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Comment: Re:Anyone else? (Score 1) 145

by ekesis (#38341354) Attached to: Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials
Not at first, but you are on to something, you can see how it fits ... as the US recedes from Space - a final spasm. Pelletized Ancestors by the ton are ejaculated into high orbit, from where they descend to ablate the spacecraft of the competition, for Eternity. It employs the dead as it gets them out of the way, and does this by sending them off to war! Makes a lot of sense.

Comment: Resurrection! Now! (Score 1) 145

by ekesis (#38341206) Attached to: Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials
The State of Viagra obviously knows a good plot when they see it, but that one's taken ... Terry Southern, Johnathan Winters "The Loved One" 1965 ... so funny you could break a rib. Go on, you deserve it ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loved_One_(film) ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Cmu-_bA48

Comment: Re:Sound was usenet flame bait (Score 1) 674

by ekesis (#36918038) Attached to: Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours
I see a pattern turning here. Rogers ... lovely, my brother gave them to me as they'd become an inconvenience. Now they're in storage, replaced by the Celestions, which are truly indescribably etc. I got these on eBay for a song, sold by a man in his mid 30's caught in an interminable loop quest for 'detail'. His wife had pointed out an unusual number of boxes obstructing the lifestyle and had demanded he clean up his act. There is a lot of beautiful old sound gear out there. -- What goes around
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Libya SIGINT jamming satellites, towers-> 1

Submitted by h00manist
h00manist writes "Libya's Gaddafi apparently loves radio hacking. Confirmed to be using signal jamming to disable Thuraya satellite phones. Also satellite TV network provider Arabsat, affecting vast areas in the Middle East, Gulf, Africa and Europe. Perhaps cellphone and internet transmissions also too, which work intermittently. Soldiers confiscate electronics, too. This has gone on for days, allowing killing carried out largely hidden from the world view, quite different from what happened in Egypt. The locations of the jamming signals is known to company executives, around capital Tripoli, but nobody can do anything. Only POTS available, and monitored. Technically, could this happen everywhere? Alternatives?"
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Talking Ants->

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ekesis
ekesis writes "I had thought that ants carried on their daily lives quietly, wafting pheromones at one another when a point needed to be made, but it's not that simple. Audio recordings of ants in action, made by Jeremy Thomas of Oxford and reported here in the TimesOnLine, indicate that we just haven't been listening ... "Advances in audio technology have enabled scientists to discover that ants routinely talk to each other in their nests. Most ants have a natural washboard and plectrum built into their abdomens that they can rub together to communicate using sound. Using miniaturised microphones and speakers that can be inserted unobtrusively into nests, researchers established that the queens can issue instructions to their workers. The astonished researchers, who managed to make the first recordings of queen ants "speaking", also discovered that other insects can mimic the ants to make them slaves. ""
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