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(...) Maybe. I don't understand it well enough. Lemme think about the headlights thing.... For someone standing on earth, light is moving away at about 300,000km/sec. Then, say we have a spaceship, moving at half the speed of light relative to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The actual slowing takes place during acceleration, but it will persist at the slowed rate once acceleration ceases, lasting until the traveler drops back into the other (apparently stationary) inertial frame. Dave! (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Um, actually, it's the Law of Gravity. It's been proven (at least the basic aspects) over and over enough times that you can accept it as a Law. "I know this defies the Law of Gravity...but I never studied law" -Bugs Bunny -Sean The Wascally (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Does this mean once a person is travelling at a particular velocity (e.g. .99c), he will not feel any further time dilation effects if he is no longer accelerating? IOW, is time dilation only experienced during acceleration? Jude (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, everyone is moving, but the important thing is how people are moving in relation to each other. That's why it's called the theory of Relativity. Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 8^) Certainly, but one of the two parties is moving relative to the inertial reference frame and one is not. Am I correct in thinking that the occupant of the ship will experience Doppler Shift of light while the "stationary" observer will (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Me too. Jon, would you be willing to share your image file with the lazy once you know what it actually results in your getting? ++Lar (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In my playing with Brick-o-liser (which has been hampered by the fact that it's very very slow.... even on a fast connection) the stock images are all larger than the 44x44 plate area, requiring resizing. Are people using actual 44x44 sized images (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Right. The theory of *gravity* is just a theory. (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Everything in science is a theory. But Relativity is a working theory -- its various effects (time dilation, etc.) have actually been proven with high-speed jets, atomic clocks, and so on. Paul Davidson (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) <snip> (...) I want to order exactly what you ordered if it is indeed the *new* gray, and they (TLC) don't tweek your image. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (My views do not necessarily express the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Has anyone here bought a UXGA notebook and are they happy with the refresh? --Todd (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) case (...) They especially can't recolor since they allow you to print out instructions before you order. How could they justify eliminating my 1 pixel of each of the regular colors from my image? (not to say they can't do whatever they like) (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LOL!!!! Beauty! Will we be seeing these on BAYLIT anytime soon? I could use about 50 or 100 light gray 1x1 plates and would be happy to pay $.05 apiece for them. But I don't need a whole 48x48 baseplate full of them. --Todd (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) FWIW, my first order resulted in: 1 Black => 1 bag of 90 Black 1 DGray => 1 bag of 90 DGray 1 MGray => 1 bag of 90 MGray 1932 LGray => 22 bags of 90 LGray 1 White => 1 bag of 90 White What did everyone else order? -Jon (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But it can't recolor your pixels if you do high-contrast banding -- i.e., a band of black, a band of medium gray, a band of white, a band of dark gray, and finally a band of light gray. I think it can only (fairly) do color substitutions when (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) thing (...) Of course a smart mosaic generator could pretty easily make sure you only ever get 25 bags. In your "optimal" example, assuming that they do go for perfect use of the 90 plates in a bag, the program only has to recolor 9 or 10 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sounds like they've set themselves up to give a pretty good bargain since a best case (for TLC) would be only 22 bags, so being able to get 26 bags is getting an extra 18.2% (or a 15% discount). Of course they may budget the thing for 25 bags (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Jude Beaudin <shiningblade@home.com> wrote in message news:G3o9HE.KBB@lugnet.com... (...) 10 (...) moving (...) twin (...) The twin on Earth will be (much) older than the twin who boarded the spacecraft. Assuming the twin on Earth and the twin (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Hmm. I bet they're *really* 90-count bags and the extras are for if you go over 88, not 90. That is, I'll speculate that if you need 87 or 88, you get one bag. But if you need 89, 90, 91, 92, or any number up to 176, you get two bags. (Just a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Everyone is moving. (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think the answer is that we'll all grow old faster by stressing ourselves out trying to solve this. :-) Don't forget that the Theory of Relativity is just that, a theory. Also, it's based on the assumed constant of the speed of light. The (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, I usually like to consider myself the Lorenz Reference Point of the universe, so it's anyone who's accelerating relative to me! Seriously, I see what you're saying--to the person in the ship, the "stationary observer" (which, by the way, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Using this formula someone else posted: T = t/(sqrt(1-(v/C)^2)) The amount of time experienced by the twin that stays behind would be 26.67 Years. This sounds right. The longer he was gone, and/or the closer to the speed of light (C) that he (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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This is a shot in the dark, but since this is my favorite site of toy-playing adults, I was wondering if anyone knew of good playmobil fan sites or databases of sets apart from the official site? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Jonathan (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi. | | Let's see what I can remember. | |> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:41:38PM +0000, Jude Beaudin wrote: |> > > Let me rephrase the question: |> > > If a man travels on a ship away from earth for 5 light years at .5c, |> > > then returns to earth (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Hi, let's do some math. IIRC T = t/(sqrt(1 - (v/c)^2) where T: time elpased for stationery observer t: time elapsed for moving observer v: velocity of moving observer c: speed of light assuming minimal acceleration. T = 11.5 yrs. Experiments (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(trimmed out .space - they don't care!) (...) but isn't that the whole point of relativity? who's moving and who's standing still? (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I dunno. Who is undergoing the acceleration? ;) James (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) As I understand it, the time dilation will occur for the occupant of the fast-moving ship, who will experience dilation relative to the stationery observer. The traveler won't notice the slowing of time, since everything in his frame of (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) no, he's right, it's terrible. :) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) laf. That's the paradox. I think we won't know until we try it. I've seen physicists get cross eyed thinking about it. Some say that _no_ time will pass at all! But again, this is what I remember from highschool, and my memory isn't that good (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Let me rephrase the question: If a man travels on a ship away from earth for 5 light years at .5c, then returns to earth at .5c, who will have aged 20 years, the occupant or his twin who stayed on earth? Jude (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) heh. depending who you ask. for the dude in the ship, the _world_ is moving at .5c, and so the world is aging slower. (btw, it's not a 1/x ratio, I think it's closer to a 1/x^2, but highschool was a long time ago...). For the people on earth, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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If a ship travels for 5 light years at .5c, for whom will the trip take 10 years? The occupants or an observer outside the ship? Jude (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, I had my CPU overclocked from 66MHz on the bus to 83 so it's all my bad I guess.. (...) LOL! Well, I can get a hold of 'em again but all the work in getting them into the right folders etc. is gone :( /Tobbe (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey cool -- BU's subscription works there, and it's a much nicer interface than our primative gateway. :) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Thanks for all your help. With a search engine, I have found MS GIF Animator, which is about 1.5 megs and quite useful. </alan> (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Try www.oed.com but i'll warn you, it's pretty salty from what I recall. Markus (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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