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Carrying an Ember in a Horn

10/14/2020 7:29 AM

The prehistoric civilizations carried an ember in a horn because fire was so difficult to initiate from scratch.

Here we have a modern day parallel:https://futurism.com/the-byte/physicists-transported-stored-light

In a thousand years,or less,this will seem just as primitive.

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10/14/2020 8:16 AM

I tried that with a lamp and a box of mirrors when I was about 7 or 8 with much better results.

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10/14/2020 9:24 AM

Sometimes I stand on my head and look at the world from a different perspective,and I turn and look through a telescope backwards to get a long view of things.I am a little eccentric,you might say..on second thought I don't have enough money to be called eccentric,such I guess am just a little crazy.

I have mentioned this before ,but there is no such thing as light,only the absence of dark.

Light bulbs are really dark suckers,and if you trace the wires back to their source,you will see the dark being spewed out of smokestacks at the generating plant.

When a light bulb has sucked out all of the light it can hold,it will have a concentration of dark in the bulb,appearing as a dark spot.

This is easy to see in florescent tubes.

When stars have absorbed all of the dark they can hold,they turn into black holes,the ultimate dark sucker.

It does not attract matter,only the dark within matter.

It is dark inside of an atom....

I will have to adjust my theory to account for the new devices,such as LED's and nuclear power plants.

Still working on that part.....

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10/14/2020 3:32 PM

Nowadays we use these...

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10/14/2020 4:04 PM

I carried 2 of these when hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Very reliable,and cheap.

Hundreds of lights from 1 refill.

Lights first time,every time.

Also carried a striker-flint assembly from a regular lighter for backup.

Sure is an upgrade from the flint/steel magnesium starter.

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10/14/2020 8:10 PM

Soots me!.. ha ha.

Do you ever find yourself filling oddly shaped glass containers with water for no other reason than to look through them.

It's Ike a big crystal ball into your present.

With 100% accuracy.

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10/15/2020 6:54 AM

No,but I once built a telescope so powerful that I could look into the sky at night and see the back of my head.

(Your turn,but remember,the first liar never has a chance.)

"Things are more like they are now than they've ever been" J.R.Ford

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10/15/2020 6:03 PM

Right.

Last time I saw the back of my head was when I got a haircut.

I told my doctor that everybody hates me and he said "that's ridiculous! Everybody hasn't met you yet.

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10/19/2020 11:10 AM

"Yas Yas!...Work is the bane of the drinking man"

Loved that old guy...

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10/19/2020 11:13 AM

I told my psychiatrist that people are always ignoring me.

He said:"Next"

His secretary came in and said there was a guy in the waiting room that claims he is invisible"Tell him I can't see him right now!"

Don't get me started...

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