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I guess what i'm asking/exploring in this thread, is how best to organise a group of people who find themselves suddenly cutoff from society, quite likely permanently. ..... The details are all there in the history books and the science books. http://i.qkme.me/5bqe.jpg TL;DR. Thus i started a threa...

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Live long and prosper

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I guess what i'm asking/exploring in this thread, is how best to organise a group of people who find themselves suddenly cutoff from society, quite likely permanently. Like... if suddenly the entire world was hit by a massive EMP, and everything electronic is destroyed (yes utterly destroyed, not ju...

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Roid, I'm assuming we won't need to start from scratch and rebuild city/states from the ground up because the people at the top will still be in power...so the few months i choose to get off the grid is based on my guess of how slow they are to regain control. It took them days jst to get water to ...

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will said he wanted them to 'behave in a civilized manner'......I doubt anything would work for that, myself, but cookies or possibly Crab Louis would work as well as shooting at them. No. roid expressed incredulity at the notion that people think guns are a priority and suggested working with neig...

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oh well, website traffic on the holidays can be a bit hit and miss.

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As I recall, when asked about the time zones, predictors usually say something about it starting on the date line, and sweeping around the Earth by time zone... :P heh, so those as yet uneffected would have been able to see people being knocked off the internet. I guess that's what Y2K should have ...

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Very plausible OP. Work is already being done. [youtube]TyOgDlUWfFE[/youtube] Lots more info http://nextbigfuture.com/search/label/contour%20crafting (also... wasn't this kinda talked about in that embarrassing documentary Zietgiest ? Yeah, they were mentioning Jacque Fresco's Venus Project , he's a...

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sdfgeoff wrote:I always wondered what timezone these end times prophesies plan to take place in.
Guess it's not ours.

i would imagine it's whatever time zone the culture in question was in. MayansAztecs

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[youtube]7wAjIJEZp9c[/youtube] hnnnggg... evolution is pretty amazing also, on another note. i wish ANIMATED electron microscope footage was more common... of things moving around. Most stuff is just still shots, i guess coz not much stuff can live long in the vacuum needed to take an electron micro...

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http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-and-intel-sue-over-hdcp-crack-piracy-121220/ Warner Bros. and Intel’s daughter company Digital Content Protection have filed a lawsuit against a hardware manufacturer that creates devices enabling consumers to bypass HDCP copy protection. The devices, which presum...

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I'd think most of these might break HDCP, or if they don't break HDCP then they can only route the signal to one device at a time and it is just a HDMI switch rather than a "splitter". Granted HDCP is already permanently broken since someone decrypted the master key for it, but that doesn...

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When people stock up on guns and ammo for "disaster situations" , what's actually their plan? Are they just going to paranoidly sit in their homes and shoot at passers by? That doesn't seem like a very good plan, you're just going to run outof supplies eventually, even bullets. I doubt you...

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Yeah it's a great idea, 2000 was like this (Y2K) and everyone still had a blast.
We can always use more excuses to party.

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Sirius normal FPS for TV stuff is 24 FPS, 48 fps is double that, so.... yaaay :]

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A rookie mistake Isaac. Drinking Nog in the presence of all these impressive sights apt to send one's mouth agape with awe.
You'll Nog all over everything

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Sirius doesn't like playing games at high frame rates? huh?

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:-/ that's a pretty old video dude. Here's a video of the most recent factory prototype. http://vimeo.com/54429925 The LCD is 1.4 inches bigger than in the original prototypes (now 7 inches, vs the old 5.6 inches), which makes it a little bit bulkier, but on the good side the new LCD is better quali...

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tunnelcat wrote:The movie was shot at 48 frames per second.

oh.
OH!
OMG FINALLY
We've all been waiting for the industry to one day get over it's "eeeeh, anything other than 24fps looks weird, like family-holiday video" crap.
YES!! FINALLY!

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¡Olé!

What's Hawaii?
A hucked rock? A sneeze?

What are the West Indies?

...wow i just had a wave of apathy.

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stilettos

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oh man, Years of jackass have given these guys the best TV-show ideas

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I think it's just the best watching Steve-O laughing who's with me

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MOAR VIDYAS

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[USA is] Canada's knees, they're ball joints

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http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tumblr.com.html

This is a more comprehensive one, tells you how long it's been down for, among other things.

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i've got an artificial owl, which they don't seem too concerned about. Since initial trials (putting it on various things) weren't promising, i havn't got around to properly mounting it on the roof yet. The problem is there's so many perching points here in the suburbs, and most of them aren't on my...

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They infest the area around my house, some kinda turtle-dove, they call to eachother ALL DAY, and they are very loud. I wear earplugs to bed otherwise they wake me up in the morning. I find their calls incredibly distracting, it was actually these ★■◆●ing birds that made me start to wonder if i had ...

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i wonder if it was perhaps that same train of thought that lead to Tron's visuals originally. Everything was wireframes back then, so they embraced the motif.

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http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/iLjMlSmN08k/0.jpg https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/pp_YZ_6O-Ps/0.jpg Heated Socks. it's not really something i've come across in my everyday life coz I've always lived in either a mediterranean climate or a tropical climate, but i remember hearing about battery powered heated socks fr...

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it's like it's set in a Tron world

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i really hate pigeons
noisy assholes
die in a catfish's gob
yesssss

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hey it runs V-Sido for it's inverse kinematics and balance. Nice.

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can you explain more Alter? IMHO computers interpret stereo vision pretty well. ie: [youtube]HqIFCnb63jo[/youtube] [youtube]SQx5vU8BA-M[/youtube] and all that without the movement (and central vision resolution) advantages of an actual eye. If we added those sorts of advantages things get scary pret...

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Me years ago on E&C

Me now.

Here's diedel trying to participate in a thread.

nope

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At Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, they've cracked the retina neural code in a mouse and monkey, restoring near-normal sight. They want to move to humans next. http://www.nature.com/news/prosthetic-retina-helps-to-restore-sight-in-mice-1.11164 oh WOW i pricked up my ears when you said &q...

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Q: Why did the topologist's marriage fail? A: Because he thought that arbitrary unions were open. :lol: I like that one. :P Explain this one: Q: What is the fundamental principle of engineering mathematics? A: Every function has a Taylor series which converges to the function and breaks off after t...

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the interenet is kinda controlled by the IEEE right? they set the standards, but it's a meritocratic process, ultimately controlled by engineers i hope. I mean, there's probably officce politics involved, amongst the engineers, the various outside interest groups (i mean it's a CONSORTIUM right?), b...

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