Guest Thomas Keske Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 FRANKENSTEIN Who cares what a twisted monster thinks? His curses in ears of pharisees A creature so sick as to dare suggest That the greatest Truths are heresies To be tortured from birth, because he is ugly, in the wisdom of life, so monsters are fated By a Creator that torments his children and blames them for being created We are punished, so we are told, for the Master Plan from which we depart What Power so great can bring us from the Void yet instill nothing pure in our hearts? The mind cannot process that our World is random The eye shuts in harsh light, from answers that we sought Rape is not a recipe for your betterment Disease and genocide are not a lesson taught Why would the prelude to Eternal Paradise be a century of pain in a world of lies? How can you expect to know the deepest secrets when you cannot see what is in front of your eyes? What father punishes child on a red-hot stove and blames child for misusing a will that is free? Abuse of our free choice owes to our character but then our character had birth unasked from Thee ------------------------------------------------------------------ 10. Chapter Two: The Causes of Nuclear War In a variation on the Frankenstein theme--or better, the theme of the sorcerer's ... of most of the novel, which is only natural considering that Kirst is German. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/nuclear/2chap.h ------------------------------------------------------------------ Arbeitsmarktdaten bringen Zinssenkung Frankensteins Aufbluhen und der Einzug der Reformation. 1606 hatte die Pest wieder viele Opfer in Frankenstein und Umgebung gefordert. In Frankenstein ging man etwa zum Einkauf ins Kaufhaus Kaschuba am Ring, dann zum Fleischer Kaschel eine Knoblauchwurst oder eine "Krakauer" essen, oder ins Cafe Rosner Ecke KirchstraBe beim "schiefen Turm" und aB Torte oder Eis. Dann konnte man ins Kino "Schauburg" gehen, es gab ja jetzt so schone Tonfilme. Allerdings muBte man schon sparsam sein, die Verdienste lagen nicht gerade hoch. je nach Wissensstand werden sie Opfer der GELDILLUSION. Es gibt kein inbetween, all diese Hybride wie "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" etc. sind Illusionen, wir man gerade in Deutschland sieht: Erst jetzt werden wir zu einer "Marktwirtschaft" Der Vertrag betraf auch Munsterberg mit Frankenstein. Erhaltungs- und Verschonerungs- Arbeiten an den Frankensteinanlagen wurden durch Spenden und Zuschusse ermoglicht und die Gemeinde leistete viele freiwillige Arbeitsstunden im "Frondienst". 25 Jahre nach seiner Schlesien-Reise war John Quincy Adams von 1825-1829 der 6. Prasident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Auch aus Frankenstein wanderten in den spateren Jahren viele junge Leute nach Amerika aus In Frankenstein gab es politische Parteien. Die Wahler waren hier aber mehrheitlich konservativ als sozialistisch eingestellt Auch das wurde in Frankenstein mit Sorge gesehen, sollte es im Osten keinen Frieden geben? erwarben sich die "Frankensteiner" bald einen geachteten Namen im Bunde der Berg-Burg- und Waldgemeinden. Doch in Frankenstein wurde auch fleiBig gearbeitet. Trotz der hohen Steuerlasten begannen in Frankenstein Industrie und Handel aufzubluhen ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,722371-1,00.html More than any other worker the Teuton is cooperative. As early as the mid-13th century the towns of Hamburg and Lubeck inaugurated enlightened co-operation which led to the famed Hanseatic League; and late in the 19th century, Germany gave to the world that ultimately co-operative enterprise, the proletarian loan bank. The gigantic post-War industrial Frankenstein erected by Herr Stinnes is conceivable among no other people. Only because the German settles down in any workable industrial harness and tugs mightfully is the Dawes Plan practicable. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2649562,00.html Two German Nuclear Power Plants Close After Incidents Two nuclear power plants near Hamburg were shut down Thursday after a fire broke out in one and a short-circuit in a switching unit occurred in another. The blaze occurred when the cooling fluid of a huge transformer unit caught fire. Police did not say what the burning fluid was, but surplus heat from electrical transformers is usually conducted away with oil. The transformer complex alters the power voltage so it can be fed into the national power grid. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. People's Daily Online -- Two men killed in crane accident at German nuclear power ... .... 2007. Two men killed in crane accident at German nuclear power plant ... a nuclear reactor when the crane collapsed at the Brokdorf nuclear power station english.people.com.cn/200705/28/eng20070528_378651 ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.world-nuclear.org/sym/2000/michel.htm Even more important, most people made no relation between the power plants and the electricity supplied to their house. Jokingly, the German nuclear association promoted the slogan in those days: "Why nuclear power plants? In my house, electricity comes from the plug." Probably few people understood what the joke was. This image is abundantly developed in fiction and films. From Dr Strangelove films to Simpson comics, we have a large team of mad or stupid "experts". Such a description is certainly not new and we did not have to wait for the development of nuclear energy to see bizarre scientists in literature: Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/nucwatch/nucwatch071098.html Germany: Investigation Shows reactor mishap most serious in ten years When inspectors walked through Germany's Unterweser nuclear plant on June 6 after it had shut down, they were shocked to find that workers had disconnected and disabled an entire key safety system, according to internal documents obtained by Nucleonics Week But an investigation of the event by Nucleonics Week has now turned up confidential event reports which showed that the incident was the most serious safety-related event at a German reactor since 1987, when another German reactor, Biblis-A, suffered a loss-of-coolant accident precursor, posing the threat of a sequence leading to core meltdown. That event was hidden from the German public for a whole year ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15. A Flyover Blog Odd. We ended the session with 30 minutes of Anodyne therapy - that's the infrared light machine from Young Frankenstein. I haven't seen any improvement in . aflyoverblog.typepad.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Achtung Panzer! - German Infrared Night-Vision Devices! In 1936, AEG was ordered to start the development of infrared night-vision devices and in 1939, first successful prototype unit for use with 37mm Pak 35/36 . http://www.achtungpanzer.com/articles/ir.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997SPIE.3056..242Z Abstract Copyright: © 1997 SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering The service water piping system at nuclear power plants provides cooling for a variety of safety and non-safety related components and systems. Reliability of service water piping systems is a key consideration for safe and reliable plant operations. Conventional inspection techniques for detection of pipe wall thinning usually involve the time- intensive process of ultrasonic thickness measurements, based on a grid system, of the entire pipe length. An alternative to this process may lie in the use of active infrared thermography techniques for detection of thin wall areas in the pipe. Infrared thermography (IR), in a passive mode, has been widely used by utilities for a variety of predictive maintenance applications. For assessment of service water piping, an active IR technique, thermal injection, can be used. Application of this IRNDE technique for material evaluation can provide a rapid screening technique for identification of thin wall areas in service water piping. The EPRI NDE Center participated in a preliminary evaluation of this technology at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Based on the promising results of the Vermont Yankee activity, the Center worked with Thermal Wave Imaging, Inc. in an effort to optimize the IR thermal injection technique for service water piping applications. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 26. The Monocle .... the twenty or so muscle-shirts and infra-reds necessary for a safe night in gated political retirement. http://www.olensteinhauer.com/monocle/3/noteverything.htm. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.tomifobia.com/chris_braithwaite10.html Meanwhile we're treated to pictures of water pouring from a collapsed cooling tower structure at the plant, and news that a stuck valve has, more recently, forced the plant to shut down again. We're told that, as our friend and columnist Loudon Young liked to say about a sick cow, these injuries aren't very close to the plant's heart - that nothing like a nuclear accident occurred, or was threatened. ------------------------------------------------------------------ MAD COWS, BAD BLOOD AND FRANKENSTEIN FOOD: THE NEW POLITICS OF BIORISK MAD COWS, BAD BLOOD AND. FRANKENSTEIN FOOD: THE NEW POLITICS. OF BIORISK. Professor Ian Forbes ..... catastrophic - global warming, nuclear accidents, ... http://www.ccm.itesm.mx/dhcs/juripolis/archivos/articulo3... