From mbest at triad.rr.com Tue Jan 2 18:43:14 2007 From: mbest at triad.rr.com (Michael Best) Date: Tue Jan 2 18:43:22 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Innocentive.com Message-ID: <010501c72ed8$891ab130$6400a8c0@mikey> Attention all scientists, mad or just slightly disturbed and displaced! This is an interesting business model. Innocentive connects "Seekers" with "Solvers." I am a registered Solver. Seekers are businesses with intractable technological problems of immediate business import. (Read as MONEY) Whether or not you have a problem or a solution, just browsing this site will provide a weathervane of current industry trends, and a wealth of fodder for mental gymnastics. http://www.innocentive.com/ And, should you be good enough, there is much money available to be earned! I am NOT advertising this site, as of yet I have no financial interests here. But it is unique, and IMHO worthy of our support. -MB From javilk at mall-net.com Wed Jan 3 11:16:56 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Wed Jan 3 11:17:04 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Ball Lightning LBH Little Black Hole? Message-ID: <20070103181656.66565.qmail@mall-net.com> http://www.thunderbolts.info/webnews/ieee_plasma_balllightening.htm New theories suggest primordial (or other) little black holes may explain ball lightning phenomenon. See above link or google black hole ball lightning. --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2006, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From javilk at mall-net.com Wed Jan 10 02:08:04 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Wed Jan 10 02:08:10 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] 3d fabricator machines Message-ID: <20070110090804.89801.qmail@mall-net.com> http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10922-desktop-fabricator-may-kickstart-home-revolution.html The above article talks about devices you can build that allow you to create 3d objects at home, things ranging from a pair of perfict fit shoes, to complex; but small machines. --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2006, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From mbest at triad.rr.com Fri Jan 12 12:06:56 2007 From: mbest at triad.rr.com (Michael Best) Date: Fri Jan 12 12:07:07 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Single photon generator Message-ID: <003e01c7367c$d849fa80$6400a8c0@mikey> But I see this as having applications far outside of computing. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041030215856.htm Building Block Created For Quantum Computing, Secure Communication And Quantum Internet Science Daily - Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany have achieved unprecedented control over the creation of single photons (Nature, October 28, 2004). By using a tightly trapped single calcium ion, localized between two ultra-high reflectivity mirrors, and subjecting it to an external laser pulse, the scientists could emit photons one by one. The emission time and the pulse shape of each photon were completely user-controlled. Remarkably, the device was operated without interruption over a period limited only by the trapping time of the ion, typically many hours. The achievement has important applications in quantum information processing. A controlled quantum interface between atoms and photons has become feasible. In this way, local ion-based operations on quantum states can be combined with long distance quantum information exchange, a key requirement for the implementation of a secure quantum Internet. From mbest at triad.rr.com Fri Jan 12 21:49:03 2007 From: mbest at triad.rr.com (Michael Best) Date: Fri Jan 12 21:49:10 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] 3d fabricator machines In-Reply-To: <20070110190003.1EAF93F432@kang.vjc.com> Message-ID: <007301c736ce$27e37750$6400a8c0@mikey> > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:08:04 +0000 (GMT) > From: javilk@mall-net.com > http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10922-desktop-fabricator- > may-kickstart-home-revolution.html > > The above article talks about devices you can build that allow > you to create 3d objects at home, things ranging from a pair of > perfect fit shoes, to complex; but small machines. EXCELLENT! A CNC cake decorating machine! A device to save me hours of labor preparing my signature dessert, "Death by Chocolate v.5.1!" Maybe it can make training aids for my Automatic Mousetraps? -MB From mbest at triad.rr.com Thu Jan 18 18:53:58 2007 From: mbest at triad.rr.com (Michael Best) Date: Thu Jan 18 18:54:02 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Beelzebub's Brass Balls! Message-ID: <008501c73b6c$b0e67af0$6400a8c0@mikey> Strap on a wing with a couple of miniature turbojets... http://www.jet-man.com/actuel_eng.html# ...Icarus would be impressed! Enjoy the ride! From javilk at mall-net.com Thu Jan 18 19:21:34 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Thu Jan 18 19:21:39 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Re: Beelzebub's Brass Balls! In-Reply-To: <008501c73b6c$b0e67af0$6400a8c0@mikey> from "Michael Best" at Jan 18, 2007 08:53:58 PM Message-ID: <20070119022134.17565.qmail@mall-net.com> > > Strap on a wing with a couple of miniature turbojets... > > http://www.jet-man.com/actuel_eng.html# there are people who are sane, and there are people who are insane.... Looks to me, like he has a complex about wanting to be admired, hence his insane risks. > ...Icarus would be impressed! hmmm... > > Enjoy the ride! > From rhjuliano at yahoo.com Thu Jan 18 21:51:18 2007 From: rhjuliano at yahoo.com (Robert Juliano) Date: Thu Jan 18 21:52:21 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Re: Beelzebub's Brass Balls! In-Reply-To: <20070119022134.17565.qmail@mall-net.com> Message-ID: <556908.99038.qm@web51008.mail.yahoo.com> I like it! Bob (who now is developing a backlog of desired projects...) --- javilk@mall-net.com wrote: > > > > Strap on a wing with a couple of miniature > turbojets... > > > > http://www.jet-man.com/actuel_eng.html# > > there are people who are sane, and there are > people who are > insane.... Looks to me, like he has a complex about > wanting to be > admired, hence his insane risks. > > > ...Icarus would be impressed! > > hmmm... > > > > Enjoy the ride! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mad-Scientists mailing list > Mad-Scientists@Mad-Scientists.ORG > http://www.mad-scientists.org/mailman/listinfo/mad-scientists > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know. From Vesta111 at aol.com Fri Jan 19 15:59:50 2007 From: Vesta111 at aol.com (Vesta111@aol.com) Date: Fri Jan 19 16:00:03 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Re: Beelzebub's Brass Balls! Message-ID: WOW, this is the dream of most humans, to fly above the clouds. The people with money and a dream can do these things. Just imagine having the resources to enable us ordinary people to give vent to our fantasies and be able to sour above the clouds. The greatest gift I was given as a child, was the love of the written word. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://Mad-Scientists.ORG/pipermail/mad-scientists/attachments/20070119/6e9d2aa0/attachment.html From javilk at mall-net.com Sat Jan 20 00:01:21 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Sat Jan 20 00:01:28 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Re: Beelzebub's Brass Balls! In-Reply-To: from "Vesta111@aol.com" at Jan 19, 2007 05:59:50 PM Message-ID: <20070120070121.28032.qmail@mall-net.com> > WOW, this is the dream of most humans, to fly above the clouds. > > The people with money and a dream can do these things. Just imagine having > the resources to enable us ordinary people to give vent to our fantasies and > be able to sour above the clouds. The problem with most modes of flying, is the extreme noise. Nose takes away from the ability to meditatively appreciate the circumstance. --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From Vesta111 at aol.com Sun Jan 21 05:54:46 2007 From: Vesta111 at aol.com (Vesta111@aol.com) Date: Sun Jan 21 05:54:59 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Re: Beelzebub's Brass Balls! Message-ID: There must be extreme noise for birds also. The wind as they glide on it, in times of danger I expect they fly through it. The greatest gift I was given as a child, was the love of the written word. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://Mad-Scientists.ORG/pipermail/mad-scientists/attachments/20070121/e1199e0b/attachment.html From javilk at mall-net.com Sun Jan 21 11:02:16 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Sun Jan 21 11:02:20 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Re: Beelzebub's Brass Balls! In-Reply-To: from "Vesta111@aol.com" at Jan 21, 2007 07:54:46 AM Message-ID: <20070121180216.92070.qmail@mall-net.com> > There must be extreme noise for birds also. > > The wind as they glide on it, in times of danger I expect they fly through > it. I think not. Have you heard a bird fly? Even a small bird? More the beat of their wings, the creak of bone and sinew as they fly up to your hand. Or the humming bird, as it flys by your head to the sugar water dispenser. The creak of bone and sinew, the flutter of feathers... Only when they glide, are they silent, resting upon the wind. --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From javilk at mall-net.com Tue Jan 23 23:47:50 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Tue Jan 23 23:47:56 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Is manned space exploration yviable? Message-ID: <20070124064750.73327.qmail@mall-net.com> Remember Mitchner's book and TV mini-series Space? Of the first men on the moon, some died due to a solar flare. Mitchner did his homework. Recent studies suggest that for every 100 hours in space, astronauts have a 10% chance of exposure to dangerous X-Rays from solar flares. Lethal exposures, though rare, can also happen. http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11011-moon-astronauts-face-xray-danger.html Before we conquer outer space, we need the shielding our atmosphere, roughly equivalent