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002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 03/21/90 22:23 Msg:5061 Call:28048 Lines:3
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20 Management of objectives works if you know thr objectives.
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21 Ninety percent of the time you don't. -- Peter Drucker
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003=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/22/90 08:05 Msg:5062 Call:28051 Lines:6
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23 &*&*&*&*'s
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24 At the Top!
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25
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26 An Astral Dreamer
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27 &*&*&*&*'s
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004=Usr:165 Bart Simpson 03/22/90 12:17 Msg:5063 Call:28053 Lines:144
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29 696969696969
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30 REPORT NOTES OIL SPILLS:-3/20/90
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31 As Alaska prepares to mark Saturday's first anniversary of the Exxon oil
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32 spill, the Wilderness Society has released a report saying there have been
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33
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34 MORE THAN 10,000 oil spills across the nation during the past year. Spillage
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35
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36 totaled up to 20-million gallons in all.
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37
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38 3/18 /90 As Anniversary of Exxon Spill Nears, Alaska Seems Normal - on the
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39 Surface; Safeguards Follow `Watershed' Event, but Oil Damage Endures
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40 By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer
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41 ELEANOR ISLAND, Alaska - Nearly a year ago, petroleum despoiling this
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42 jewel-like cove covered its gray cobblestone beach with thick brown goo and mad
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43 its pine-scented air smell like a refinery.
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44 Today, only dark stains on some larger rocks remain to mark the course of th
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45 infamous Exxon Valdez tanker spill. Where cleanup crews once cursed loudly as
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46 they wrestled with hot water sprays, bald eagles now fly over the quiet beach i
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47 flashes of dark and white feathers and otters pop out of the chilly blue waters
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48 just offshore.
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49 With Alaska about to mark the first anniversary of the March 24 spill, the
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50 greatest man-made wildlife disaster in U.S. history, most of Prince William
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51 Sound and the Gulf of Alaska coast seem to be wearily returning to normal.
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52 Fishermen anticipate an end to last year's disruptions. Tourism, which
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53 remarkably remained steady despite awful publicity, is expected to increase.
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54 And the oil industry, as it has been since hot petroleum first gushed from
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55 beneath Alaska's frigid North Slope, seems as healthy and influential as ever.
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56 Tankers move in and out of the sound at a steady pace and politicians at the
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57 capital in Juneau still consult with ARCO and British Petroleum before
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58 introducing spill-prevention legislation.
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59 If anything, the Exxon Valdez spill seems to have had more lasting impact
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60 outside than inside the nation's greatest oil-producing state. The news of
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61 nearly 11 million gallons of oil dumped into the sound's pristine waters create
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62 shock waves that still vibrate in Washington, pushing plans for oil exploration
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63 of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into bottom file drawers and building a
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64 wave of congressional support for conversion of the entire U.S. tanker fleet to
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65 double bottoms.
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66 "It was an event that was in many ways a watershed," said Alaska Gov. Steve
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67 Cowper (D), "an event that inspired major environmental legislation all over th
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68 world."
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69 Cowper, his department of environmental conservation and the U.S. Coast Guar
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70 have forced some changes in the handling of tanker traffic through the twisting
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71 channels of the sound. Tug escorts are now required. Booms and other
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72 oil-recovery equipment have increased. New radio communication rules are in
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73 force.
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74 Few Alaskans, or anyone else interested in preserving the natural
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75 environment, are likely to forget the carcasses - 36,471 oil-fouled birds, 1,01
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76 otters and 151 eagles found in the wake of the spill. That irreplaceable loss,
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77 and the temporary damage to fishing and other forms of local livelihood, are th
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78 subject of scores of lawsuits. Seven killer whales are missing. Initial finding
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79 indicate damage to young salmon, herring and shrimp. Salmon runs may be
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80 affected.
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81 But it takes a boat or a helicopter, and often a shovel and a sharp eye, to
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82 find any remaining signs of the nation's worst tanker spill, even along the 117
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83 miles of coastline identified last fall as moderately or heavily oiled. Exxon
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84 cleanup operations manager Randy Buckley said spring activities are expected to
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85 involve only a few hundred workers, rather than the thousands who covered
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86 beaches last summer, and focus on minimal environmental disruption.
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87 Cleanup managers for the state, the Coast Guard and Exxon, although still in
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88 disagreement over exactly how to proceed, said they have detected some hopeful
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89 developments that may influence oil-spill work in other parts of the world.
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90 Exxon scientists said microscopic particles of clay, in high concentration i
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91 Alaska waters because of melting glaciers, have shown an unexpected ability to
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92 attach themselves to oil molecules and act like laundry detergent in cleansing
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93 tidal-area rocks. Industry and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials
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94 are enthusiastic about spraying fertilizer onto oily beaches to encourage the
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95 growth of petroleum-eating bacteria. Steve Provant, the state's on-scene cleanu
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96 coordinator, has asked for proof that the fertilizers, which can be toxic,
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97 enhance the natural "bioremediation" process already underway.
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98 State officials are suggesting, and Exxon officials seem to be resisting, an
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99 expensive plan to remove, wash and replace some of the oiliest rocks and gravel
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100 At Sleepy Bay on Latouche Island, one of five stops on a helicopter tour of
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101 Prince William Sound shorelines Friday, special assistant to the governor Ernie
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102 Piper pointed to a stream used by spawning salmon that gurgled past oil-specked
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103 gravel. "We wouldn't take the whole two miles of beach," he said, "but we might
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104 take rock for 200 yards on either side of the stream and treat it that way."
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105 To avoid confusion in handling twisting shoreline, Exxon has reduced the
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106 wave-washed gravel, jutting rocks, soggy marshes and steep mountain fiords of
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107 the sound to a numbered code. The little cove on this island becomes, on Exxon
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108 maps, EL-10. Sleepy Bay is LA-19, the Bay of Isles marsh is KN-136, and the onc
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109 heavily oiled stretch of Smith Island everyone now calls Quayle Beach, in honor
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110 of the vice president's April visit, is SM-05.
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111 Helicopters and boats taking officials and reporters on spill anniversary
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112 tours seem to rival eagles and sea lions in number this week. Every spot visite
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113 has its own story. Most show great improvement because of last summer's cleanup
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114 and the cleansing winter storms and tides, but at least one, the Bay of Isles
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115 marsh, still looks like a tar pit, the result of a conscious decision to avoid
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116 mechanical cleanup that might scar the soft, delicate, waterlogged soil.
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117 At Bay of Isles, Piper looked at the black ooze fouling his boots and the oi
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118 sheen drifting back into the bay and said, "The state and Exxon may have to hol
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119 hands and say, `As much as it hurts us to say this, there is not much we can do
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120 about it.' "
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121 Environmentalists and state officials said they are most worried about oil
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122 that cannot be immediately seen. A state survey found oil traces six to 28
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123 inches beneath 224 sampled spots. Warm weather is expected to force some of thi
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124 back to the surface, where tides and waves will wash it into the sound. "Oil of
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125 the beach is good, but oil in the water is bad," said Piper. His boss, Cowper,
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126 must worry about anything that creates fear of tainted Alaskan seafood.