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 14. Beth Kohl: Of Science and Satyrs - Living Now on The Huffington Post What makes a cow egg a cow is its nuclear DNA. ... menu are cows and rabbits, so the Frankenstein scenarios have centered around "cowumans" and "humabbits. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beth-kohl/of-science-and-sa ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Human Cows! .... carried out successful human nuclear transfer into an unfertilized ... Outrage at "Frankenstein" Animal Experiments. Transgenic Pigs End Up as Chicken Feed http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/End%20of%20the%20World/Gen... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://thesurrealist.co.uk/trivia.pl?subject=Metasilk&gender=f The Mechanical Contrivium: Metasilk Only 55 percent of Americans know that the sun is made of Metasilk. India tested its first nuclear Metasilk in 1974! Metasilk cannot be detected by infrared cameras. Metasilk is actually a fruit, not a vegetable! Twenty-eight percent of Microsoft's employees are Metasilk. Without Metasilk, we would have to pollinate apple trees by hand. In Ancient Egypt, people wore glittery eyeshadow made from the crushed shells of Metasilk! Metasilk is the male seed of a flower blossom which has been gathered and treated by bees! In Vermont, the ratio of cows to Metasilk is 10:1. Metasilk can squeeze her entire body through a hole the size of her beak. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Amazon.com: Frankenstein Lineup by Keith Daniels purple silk ties: Apparel. http://www.amazon.com/Frankenstein-Lineup-Keith-Daniels-p... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 14. The Vanishing Rabbit Magic Shop - Seasonal Magic :: Halloween or Bizarre Magic :: ... The Vanishing Rabbit Magic Shop located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ... Home Seasonal Magic Halloween or Bizarre Magic Frankenstein Silks - Set of 8 ... http://www.vanishingrabbit.com/index.php?target=products&... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.luckykat.net/catalog/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_9 Frankenstein Dress This unique dress features a splattered Frankenstein image silk screened by hand for a vintage style worn look. Each image is silk screened by hand... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 42. PRINTED SILKS at Mr Wiz Trunk of Magic FRANKENSTEIN SILKS - SET OF 8 $33.00. Qty: ... The Houdini silks measure about 9" x 9" and the wall silk measures about 18" x 18" http://www.mrwiztrunkofmagic.com/printedsilks.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.usask.ca/english/frank/presump.htm COSTUME THE MONSTER'S APPEARANCE AND DRESS. - Dark black flowing hair - a la Octavian - his face, hands, arms, and legs all bare, being one colour, The same as his body, which is a light blue or French gray cotton dress, fitting quite close, as if it were his flesh, with a slate colour scarf round his middle, passing over one shoulder. FRANKENSTEIN. - Black velvet vest and trunk breeches - gray tunic, open, the sleeves open in front, slashed with black - black silk pantaloons and black velvet shoes - black velvet hat. Cler. Good morning, Fritz! Is Mr. Frankenstein to be seen? Fritz. I fear not, sir, he has as usual been fumi - fumi - fumi Cler. Fumigating. Fritz. Yes, sir - fumigating;; thank'ee, sir - fumigating all night at his chemistry. I have not dared disturb him. Cler. Fritz, you are simple; drive such impressions from your mind. You must not misconstrue your master's words in a dream. Do you never dream? Fritz. (Mournfully.) I dream about my cow sometimes. Cler. Your master is a studious chemist - nay, as I sometimes suspect, an alchemist. Fritz. Eh! Ah, I think he is. What is an alchemist, Mr. Clerval? Cler. Does he not sometimes speak of the art of making gold? Fritz. Lauk, sir! do you take Mr. Frankenstein for a coiner? Cler. Yes. Would you like to be master of a cottage? Fritz. What, and keep a cow? - the very thing. Why, Mr. Clerval, you're a conjuror, and know my thoughts by heart Cler. Fritz, I want to discover - but you must be prudent. (Takes out purse and gives a florin to Fritz.) Here's an earnest of my future intentions touching the cow and cottage. Song - Elizabeth The summer sun shining on tree and on tower, And gilding the landscape with radiance divine, May give to the heart o'er which pleasure has power, But eve's pensive beauties are dearer to mine. Through trees gently sighing, the cool breeze of even Seems sympathy's voice to the ear of despair; And the dew-drops (like tears shed by angels of heaven), Revive the frail hopes in the bosom of care. (During this scene the stage becomes progressively dark.) Music. - Frankenstein sink on a chair; sudden combustion heard, and smoke issues, the door of laboratory break to pieces with a loud crash - red fire within. - The Monster discovered at door entrance in smoke, which evaporates - the red flame continues visible. The Monster advances forward, breaks through the balustrade, or railing immediately facing the door of laboratory, jumps on the table beneath, and from thence leaps on the stage, stands in attitude before Frankenstein, who had started up in terror; they gaze for a moment at each other.) Frank. The horrid corpse to which I have given life! (Music. - The Monster looks at Frankenstein most intently, approaches him with gestures of conciliation Frankenstein retreats round to R. H., the Monster pursuing him .) Frank. Fiend! dare not to approach me - avaunt, or dread the fierce vengeance of my arm. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. JSTOR: Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A ... Who killed Karen Silkwood? The nuclear industry has used its political and economic power to .... a Frankenstein's monster that might turn on its creator. . links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602(198907)95%3A1%... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,272412,00.html The female reformer is a figure without authority, a marginalized member of the community -- whether she's slutty mill laborer Norma Rae or trashy nuke worker Karen Silkwood -- who finally realizes her inherent worth and rises up to speak truth to power. The women's stories are essentially biblical tales of redemption, with modern Mary Magdalenes discovering a deeper meaning in life. DVD Headlines 11 vampires...that don't suck "Young Frankenstein" crew's favorite frights ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. The role of women in Frankenstein@Everything2.com It is worth investigating the role of Frankenstein himself with respect to women in the novel. For a start, it is almost exclusively his view of women that . everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1394350 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Bright Lights Film Journal | The Bride of Frankenstein Sexual Subversion: The Bride of Frankenstein. No institution ? society, religion, marriage, or heterosexuality ? was safe from the penetrating queer eye of . http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/19/19_bride1.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. OC Online Community home - Should gay marriage be banned? strategists have revived the gay marriage Frankenstein to scare the base into turning out for midterms. (That bride of Frankenstein had better be female.) . talk.ocregister.com/printthread.php?t=20200&page=2... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 14. Amazon.com: Frankenstein: The True Story: Video: James Mason ... Most of Frankenstein: The True Story rattles along as enjoyable badness, ... Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth is menaced by an undead butterfly, . http://www.amazon.com/Frankenstein-True-Story-James-Mason... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. "Gay marriage" -- it's alive! As for the "gay marriage" monster: In the words of Dr. Frankenstein ? "It's alive!" And it's pounding on the castle ... "The Bush Boom," by Jerry Bowyer . http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mbarber/070622 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 13. 'Gay Marriage' - It's Alive! -- Opinion Central -- GOPUSA .... vastly expanded version of the SCHIP program and as promised President Bush ... seven social mad scientists have zapped artificial life into a cultural "gay-marriage" Frankenstein http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/guest/2007/jmb_06251.sht... ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. VisualAIDS: Gay Marriage Ban Tanks .... Bush strategists have revived the gay marriage Frankenstein to scare the ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Gay Marriage Ban Tanks: . newsgrist.typepad.com/visualaids/2006/06/gay_marri ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11. Comics Should Be Good! >> 31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 21 ... Before he can wreak more havoc, he runs into Frankenstein. Bad move. Frankenstein throws him through the window of the butterfly store as he quotes John .. goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/12/22/31-da... