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  1. "the box is filled with a transparent material that emits light where two lasers overlap"

    For example...?

    the light from one laser is not strong enough to cause the material to start emitting light, but two combined are.

     

    It made more sense in my head. :(

  2. Start with the origin http://pinktentacle.com/2006/02/aist-develops-3d-image-projector/

    apan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed a device that uses lasers to project real three-dimensional images in mid-air.

    The link pretty much explains how it works.

    The problem with their way is that it requires light so intense that you ned strong sunglasses, and only allows for one colour and no brightness control.

    But what if you could use a controlled medium that emitted light at lower power, and did not need glasses? and what if that medium could produce different colours, depending on the colour of the laser?

    that's where this comes in:

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    the box is filled with a transparent material that emits light where two lasers overlap

    the red boxes contain the lasers, that can emit different colours of light depending on what's needed

     

    the green lines are example scanlines (like a CRT screen, but in 3d). at the time it made sense, but a more efficient algorithm could just draw 3d lines where needed (like a 3d printer, but hollow)

     

    aaand I had some more thought for this idea, but I seem to have lost it.

     

     

    thoughts?

  3. basically every day my mom has to drive half an hour through an area that has a lot of feedlots (concentrated cows). and needless to say, it smells.

    Is there some way to install a filter of some sort into her ventilation system to try to remove at least a good portion of the odours wafting into the cabin?

    thanks.

    It's a 2010 Hyunda Elantra.

  4. well, look on the bright side. We have no idea of what form aliens would exist as, let alone proof that the organic structures we know and love are the only means for life. so they could possibly be beings inside a star, or spawned from seas of diamond, or otherwise in a form that would find Earth's environment to be hazardous.

  5. probably one that takes the characters after the last period in the name (there can be more than one, but only the last one is important - except for exceptions such as .tar.gz), then goes to a site in inputs it as a search, then reformats the page by removing excess info (not the best idea if the website constantly redesigns itself...)

  6. Thus your statement actually proves my point. If he were to bring technology that has been discovered from the future "back" to us then we would discover it sooner. basically if we could travel to the past then we could in theory poses every technology available to us for the entire period of time that time travel is available.

     

    If we could, but could we?

  7. Via CBC

    Thousands of women are being urged to show off their cleavage over the next 24 hours to test an Iranian cleric's claim that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes.

     

     

     

    ennifer McCreight, a 22-year-old Purdue University student in Indiana, organized the experiment, dubbed Boobquake, to check the scientific validity of the cleric's theory.

     

    McCreight donned the "most cleavage-showing shirt" she owns on Monday to take part in the experiment.

     

    "I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts," McCreight wrote on her blog earlier this week. "Or [put on] short shorts if that's your preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake."

     

    Thousands of women have signed on to a Boobquake Facebook page, pledging to do their part for the advancement of science.

     

    McCreight, a science major, decided to conduct the experiment after she read comments from Kazem Sedighi, a hard-line cleric in Iran.

     

    "Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which [consequently] increases earthquakes," Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media.

     

    The experiment aims to determine whether women's participation in Boobquake significantly increases the number or severity of earthquakes around the world, said McCreight.

     

    "Or if an earthquake strikes West Lafayette, Ind., and only kills me, that may be good evidence of God's wrath as well (I'm not too concerned)," she wrote.

    LET THE BOOBQUAKE BEGIN

  8. To me in order to find the reason we just have to look at ourselves.

    Let's say an alien lands in the Netherlands or whatever, says "Hallo," then files for citizenship. You can't honestly expect the entire world to just accept this and move on. In fact, there will always be at least ONE group that will consider the existence of aliens to be counter to their core beliefs, and will attempt to eliminate them.

    Following this, we have three types of aliens:

    1: the ones that know this, but still introduce themselves despite the threat. That means that they are confident that it will not be a problem, most likely because they plan on taking over our planet.

    2. the ones that know this, and so avoid us. This is the best solution, because we will never know their existence.

    3. the ones that know this, but have no choice but to arrive. chances are that this is just a guise of group 1, but otherwise they might be able to co-exsist with another species, but more likely one of us will end up destroying the other.

    4. the ones that do not know this fact. Either due to politics or lack of analyzation they do not know what will happen when the arrive. this means that when they arrive with peace in their minds and are met with criticism, they could be shocked and believe that all of us are like that. then they may try to destroy us, worst case scenario.

  9. I guess I never did really explain myself. Mostly I'm looking for a way to program so that when you compile on any platform it will be pretty much identical to a native application, in the sense that there are no user interface flaws that are correct on one OS but horribly wrong on another.

  10. Story goes that when Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born in Canada, the hospital she was born in was temporary declared part of the Netherlands to comply with royalty customs.

    EDIT: Wikipedia says it was just declared international territory.

    1. Take the turbine out of the turbocharger.
    2. Adjust a few screws so the engine doesn't know that the turbine is missing.
    3. Pull up in front of old granny on the highway.
    4. Floor it!

     

    The ultimate smoke-production recipe. Cummins did this with an engine when testing whether exhaust gases from a rear-facing exhaust pipe would enter a trailer towed behind the pickup truck, potentially poisoning its occupants. It's easier to tell when the exhaust gases are a giant dark cloud...

     

    It'd probably be easier to have a hose that injects oil directly into the intake...

    Also allows you to experiment with different types to see which ones burn the darkest.

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