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