One thousand years from now

Knapped stone points, sinew lashings, and fish-skin glue?

Primitive agriculture, cartages, plows, cattle breeding, slavary.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What an idiocy.

So-called modern civilization is based exclusively on the availability of the cheap oil.

Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant

No theorical basis - just speculation.

Just the thing to defeat the hand held laser weapons.

Why would you want them to be hand-held?

Unlike most humans.

Sylvia.

Which you won't. Damned arrogant deities - who do you think you are anyway?

Sylvia.

This has already been predicted:

We will find an answer - we always do..

iic

wow! what a throwback. i actually remember when this came out on the radio. looks like they were lip-syncing it. sounded just like the studio version.

boy were we hokey in the 60s. (or was it the early 70s?) some of it was good.

i saw the fireworks here in Boston/Cambridge last july 4, and they had Neil Diamond featured singing Sweet Caroline. he may be once have been rich and famous (as in "Has Been"), but i couldn't help be embarrassed listening to it. they even needed to kill another couple of minutes so he did an ad-hoc reprise of the refrain of the same song. how embarrassing.

oh well.

r b-j

(identified in South Park as Aging Hippie Liberal Douche. i wear my ponytail proudly.)

Not if us Gods have anything to say about it.

-- Paul Hovnanian mailto: snipped-for-privacy@Hovnanian.com

------------------------------------------------------------------ We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- Walt Kelly, "Pogo"

Mag-lev maybe... at best. Mag-Lev with a light air whisper push. Braking poses issues, however.

A Plasma pulser or little ball lightning gun sounds more feasible.

No need. Too labor intensive to implement on anything other than a flat panel. Eventhat idea is a tough nut to crack. A single viewpoint is easy to falsify an image for. Being able to correctly falsify the image for any observer from any viewpoint would require some nano-tubemirror array or such. For any electronic process, the data would be beyond grasp, as in near infinite even for a single flat panel demo. Won't likely get much pursuit due to no ROI ever until success, and even then, it is only a proto. We have panels that allow a wide angle of view,but it is only for a single image, and even that one has a huge amount of data. Just think of the need for that panel to make a different image depending on the viewpoint of the observer. That would by definition have an infinite number of images that would need to be rendered each time the panel is placed somewhere. So it cannot be data based. It would have to be purely optical, and I do not see much chance of that either. Any animal with an eye could spot the flaw(s).

Translator microbes already exist on the other side of the Universe.

No... really... All you need is your handheld MP3 player/movie player/picture viewer/online browsing device. And whatever makes the televideophone on Warehouse 13 work

Oh wait! we already have that! The PSP! (minus the videophone). Oh yeah... it plays games too. All we need added to it is one that will play mame games really well... and the videophone thing.

Although they too already exist far away, we are getting close to a few quantum realities a little closer to home...

Never happen. No need. Impractical cost. Zero applications unless flawless, which will never happen. If man gets any lazier, everyone will die the first time they have to exert themselves, getting out of the way of a runaway doggie on the sidewalk.

I think we all eat a big hunk of Galactic Arm Debris on 12/20/2012.

The End

Yep. And when the next ice age comes, the few remaining humans will seek shelter in the only warm place left on earth. A system of caves our ancestors told us through their mythology is called Yucca.

It must be a holy place, what with that strange blue glow, the warmth and all those indecipherable holy symbols.

A nice, modern billiard table.

Still want to be a pimp, eh?

Not if they strafe.

Trust me, it *would* be their choice, and they would choose a different life form from a different world.

Even then. A cloaking device must allow all light to pass through from one side to the other, without being intercepted by the thing being cloaked. If it doesn't then it won't function as a cloaking device.

So any laser beam, being light, has to go through, and thus causes no harm.

That said, I'm highly sceptical as to the possibility of constructing such a cloaking device.

Sylvia.

Tell that to the reflective surface of an optical disc, right after the

Sorry, but the cloak idea is ludicrous.

I agree cloaking seems improbable. I'm merely saying what properties a cloaking device would have to have, and that includes being invulnerable to lasers.

Sylvia.

On a sunny day (Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:20:07 +1000) it happened Sylvia Else wrote in :

Na, use smoke bomb, much simpler and available now.

I think the idea of a cloaking device is to be inconspicious. A smoke bomb doesn't fit that description.

Sylvia.