Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
Proverbs 27:14
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Proverbs 27:14
Loudly?Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
Proverbs 27:14
Or too early
Or too early
Both.
(Proverbs 27:14) 14 When someone blesses his fellow man with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be counted as a curse to him.
I would love to get LAZIK or wear contacts, but because of the condition of my eyes I have to wear glasses (even if I got LAZIK I would still have to wear glasses, and they dont make contacts with that strong of a prescription); so I can somewhat sympathize with Kirk in that situation.
I have a similar issue. Can't get LASIK because I would still need to wear glasses (it could only partially help, not fully), so no point in paying for a procedure that doesn't actually fix the problem. And the prescription for my contacts is nearly at a point where it would be too strong for what's available.
I'm waiting for Ocumetics "Bionic Lens" to get through it's human trials and wait for the first few generations of their new Bionic Lens technology.
Okay.
Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise and her five year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new civilizations, to boldly go where no Man has gone before...
Okay, a possible history: when Zephram Cochran discovered the space warp it was with tools and materials that already existed. The best possible candidate for a precursor warp drive was used on Nomad, launched in 2002. Its Selective Screen Amplifiers are the precursor to warp drive. Why? Because Nomad to forefile its function had to be interstellar in nature. This means at least ten percent of light speed. More likely much higher, but with an open field, rather than a closed field. The deference is the difference between a paddle wheeler and a screw propeled vessel.
What he did was to close off the open field - something that was contra indicated according to the manual for Selective Screen Amplifiers, due to arching. Space as we all know is in, for the most part vacuum, or near vacuum. This means that it does not conduct electricity very well, but at the energies involved arching would occur. Thus burning out the Selective Screen Amplifiers. Not good.
By closing the loop on them, a far more concentrated field developed, at least in a ten fold amount. The prototype disappeared from sensor readings for several seconds, and only came out due to the burnout. The distance traveled was far greater than expected by even the most expert Selective Screen Amplifier technologists. Due to the expense of Selective Screen Amplifiers, only basic computer simulation had been done. This is why Zephram Cochran got the
credit. The researchers didn't take the next step, they well should have. They stopped looking, once the arching was realized in an experimental chamber. Which was actually in space. Away from the high gravity of Earth. They were cheap.
Basic Selective Screen Amplifiers enabled cheap and fast inner solar system travel, eliminating the need for sleeper ships. Advanced Selective Screen Amplifiers permitted out to Pluto, with ease. Basically this meant that the Oort cloud, was easily accessible, if one had the time...
What Zephram Cochran did was to cause Earth to skip several steps. The ability to travel at apparent faster than light speeds, meant that humans exploded out of the Solar system at so-called impossible speeds.
This ironically held Earth back due to the hyperbole of the spin doctors.
The early Earth ships weren't going FTL, but the local space was, in a very confined volume, or rather a zone. Space itself was contracted in a linear way. The first successful space vehicles had only one warp nacelle due to the need to defend against the Kzinti. The problem was they burned through their limited fuel supply too fast due to their limited volume of the ship due to power constraints. The Bonaventure was the first full up ship to take advantage, much as the F-101 Vodoo was a twin engined version of the XF-88 single engine fighter.(which was also under powered, such that the fuel it could carry didn't permit supersonic flight, without burning through its fuel supply so fast as to be useless)
The purpose of the Bonaventure class was Galaxy surveying (spying). Finding out the lay of space.
By fifty years after the first flight of the Bonaventure, the technology had been fully perfected, and instead of being unstable, ships got up to three hundred and twenty times light speed equivalent. But it still took a long time, meaning that the nearer stars were the least likely to have been visited. (The Rocket Equation).
By 2130, there was little to be improved upon, or so it was to be believed. The typical ships made use of nearly perfected deflector screens, which were based off the hyperdrive (the popular term for it). Such that distant stars were being explored first, primarily to check for Kzinti, or Kzinti like species. Fear drove this.
It was very sad to discover that the deflector screens could be penetrated by the Romulans, in th2160s. Not easily, mind you, but at the same time, too easily.
