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Thats great :¬) TY for the resource.

I have so small neon bulb however these are the changes I have made. Metal cans at the bottom as well instead of the glasses Taller, less pieces in the outside and also more sturdy However it still wont make even the smallest spark and the water does not seem at all effected by dropping though the tubes? I suppose I could try and test the wires perhapses. I don't know for sure that they work but I think they should.

Stephen Wolfram - A new kind of science http://www.wolframscience.com/ You can view it online. I have read much of this book and love it. This book is about cellular automation. Normally this is done in 2D for example with the famous conways life and focus is on patterns that can be built in one set of rules, however this book focuses mainly on 1D automations and all the different rules instead. My choppy mathematics education normally makes this sort of thing hard. Perhaps that I am a computer programmer who loves such things and regally builds abstractly and complex programs helps, however I suspect that my understanding of this is more to do with the way the book introduces the topic so nicely and gradually flows though it from the basics to the more difficult. I think most people would understand this book and, while it can be somewhat overwordy if you have any interest in mathematics, fractals or logic it is well worth the read.

I need help with my "almost a Kelvin Generator". I say almost as it's not working yet. This is what it is meant to do http://demo.physics.uiuc.edu/lectdemo/scripts/demo_descript.idc?DemoID=1099 (sorry I can't find a better explanation of the theory atm) I get no sparks, this is my setup http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2097/img4566np0.jpg http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9206/img4565vz7.jpg The wires have crocodile clips on eather end, the gap is about 4mm. The only major differance is the material of the lower containers. Should the charge still build up in the water? I can't believe that it was so hard and keep made while I did the experiments.

Microwaves have hot and cooler places in them. The waves will bounce a lot in the microwave (perhaps somewhat chaoticly) The microwaves don't originate exactly from the side. The wavelength could be 8 or 64 times smaller than this and still appear the same. I'm not quite getting it.

The human would have to disown it. While the human considers themselves still in control there would be to much tenancy for them to intervene.

Nobody is on the payroll. The system of how this is the case it described im my first post. If computer would have to provide a real name and details to purchase buildings then I guess someone would have to own all the buildings on behalf of every unit. This is all theoretical. I shouldn't think there are too many individuals capable of setting this up alone, it may need to be observed in detail to iron out the bugs.

Thank you for a very good post. The booting from custom built software instead of running software from an OS was to greatly reduce software faults. Do you think the hardware failure rate would be particularly large? I was thinking that if hardware seemed to have failed (could be monitored by the rest of the network) it could often just be left and not communicated with, this is also because acting naturally with any human resource would be a goal. In a commercial environment however it makes more sense to get a person to repair that PC thus scaling the people involved to the computers required. Perhaps the "death" mentioned in my post above post could be a way of resolving old age (lots of failed components, run out of space in the building). By then it could have several large children and many grandchildren. The reproduction also allows units (farms) to die (and so redistribute there wealth and covered in the above post) due to unexpected faults or real world problems such as communication problems (as effectively emails from bots are being sent to humans) or fire etc... I wonder how legally the ownership of the building could work. I could imagine the government claiming buildings it found that had been purchased automatedly where there was no obvious path back to a human owner. IEEE seems to involve purchasing articles. However the website implies that affiliation with certain institutions could allow you to be exempt from paying so I will check with my UNI when I return after easter. I'm no great academic when it comes to creating formal reports, best practice in research, academic standards etc... I have learned it to some extent in UNI but only to a foundation degree level and that was never my strong point. :¬)

Robots. The more complicated you make them the more complicated they have to reconstruct to make copies of themselves. I have an idea, how about. Buying a building. Putting a computer in it. Having the computer do something on-line that makes it money such as renting it's CPU power. The money it makes has to be enough to maintain the building it is in and make a prophet (although it could be quite a small prophet). When enough money is saved the computer has to buy a new computer and pay the person who delivers it to install it. This if needed could be done in two chunks. Delivered with instructions of how to get in and leave it inside and then instructions to someone else about how to get in and install the computer for the next day. The person who installs it needs to run it with the correct software. This could be as simple as put this USB pen in here and this one in here, turning the PC on and then taking another one out. Theoretically making a copy of the software for another install as well as starting the PC booting from the correct information. He also needs to connect the PC to the Internet or to another of the PC's in the room. The Network needs to maintain a bank account on-line that it can use to pay bills, pay it's workers and pay for materials. Bills: Building maintenance Internet connection Workers: PC\Network Installer Cleaner or building maintenance guy Expander Materials: PC's Memory Pens Once the network has got to a certain size then it could expand to another building. This then requires someone to be paid to check out the building (lets call this person the expander) and put the things in place to start a new unit. The new unit could have it's own bank account and an Internet link back to it's parent. Each year after a certain age provided the parent has done this already the unit could have a small chance of selling all its assets including the building (death) and giving it's money to its parent or one of it's close relativities brothers\sisters\children etc... This would happen much less often than an expansion. I was planning to avoid any central maintenance however someone (a person) will have to keep the list of resources (including human resources) and templates for how to send convincing emails and make payments up to date.