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 13. James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein, Curse of ... child of the unholy marriage of ... that Ernst Thesiger was gay. Several scenes in Bride of Frankenstein members.inode.at/359743/frankenstein/frankenstein-... Now Frankenstein's creation can talk and express his feelings and emotions through words. Although his utterances are only simple sentences like "Friend - good!" and not the eloquent speeches in perfect English from the novel, this is an important factor in removing the Monster from the sub-human image of the first film. Furthermore, the Monster can now be soothed by sweet music, he laughs, drinks wine, puffs cigars with the hermit and even weeps because at last he has found a friend. There are also hints at a gay undertone inherent in these scenes, a guess which is not far-fetched considering James Whale's homosexuality. "There is something tacitly but strongly erotic here: the meeting of two men, both outcast, both unwanted, who find they can share house under a common bond" ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=Forums&file= showtopic&topic_id=3093 She shuffles over to the stove like a wind-up toy and fires up the big wok. Outside, the speaker on top of the telephone pole begins its tinny broadcast from Commie Central -- a cue for the neighborhood to awaken and begin their daily toil, though most, with nothing much to do, linger around similar tables eating similar porridge. The footsteps get louder and Trang comes into the kitchen holding a baby in one arm and pulling little Huong behind her ? her long, thick hair is puffed out like some kind of Bride of Frankenstein, her snow-white arms and legs poke out here and there from her worn wool robe. She sits down carefully; languid, fateful; beautiful ------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Free Essays: The Themes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ... In doing this, Frankenstein has taken over the roles of women and God. Shelley discusses how Frankenstein has used his laboratory or 'workshop of filthy .. http://www.123helpme.com/assets/12015.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 17. Women Play An Indispensable Role In The Novel Frankenstein Women play an indispensable role in Frankenstein. Women are generally seen as pure, innocent and kind. For example, Elizabeth stood up for . http://www.oppapers.com/term-papers/80409.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 33. Ghoulies, Ghosties, and Giggles On the hot stove with the pots and pans. "Say that's hot," I begin to shout ... Frankenstein went shopping to see What the cost of black bats might be. . jhb15.tripod.com/midnight/id15.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.yini.org.uk/case_studies.php?case_studies_id=56 Company: Saint Gobain Pipelines plc Student: Holly Cornish Discipline: Engineering Company: Saint Gobain Pipelines plc Improving efficiency in the production of large diameter ductile iron pipes The large diameter pipe (450mm ? 800mm) heat treatment stove control system to process ductile iron pipes relied upon the use of hand-held temperature monitoring devices to control processing temperatures. Holly's project was to automate the control system, thus reducing costs. Five Infrared sensors were already installed in the stove; Holly decided to move one of the five Infrareds to make assessment more effective, running trials to establish temperature parameters for each diameter of pipe, then consolidating these findings into one set of parameters. She monitored physical dimensions and the metallurgical structure of the pipes to ensure quality was maintained. Holly also altered the processing temperatures compared to previously used temperature standards to estimate gas consumption savings. As the stoves are integral to the production process, trials had to be run during normal production schedules, and so real test conditions were not available. "Holly's achievements in this project are impressive. Her ability to motivate plant workers faced with the imminent plant closure and to impress Saint Gobain Directors demonstrates she has the appropriate personality to accompany her technical ability. She has been offered sponsorship for her university studies with the intention of assuming a position within Saint Gobain afterwards." ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Fast All-season Soil STrength (FASST) Susan Frankenstein and George G. Koenig. September 2004 ... 3.2 Downwelling Infrared Flux Model Validation .18. 3.3 http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/techpub/CRREL_Reports/rep... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 39. comicreaders.com - Iron Wok Jan! volume 1 .... masters, new students learn; hot-blooded men and women determined to uphold the ... They sweat and grimace over the hot stove, hands flying in a fury, dicing, .. http://www.comicreaders.com/modules.php?name=News&file=ar... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.amberlotus.com/08hr.html From the very beginning of recorded time all the great civilizations of our world have believed in the supernatural in some form or other. Sir Simon Marsden's startlingly atmospheric black and white infrared photographs reveal this hidden world and his ghostly and beguiling images transport the reader to a different realm; a haunted realm. Sample Caption: Castle Frankenstein, Odenwald Forest, Germany - The ruined walls of Castle Frankenstein are over 700 years old, although two of the towers were restored in more recent times. Several legends are connected to the castle and the Frankenstein dynasty, two of which, ironically, concern monsters. One speaks of a vampire that frequented the castle in medieval times, wandering abroad at night to drink the blood of the villagers. The other tells of Georg von Frankenstein, the Dragon Killer ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/2000/March/3.2000_jeep. wildcat.htm "Human power is its own end" - Karl Marx workers took unauthorized strike action (wildcat) when it became clear that management was more concerned with production than with worker safety, since the electrical arc could have ignited a fire that might have destroyed the plant. Workers don't trust that management will set the safety system to actually protect them. Workers had complained for some time that the infrared sensors to detect such emergencies were defective. A plant fire had occurred in July. ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE INFRARED SCARE Infrareds have infiltrated the infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5146362.html Infra-red extraction from illumination source Document Type and Number: United States Patent 5146362 BACKGROUND, FEATURES Workers recognize that "electronic images" should be processed much quicker, more reliably and less subject to error. But to do so, one must first capture an accurate image, or modified image, of the physical document and convert this into electronic computer (EDP) signals Workers are beginning to think of using imaging technology as a way of improving document processing, as disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,510,619; 4,205,780; 4,264,808; and 4,672,186. Generally, imaging involves optically scanning documents to produce electronic images that are processed electronically and stored on high capacity storage media (such as magnetic disc drives and/or optical memory) for later retrieval and display. It is apparent that document imaging can provide an opportunity to reduce document handling and movement, since the electronic images can be used in place of the actual documents. These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be appreciated by workers as they become better understood by reference to the following detailed description of the present preferred embodiments which should be considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference symbols denote like elements Workers will understand that documents (e.g. checks, etc.) are to be fed into Processor 1-11 and rapidly transported thereby past various processing-stations Thus, as illustrated very schematically in FIG. 14 (front view of a "circular" fibre-bundle input-face or entry-aperture, 21-1F, with 21-OP representing the outer periphery of this input-face), workers will appreciate that simply shifting such a lens 2-9, 2- 9' to change its focus, one can quite simply change the beam- diameter on an entry-aperture 21-F (changing intensity at output face 21-E Light reflected from the front "slice" of the passing document is directed to an "optical tower" (Front tower, OT, Rear Tower OT', see FIGS. 32, 33 19) housing an assembly of mirrors. The light entering each optical tower is reflected down by an Imaging mirror 3-1, to a Trunnion mirror 3-3 below the transport level As workers know, maximum illumination intensity is typically along the "normal" to a document (i.e. the perpendicular to its plane)--but, unfortunately, this is also where glare is a maximum Workers will recognize that, instead of the preferred "linear" silicon CCPD.s; in some cases Gallium CCPD.s may be used, and/or two-dimension arrays--or even "Camera tubes". Workers will also recognize that there are special advantages to using focus- adjustment to vary beam intensity What is claimed is: Infra-red extraction means arranged and adapted to remove a substantial part of the infra-red energy projected along a prescribed beam-path from a high-intensity spectral source means; said extraction means comprising: selective reflector means interrupting said beam path and adapted to divert infra-red energy as an infra-red beam along a second path; and associated infra-red dissipation means including multi-blade surface means disposed within enclosure means, adapted to receive said infra- red beams and to trap them and convert them to surface heat; this surface means being arranged in an infra-red