The loss of the Archon, was a very great blow to Earth. For she was the most advanced ship ever built (printed), with deflector screens far stronger than any ship before her. Not enough ships to actually do proper search and rescue...
Never enough. Her crash site, was eventually located by accident, roughly a century later by a starship. Ironically even she wasn't advanced enough, though close enough.
Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise and her five year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new civilizations, to boldly go where no Man has gone before...
Okay, a possible history: when Zephram Cochran discovered the space warp it was with tools and materials that already existed. The best possible candidate for a precursor warp drive was used on Nomad, launched in 2002. Its Selective Screen Amplifiers are the precursor to warp drive. Why? Because Nomad to forefile its function had to be interstellar in nature. This means at least ten percent of light speed. More likely much higher, but with an open field, rather than a closed field. The deference is the difference between a paddle wheeler and a screw propeled vessel.
What he did was to close off the open field - something that was contra indicated according to the manual for Selective Screen Amplifiers, due to arching. Space as we all know is in, for the most part vacuum, or near vacuum. This means that it does not conduct electricity very well, but at the energies involved arching would occur. Thus burning out the Selective Screen Amplifiers. Not good.
By closing the loop on them, a far more concentrated field developed, at least in a ten fold amount. The prototype disappeared from sensor readings for several seconds, and only came out due to the burnout. The distance traveled was far greater than expected by even the most expert Selective Screen Amplifier technologists. Due to the expense of Selective Screen Amplifiers, only basic computer simulation had been done. This is why Zephram Cochran got the
credit. The researchers didn't take the next step, they well should have. They stopped looking, once the arching was realized in an experimental chamber. Which was actually in space. Away from the high gravity of Earth. They were cheap.
Basic Selective Screen Amplifiers enabled cheap and fast inner solar system travel, eliminating the need for sleeper ships. Advanced Selective Screen Amplifiers permitted out to Pluto, with ease. Basically this meant that the Oort cloud, was easily accessible, if one had the time...
What Zephram Cochran did was to cause Earth to skip several steps. The ability to travel at apparent faster than light speeds, meant that humans exploded out of the Solar system at so-called impossible speeds.
This ironically held Earth back due to the hyperbole of the spin doctors.
The early Earth ships weren't going FTL, but the local space was, in a very confined volume, or rather a zone. Space itself was contracted in a linear way. The first successful space vehicles had only one warp nacelle due to the need to defend against the Kzinti. The problem was they burned through their limited fuel supply too fast due to their limited volume of the ship due to power constraints. The Bonaventure was the first full up ship to take advantage, much as the F-101 Vodoo was a twin engined version of the XF-88 single engine fighter.(which was also under powered, such that the fuel it could carry didn't permit supersonic flight, without burning through its fuel supply so fast as to be useless)
The purpose of the Bonaventure class was Galaxy surveying (spying). Finding out the lay of space.
By fifty years after the first flight of the Bonaventure, the technology had been fully perfected, and instead of being unstable, ships got up to three hundred and twenty times light speed equivalent. But it still took a long time, meaning that the nearer stars were the least likely to have been visited. (The Rocket Equation).
By 2130, there was little to be improved upon, or so it was to be believed. The typical ships made use of nearly perfected deflector screens, which were based off the hyperdrive (the popular term for it). Such that distant stars were being explored first, primarily to check for Kzinti, or Kzinti like species. Fear drove this.
It was very sad to discover that the deflector screens could be penetrated by the Romulans, in th2160s. Not easily, mind you, but at the same time, too easily.
The loss of the Archon, was a very great blow to Earth. For she was the most advanced ship ever built (printed), with deflector screens far stronger than any ship before her. Not enough ships to actually do proper search and rescue...
Never enough. Her crash site, was eventually located by accident, roughly a century later by a starship. Ironically even she wasn't advanced enough, though close enough.
Not to scaremonger, but I don’t trust LASIK — my father got it, and his vision only got worse.
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