Random Thoughts or Whatever
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spicer
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I don't know. I'm still waiting for the next ice age we were promised in the seventies. Global freezing, glaciers were coming down, again, remember that.
No.
Well, granted, I was pretty young then.
Is this the one?
spicer
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Yes, that one. He's cleaning it up a bit but it was a given, a consensus, front page of Time Magazine, Weekly Reader at school, a given, only question is how far into Wyoming would the glaciers reach. You had to be there to appreciate the sameness to today. Then there was the Hellstrom Chronicle...Man, those army ants, relentless.
Sensationalism sells. Gotta keep people scared and buying those publications.
spicer
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It's not the publication, it's what's in it.
You don't have a publication without content.
spicer
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The two reflect each other, that is true.
Relativity is one of those difficult things to wrap your head around. Like you have your stereo in a train going the speed of sound (or any speed, really), it sounds the same to you (in the train) as it does in your stationary room. BUT, to a person on the ground next to the train tracks, the sound is highly compressed (higher frequency) as it approaches, then changes to normal at the point where the train is right next to you, then fades to 0Hz as it passes you.
All EM waves behave this way.
All EM waves behave this way.
Bill Ferris
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Yes that is true, Mr. Steve, In your moving train reference: "acoustic waves Doppler" effect to the stationary observer`s POV.Relativity is one of those difficult things to wrap your head around. Like you have your stereo in a train going the speed of sound (or any speed, really), it sounds the same to you (in the train) as it does in your stationary room. BUT, to a person on the ground next to the train tracks, the sound is highly compressed (higher frequency) as it approaches, then changes to normal at the point where the train is right next to you, then fades to 0Hz as it passes you.
All EM waves behave this way.
Rising in frequency until the moving source is at the same place/point of the static observer, then the frequency starts descending, and the rate of frequency change is depending upon the speed difference between the two. Yes ?
Big Albert: "It's all relative."
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
The human scale problem. Our lives are ridiculously short on the scale of the Universe. Therefore, our physical outlook should match. Our concern should be focused on say, where we can walk in a day. This was very common until the age of instant communications. Now, everyone assumes they should control, and take responsibility for, every square mile on Earth and maybe even the moon and Mars. What happens to Earth is on a scale thousands of times our human lifespan.
"I'll get a car with 40 MPG in order to help the planet," is the most ridiculous example of what "wrong scale thinking" leads to.
"I'll get a car with 40 MPG in order to help the planet," is the most ridiculous example of what "wrong scale thinking" leads to.
It's funny how, as you get older, you remember complicated, drawn-out things that happened way back — like in 3rd Grade — to the nth degree, as if it happened yesterday. These stories drive my better-half crazy!
But why did you just go into the living room? Forget it.
But why did you just go into the living room? Forget it.
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spicer
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Yeah, that memory capacity and access, or not, still there, influencing, or not.It's funny how, as you get older, you remember complicated, drawn-out things that happened way back — like in 3rd Grade — to the nth degree, as if it happened yesterday. These stories drive my better-half crazy!
But why did you just go into the living room? Forget it.
Like I clearly remember that hotsy-totsy, better than anyone, Janice farting in 2nd grade.
"Pride comes before a great fall."
I remember 2nd grade lunchtime, watching kids blowing bubbles in their milk bottles until it overflowed onto the desk and being grossed out by it. Then it was craft time and some kids would eat the paste, even requiring more to finish their project. I remember thinking that can't be good, what's wrong with them ?
In hindsight, they could have actually been hungry. It didn't occur to me then.
Now...why did I walk in here ?
In hindsight, they could have actually been hungry. It didn't occur to me then.
Now...why did I walk in here ?
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
^^^^ Such memories as that---such most people have---convince me that in all probability every single moment of consciousness is "out there" available for recall under the right circumstances. No, I don't know what those might be.
Dreams can conjure up long-lost memories. I just had one about a guy I worked with in the '90s. I hadn't thought about him in decades.
The dream was about the time an RN was chasing him. She was over-the-top friendly, kinda chunky — and he thought he was the cat's meow. Dressed to kill, kinda guy.
We were all teasing him about it. He was getting pissed off. Then, I woke up.
I thought, "Why did I have that dream?" Wierd.
spicer
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Those years, I remember kids eating paste and it had nothing to do with being hungry, it had to do with being little kids, they used to eat mud pies too, there's always one or two that did those things. I know the kids weren't hungry for a number of reasons including the lunch box they had with milk, sandwich, apples, etc. The teacher would say to the class, don't eat the paste... maybe that had something to do with it.