trap configuration to receive infra-red energy beams at an input portion and allow essentially none thereof to re-emerge therefrom; the reflector means being interposed across said beam path and adapted to divert only infra-red energy to said dissipation means; said surface means comprising a pair of opposed sets of parallel blades, disposed obliquely to the direction of said infra-red beams, said blades arrayed to converge upon said infra-red beams and block them, to form a convergent, infra-red trap preventing reflection back of any significant portion of an entering infra-red beam. The invention of claim 1 wherein an exhaust means is disposed at an open end of said enclosure means, opposite the infra-red entry portion, whereby the exhaust means is adapted and arranged to pull ambient air coolingly past said blades. The invention of claim 1 wherein the selective reflector means is a hot mirror A method of extracting and dissipating infra-red energy from a lamp which projects a high-intensity optical beam of spectral radiation along a first beam path, this method comprising: providing a hot mirror along said path to selectively divert only the energy as an infra-red beam along a second path; and disposing an infra-red trap with intercepting oblique blade means, across the second path so as to intercept said infra-red beams at said blade means and block them and convert them essentially entirely to surface heat, with essentially no infra-red beam reflection back along this second path. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.answers.com/topic/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant- accident-detection-and-monitoring The resolution of the LANDSAT images was comparatively poor, however, being on the order of tens of meters, rather than of centimeters. Nevertheless, they gave visual access to the layout of the reactor complex and cooling pond. Infrared LANDSAT imaging showed both the fire in Unit No. 4 and the chilling of the pond, which indicated that the three remaining reactors in the complex had been shut down. ABC news broadcast SPOT infrared photos that showed a plume of hot air trailing from the reactor building. Keep Reading Nuclear Power Plants, Security Russian Nuclear Materials, Security Issues Satellites, Spy ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://en.novayagazeta.ru/data/2007/69/01.html Even political Frankensteins are able to survive. What if the Just Russia gets allied with the Communists and take away the majority from the United Russia in the Duma? The Kremlin knows the story of Frankenstein. It has learnt its lesson. There used to be a party named Motherland. Where is it now? It has been destroyed! It is called de jure the Just Russia! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Assorted poetry crapola To clarify, 'she' refers to the bullet, as it's a feminine noun in Russian. Raven by Bulat Okudjava If the raven's flying high, ... teamliquid.net/blog/frankenchicken ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.collegenet.com/elect/app/app?service=external/Forum&sp=1957 CollegeNET It Pays To Think Has anyone else heard that Kentucky Fried Chicken had to change there name to KFC because there chickens were so genetically made that they weren't really chickens anymore? They're made with no legs so that can't run around, a third breast to produce more meat, and they are kept in very tiny cages so they can store many of them in very tiny spaces. What do you guys think about this? Cali - what a fantastic question, I was wondering who the source of the "frankenchicken" myth was myself. Re: KFC Wow so that proves that in the state of Virginia what they are doing to these chickens is considered cruelty ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Urban Legends and Folklore - 2000 Features A mother in Virginia reportedly discovers a deep-fried chicken head in a box .... 01/05/00 - The Curse of Frankenchicken Was KFC forced to change its name ... urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/mprev00.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/?p=4973 I've read that this idjit was very anti-American, anti-Democracy and anti-Capitalism, and either pro-Communism or Socialism. I think his blurring the lines between movies and reality isn't the real issue here . they should check out the professors a nd classes he took at Virginia Tech to see if he was indoctrinated and fed this world-view by them, and therefor influenced by them. He would still be the one ultimately responsible for his actions, but since the left loves to blame anyone but the underdog culprit(s), it would be interesting to see them all of a sudden ignore the fact if he had been forced fed this garbage by the leftist cultural elitist professors. Then it would be ironic that he chose the same school for his massacre, other than a mall, a bank or some other public setting, because then, the chicken did indeed come home to roost. A lot of colleges are creating politically correct hate criminals and this just smack of a Frankenstein's Monster of theirs. scuffle Says: April 21st, 2007 at 6:26 pm Matt Helm upping the insanity, there. Good work. If we're exploring these ideas, then if anything this nutty bastard was a Capitalist through and through. It's perfectly acceptable to kill your neighbour or sell your grandmother if it helps you get ahead as an individual. Socialist systems demand a concern for others, which is what he lacked. ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. The Curse of Frankenstein .... the year his mother died, leaving him sole heir to the Frankenstein fortune. ... of Frankenstein also has a couple of actual surprises up its sleeve, often . http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsa-d/curse... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com/BrideFrankenstein.html The Bride of Frankenstein Widely considered as superior to its predecessor, The Bride of Frankenstein is one of those movies that is probably as great as many will tell you, but not nearly the dreary, serious meditation on the folly of playing God you may have been lead to believe nor is it an old and creaky monster movie that modern audiences will yawn during. In fact, watching this, I was reminded a tad of the Re-animator movies, what with the off-hand treatment of the Monster and the various shenanigans he gets into along the way. The movie is a good mix of black comedy and some creepiness (chiefly provided by the completely demented Dr. Pretorious). He makes Henry go back to Pretorious' hidden lab and Pretorious then pulls out several small cylinders covered in black sleeves. "What's this," me and Henry were thinking. Then, one by one he pulls off each of the sleeves and reveals little teeny-tiny people about eight inches high in each of the cylinders. These dudes are dressed up like kings and queens and ballerinas (another horror movie with a ballet connection!) and they're just as alive as you or I. Henry is amazed and somewhat disgusted by this, saying that what Pretorious is doing is black magic, not science like his big green dummy was. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4652422.html United States Patent 4652422 The invention relates to a supporting device for an elongated nuclear reactor fuel element and/or an elongated nuclear reactor fuel assembly, the supporting device having an elongated receiving sleeve vertically arranged and mounted on a base surface, and having an open upper end with which a holding device is associated for suspending the nuclear reactor fuel element or nuclear reactor fuel assembly inside the receiving sleeve. A supporting device of this general type has already been proposed heretofore. The receiving sleeve of the heretofore proposed supporting device is secured at the edge of the opening at the upper end thereof by a clamp to the edge of the opening, at the upper end of another receiving sleeve, and if necessary or desirable to an arm which is located on a supporting post on the base surface. The holding device for suspending the nuclear reactor fuel assembly, respectively, is formed of a simple strap in the opening at the upper end of the receiving sleeve of the heretofore proposed supporting device. It is an object of the invention of the instant application to provide a supporting device for an elongated component such as a nuclear reactor fuel element or nuclear reactor fuel assembly disposed in a receiving sleeve with improved protection against horizontal thrust forces and vertical compression or upsetting forces, such as can occur for example during earthquakes. With the foregoing and other objects in view, there is provided, in accordance with the invention, a supporting device for a member formed of at least part of an elongated nuclear reactor fuel element, the supporting device having an elongated receiving sleeve mounted vertically on a base surface and having an upper end formed with an opening and a holding device located at the upper end of the sleeve for suspending the member inside the receiving sleeve, comprising a removable cover closing the opening at the upper end of the receiving sleeve, the holding device being secured to the inside of the cover. The cover is, or has a part thereof advantageously fitted into and matching the opening at the upper end of the receiving sleeve or fits on the upper end so as to cover the opening, ensures the stability of form of the receiving sleeve when horizontal and vertical forces are applied thereto due to a disturbance such as an