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[dhls]

Fellow Americans, there comes a time every mans life when we must give up ourselves before we are worthy to recieve. There comes a time in this war on terror when in order to protect liberty, we have to give it up in the mean time for safty. That's right folks. Today, Americans have forsaken the creator for the creation and have decided that they would value our "civil liberties" than protecting western civilization and rich white people from the tender mercies of radical Islamic terrorists. Selfish liberals insist and whine that Bush has no right to spy on Americans and ban certain undesirables from using our airlines. They demand the right to criticize and blaspheeme the name of our supreme commander and cheef George W Bush while forcing multiculturalism down our throats and praising Bill Clinton. We all know however that it's totally Clintons fult for everything bad in america. Now we are at war and we must make a decision. support the safty of America and defeat terrorists, or support civil liberties and give victory to the enemy. Its all because of Bill Clinton and civil liberties that we are in this war so it is only fair that we give it up. no one said life was supposed to be fair you liberal crybabys. Dont give me that rubbish about equality and diversity. WE ARE AT WAR! If your not for Bush and against civil liberties your a terrorist! Your probably even a Communist and should be detained. Therefore fellow Americans we must throw all of our trust and resources behind George W Bush and behind this war with no ifs ands or buts. Be sure to report any and all detractors and freedom supporters to your local military and never question. Bush knows what hes doing and we will win this war once and for all. Thank you and May God bless America.

[TheBrotherhood]

"(I quit cold turkey, in case you're wondering...)"

I think if you were able to quit cold-turkey, you weren't really addicted to them. Of course different people have different degrees of addiction and withdrwal symptoms.

I was down to less than half a pack this past summer. I'm now smoking almost a pack/day again.

Me think me gonna start doing some footing again. Maybe pick up tennis again. I love tennis, but need a partner. I think A CA Guy is also a tennis player. I'm also very good too, having played it since my early teens years.

[NicknamedBob]

Thrust Ring Telescope Project:

If one considers the static stiuation only, the process seems simple. The Thrust Ring is an engineering structure designed to allow three massive objects to be lifted off Earth, and to mutually rotate once arrived in outer space. It was made large enough to encircle the Flying Castle Habitat, and to link it with the others.

Therefore, it is large. It’s inner circumference is defined by a radius over 5500 feet, with an outer band at 5800 feet, and two planar discs completing the basic structure. The outer circumference band is where most of the Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines, (the Shuttle Thrusters), are moored.

This makes it the equivalent of six three-hundred story buildings laid in a circle. In addition to the conduits, pipes, passageways, storage tanks, laboratories, offices, restaurants, manufacturing facilities, and spherical elevator car tubes, it has exterior space which is useful for outer space projects.

One of those projects involves telescopy. On the fore and aft planar disc surfaces, several large telescopes have been linked together for navigational purposes, and for astrogational studies. These, while large, and enjoying the benefit of being outside of atmosphere, are relatively standard telescopes. There are six on each side, and their outputs are fed into the on-board cable viewing channels.

The Thrust Ring Telescope Project is in addition to these devices. On the capacious surface of our forward planar disc, we are building six large multifaceted telescopes. To the untrained eye, they look like radio-telescopes, for they are of a similar size.

If the Ring were not rotating, and if the object to be photographed were directly ahead, then all we would need to do is combine the images of the six multifaceted telescopes for an astonishing resolving power involving a synthetic aperture of more than two miles. That is a big increase in resolving power over what has been available on Earth.

But the Ring does rotate, and we will wish to focus on stars and systems which are slightly off our current axis of rotation. So the data collection becomes somewhat more complicated. First off, the entire telescope assemblies are on counter-rotating magnetic suspensions, and as the Thrust Ring rotates, they keep their focus on the object of interest in the manner of an animal tracking its prey.

The primary mirrors of the Thrust Ring Telescope Project are similar in purpose to the reflector asemblies of automobile headlights, and are somewhat similar in shape. They constitute a spherical parabola, open at the center, and they are on magnetic bearings, with a backplane of electronically adjustable mounting points which can be used to adjust their sphericity.

The secondary mirror reflects the concentrated image onto a hexagonal bed of light-gathering Charge-Coupled Devices. It is this configuration which multiplies our ability to deal with the vast amounts of starlight collected. The hexagonal array can be made as large as we wish, and with the hexagonal cell shape extending downward several inches, we can tap the individual sensor elements in as fine a resolution as desired.

