Thinking In .NET

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Thursday, September 26, 2002

New Scientist is reporting some science-based speculation that the acidic clouds of Venus may harbor microbial life. "Microbial" my sweet aunt Agnes -- I'm thinking shark-blimps that endlessly pursue schools of blimplets as they swirl through the jetstream...
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"Clones" to be re-rendered, displayed on Imax. Supposedly, there's a digital printer for the IMAX that prints 8000 x 6000 resolution. And then also, one supposes, they can render the scenes using the appropriate "lenses" (I once saw 2001 on an IMAX screen and the obelisk looked like a melted power bar). Lessee: 8000 x 6000 x 24 FPS x 143 minutes = 9,884,160,000,000 pixels. Sheesh. Who would have guessed that computers would produce a 10 terapixel movie before they were capable of competent speech recognition?
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Oh, those charismatic megafauna get all the props. UNEP has put Great White Sharks in Appendix I of the Convention of Migratory Species, which means that every nation has to prevent taking them. More interestingly, apparently there's a camel species recently discovered "in a lost land of salty sand dunes on the edge of the Tibetan mountains" that survives by drinking salt water that percolates up through the sand. I can't wait to see Steve Irwin make that look adventurous!
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