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Techmology and Scientism / Cool quantum "locking" levitation video

« on: July 21, 2012, 12:16:01 am »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

A year old, most you prolly already saw it, still I think it's cool.
Showing super-conductor locking a particular orientation for levitated thingie.
There's just something slightly uncanny about it that does not make sense w.r.t. having only a limited understanding of electro-magnetic fields, lines, etc.  Ergo the quantum "locking", just need some block rocking beats.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Fluidity Pipes

« on: July 20, 2012, 11:41:16 pm »

The way i imagined it:
The surface of the pipe interacts with the water-surface passing it in a way that makes that passing easier, it won't have much of an effect on the fluidity of the water not touching the pipe, merely negate any 'stickyness' within the pipe.
So the moment it leaves the pipe it would lose any benefit.

For the pipe to have a lasting effect on the fluidity of the water:
 - It would have to leave a substance in it, in which case the pipe will slowly dissolve or the active ingredient needs to be replenished requiring the pipe to be disassembled.
 - Or it could catalyse a change in a substance solved into the water but that would have to be an addition to the water before it enters the pipe because none of the normally occuring substances in water can be catalysed into watertension reducers afaik.

I didn't think of the low turbulence design, interesting idea.

Ima gonna try to take another look at this thing.  I think SWIM was implying the fluidity would be imparted to last beyond passing through the pipe...  The other confusion was the reference to how this increased fluidity would help subsequent capillary motion transport.  I think I may be erroneously relating increased fluidity with a decrease in surface tension?  Will continue investigation...

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Or Kill Me / Caution: Humans at Work

« on: July 20, 2012, 11:30:30 pm »

I have a little mess developing with a personal relationship, and last night was lucky enough to find some people that seem to see things in a way that was helpful.  All posturing to discord aside, I find I may have overly tolerated people that can just be plain disruptive, sometimes.  What I mean to say is that some people are just plain shitty, which, although not directly making me feel better, the attendant recognition at least does allow for that possibility.  It reminds me of the first chapter of that Hand-Book for the Human Experience that was floating around a few years back.  There is no reason to have these negative shit-talkers around.  Enough with the invidious sycophants. BastA. Some people are trying to actually make it.  Now move out of the way, bitch. 

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Fluidity Pipes

« on: July 20, 2012, 10:47:32 am »

Do you have a link?

Not sure how that would help plants directly w/o lining their capillaries with the stuff, but it would require less pumping to move the same volume of water through the same diameter pipe, so that's energy savings. I don't think it would be that significant on just water though, although I could see that being a big deal for some industrial process that needs to pipe viscous gunk all over the place.

Fluidity just helps dispersion through whatever medium. It's about helping the transport of capillary motion, I think.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Fluidity Pipeso

« on: July 20, 2012, 10:43:32 am »

Could it just be some low turbulence design?

Did you see the pipe? Did it have a kind of honeycomb structure on the inside? (imagine a Pringles can filled with straws.)

Thats what what I imagined re: catalyst design, sure, low turbidity, however, assuming it works, I was thinking more along the lines of making otherwise ornery plants, like crazy orchids, thrive.

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Literate Chaotic / Re: Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

« on: July 19, 2012, 10:32:13 pm »

In lieu of formal debriefing, I'm skimming travel documents to alien worlds.

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Apple Zone / Re: It was my fault.

« on: July 19, 2012, 10:16:51 pm »

I said I'd have your back, really...
BWTF is this?!!  Now you're just making me look bad.
Not that it matters anymore...  Fuck.
It' be okay, after a few more reboots we should be able to repopulate at least some of the worlds, again...

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Fluidity Pipes

« on: July 19, 2012, 09:48:29 pm »

I don't see why not.

Awesome, swim was thinking this could have positive horticultural effect on crops recalcitrant to irrigation, for whatever reason.  The point must be achieving more (watering) with less (water). 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: July 19, 2012, 09:52:00 am »

http://superofficialnews.com/bill-murray-kicks-off-party-crashing-tour-starting-in-august/

Just put a sign outside that says BILL MURRAY CAN CRASH HERE. Have drinking and karaoke available at your party. Pray to the gods.

Fuck, I think I actually owe him a little for that thing with the thing collectors.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Occupy

« on: July 19, 2012, 09:45:01 am »

Unions did it too, occupying factories so replacements couldn't get in. Didn't generally end well.

It worked like a fucking charm, some places.

Take occupying public schools, in Europe.

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Techmology and Scientism / Fluidity Pipes

« on: July 19, 2012, 09:22:31 am »

SWIM showed me this pipe that supposedly makes the water moar fluid.  Instead of adding X chemical to decrease surface tension, is it possible that a metal catalyst can do the same?

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: OFFICIAL POLITICAL CARTOONS/PIC FREAD.

« on: June 25, 2012, 10:11:43 pm »

isn't there some evidence that excessive the fluoride may damage the pineal gland and mess up your melatonin production?

it's definitely good for teeth, as i understand it, so i'd keep it, but i recall hearing that the jury's still out on that one effect...

For some reason this concern and angle also stuck with me.  I think it was related to hypothetical endogenous reactions that convert the melatonin to other tryptamines, the absence of which I would miss.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: June 23, 2012, 10:04:28 am »

Everyone knows that intention is instrumental mental for magic.  Desire can fuel intention, ergo.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Uncanny valley turned up to eleven.

« on: June 23, 2012, 09:54:53 am »

I know, right?  At first the fascination cedes to some kind of rubbernecking, then it just turns plain wrong...  Sorry, just sympathizing here.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Have You Heard About Fukushima?

« on: June 23, 2012, 08:17:36 am »

Do you know that Fukushima probably isn't dangerous because nuclear power isn't dangerous because thorium fusion nuclear power isn't dangerous, even though Fukushima isn't thorium-driven. But ...

Let me clarify.  Thorium fusion has not been invented because that makes no sense...

Thorium is not suitable for fusion.

Thorium can be used in MOX

Fukushima was MOX driven

Therefore?