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(...) Hey! I love that music, and all the sound effects, and all the voice actors! I have replayed them daily for .. um .. 26 years! Scary, huh? (plays Sting sound effect - oops, Time Warner deleted that from the movies.) Actually Elrond is a bit of (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Great reply. I've got to resolve this. Sorry I let it go but I was trying to keep my weird idea under wraps...not very cool considering how much interest I drummed up. Read this chat transcript and it might be more clear: (URL) j o n ] -- | Lego - (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) SNIP (...) Why not just artificial singularities instead of pulleys? Place pairs of singularities orbiting around each other in a ring pattern. the orbital plane of each pair is perpendicular & equidistant to the center anchor singularity. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Imagine a thread. A really interesting thread. The thread gets started but is arranged in a linear fashion, so that none of the responses are responded to. Apparently linear isn't as interesting as a zig zag pattern, so the thread appears to (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: URL: Fifty Innovations Driven By NSF Research Funding
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(...) Oh and, from this article: The vBNS is only available for meritorious research projects with high-bandwidth uses and is not used for general Internet traffic. Y'know, like students swapping movies before they've come out in theaters, that sort (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Whew, good thing the NSF funded that. Otherwise, we might be stuck with a shrinking universe, and who wants that? (...) See, now, if you ask me, I'd say they could have skipped that one. (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If I'd only known what I'd be starting! Heh. A) Yeah, good mouse tactic, but I dislike using the mouse unless I have to. B) I always forget the exact keycombo for straight to the end, thanks. C) yep. but that goes without saying. OR DOES IT? (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And note that either way you select your huge chunk, you can use shift and cursor keys to adjust the end of the selection. You can also re-adjust the end with a shift mouse-click. FUT: lugnet.off-topic.geek (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Lots of geeky things listed here on this US National Science Foundation page. (URL) Nifty Fifty: Innovations Driven By NSF Research Funding 1. Accelerating, Expanding Universe 2. American Sign Language Dictionary Development 3. Antarctic Ozone Hole (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) it's all relative isn't it. you could set up a thruster system to ensure that your anchor point wouldn't move, relatively. (...) yes, again, this is possible the key here is that you zig zag points stay the required distance apart. (...) this (...) (22 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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