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Toro

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Dexter Sinister

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Aw... you guys make me wish I was just starting my career instead of just having retired from it. I did a lot of stuff in telecom and digital signal processing in my prime, until my brains rusted out and I completely lost patience with bureaucratic stupidity and turned into a grumpy old man. There's just not enough time in multiple lifetimes to learn about and do all the fascinating things out there now... But at least retirement will never be boring.
 

gc

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There's just not enough time in multiple lifetimes to learn about and do all the fascinating things out there now...

Reminds me of a song..."I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know"

I always wonder what amazing things humans will be discovering long after I'm dead...
 

Dexter Sinister

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Maybe if we're lucky the folks who talk about reincarnation are right and we can come back and find out. That's the best reason I can think of for hoping such beliefs might be correct.
 

s243a

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Maybe if we're lucky the folks who talk about reincarnation are right and we can come back and find out. That's the best reason I can think of for hoping such beliefs might be correct.

The only problem is then you would have to learn everything all over again.
 

lysyfacet

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Reminds me of a song..."I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know"

I always wonder what amazing things humans will be discovering long after I'm dead...

sometimes i wonder about the exact same thing. But i'm sure in my life time, there will be some massive improvements in our technology forsure.
 

hermanntrude

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Reminds me of a song..."I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know"

I always wonder what amazing things humans will be discovering long after I'm dead...

i'm about halfway now... I still have learning to do but i can see a point in the future where my kids will have the upper hand. It makes u very philosophical
 

Libra Girl

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Oh Hermann, I read this article the other day and thought of you. Remember the British physicists who made that mathematical model which theoretically could cloak an object, well some researchers are building on that. Something like thousands of these tiny needles ten nanometers wide would project out from the cloak, and could bend the light around. The objects behind of course are visible as well. Cool shyte. Here it is from ScienceDaily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070402141206.htm
I read this also some while back, and was so excited by it that I showed it to my Uncle... However, he said that it would only make things invisible to radar; Is that true? I guess I've watched too much tv... lol
 

Libra Girl

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The only problem is then you would have to learn everything all over again.
Ah, not necessarily. I was practically born with a sketchpad and charcoal in my hands, and also had 'green fingers,' even as a child... my folks hardly knew a thing about plants.
 

Tonington

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I read this also some while back, and was so excited by it that I showed it to my Uncle... However, he said that it would only make things invisible to radar; Is that true? I guess I've watched too much tv... lol

The original plans made reference to radar, I think it mentioned the possibility of visibility as well. When I informed my brother, a physicist by trade, and one who comes to this site from time to time, he mentioned something called the Hairy Ball theorem. I had asked him how it would be possible for the light to converge back at one point when it wraps around the object without having a spot where there might be some visual discrepancies. That's when he directed me to the theorem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
 

Libra Girl

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The original plans made reference to radar, I think it mentioned the possibility of visibility as well. When I informed my brother, a physicist by trade, and one who comes to this site from time to time, he mentioned something called the Hairy Ball theorem. I had asked him how it would be possible for the light to converge back at one point when it wraps around the object without having a spot where there might be some visual discrepancies. That's when he directed me to the theorem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
Tonongton, thank you for the link! I find it all very interesting... well, that that I can understand, lol.