fenriz275

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    I think Brent Spiner was very good as the villian. It was also nice to see the Orions again. They've been mentioned a lot but I don't recall ever seeing them since TOS. I also like seeing the "Augments" again. Khan is one of my favorite Trek villians, I really liked seeing the Augments actually demonstrating their physical abilites. Good Lord! A point blank shot from a phase pistol didn't stop these guys. They certainly made short work of those Klingons in the first scene as well. :cloud9:

     

    I can see now why the Augments were so dangerous. They consider normal humans a lesser species to be used and discarded at will. It really adds dimension to why humans in the Trek universe react so negatively to any form of genetic engineering in a sentient species. Even in the time of DS9 it's still a strictly enforced ban.

     

    Spiner's character reminds me, at least from this on episode, of Gul Dukat. He feels like he has been wronged and is intent on proving why he was jusitfied in his actions. He almost becomes a sympathetic character when he reveals his true nature. It reminds me of how there aren't many convincing villians who see themselves as evil. In their mind they are right and everyone else is wrong.

     

    I can't hardly wait to see how this story develops over the next two episodes. Overall I think this story arc is filling in a nice bit of backstory for the Trek universe. :flowers:


  2. I usually don't get into any serious accidents when I get distracted. *knock on wood* It is embarrassing though. Like falling up stairs at work or walking into a closed door. I've done that on many occassions. The best one(or worse, depending on your perspective) was when I worked at an injection molding plant. I was attaching water lines to the mold. Then I turned them on one by one. I saw the one pipe I'd neglected to attach a line to just as I turned the water on and got a face full. Luckily it was cold water. But a lot of people saw it happen, so no playing that one off. :wow::naughty:


  3. Light is made up of electromagnetic waves.

     

    The distance between 2 crests in this wave is called the wavelength.

     

    White light contains all the colors of the rainbow.

     

    The amount of light scattered for any given colour depends on the wavelength of that colour.

     

    All the colors in white light have different wavelengths.

     

    Red light has the longest wavelength.

     

    The wavelength of blue light is about half that of red light.

     

    This difference in wavelength causes blue light to be scattered nearly ten times more than red light. Lord Rayleigh studied this phenomena in detail. It is caused the Tyndall effect or Rayleigh scattering.

     

    Lord Rayleigh also calculated that even without smoke and dust in the atmosphere, the oxygen and nitrogen molecules would still cause the sky to appear blue because of scattering.

     

    When blue light waves try to go straight through an oxygen and nitrogen molecules, its light is scattered in all directions because of this collision.

     

    This scattered blue light is what makes the sky blue.

     

    All other colors (with longer wavelengths than blue light) are scattered too.

     

    Blue light's short wavelength causes it to be scattered the most.

     

    (The shorther the wavelength of the color, the more that color gets scattered by the atmosphere)

     

    Actually, violet has the shortest wavelength of all colors. Violet is scattered even more than blue light. However, our eyes are much more sensitive to see blue than violet, therefore we see the sky as blue.

     

    Very little visible light is absorbed by the atmosphere.

     

    Blue sky: summary

    Blue light's short wavelength causes it to get scattered around 10 times more by oxygen and nitrogen molecules than the longer wavelengths (like red) of the other colors visible to us.

     

    The blue in the sky we see is scattered blue light.

    At one time I knew that, but I had to go look it up for this thread. :naughty:

     

    Just a little more info, if you want.(This internet is actually useful soemtimes. :wow: )

     

    John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

    born Nov. 12, 1842, Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex, Eng.

    died June 30, 1919, Terling Place, Witham, Essex

     

    English physical scientist who made fundamental discoveries in the fields of acoustics and optics that are basic to the theory of wave propagation in fluids. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904 for his successful isolation of argon, an inert atmospheric gas.


  4. Aaron and Abe hitched one of the horses to the buggy so they could go into town. Taffita had taken Smog with her when Nathan and her had departed for New England so Abe led a brown mare out of the field. As Abe and Cain hitched her up, the mare sniffed around Aaron's pockets.

    "What are you looking for?" Aaron asked her, rubbing her neck. "I guess Smog didn't keep his mouth shut did he? Ok, ok. Here you go." Aaron unwrapped a Hershey bar he had in his pocket as a snack for the trip. The mare gobbled it down, her mouth smacking as she chewed. Then she licked Aaron on the face knocking his hat off. He bent down to pick it up.

    "What's you name girl?" Aaron asked, rubbing her nose now.

    "Maggie." Abe answered.

     

    "Alright we're all set." Abe said. They led the buggy out and started down the path towards the road. At the front of the house they stopped it. Lida and Becka came out of the house. Becka handed Abe a basket.

    "Some lunch for you two, for later." She said. Lida handed Aaron a piece of paper.

    "I've written down a few things that we need. If you see any of them in town." She said. Aaron folded the paper and put it in his shirt pocket.

    "Make sure the boys get that barn cleaned out. I don't want them loafing around all day while Aaron and I are gone." Abe told his wife.

