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But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use. Photocells capable of seeing things in a physical sense, advanced photography which can record what is seen or even what is not, thermionic tubes capable of controlling potent forces under the guidance of less power than a mosquito uses to vibrate his wings, cathode ray tubes rendering visible an occurrence so brief that by comparison a microsecond is a long time, relay combinations which will carry out involved sequences of movements more reliably than any human operator and thousands of times as fast—there are plenty of mechanical aids with which to effect a transformation in scientific records.
(the linked article is about some guy who thinks scientists have to stop being pro war and start being pro mental-expansion. who ever said they were all pro war? it is from 1945 though, I believe.)
This is the kind of science I wanted to get out of school. This is the stuff I wanted from Physics, why I thought it was going to be fun and excitement. That's the kind of stuff I want to do for a living. Inventing, experimenting, researching cool sciencey things. Too bad Science never really showed that much interest in me :(
"Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza." - duuuuuuuuuuude!
"Certainly progress in photography is not going to stop. Faster material and lenses, more automatic cameras, finer-grained sensitive compounds to allow an extension of the minicamera idea, are all imminent. Let us project this trend ahead to a logical, if not inevitable, outcome. The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond present practice. The lens is of universal focus, down to any distance accommodated by the unaided eye, simply because it is of short focal length. There is a built-in photocell on the walnut such as we now have on at least one camera, which automatically adjusts exposure for a wide range of illumination. There is film in the walnut for a hundred exposures, and the spring for operating its shutter and shifting its film is wound once for all when the film clip is inserted. It produces its result in full color. It may well be stereoscopic, and record with two spaced glass eyes, for striking improvements in stereoscopic technique are just around the corner." - I would have thought something lower, like just above the nose/between the eyes, would work better, but whatever the hell. Further explained, this model is actually quite low-tech, but the concept is fabulous!
tee hee hee
I found today weird. I was meant to meet up with someone, after two weeks of near social silence, but I screwed up and didn't. However, on my way home, I saw Cyn and Alexa and Charlie (actually, they saw me :P), and sat with them for a while, and had another four people go past that I knew - Chris, Hillary, Amy Hii and Crystal. Was the universe trying to balance out my day? Does this mean the universe thinks Amy Brown is worth two good friends, three borderline friends (as in more than aquaintances), a girl I went to primary school with, and a... well, an Alexa?
Notes For Future: MAKE PLANS!!!! School friends and uni friends alike seem not ever to have believed in making plans BEFORE going out ("Oh, we'll figure out what to watch when we get there" "Oh, we'll see what's open when we get to Oxfrod Street"). NO MORE!! Must. Plan. Ahead.
(p.s. Awesome song. Listen to it! :D)
(the linked article is about some guy who thinks scientists have to stop being pro war and start being pro mental-expansion. who ever said they were all pro war? it is from 1945 though, I believe.)
This is the kind of science I wanted to get out of school. This is the stuff I wanted from Physics, why I thought it was going to be fun and excitement. That's the kind of stuff I want to do for a living. Inventing, experimenting, researching cool sciencey things. Too bad Science never really showed that much interest in me :(
"Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza." - duuuuuuuuuuude!
"Certainly progress in photography is not going to stop. Faster material and lenses, more automatic cameras, finer-grained sensitive compounds to allow an extension of the minicamera idea, are all imminent. Let us project this trend ahead to a logical, if not inevitable, outcome. The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond present practice. The lens is of universal focus, down to any distance accommodated by the unaided eye, simply because it is of short focal length. There is a built-in photocell on the walnut such as we now have on at least one camera, which automatically adjusts exposure for a wide range of illumination. There is film in the walnut for a hundred exposures, and the spring for operating its shutter and shifting its film is wound once for all when the film clip is inserted. It produces its result in full color. It may well be stereoscopic, and record with two spaced glass eyes, for striking improvements in stereoscopic technique are just around the corner." - I would have thought something lower, like just above the nose/between the eyes, would work better, but whatever the hell. Further explained, this model is actually quite low-tech, but the concept is fabulous!
tee hee hee
I found today weird. I was meant to meet up with someone, after two weeks of near social silence, but I screwed up and didn't. However, on my way home, I saw Cyn and Alexa and Charlie (actually, they saw me :P), and sat with them for a while, and had another four people go past that I knew - Chris, Hillary, Amy Hii and Crystal. Was the universe trying to balance out my day? Does this mean the universe thinks Amy Brown is worth two good friends, three borderline friends (as in more than aquaintances), a girl I went to primary school with, and a... well, an Alexa?
Notes For Future: MAKE PLANS!!!! School friends and uni friends alike seem not ever to have believed in making plans BEFORE going out ("Oh, we'll figure out what to watch when we get there" "Oh, we'll see what's open when we get to Oxfrod Street"). NO MORE!! Must. Plan. Ahead.
(p.s. Awesome song. Listen to it! :D)
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naturally ;)
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Who's Cobbs? I hope it was a good five minutes to make up for the day.
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cobbs is a guy i know through church circles. while it is always nice to see that cobbs is alive and well, i do not feel that this is appropriate compensation for missing out on you, let alone Lukas.
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aaw, way to make a guy feel special, Miss Amy *hugs*.
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*hugs back*