earthquake, for example, so that upsetting, compression or buckling of the nuclear reactor fuel element and nuclear reactor fuel assembly, respectively, freely suspended from the cover inside the receiving sleeve is avoided as much as possible. In addition, the cover according to the invention also completely closes the opening at the upper end of the receiving sleeve so that the nuclear reactor fuel element or nuclear reactor fuel assembly that is freely suspended vertically from the cover in the receiving sleeve is not accessible from the outside and so is completely safe from damage, for example, by the careless handling of tools. Also, the cover at the opening formed in the upper end of the receiving sleeve ensures that no foreign matter can fall into this receiving sleeve and be deposited on parts of the nuclear reactor fuel element assembly, from which, under certain circumstances, it can be removed only at considerable expense or not at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.kansasregents.org/download/Maintenance/ Feb07%20DM%20Priority%20Project%20List.pdf KANSAS BOARD OF REGENTS State University Deferred Maintenance Down Payment Priority Project List Kansas State University Deferred Maintenance Projects 1. Utilities/Infrastructure & Power Plant Improvements (Phase 1) $18,400,000 This project will replace the antiquated 4160 volt electrical system that serves the core of the central campus with a 12.5 kilovolt (kV) system (i.e., replace equipment in the "Frankenstein Room"). It will also replace deteriorated and leaking sections of 80-year old steam distribution lines located in underground steam tunnels. Finally, an inefficient 56-year old boiler will be replaced in the central power plant ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.ibew.org/articles/03journal/0312/Locallines38.64.htm A Special Tribute L.U. 40 (em,i&mps), HOLLYWOOD, CA--Local 40 held its first annual Old-Timers and Apprenticeship Graduation Luncheon recently to honor graduating journeymen, as well as pay tribute to the significant participation of longstanding members, who paved the way for the IBEW as it stands today. Highlights of the day included a slide show presentation depicting the eight decades over which our local has proudly served the entertainment industry. The slide presentationshowed our brothers working on the set of the original Frankenstein film in the mid 1920s and worked it's way through the years depicting such projects as the power stations that stand as the heartbeat of every major studio today. Keynote speakers included IBEW Ninth District Int. Rep. Tim Dixon and Mike Skinner, director of Plant Operations, CBS. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 97. The Simpsons: Road Rage cheats, codes, hints, FAQs: Nintendo Gamecube Select any character to play as Bart in a Frankenstein costume. ... Once you get to the cooling towers, Smithers and Burns will try to hit you with his limo. http://www.gamewinners.com/gamecube/SimpsonsRoadRage.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 100. The Simpsons Archive: Simpsons Games Now the cooling tower is clogged and a chain reation is ticking toward a catastrophic ... Box has Simpsons in Frankenstein's Laboratory; Homer as Frankenstein, Marge as Bride of http://www.snpp.com/guides/games.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 43. disney studios address shelley leong. columbia county fairgrounds oregon. william m... .... and naraku-electric motor theory-phish tabs frankenstein- pennsylvania divorce ... worldwide edition hints-nothing is better-diode pumped yag laser-ibew flee . chinesefreewebs.com/qidypyca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.rakemag.com/stories/section_detail.aspx?itemID=3054& catID=153&SelectCatID=153 In the years immediately after Hiroshima, nuclear energy was treated as a miracle of science, with an almost charming naivete - we were supposed to take the futurists seriously when they predicted atom-powered toasters. Still, the destructive potential of atom-splitting was never too far off in the wings, psychologically speaking. In the fantastic plots of pulp fiction, nuclear power took over as the primary device to explain an otherwise outlandish plot, just as electricity had animated Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's 1816 novel. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster Review: Just ... HE'D RATHER BE PLAYING SCRABBLE. Frankenstein screenshot - click to enlarge Believe it or not, that's exactly what happens in this game. http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Frankenstein/Franken... HE'D RATHER BE PLAYING SCRABBLE Believe it or not, that's exactly what happens in this game. Frankenstein fusses over you for a minute, then basically dismisses you. It makes you want to scream, "Hey! Please tell me what's more interesting in your life right now than a DEAD MAN come to LIFE?!?!" Very, very silly. Not to mention the security issues of having a monster stumbling around free in a huge castle. A castle, it seems, with absolutely NO servants, domestics, or assistants of ANY kind. Also very, very silly. However, if you can get past this odd premise, there is a reasonably chewy game here. There's lots and lots to explore and a diabolical mystery to uncover. ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. FDA Says Cloned Animals OK To Eat in knowing they have a frankenburger ... And they want the public to believe cloned animals, that regularly exhibit genetic ... healthydiet.weblogstop.com/2006/12/29/fda-says-clo... ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He respected Hitler and was greatly grieved at the end of World War II. .... He is a clone of the original priest who was genetically modified to be a ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Koontz's_Frankenstein ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Wordlustitude: 01/01/2005 - 02/01/2005 noun. The state or condition--temporary or genetic--of being a horse's ass. ... Related words: frankenfood, frankenpeople, frankenworm, frankenfruit, frankenburger ... wordlust.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_archive.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 45. Hans Frank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank claimed to have uncovered evidence that Hitler's father was the illegitimate son of a Jew named Frankenburger. According to Frank, Hitler told him that his grandmother had ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.shout.net:80/~bigred/Cthulhu.html So who had secretly fathered Maria Anna Schickelgruber's child? It turns out that Adolph Hitler's grandfather may have had the last name of Frankenberger, and was Jewish. In Germany, the descent into the irrational continued with the ideas of Karl Maria Wiligut, dubbed "Himmler's Rasputin." Fohat, the one instrument with which the Logos works, is the "Light of the Logos." It manifests in the plane of the objective Universe as the hidden, as much as the revealed, Electricity. Fohat is behind all such manifestations as light, heat, sound, etc. The two poles of our Earth are the storehouses ? receptacles and liberators, at the same time ? of cosmic and terrestrial Vitality (Electricity), from the surplus of which the Earth, had it not been for these two natural "safety valves," would have been torn to pieces long ago. The Sephiroth of the Hebrew Kabala are the ten emanations of deity. You put down the book and rub your eyes. Its ideas have left you at a loss for words. Outside, it looks like the dawn will soon appear. You look more closely and see some s ort of luminance heading toward the cabin. Not stopping, it penetrates right through the walls. "Ah, permeability of matter... The developing 'normal clairvoyance'," you surmise. The luminance, you notice, looks like Allen Ginsberg. "What is the ghost of Allen Ginsberg doing here?" you wonder. The ghost is trying to say something, but you can't make it out. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. CME Pulications: 1989-2000 Genome complexity, robustness and genetic interactions in digital organisms. ... Frankenburger, and R. Sims (Eds), Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils, Soil Science ... http://www.cme.msu.edu/PUBLICATIONS/89_99pubs.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15. FSnet June 1 .... that we will safely feed the world - not destroy it. So eat up and enjoy your Frankenburger ... Genetic studies in relation to kuru: an overview. Curr Mol Med 2004; 4: 375-384. archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca/fsnet/2006/6-2006/fs... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=329&letter=F Frankenburger, after the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71), strongly advocated the union of the southern and the northern states of Germany; and when, after the conclusion of peace, his ability and rectitude secured for him the position of Liberal leader, he threw all the weight of his influence against the sectionalism of the Bavarian Center and in favor of a strong central government. He was especially well qualified to deal with financial questions, and rendered important services as regular reporter on the army budget for the Bavarian House of Representatives, for which services the king rewarded him with the Michaelsorden I. Class. Frankenburger omitted no opportunity to champion the rights of his coreligionists. In 1880 he was instrumental in abrogating the taxes which, in many parts of Bavaria, the Jews had been compelled to pay to pastors and mayors. These taxes had many curious names, as "Beichtgroschen" ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Effect of Stem Termination on Soybean Traits in Southern U.S. ... This inconsistency may be due to the effect of different genetic backgrounds, ..... Wilcox J.R., Frankenberger E.M. Indeterminate and determinate soybean ... crop.