You know, I can finally forgive Science for not bringing us flying cars and jet packs and hotels on the moon. Now that it has produced
this:
Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers
Demonstrating the technology recently, Dr. Kare, Mr. Myhrvold and other researchers stood below a small shelf mounted on the wall about 10 feet off the ground. On the shelf were five Maglite flashlights, a zoom lens from a 35mm camera, and the laser itself -- a little black box with an assortment of small lenses and mirrors. On the floor below sat a Dell personal computer that is the laser's brain.
The glass box of mosquitoes across the room is an old 10-gallon fish tank. Each time a beam strikes a bug, the computer makes a gunshot sound to signal a direct hit.
To locate individual mosquitoes, light from the flashlights hits the tank across the room, creating tiny mosquito silhouettes on reflective material behind it. The zoom lens picks up the shadows and feeds the data to the computer, which controls the laser and fires it at the bug.
In a video, researchers showed what happens when they deploy deadly rays.
A mosquito hovers into view. Suddenly, it bursts into flame. A thin plume of smoke rises as the mosquito falls. At the bottom of the screen, the carcass smolders.
Now
that
is hot....
Oh, lisah, my sympathies and thoughts are with you and Frank. It's hard to realize that our pets are mortal. I am in total fucking denial as much as I can be. And I say that as a pet owner who freaks out leaving her cat at the cattery when I leave town.
I wish the best for Frank and for you.
Oh lisah, I am so sorry. I worry about that whenever I leave with MK, because his weird badness has always come on at random. I worry about that for this summer. Can you (we) do a sort of advanced directive with our vet? I hope so. At least leave your cc with the vet while you are out of town. At least you'll be able to call them while away.
Can you (we) do a sort of advanced directive with our vet? I hope so. At least leave your cc with the vet while you are out of town. At least you'll be able to call them while away.
Yeah I think so. I'm feeling guilty in advance about going away. I guess I should just see how the next couple of days go and see what the vet says if I can get him in tomorrow.
I'm happy to be a backup/go-to person pet wise while you're away.
Same for me. But I think it'd be wise for me to sit down with you prior to my going incommunicado and work stuff out. I don't want to put that on the petsitters, And you have the same issues I do, and same vet, so there is an accord of sorts.
lisah, I'm so sorry, doll.
Sarameg, there are lots of free places online that you can layout rooms.
Wasn't that the original idea of The Sims? All I know is that it helped me with my anxiety about moving in here. I drew up the floor plan, arranged stuff, and let it run. (Too bad I couldn't have added in the cats that hate each other.)
But I think it'd be wise for me to sit down with you prior to my going incommunicado and work stuff out.
yup absolutely.
He's sleeping pretty soundly now and I'm wondering if I should carry him upstairs and try to go to bed or just try to sleep down here.
Go sleep where you are happy. God knows I've spent multiple nights on the futon because if I sleep there, Devi doesn't get all stalkery and I end up with 3 cats peacefully sleeping on me ( which doesn't happen if I leave the bedroom door open. Apparently,the bed is a territory issue.) But I like my bed!
The move will shake things up, a lot.
Go sleep where you are happy.
I crash less on the couch because, in my bed, there are delineated places for each cat. Puppycat is behind the knees and Kittenish is against my chest. On the couch, they don't have quite the room to Have Their Place.
But, yes, lisah, sleep where you and Frank are comfy.
