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School
Posted Sep 2, 2003
College is driving me crazy. No time for h2g2!!
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Latest reply: Sep 2, 2003
Camera Obsura
Posted Aug 5, 2003
I heard recently on 60 minutes that Van Eyck and others used camera obsura. Some disagree, but I think that they did use it. I've seen some of Van Eyck's later work, and it gets increasingly creepier.
Also, I've been watching a video about the Sphinx, and it it said that the erosian on it is from WATER, making it a lot older!! It gave several other examples, like a tomb near there that has wind erosion, and it's made out of the same stone. Egyptalogists say that it's not water erosion, or at least that it isn't older than old kindom Egypt. One reason, I think, is because there isn't any other evidence of this civilization earlier, but I'm starting to think, just because there isn't evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist. But the film is very convincing, so I'm only getting one perception.
Also am reading some about the events of 1941-42, and the war, but I'm only getting that from one perspective too. The US's. I wish there was some other, like Japanese or anywhere but US, perspective that I could read or find. More perspectives, the better. I like getting as true of a view as I can get.
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Latest reply: Aug 5, 2003
All in theory
Posted Aug 3, 2003
Theory I read:
That the faster the object can go, then the faster it's invented. Like, the car took a while to be developed, but compared to something like the internet or rockets, which didn't take as long.
In Discovery magazine, August 2003, some interesting things.
Edison electrified dogs, with a direct current (invented by Edison) and others with a alternating current (by George Westinghouse). It determined AC was more hazardous.
NASA-in ten years- wants to launch a mission called Terrestrial Planet Finder to find a sister Earth planet. To travel there, they have some ideas: Nuclear Fission, Nuclear Fusion, Antimatter, Laser Sail, or Fusion Ramjet.
Writing might have originated in China. It's more than 2,000 years more than in Mesopotamia. The writing was on tortoise shells.
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Latest reply: Aug 3, 2003
Leo
Posted Jul 26, 2003
I've been reading the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. He knows the basic concept behind a television...he says that images stay in the eye for a while. He did the first helecopter. He talks about scuba gear, although he doesn't get very specific about it because of how people could use it for bad, like attacking ships from underneath. He is so smart, but where does he get his information from? He is extremely intelligent by making such conclusions from his observations. Still puzzled about him...
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Latest reply: Jul 26, 2003
New Job
Posted Jul 24, 2003
I have a new job working in floral stuff. It's fun. Reading Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh Chin. Some interesting things, like,
"For if you are free, you'll forget, and if you forget, you'll be free."
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Latest reply: Jul 24, 2003
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