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And the troubles of Mars will be just starting.
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I bought one of these[^] little beauties. It should arrive in the mail tomorrow... possibly a CP review in the making!
And although I am a little curious about it from a user's perspective, I only bought it because I intend to build apps for it 
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If you can make me a mind control app or an x-ray vision app, I'll buy one too... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Trust me, X-Ray vision is a lie  - go for the mind control 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote:
Trust me, X-Ray vision is a lie |
I don't know, I seem to recall that I saw a commercial for x-ray glasses[^] in a Magazine some 40 years ago. Are you telling me that they were not real?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Totally. A glasses-size generator how much could shoot? 10 Watts at most? Consider that to inspect olives without the kernel we need 40 kV * 7 mA = 280 Watts.
BUT, most of all, we have a generator on one side AND a detector on the other, which mean that we collect the "passing through" X-Rays, that amount to something like 90% of the emitted rays. With a glass that works both as a generator and as receiver you would have only 10% of the rays due to scattering, so 1 Watt in the hypotesis of 10-Watt generators.
Not only that, but scattered rays would have unpredictable trajectory, making so that a small surface like a glasses lens would receive only a small fraction of the already scarce X-Rays.
But there is more: X-rays power decreases with the square of the distance, so you must be very clese to the target, in order to see... a B/W image of the (density*depth) product of the target where darker pixels mean there is more "material".
With a decent amount of time (several seconds for a single inspection area) and a powerful and versatile generator you could obtain a mass spectrometry of the inspected target, knowing the percentuals of known materials it contains. Like what is done in airports to detect C4 in luggage. But you couldn't read a newspaper in reverse, or look at naked girls 
Edit: typos
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Actually, there were cameras years ago that picked up certain frequencies of light that made it so you could see through clothing. Motorola I seem to recall. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well those are not X-Rays, for sure. Some frequences of light, considering UV and IR may be able to pass through the first tenths of millimiter of solid, opaque matter - Just looking at IR temperature maps is "looking through clothing".
With high wavelenght ( = low frequencies) you may measure the interference with the whole mass of the body not counting clothing which would be too thin to perturbate that wavelength, obtaining a monochromatic image of the depth of the target in each point.
I would check all the links and names you gave me but Internet at work is severely locked, I battled 2 years to access CP...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Well those are not X-Rays, for sure
Correct.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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As I dropped the kids off at school this morning, the sudden realisation came across me that I go back offshore today........yes, to spend Christmas in the middle of the Northern North Sea. With the new flying rules and historic bad weather at this time of year, there is almost an expectation that it will be for New Year as well as I am not due home until late on the 31st.
With the bag packed, the christmas jumper and "bah humbug" hat stuffed in, this is definitely not a morning I could be bothered with. Oh, and not forgetting it is also my birthday in 3 days to add the mood.
As I sit here waiting for the taxi to arrive to take me to the heliport at least the flight schedule[^] is running smoothly so I don't get a wonderful day stuck in the heliport bored out our skulls......
On the bright side at least there will be a chocolate overload, a big christmas dinner and 190 other people all feeling just as happy.....
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Sucks to be you!
Have a safe trip and I'm sure you'll have a top notch re-scheduled Crimbo come the New Year. I'll open an extra one for you; just to be social.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I'll open an extra one for you;
Just the one? you miserable tw.., I expect more than that from you! 
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Right! Just how many cases of Gordon's should I open then? 
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That's better........ 
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I hope you have a happy birthday [happy birthday !! predated for +3 days, Im sure I'll forget, I'll raise a 'wee dram' in your direction Friday/Sat night my time]
.. and have a safe and happy xmas out there on the rig matey
'g'
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Here's wishing you an acceptable birthday and hoping you make it home on Hogmanay Dave.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Sorry to hear of your having to be away so Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Sympathies and empathies from a former road warrior.
cat fud heer
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Movie Quote Of The Day
I hear all sorts of bullshit everyday, pal. You want some advice? Take your fancy clothes and your black silk underwear and go back to Disneyland.
Which movie?
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Paris does DD's D
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Oh, come on! This one's obviously that well-known pron film: Disneyland Paris 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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i thought the subtitle was Donald Duck's D 
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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"Debbie Saves Christmas"!
It's from the scene where she raises the North Pole (as Santa likes to call it) temperature drastically when she sits on Santa's lap and tells him if she has been naughty or nice.
I believe it's also that movie the famous Santa quote "Hoe, Hoe, Hoe" comes from, if I'm not mistaken!?!?!?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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