Bazza Posted September 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Re: The Last Word Oh and people are...kinda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Def'nitely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Re: The Last Word Oh and scientists have had belief in god and angels etc but as far as I know, none have charted that space like one finds in books on mysticism. Newton was one who straddled both "worlds". There is nothing that precludes scientists from being mystics and vice versa. A scientist would typically be predisposed to ask the mystic for testable evidence of their experiences/conclusions etc. There's a couple of biographies of Robert Oppenheimer you might pick up and read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Re: The Last Word There's a couple of biographies of Robert Oppenheimer you might pick up and read. Nah, I'm already a fan of David Bohm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ah. But the text color is TEAL? Ugh. Let's just settle this now. Deer. Do, a deer, a teal-ish deer. Hmm. I wonder what the breath weapon of a teal dragon would be. Feathers? Stinky cheese fumes? Right-wing wacko campaign literature? Rock salt (as from a shotgun)? TCMP audits? Flat beer? Starling guano? Gender change? Itching powder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . It has adventuring potential! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Especially so since teal is something of a joke in our family ... my brother claims the color does not exist, because whenever he points something out as teal, his wife says, "No, that's _________", naming another color (green, turquoise, azure, ultramarine, ....) So there's an extra hint there that it's going to be hard to pin down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word No-one's provided a code for teal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Oh, there's an RGB code for teal on a display screen, but that's a terribly restricted subset of color space which can't be taken seriously outside its rather limited context. RGB values describe only a small, triangular region in the chromaticity diagram. There's a depiction of that region here, but I think they are way too generous in where they draw the boundaries of the triangle. NFW does RGB = (0,0,255) accurately mimic monochromatic 468 nm light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word Teal is rather a broader term, at least for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word Hmm. I wonder what the breath weapon of a teal dragon would be. Sharks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word Sounds good to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . But no lasers on their heads. That would be overdoing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word Teal being a mixed (rather than monochromatic) color, of course there's no such thing as a teal laser, unless you mean specifically an optical-wavelength energy carbine for duck hunting. Interesting concept; it'd make hunting in poor weather much more difficult, since the water droplets would scatter/diffuse the energy pulse. OTOH, no windage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word Plus, it'd be pretty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word Not in ideal conditions. Remember, you only see a directed energy beam if (1) it's passing through a medium that's scattering it profusely, or (2) it's ionizing the medium it's passing through and the plasma channel made thereby is fluorescing. In either case you're losing LOTS of power out of the beam. In the second case you're probably also giving yourself one hell of a burn, unless you've got major protective gear in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word Oh, who cares about power? Glowy teal is pretty, dangit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word Hmm. I have to admit that if I saw something glowing teal, I would be certain that I had two weeks to live, tops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word But at least you'd've seen something pretty before you died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Re: The Last Word I've already done that. Remember, I'm a spectroscopist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word Oh yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word OK. Sunday morning I wake up about 830 am and a few minutes later the power goes out due to the storm moving thru the area (Ike's remnants). I lay ack down and re-wake up at 11 am, to find power is not out, but we are in sever brown out conditions. None of teh major appliances, or computers will work. And since we have our own pump, no water when we have no electricity. We finally get power back about 145pm yesterday. but I had to work, so only now am I catching up on email and the boards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word Happy slogging! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ouchie. Brownouts are bad. Hope you and your stuff are OK, Tim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Re: The Last Word I get the impression Ike scattered pretty extensively, and is wreaking havoc with weather patterns all over. It's actually cool enough that I'm wearing long pants and my windows are open today, and it's only September. Once the sun comes back out, it should fix all that. But meanwhile, it's nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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