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127 Tourists have proven to be less of a problem. Bookings last year were up 2 t
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128 4 percent. "A lot of them came up to see what was going on," said Lynn Pedersen
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129 a helicopter pilot who ferried cruise ship passengers to nearby glaciers. "They
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130 expected to see the place covered with oil, so they were pleased to see that
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131 wasn't so."
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132 The spill has created a bonanza for scientists interested in the effects of
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133 oil pollution. Sixty current studies will cost a total of $35 million in their
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134 first year - 26 assessing the spill's impact on fish and shellfish (salmon,
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135 herring, shrimp, rockfish, clams and crabs), 14 on birds (eagles, peregrine
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136 falcons, sea ducks, kittiwakes and shorebirds), seven on marine mammals (sea
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137 otters, whales, seals and sea lions), six on land mammals (bears, deer, mink an
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138 river otters) and six on air, water, coastal habitat and sediments.
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139 Allen E. Smith, Alaska regional director for the Wilderness Society,
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140 complained that many scientists have had to keep their data secret, because it
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141 is to be used in lawsuits, "which means you don't have peer review for the
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142 conclusions they are developing."
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143 Nor have the studies or the initial reforms in tanker handling solved the
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144 immense technical problems of cleaning up oil spilled at sea. "If (the Exxon
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145 Valdez) spill happened again today," Smith said, "we'd have the same damage
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146 again, because we can't handle a spill of that size."
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147 Cowper agreed. He has submitted new bills to strengthen state requirements
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148 for safe equipment, create industry incentives for safe operation, and increase
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149 civil penalties for spills. But his aides acknowledge that the bills were
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150 modified at the suggestion of natural resources commissioner Lennie Boston
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151 Gorsuch, who like Cowper and most of the legislature contends it is wrong to
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152 alienate an industry that provides 85 percent of state revenue.
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153 The oil industry, Cowper said, "hasn't just sat there like an inert body" bu
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154 has paid for the cleanup, changed some of its procedures and sought innovations
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155 such as an ARCO plan to convert a tanker into a high-capacity spill-recovery
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156 vessel.
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157 Yet in the Alaskan political spectrum, Cowper is relatively tough on the
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158 industry, a sign to many that as the sound returns to normal and oil again
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159 become more scarce and expensive, anti-oil sentiment and radical reforms are
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160 unlikely to go very far.
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161 "There is a window of opportunity," Piper said, "but those windows tend to
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162 close quickly."
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163
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164 OIL SPILLS IN THE UNITED STATES:-3/20/90
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165 The Wilderness Society released a report Monday saying there have been more
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166 than 10,000 oil spills across the nation during the past year. Spillage: 15
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167 million to 20 million gallons. The worst: 1.3 million gallons in Pembina
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168 County, N.D., July 13; 1.2 million gallons, Linden, N.J., July 18; 800,000
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169 gallons, Bridgeport, Conn., May 2.
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170
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171 696969696969696969
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005=Usr:165 Bart Simpson 03/22/90 13:00 Msg:5064 Call:28054 Lines:112
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173 696969696969
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174 part 3b
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175
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176 Prissy's Dad is Dr. Chen of some university located in the DC area (sorry,
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177 don't remember which). I thought he said he was in Foreign Affairs, but,
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178 after talking with the guy for a while, it was apparent he had a very
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179 strong science background. However, I did only have one evening with
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180 the fellow and it was a pretty active evening.
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181
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182 So, what's a Japanese girl doing with a father named 'Chen'? I was
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183 wondering the same thing. Unfortunately, when my mind starts wondering,
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184 my mouth starts asking. That's probably why the Mathematics Department
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185 was the only group which would tolerate me at the old alma mater.
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186 Mathematicians never grow tired of trying to figure out what's on their
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187 minds.
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188
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189 Prissy's Mom is Japanese, but her father is Chinese. That is a very
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190 rare combination, concerning the animosity between those two cultures.
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191 Anyway, Dr. Chen met a Dr. Samatsi at a university in Tokyo (once again,
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192 the exact name eludes me-I thought he said 'University of Tokyo': is
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193 there such a place?). Dr. Samatsi taught physics. Dr. Samatsi,
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194 like a good college professor, periodically published papers. And, Dr.
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195 Samatsi never did anything exciting as far as the physics community was
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196 concerned.
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197
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198 So, what does Samatsi have to do with anything? Well, he did something
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199 very exciting as far as Dr. Chen was concerned. He wrote a series of
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200 papers, none of which were published, on something Dr. Chen translates
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201 as the "Theory of Intelligence" or "TOI" (pronounced by Chen as 'toy',
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202 funny, I thought it might be french). When I first started looking
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203 through them, it became apparent that he had spent many, many years
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204 contemplating intelligence. Then, as I dug even deeper into his works,
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205 I realized I was completely wrong: Dr. Samatsi must have spent his
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206 ENTIRE life deriving the TOI equations. Only someone possessed at a
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207 very young age could have produced a work of that magnitude.
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208
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209 In other words, while many physicists were concentrating on GUTs, Samatsi
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210 was concentrating on the effect of intelligence on the universe. In one
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211 paper, he writes: "...[intelligence] is a phenomena which has an effect
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212 on the environment, just as heat is a phenomena which has an effect on the
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213 environment. There is neither a single source for the generation of
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214 intelligence nor heat, though there are properties associated with each
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215 which can be well defined once the phenomena exists and is measurable."
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216
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217 I've got to be very careful here, because there is a lot of room for
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218 misunderstanding. Also, Dr. Chen had not yet translated all of the
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219 work, so, even if there had been time to go through everything and
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220 verify it (which would have taken months, if not years), there was still
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221 additional information which was not yet available. Dr. Chen felt the
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222 works were extremely important and, as such, it was absolutely mandatory
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223 to translate all of them precisely rather than to rapidly go through a
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224 few manuscripts, release them, and then watch the world go off helter
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225 skelter with some half cocked ideas. It would have been like Einstein
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226 saying, "E=m something, will tell you the rest later.".
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227
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228 Dr. Chen is a pretty interesting fellow himself. Like many of the older
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229 Chinese, he hated the Japanese. Then he met Dr. Samatsi while working
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230 in Tokyo a number of years ago. This is what he had to say about the
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231 ensuing friendship:
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232
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233 "You must understand, Mr. Jamen, that the Japanese killed millions,
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234 NOT hundreds of thousands as you read in your Western textbooks, of
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235 Chinese during World War II. That genocide is the reason for the
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236 bitter hatred most Chinese feel for the Japanese. However, after
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237 I met Dr. Samatsi, I realized, as strange as this sounds, that I
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238 had misjudged the culture. It would not be possible for the
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239 culture I had come to regard as totally barbaric to produce a man
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240 of Dr. Samatsi's nature. Now you see why I say I misjudged the
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241 Japanese.
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242
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243 "Imagine you were walking down a barren patch of land. Everyone
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244 knows that this land is sterile, that it cannot support life.
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245 But, in the middle of it, you find the most beautiful, the most
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246 fragrant flower which has ever been seen. That is how I felt
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247 when I got to know Dr. Samatsi. The land not only supports life,
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248 but creates the most interesting examples of biological wonder
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249 there are."
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250
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251 Yes, some of Dr. Chen's phrases are a little strange, but that can
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252 probably be chalked up to the language. His English is on several
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253 orders of magnitude better than his daughter's, he does speak very
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254 precisely, but the words don't come out quit like they would were a
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255 native speaking them.
