From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #109 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, May 5 2000 Volume 05 : Number 109 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: calendars! [lulfstedt@amadeus.net] Re: Alloy: Hey all.. [Paul Baily ] Alloy: real virus warning!! [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: real virus warning!! ["Keith Stansell" ] Alloy: It *is* flat! [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Hey all.. [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 14:14:51 +0100 From: lulfstedt@amadeus.net Subject: Re: Alloy: calendars! Woah,...am I behind on my alloy reading, or what....?! Yes, please, count me in,...! I'm game for a laugh, and love fiddling with graphics too,...:-) Lissu :-) From: Chris Cracknell on 30/04/2000 21:30 GMT Please respond to alloy@smoe.org |---------> | | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |To: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> |alloy@smoe.org | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |cc: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | (bcc: Louise Ulfstedt/NCE/AMADEUS) | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> | | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |Subject: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> |Re: Alloy: calendars! | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| In article <200004300017.AA15925472@mail.electricson.com>, you wrote: >I am in! ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ Me too, now that I've got a real scanner and some high quality graphics programs I wouldn't mind taking another stab at creating some Dolby related artwork. CRACKERS (Sounds like fun from hell!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.netway.com/~hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:48:44 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: Hey all.. And on the day of 30/4/2000 12:04 am, Russell Milliner thus did spake... > Hey Mark...if you're going by eastern Orlando...send me an email and > we'll meet up. It would be a treat to finally meet another fellow > Alloyer. Yeh, count me in! Would if I could. Not even in the same meridian. Again. Hey when are any of you guys going to swing by this corner of TFE!? I mean we've got beer, a good cricket team (apparently), and some wickedly weird marsupials. What more could one ask for? ;-) Shameless plug (sorry!): new copy on The Story That One Day Just Might Be(tm) pages released into the wild just minutes ago: Prologue Zero. P. [who writes b-grade sci-fi so backwards he'll be going negative any day now...] This message powered by Teardrop/Massive Attack. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 15:20:29 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: real virus warning!! Hi everyone, there's a virus going around that has already crashed the system at the newspaper where my husband works, and has reportedly crashed servers at several reputable companies today. It infects your computer even if you just open the email, apparently (though I'd thought that wasn't possible, they are saying this one does!!) And if one person contracts it, the virus will automatically send its infected emails to everyone on that person's mailing list. So no matter WHO it's from, don't under any circumstances open an email that is entitled ILOVEYOU ... I don't know anything about this stuff, this is the word from the top!! xxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:54:20 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: real virus warning!! Yep, we got it here at KickStart.com (shameless plug). It affects you if you use Outlook. It is a pretty nasty thing and we physically unplugged our email server this morning to prevent further infestation. It is a fast spreader. Luckily, we are immune on Alloy since we can't have attachments. - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Thurlow" To: Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:20 PM Subject: Alloy: real virus warning!! > > Hi everyone, there's a virus going around that has already crashed the > system at the newspaper where my husband works, and has reportedly > crashed servers at several reputable companies today. It infects your > computer even if you just open the email, apparently (though I'd thought > that wasn't possible, they are saying this one does!!) And if one > person contracts it, the virus will automatically send its infected > emails to everyone on that person's mailing list. So no matter WHO it's > from, don't under any circumstances open an email that is entitled > ILOVEYOU ... I don't know anything about this stuff, this is the word > from the top!! > > xxx > Robin T > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 17:45:56 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: It *is* flat! Mr Dolby has kindly brought my attention to the most amazing article and asked that I forward it along. The earth may not be flat but the *universe*, on the other hand... :) !! Robin T Scientists say images reveal flat universe BY MARTIN MERZER mmerzer@herald.com Published Thursday, April 27, 2000, in the Miami Herald Colorful images of deep space released Wednesday by an international team of scientists strongly bolster a theory that challenges the senses and imagination: The universe -- the unimaginably vast cosmos -- is flat. The team of 36 astrophysicists and cosmologists unveiled the first detailed images of the universe in its infancy. The images captured faint glows of microwave radiation produced at the moment of creation. The discoveries provided experts with persuasive evidence that the geometry of what they call ``space-time'' is flat -- like an immensely thick book -- rather than curved like a sphere. ``It is really exciting to obtain such strong evidence for a flat universe,'' said Eric Hivon, a scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. ``This result is in agreement with . . . the inflationary theory of the universe.'' Under that theory, the entire universe developed from a sub-atomic speck during a violent expansion that erupted a split second after the Big Bang. The Big Bang is the enormous explosion most experts believe created the universe 12 billion to 15 billion years ago. The sudden, savage event stretched the geometry of space until it was flat -- incomprehensibly wide and vast, but observing precise, flat borders at each ``end.'' Fear not. A modern Columbus could never fall off the universal edge because the cosmos is expanding much faster than any other object could possible travel. DEEP QUESTIONS Questions about what exists beyond the borders or what transpired before the Big Bang or who or what brought about creation are the provinces of theology and philosophy. But scientists said Wednesday they are unraveling many other mind-bending mysteries. Now, with the images and data released Wednesday, they are on the brink of consensus concerning the shape of the universe. ``The universe is flat,'' astrophysicist Mike Turner said during a news conference at NASA headquarters in Washington. ``This is the moment we will remember. It will be marked in the textbooks.'' The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is one of 16 organizations or universities in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Italy participating in the experiment, called Boomerang (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Radiation and Geophysics). DISTANT IMAGES The group employed a balloon to loft a two-ton telescope 120,000 feet over the Antarctic. Equipped with sophisticated radiation detection devices, the instrument captured distant images. Through the magic of time-space relationships, those images show the structure of the universe when it was 50,000 times younger and 1,000 times smaller and hotter than it is today. The images are actually representations of a form of radiation known as cosmic microwave background, residue of the intense heat that filled the early universe. By mapping incredibly tiny variations in this heat -- typically one ten-thousandth of a degree Centigrade -- astrophysicists can draw conclusions about the shape of the universe. ``These images represent the ultimate limit of our vision,'' said Andrew Lange, a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology and leader of the American members of the team. ``The enormous structures that they reveal predate the first star or galaxy in the universe.'' At issue are three main theories concerning the universe's structure: The ``closed'' universe is curved onto itself like a sphere, and it is more dense than the others would be. Gravity associated with that density eventually would cause the universe to cease expanding and then contract into the so-called Big Crunch. The ``open'' universe is also curved but in an outward direction that forms a saddle-type shape. It is less dense than the closed universe, and thus will expand forever. In the ``flat'' universe, parallel lines can never cross. It also is less dense than the closed universe and also would expand forever, though more slowly than the open universe. Team members said Wednesday that hundreds of patterns and structures they found in the background radiation strongly support the flat universe theory. ``It is an incredible triumph of modern cosmology to have predicted their basic form so accurately,'' Lange said. Said Turner: ``It is truly amazing that our little pencil scratching on pieces of paper have something to do with what's going on out there. The theorists have been saying for 20 years that the universe is flat, and it apparently really is.'' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 18:29:51 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Hey all.. In a message dated 5/4/00 8:53:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, justsomeguy@ozemail.com.au writes: :: Would if I could. Not even in the same meridian. Again. Hey when are any of you guys going to swing by this corner of TFE!? I mean we've got beer, a good cricket team (apparently), and some wickedly weird marsupials. What more could one ask for? ;-) :: Paul, we've always dreamt of visiting Australia!! I wish it weren't so expensive to travel there from NY. One of these days though, we just may show up on your doorstep so be sure to keep some beer and marsupials on hand for us. I know I'll want to see animals and constellations and a good play at one of the many excellent theaters I've heard about. Too bad I couldn't make it down there for swing dancing, eh? :) Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #109 ***************************