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Old February 1st 05, 12:37 AM
Derek Lyons
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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.

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  #103  
Old February 1st 05, 01:45 AM
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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?

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Old February 1st 05, 09:21 AM
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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

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  #106  
Old February 1st 05, 09:21 AM
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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..."
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Old February 1st 05, 09:25 AM
OM
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:45:16 GMT, Reed Snellenberger
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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?


....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

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Old February 1st 05, 10:46 AM
Peter Smith
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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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Old February 1st 05, 01:10 PM
Jorge R. Frank
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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
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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.


Lacking tails, I imagine they'd be more difficult to extract...


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Old February 1st 05, 01:15 PM
Jorge R. Frank
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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...

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