Now they look like the somewhat grown up versions of those creepy mind control kids from…. that one movie.
I have an ikea table and 2 bookcase doors (for bookcases I already own) that I've intended to put together for a while now… it would have involved some moving about of house stuff, but I didn't think it was too much. 3.5 hours later I was finally done. I ended up having to dismantle a deck-style armchair and the old unwanted table, move 2 bookcases around, relocate some further shelves' worth of stuff, dig the spare dining chair out of the understair closet (and then refit things into the closet), move my drawing table, fineagle with some wall sockets and power strips, and cart some stuff to the car boot in anticipation of a trip to the tip…. and that time also didn't include the 'Oh, I should clean/fix this while I'm at it' things I also did.
Still, my house is tidier now. Somehow the bookcase doors make the rooms look more boring though… seeing the book spines was more interesting to look at, but cat hair and dust and stuff kept blowing into them. :[
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The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread
It's passive detection based on hope. Whereas what Skull is imagining is a more active search. If there was any possible way to factor in signs of life to the current planet searching methods, I'd be pretty amazed because I've no conception of how they'd do it… But if they could, it'd be pretty bloody amazing. And even if all the planets we've detected so far didn't have any life (and most of them wouldn't), at least we could cross them off the list.
Passive it may be, but It is still easier than searching.
RF is everywhere, even without us transmitting our own, we get it from the sun the earth, other planets and stars. It reacts and looks a certain way. But when it is Modulated, then it is super easy to tell the difference. The problem then lies within extracting the intelligence off the signal. But having a signal with intelligence then becomes proof positive.
Going out and searching each planet would take longer…
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I drew Ulquiorra last night, but my scanners drivers don't work with the wifes computer so i can't show it off….
RF is everywhere, true, because it's just a part of the natural world. Thinking of the odds of artificially emitted RF aimed at you from somewhere in the universe is very remote when you not only factor in the size of the universe, but the time-scales involved. -It travels at what? Just under the speed of light? And how many millions of years would that take to reach us from the nearest stars?
How many more millions from the ones farther away?
In what part of that time would life reach a point when it could do things with RF, and then probably eventually die out?
What are the chances that intelligent life would even evolve in such a way that they would need to utilise RF the way we do?
Humans have only been able to scan those intelligently for about 100 years at the outside. But we've only been really looking for outside stuff for about 60 years or so.
There could have been signals sent our way before we were even evolved and we'll never know- those alien civilisations having been and gone…
In the end, our window for receiving alien transmission is so amazingly terribly narrow that even if signals were sent out pretty commonly throughout the universe by life everywhere (when it reached that stage), it would still be very lucky if we could pick them up. -not only because they wouldn't always be directed at us, but because they could have reached us and been no more in the last few million years already, or could be yet to come, when both we and the original senders are no more.
Prety awesome to think about really o_o
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Almost Christmas time! ^___^
I just got my own Christmas present from E-bay today! yet ANOTHER sabre… But it's the nicest one yet, better than the other two. It's the proper French Hussar style, VERY shiny and pretty, lovely balance to the weapon, very comfortable guard… Nicely made, AND it was cheaper than the other two, I was a great auction piece ^^
So now I've got my nice pretty shiny Hussard sabre, my rougher antiqued looking sabre, and the big ginormous heavy simple but nice looking sabre.
My christmas present to myself this year was the 6-season box set of Oz, and one of those back massagers which you put on a chair. It has rolly balls that go up and down your back and can do different stuff on the remote control. also it is heated. So my office chair will undergo increased awesomeness once the thig gets here. I will be happy to sit on my butt and work for hours!
It doesn't even have to be aimed at you….like the 1932 berlin olympics….who knows where that will end up? it was just broadcasted to the entire world, solar system….galaxy…universe.
We have light from 13 billion ly away….so given that, and that it only took us 65 million regular years to evolve into what we are today….what does that say about life on other planets?
also there are recievers for this all around the world,so it's not like we're only looking from whereever utah is pointing.
Modulated Rf is easily distinguishable from natural….trust me, it may or may not be my job :)
We have light from 13 billion ly away….so given that, and that it only took us 65 million regular years to evolve into what we are today….what does that say about life on other planets?Not much unfortunately :(
It does matter where where it's pointed too in that RF isn't broadcast through a planet to begin with. And after that you have suns and various things in the way all over the place.