to 32 feet of water, provides us every moment of our lives. Our brains must be our shields against raw space. --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From javilk at mall-net.com Thu Jan 25 12:00:41 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Thu Jan 25 12:00:48 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Global Warming: It's the Sun! Message-ID: <20070125190041.3238.qmail@mall-net.com> The interplay of magnetic field oscillations in the sun cause 100,000 and 41,000 year solar output variation cycles. These are instantly recognizable by anyone familiar with the ice ages as the timing of the glacial cycles... which were once 41,000 years, and are now 100,000 years. http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19325884.500-suns-fickle-heart-may-leave-us-cold.html We are like the fleas on the tail of the dog; we don't even own the dog. -- US meteorologist -- --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From javilk at mall-net.com Sat Jan 27 18:11:29 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Sat Jan 27 18:11:36 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Whither Education? Message-ID: <20070128011129.97549.qmail@mall-net.com> A CHILD'S MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE By Joel Turtel January 27, 2007 NewsWithViews.com http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel34.htm The above was forwarded to me by a fellow mad scientist. It is a recount of how a person who used phonics to teach those hard of learning, and was expelled and black-balled by the non-phonics based burro-crazy idiots enforcing the mis-teaching of reading in our public schools. My response, originally intended for that one person, probably touches all of us, the "mis-educated" "crazies" called Mad Scientists. A school is a terrible building to waste. Just think of all the tax income that would be generated turning it into an office building, and all the money that would be saved on teachers, supplies, etc. Not to mention the income generated if they put the kids to work in real jobs instead of sitting there doing very little and learning bad habits at the hands of potential pedophiles. (Probably a better record than the church, though... But I don't know that for sure, and that only covers one aspect of education.) The solution to pollution is dilution! This is why we send kids to school. (What??? But read on.) Mental pollution of the inept parents who hire inept teachers who only confuse the parents. (I mean, many of the parents ARE funnymentalists in one way or another.) So we dilute the mental pollution with other mental pollution, insuring that we have kids with standardized pollution that they can all relate to in each other. THAT is the real function of schools -- socialization. But how many of our geniuses were socialists? Or even properly socialized? And since the teachers are incompetent, the cussework is boring, and all that, they ritlinize the kids into appropriate zombiness, insuring that any potential leaders are mentally castrated! Heaven forbid we have too many who learn the true lessons of Edison, JFK, or RWR! It would destroy the institution of learning. Not to mention the teachers. So instead, we destroy the fodder forked into the buildings. RWR, Ronald Wilson Reagan, said it best, 'there is always the library.' Indeed, many learn more in the library than in the classroom. Today though, we have advanced to the automated page turning one of RWR's education secretaries decried. Indeed, the next page need not be in any one book; but may be wherever the mind seeks. Meaning boredom declines and thus the adventure of learning becomes more of an adventure; AS IT SHOULD BE! EXPLORATION of what is known, and IDENTIFICATION what is not known. As Cris Craft, The Voice of Mission Control said in his book, 'It's the unknown unknowns that we need to worry about.' That's what gets us. I learned more from reading technical trade journals than all my college courses. The only really worth while course I had in high school, was touch typing. Oh, and the indelible lesson of Lucas J. Pasquerello, that life can be fun, as learned from vignettes of his career as a geologist. He was a geologist before WW-II, then used his GI Bill to become a teacher as it was safer, better paying work. Sure, there was science. But I was ahead of much of that from Science News (then Science Newsletter). There were other things; but they were things I would find by myself if told to look in this or that direction. When I took the biology final, we had covered maybe half the book. Finishing early, I asked the instructor if he would score, not grade, but score the rest of the test book just to see how I did. Three was no difference in score between what I studied, and what I had not studied! A all the way! Because to me, reading about science was INTERESTING, as was visiting anyone with a brain who did an interesting job. My favorite treat was a day at the library in a large enough city. EXPLORATION!!! Schooling is important, sure. It provides standards we can refer to, insures we cover some