The complication is to make the various elements which correspond to the same distant location in space arrive at the memory storage location in synchronization. This is done by sending the scanning path around the Thrust Ring by various circuitous routes in order to keep the focal plane of the image in time-synchronization.

Additionally, the various corresponding elements are scanned at the same time, their information sent on its way to be collimated, and the next elements of the picture are then scanned. In essence, the six multi-faceted telescopes act like six eyes operating together just as our two eyes work together.

The hexagonal CCD array also has actuators which permit the individual cells to be adjusted remotely and microscopically to bring them into optical alignment. The advantage of building the array with these capabilities is that we can use some rather crude fabication techniques, even assembling the electronic retina by hand, and then tune it up by using an electronic diagnostic program.

The net result of all this engineering is to have a rotating telescopic array of tremendous resolving power, incredible aperture, and unlimited ability to remain focused on target for days at a time.

Now all we need are targets of opportunity.

[TheBrotherhood]

Bye now and hope you feel better.

[Monkey Face]

Actually, I smoked 20 years when I decided to quit, and in addition to the cigarettes, I gave up alcohol and coffee on the same day...all three. At one time. And I now have a Gazelle Edge to help me keep the heart going right!

[Darksheare]

Yeah, we had a 'white supremacist' troll who posted pro-hitler rants peppered with the 'tubgirl' image here last year.
Well, I stated that I was with the posters the troll was targeting.

So he tried to sign up with a handle aping mine.
He got the zot, and I'm still ticked at the guy.
Word through the grapevine was that the IP addy was to an ISP near me in New Jersey across the border from me.
Wish I knew where the troll lived as I'd give them something to really worry about.

[Darksheare]

As far as I know, nobody has experienced hearing voices aftter drinking my coffee.

At least, no-one has mentioned it to me... yet.

[Monkey Face]

I think the troll had a lot of nerve, actually...the Power Of Darks is nothing to be sneezed at...

[MNJohnnie]

"The net result of all this engineering is to have a rotating telescopic array of tremendous resolving power, incredible aperture, and unlimited ability to remain focused on target for days at a time."

OH!!!! Can we look at the asteroid we moved all the Islamo Facists too? Wanna see if any of them are still blowing each other up with those suicide bomb belts we left in the habitat!!!

[TheBrotherhood]

"Thrust Ring Telescope Project:"

Is that the new book you're writing?

Man, lots of words my feeble and limited mind does not grasp in that book, if that is a book, that is.

I always wanted to be a writer too, but don't know where to begin. I can't even begin to imagine people asking me for my autograph. I will have to learn how...me think me better go sleep before i droppp down .

[Monkey Face]

Maybe the voices are telling them not to mention it to you...?

[Monkey Face]

Hi, Johnnie! Long time, no see!
How have you been?

[Monkey Face]

Actually, I think it's part of the Never Ending Story of The Undead Thread and The Flying Castle.

[MNJohnnie]

Busy. So many trolls, so little time. Getting involved in our local Senate campaign. Got a real good shot at knocking off replacing a Dem Senator with a Rep named Mark Kennedy here in MN. Was just sorting thru my Free mail and pings when I say NB's latest gem

[Darksheare]

Quite alot of nerve.
I just hope they got fired from their job, as the grapevine also said it was a business addy they were doing that crap from.

[sionnsar]

Getting involved in our local Senate campaign.

Good for you! If even a tenth of the FReepers in my state got involved with just one campaign, Washington would likely become a red state.

[Monkey Face]

Hi, sion!
How is your Saturday, so far?

[sionnsar]

Hi, 'Face! Won't be around much today; spent the morning trying to get the "multimedia" PC going (it's too old and small to really deserve the name). The wireless card is flake, so will have to head out to the library to download a new one (20 Megs takes a long time on slow shared dialup...).

[Monkey Face]

That's OK..I'm kinda in and out myself. The headache is still with me, and the day won't stop, just because I have it. *sigh*

Maybe I'll go treat myself to sourdough burger with cheese at Jack-In-The-Box....

[MNJohnnie]

See ya BYE! Been fighting it but must give in to the food monster!! Bring me BEEF, preferable on a rolL, with frys! And BACON! And Cheese! MUST GO NOW!

[NicknamedBob]

"Is that the new book you're writing?"

It's just an exercise for the Undead Thread. If NASA were to follow our example, they would find many opportunities to do some interesting basic research.