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256
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257 Damn, Damn, damn. I've lost most of my notes I took at Dr. Chen's house.
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258 Part of what follows will have to be ad lib.
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259
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260 First of all, the notes were organized as follows (all refer to the
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261 subject, 'Intelligence'): Definition, Detection, and Measurement. Why
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262 even bother detecting something you know how to measure? Dr. Samatsi
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263 believed the measurement of intelligence was an extremely complex
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264 process. And, like any person well versed in the scientific method, he
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265 believed very strongly that the data collection on a single phenomena
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266 should take place several times and applied to his equations several
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267 times. A variation in results would indicate sloppy data collection or
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268 an error in the equations. In fact, it was this rather well known
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269 process which was used to strain out some errors in the equations. There
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270 I go, off on another tangent. You probably guessed what was next.
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271 Detection was several orders of magnitude easier than Measurement.
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272 Hence, the different catagories. You don't want to waste several years
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273 of your life measuring something which doesn't exist.
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274
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275 Now, you are going to laugh at this: Dr. Samatsi measured all
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276 intelligence against Herman. Herman was a potato rock which sat on his
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277 desk for more than 18 years. Since Dr. Chen was doing the translating,
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278 you really start to wonder how a Chinese man could come up with a name
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279 like 'Herman' for a Japanese potato rock. I'd really like to get those
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280 two together at Frizby's for a few cups of saki some night to see what
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281 happens next.
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282 (...to be continued...)
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283 696969696969696969
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284
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006=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 03/22/90 22:34 Msg:5066 Call:28071 Lines:4
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285 I-
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286
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287 NAHHH, TOO EASY...
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288
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007=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/23/90 07:12 Msg:5067 Call:28078 Lines:3
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289@
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290@Wow, I can see the headers in here.
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291@
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008=Usr:165 Bart Simpson 03/23/90 13:03 Msg:5069 Call:28084 Lines:200
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292 696969696969
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293 Herman's intelligence was defined as zero. Typically, when things are
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294 defined, you have a low value and a high value and all sorts of
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295 inbetween values. For example, look at the temperature scale. At 0 C,
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296 water freezes. At 100 C, water boils. Inbetween, and above and beyond,
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297 other things happen (at one extreme, all motion stops, at the other,
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298 plasma is the norm). It wasn't clear from the few papers I saw what the
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299 upper end of the scale was. One thing was clear (this is one scrap of a
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300 note which has survived my careless stupidity): "Life does not ensure
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301 the existence of intelligence. The absence of live does not preclude
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302 the existence of intelligence. The study of intelligence must not be
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303 confused with the study of biology.". I don't know about you, but I was
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304 very shocked by that statement. Does it mean that Dr. Samatsi
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305 ascertained from his equations that something exhibited intelligence
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306 which was not alive? Well, it gets interesting...
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307
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308 For one, Herman exhibited intelligence at times. Yes, you just read
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309 what you thought you read. However, I should NOT have said 'at times'.
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310 Dr. Samatsi's specific comments were:
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311
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312 "These equations are time constrained [and contrained in some other
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313 fashion which I cannot remember right now, all this memory loss
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314 is probably a good indication that I should stay away from Frizby's
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315 for the rest of my life] to have any meaning. Removing the contraints
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316 will, quite interestingly, result in Herman exhibiting intelligence
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317 over a substantial span of time, though the measurement of intelligence
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318 will still be quite small."
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319
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320 It was important that Herman never scored above a zero on the IQ test.
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321
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322 Oh, yes. IQ tests.
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323
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324
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325 " I am very puzzled about what is being measured by the so-called
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326 'Intelligence Quotient' tests. First of all, those who put these
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327 tests together (and I have spoken with many of them personally in
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328 an attempt to get to the bottom of this) have NO RIGOROUS DEFINITION
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329 OF INTELLIGENCE. So, they are attempting to measure something which
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330 they cannot adequately define.
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331
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332 " Next, the belief that answering a series of simple questions
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333 is some measure of intelligence is ludicrous, assuming it is truly
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334 intelligence which they are attempting to measure. Intelligence is
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335 an effect. Through observation and experimentation, it can be
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336 detected and measured. It cannot be detected or measured by answering
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337 some simple questions on a sheet of paper. Would you measure the
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338 value of heat by asking a candle questions?"
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339
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340 This was a topic which obviously he felt quite strongly about.
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341 Apparently, he was unaware (beats me how this is even possible) there
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342 was such a thing as an IQ test when he first became extremely interested
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343 in the study of intelligence. Some point after becoming obsessed with
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344 the subject, he found out about the tests. Dr. Samatsi sounds like the
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345 kind of man who doesn't care where the answer comes from, as long as it
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346 is correct. In other words, if he had spent 10 years studying this
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347 phenomena and then found someone had already thoroughly examined the
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348 field, he would not feel like he had wasted his time (at least according
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349 to what Chen said, it's hard to tell what somebody is really like when
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350 the person describing him is thoroughly enamored). The other research
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351 would confirm or deny his own. Instead, when he did find out about the
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352 tests and started looking into them, he lost his oriental demeanor. He
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353 was pissed. Dr Chen said the physics professor once compared the tests
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354 to astrology charts. That's pretty low.
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355
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356 We've rambled enough. This could go on forever. What did Dr. Samatsi
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357 actually say in the few papers I reviewed? In the definition portion, it
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358 become apparent that the basis of all intelligence, as defined by the
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359 good doctor, is memory. Intelligence does not exist without memory.
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360 However, Dr. Samatsi's 'memory' is not simply a binary pattern in a
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361 digital circuit or an analogue voltage across a neuron. His 'memories'
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362 are processes of change.
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363
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364 Look, I am trying my best to describe this without becoming too
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365 esoteric. I cannot delve too deeply into the mathematics because I
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366 don't understand all of it. If I were to tell you, PI R SQUARE, you
|
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367 would first have to understand two quanties, PI and R, as well as two
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368 operations, multiplication and squaring (yes, the second is a special
|
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369 case of the first). Similarly, we would have to go into the details of
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370 the good professor's symbols and his methods of manipulating them to
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371 understand the TOI equations. Alternatively, we will discuss some of
|
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372 the mechanisms he used and some of the conclusions which were reached.
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373
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374 Quickly back to this concept of 'memory'. There is a wall in Hiroshima
|
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375 which contains the shadow of a working man. The shadow was etched onto
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376 the wall as a result of the nearby atomic glare during the closing days
|
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377 of World War II. From the perspective of these equations, the wall
|
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378 'remembers' the man. This concept is quite fundamental to TOI.
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379 (...to be continued...)
|
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380 696969696969696969
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381 696969696969
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382 part 3d
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383
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384 Memories must be identified and validated before the TOI equations are
|
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385 applicable. The memories are described as a sequence of differential
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386 equations which define specific states.
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387
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388 So, now we have well defined states which resulted from this
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389 identification of memories. There is a lot a mathematician can do with
|
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390 states. One of them is to build finite state automata. That is exactly
|
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391 what Dr. Samatsi did.
