“If studied on earth under a microscope, the cells would have been flattened slightly because of the effects of gravity. In space, we can view the specimens as if they were in the human body,”

thanks to the STAR, and our spaceman,i now know that my body is just like outer space,…..empty and devoid of anything…..hmmmm,and may contain some cosmic rays….

no wonder i felt suicidial all this while,…

the STAR,–provocative thoughts,boring perspectives.

p/s:what’s cosmic ray got to do with a human cell ? assume somehow it worked,does that mean they will put a person in “space” to expose them to these cosmic ray ?

“that still takes guts”——-if u are brave enough to board an air plane,u have more than enough guts to board a rocket,……this soyutz thing is a very well tried and tested thing,used longger than u.s shuttle.

deaar geezer,

“I am not going to waste internet bandwidth by giving point by point responses.”
—INTERNET has an unlimited bandwidth. i suppose u mean YOUR bandwidth,which is unlikely unless u r using dial-up. therefor it’s very clear that u have nothing to back-up your claim. my question is how important is this “experiment”,and to which scientific community ? as the rakyat,and a tax payer,i have my right to know where the goverment spend my money,afterall,that’s what TRANSPARENCY is all about. u seemed to hav a strong conviction that this “experiment” is justifiable,therefor u must hav some sort of information that lead u to these conviction,so share these infos with us,please….OR……,maybe u r just the kind of person who’ud take anything the .gov/media shove down ur throat,
cos they said it’s good for u !. ;-)

we as the rakyat,in a pseudo-democratic country has at lease the right to know,(even if we cant decide) before the soyuz blast off into space…….

“To put it in another way, if the govt spent RM10 billions to import exquisite materials from all corners of the world to build a landmark building or an architectural marvel to house a hospital, you don’t criticise the benefits of the hospital providing much needed medical services because those benefits are indisputable.”
—it’s very disputable,and even outrightly-objectionable when the existing hospital are in such a dire state and plagued with severe lack of doctors and loooooooong waiting time,and opening new hospitals will just reduce available doctor/hospital even more,….and gosh !,that’s the lamest analogy i’ve ever heard…….u seriously have a flawed train of thoughts…… ;-)

and bringit6,the link u provided,

http://science.nasa.gov/msl1/pcg_why.htm

is great,owesome[sic],but it was “last updated on 1997”-gave u a ‘B’ for effort tho….;-)

a newer one is here:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/CPCG-H.html#description

which lead us to the question: why not just tumpang them if that experiment is what we really need,and *if* that’s the alleged experiment is…

ohhh,….wow,….you are still here,….i’ve start to miss u aredy….good to hear u alive[having in mind that u are old] and well again.

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old geezer, i know who u are alright,…yes sir..i kno…

and due to the fact that i’m very free to-day, i will try to answer your question point by point,and by the grace of God,you might understand them this time and use them for your self reflection…for your own good.

it appears to me that,you had a very limited comprehension capability,so, i will try to make this as clear and as simple as i could,

here it goes…..PART 1- PERCEIVED OFFENCE.
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DIALOGUE BEGINS…[in Dolby(TM) surround on selected PCs]

GEEZER : allasstra, you don’t even know who I am and yet, without any provocation, you have the guts to tell me rudely in your previous postings “go to sleep oldman” or “sleep well tonite, old man”.

ME : i sincerely dont know in what ways does the phrase “go to sleep/sleep well tonite old man” constitute impoliteness. u call urself “OLD GEEZER”

OLD———u called yourself that.
GEEZER—–the term “geezer” (pronounced as guy-zer) is a british slang for MAN, as confirmed by wikipedia and merriam-webster dictionary for viewers who didnt know already. and assuming that u didnt know what the term GEEZER means when u choose your user name,the use of letter “G” & “Z” denotes masculinity,implying that u are a MAN.

based on these two premises alone,it is YOU,..who wanted yourself to be known as an OLD MAN. and in fact,u begged to be known as an old man. i am merely following your wish to be recognised as an old man….and calling u that.

SLEEP WELL/GO TO SLEEP—in all society around the world,these phrases denotes caring and affection, and i really did not understand why you would be offended by such a phrase….they are not even obscenities !

can you say doctors insult thier clients by suggesting them to get some sleep ?
or children telling thier parents to sleep well is an insult ? HA AH HA

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part II—YOUR TRESSPASS !

