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To: Neeka who wrote (4798)	6/14/2002 7:13:40 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

<They say they will return her to her pod when she is well enough. I bet she ends up like Kiko, and she just won't be able to make the transition once in captivity. > M, animals don't like freedom. Farms are great! Meals served regularly, no predators [they don't know about the end-game until too late]. Life is easy. Whales are not stupid - they know a cushy number when they see it. We have a budgie and a cat. They are not proponents of freedom other than in a very narrow sense. The budgie likes being in his cage. I get him out to fly around and hang out, but he runs back into his cage after a couple of flights. The cat whines like a fleet of 747s if the door is shut and dinner isn't served on time. Humans don't like freedom either - adult offspring for some weird reason keep coming back to base, opening refrigerator doors and generally making themselves comfortable. If a whale could fit in the house, I bet we'd have a pod of them in no time. <Do you have an investment in the Paua2ThePeople company? > No, but I do have an investment in that phone they showed - it was the QUALCOMM Kyocera phone, with a QUALCOMM ASIC and paying a CDMA royalty. I love the burgeoning wireless cyberspace communications culture. It's still just getting going. It's not just about cellphones. The woes of the GSM world have misled nearly everyone into thinking cellphones have had their day. The fun has begun, but barely. The telecosmic collapse is misleading. That was just the end of speculative irrational exuberance. Watch young people with their cellphones and cyberspace - that's a hint of what's coming. Cellphones for fogies are useful tools. Cyberspace links for <25 year olds are as central to their being as oily rags to a 1950s carburettor cowboy. Mqurice

To: Neeka who wrote (4798)	6/15/2002 9:11:19 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 12231

Man steals tour bus; it catches on fire, crashes into sign at a Wal-Mart. June 15, 2002 Man Accused of Stealing Tour Bus By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:31 p.m. ET STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) -- A man stole an empty tour bus that caught on fire on the highway before it crashed into a sign at a crowded Wal-Mart parking lot Saturday, police said. The large sign fell, injuring a 7-year-old boy, police said. Police spokesman Michael Gaddis said Terry Louis McCrary took over the bus after the driver dropped off Alabama tourists near the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park. McCrary, 45, was taken to a hospital for a minor leg injury. He was arrested and charged with theft, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an injury accident and serious injury by vehicle, along with various minor traffic charges, Gaddis said. The suspect did not release the air brakes which caused the bus to catch on fire, officials said. A helicopter and a fire truck chased the bus before it crashed into the sign, which struck the boy. He was taken to the hospital for a broken leg bone and head injuries; his condition was not immediately available. Copyright 2002 The Associated Press

To: Neeka who wrote (4798)	6/15/2002 10:20:05 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 12231

NYT -- Why, exactly, shouldn't you put a plugged-in toaster in the bathtub? June 11, 2002 The Toast of the Tub By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Dangerous Currents Q. Why, exactly, shouldn't you put a plugged-in toaster in the bathtub? A. The bathtub is attached to water pipes, which run to the earth. The electrons flowing in an electrical circuit are seeking the shortest, easiest route (the familiar path of least resistance) back to the power station — or to the earth. Normally the loop runs through wires and appliances.But if the path is interrupted, the electrons will take any route that runs to the earth, and a person in a bathtub full of water may be part of such a route, because both water and the human body are decent conductors of electricity. (For the same reason, it is a good idea to stay out of the bathtub during a thunderstorm.) Electrocution in a bathtub can differ from electrocution in an electric chair, in which a powerful flow of electricity raises the body temperature so that internal organs get too hot to function. In a bathtub, a relatively small flow of electricity can be the culprit, because at certain levels the current disrupts the normal heart rhythms, leading to fibrillation. Fibrillation is a common cause of heart failure, and it takes only about one to three seconds of electrical flow for fibrillation to occur. Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company

To: Neeka who wrote (4798)	6/18/2002 1:43:56 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 12231

Teleportation news ! "Beam me up" may be coming (eventually) : June 17, 2002 Scientists Report 'Teleported' Data By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:33 p.m. ET CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian scientists said Monday they had successfully ``teleported'' a laser beam encoded with data, breaking it up and reconstructing an exact replica a yard away. Their work replicates an experiment at the California Institute of Technology in 1998, but the Australian team believes their technique is more reliable and consistent. Although the research brings to mind the way ``Star Trek'' characters were beamed around on TV and in film, scientists at the Australian National University said their technique's main use will be as a way to encrypt information and for a new generation of super-fast computers. At this stage, the process perfected by Australian physicist Ping Koy Lam and his 12-member team can only teleport light by destroying the light beam and creating an exact copy at the receiving end from light particles known as photons. ``We have taken a beam of laser light ... and completely destroyed it and then made measurements of the destroyed laser beam and then took the measured results to the other side of the lab and reconstructed an exact replica of what we have destroyed,'' said Lam. Teleporting a laser beam involves destroying and replicating billions of photons. Lam said he believes the process, called ``quantum teleportation'' and which takes a nanosecond -- one billionth of one second -- will soon be used for teleporting matter. ``My prediction is if we are not doing it, it will probably be done by someone in the next three to five years, that is the teleportation of a single atom or a small group of atoms,'' he said. Teleporting a living person would likely be virtually impossible, scientists said. ``In theory, there is nothing stopping, us but the complexity of the problem is so huge no one is thinking seriously about it at the moment,'' Lam said. Quantum teleportation makes use of a strange aspect of quantum physics called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which says it is impossible to measure both the speed and position of an object at the same time. The researchers couldn't directly measure the key characteristics of the laser beam they wanted to replicate, so they turned to a process called entanglement. In entanglement, characteristics of tiny particles -- like the photons that make up laser beams -- can be mirrored in a second set of particles. So researchers can make their measurements on a second laser beam that was entangled with the first. The measurements are then sent by radio waves to the receiving station, which exactly replicates the first beam that was destroyed in the process of entanglement. Lam's team will be presenting the results to an international conference on quantum electronics in Moscow next week. Copyright 2002 The Associated Press