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392
|
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393 Now, 'finite state automata' might sound like a frightening term if
|
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394 you've never been exposed to it before. Actually, it is a relatively
|
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395 simple concept employed in principle by Computer Science students to
|
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396 design certain types of software and Electrical Engineering students to
|
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397 build digital circuits. Quite a useful concept. Essentially, a stimuli
|
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398 (for lack of a better word at this moment) results in a transition from
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399 one state to another. Hence, the first couple of papers describe
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400 transitions resulting from the states defined previously. In short, if
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401 certain transitions occur, intelligence is said to exist with a
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402 probability which can be derived.
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403
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404 That is a piece of the detection portion, which is really as deep as I
|
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405 got. It is best to compare my perusing of the TOI papers to a quick flight
|
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406 across Manhatten. I can tell you generally what I saw, but, if you were
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407 to wake up one morning and find yourself in Chinatown, you would
|
||
408 probably go out of your way to say my previous observations were
|
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409 completely wrong-Manhatten was not as I saw it at all.
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410
|
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411 In other words, I'm doing the best I can with what little I saw.
|
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412
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413 Why did Dr. Samatsi never publish a TOI paper? This is Dr. Chen's response:
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414
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415 "He longed to have the equations critiqued by the largest possible
|
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416 audience. Since he never considered himself a genius, he felt
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417 that the flaws would never be unearthed without such exposure. He
|
||
418 actually did submit an initial paper for publishing about 8 years
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419 after it was originally written. Soon after receiving a confirmation
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420 that the paper was to be printed, he identified two catastrophic
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421 applications which could be generated from the equations. Upon this
|
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422 discovery, he withdrew his permission to have the paper published.
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||
423 It is very difficult to stop a paper from being published which has
|
||
424 already been accepted by a journal. The end result was the journal's
|
||
425 tacit refusal to publish any other papers by my friend, regardless
|
||
426 of subject."
|
||
427
|
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428 Me: "What were these 'catastrophic applications'?"
|
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429
|
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430 "He only described one of them to me. You could consider it as an
|
||
431 annihilation of intelligence within a particular domain. Such a domain
|
||
432 would encompass all intelligences which affected the state transitions
|
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433 in a specific manner of other intelligences. Since Dr. Samatsi had
|
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434 identified human beings as intelligent [why am I not surprised?], he
|
||
435 was very concerned about the use of such an application. That is to say,
|
||
436 the TOI equations were the result of a natural phenomena, viz,
|
||
437 intelligence attempting to define itself. Since it was probable
|
||
438 that this effect was occuring no where else in the universe, it was
|
||
439 quite important to my friend for the examination of this effect to
|
||
440 continue."
|
||
441
|
||
442 Sounds like a bunch of double talk to me. Maybe you will have better
|
||
443 luck than I did understanding what Dr. Chen meant.
|
||
444
|
||
445 When I first started going through the papers, I thought it would be
|
||
446 great to get a copy of them once Dr. Chen finished the translations (he
|
||
447 has since refused to let me look at them anymore until the translations
|
||
448 are completed). Then, I would spend my days uploading them to the local
|
||
449 BBS. However, I feel EXTREMELY uneasy about what Dr. Chen had to say
|
||
450 in his closing remarks (the 'catastrophic applications'). This needs
|
||
451 more thought.
|
||
452 ----------------------------------
|
||
453 This was not meant to be a soap opera, but you might be wondering about
|
||
454 the connection between Dr. S and Prissy. The answer is: NONE. It turns
|
||
455 out that Bob is not Prissy's son. She lied. She does that to everybody
|
||
456 because she wants Bob to believe it so he will grow up to be well
|
||
457 adjusted. I didn't pry into their private lives to get all the details,
|
||
458 but apparently Dr. Samatsi met a bar girl about 6 years ago and Bob was
|
||
459 the result of that liaison. Dr. Chen agreed to care for the child like
|
||
460 his own. Prissy's involvement came soon thereafter.
|
||
461
|
||
462 It sound like Dr. S is quite a character. When visiting some associates
|
||
463 at Cornell, he saw a little tot standing in line with Mom at the
|
||
464 supermarket. The little tot said, "Uh Ohhhh.".
|
||
465
|
||
466 Dr. S stared at the little fellow a second and replied, "uh ohhh?".
|
||
467
|
||
468 The tot responded, "UH OHHHHHHHH.".
|
||
469
|
||
470 Dr. S came back with, "UH OHHHHHHHHH!".
|
||
471
|
||
472 "UH OHHHHHHHHH!"
|
||
473
|
||
474 "UHT OHHHHHHHHHHH!"
|
||
475
|
||
476 "UHT OHHHHHHHHHH!"
|
||
477 "UHT OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
|
||
478 "UUUUUHTY OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
|
||
479
|
||
480 Well, by now, everybody in the grocery store was watching. The woman,
|
||
481 wide eyed in terror, grabbed the smiling child and fled the place without
|
||
482 even getting her groceries. Dr. Samatsi made a note on a pad he always
|
||
483 kept in his pocket.
|
||
484
|
||
485 Then there were these parties. Damn, I don't have time to ramble any
|
||
486 more. It's almost 2am-the only reason I stayed up today was to finish
|
||
487 this for you. Here it is.
|
||
488
|
||
489 By the way, since we haven't heard from Howy in this chapter, I thought
|
||
490 I might add a closing remark from him, which he said a couple of days
|
||
491 ago at work:
|
||
009=Usr:286 Jeff Marten 03/23/90 15:12 Msg:5070 Call:28086 Lines:28
|
||
492
|
||
493
|
||
494 {+}{+}{+}{+}
|
||
495
|
||
496 From : ThingFish
|
||
497 To : Whomever
|
||
498 Re : This Tracy Barry thing (on Disk B)
|
||
499
|
||
500 Your note did make me stop and think, I must admit. I'm always trying
|
||
501 to be so funny and satirical, but I suppose it wouldn't kill me to try
|
||
502 to be funny without putting someone else down. I wasn't trying to be
|
||
503 mean hearted or anything. After I read your note I thought to myself :
|
||
504 I guess the least I could do WOULD be to treat Tracy Barry like a human
|
||
505 being, like you said. Then I pondered it some more and got to thinking;
|
||
506 Why stop there ? Why not treat Tracy Barry like a God ? We could start
|
||
507 our own little religion....Our Lady of the Porcelain Hair, you know,
|
||
508 something like that. We could build a little church that looks just like
|
||
509 the Channnel 8 NewsRoom....with entire walls of video monitors all show-
|
||
510 ing Tracy. Pete Shulberg could be, I don't know, some kind of Archangel
|
||
511 or something. And Melissa Mills would be Satan. It'll be great. How
|
||
512 does this sound : "Blessed are those who wear too much makeup; verily
|
||
513 they needeth to absorb harsh studio lighting". I can't wait. Hail Barry.
|
||
514
|
||
515 -+|[ ThingFish ]|+-
|
||
516 Gimme That Ole Time Religion
|
||
517
|
||
518 {+}{+}{+}{+}
|
||
519
|
||
010=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/23/90 15:57 Msg:5071 Call:28087 Lines:15
|
||
520 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
521 (I'm getting lazy with my border.)
|
||
522
|
||
523 And let us not forget her great elevation, for verily in the begining she
|
||
524 did labor at chanel number two, and two was a small number, a number of
|
||
525 no real significance on the lowly pantheon of ABC. And the verily did she
|
||
526 get a call from above, and was elevated to the ultimate height, the realm
|
||
527 of Cosby and Cheers, the home of the ratings crown NBC. And it was good,
|
||
528 as 8 was four times as great as 2.