YOU ASKED :
“allasstra, you don’t even know who I am and yet, without any provocation, you have the guts to tell me rudely…”

YOU provocked me alright, and i will list them here,in reversed order…(begining with most severe to the lease)

you said on March 31st, 2008 :

“Wow, what intelligent comments from allasstra”
—exclaimation + compliment = sarcasm !

yes! it is YOU who had provocked me in the 1st place,and mocking an extremely intelligent being with an IQ of 170 such as myself(i have anecdotal evidence to support that) constitute a very grave tresspass on the land of BLOG !
therefore,i am compelled to respond in kind….with a tenacity and viciousness never seen before in the blogsphere [now it starts to sound funny when i put it in that way-lol]

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your claim on March 30th, 2008 :

“The first issue is whether the scientific experiments have merit. As a scientist, I believe that the scientific experiments, as reported by the media, appear to have merit.”

—your gullibility and your appearent lack of critical thinking and your naive belief that this “experiment” has value based on media alone without scientific papers/reports agonizes me. much more so when u claimed to be a “scientist”,
and at the same you didnt even kno what the experiment are !!! arghhhhhrghhhhhh…..

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and then u said:

“I do feel uneasy reading Lee Wei Lim’s comments because they reveal the person’s lack of understanding on space research. That is not surprising because that person is just a research assistant according to the Univ of Maastricht’s Department of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology website (as of Jan 2008).”

—if he’s not qualified to comment based on that premise alone, then you too,sir, are not qualified to comment anything based on your *appearent* lack of understanding of science in general,…not to mention your TOTAL lack of credentials[who on the blue earth are u anyway], and on top of that, your fatally flawed sense of logic,reasoning and critical thinking. it amazed me that you could survive this long despite living with these fatal and critical shortcomings….

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you also had said:

“To put it in another way, if the govt spent RM10 billions to import exquisite materials from all corners of the world to build a landmark building or an architectural marvel to house a hospital, you don’t criticise the benefits of the hospital providing much needed medical services because those benefits are indisputable.”

—and due to your obviously flawed logic engine,you had came up with the lamest and the most incorherent,ir-reconcilable analogy, and it causes me such a great pain just by reading it…and it makes me hate you even more…

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as if there hasnt been enough of tardness already out here,you proceed to tell me on April 13th, 2008 :

“Need to clarify some scientific points here:

“INTERNET has an unlimited bandwidth.” – allasstra March 31st, 2008 at 15: 55.43

That is wrong. Internet has a limited bandwidth.
As far as I know the fastest data transmission speed is 3.2 terabits per second (trillion bits per second) over a 1000 km optical fiber demonstrated by Agere. That would be the current upper limit to the internet bandwidth even if you have a dedicated fiber optic line all to yourself. Since data transmission is through light modulation using switching of solid-state lasers and LEDs, there is always a physical limitation. I cannot think of a physical mechanism that can give infinite switching rate, which means there is always a finite bandwidth.”

—omg,…omg…i didnt even know how to put this,rofl,…look,…when we talk about internet,and sending and receiving blog comments such as this,bandwidth normally refers to TRANSFER RATE, which are normally expressed in kilo-bit-per-second or for those who have big pipe,mega-bit-per-second. and when you said [INTERNET BANDWIDTH],it refers to the line bandwidth of all users in the whole wide world,why ? becos INTERNET is made up of millions upon millions computers linked by a network called “the internet”.

and as u had said,the fastest line available today is 3.2tbps between ONE single computer to the isp,then when there are 10 users with 3.2tbps line connected together,there will be 32tpbs of potential data flowing around already….

considering an average of 10kbps per computer that has internet connection,and multiply them by a zillion,the total bandwidth for INTERNET is infinitly huge….beyond the ablity of human to comprehend…far less than being able to count…
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SECOND FLAW: as you said,you had based your assumption that the internet bandwidth is limited due to the fact that the fastest line exist TODAY is 3.2tpbs. however,you had failed to take into consideration of one very important factor…TOMMOROW. due to the seemingly infinite numbers of tommorow,and the infinite numbers of possible innovation, the 3.2tbps limit achieved today will continue to be breached tommorow,and the struggle for an even faster and bigger pipe will continue till the end of humanity. so,in a sense, the INTERNET BANDWIDTH is unlimited. no matter how u want to cut it,it’s an inalienable truth that internet bandwidth is unlimited…

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u then proclaimed:

“Another definition of bandwidth is a range, or band, of frequencies. Any 1st year student in science or engineering who have gone through a course in basic electronics would have known that.”

but before that u said:

“I am not going to waste internet bandwidth by giving point by point responses.”

—to put both your comment side by side it’s very obvious that your counter arguement were very much out of context,wouldnt it ? are u in anyway;senile ??

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and most funny of all,u react by saying:

“You even rudely grade a comment from one poster here as “B” when there was nothing wrong with his/her comment.”

—when i tell bringit6:

“and bringit6,the link u provided,

http://science.nasa.gov/msl1/pcg_why.htm

is great,owesome[sic],but it was “last updated on 1997-gave u a ‘B’ for effort tho….;-)”

—had u read carefully what i’ad said, you will notice that I GAVE HIM A [B] FOR HIS EFFORT,and *not* for what he had commented. yeah,sure there’s nothing wrong with his comment,cos he didnt comment at all,he just provided a outdated link,and for that,…i gave him a [B]….

us surgeon generals advice: old man should get at lease 8 hours of sleep per day. :D
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p/s: there’s more to come,but i’m tired already….stay tuned…

i wish u well,old man…

the missing part that was deleted by admin….:

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ALLASSTRA—THE SECOND MOCKING
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PART 3—the POWER,the GLORY,and the ELDERY
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and u mocked me by saying:

“Obviously does not understand how display monitor works. That blinking effect is due to refreshing cycle and all display monitors use refreshing cycles whether they are flat screen LCD monitors or CRT monitors. ”

—assuming that i do not know how they works,i do,however have some far more sensitive eyesight and hearing to commensurate with my extremely hi intelligence level. and these qualities makes me an exellent observer.

and i will be generous here,and tell u the obvious difference between a crt and a lcd display panels.

first,switch on your tv. now stand directly infront of it approximately 5ft away. then,look 45 degree away from it till u are seeing the tv in the corner of your eyes. if you have an average eyesight,you will now notice that the tv’s kind of flickering in the corner of your eyes.

step 2,…repeat this on crt. you will also notice the flickering effect.

step 3,…repeat 1st step on lcd,now what do u see ? come-on,be honest with your self….yessss…
no flickering.

however if u had a poor eyesight, those steps could also be repeated with a normal digital camera….just look thru the digital camera and you will see that there’s absolutely
no flickering on the lcd….while black lines appears on the crts…
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ok,lets get technical:

a crt maintains it’s brightness by beaming a electron ray(cathod ray i assume) on the inner side of the crt tube. the phosphor coating on the inner tube of the crt will gives off light when struck by the the electron beam,much like a florocent light tube,just much more colorful. the electron beam will travel from one end, lets say the upper left end corner to the other end conner,the lower right corner,and by the time the beam hits the lower right corner, the light at the upper left corner begins to fade already,and this gives the flickering effect…..

lcd,on the other hand…is backlighted by a bunch of leds that never turns off (unless u turn them off), and only change color by switching the amount of certain light that pass thru each individual pixel….and that’s why lcd panels are measured in gray-to-gray respons times rather than refresh rate(hertzs). they does *not* flickers.

technical details available at:

http://www.generalcadd.com/pdf/Eyestrain-LCDvsCRT.pdf
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conclusions:

[1] u are still using a crt monitor.
[2] u are still talking about stuff u didnt know
[3] u still thinks all u thinks *is the truth*
[4] your wisdom grows in reverse propotion in
relation to your age.
[5] u really need alot of sleeps.
[6] if u are a “scientist”, then you must be
involved in the branch of “science” where
cause and effect doesnt apply…
[7] u still try to impose an impending aura of
wisdom by making it clear to every one
that you are old, in hope of getting a higher
respect by default,maybe to compensate
the lack of respect/wisdom in your real life,
however,it didnt worked out as u’ud hoped.
[8] u likes to keep me entertained…
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every thing aside, i must say i respect u,i really
do, and we can really be very good friends and
hanging out in the cafes and chat away all day,..
but u made some horrible mistake,and it’s my
responsibility to mock u to fullest extent as
best as i can,….that’s just the way it is….

to be continued…