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Pat Flannery wrote:
Seriously, the Navy looked into blue-green lasers to allow submarines to communicate with satellites while at moderate depths. Still looking into it IIRC. Nowadays with SSIXS in place, the focus has shifted to allowing a submarine to coordinate with ASW aircraft and surface units. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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Kevin Willoughby wrote:
More real that I would have expected. I saw the 3-D IMAX Aliens of the Deep yesterday. Boy, there are some strange looking creatures down there where the sun don't shine! Hamsters? -- Reed Snellenberger GPG KeyID: 5A978843 rsnellenberger-at-houston.rr.com |
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says... Kevin Willoughby wrote: More real that I would have expected. I saw the 3-D IMAX Aliens of the Deep yesterday. Boy, there are some strange looking creatures down there where the sun don't shine! Hamsters? Nope. Think "shrimp". Lots and lots of sub-aquatic shrimps fondling a 70mm-high IMAX camera while MIR-2 (no, not a space station but a deep submersible vehicle) watches. At the risk of stating the obvious: Aliens is, despite the NASA PR nonsense, strongly recommended for anyone who hopes, thinks, or believes that life can exist beyond the surface of the Earth. -- Kevin Willoughby lid The loss of the American system of checks and balances is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk. -- Bruce Schneier |
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:34:43 -0500, Kevin Willoughby
wrote: At the risk of stating the obvious: Aliens is, despite the NASA PR nonsense, strongly recommended for anyone who hopes, thinks, or believes that life can exist beyond the surface of the Earth. "Excuse me, ma'am...is this just a ****ing bug hunt?" OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Kevin Willoughby wrote: Boy, there are some strange looking creatures down there where the sun don't shine! Hamsters? Nope. Think "shrimp". I think that was supposed to be a "gerbiling" reference....boy, how everyone just forgets old perversions these days; "out of anus-out of mind" apparently. (I still think that the whole "gerbiling" bit was made up by some gays just to screw with the straight's minds: "Would they buy that?" "Nah, they wouldn't buy that..." "You wait... I'll bet they will..." Treebeard: "And those mice....they climb up my trunk, and tickle me awfully..." Ian McKellen as Gandalf: "I know just what you mean, dear." ;-) Pat |
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:45:16 GMT, Reed Snellenberger
wrote: Kevin Willoughby wrote: More real that I would have expected. I saw the 3-D IMAX Aliens of the Deep yesterday. Boy, there are some strange looking creatures down there where the sun don't shine! Hamsters? ....Gerbils. Even the *real* perverts agree that Hamsters are just too big to insert, as they don't have room to move around, which is reportedly a major requirement behind the actual stimulus is concerned. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Lou Scheffer wrote... See for example: http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources...es/Fig6-18.htm which shows that in very pure tropical water, up to 1% of the blue-green component of the sun gets to this depth. Considering that moonight is only about a millionth as bright as sunlight, that should be plenty of light. Two things: That link shows a graph, the scale is marked as 'Transmittance' while the legend talks about the attenuation. Attenuation is the quantity *not* transmitted. Also the x-axis is marked (mu)m while it should be nm. And - sunlight is about 10,000-12,000 lux and moonlight is about 1 lux. That makes it 10e4 not 10e6. Unless of course its a near-new moon which is what you meant I know But yeah, there could be plenty enough light there in most conditions. - Peter hmmm maybe that was three things... |
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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote in : On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:45:16 GMT, Reed Snellenberger wrote: Kevin Willoughby wrote: More real that I would have expected. I saw the 3-D IMAX Aliens of the Deep yesterday. Boy, there are some strange looking creatures down there where the sun don't shine! Hamsters? ...Gerbils. Even the *real* perverts agree that Hamsters are just too big to insert, as they don't have room to move around, which is reportedly a major requirement behind the actual stimulus is concerned. Lacking tails, I imagine they'd be more difficult to extract... -- JRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. |
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Pat Flannery wrote in
: I think that was supposed to be a "gerbiling" reference....boy, how everyone just forgets old perversions these days; "out of anus-out of mind" apparently. (I still think that the whole "gerbiling" bit was made up by some gays just to screw with the straight's minds: "Would they buy that?" "Nah, they wouldn't buy that..." "You wait... I'll bet they will..." Those of us who've worked in ERs, or who have had friends who have, had no trouble believing it. You get jaded pretty quick working ER in a big-city hospital. After hearing some of my friends' stories, it's no longer possible to shock me with what people put in there... or the creative stories they will tell about how it got there... -- JRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. |
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