minimum in all the bases, etc. And there is no question that we DO need that. But the manner of teaching is based on military drill; and that is pure damned mind destroying WRONG! Non-phonics reading instruction is merely a symptom of that, a diagnostic symptom of the teachers running the show for THEIR convenience, NOT FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES!!! The world is an economy of Imagination. You don't make a fortune copying someone else. You either imagine a better way of making what he makes, or imagine something else that people WANT, and how to make it cheaply enough that they will buy it. No robber barons in a free enterprise system, not for long! Not as long as you keep monopolists under control. IMAGINATION! Einstein -- "Imagination is more important than fact." But yes, you need facts as well; though those you can find either in books or via experimentation. But Imagination comes first, for without imagination, you don't know what to do with the facts. America's number one export is not knowledge, it is Entertainment. Hollywood, Nashville, video games, etc. !!!IMAGINATION!!! Regimentization KILLS imagination. Edison -- too addle brained to educate Einstein -- incompetent student Von Braun -- juvenile delinquent (gearhead, fireworks into bakery.) Churchill -- drunken sot Why is it that America has lead the technology revolutions? Telephone, Teletype, Light bulb, Automobile, Bulldozer, Airplane, Computer, Internet, Personal computer, etc. etc. etc.? Because we do such a bad, bad job of educating our students! We don't put them on a course to anything. Instead, we let them play with stuff like their father's tools, let them find their own way. The most educated fields have the least revolutions. Just look at fusion. Piled high and deep PhD's and nothing yet. And now, we are exporting all that "father's tools" bit to China... destroying the very source of our genius. Comments? Discussion? --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From javilk at mall-net.com Sun Jan 28 00:47:32 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Sun Jan 28 00:47:35 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] The Price of Progress... Message-ID: <20070128074732.47885.qmail@mall-net.com> The price we pay for progress... "There will be risks, as there are in any experimental program, and sooner or later, we're going to run head-on into the law of averages and lose somebody. I hope this never happens, and...perhaps it never will, but if it does, I hope the American people won't think it's too high a price to pay for our space program." -- Gus Grissom, weeks before his death in Apollo 1, 40 years ago today. Apollo 1 "was a difficult time," he said. "We might have given up after that. We might have said it was too dangerous, not worth the lives of brave Americans." But echoing Apollo 13 mission control director Gene Krantz' mantra, "Failure is not an option," Gerstenmaier concluded, "Failure of imagination is not acceptable." We must always remember that, especially us, the mad ones: "Failure of Imagination is not acceptable." "Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind" -- Isaac Asimov What are we doing now, us, the crazy ones, to kindle the imagination of mankind and bring on the future? Tell us, that we may kindle each other's imaginations. Or do we need to invite Clyde back??? --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. From tinkergirl at madscientist.co.uk Sun Jan 28 12:46:33 2007 From: tinkergirl at madscientist.co.uk (tinkergirl@madscientist.co.uk) Date: Sun Jan 28 12:46:38 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] I'm rekindling the love of hands-on science, amongst other things, I think. Message-ID: <1170013593.v2.fusewebmail-143481@f> "What are we doing now, us, the crazy ones, to kindle the imagination of mankind and bring on the future? Tell us, that we may kindle each other's imaginations." Well, as small a contribution as it may be, I run my blog about the peculiarities of Victorian, early electric and steam based technology. I post about those who try to combine the hands-on mechanics of engineering, with the fantasies of a world that never was. It's Steampunk (or Victorian Science Fiction) and it celebrates the ambition and joy in science that we got from Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, combined with the pioneering examples of Nikola Tesla and James Watt. I've seen people repurpose cheap electronic toys, construct steam powered contraptions never seen before, etch brass with electricity, gut lightbulbs to reuse as laboratory equipment, make their own safety kit, create new forms of lighter-than-air vehicles (pedal-powered helium, and steam-balloons), and I've generally been deeply impressed by the imaginations and willingness to rediscover the skills and technologies that were new a mere 150 years ago. Sure, I may not be doing all that much myself (I dabble and tinker, make goggles and the like) but I believe I'm celebrating those people who are proactively taking things apart, and making things new. That's what I'm doing - but don't