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/40/1/83 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 50. Failed Recruitment of Southern Toads ( Bufoterrestris ) in a Trace ... .... of clutch on survival to hatching indicate that there may be parental factors (genetic ... Frankenburger WT, Engberg RA (eds) Environmental chemistry of selenium. Marcel Dekker, New Yor... http://www.cnr.vt.edu/fisheries/Hopkins/pdf/2001/rowe%20A.. ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. FAA's Aircraft Catastrophic Failure Prevention Program: Statement of ... Chuck Frankenburger, (619) 939-2062 Period of Performance: 15 months Starting Date: ... design methodology will be developed within the SRAD context, that is with genetic ... http://www.tc.faa.gov/aar400/aar431/sow.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. National Security Agency, Bibliography "The NSA--America's $10 Billion Frankenstein." Penthouse, 7 (November 1975), pp. 55-56, 70-72, 184-195. [MS-1767] TOFFLER, Al. "Washington's Electronic ... users.skynet.be/terrorism/html/usa_nsa.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Palace -National-Intelligence-Organization/dp/0140067485 What I think that Bamford has done so well is to tell the true story of the creation of a modern "Frankenstein's Monster." He presents a cogent case for the very real need for communication interception and code breaking in the early days of NSA's existence. He proceeds to take us through, step by step, the process whereby a protector of our freedoms seems to have evolved into a threat to those very freedoms. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.somedaycomes.com/Pages/excerpts.html The old salts would probably have been a better boat connection, but for reasons he couldn't explain Mick chose a seat two stools from the woman. The bartender asked for his order with a jerk of the head, then padded off like Frankenstein to get a draught beer. Mick's reflection had only one eye thanks to a collection of faded stickers on the mirror. Without much forethought or any real motivation, he turned to the woman and asked, "Come here often?" "Take this," she said pointing to the wheel. "Don't steer any further to the left than that cooling tower on the power plant," she said just before she, the now empty pitcher, and glass descended the companionway. He wondered if the alcohol was giving Helen confidence in him he should lack in himself. Maybe he needed his own pitcher of martinis. Perhaps then the unusual weakness in his arms would subside. Years of training had made him nearly invulnerable to physical assault, no matter how fierce or abrupt, but the nervous anxiety he felt at that moment was self-generated. It could silently envelop him and shake his confidence more effectively than any adversary. Mick recognized this opponent and quickly forced it back into the nether world from which it sprung. After a few minutes the jittery arm muscles and roller-coaster stomach faded. Using the cooling tower as a guide, the boat kept moving along in a rhythm that was soothing and exciting at the same time. This felt a lot more like his destiny-driven image of sailing Out on the water, sea air has a clean, almost antiseptic, smell. Cotton ball clouds and the turquoise sky made him forget the filth he had left and to which he would return. Helen had been quiet for about a half hour when a loud, dull thud vibrated through the boat's frame. "Everything all right down there," he yelled into the companionway. No answer, but that was pretty much how the conversation had gone up till now. He moved as close to the hatch as possible without loosing his grip on the wheel. A limp hand rested on the floor of the darkened cabin. Great, he thought, she was passed out on the floor. The power plant wasn't dangerously close, but it had begun to loom larger in the distance. The giant cooling towers and huge metal, cable-toting robots usually gave Mick the creeps, especially after China Syndrome. Maybe the leisurely approach gave him more time to get used to it, but it didn't bother him. Despite the captain's departure from consciousness and his own ignorance of matters nautical, things were OK. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/films/filmsu.htm U is for UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS Sherry-quaffing aesthetes that we are, we've long pondered the most chilling, unnerving environment in which to set a film. What kind of location has the most powerful associations of terror and foreboding? All the vintage horror staples have weathered less than well. The most forbidding habitats tend overwhelmingly to be man-made, claustrophobic and, above all, sterile. Laboratories, in other words, whether research establishments, operating theatres, or torture chambers, are the places that yield silent menace in spades. After all, the lab has been the staple of horror since almost day one, but it's not the castle-bound, lightning-powered sort of lab featured in FRANKENSTEIN we're on about here, which is more comical than scary, possibly due to the presence of so many parodies, which lest we forget began with the high camp of the film's own sequel, the deranged BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, which in turn begat the Victorian oak-pannelled lab dotted with various brass 'n' glass contraptions, with the feverish waistcoated doctor jotting down experimental results in many a Hammer period endeavour (for possibly the prime example, see the serum-testing antics in the much-parodied THE CREEPING FLESH). .... In another bit of last-minute changeabout, the final torture chamber in which Jonathan Pryce finally loses it was going to be, in a logical progression, an all-white cube, but the discovery of a dormant cooling tower changed everything, and for the better. Of course, why anyone would use a giant cooling tower for such high- level "reprogramming" work remains a sore point with internet logic- hounds, which is partly why it's such a great choice. Add to that a rickety torture chair far more evocative in its poor design than contemporary film 1984's facial rat cages, and you've got a link back to the tyranny of medicine again (think MARATHON MAN rather than DENTIST ON THE JOB). Psychological chair-based torture (remember Mastermind's interrogatory trademarks were derived from espionage techniques) is pared down to just chair, subject (Warren Beatty) and disembodied voice in the 'Parallax test' scene of THE PARALLAX VIEW, a high-'70s conspiracy yarn that peaks with this bizarre bit of subliminal propaganda - over a queasy mixture of flag- waving US anthems and psychedelia, ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.basicint.org/nuclear/NMD/europe_timeline.htm January 18 - KWAJALEIN ATOLL - Two malfunctioning infrared sensors on the exoatmospheric kill vehicle are blamed for the failure of the second NMD intercept trial. This is the first test in which the interceptor is not pre-programmed with the incoming trajectory of the ICBM. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8163/whatusee.htm That looks like a nuclear holocaust to me. Either that, or a bad perm on The Bride of Frankenstein. I see a brain in a glass jar with a stream of electricity shooting from outside the jar and into the brain. The image in question appears to be a time lapse photo of a plasma discharge. However it could be a Hubble image of a space nebula or an infrared image of Satan rising from the pits of Hell. The first image that came to mind was a close-up of some embryonic tissue, you know, all those blood vessels floating in amniotic fluid. But it's probablysome sort of outer-space object. A head of a chinese dragon i see a woman holding a baby in her arms (Kinda like a picture of Mary and Jesus... ) I see one of the electric globes that you play with in science class electrical fire I think it's two sea creatures playing tag The mystery picture looks like a scene from a Frankenstein movie where Dr. Frankenstein needed a jolt of lightning or electricity to bring the monster to life. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 19. Infrared inspection, roof moisture surveys, electrical scans ... Professional infrared inspections, roof moisture surveys, infrared electrical and mechanical ... Click to learn more about nuclear roof moisture surveys ... Infrared electrical scans quickly and accurately pinpoint hot spots in electrical systems. Reduce your maintenance time and increase profits while reducing unscheduled outages and losses. Nuclear Roof Moisture Surveys http://www.iranalyzers.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Iran: Experts Say Infrared Bombs Used By Iraqi Insurgents Can't Be . Iran: Experts Say Infrared Bombs Used By Iraqi Insurgents Can't Be Homemade. By Jan Jun. The diplomatic row continues between the United Kingdom and Iran ... http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/1f3c5bb3-ea0... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. A Nomadic Information System for Adaptive Exhibition Guidance 1 . The infrared infrastructure. consists of emitters being installed on the walls underneath each exhibit. The. emitters send an ID to a receiver being ... fit.fraunhofer.de/~oppi/publications/ichim99.