From: Brian McNeilly [brian.mcneilly@altus-solutions.com] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 11:03 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Paper dimensions All versions of Adobe Acrobat that I am aware of have a shrink to fit option for printing. This should solve your problem. Brian Brian McNeilly, Software Designer Altus Solutions Incorporated Suite 250, 4190 Still Creek Drive Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5C 6C6 mailto:brian.mcneilly@altus-solutions.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Gribbon [mailto:c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] > Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 4:00 AM > To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com > Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Paper dimensions > > > Hi, > > The printable area on the standard A4 paper we use is about > 190mm across by 265mm > vertically (or 7.5 by 10.5 inches). Would it be possible to > get future Undercurrents narrowed > a wee bit, so I can see all of them? *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 6:00 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Paper dimensions Hi, I know this small complaint might sound picky, and I guess I'm just being anal, but I'm going to make it anyway: As I'm sure you're aware, the American standard size paper and the European standard are not quite the same, so the print-size area from printers is also not quite the same. This in turn means that when I print out my downloaded Undercurrents, I am missing a band down the right-hand side of the page. It's usually only about half a word, and I *can* figure out what was being said - but it's still a bit annoying. The printable area on the standard A4 paper we use is about 190mm across by 265mm vertically (or 7.5 by 10.5 inches). Would it be possible to get future Undercurrents narrowed a wee bit, so I can see all of them? I appreciate that this will mean less words-per-page, but since it's a downloaded thingy anyway, that shouldn't effect *your* printing costs ;-) If no-one else on this side of the pond has noticed this problem, and I'm just overreacting, then don't hesitate to let me know. Cheers, Christopher Gribbon Vision Research Laboratories Medical Sciences Institute University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK (01382) 344 229 ____________________________________________________________________ "A scientist is meant to be disinterested, pure; his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio!" - WILL SELF, The Quantity Theory of Insanity *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 5:39 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Wormhole Time Travel. OK - something wierd happened there - I *meant* to say: >This reminds me of "Eon" and "Eternity" by Greg Bear. >I didn't understand them either... Christopher Gribbon Vision Research Laboratories Medical Sciences Institute University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK (01382) 344 229 ____________________________________________________________________ "A scientist is meant to be disinterested, pure; his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio!" - WILL SELF, The Quantity Theory of Insanity *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 5:26 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - ACCESS DENIED - Creators >The energy potential in wormholes with temporally disociated >ends would obliterate anything passing through. Some of your matter >would arrive at the other end, but you'd miss the experience. Surely this depends on whether our current understanding of the way space-time works is "correct" or not. For example (speaking as a non-physicist) wormholes are only *postulated* so far, aren't they? Plus - don't some experts deny that they could exist? So - with a few minor modifications to the laws of physics (no "Star Trek" quotes please), mightn't it be possible for wormhole time-travel to occur without instantaneous destruction of the unfortunate passangers? Plus - I like the idea. It'd be interesting in the background, without any *real* game repercussions, until someone invents a mode of space transport fast enough to make it between Sol and Serpentis quicker than the wormhole time-lag. Somebody correct my physics here, please! Christopher Gribbon Vision Research Laboratories Medical Sciences Institute University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK (01382) 344 229 ____________________________________________________________________ "A scientist is meant to be disinterested, pure; his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio!" - WILL SELF, The Quantity Theory of Insanity *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 5:15 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Wormhole Time Travel. >Wormholes are space-time >structures, not just space ones. Thus, if you enter the 2205AD Earth >wormhole, you come out in the 2700AD Poseidon one. Similarly, if you enter >the 2700AD Poseidon one, you come out in 2205AD back at Earth. > >This does all kinds of messy things to causality and the laws of physics in >general, which is why wormholes are really conjectural. > >Suppose that a really big supernova made a wormhole, and >blasted one end off into space while retaining the other end. You can then >get back to near the supernova explosion time, and build other wormholes to >get around the galaxy from there. This reminds me of "Eon" and rnity" by Greg Bear. I didn't understand them either... Christopher Gribbon Vision Research Laboratories Medical Sciences Institute University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK (01382) 344 229 ____________________________________________________________________ "A scientist is meant to be disinterested, pure; his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio!" - WILL SELF, The Quantity Theory of Insanity *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.