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Cheese...moose...tinfoil hats. Explain these FR terms, please.
foreverfree | 1/19/02 | foreverfree

Posted on 01/19/2002 12:23:31 PM PST by foreverfree

And how they were derived. Serious answers are welcome. Thank you.

foreverfree


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To: clintonh8r
"How does your brain get waves from Uranus?"

If ya gotta go, it'll let ya know...

121 posted on 01/19/2002 3:34:33 PM PST by R K Davis
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To: foreverfree
Cheese trivia...Chico Calif consumes more Velvetta per capita than any where else in the world. re:Herb Cain cica 20th century. In 6.5 seconds someone will post that Velvetta is not real cheese.
122 posted on 01/19/2002 3:36:49 PM PST by tubebender
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To: IncPen
I'll have to see your decoder ring first...

"Be sure to drink more Ovaltine."

123 posted on 01/19/2002 3:38:12 PM PST by riley1992
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To: TomServo
You've been here for almost 2 years and you're just now asking?

You used to be so much fun. Where, oh where, did I go wrong?

124 posted on 01/19/2002 3:39:41 PM PST by riley1992
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To: foreverfree
Hello?

This is your party you know.... planning on coming inside?

125 posted on 01/19/2002 3:44:47 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: tubebender
In 6.5 seconds someone will post that Velvetta is not real cheese.

Actually my Velvetta triva is that Velvetta is Jim "Garfield" Davis' favorite "food".

126 posted on 01/19/2002 3:45:39 PM PST by weegee
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To: CFW
I think the Trilateral Commission deleted all references to moose and cheese. They can't detect tinfoil, so that remains.
127 posted on 01/19/2002 3:52:28 PM PST by dagny taggert
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To: CFW
Thanks, FReepers. Especially CFW.

foreverfree

128 posted on 01/19/2002 5:33:25 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: foreverfree
Here's a tin foil link
129 posted on 01/19/2002 5:41:50 PM PST by quietolong
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To: Focault's Pendulum
FP - where are you when we need you?
130 posted on 01/19/2002 5:43:20 PM PST by CheneyChick
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To: foreverfree
Hoosier


Sergeant Major
 
I can't make this stuff up! Here's the link.


The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service



Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds

19:00   24  October  01
Jeff Hecht, Boston

Tests of a controversial weapon that is designed to heat people's skin with a microwave beam have shown that it can disperse crowds. But critics are not convinced the system is safe.

Last week, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in New Mexico finished testing the system on human volunteers. The Air Force now wants to use this Active Denial Technology (ADT), which it says is non-lethal, for peacekeeping or riot control at "relatively long range" - possibly from low-flying aircraft.

ADT uses a 2-metre dish to create a narrow beam of microwaves that can be scanned across a crowd or even aimed at individuals. AFRL is using infrared photography to analyse the heating effect on the volunteers' bodies.

AFRL says that the 3-millimetre wavelength radiation penetrates only 0.3 millimetres into the skin, rapidly heating the surface above the 45 °C pain threshold. At 50 °C, they say the pain reflex makes people pull away automatically in less than a second - it's said to feel like fleetingly touching a hot light bulb. Someone would have to stay in the beam for 250 seconds before it burnt the skin, the lab says, giving "ample margin between intolerable pain and causing a burn".


Little data

But critics question the AFRL's claims that the weapon's undisclosed exposure levels are safe. John Pike of think tank Globalsecurity.org fears that the beam power needed to scare people may be too close to the level that would injure them. Air Force scientists helped set the present skin safety threshold of 10 milliwatts per square centimetre in the early 1990s, when little data was available, says Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News.

That limit covers exposure to steady fields for several minutes to an hour - but heating a layer of skin 0.3 mm thick to 50 °C in just one second requires much higher power and may pose risks to the cornea, which is more sensitive than skin. A study published last year in the journal Health Physics showed that exposure to 2 watts per square centimetre for three seconds could damage the corneas of rhesus monkeys.


19:00   24  October  01



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Total Posts: 139 | Joined Sep. 2001 | Posted on: 7:21 am on Oct. 28, 2001 | IP

131 posted on 01/19/2002 5:46:10 PM PST by No!
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To: AAABEST
Colby cheese was invented in Colby, Wisconsin by the Colby brothers.
132 posted on 01/19/2002 6:06:52 PM PST by Catspaw
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To: riley1992
"Be sure to drink more Ovaltine."

My mother is still angry about that...

It's been almost 70 years....

133 posted on 01/19/2002 6:14:54 PM PST by IncPen
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To: dighton
AHHHHHHHHHH!!! My eyes! My eyes!!!!!

Oh, wait, that's not Ru Paul. Never mind.

134 posted on 01/19/2002 6:16:42 PM PST by Tennessee_Bob
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To: riley1992
You used to be so much fun. Where, oh where, did I go wrong?

Wearing that French Maids outfit will set everything okey-dokey with me....;-)

135 posted on 01/19/2002 6:45:26 PM PST by TomServo
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To: eternity
Do you know who Art Bell is? That is very important...

Art Bell's Website

137 posted on 01/19/2002 9:04:12 PM PST by womanvet
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To: womanvet
I guess it's one Tinfoil hat to another. How are ya.
138 posted on 01/19/2002 9:39:59 PM PST by eternity
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To: eternity
I'm looking for some rolling hills, altitude at least 900 ft asl, that are not too close to mountains. :-)
139 posted on 01/19/2002 10:31:56 PM PST by womanvet
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To: TomServo
LOL. Walked right into that one, didn't I?
140 posted on 01/20/2002 2:15:37 AM PST by riley1992
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