Saturday, January 15, 2005

Huygens came so close to a total fuck up ... and I had no idea! Here is a fascinating account of what happened in the last 7 years while cassini was floating around in space gradually heading towards Saturn. short version: there was a fatal flaw in the communications systems between Huygens and Cassini, and had they not found out and fixed it. We probably wouldn't have seen any data during the descent stage. Culprit? Doppler shift. Read the whole story here 5:52:30 PM    comment [] phunny One of the goebbles wannabe's somewhere commented that iraqi's in only 2 or 3 provinces may have issues voting. The rest should go fine. What this dickwad conveniently failed to mention was that the two provinces contain almost half the population of the contury. oh well, on with the phantasie! 4:24:13 PM    comment [] still watching "Crumb" Its amazing how ffucking ignorant I am. Of culture. Of things in general. But then again, you cannot possibly know everything. I sometimes wonder if God (if s/he exists) knows EVERYthing.. are there recessses of his mind that he wonders about? what challenge is it if you know everything? even yourself? Are there things that an omnipotent entity hasn't done yet? for example, does the god or diety or whatever, have the power to commit suicide? if so, has he already done it? if so then, is it really suicid if you can re-constitute yourself? crum make me crazeeeee!!!! back to Crumb the documentary. It seems the whole family was disturbed in one way or another. I also tend to think that the oldes brother, Charles (who kind of got robert crumb started into drawing comix etc.) was/is the real genius, but just too mad for his own good. But that is just my opinion. I saw some of the comix that he drew and I think there was something there.. very original, in a "Ryan Larkin" sort of way. 4:04:52 PM    comment [] How to have fun with a strong girl I'm watching a doc on the documentary channel regarding the life of Robert Crumb. A search on google came up with this. I find this somehow very animalistic, yet erotic. I guess I'm a bit of a "strong girl" admirer. Blogs are good for giving too much away about yourself. Kind of being on the couch as no-ones listening or giving a fuck. How would it be for Robert crumb to have a blog? Well, it would be such a big fucking waste of time, one, and two, he was blogging, he was bloggging all his life. Whats the diff between drawing clumsy words or drawing beautiful (to him, or some at least) pictures? Making a comment that way? Blogs are not written every day, they are not read every day, they are just recordings of our thoughts and a depiction of our beliefs. We've been doing it all along. We just didn't have the means to share it at such a wide level. If a blog tree falls in the woods, does it matter if anyone heard it fall? What is the sound of blogging to /dev/nul ? Oh and the link to some disturbing ass humpage And you know what? Good for him! In Yer Face America! 2:52:33 PM    comment [] Music to my ears I just find it ming boggling, fascinating and amazing that I can hear the sound of an event that transpired millions and millions of miles away, on an alien world: The sound of Huygens' descent. I wonder what those clinking sounds are towards the end of the recording. It was it a part of the parachute that was clanking against the body of the probe (a loose buckle?) or maybe some audio beep emitted by the probe for calibrating and giving a reference noice of certain decibles?? Radar echo converted to sound. its fucking un-believable! I can imagine how blind peopel could be taught to see through a radar to sound conversion thing-a-ma-jiggy. Fascinating stufff! can't wait for more info! 2:00:47 PM    comment []

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