[kj] Strange events

[Lennonka]

I'm going to shoot out my brain voluntarily...

(Convince me that Matrix/Terminator visions are NOT possible.
Not talking about the farm of animals...)

Lenn

PS. Yes, I'm a mad [wo]maniac. And I enjoy it!

2007/11/8, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>:

>

> Christ on a bike, look at how our understanding of science has improved in

> the last 100 years...by about 2020 desktop computers will have the

> processing power of the human brain (which is huge), so imagine the

> computing power of 10 million of them all hooked up (distributed

> processing, it's already been happening for ages).

>

> The 21st century is very likely going to see advances in biology that will

> rival what the 20th century did with physics (which is itself improving

> steadily)...and all this while we put a hell of a lot more effort into

> killing each other than science.

>

> I think when we've had several decades of lack of progress scientifically,

> THEN focus on our limitations, until then there just doesn't seem to be

> any ceiling that I can see. There's going to be loads of ethical issues of

> course...if you have a look on Youtube and other sites, people are already

> starting to be implanted with RFID chips, US passports I gather have RFID

> chips embedded, some credit cards possibly...it's 'interesting times'

> alright.

>

> > Not exactly speaking from a scholarly point of view here (that's an

> > understatement if there ever was one), but....

> >

> > I think that moving forward or even backward through time, whether

> > possible or completely impossible, is most likely far beyond the reach

> of

> > stupid little human beings. I doubt our fragile little 90%-water bodies

> > could withstand the force exerted by such flights of fancy. It would

> > probably be the equivalent of being sucked through a black hole which,

> so

> > I've read, would theoretically turn the average person into human

> > spaghetti.

> >

> > In the grand scheme of things, we are finite little creatures living

> > finite lives and we're stranded on our little, tiny, infintesimal,

> nothing

> > of a chunk of rock and water. I doubt we're meant for much more.

> > Hopefully, i'm wrong, cuz i've got some scores to settle with a few of

> my

> > grade school teachers.

> >

> > Leigh

> >

> >

> >

> > ----- Original Message ----

> > From: Flight Bringer <flightbringer at hotmail.co.uk>

> > To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> > <gathering at misera.net>

> > Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12:52:47 PM

> > Subject: Re: [kj] Strange events

> >

> >

> > Thats is indeed a good theory......but the reality is that we cant even

> > get the trains and buses to run on time , let alone getting them to

> arrive

> > before they've even departed.

> >      But the theory below is akin to saying "It is possible for Man to

> > drink a glass of water.......so that means that its also possible to

> > Man to drink the Pacific ocean.........with all the fish included

> >

> >

> >

> > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:24:46 +0000

> > From: DavidSchofield at liberata.com

> > To: gathering at misera.net

> > Subject: Re: [kj] Strange events

> >

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> > Nobody has proved that backwards time travel is possible (yet), but

> > relative forwards time travel is possible. Time can be observed going at

> > different rates depending on your relative velocity – the faster you go,

> > the slower time goes relative to someone who is stationary (not that you

> > are ever stationary – stood still you have a velocity of ~30km/s just

> from

> > the planet orbiting the sun). I think on a transatlantic flight there is

> a

> > half second or so difference, but the nearer you get to the speed of

> light

> > the larger the difference.

> >

> > This leads to the ability to travel forward in time. If you could travel

> > fast enough, for long enough, then you could get a significant

> difference

> > between your time and the time on earth. So, in theory if we threw you

> off

> > into on a mission to the nearest star at 50% of the speed of light, it

> > would take you ~40 years (of your time) but to us, it would take ~47

> > years. At 99.99% of the speed of light, it would take you 4 months, but

> to

> > us it would be 24years.

> > .

> > You can slow light down by passing it through a medium such as glass or

> > water.

> >

> > Time is theoretically linked to other forces also, sufficiently high

> > gravity or magnetic fields could also be used to slow time relatively.

> >

> > You can also get Tachyons, which are faster than light particles, but

> they

> > are still theoretical. Perhaps CERN will find some.

> >

> > My head now hurts.

> >

> > Dave

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]

> > On Behalf Of Flight Bringer

> > Sent: 07 November 2007 16:52

> > To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> > Subject: Re: [kj] Strange events

> >

> >

> > It just isnt possible to go either back or forward in time , you can

> dress

> > it up as much as you like and give as many theories as you want , but

> > there is no way that time can be reversed .

> >     It just isnt possible for that chicken that I ate today to be once

> > again running around a farm like it was a few weeks ago . If I went

> > and chopped a tree down last week and then sawed it up and burnt it to

> > ashes, there is no way that those ashes could ever reinvent themselves

> > as wood and then materialise itself as the same

> > tree.......................................Impossible

> >

> >> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:05:31 +0000

> >> From: crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk

> >> To: gathering at misera.net

> >> Subject: Re: [kj] Strange events

> >>

> >> The experiments at CERN could conceivably cause some

> >> strange effects with time/space.

> >>

> >> "The clock turned backwards"

> >>

> >>

> >> > OK, I know I am setting myself up here for ridicule

> >> and piss take.

> >>

> >> > However, despite appearances, those that have had

> >> the misfortne to meet me,

> >>

> >> > will probabbly testify that I am quite rational and

> >> sound of mind.

> >>

> >> >

> >>

> >>

> >

> >

> >

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