|
||
529
|
||
530 And so on.
|
||
531
|
||
532 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
533 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
534
|
||
011=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 03/23/90 21:15 Msg:5072 Call:28100 Lines:14
|
||
535 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
|
||
536 But if each Channel be judged by its Most Holy Number, then that must mean
|
||
537 that of all the Stations Most Local, Fox Broadcasting (at 13) (or 49) holds
|
||
538 the Great Honor of being heralded as the Station on High!
|
||
539
|
||
540 I ALWAYS thought that Johnny Depp was some kind of Angel, but aren't we
|
||
541 getting carried away here? I mean, really. Remember, this is the same
|
||
542 station that ran SMALL WONDER!
|
||
543
|
||
544 Let's go back to worshipping the people who really matter, like River Phoenix
|
||
545 or Wil Wheaton, and leave the Tracey Barry's of the world do what they may.
|
||
546
|
||
547 Thank you and Good Afternoon.
|
||
548 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
|
||
012=Usr:333 Bartender Slug 03/24/90 01:41 Msg:5073 Call:28103 Lines:5
|
||
549
|
||
550 Johnny Depp cannot be some kind of Angel if his next upcoming movie has famous
|
||
551 porn star Traci Lords in it. Think again.
|
||
552
|
||
553 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
|
||
013=Usr:286 Jeff Marten 03/24/90 05:00 Msg:5074 Call:28105 Lines:11
|
||
554
|
||
555 {+}{+}{+}{+}
|
||
556
|
||
557 Sure he could. If Hollywood wants him - what's porn got to do
|
||
558 got to do - with it
|
||
559
|
||
560 -|[ ThingFish ]|-
|
||
561 Sorry, Tina
|
||
562 {+}{+}{+}{+}
|
||
563
|
||
564
|
||
014=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/24/90 08:32 Msg:5075 Call:28107 Lines:8
|
||
565 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
566 Fox is the home of the Simpsons and married with children. Hmm, perhaps it is
|
||
567 above NBC. All hail the great bart! hallowed be his name. Lift up your
|
||
568 holly skate boards and cry out the holly phrase, "I didn't do it!"
|
||
569
|
||
570 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
571 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
572
|
||
015=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 03/24/90 17:54 Msg:5076 Call:28115 Lines:12
|
||
573 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
|
||
574 Traci Lords? Big deal. Iggy Pop is in it, too! It's called 'Crybaby' and
|
||
575 has been hailed as the Ultimate Juvenile Delinquent film... Basically a sendup
|
||
576 of those old 'REEFER MADNESS'-esque type movies... 'Don't Let This Happen
|
||
577 to You'.
|
||
578
|
||
579 Astral Dreamer: Sure, Bart has the looks and the cute smile now... But just
|
||
580 you wait 10 years... Those little child actors NEVER make it as adults!
|
||
581
|
||
582 Except for Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim...
|
||
583
|
||
584 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
|
||
016=Usr:92 Katherine Dohert 03/25/90 14:43 Msg:5078 Call:28130 Lines:1
|
||
585 ************************************************hmmmmm******kathyD*************
|
||
017=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/26/90 21:33 Msg:5082 Call:28160 Lines:36
|
||
586 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
587 Time brings many changes. So many of them are ones we would not even wish on
|
||
588 our enemys. We live in the midst of the greatest renisance in the history
|
||
589 of mankind, and yet there are still so many things beyond our control.
|
||
590
|
||
591 Few of us are well educated. Few of us are well fed. And fewer still are
|
||
592 more then peripherally aware of anything aproaching the golden rule.
|
||
593
|
||
594 As a child I wondered what exactly it was that made the world such a cruel
|
||
595 and terrible place to live in. Needless to say I was not very well adjusted.
|
||
596 I'm an adult now, and I get by. And I know who is responsible. You are, I am,
|
||
597 everybody you've ever met, and all those who have come before us. We're still
|
||
598 just one step above our hairy ancestors. Our culture has a lot to do with it.
|
||
599 We are not that far removed from barbarism after all. 1500 years ago nobody
|
||
600 would have thought that western Europe would amount to anything. Today we
|
||
601 know better.
|
||
602
|
||
603 We have a president who thinks that atheists should have their citizenship
|
||
604 revoked. We have a congress that forgot what its job was 100 or so years ago.
|
||
605 We've got small minded red necks running around hurting anyone they can,
|
||
606 stroking their pathetic egos. We have air headed liberals telling us that
|
||
607 all the worlds problems can be solved by useing all the old tools in the name
|
||
608 of a different system.
|
||
609
|
||
610 Even when our accusations are justified we convieniently ignore our own
|
||
611 crimes. We lie to ourselves rather then admiting to even the smallest mistake.
|
||
612
|
||
613 I've met some nice people, but for the most part It seems to me that we are
|
||
614 a pathetic lot. Maybe given another thousend years will be fit to be seen in
|
||
615 public.
|
||
616
|
||
617 One year tommorow.
|
||
618
|
||
619 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
620 &*&*&*&*'s(Just plain pissed off at the world.)
|
||
621
|
||
018=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/27/90 22:06 Msg:5083 Call:28183 Lines:3
|
||
622
|
||
623 Is their anybody out there?
|
||
624
|
||
019=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 03/27/90 22:39 Msg:5087 Call:28184 Lines:21
|
||
625 *%@#*@#(_)!(@$(!@_)(~!#)!@+_$%)@#+|_%_$+#(^)+#$%*&+_(%_@+#)%|~+!)+@_#(*%#$*(^_)
|
||
626 Alex1: Gosh, I don't want to be another burden to your already worn guest room
|
||
627 carpet and associated accommodations. Besides, a trip to Hawaii??? It seems
|
||
628 so unthinkable. I really believe that part of the graduate school process is
|
||
629 denial of certain basic human needs, such as vacations. I think the grad
|
||
630 school mentality dictates that vacations shall be in the form of 1 week
|
||
631 spent in Boston suffering stifling humidity and listening to 8 hours of
|
||
632 lectures a day, to be followed by the solace of the local news bleating
|
||
633 about the celtics because you have nothing better to do because you were
|
||
634 stupid and didn't find out if there were any other people you knew going
|
||
635 to the same show so you spent your off-hours alone. A breezy time spent
|
||
636 on a white beach gazing from behind dark glasses at sun-tanned beauties
|
||
637 and remembering snippets of the movie "North Shore" is way, way outta
|
||
638 line.
|
||
639
|
||
640 So, if you do manage to make it back for brief visit, please use all
|
||
641 means possible, even NET-comm, to get in touch...
|
||
642 *%_@#*%_@#)*(%_@#*%_)@#(%_)@#(% L'homme sans Parity *%_@#%_@#(%_@#%*@#_%(*@#%(
|
||
643
|
||
644 aside to astral dreamer - - - Too much Pink Floyd lately?