The idea of this energy also comes from Diskworld. It's a great work of fiction but that is all pyramid energy is, fiction. To many people seem to be taking it seriously in this thread.

Here I am posting an explanation I have written of HDR (High Dynamic Range) Imagery. All feedback is welcome. Consider this like an un-official peer review. http://www.with-logic.co.uk/Stuff/HDR_Explained.doc

Cows are not fussy, It is an amazing sight to see a huge field with an apparently small amount of cows in it becoming an obviously large amount of cows gathering in a tight circle around a musician. I have seen this twice, once with a solo played on a horn and once with music consisting of a accordion\melodian and drums. There is a video online showing a cat sitting on a piano stool playing a note on the piano over and over again. paw up, paw down, etc... Supposedly dogs like slow music. An experiment to discover what music animals like could be constructed with an almost featureless room containing x triggers (what type of trigger, how many triggers and how long each sample is would depend on the animal). The animal would enter the room, then once it triggers one of the triggers that music would be played to it and the other triggers would become inactive. The experiment could then be repeated maybe once a day for some days so that data could be collected on what each animal chose. The triggers would always be in the same places for each animal but could change between animals of the same type so that more music could be tested than the number of triggers that type of animal was capable of reliably remembering. While I love Metallica and hate Busted, an animal may recognize those as being very similar music or even just meaningless noise. Therefore solo instrumental music should be selected as well as more complected stuff.

Id be intrested if glow in the dark plants became avalible.

What happens when we have groups like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRI8Fh1Xdc Start training criminals to do this?

Anyone want to try? the ones on the link are my ones. No glue involved.

http://www.drobo.com/products_demo.aspx wow, exactly what I want, when it is 1/4 the price im buying it.

There doing something costly http://www.download.com/P2P-Backup/3000-2242_4-10496612.html is doing something free Is there a cheap raid that I can plug any combination of disks I happen to have into and it will tell me if one fails and one failing won't result in me losing anything? No comments, no comments on CNet aether (http://www.cnet.com.au/downloads/0,239030384,10496612s,00.htm) and nobody has rated it on CNet, Is it that new? or has nobody had the courage/foresight/stupidity to be the first try it yet? Id like to try it but can't find any evedance at all from anyone anywhere on the web to say it's even real.

Yeah, obviously, "wow that looks dangerous" but, other than that, what do we think? http://www.download.com/P2P-Backup/3000-2242_4-10496612.html

lol, ty.

Or the disk would have to be very heavy. If it was very heavy then it could be spun up to being very fast (by a motor, not by hand). I presume the reason why this is not done though it because the size would be to big, in order to be practical the whole system would have to be quite small.

Maybe effect is a better word that force

Horse is more complex that most forces as Horse creates force up to the speed it is moving then doesn't supply any more. You will accelerate quickly up to horse speed then abruptly stop accelerating and stay at that speed. Unlike a sail that will create constant force that gradually decreases with speed as you approach wind-speed and the drag force becomes equal to the sail force.

Gyroscopes demonstrate an unusual force. It is the same force as makes spinning tops work. Instead of being a force in a set direction (like a fan) or towards a point (like a planet) it is a "keep upright" force that keeps the spinning top from falling over. There is apparently more force created with a heavy and fast spinning object. Therefore I propose an idea for a small device that contains a very heavy spinning disk housed in some sort of casing. When the device is on the disk will spin very quickly always being accelerated by some form of motor (until it reaches it's top speed). The device could then be attached to the outside of an object to keep it upright. An example could be a square table where 2 legs on the same side are missing and this device is attached somewhere on the table, for example to the top of one of the legs on the legged side of the table. This could of course be impossible, but I think it ought to be possible somehow.

What does [math]\lambda[/math] mean in maths\science? Iv'e seen it before.

TY for the links :¬) Gd5(Si2Ge2) apears to be the most effective materal. Still don't have a rough idea of what scale the effect is on though in this materal.