Alchemike: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/03jun_sunset.htm?aol601798
Alchemike:
yo...got one for
ye i think...
Alchemike:
bardooooo....
BARDSQUILL:
yeehawww
Alchemike:
phew...glad you
here...
Alchemike:
was gonna call
ya...
BARDSQUILL:
wazzup?
Alchemike:
check this out...
Alchemike:
ever heard of a
scientist named joe brady???
Alchemike:
old computer sci
guyu???
BARDSQUILL:
ummmm
Alchemike:
worked at berkeley
for a while...
BARDSQUILL:
sounds familiar
but my brain an't connecting
Alchemike:
http://www.nersc.gov/~deboni/Computer.history/Brady.html
Alchemike:
interview with
him...
Alchemike:
i think this guy
discovered x
BARDSQUILL:
reading
Alchemike:
read it all if
you can...background kinda important...
Alchemike:
......
BARDSQUILL:
reading
Alchemike:
There were two
other comets similar to Halley's Comet which had been observed at three
apparitions. They were Comet Olbers and Comet Pons Brooks. Both had aphelion
distances and eccentricities similar to Halley's Comet, and their orbits
had errors of three or four days like Halley's Comet. But there the resemblances
ceased...
Alchemike:
...They both
move in direct orbits, while Halley's Comet moves in a
retrograde orbit. They are at perihelion when Halley's Comet is at aphelion.
Yet, they must feel the effect of the transplutonian planet. The orbits of
these two comets were integrated in the same manner as Halley's Comet, with
and without the hypothetical planet. Happily, Planet X corrected their
errors as well as Halley's Comet. So that's the story of Planet X.
BARDSQUILL:
yes
Alchemike:
do you think
this important?
Alchemike:
also this...a guy
who worked for brady...
Alchemike:
http://www.nersc.gov/~deboni/Computer.history/Fuss.html
Alchemike:
very brief reference,
but there nonetheless...
Alchemike:
DF: Oh, actually
I started working on the LARC, which was quite an interesting machine. I
don't remember a lot about the LARC, but
it was a base 10. I mean it was not a binary machine, and you could certainly
hear what your code was doing to help you to figure out what it was doing.
You'd just listen in. [1] Yes, that was an exciting machine. Eventually,
then, I worked on 6600 and then a little bit of stuff with Bob Cralle on
the 3600. It was an interesting side project as well. We did stereoscopic
slides of Joe Brady's orbiting planets and his prediction about where Planet
X was.
GAM: Where Planet X was--I remember.
Alchemike:
and this from the
brady interview...
Alchemike:
They both searched
down to the thirteenth magnitude, and couldn't find it. Planet X was
predicted
to be more massive than Saturn, so it should have been quite bright and easy
to find.
Alchemike:
we now know that
ain't so...
Alchemike:
planet x daaarrrkkkk
Alchemike:
maybe we could
get the coordinates somehow from this info...and look again...
Alchemike:
you with me on
this???
BARDSQUILL:
yes, thing is his
prediction also implied another possibility 180 different
Alchemike:
yes...180 opposite
BARDSQUILL:
Sentinel is saying
this
Alchemike:
yes! thats
right
Alchemike:
would a brown dwarf
be below 13th mag??
BARDSQUILL:
Washington Post:
Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered,a front page story
31-Dec-1983
31-Dec-1983
A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly
so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found
in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard
the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite.
BARDSQUILL:
phikent/new/darkmatter.html
Alchemike:
yes...i remmeber
that page...
BARDSQUILL:
that would point
to the newest brown dwarf
Alchemike:
dude, we got serious
shit comin down, me thinks...
BARDSQUILL:
SOri70 theory
Alchemike:
yup...maybe
Alchemike:
something else...look
at the graphic on the top of your frontpage...
Alchemike:
Alchemike:
ya know...the relative
size one...
BARDSQUILL:
my horse?
Alchemike:
no the comparison
between earth, jup, brown dwarf, sun...etc
BARDSQUILL:
yea
Alchemike:
compare to billboard..
Alchemike:
http://www.sori70.com/
Alchemike:
bottom left
BARDSQUILL:
hey, ya
BARDSQUILL:
matrix theories
are whispering at me
Alchemike:
me too...
Alchemike:
was thinkin again
tonight about reich...
BARDSQUILL:
Plato said the
stars were "placed objects" for the purpose of creating wonder in man.
Alchemike:
ok...imagine again
if you will the cube of space...
Alchemike:
imagine it as a
giant aquarium...a giant chaos dam...
Alchemike:
because beyond
its boundaries is chaos
Alchemike:
imagine it was
created...by someone...a protected space...the garden...
BARDSQUILL:
Yea, feels like
there's a ghost shuffling around in the attic
Alchemike:
the stars
were placed there for us...
Alchemike:
but they are real...
Alchemike:
but just a part
of the cube...
Alchemike:
inside
is the matrix...
Alchemike:
outside the cube
is 'reality'...
Alchemike:
it is another giant
expansion...implies that our entire universe is simply a tiny
experiment...literally...in a floating aquarium...protected from the outside
forces in a space that is a gadzillion times bigger again...
Alchemike:
what are you feeling?
BARDSQUILL:
Well, tomorrow
going to try to grok these matrix theories
BARDSQUILL:
Apparently, a quantized
structure of our solar system is not such a novel idea after all. There
are 3,000 Google references for
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22solar+system%22+bode
and about 1,500 for
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22solar+system%22+quantized
BARDSQUILL:
so guess I'll read
em all, heh
Alchemike:
heh
Alchemike:
the trip continues...
Alchemike:
heya, do me a
fave...i'm trying to transfer all mydata to a new 80g hard drive and don't
want to lose this convo...will you save and email???
BARDSQUILL:
Like I say, the
holodeck stuff sticks out of the running pack