Today's Topics:
Aircraft Navigation (R)
MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
News, News, and more News
News of the Weird
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From: phy6jem@sun.leeds.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 14 May 93 11:26:11 BST
Message-Id: <20521.9305141026@sun018.leeds.ac.uk.sun.leeds.ac.uk>
To: subgenius <subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Aircraft Navigation (R)
Cross posted from Info-mac
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 23:00:00 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <lzcb@utdallas.edu>
Subject: Aircraft Navigation (R)
Awhile back I made a theorist notebook postcard describing the solution
partially to someone who wanted to point along a great circle as he prayed to
Mecca. The formulas were complex with multiple valued inverse trig functions
that confused me.
The fellow thanked me and went with the theory to geographers.
Wais search for Mecca as I've stuffed his address and posting, see what
improvements he has made on my theory.
I will send you the e mail of the postcard under separate post. Buried in
it is the great circle angle from which you can get the great circle distance
>From earth radius by multiplication if your angle is in radians.
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Message-Id: <9305130146.AA27631@osc.com>
Subject: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
To: Glenn Barry <glenn@mathcs.emory.edu>, Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 12 May 93 18:46:16 PDT
From: henry strickland <strick@versant.com>
Cc: colm@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, dan@u1.mathcs.emory.edu,
debbie@u1.mathcs.emory.edu, edp@bnr.ca, gtl@cc.gatech.edu,
joe@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, skip@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, synners@pd.org,
vicki@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, stupid@versant.com
In-Reply-To: <9305130118.AA25096@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>; from "Glenn Barry" at May 12, 93 9:18 pm
# From: glenn@mathcs.emory.edu (Glenn Barry)
# To: colm@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, dan@u1, debbie@u1, edp@bnr.ca,
# gtl@cc.gatech.edu, joe@emory.mathcs.emory.edu,
# skip@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, synners@pd.org,
# vicki@emory.mathcs.emory.edu
# Subject: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
# Cc: stupid@versant.com
#
# In article 7203@cnsvax.uwec.edu, mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
# >
# >
# > MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
# >
# > ALL Christians are PROHIBITED by Revelation 14:9-11 from
# > cooperating with the "MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T" bar-code, OCR-
# > number, and magnetic-strip scanning systems, etc., (as found
# > in local libraries, supermarkets, retail establishments,
# > etc.), which also THREATEN to SUBVERT Individual Privacy and
# > Freedom.
# >
# > The scanners can serve THE SAME CRIMINAL PURPOSE as the
# > TV cameras in the book "1984"!
Source: Photonics Spectra, May 1993, p224
Title: Counting Critters
Strix-Subtitle: Or the Discovery of Barcodes among the Bees
Use: it's only fair
So maybe counting bees in a hive seems akin to counting angels on the
head of a pin. But it turns out that all you need is a bar code
scanner and the patience to attach tiny labels on the backs of
potentially pain-inducing insects.
Bar coding insects is finding a warm reception among entoimologists,
who may no longer need to imagine ways of strapping a radio transmitter
to bees, moths, and caterpillars. The economic implications of
increased knowledge about the behaviour of certain insects is
substantial. Honeybees, for example, are worth an estimated $20
billion a year as pollinators.
To calm the half-inch honeybees, Stephen Buchmann of the Carl Hayden
Bee Research Center in Arizona let them cool off in a refrigerator.
When they were sufficiently tranquilized, bar code labels designed by
Intermec Corp were shellacked to their backs.
[ paragraph about barcoded dead moths omitted ]
[ photo of barcoded bees should be scanned... ]
-- strick@versant.com
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From: happy zamboni <zamboni@ap.cl.msu.edu>
Message-Id: <9305141803.AA06506@ap.cl.msu.edu>
Subject: News, News, and more News
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Fri, 14 May 93 14:03:47 EDT
Cc: cshepherd@igc.apc.org
>
> >
> > Date: Wed, 5 May 93 18:42:12 PDT
> > From: Chuck Shepherd <cshepherd@igc.apc.org>
> >
> > I love the SubGenius Digest, but I can't imagine many people wading
> > through 650 lines of Larsonian Larsonism Larsonaphilia to get through
> > to News of the Weird. Did anyone read it last week? Couldn't the
> > Digest have the shorter messages first, or is it just that I'm too
> > unsophisticated a user to know how to cut to the various messages?
> > Am I wasting my time sending out News of the Weird?
> > Chuck Shepherd
> >
Wasting your time? No sir....not one bit. One of the better joys in life is
spraying copies of New of the Wierd into the mailbox of unsuspecting friends.
I, for one, will continue wading with pleasure as long as you keep taking the
time and effort of putting it together and sending it out. Keep up the good
work.
-Eric
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Date: Fri, 14 May 93 11:49:02 BST
Message-Id: <23824.9305141049@morris.harlqn.co.uk>
From: Dr Mabuse <richard@harlequin.co.uk>
To: SubGenius mailing list <subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: News of the Weird
Don't stop sending News of the Weird material to the SubGenius, Chuck.
It's sometimes the nearest thing to something spiritual I have all
day.
Chuck wrote:
> ... Or you may send me a postcard with your name and both electronic
> and postal addresses, repeat name and both addresses, to me at P. O.
> Box 8306, St. Petersburg FL 33738. ...
And send me $1. And a postcard of SOMEONE ELSE'S home town.
--- Dr Mabuse------------------------------
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