|
||
645
|
||
020=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/28/90 07:05 Msg:5088 Call:28189 Lines:8
|
||
646 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
647
|
||
648 Hmm, it does sound that way don't it. Sigh, even depression isn't origional.
|
||
649 Its probably the second oldest human emotion. :-)
|
||
650
|
||
651 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
652 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
653
|
||
021=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/29/90 07:18 Msg:5089 Call:28243 Lines:4
|
||
654
|
||
655
|
||
656 Sigh.
|
||
657
|
||
022=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 03/29/90 15:29 Msg:5090 Call:28253 Lines:5
|
||
658 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
|
||
659 And the void continued on, and when the void was finally filled, The Creator
|
||
660 looked upon what had come to pass and said "Let's Change Disks..."
|
||
661
|
||
662 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
|
||
023=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/30/90 07:51 Msg:5091 Call:28264 Lines:3
|
||
663
|
||
664 Amen!
|
||
665
|
||
024=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/30/90 15:50 Msg:5092 Call:28285 Lines:3
|
||
666
|
||
667 Don't be a lurker!
|
||
668
|
||
025=Usr:4 Milchar 03/30/90 21:23 Msg:5093 Call:28293 Lines:1
|
||
669 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Almost-but-not-quite-Lurk-mode. +Milch+
|
||
026=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/31/90 09:14 Msg:5094 Call:28297 Lines:4
|
||
670
|
||
671 The quest for entries continues. Will our heros find the elusive muse, or will
|
||
672 they be forced to stare at an endlessly empty screen for yet another week?
|
||
673
|
||
027=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 03/31/90 18:43 Msg:5095 Call:28302 Lines:4
|
||
674
|
||
675 WHO YOU CALLING A LURKER, PAL!
|
||
676 NOT ME!
|
||
677 HOW CLEVER!
|
||
028=Usr:172 Eric Starker 03/31/90 21:32 Msg:5096 Call:28307 Lines:12
|
||
678 The BBS Party of the Millenium!
|
||
679 hr:Wsigo aka he.
|
||
hn pi 3ha 20 on
|
||
680 h:Ayn h ihst oe AlBSsi onare invited, along
|
||
681 ihterfml n red. l gsaewelcome.
|
||
682 ups:T aefn et new people, and eat food.
|
||
683 ht inc
|
||
684 rnprainnBc. ecnb otce n
|
||
tri 228-xxxx) or Milliways (644-xxxx). If you have a
|
||
685 esr omnini oJh.
|
||
he cost is $2.00, and this will buy both food and entertainmen
|
||
686 oe o ikt a emie o
|
||
687 B inc
|
||
0 E4t
|
||
688 otad R925
|
||
o an also get a ticket from a ticket booth at the downtown
|
||
689 alra
|
||
029=Usr:13 voyeur 04/01/90 03:42 Msg:5097 Call:28311 Lines:3
|
||
690 Our intrepid mayor - Bud "Whoop Whoop" Clark - has written a review of
|
||
691 SimCity in PC Computing (as if he really knew anything about running a city).
|
||
692 But not a 'tits up' anywhere...
|
||
030=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 04/01/90 20:38 Msg:5098 Call:28319 Lines:3
|
||
693
|
||
694 Sign...
|
||
695
|
||
031=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 04/02/90 07:56 Msg:5099 Call:28322 Lines:3
|
||
696
|
||
697 No muse here.
|
||
698
|
||
032=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 04/02/90 20:34 Msg:5100 Call:28347 Lines:78
|
||
699 KKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Here Goes Everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
||
700
|
||
701 For quite some time I have been entertaining the idea of writing a story
|
||
702 here at Backwater (for the past two years actually), and now it looks as
|
||
703 if I might just go through with it. I am open to any comments or
|
||
704 criticisms. Tell me what you think.
|
||
705 >R
|
||
706
|
||
707
|
||
708 Rebecca had thought she had a stomach of steel. The countless
|
||
709 autopsies she had performed in college and in her two years in
|
||
710 forensics with the New York Police Department had led her to believe
|
||
711 this. She thought she had seen death in all its gory facets. The
|
||
712 scene before her now left her doubled over retching into the bracken
|
||
713 that defined the edge of the clearing she was standing in.
|
||
714
|
||
715 Erik, as usual, was unaffected as he paced the meadow, occasionally
|
||
716 stooping over to examine something closer.
|
||
717
|
||
718 Scattered over the ground between them were pieces of what had once
|
||
719 been a living human, yet now would have hardly qualify as meat. A
|
||
720 female, caucasian. Killed sometime within the last week, and, since
|
||
721 then, very badly mauled by animals. Wolves in particular.
|
||
722
|
||
723 "Guess there's not enough left for an autopsy. Any idea what got
|
||
724 her?" asked Becky, having emptied her stomach of its contents.
|
||
725 Hardening herself to her immediate environment, she straightened up
|
||
726 and looked at Erik, averting her eyes from the remains.
|
||
727
|
||
728 Erik looked back at her and replied in his unusually tonal voice,
|
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729 "She was killed by having a wolf rip her throat out." Pointing out a
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730 group of prints Rebecca had failed to notice earlier he continued,
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731 "She ran from over there, limping, being chased by two wolves. When
|
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732 she reached this clearing, two more wolves jumped her from their
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733 hiding places there and there," pointing to other prints, "and killed
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734 her. Clever trap, even for wolves."
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735
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736 "Any other footprints?"
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737
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738 "None of consequence. Hers are the only human."
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739
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740 Rebecca found that she had not quite thrown up everything when, a few
|
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741 minutes later, Erik bent over and ran a finger over one of the
|
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742 largest pieces of flesh in the clearing, put his finger up to his
|
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743 nose, smelled it, and tasted the blood with his tongue.
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744
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745 "Large quantity of adrenaline in the blood. She was quite scared."
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746
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747 "I guess we can chalk this up as an animal attack," Rebecca managed
|
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748 to choke through her convulsions. "When we get back into Portland,"
|
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749 she gagged, "I'll alert animal control about the wolves. I didn't
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750 think there were any around here anymore."
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751
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752 "I'd forget animal control for now," answered Erik. "This was a
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753 homicide."
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754
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755 "Whaddya mean, homicide? There aren't any other prints. You
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756 yourself said a wolf killed her."
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757
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758 "Yes, a wolf did kill her," Erik reached into what was once a leg and
|
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759 pulled something out. "Wolves, however, don't usually wound their
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760 prey with a .44 before killing it," and he held a small piece of
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761 metal up to the sun for her to see. "She died four days ago."
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762
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763 "What's that got to do with anything? And how can you tell? She's
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764 been dead long enough to be totally cold"
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765
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766 "Four days ago we had a full moon."
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767
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768 "Sweet Jesus, Erik, you can't be serious."
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769
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770 Erik did not answer her.
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771
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772 So, whaddya think?
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773
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774 I might continue later when I figure out what happens next, depending
|
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775 on the answers I get.
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776
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033=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 04/02/90 22:38 Msg:5101 Call:28353 Lines:6
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777 &*&*&*&*'s
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778 Interesting. A good opening.