    "Not to worry. If they get done with that I have a whole lot of things they can do after that." Becka answered. Cain made a face at his brothers as they watched him climb into the buggy with Aaron and his father.

    As Aaron, Abe, and Cain rode down the lane towards the highway Aaron turned around and looked back at the farmhouse. Lida was standing on the porch. She waved to him and blew him a kiss. She then went back inside. Aaron smiled like an idiot the whole trip into Angola.


  5. Lida got breakfast started since she was the first one up. Aaron came down the stairs and sat at the table.

    "What cha makin?" he asked her.

    "Fried potatos, sausage and scrambled eggs, you hungry Sweetie?" She said. "Aaron, could you go down to the cellar and get a couple jars of cranberry juice? You know where they are, don't you? Next to the spice shelves." She asked him. Aaron went down and got the juice. Came back up and put them on the table. Meanwhile Abe and the boys came down stairs. Then Becka and the girls.

     

    Abigail was in a bad mood, she had cramps and kept fighting with her sisters. She picked on Addie so much, Addie started crying.

    "If you girls don't stop this right now you'll spend the rest of the day in your room!" Becka yelled.

    They quieted down and everyone ate. Then the boys started talking about how badly the loft was getting. The smell from the animals below.

    Abe said. "Well, it's their home, we can't have them outside all the time to do their business! Now you boys knock it off."

    Aaron was aware of the problem recently but hadn't said anything to anyone YET.

     

    "That barn was never meant to house so many animals." Abe remarked. "We're going to have to build another one. It'll be a lot of work but I think we have enough hands here. What do you think Aaron?" Aaron thought it over as he chewed.

    "Well I've never built anything as big as a barn. I suppose I could do some on the job training." He replied.

    "Good. We'll show you what to do. These boys have been lazing about long enough anyway. Idle hands." Abe said. The boys looked less than thrilled.

    "Well, Abe. It would have to be twice the size of the existing barn and we'd have to find the lumber somewhere. You think there is a lumber yard around here anywhere? They'd surely have a truck there we could bring it back here with." Aaron suggested.


  6. Internet Explorer is so full of security holes and flaws that it's mind boggling. It's like Microsoft was a construction company that built a house and said it was finished and ready to move into but they didn't bother to install doors, windows, or even a freaking roof, for that matter. That's why everyone who uses IE, like me :naughty::wow: , has to use 3rd party software to plug all of the holes. Maybe I should finally try a different browser instead of trying to keep up with the "Giant Microsoft Hamster Wheel o' Frustration." :D


  7. "Weather?" Fen says. :naughty:

     

    "Oh yea. The weather. It's um...um..." Fen looks around.

     

    "Come on someone throw me a freakin' bone here" He pleads with the crew. Silence.

     

    "Fine. I'll find out myself." Fen gets up and runs off camera. A cameraman follows him, Fen runs through the studio to the nearest exit. He grabs the handle and pulls. The door doesn't open.

     

    "Aw come on." He plants his feet on the doorframe and pulls as hard as he can, he turns red and the veins bulge in his neck. After a few minutes he gives up, he stands there panting with his hands on his knees. Suddenly a stagehand walks by him and pushes the door open and walks outside. :wow:

     

    Ok. Then." Fen straightens his tie and goes and sits back down.

     

    "Right. Well folks from the doppler thingie, or whatever, it's a mildly grey day here. Grey or is it gray? Someone run a fact check on that. Back to you Jeanway." :D


  8. *The camera cuts to Fen. He's sitting in his chair with his feet up on the news desk, sound asleep. Drooling. The camera stays on Fen for several seconds until someone off camera throws a paperwad at Fen to wake him up.*

     

    "Uh..Wha? I don' wan na balloon...Hu?" Fen sits up and looks right at the camera. :naughty:

     

    "Am I on? What? Aw Crap. Since when?" Fen frantically shuffles the papers on the desk.

     

    "Err...Hello folks. It's a um...Tuesday here in the Bowels. Yep. Definitely a Tuesday." Fen straightens his tie.

    "It is Tuesday right?" He asks someone off camera.

    "Yep. Tuesday." Fen says again, he drums his fingers on the desk. The camera stays on him for a very long time, Fen starts to sweat. :wow:


  9. Tell me about it. If you actually use your insurance and file a claim they either cancel your policy or raise your rates through the roof. All I get it for is for that stupid little yet expensive card I have to have to get my tags renewed for my car. Which I hate in the first place. ;) That scrap heap knows if it gives me any trouble I'll push it into the river. :laugh::look:


  10. I don't really know that much about cars. What I do know has been from experience. Like what it sounds like when you're brake pads are totally gone and you're down to the rivets. Eventually I decided I needed to find out what that horrible grinding noise was, especially after it got too loud for the radio to drown out. :laugh: I have a whole checklist of noises that my car is supposed to make. If I hear something new then I have to go investigating. ;) Or turn the radio up. :look: