Insomnia

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Originally Posted by GHoSToKER

never mind that last question...

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Damn, and I typed out all that stuff just now!
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does the glass have an opening where you can feel the etching? can lasers be reflected to do the etching.

No, Poorman, the block of glass is solid.
I suppose that they can focus the laser to any given point.
They say: "New laser technology is used to etch very fine dots inside a cube of glass to create visually stunning images. A light source can be added to increase the effect."
(might save up for one of them there light boxes :D )

I guess that they use some kind of CNC programming (CNC:ComputerisedNumericControl), like they do for punching out holes in a sheet of steel.
Where I used to work, they had a CNC Punch machine that was capable of punching 600 holes per minute - sounded like a machine gun going off lol.
It could handle a piece of steel that measured 2Mtrs sq (8ftx8ft(approx)), and punch out holes of differing sizes in a matter of seconds!
There was a turret in the middle that housed all the punches, and that would spin to the correct punch-size, at the correct X-Y axis...all at terrific speed.
Was very impressive to watch...but very boring to work.
All the operator had to do was load up a piece of steel, press a button *bang bang bang*, unload the steel, then load another one...repeat 500times a day..grrr...

that's why I went back to truck driving lmaooo

"When you have insomina you are never really awake and you're never really asleep. Everything is just a copy of a copy of a copy. When deep space exploration cramps up, it will be the corporations that name everything. The Microsoft Galaxy, The IBM Stellasphere, Planet Starbucks......"

lol, XTC..and the second rule of Fight Club is...

I first saw that film in the cinema, my mate and I were on allsorts of wierd and wonderful stuff (getting the tickets was an episode in itself lmao), and everything was fine, until the moment that he had that mid-air-collision...
I was like, WTF!!!

lol

Excellent film, that says alot that needs to be listened to ;)

Interestingly, I found myself identifying myself with Marla, more than anyone :confused:

Except the part about insomnia is so true... I rememeber last winter....

Yeah, I guess that this thread is proof that insomniacs should be banned from the internet lmaooo
I know I'm awake, and later...I'll know that I was awake...and when I do finally fall asleep, I'll not wake up....

..hey, now there's a plan lol

Sorry, bit of darkness creeping in there lol ;)

yes, i guess that steel job would be boring to do. but to watch it work would be cool. my brother and step brother have their own machine shop. they have a few lathes, one has that cnc on it. the other is older and its manual.lol.

See, last year I'd not sleep for days then get maybe 8-12 hours and be up for the next few days... it was terribly boring...

Ah, but that was last year...nowadays, you can talk about compatibilism, water/electric systems, laser etched glass, CNC technology, AND movies that make a point in the most twisted of ways!

No excuse for boredom in the year 2005! :D

Mind you...my ass is as numb as a thing that would be numb!

I was going to get a cushion to sit on, but I kept forgetting...
:o

yeah buck. i am up 48 hrs and sleeping 7-8 hrs. boring as hell.

i have the worst sleeping pattern in the history of bad sleeping patterns

sometimes, i dont sleep for a day or two or three or more, sometimes i sleep for 24 hours at a time!! its crazy, and soooooo annoying/boring :(

IN THE span of 18 months, Isaac Newton invented calculus, constructed a theory of optics, explained how gravity works and discovered his laws of motion. As a result, 1665 and the early months of 1666 are termed his annus mirabilis. It was a sustained sprint of intellectual achievement that no one thought could ever be equalled. But in a span of a few moments after Resinates last post, it all began to unravel. One phenomenon after another was discovered which could not be explained by the laws of classical physics. The theories of Newton, and of James Clerk Maxwell who followed him in the mid-19th century by crafting a more comprehensive account of electromagnetism, were in trouble.

After Resinates' post, I found the way forward. In five remarkable papers, I have found that atoms are real (it is still controversial today), am presenting my conclusions, my special theory of relativity, and put quantum theory on its feet today. It was a different achievement from my prior year, but my annus mirabilis is no less remarkable. I did not, like Newton, have to invent entirely new forms of mathematics. However, I had to revise notions of space and time fundamentally. And unlike Newton, who did not publish his results for nearly 20 years, so obsessed was he with secrecy and working out the details, I released my paper immediately, as a fusillade of ideas.

The experiment is further explained by Henrich Lorentz, a Dutch physicist, who came up with the mathematics required for the answerâ??that there was a contraction in the direction of the Earth's movement, just enough to make the two speeds seem the same. Lorentz could not explain how this contraction occurred, though. He speculated that perhaps forces were at work inside molecules, which were, at the time, still hypothetical entities.

What I realised, without adding any new mathematics, but in a profoundly new way nonetheless, was that there was no seem about it. Space really was contracting, and time was slowing down. It is just this that Pais was referring to when he said that I was good at picking invariance principles. Everyone had hitherto thought that time was invariant. It is not. No one thought the speed of light was. It is.

The estimation of people on the earth becomes highly insignificant in light of these new revelations. I will you keep you posted as to todays results...

Isaac Newton stole Calculus. I feel like a stoner, because I forget who it was, but I beleive it was a dutchman. He sent in his work to be published in Newton's scientific journal, and Newton certainly did publish it. Along with some changes. Under his name. ;)

The anniversary of Einsteinâ??s Annus Mirabilis is on my birthday.. hmmm

So, what are you saying, Blisterize?
Did I do good! lmfaooo

It's just that I took delivery of some weed today, and I am now completely hammered :D
I aint had any weed for , like, aaages, dude!

what do you mean, 'took delivery', Res? :S

Well, like, goit some weed :confused:
I look like Mr Myagi out of Karate Kid lol

dammit Res, get into chat

(im bored lol)

I've got insomnia as well. If it wasn't for smokin mad treez i would never sleep normaly

my sleeping sucks, i skip a day, and the day i do sleep i dont sleep till like 6am and then sllep till like 5pm, i think my dxm over use disturbed my sleeping patterns.