And still only a merge 60 year window VS the multi-million year timescales involved. Unfortunately we haven't had any call waiting or messaging service in our galaxy over the last couple of billion years. :(
So my office chair will undergo increased awesomenesswhat a pampered bottom!!!!
Just got back from a cabin we were staying at for a few days. I wasn't meant to come back until tomorrow but I had a stinkin allergic reaction and had to come back to the city because there's no hospital out there. Fortunately it wasn't too bad, I caught it in time so I didn't even get to the throwing up part. :)
And my parent's presents finally came in the mail!
Unfortunately we haven't had any call waiting or messaging service in our galaxy over the last couple of billion years. :(
There is but it seems only the dolphins can access it. One showed me something about an interstellar highway construction project. Luckily I had my towel.
Hm…I find a lot of threads I post in suddenly die.
And if they don't everyone ignores me!
I mean, I'm not asking for attention, just that at the sight of me you don't say "OH SHIT TIME To ABANDON THREAD D:"
…Although it's probably an unfortunate coincidence, I'm sure…Right?
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OH SHIT PIKMIN IS TOUGH. Stupid yellow pikmin dying a lot….
OH SHIT TIME To ABANDON THREAD D:
Nah, give this thread its last five days before the 2010 Rant, Share and Vent thread begins.
So I worked Christmas and missed out on all the family get togethers, plus I'll be doing New Years and miss all that too. But I get time and a half holiday pay.
Christmas was very quiet and when making my rounds I entertained myself by reciting the dialogue from the 1951 Alister Sim A Christmas Carol
Someone suggested I shouldn't give up on that webcomic I stopped four months ago. So I started re-write #11 just on a goof. lol!
Lol i'm playing morrowind and there's this mean cockatiel in a cage next to me who gives me a menacing look now and then. So when he tries to climb up his cage from the bottom i move my hand towards him and he quickly climbs back down. We do this 5x til he moves to the next side of the cage where it begins again.
He's totally tsundere though, when i ignore him he goes to the bottom again and does that lame bird sway and squack that my parakeet does for attention.
Been assembling a bookcase with glass windows my mother wanted. Now I find out the thing is a complete piece of chinese crap. There's a bunch of random shaped nodules being used for screws, except they're not meant to fasten to anything. In other words, the thing is designed like a set of lincoln logs, minus the stability. The backboard is held together with a strip of tape!
She's out of the house now so when she gets back I have to see if she can get her money back on this thing. There's no way in hell this was worth $90. If they used actual screws or nails, it might not be so bad, but it's like they just picked random objects to be fasteners. The slots don't even match properly.
I went to see Avatar with my dad. My personal review is that the graphics are a huge step up from the last time I saw bubble world technology in a major film which was Speed Racer. Not that that's exactly difficult to manage I suppose. Overall, though the graphics didn't blow my mind though. I might be a bit jaded, given that I've been around it for a while now at school, but nevertheless it's pretty good rendering. Most of the settings seem heavily inspired by ancient Japanese and Chinese art work, most notably the floating mountains. Other stuff kind of reminded me of a mix between Fern Gully and the new Star Wars trilogy, but more realistic and a lot more bio-luminescent. Pretty cool to look at and I can kind of see why he might have said he was waiting for better technology to do it. Story was ok, your typical "guy meets girl, saves world" fantasy deal with what came across as a little hint of some ham-fisted environmentalism tossed in maybe. It was the graphics that helped you get into it better than if it had all been done live action and the movie really relied on that. Outside of the Na'vi, the character designs were pretty slick. The battle mechs were cool as they usually are, the heli's were straight out of a Ghost In the Shell-style anime, and the creature designs were all relatively logical and well done. ( ie; no freakish tentacled amphibians in a desert setting. ) I just wish they'd altered the Na'vi more than flattened noses, tails and blue skin, nothing major really so I don't even have an issue with that. The final fight seems a little less of a war and more a battle, but again no big deal. It was still a pretty good looking ending without turning into war-porn.
Overall, I'd say I'd give it about a 7-7.5 out of 10. The story and character development feel a bit shallow for the 10+ years Cameron claims he had the story sitting waiting, and at times it's the quality of the CG holding your attention, not the story, but it's worth the $10 for a ticket to go see it, if for no other reason than you'll probably leave the theatre with a bunch of things you want to draw out.
eh, didn't mean to babble that much. maybe I shoulda just made a media discussion topic for it or something. It's here now though, and I just wanted to share, not really discuss, anyway.
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