails to propel a spacecraft. Pick up an initial gravitational assist from the sun, and you'd arrive at Alpha Centauri in a mere 1,000 years.

In order to speed the whole process up, physicist Robert Forward proposed pushing on the sail with a laser beam.

"Some of Forward's designs got to speeds up to 10 percent of light speed," Gilster says. "And if you are talking about 4.3 light-years away from Earth, which is where the Centauri primary stars are, that gets you there in about 43 years."

Other theoretical models of sail-based interstellar propulsion systems call for a magnetic bubble instead of a physical sail. By tethering the bubble to a spacecraft and lining it up with a particle beam, scientists could propel a probe up to considerable speeds.

Fusion Power
Interstellar propulsion inevitably comes down to energy, and few future energy sources are as promising as fusion power, the joining of atomic nuclei to produce a single nuclei and a release of energy.

"Fusion is another possibility, particularly deuterium/helium-3 fusion," Gilster says. "We haven't yet figured out how to [initiate] this reaction on Earth, but it's possible that in the next 50 or 100 years we'll learn how to tap this kind of fusion for propulsion."

As such, several different interstellar propulsion models depend on fusion. Physicist Robert Bussard suggested an "interstellar ramjet," by which a speeding spacecraft would scoop up widely distributed interstellar hydrogen to serve as fusion fuel.

Another model, called the fusion runway, expanded on this principle by calling for a string of fusion fuel pellets to trail off from a spacecraft's point of departure. Each time the ship hit a pellet, it would instigate a fusion reaction that would propel it even faster toward the next pellet. Eventually, the craft would reach the cruising speed it needs to reach its destination -- perhaps reaching Alpha Centauri in as few as 40 years, according to Gilster.

Project Icarus
Is fusion propulsion a reasonable means of reaching other stars? That's what the British Interplanetary Society Project's Daedalus project set out to answer in the 1970s.

Daedalus researchers outlined plans for fusion pulse propulsion system, which would expend pellets composed of a mix of Deuterium Helium-3 at a rate of 250 per second. The resulting explosion would propel the unmanned craft to an estimated 12-percent light speed, or 22,354 miles per second (35,975 kilometers per second).

The Daedalus project's target destination was Barnard's star, located about 6 light years from Earth. The journey was expected to take an estimated 50 years.

Today, the Icarus Project picks up where Daedalus left off and, according to project leader Richard Obousy, the time is right to re-evaluate fusion pulse propulsion.

"Let’s look at Daedalus but with the hindsight of 35 years of new technology," Obousy says, "and couple that to the excitement of extrasolar planets and the rapidly improvements in telescopic technology, meaning that there is a good chance we'll actually be able to image an Earth-like planet (if they're discovered) within the next two decades."

Should that happens, Obousy believes the mere act of seeing another blue green world will fuel the desire to send a space craft to it. Until that happens, however, the Icarus project will continue to safeguard Daedalus's findings and refine them for the future.

"What we really want to do is keep that dream and that knowledge of interstellar propulsion alive," Obousy says. "So worst-case scenario, we'll know the Daedalus project very, very well and pass that knowledge onto the next generation. Best-case scenario, we'll completely redesign it and come up with a more efficient and optimized fusion-based propulsion spacecraft. The physics is there. The technology is being proven."

Travel to another star is within the grasp of human technology. The question is whether we'll remain committed to the dream in the years to come.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Commitment to dreams
achieves divergent spaces:
Stars or loony bins?

[BadNick]

women

YouTube - Mary Black - Only A Womans Heart

YouTube - Mary Black - Only A Womans Heart

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by jewels

I was alone with spending time with one of the girls last night.

Downtime (I'm reading this as unwind)? Reading, surfing, music, mini-projects, DVR ...

What do you do in your downtime, J?

Thanks for asking.

I usually try to get things done, (or learn something that I didn't know previously) but I usually fail in that regard. It just leaves something for tomorrow that I should take of - a roll-over effect; though, this has been going on for years, so some thing in which I meant to share or read or write about yesterday, I may not get to until next July. I'm horrible.


(...at time management)

[jewels]

Originally Posted by Jetée

I'm horrible.


