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hi ELLIOTTCABLE
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hi alexgordon
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hi gq
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hi incomprehensibly!
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incomprehensibly: omg so much radio-stuf
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antennas are FUCKING WEIRD
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I have 2 finals and 2 assignments left
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ELLIOTTCABLE: yeah antennas are the weirdest shit on earth
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did you know radio-frequency electricity (like, not A/C @60Hz, but shit at multiple-megahertz),
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ELLIOTTCABLE: I wanted to know about visible-range antennas
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in order to make like a
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*only travels along the surface of a conductor*
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light-ear
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and like I totally understand how it works too
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but I never ever ever would have *guessed* that
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I don't
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that injects band-pass responses direct into your audio nerve
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rude D:
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lol
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ELLIOTTCABLE: explain
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"visible-range antennas?"
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yeah
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ELLIOTTCABLE: photons within the visual spectrum
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as in ... like ... UHF or whatever? high-frequency, poor propagation, high available bandwidth?
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whereas each photoreceptor receives a distinct 1-dimensional signal, and throws away almost all the information in it
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whacks it through either 3 or 1 band-passes
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I also know that two of the photoreceptors are *almost the goddamn same*, like just, baaaarely different
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indicating that we evolved the ability to differentiate, uh, what is it, blue and green, relatively recently in our evolution
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well birds have 4 different kinds of receptors
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I wonder if that has any relation to the grue/bleen linguistic phenomena
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not that we evolved from birds
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alexgordon: are you SURE tho
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I mean we all know about the Indiana Incident
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...do we?
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the government is hiding this shit, you know
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hm
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hm
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hmm
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you got that the wrong way around
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ELLINIMINO: would be interesting but probably not related to the linguistic thing considering that closely related primates are also trichromats
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so it predates language
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inimino says "hm"
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that's where I got it from!
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ELLINIMINO: indiana?
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alexgordon: duh
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incomprehensibly: lol just being silly, ignore me
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most of the chicks I met could only see 3 colors, but science says that birds can see 4. so maybe science is wrong
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or rather GET LICENSED
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oh Carrier lol
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hahaha get the Echolink app and listen to the cute old men chewing the rag tonight
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there's a nightly net on one of my local repeaters
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ELLINIMINO: yeah i'm busy #ashell till monday then free
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but yeah a huge chunk of HAM nowadays is very techie shit - arduinos with VFO circuits running experimental packet-switching radio networks or whatever, slow-scan TV on HF (‘one frame every few minutes’ lol)
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echolink is, uh, idk i'm fuzzy, but I think it's "stick an arduino / SDR on a frequency in your area, sign up for echolink, and broadcast that frequency-at-your-location over the internet"
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so lots of HAM clubs that run repeaters, *also* publish that repeater over the internet for the (very small number of?) people who want to listen to it, that aren't locals
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and if you're a licensed HAM, then you can transmit through the echolink repeater, i.e. with your iphone
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idgi, doesn't appeal to me? like why ... would you ..... there's Skype for that shit? w/e
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but anyway: one of the two big local HAM clubs in Chicago, of course runs several repeaters, and one of the members publishes them on echolink, or so I was told today
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(omg btw it's so cute how they treat newcomers)
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like I had my radio on and scanning today as I was driving chellio around, and then charging,
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and everytime somebody came online and started monitoring, a guy who'd already been around was like “Oh, hey, we have a brand-new HAM, by the way! say hi to Elliott, KL4JC, if he's still listening"
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idk it's like old-fucking-school irc and it makes me happy
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that's cute and great
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have you seen contact
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yah
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pensacola
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have you read Seveneves?
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haha that's sweet
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haven't
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oh it's new!
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it's sooooooooo fucking good
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unFUCKINGbelievably depressing
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fuck, reamde came out in 2011
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literally the most fucked-up book I've ever, ever read
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i read it when it was new
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lol
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so long ago
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i was in high school...
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but like *amazingly* well-written too, if you're ... mentally-stable enough to not kill yourself while reading it? )_)
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anyway there's a HAM bit at the start
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i still really need to read snow crash and diamond age
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AHHHH DUDWE YES SO GOD
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aG=a0w[foe
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god i have so much sci fi to get to
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i've been reading the life cycle of software objects by ted chaing
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chiang
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author of the short story arrival is from
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and also of understand which is like my favorite short story ever
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it's a really cute book and i love it
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ugh that movie made me just fucking melt
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I saw it with someone who ... I wish't I hadn't
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b/cuz like it was UNEXPECTEDLY good, and like, so very Elliott™
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it's so so so so so good
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top 5 or 10 movies for me
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