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I thought about looking them up, but since it did sound like a legit organization, I didn'tDiziet Sma wrote:...you could always ask them about the article..
(probably should have; it's just so ridiculous that it's hard to believe it was a real paper 
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Hmm... Which would do a better job at driving physicists crazy? Travel
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A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed
on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new
game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the
pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly
along it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their
heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn
around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite
direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the
paper reports "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin
colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins
fall over gently onto their backs.
-- Audobon Society Magazine
Well known myth. The penguins don't fall over. They have however increased their population in the mine field areas as the whalers can't get to them to use as fuel to render down the whale fat. No trees on the Falklands.Diziet Sma wrote:Ahhh.. an old favourite..
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A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the paper reports "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs. -- Audobon Society Magazine
Still... a funny anecdote nonetheless!Tricky wrote:Well known myth. The penguins don't fall over. They have however increased their population in the mine field areas as the whalers can't get to them to use as fuel to render down the whale fat. No trees on the Falklands.
An optimist believes we live in the best world possible;
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An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
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I wish I had gotten more experience than I wound up getting on those Amigas - they were coolTricky wrote:Hmph! I thought I had archived a fortune program I developed on the Amiga in the late '80s. Must be on the original HDD, wherever that is.
. So what ever happened to that machine? It sounds like it got lost in the sands o' time.... 
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It's still going.. despite ups, downs, halts and starts, it's still alive, as the AmigaONE X1000, running AmigaOS 4.1.5.CommRLock78 wrote:I wish I had gotten more experience than I wound up getting on those Amigas - they were cool
I've seen these; in fact I toyed with the idea of getting one when I got a new computer earlier this year, but I was a little turned off at the lack of exact price quotes (and machinesDiziet Sma wrote:It's still going.. despite ups, downs, halts and starts, it's still alive, as the AmigaONE X1000, running AmigaOS 4.1.5.CommRLock78 wrote:I wish I had gotten more experience than I wound up getting on those Amigas - they were cool
Can be purchased at: http://www.amigakit.com/x1000 although the current production run has already been sold out. A new run is expected by the end of the year or so..
). I was actually wondering what happened to Tricky's computer, but it was a nice reminder that Amiga is still kickin' it .Interestingly, that's the exact family of cards I just got for the new computer. Click he for a pic of the HD5450Diziet Sma wrote:Current specs, as of July 2012:
AmigaONE X1000 Latest Specifications:
[*]ATI Radeon Evergreen ... graphics card (option)
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Maybe...Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will get done by itself.
That prospect is about as hopeful as this one:Tricky wrote:For all OXP'ers...Maybe...Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will get done by itself.