(...at time management)

Somehow I get the feeling that if you wanted to change that, you don't need my advice.

Downtime = time to relax/chill/not worry, right?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I put off cleaning
the spaces containing me
& between my ears.

Downtime can be Zen.
"Getting things done" as an end
just leads to more things.

[ring]

Antimatter Atoms Successfully Stored for the First Time Berkeley Lab News Center

[Jetée]

- - -

I want to create. I want to create an illustration whereby a man in a top-hat is stepping sideways into a prototypical outdoor well (sans any wooden attache above) - for this is how I feel [metaphorically]. I tried to research if this image already existed digitally, but I don't believe I'm that adept at finding the impossible. The show goes on.

- - -

YouTube - Adventure Time: Why-Wolves

[Jetée]

24 hours and some minutes later...

[BadNick]

Perfect train for headless/shoulderless people with large butts and large feet.

Reminds me of an old fashioned toaster







I was pretty sure I noticed an antimatter particle stuck in one of my Josephson junctions a while back. I named it SQUIDworth.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

2+3+7=12

If I ran into
my antimatter other,
we'd enjoy to bits!

[BadNick]

In another brief occultation event the Moon snuck in front of Solar Dynamics Observatory’s cameras on Saturday, November 6, this time passing across the orbiting observatory’s
view of the Sun’s southern pole and southeastern limb in a diagonal motion.

This is a cool one I like:


Cumulonimbus Cloud Over Africa
High above the African continent, tall, dense cumulonimbus clouds, meaning 'column rain' in Latin, are the
result of atmospheric instability. The clouds can form alone, in clusters, or along a cold front in a squall line.
The high energy of these storms is associated with heavy precipitation, lightning, high wind speeds and tornadoes.
Image Credit: NASA

[Ourcrazymodern?]

...looks like slushy ice,
afloat in frigid water,
what cool perspective!

[BadNick]

I want to be a space man...as long as I can get back home.



One of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people. In this view of Egypt, we see a population almost completely concentrated along the Nile Valley, just a small percentage of the country’s land area.
The Nile River and its delta look like a brilliant, long-stemmed flower in this astronaut photograph of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea, as seen from the International Space Station. The Cairo metropolitan area forms a particularly bright base of the flower. The smaller cities and towns within the Nile Delta tend to be hard to see amidst the dense agricultural vegetation during the day. However, these settled areas and the connecting roads between them become clearly visible at night. Likewise, urbanized regions and infrastructure along the Nile River becomes apparent (see also The Great Bend of Nile, Day & Night.)
Another brightly lit region is visible along the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean—the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area in Israel (image right). To the east of Tel-Aviv lies Amman, Jordan. The two major water bodies that define the western and eastern coastlines of the Sinai Peninsula—the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba—are outlined by lights along their coastlines (image lower right). The city lights of Paphos, Limassol, Larnaca, and Nicosia are visible on the island of Cyprus (image top).
Scattered blue-grey clouds cover the Mediterranean Sea and the Sinai, while much of northeastern Africa is cloud-free. A thin yellow-brown band tracing the Earth’s curvature at image top is airglow, a faint band of light emission that results from the interaction of atmospheric atoms and molecules with solar radiation at approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) altitude.
Astronaut photograph ISS025-E-9858 was acquired on October 28, 2010, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 16 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 25 crew. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSC.
Instrument: ISS - Digital Camera

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Ground control needs you
attending your fantasies,
knowing you share them.

[Jetée]

by Dan McPharlin

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Science fiction, folks,
if unfairly advantaged
over "just the facts"

doesn't disregard,
by & large, the fact they're there,
because it likes them.

[Jetée]

The ferris wheel at the Christmas market on the Alexanderplatz is reflected in a
puddle at rainy and foggy weather in Berlin on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. The
Christmas markets in Berlin open on Monday for the Christmas season.
--(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

[BadNick]

In anticipation of OD'ing on Thursday, I'm staying off poultry the rest of this week.

YouTube - Mr. Turkey- Run away, Mr. Turkey!

YouTube - Mr. Turkey- Run away, Mr. Turkey!