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779
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780 An Astral Dreamer
|
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781 &*&*&*&*'s
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782
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034=Usr:165 Bart Simpson 04/04/90 11:59 Msg:5103 Call:28374 Lines:100
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783 696969696969
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784 ====================================================================
|
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785 4a of many
|
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786 The Little UFO that Could
|
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787 *************************
|
||
788 * TOP SECRET *
|
||
789 *************************
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790 GAMMA SIGMA PHI
|
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791 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
|
||
792 by
|
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793 Benjamim Jamen
|
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794
|
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795 "Do not spank a genius."
|
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796 -Albert
|
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797
|
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798 I want to make it absolutely clear that I am NOT a physicist. In fact,
|
||
799 physicists totally lose me when they get into the real theoretical
|
||
800 extremes of their work. If Dr. Feynman had said, "There is a black
|
||
801 hole at the center of everyone's brain", I am too stupid when it comes to
|
||
802 this field to know where to even begin discussing such a comment, much
|
||
803 less argue that it might not be true. Sometimes I pick up a popular
|
||
804 trade journal and try to follow the diluted stuff spooned out to the
|
||
805 masses. I'm usually so confused by the time I leave the magazine rack
|
||
806 that I forget to stop by the cashier on the way out to pay for the rag
|
||
807 tucked under my arm.
|
||
808
|
||
809 Dr. Samatsi was (and probably still is) a physicist. For that reason,
|
||
810 it was difficult for me to follow some of his reasoning. But, there was
|
||
811 a later paper he wrote I'd like to mention to you. Somehow, his
|
||
812 investigations into intelligence led to some conclusions about
|
||
813 causality. Now, even a nonphysicist like me remembers from college
|
||
814 (mucho years ago) about the principles involving causality. Inertia provides
|
||
815 a nice example. If a body is in motion, there is a reason, or a
|
||
816 cause, for its condition of motion. First there is the cause, then there is
|
||
817 the effect. One follows the other. That is how the average individual
|
||
818 on this planet views the universe.
|
||
819
|
||
820 No, I don't understand how TOI evolved from a fascinating definition of
|
||
821 intelligence to a discourse on causality any more than I understand how
|
||
822 observations of a speeding train led to the General Theory of Relativity
|
||
823 (though the later does make a LITTLE more sense).
|
||
824
|
||
825 In a paper dated September 1988, Dr. S concluded that our concept of
|
||
826 time was as wrong as preCopernican views of the cosmos. He seemed to be
|
||
827 saying that the principles of causality hold true in a certain context
|
||
828 ONLY, just as Newtonian physics are only valid within limited
|
||
829 considerations of time and distance (does any of this make sense to you?
|
||
830 it doesn't to me...).
|
||
831
|
||
832 He was very intrigued with the first trip to the moon in July of '69
|
||
833 (oh, what a fine year!). He seemed to be arguing that the Apollo
|
||
834 astronauts actually traveled into the future by some small amount of
|
||
835 time and supported thsse arguments with equations which involved the speed
|
||
836 and distance traversed by those guys. I'm almost afraid to include this
|
||
837 rather unusual conclusion here because it sounds so far fetched that it
|
||
838 might turn you off to his other theories. I am only doing it because it
|
||
839 is fascinating to see how one thing (TOI) leads to another (causality
|
||
840 theories).
|
||
841
|
||
842 Anyway, he seems to be saying, in what time did the astronauts arrive?
|
||
843 For all practical purposes, it would appear to the occupants of the
|
||
844 capsule, had they traveled at a greater distance at a higher speed (he
|
||
845 plays with various speeds-he's really my kind of person-->I love to plug
|
||
846 numbers into models, too, and see what happens), that they had skipped
|
||
847 time from their "reference point". In this case, the "reference point"
|
||
848 would have been the time on planet Earth at which they departed. In
|
||
849 other words, in one example, it seemed to the occupants that they had
|
||
850 been gone on a short little jaunt lasting a few weeks when they found,
|
||
851 after returning to Earth, that a year had passed at the "reference
|
||
852 point". From their perspective, it appears to them that they arrived in
|
||
853 the future, due to an effect referred to as "time dilation".
|
||
854 Apparently, this effect translates to a little time passing for the
|
||
855 subjects who are speeding while a lot of time passes at the reference
|
||
856 point.
|
||
857
|
||
858 What if, through some unknown process, the astronauts traveled back into
|
||
859 time instead of ahead? And what, to make it more interesting, they blew
|
||
860 up their capsule and everything else at Cape Canaveral involved in
|
||
861 launching pieces of metal into space (my example, not his-his example
|
||
862 was more boring...). From the limited perspective of causality, that is
|
||
863 impossible because the cause of their departure has been destroyed so it
|
||
864 cannot have the effect of taking them back in time. Dr. S said that
|
||
865 his calculations indicate that there is really no problem with this
|
||
866 scenario on a macro scale any more than there is a problem with the time
|
||
867 skip phenomena which was actually experience by the moon travelers of
|
||
868 1969. Why? Because each brings his own causality with him just as each
|
||
869 traveler takes his own relative time with him.
|
||
870
|
||
871 Does any of this make any sense to anyone out there? If not, please
|
||
872 forgive me for ever bringing it up. I do not want to get off on a
|
||
873 tangent and detract from our real purpose for being here today.
|
||
874
|
||
875 The real purpose for being here today is to tell you I showed Howy the last
|
||
876 entry and he said he would have stopped me from sending it out if he had
|
||
877 seen it in advanced. Apparently, I left out some details which are
|
||
878 fairly important to engineering types like himself. So, to redeem
|
||
879 myself, I agreed to put his comments in this chapter.
|
||
880 (...to be continued...)
|
||
881 696969696969696969
|
||
882
|
||
035=Usr:368 Nemesis Warlock 04/04/90 14:11 Msg:5104 Call:28379 Lines:7
|
||
883 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
|
||
884 Not a lot of useage at present, eh, Mikey? Don't worry though... Summer
|
||
885 is coming in two short months, and that means we'll have LOTS and LOTS of very
|
||
886 young, very immature, very inexperienced modemers who'll post LOTS and LOTS
|
||
887 of absolutely delightful witticisms on life and related! Aren't you just
|
||
888 *breathy* with anticipation?
|
||
889 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::====
|
||
036=Usr:165 Bart Simpson 04/05/90 15:01 Msg:5106 Call:28394 Lines:101
|
||
890 VOYAGER BULLETIN # 98
|
||
891 On February 14, Voyager 1 took advantage of an historic and unique opportunity
|
||
892 to image most of the solar system's planets, taking a final look back at where
|
||
893 the Voyagers have been and showing Earth among its fellow planets. Earth,
|
||
894 Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will be targeted in a sequence of
|
||
895 wide- and narrow-angle images. Mars may be visible, but it will be a slim
|
||
896 crescent close to the Sun, while Mercury will be masked in the Sun's glare.
|
||
897 Pluto is too far away and too small to be imaged. From Voyager 1's viewpoint,
|
||
898 the planets will appear to be clustered along the constellation Eridanus (The
|
||
899 River). Voyager 1 will be approximately 40 astronomical units (AU) from Earth
|
||
900 and 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane at an ecliptic longitude of 242
|
||
901 degrees . A series of about 64 images will be taken, beginning with Neptune.
|
||
902 The wide-angle frames will be taken through clear filters, while the narrow-
|
||
903 angle frames, each centered on a planet, will be shuttered through blue,
|
||
904 violet, and green filters. The spacecraft will roll to take images of regions
|
||
905 that would otherwise be obscured by the spacecraft's high-gain antenna.
