Posted on 04/02/2012 12:33:56 PM PDT by trailhkr1
If you only want to hide in one direction, you could try an artificial gravity lens, a series of shaped dense materials designed to bend light around the large object using only mass effects.
Having more than one observer completely ruins the effect, but for a single point of view it could be effective.
Correct. You are reflecting an image of a lumpy background off of a cold mirror at your opponent.
Nothing looks quite so much like interstellar space as more interstellar space...
The opbit makes me very sad’ I’d have liked to have known him. I guess one can say tha about lots of p[eople.
May he rest in peace. Memory and melody eternal.
Bradamante does have that gravity drive FTL, but the side effect is that she throws things around.
I’m glad the bunneh was punctual - I paid him, after all. No, I think it was a “free shipping” bunneh. Can’t beat that!
I hung out with him in the kitchen at a concert, where I was bouncing whichever baby it was at the time, and he was helping everyone to the host’s wine. Such a nice man! Later he played a set with the musicians who had come from Ireland.
We have wonderful performers in the local Folk Society. We’ve been too busy recently to make it to any events. Maybe later in the summer ...
In accordance with provisions of Ottawa General Laws Chapter 140 and Town of Parry Sound General By Laws, Chapter 11, Article 3, license is hereby issued to the person named above to keep the dog herein described for one year from the first day of January of the calendar year. Said dog is numbered and registered as required by said laws, for which the required payment has been made.
Oh, wow—a dollar short and a day late, as usual.
A premature good wish for a terrific weekend to y’all.
Many thanks for the info re: “The Screwtape Letters.” I’ve enjoyed the audio version and plan to listen to it several more times because of interruptions.
From Flag Day to Fathers Day, have a wonderful weekend.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
I had the first two sections memorized at one time, but this where I got with out looking.
I got the word “got” from living in Washington near the Canadian boarder. They would play both national anthems when the station signed off.
1) OK. Just curious.
2) I knew that, but the editor and my brain missed it.
3) Good for the babies! (Good for the talapia!)
4) Wellden. Belay that entire line of questioning.
For now, I’m trying to wake up.
I knew a Wyvern once. I didn’t like him much. He acted like the clod-hopper he was.
The question may have been better asked, “Who has never drunk water from a garden hose?” That’s what you did when you were outside, playing hard.
Good morning. That means that I wish you to have a good morning, and that it is a morning to be good on, and that, in many ways (except for those relating to teenage boys) it IS, objectively, a good morning. (Sun shining, plants growing, trash-trucks making the rounds, etc.)
And now, I have to change some diapers, so good morning. (End of conversation.)
Well! I have been well and truly good-morninged! Thanks!
I’m going to take The Stig outside in a bit. He is happily singing his little morning greeting song. It’s cool enough out that he won’t get too hot, and I need to get him used to being handled.
Later!
I hope The Stig enjoyed his trip out. We’ll have to water the gardens tomorrow, if it doesn’t rain tonight.
I’m off to the Food Lion and then to get James and Vlad from their last day of Cub Scout day camp. Friday is when the fire truck comes and sprays them. I’m sure they’ll be far beyond horrendously filthy, into stratospheric dirtiness that only a poet can describe.
The Stig did NOT like being handled, and was a little resistent to the cage, but I knew he would be that way on the first outing.
Once he got outside and heard his cousins talking among themselves, he put in his two cents worth. I had him out about 10 minutes, but I will take him out again tomorrow or Sunday.
I was clever enough to wear a garden glove, so his bites were toothless, as it were!
For $13, the cage is roomy and well built! Bigger than I expected, too.
I’m going to go lie down. I’ve spent the better part of this last week with on-and-off angina, and it is wearing me down.
My plans for this week were to try and wash a load or two every day, but I’ve been trying to keep a lid on the activities.
I will keep you posted, either by text or FReepmail.
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