Comments on: Resonance experiment https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-31014 bowser Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:35:56 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-31014 That IS sweet. That IS sweet.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30992 bowser Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:34:21 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30992 Absolutely love it. Good for you. A 'couple of months' at a time in the jungle is a long, long time buy you may have noticed that. Absolutely love it. Good for you.

A ‘couple of months’ at a time in the jungle is a long, long time buy you may have noticed that.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30986 ER Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:40:42 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30986 That's beautiful. I really like that. That’s beautiful. I really like that.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30973 DanS Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:49:16 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30973 We had a war-game going on in Panama for the JOTC, that's Jungle Operations Training Center. Persons stationed in Panama were generally selected to be the bad guys for troops coming down from the states for training. Being Infantry, we hit the jungle just about every week, and a few times stayed in for a couple months. One week-long "war" involved 82nd Airborne as the good guys, and we were the harassment team. I was to take my squad to a specified location and set up for a series of ambuscades along a road and the surrounding area. Getting to our site took a bit of trail-building and a lot of machete swinging. About half way there, we came across a beautiful, crystal-clear, 12-foot waterfall. We dropped packs and scouted out the area, filling canteens and eventually breaking for chow. After lunch, I told my troops we had arrived at our location. They all looked at me like I was nuts. After 2 years of ambushing the bad-guys, I decided it was time for a command decision. I might soon be taking a lot of flak for this, but the cards and Frisbee came out, and a good time was had by all. We spent the week at that waterfall, openly lying over the radio to our command about where we were -- or at least thought we were. At the end of the war, we packed up and headed back to the road for our ride. We were the cleanest group to come home that day. And no flak. My squad kept their mouths shut, and simply enjoyed the memory. We had a war-game going on in Panama for the JOTC, that’s Jungle Operations Training Center. Persons stationed in Panama were generally selected to be the bad guys for troops coming down from the states for training. Being Infantry, we hit the jungle just about every week, and a few times stayed in for a couple months.

One week-long “war” involved 82nd Airborne as the good guys, and we were the harassment team. I was to take my squad to a specified location and set up for a series of ambuscades along a road and the surrounding area. Getting to our site took a bit of trail-building and a lot of machete swinging. About half way there, we came across a beautiful, crystal-clear, 12-foot waterfall. We dropped packs and scouted out the area, filling canteens and eventually breaking for chow. After lunch, I told my troops we had arrived at our location. They all looked at me like I was nuts. After 2 years of ambushing the bad-guys, I decided it was time for a command decision. I might soon be taking a lot of flak for this, but the cards and Frisbee came out, and a good time was had by all.

We spent the week at that waterfall, openly lying over the radio to our command about where we were — or at least thought we were. At the end of the war, we packed up and headed back to the road for our ride. We were the cleanest group to come home that day.

And no flak. My squad kept their mouths shut, and simply enjoyed the memory.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30963 DanS Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:39:40 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30963 "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it, dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes, as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it, dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes, as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30914 Jody Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:41:49 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30914 I agree mcfly. I agree mcfly.

]]> By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30912 mcfly Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:51:16 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30912 And the Discovery Channel. Imperfect as it may be as well. And the Discovery Channel. Imperfect as it may be as well.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30910 ER Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:15:36 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30910 We have to live in, and deal with, the universe we perceive. There may be an objective reality, but we exist in a purely subjective one. Everything we know about the universe is learned through the imperfect and limited data collection of our senses, and processed by our reason and analysis (however limited and imperfect that may be). Even our memory is of questionable accuracy and value. As Carl Sagan once put it, if you're bitten by a poisonous snake while exploring the jungle, you may have no choice but to accept the local witch doctor's advice. He's the only one around with any relevant experience. We have to live in, and deal with, the universe we perceive.

There may be an objective reality, but we exist in a purely subjective one. Everything we know about the universe is learned through the imperfect and limited data collection of our senses, and processed by our reason and analysis (however limited and imperfect that may be). Even our memory is of questionable accuracy and value.

As Carl Sagan once put it, if you’re bitten by a poisonous snake while exploring the jungle, you may have no choice but to accept the local witch doctor’s advice. He’s the only one around with any relevant experience.

]]> By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30909 mcfly Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:40:21 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30909 ...then pretty much everything, even stuff we can touch, is an abstraction. Then we'd be thinking about what we can say about things that are just mental constructs for things we can barely even imagine. And in a 2d universe, how did I get fat? …then pretty much everything, even stuff we can touch, is an abstraction. Then we’d be thinking about what we can say about things that are just mental constructs for things we can barely even imagine.

And in a 2d universe, how did I get fat?

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2014/06/07/resonance-experiment/#comment-30904 bowser Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:48:39 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=45407#comment-30904 Was hiking cross-country in a very remote area trying to get to a lake. The stream which drained it ran down the steep hillside we were fighting our way up. We ran across 4 or 5 waterfalls between 40 and 80 feet high. I marvelled that these gorgeous sights were running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no one watching. It seemed like such a waste. Was hiking cross-country in a very remote area trying to get to a lake. The stream which drained it ran down the steep hillside we were fighting our way up. We ran across 4 or 5 waterfalls between 40 and 80 feet high.

I marvelled that these gorgeous sights were running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no one watching. It seemed like such a waste.

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