Very cool for that intrepid explorer, riding the quiet, windswept dunes of mars.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Curiosity Breaks Ground
This past week Curiosity broke ground by drilling into a Martian rock this week. The rock, named John Klien, delivered a fine dust to Curiosity, grains of which the scoop will delver to small valves that lead a belt that leads to the chemistry lab to be analyzed.
Robin . . . Again
Spoiler Alert!
Haven't we already seen Robin die, like, 4 times or something? I'm not sure what is going on in DC but they desperately need to hire some new writers, or their existing writers need to go to www.bing.com and type in "new ideas." I saw their comics on the 1% and 99% which has to be the silliest idea I've heard in a very long time; we've got Red Lanterns . . . ug the list goes on.
I'm not sure what they should do. In a vain attempt to appeal to older, more mature audiences, they are completely sacrificing any chance at younger ones. Take the tried and true heroes, and make stories about good and evil. No shades of gray (for grey you folks over in the UK and the Commonwealth). Good. Evil. Good. Evil. And then mix in some interesting dialogue. Dialogue. Good. Evil.
I think the art of dialogue in fiction is the key. Three tv shows are perfect examples. Firefly. Justified. Walking Dead. These shows are cool in and of themselves. But they stand WAY apart because of the dialogue . . . and of course the actor's delivery of said dialogue. . . but the words that tumble from their mouths make the characters believable. They make them our own.
DC would do well to remember that they have 30-40 pages upon which they can put dialogue.
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From Wyoming Country
The Comanche were an offshoot of the Shoshone Indians and in the 1600s they dwelt on the eastern flanks of the Rocky Mountains in the high country of Wyoming. Their numbers are unknown but probably never amounted to more than a few thousand; pushed to the edges of the Great Plains they eked out a living through hunting and gathering.
The horse arrived to the New World in the 1500s and worked its way north, slowly at first, but after the first Apaches in Texas took to them, the spread very quickly up to the Plains of modern day Canada.
For some reason, somewhere between 1650-1680, no one knows where or how, the small tribe of Comanche took to the horse. In context the settles in the east were fighting bloody and devastating wars against the coastal Indians, losing as often as winning, for their fire arms were primitive and they used pikes and swords as much as guns and canon.
The Comanche took to the horse like few others. Within a generation they had moved south onto the Great Plains, pushing back Indians like the huge Osage tribe, the Apache, Cado and the Towankas. The Comanche spread like a prairie fire south into Texas and New Mexico; their numbers grew, their abilities improved and they soon drove all the souther tribes to the edge of the Plains, some to extinction. The Spainish Empre collapsed in the north due to Comanche raids. The Apaches were driven into the mountains. The Osage collapsed back across the Mississippi. By 1750 the Comanche had carved an empire out of the Great Plains that they would hold for the better part of a century.
Long before they knew white men existed their warfare was insanely brutal, burning people alive, torturing them to death. It was like all war across the Great Plains but with the Comanche it had a particularly brutal flavor.
They were most probably the greatest horsemen the world has ever seen. They learned to ride at age 6-7 and within a few years had to pick up items from the ground while riding. A crucial skill was scooping up wounded comrades from horseback. They are the Indians that slid onto the horse's flank to avoid an enemies weapon, all while holding lance, bow and shield. Their horses were trained to move at the sound of a bow twang. They fought from horse back which few other Plains tribes did.
The horse arrived to the New World in the 1500s and worked its way north, slowly at first, but after the first Apaches in Texas took to them, the spread very quickly up to the Plains of modern day Canada.
For some reason, somewhere between 1650-1680, no one knows where or how, the small tribe of Comanche took to the horse. In context the settles in the east were fighting bloody and devastating wars against the coastal Indians, losing as often as winning, for their fire arms were primitive and they used pikes and swords as much as guns and canon.
The Comanche took to the horse like few others. Within a generation they had moved south onto the Great Plains, pushing back Indians like the huge Osage tribe, the Apache, Cado and the Towankas. The Comanche spread like a prairie fire south into Texas and New Mexico; their numbers grew, their abilities improved and they soon drove all the souther tribes to the edge of the Plains, some to extinction. The Spainish Empre collapsed in the north due to Comanche raids. The Apaches were driven into the mountains. The Osage collapsed back across the Mississippi. By 1750 the Comanche had carved an empire out of the Great Plains that they would hold for the better part of a century.
Long before they knew white men existed their warfare was insanely brutal, burning people alive, torturing them to death. It was like all war across the Great Plains but with the Comanche it had a particularly brutal flavor.
They were most probably the greatest horsemen the world has ever seen. They learned to ride at age 6-7 and within a few years had to pick up items from the ground while riding. A crucial skill was scooping up wounded comrades from horseback. They are the Indians that slid onto the horse's flank to avoid an enemies weapon, all while holding lance, bow and shield. Their horses were trained to move at the sound of a bow twang. They fought from horse back which few other Plains tribes did.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Speaking Dwarf
Here is a little grammar rule from the Eleriathian Dwarf/Vulgate Dictionary.
For Example:
To make a plural of a noun
one simply adds an ‘E’ to the front of the word. If the noun
begins with a vowel, add an ‘EN.’
For Example:
Cun
= eye Ecun = eyes
Erde
= Father Enerde = Fathers
Fluid Dynamics
Fluids obey the "Continuum Assumption." This states basically that substances consist of like-minded molecules and that each have space between them. But these like-minded molecules occupy a defined space.
Fluids obey the continuum assumption, however the molecules of a fluid act differently in that they continually collide with one another and other objects. Accurate measurements of such substances can be done only at infinitesimally small points; the substance itself however, continually changes density, temperature, pressure and velocity.
Fluids obey the continuum assumption, however the molecules of a fluid act differently in that they continually collide with one another and other objects. Accurate measurements of such substances can be done only at infinitesimally small points; the substance itself however, continually changes density, temperature, pressure and velocity.
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