assume that I'm doing this because I feel all noble or anything. I do it because it's darn interesting! *laughs* Tinkergirl Brass Goggles http://ccgi.firewyre.force9.co.uk/brassgoggles/ From Vesta111 at aol.com Sun Jan 28 13:17:31 2007 From: Vesta111 at aol.com (Vesta111@aol.com) Date: Sun Jan 28 13:17:42 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] The Price of Progress... Message-ID: Before we call Clyde back, in order to keep this forum active, perhaps we should up date each other of our interests at this time. In the last year I for one, have placed on the back burner my interest in baking and making the perfect food. I still believe that exploration under our seas are more important then space travel. However I seemed to fall into an interesting genetics field dealing with cats. This is so complicated it makes my head spin. Some how with enough research I may find the answers to my questions that the 6 Veterinarians I spoke to could not answer, or could breeders of cats. That's my story, how are you all doing out there and what is your interest now ???? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://Mad-Scientists.ORG/pipermail/mad-scientists/attachments/20070128/ea942ec6/attachment.html From rhjuliano at yahoo.com Sun Jan 28 15:42:47 2007 From: rhjuliano at yahoo.com (Robert Juliano) Date: Sun Jan 28 15:43:47 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] The Price of Progress... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <408991.80554.qm@web51010.mail.yahoo.com> I've been doing a few things: 1.) I started a teaching job in two community colleges. 2.) I'm in the middle of a move, into a larger apt, with the added room for a shop. 3.) I have most of the new lab on order... more later, Bob --- Vesta111@aol.com wrote: > Before we call Clyde back, in order to keep this > forum active, perhaps we > should up date each other of our interests at this > time. > > In the last year I for one, have placed on the back > burner my interest in > baking and making the perfect food. > > I still believe that exploration under our seas are > more important then > space travel. > > However I seemed to fall into an interesting > genetics field dealing with > cats. This is so complicated it makes my head spin. > > > Some how with enough research I may find the answers > to my questions that > the 6 Veterinarians I spoke to could not answer, or > could breeders of cats. > > That's my story, how are you all doing out there and > what is your interest > now ???? > > _______________________________________________ > Mad-Scientists mailing list > Mad-Scientists@Mad-Scientists.ORG > http://www.mad-scientists.org/mailman/listinfo/mad-scientists > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html From rhjuliano at yahoo.com Sun Jan 28 17:13:02 2007 From: rhjuliano at yahoo.com (Robert Juliano) Date: Sun Jan 28 17:13:07 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] I'm rekindling the love of hands-on science, amongst other things, I think. In-Reply-To: <1170013593.v2.fusewebmail-143481@f> Message-ID: <893378.28465.qm@web51003.mail.yahoo.com> Tinkergirl, you sound like a lady after my own heart. One of my projects is to build a large, slow moving flying platform... Bob --- tinkergirl@madscientist.co.uk wrote: > "What are we doing now, us, the crazy ones, to > kindle the > imagination of mankind and bring on the future? > Tell us, that we may > kindle each other's imaginations." > > Well, as small a contribution as it may be, I run my > blog about the > peculiarities of Victorian, early electric and steam > based technology. I > post about those who try to combine the hands-on > mechanics of engineering, > with the fantasies of a world that never was. It's > Steampunk (or > Victorian Science Fiction) and it celebrates the > ambition and joy in > science that we got from Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, > combined with the > pioneering examples of Nikola Tesla and James Watt. > > I've seen people repurpose cheap electronic toys, > construct steam powered > contraptions never seen before, etch brass with > electricity, gut > lightbulbs to reuse as laboratory equipment, make > their own safety kit, > create new forms of lighter-than-air vehicles > (pedal-powered helium, and > steam-balloons), and I've generally been deeply > impressed by the > imaginations and willingness to rediscover the > skills and technologies > that were new a mere 150 years ago. > > Sure, I may not be doing all that much myself (I > dabble and tinker, make > goggles and the like) but I believe I'm celebrating > those people who are > proactively taking things apart, and making things > new. > > That's what I'm doing - but don't assume that I'm > doing this because I > feel all noble or anything. I do it because it's > darn interesting! > *laughs* > > Tinkergirl > Brass Goggles > http://ccgi.firewyre.force9.co.uk/brassgoggles/ > _______________________________________________ > Mad-Scientists mailing list > Mad-Scientists@Mad-Scientists.ORG > http://www.mad-scientists.org/mailman/listinfo/mad-scientists > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL From jphiffer at yahoo.com Mon Jan 29 08:34:19 2007 From: jphiffer at yahoo.com (Jennifer Phiffer) Date: Mon Jan 29 08:34:40 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Progress? Message-ID: <966313.57414.qm@web31015.mail.mud.yahoo.com> An interesting observation: Some mad scientists have started to call themselves artists. Case in point: Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, some guy makes a mobile machine controlled by a bug. Very "Survival Research Laboratory"(who also called themselves artists.) So. I'm going to try to apply to MIT by claiming my time machine is an art project. Are we not men? Why not artists? Jennifer ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 From javilk at mall-net.com Mon Jan 29 17:54:26 2007 From: javilk at mall-net.com (javilk@mall-net.com) Date: Mon Jan 29 17:54:31 2007 Subject: [Mad-Scientists] Progress? In-Reply-To: <966313.57414.qm@web31015.mail.mud.yahoo.com> from "Jennifer Phiffer" at Jan 29, 2007 07:34:19 AM Message-ID: <20070130005426.12677.qmail@mall-net.com> > > An interesting observation: > > Some mad scientists have started to call themselves > artists. Well, if there is no purpose to our work, then it is art. Exploration of what is outside is science. It is the purpose of science. Finding things useful is what makes great science. And later, that devolves into engineering. (Devolves in the sense of clutter and practice vs deeper understanding.) Exploration of what is inside is art. it is the purpose of art. Finding things common to most people, things that resonate and INSPIRE, is what makes great art. Great mad science should do both, and astound. > Case in point: Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, some guy > makes a mobile machine controlled by a bug. Very > "Survival Research Laboratory"(who also called > themselves artists.) That is a form of art. It may employ engineering and is an effort to see whether other things can be controlled by an insect... but it has no real purpose, so it is more art than science. > So. > I'm going to try to apply to MIT by claiming my time > machine is an art project. Ah, yes, fundingk! What the real world imposes upon us. The common folks do not tolerate us well if we if we rip off parts of the industrial landscape around us for our projects... > Are we not men? Why not artists? Obviously, not all of us are men. But Humans, yes. (Ever really look at some animals? Much of what we call human can also be found in some animals.) Art? Art is more of an expression of what is inside, than an exploration of what is outside. I'm a photographer. I use the outside to see what is inside. This is also what we saw with the outpouring of emotion regarding the horse Barbado. The ART of Performance, the Spirit of Humanity as expressed by a horse. And then, the tragedy which lets us see what humanity really is, what LIFE really is. And how spirit makes life worth living. http://www.mall-net.com/barbado.html Madness in science comes from expressing the within without any regard to the without. But if we do not express some of it, we do not bring ourselves to do science. Art in science is the harmony of science done well. There is nothing more beautiful (in mad science) than a machine that behaves as if it were alive. I remember running after a robot of mine, one which used the left-right cadence of running to power it's motors as a way of regulating its speed. What sickens me, is the robot wars garbage. It's about destruction, not construction; about hate, not love; About ugliness, not grace and beauty. Make Love and Beauty! Yes, sometimes we have to make war to preserve the love and beauty... but... Discussion? --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved. 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In Boston, staid upright Boston, after 38 of these had been in place two or three WEEKS, someone thought one might be a bomb... soon four were seen. The police, mayor, etc. exploded! In another article, the police said they want two to three years jail for anyone and everyone who had anything to do with these funny looking magnetic blinking ad boxes. No one complained in any of the other nine cities. http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=180293&srvc=home I suppose they could be accused of littering or posting unauthorized signs... but... when you see the actual item, it's funny anyone could mistake it for anything harmful. Indeed, some were promptly removed and taken home by kids and adults who recognized them as neat harmless gadgets. Yet another thing banned in Boston. --javilk@mall-net.com---------------------------------- Life is to be LIVED regardless of what is out there. Fear destroys life. Destroy your fear and live. ------------------------------------------------------- Not to be construed as psychological advice. Void where prohibited by law. Not available in all mental states. ------------------------------------------------------- Another Javilk (tm) brand post. Copyright (C) 2007, Javilk@mall-net.com Copyright retained. All rights reserved.