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lyx2no
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Message 51 of 104 (589141)
10-30-2010 7:31 PM
Reply to: Message 48 by Hyroglyphx
10-30-2010 10:20 AM


Re: Fail
1. She's wearing clothing corresponds with the time she's in (1920's).
Not entirely: she's not wearing her gloves. I wonder where they could be.
And I can hear her now; "A girl can't walk down the street these day without some nosy-parker sticking a cinemagraph in her face."

Be still, the demands I make upon your conscience are slight. It is only your flattery I seek, not your sincerity.

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lyx2no
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Message 53 of 104 (589146)
10-30-2010 7:50 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by Just being real
10-30-2010 2:45 AM


Don't Forget the Rotary Plasmatron
There is something else you may have not considered snip So theoretically its possible to view past events on earth as they actually happened. snip [if we could] somehow develop a means of space travel that was millions of times faster than the speed of light.
Can you think of anything that isn't theoretically possible if we could "somehow" do it? We could theoretically build twenty mile high pyramids of cheese if we could somehow get cows to produce milk with the compressive strength of diamond.

Be still, the demands I make upon your conscience are slight. It is only your flattery I seek, not your sincerity.

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lyx2no
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Message 58 of 104 (589183)
10-31-2010 9:55 AM
Reply to: Message 57 by Just being real
10-31-2010 4:57 AM


What you don't realize
is that we have the capacity now to know stupid when we see it.
Your 'superscope' at a distance of 390lys from Plymouth Rock would receive 1 Plymouth Rock photon per meter2 of aperture every 3.4 billion years per century. Bradford's shoe buttons wouldn't be resolved before all the protons in the Universe decayed. There isn't a method for detecting something that isn't there even in theory; and that's not something technology can compensate for.
I lost sleep over that one.
Well, maybe you should. Stay up a little later each night reading. Unless, or course, you're trying to figure out the structure of benzene.
AbE:
  1. I took a picture of Plymouth Rock and printed it on graph paper and used the half+ method to estimate the visual area (.97m2) using a penny (19 mm) for scale.
  2. The surface of the Earth receives 1kW/m2.
  3. Granodiorite has and albedo of .35.
  4. The surface area of a sphere with a 390ly (since 1620A.D.) radius is 1033m2.
  5. A yellow photon (570nm) has an energy of 3.5x10-19J.
  6. 342W/s divided by 3.5x10-19J gives the number of Plymouth Rock photons per second.
  7. 9.8x1020photons/sec divided by 1033m2 gives the photons/m2/sec received at the superscope.
Opps! Forgot to convert seconds to years (edit original post).
  1. The inverse gives the seconds/photon/meter2.
I'd appreciate criticisms of my method.
Edited by lyx2no, : A bit more time on my hands.
Edited by lyx2no, : Missed some 2.

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