|
||
906 Images of the inner planets will be mosaicked around the Sun to avoid direct
|
||
907 sunlight. The final wide-angle frame will be centered on the Sun. Due to
|
||
908 tracking schedules, the images will be recorded on board the spacecraft and
|
||
909 returned to Earth in late March. Several weeks will then be needed to process
|
||
910 the images to reveal as much detail as possible. Most of the planets will be
|
||
911 smaller than a pixel in size; however, Jupiter may be as large as four pixels.
|
||
912 (Voyager's imaging frame is 800-by-800 picture elements, or pixels.) Due to
|
||
913 the scale, it is unlikely that the entire set of images can be mosaicked to
|
||
914 produce for publication a single photograph showing all the planets stretching
|
||
915 from Jupiter to Neptune. A display of this mosaic would require a wall 100 to
|
||
916 150 feet long, depending on the chosen size of the individual prints. Imaging
|
||
917 team members hope to release at least the central frames showing Earth, Venus,
|
||
918 and perhaps Mars together. Voyager 1 was chosen over Voyager 2 for this task
|
||
919 due to operational considerations. Another factor is the fact that Jupiter
|
||
920 would be too close to the Sun to be visible from Voyager 2's point of view
|
||
921 this spring. Although the ultraviolet spectrometer is still on, the sunlight
|
||
922 will be too bright to allow observations during this imaging sequence. The
|
||
923 infrared spectrometer and photopolarimeter instruments will not be on. The
|
||
924 only potential damage from pointing these optical instruments too close to the
|
||
925 Sun is that the shutter blades of the wide-angle camera might warp due to the
|
||
926 increased heat of the sunlight focused on the blades. Update Contact with
|
||
927 Voyager 1 has been normal since a partial loss of contact last fall. On
|
||
928 October 23, Voyager 1 stopped sending its telemetry signal, by which science
|
||
929 and engineering data are transmitted. The carrier signal, a single frequency
|
||
930 used to track the spacecraft's location, continued. Commands were sent to
|
||
931 reset the spacecraft's telemetry modulation unit. Controllers waited 11 hours
|
||
932 for the signal to reach the spacecraft and a return signal to reach Earth
|
||
933 before they knew that full contact had been restored. Flight controllers had
|
||
934 no explanation for the one-time event, but there was some conjecture that it
|
||
935 was related to high solar activity. Several other spacecraft also experienced
|
||
936 computer problems during last fall's spate of huge solar flares. The high-
|
||
937 speed particles ejected by solar flares can cause computer bits to "flip" from
|
||
938 the desired position. Voyager 2 has completed its post-Neptune instrument
|
||
939 calibrations and has begun its Interstellar Mission, the search for the edge
|
||
940 of the Sun's influence. Neptune Results The Voyager science teams have
|
||
941 submitted their "30-day reports" on the Neptune encounter, as required in
|
||
942 their contracts with NASA, and these reports have been published in the
|
||
943 December 15, 1989, issue of Science magazine. As the papers were being
|
||
944 written, data analysis continued, bringing new information to light. Changes
|
||
945 from what has been previously reported in the Bulletin are summarized below.
|
||
946 Neptune's rotation rate is now cited as 16 hours 7 minutes 1 minute, based on
|
||
947 data from the planetary radio astronomy instrument. Winds near the Great Dark
|
||
948 Spot are now believed to be a rip-roaring 560 meters a second (1230 miles an
|
||
949 hour), the strongest winds yet measured in the solar system. (Voyager measured
|
||
950 winds on Saturn up to 500 meters a second or 1100 miles an hour.) The cloud
|
||
951 streaks seen near latitudes of 27 degrees N and 71 degrees S are estimated to
|
||
952 be about 100 kilometers (60 miles) and 50 kilometers (30 miles), respectively,
|
||
953 above the cloud banks on which their shadows were seen. Temperatures at high
|
||
954 altitudes in Neptune's stratosphere have been measured to be about 750
|
||
955 kelvins. The tilt of Neptune's magnetic field is now given as 47 degrees from
|
||
956 the rotational axis, while the offset of the magnetic pole from the center of
|
||
957 the planet is 0.55 radius. The strength of the surface magnetic field varies
|
||
958 from more than 1 to less than 0.1 gauss. As Voyager 2 passed through the ring
|
||
959 plane, the maximum impact rate from ring particles was measured at 250 hits
|
||
960 per second. Triton's surface temperature has been revised to 38 kelvins (about
|
||
961 -391 degrees F), while the surface pressure is now believed to be about 14
|
||
962 microbars. Methane and nitrogen form a thin veneer on the moon's surface,
|
||
963 while the underlying topographic features are suspected to be formed of water
|
||
964 ice. Methane and nitrogen ices are too weak to support their own mass for very
|
||
965 long in such formations. At least six small, previously unknown satellites,
|
||
966 ranging in diameter from 54 to 400 kilometers, have been identified in Voyager
|
||
967 images. Their orbital elements are given in the accompanying table. Names
|
||
968 will be assigned by the nomenclature committee of the International
|
||
969 Astronomical Union (IAU). Researchers will continue to publish science results
|
||
970 of the Voyager mission in professional journals such as Geophysical Research
|
||
971 Letters and the Journal of Geophysical Research for many years to come. The
|
||
972 Voyager mission has provided a unique data set for comparative planetology:
|
||
973 four planetary systems studied by the same instruments.
|
||
974 Orbital Radius
|
||
975 Ring* (from Center of Neptune)**
|
||
976 1989N3R 41,900 km (26,000 mi)
|
||
977 1989N2R 53,200 km (33,000 mi)
|
||
978 1989N4R inner edge 53,200 km (33,000 mi)
|
||
979 1989N4R outer edge 59,000 km (36,700 mi)
|
||
980 1989N1R 62,900 km (39,100 mi)
|
||
981 Orbital Radius Orbital
|
||
982 Moon* (from Center of Neptune)** Period Diameter
|
||
983 1989N6 48,000 km (29,800 mi) 7 hrs 6 min 54 km (33 mi)
|
||
984 1989N5 50,000 km (31,100 mi) 7 hrs 30min 80 km (50 mi)
|
||
985 1989N3 52,500 km (32,600 mi) 8 hrs 180 km (90 mi)
|
||
986 1989N4 62,000 km (38,500 mi) 10hrs 18min 150 km (110 mi)
|
||
987 1989N2 73,600 km (45,400 mi) 13hrs 18min 190 km (120 mi)
|
||
988 1989N1 117,600 km (73,100 mi) 26hrs 54min 400 km (250 mi)
|
||
989 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
|
||
990
|
||
037=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 04/05/90 19:00 Msg:5107 Call:28399 Lines:5
|
||
991 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Rapid Repeat Keys Help Games!!!!!!!!!!
|
||
992
|
||
993 Neptune: Sounds like a hall of a place to visit, but I wouldn't want
|
||
994 to live there.
|
||
995
|
||
038=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 04/05/90 19:04 Msg:5108 Call:28400 Lines:1
|
||
996 On a lighter topic, it looks as though I get to finish off this disk.
|
||
039=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 04/05/90 20:51 Msg:5109 Call:28403 Lines:3
|
||
997 With a little luck, as well as thousands of calls, I'll start the next.
|
||
998
|
||
999 KKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | I HATE Call Waiting, Dont You???????????????????
|