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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (40032)	10/19/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Inneresting. Asteroid strikes are a passion (is that correct?) of my Techie. Really. A pet passion. He takes medications for it. I can decide if you guys would attract or repel.... :o) Anyway, he's into visuals too. He presented at the Go To Mars Conference, or whatever it's called, in Boulder, and I was sposed to go with him, but I'm sore and lazy and poor and all, probably mostly poor and agoraphobic (he asks me to go everywhere, which is nice) (I say, are you sure I won't act stupid?" "No. I don't think so, and I don't care.") ~ so he goes and does a pretty freaking trick Power Point presentation on some special presentation device he had moved in there. And guess who comes up to tell him he was very impressed with the visual nature of the presentation? James Cameron. His daughter, Techie's I mean, being the ulto Titanic Freak, was a WEE impressed when Daddy came home with Cameron's autograph on his paper. He's your Classic Techno Nerd. Way. I think eccentric, too, (MJ said something like, "that's why he likes you." I don't know what that was sposed to mean) and he's the only one who dares come by here without a phone call (and rejection) first. He just walks in the garden like he owns the place. Gets a beer out of the fridge, unless it's a bad kind, and says, "Look what I got." He's a finicky pesky drinker. I mean, if it's not his favorite flavor of the week, he won't even drink it. Turns up his nose, just like a cat. It's very important to keep something accepted in there. Tends to always park in the neighbor's driveway, no matter how many times I esplain to him. He always refers to me and calls me by my last name, just like when you were in High School. I planted a redwood tree on his land, downhill from the (inactive) giant stainless steel tofu cooker tank.....

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (40032)	10/19/1999 4:55:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

What is the correct term for a "flat" area of a sphere? On a "perfect" sphere, the surface is smooth. (Nice word, smooth. Kind of mellow bovine.) Say a water planet ~ you know, assuming they exist ~ the surface would be nearly flat, but you can't call an area that, because it's a portion of the surface of a sphere. Sphere is a hard word. Sphere. It's like throwing a curve ball, with the curve at the beginning. It arcs. Anyway, how do you say a planet is flat? "Un-bubbled"? "Wrinkle-creamed"? "Not deviant"? What. [You notice you're Mr Science?] I suppose a simple-complicated book about the geometry and terms of a sphere would be handy. Yes, it would. Hmmmm. eg, Geometry For Gerbils. That would help them, say if they found out that thing they're running around in is actually a wheel. How do we know, they don't think they jump on there thinking they're going to grammaws house? They didn't invent the wheel, but they sure use it. They probably think whoever invented the wheel, sort of like Time Travel, is either a god or the devil. They seem to understand Up and Down and On and Off, so maybe they're ready to understand The Wheel. Parallels to our Fifteenth Century are obvious. But maybe only to the insightful, I tell myself. 'Course, if you get them to understand the wheel, the next thing they'll want is a couch.