Re: Deep Rescue: Will a shuttle float?



Andre Lieven wrote:


I hear that. One method I use to assist in the longer term survival
of my hardcovers, is to store them lying on their sides. That way,
their pages don't develop " page droop " from the pages hanging,
unsupported, in mid air ( As standing up, hardcovers have their
end boards touching the shelf, but not the pages, which just hang
there, and eventually, pull away from the upper levels of the
binding ).


The downside is that method doesn't leave a gap to put the book back into when you're done reading it.
Mine are all categorized as to subject and date of the history covered in that subject ( for example; "V-1" "JB-1 Thunderbug" "Regulus-The Forgotten Missile" "The Navaho Missile Project" "Tomahawk Cruise Missile") If I take one out, I'd need to reinsert it back into the stack, which isn't as easy as just sliding it back into the space it was in.

I sure don't want to read using an electronic device in the tub...


You read your books in the tub? Not good if you drop one, and the humidity can't be helping them either.
My friend has a small library in his bathroom for reading while seated on the toilet (no, nothing erotic), but I think the bathtub is pushing your luck
Have you seen this widget yet?: http://www.digi-help.com/hardware/quanta-mit-laptop-children.asp
I love the idea of a wind-up computer.



Our society hinges on the use of sophisticated interlocked technology, and if it ever fails we are going to be in a great deal of trouble.



Never mind failure, try changes in product specs. Hows the data on
your old 5.25 inch floppies doing ?


Hell, any floppies! They seem to have terrible data storage capacity by today's standards.



Imagine if they had grounded all the commercial aircraft on 9/11... and they had been forced to stay grounded ever after...that's the scenario that worries me about something really wreaking havoc with the internet on a global scale.



The " Simpsons " Halloween episode about the Millennium bug been on
where yuou are lately ? <bg>



I was working out at our airport when the millennium turned; I half expected to look out the windows and see all the streetlights go dead at 12:01.
What really pissed me off about that was that everyone was worrying about everything crashing rather than having a rollicking good time like they should have.



Somebody comes up with the ultimate computer virus that spreads worldwide in a few hours, and destroys the data in pretty much all of the world's computers in such a way that once gone, you can't ever restart the computer, as the only thing left in it is the virus, and it will deny you the ability to reboot or erase it other than by magnetically scrubbing the hard drive and erasing everything in the RAM.
So, you have to rebuild all of the world's computer memory pretty much from scratch, and then use entirely new-build OS's, as all of the current ones are susceptible to the virus at a fundamental level, and you'll get infected again the moment you go online.
The world would be in complete economic collapse inside of a week.
This stuff would be the Butlerian Jihad in digital form.



A good reason to keep all the books, then...

No, we all know that in the future all data is kept on metallic rings that speak when spun on edge. The Time Traveler knew that.
(BTW, when Wells was young he knew someone whom he really disliked whose last name was "Morlock".)



Sure. But, when I dig into a book by a former astro, its reasonable
to presume that their own desire not to be blown out in public as a
fibber or a loon ( See whashisname whose book Oprah touted, then
had to back away from, when it turned out that it was made up... )


Oh God...."Leap Of Faith".




Brad Guth is a good case study in what the web can offer... <g>


YOU BROWN-NOSING INCEST CLONED BORG SPOOK! How dare you say that!



I blame the beer... <g>



Beer, huh? The brown nose sounds more like the result of the head on a Guinness if you ask me.

Pat
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