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.icfa.org/ INTERNATIONAL CEMETERY, CREMATION AND FUNERAL ASSOCIATION "Guardians of a Nation's Heritage" NEWS ARCHIVE Operation Iraqi Children Gas Price Hits Record $1.941/Gallon-Govt. Vatican, Muslims oppose gay benefits Believers tortured to abandon Christianity US destroys nearly 74,000 chickens in second case of Avian flu Communist regime using painful drug injections Putin Wins; Red Square Building in Flames Bush Sees New Abuse Photos With 'Disgust' Infrared picks up invisible UFOs Mexico releases video of 11 objects surrounding military plane... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Film and Processing Forum: To get a spectral/surrealist view how ... To get a spectral/surrealist view how do I use infrared film? Human Being, Oct 03, 2005; 09:44 a.m.. That's the question, I would like to reflect the world... photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00DkVo ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. The InfraRed Army The InfraRed Army. Location. Downs Laboratory of Physics Caltech 320-47 Pasadena, CA 91125 (626)395-6626. bts@ipac.caltech.edu. Astrophysics. The Science . http://www.its.caltech.edu/~btsoifer/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 38. The Red Scare Of The 1950s .... rising tied - the red scare of the 1950s fort minor the risks of using the red scare of the 1950s infrared lamps the rite of confirmation tersaq.ibelgique.com/the-red-scare-of-the-1950s.ht... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=1139 ISRAEL and US DEVELOP INFRARED BEAM WEAPON By Christopher Bollyn Was the collapse of the World Trade Center caused by a laser beam weapon? A physicist who worked on the original "deep infrared" beam weapon has reason to believe so. Amazingly, more than five months after the greatest terror attack on America in history, the cause of the towers' structural failure has yet to be investigated and re mains unexplained, according to America's leading fire engineering experts. As part of an on-going investigation, American Free Press has interviewed a German physicist who believes a laser beam weapon, employing infrared technology originally developed in the Soviet Union, may have caused the towers' collapse. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12. Surreal Infrared Vision .... support! Matthew R. Cywinski Founder and Maintainer of Infrared Films IR_FILMS@yahoo.com ... Welcome to Surreal Infrared Vision!! surrealinfraredvision.blogspot.com/ Very often infrared images can make the ordinary look mysterious and interesting. In Figure A, you can see an image of a park shot in infrared. In regular black and white this picture wouldn't be very remarkable, but in infrared it has a spooky, surreal quality that catches your attention. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 13. adenant on deviantART Favourite style or digital art: Nature and Surrealism/Infrared; Operating System: Windows XP; Favourite cartoon character: Simpson; Tools of the Trade: adenant.deviantart.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 47. Paranoia (role-playing game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Typically Infrared citizens advance to Red clearance after reporting real or faked ... Frankenstein Destroyers : Luddite in faction, this society believes that robots are the cause . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_%28role-playing_gam... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74. Chapter 16 - Electric Power Applications of Infrared and Thermal Testing John R. Snell, Jr., Snell Infrared, Montpelier, Vermont (Part 2) ... components of nuclear reactors. Infrared thermography has been widely ... http://www.asnt.org/shop/143wcd/IR16.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ 45. NASA - Einstein Right About Speed of Light Gamma rays from this blazar galaxy collide with infrared background light to annihilate and produce electrons and positrons, just as Einstein predicted. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/12... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.englishscholar.com/fc4_frankeneuro.htm The Monster is Progress: Exploring the Fear of Science in Frankenstein and Neuromancer According to Jack Lynch, creator of the definitive online hypertextual Frankenstein project, entitled "Workshop of Filthy Creation, Cyberspace Division": In the eighteenth century the establishment of official scientific societies and institutions in Great Britain continued, involving governmental funding of various astronomical observatories and missions of exploration in search of botanical and zoological specimens. But the century was most noteworthy for its use of increasingly precise measuring devices: more precise measurements in turn made possible more refined scientific theories. Isaac Newton's enormously influential theories on gravitation, for instance, grew out of discrepancies between the predictions of the old models and more accurate observations of actual orbits. Increased precision in balances allowed chemists to reject phlogiston theory in favor of modern atomic theory, just as improved optics allowed for the discovery of both new celestial bodies and new microorganisms and anatomical structures. As the 19th century began, the applications Lynch speaks of were wide-ranging, and many of them involved electricity. One of the popular postulations being explored was the concept of re- animation through the use of electricity, based on the experimentation of Galvani. According to Jack Lynch, "there was great hope of using the galvanic battery in medical cures, even of reanimating the dead. In the second chapter of Frankenstein, Doctor Frankenstein says: On this occasion a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and, excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me. (Shelley 46) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Electricity-Gravity - TIME Little over a year ago Albert Einstein announced his field theory, asserting a definite relationship between electricity and gravity; asserting that they http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787584,0... ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Hartmut Frommert's personal info Having done some research on gravitation theories and elementary particle theory and ... I'm really Frankenstein's grandson (i.e., my mother Anita was born as the daughter of August Frankenstein and his wife Emma Margarethe) http://www.seds.org/~spider/hf/hf.ht ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. An Infrared Einstein Ring in the Gravitational Lens PG 1115+080 An Infrared Einstein Ring in the Gravitational Lens PG 1115+080. Authors:, Impey, C. D.; Falco, E. E.; Kochanek; C.S.; Lehar J.; McLeod, B. A.; Rix, ... adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998astro.ph..3207I ------------------------------------------------------------------ Frankenstein's glue: transition functions for approximate solutions ... are commonly employed to find approximate solutions to the Einstein equations. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0264-9381/24/17/004 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 14. From Frankenstein to Einstein For now we move from the day of Frankenstein to that of Einstein, and the high stakes nuclear arms race the world has been in since World War II http://www.onegeek.org/~tom/classes/sf/frank.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog= normal&id=JCPSA6000067000004001491000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes Infrared absorption and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. I. Vibrational intensity expressions A formalism is presented which permits the expression of corrections to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation without direct reference to the excited electronic states of the molecule. This is accomplished by the introduction of a vibronic gauge function which is the solution of a separate, known differential equation. With this formalism the exact equivalence of the vector potential and dipole moment expressions for infrared vibrational intensities in the Born-Oppenheimer theory is established. The perturbation terms for the corrections to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation are discussed and their meaning is illustrated with the example of a translating hydrogen atom. The vibronic gauge formalism is extended to molecular orbitals where the separability of the problem in terms of individual orbitals is demonstrated. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.jackthepelicanpresents.com/cainenewworks.html PETER CAINE NEW WORKS Through his perverse engineering, our heroes, villains and sacred cows mechanically come alive as Frankenstein robots, oozing pitch-dark schoolboy humor as they sing and dance their way into our hearts. The kids clamor at the door to get in, but clearly this is not suitable for family viewing. There is his life-size ship of fools near the gallery's entrance-- Dorothy and the Tin Man crossing the Delaware with George Washington In their shadow is an angry God, handsomely feathered with the hackles of partridges and pheasants and swelling with bursts of light, as he pronounces his indignation. With animatronic prowess, Caine transforms the back gallery into a gloriously beautiful undersea world, teeming with tropical fish. This coral reef is a nuclear dumping ground, littered with containers of radioactive waste from a nuclear submarine. A navy diver takes Geiger readings. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 17. PART III The following compares Frankenstein and Gill's estimates of yearly production ..... 1994), 324, estimates the total number of nuclear weapons, strategic and . http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Books/Books%20-%201997/Strength%2... The following compares Frankenstein and Gill's estimates of yearly production levels for selected Chinese weapons systems with production estimates for Soviet defense industries from the late 1980s. As is easily seen, Chinese production rates of less sophisticated equipment are much lower than previous Soviet rates. Weapons System Soviet Chinese Principal Surface Combatants 9 3-4 Attack Submarines 8 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Axis Company NYC | USS Frankenstein Shortly after it was unloaded on Tinian, the Indianapolis was torpedoed, just a week before the bomb pulverized Hiroshima. "Frankenstein" supposes that when the torpedoes hit, as ... http://www.axiscompany.org/ussfrankarch.htm USS Frankenstein boldly blends fact and fantasy as it examines a mysterious and little-known military incident. In July 1945, a United States cruiser class battleship sailed to the South Pacific to deliver key components of the bomb that later detonated over Japan on August 6th. Known only to the highest military personnel, the passenger manifest may have included the man responsible for the creation of the bomb itself, J. R. Oppenheimer. On the voyage back to the States, the ship was destroyed... With USS Frankenstein, Axis Company examines not only the nature of the atomic bomb itself but also its effect on its creator, protectors, and victims. Using disparate mixed-media sources this reconstruction of what may have been Oppenheimer's most secret thoughts pulls into focus historic events and introduces several potential outcomes. USS Frankenstein was presented September 25 - November ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. AIDS GENOCIDE: THE CRIME THAT DARE NOT SPEAK IT'S NAME .... tissue cultures and create new germs, they have no idea what kind or how many Frankenstein ... Keske (2000) This statistical study concerns what is probably one of the most . aidsbiowar.com/page2.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Frankenstein .... the sub that ferried Frankenstein's heart to Hiroshima in 1945, visits the ... Following his departure from Hiroshima, Frankenstein ventures to Okayama, where .. http://www.tohokingdom.com/kaiju/frankenstein.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-qzcELew6frWBZspks_7SsnUuv9VNTUA-?cq=1&p=136 Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, an fantastically absurd Italian produced mad-scientist opus that paints Count Frankenstein as an adamant workaholic ever burning the midnight oil as he toils over exceedingly strange esoteric experiments with cadavers, is a strange and surreal movie that will amaze, baffle, disgust, and exasperate! ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://ambushedgrandjury.com/pdf/for_index_page.pdf Justice Department False Statements About the Secret Midnight Plutonium Burning Charges An internal Justice Department review completed on April 8th, 1994, which was also sent to Congress, provides the official government positions on why the secret midnight plutonium burning was not charged. First Justice Department Position: the infrared analyst on whose opinion the prosecutors had based the Search Warrant had "reversed himself and backed away from his prior opinion [that the incinerator had been operating.]" Citizens' Investigation Evidence: The infrared analyst informed the Citizen's Investigation that this Justice Department statement was not true. The infrared analyst, Al Divers, advised the Citizens' Investigation that he had never changed his opinion and that the reports he wrote indicate the incinerator was operating and that he'd told this to the Grand Jury ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.gothamgazette.com/feds/OGrady_102504.php In a memorable scene in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder shouts, "Life! Give my creation life!" As we all know, the Frankenstein story touches on man's attempt to go beyond the limits of science. To go where no one has ever dared. During the current election cycle, the left has begun work in its own Laboratory for Social Experimentation. They call their creation gay marriage. Bolstered by their successes in affirmative action, valueless education, and the War on Poverty, the liberal Laboratory for Social Experimentation believes that gay couples have been discriminated against for too long. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11. Modern Mechanix " How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race You have only yourselves to blame if I turn out to be your Frankenstein Monster! ... with test animals like monkeys and cows and goats only two miles off, they blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/15/how-nuclear-rad... ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Frankenstein Conquers the World The police and the J.S.D.F. chase Frankenstein around Hiroshima and the surrounding countryside, trying to catch him at first, but switching to a . http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewse-g/frank... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thomas Keske Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Poet's Postscript: Philosophical Frankenstein Halloween would be a perfect time to be campy and silly, but somehow I got the bug to attempt to express something half-way serious. I suppose that I must get my silliness-versus-seriousness cycles in sync. I think that Frankenstein was more than just a monster story. It attempted to deal with a few philosophical issues. One of the messages that seemed to be implied - There are certain areas in which science and man are not "meant" to delve, because they are infringing on "God's" territory. I want to make clear that is most certainly not my belief. There was an excellent scene in one of the "Planet of the Apes" series, where the human showed a paper airplane to an ape-priest of the future. The ape-priest took the plane, wrinkled his nose, crumpled it up, and pitched it away, with a gesture of disgust, saying how preposterous it was to think that apes or men could ever fly. Reminds me very much of a businessman on the streets of Cleveland, when I was a college kid, trying to hand out a gay-rights political flyer. Crumpled it, threw it - same attitude, same sense of self-certainty: "What utter NONSENSE!". It is easy to imagine an alternative history, where the Wright Brothers would have been burned at the stake for daring to infringe on the territory of the harp-playing angels in the clouds. If the early aircraft had all failed in fiery crashes, the religious leaders could have laughed and mocked this "inevitable" outcome as divine punishment of man's hubris. It could have set aviation back by many centuries. The imagery that I put together, among other things, is more expressing just that restraint and good sense are needed, and currently are sadly lacking. I can picture how capitalism could kill itself, where the money-obsessed Carl Icahns, the Jack Abramoff sleazeballs, the power-hungry, wheeler-dealer politicians, the profit-motivated pharmaceuticals, all intersect with the gobblety-gook technical worlds of the Robert Gallos and Beatrice Hahns, and manage to kill millions, without even needing any terrorist plots. Just one really bad vaccine, drug, food product, etc, would do the job, with the best of intentions. Or maybe, with good intentions to make big profits on hot stocks. The problem isn't science, though. It the corruption of science by the corporate and political systems. There isn't anything that we are "meant" to do or not do. The Universe doesn't really mean anything by our being here at all. We are quite free. We just have to be prudent about the possible consequences. The Frankstein story seemed to be conveying an anti-science, religious notion of this type, yet it also seemed to be conveying another heretical idea that challenged religious dogma. The story seemed to imply that the monster had a valid defense, to be able to say, "I did not create myself." There are would-be philosophers who claim, "Oh, but we do create ourselves. We define who and what we are, by our 'free will' choices" I think that the monster is correct. The would-be philosophers manage to think that they are making sense only because they think in terms of fuzzy-logic and are not defining their own terminology clearly. They think in magical terms, where the decision-making process consists of a little angel on one shoulder, and a little devil on the other. Which one you decide to listen to depends on whether you decide have more of the little angel or little devil in you. If you have the little angel, you will be rewarded with lovely harps in the clouds, otherwise the world has earned the right to chant "Bad! Bad!" and pitch you into burning sulfur for all eternity. Not exactly thinking like a neurologist, a brain scientist, in terms of neural connections, receptors, molecular interactions, organic chemistry. You could ask the philosophers, "At what point in the firing of neurons, does the magic come in, and the angels are able to violate the laws of physics?" Their view is essentially supernaturalistic. Some of them would deny it; some of them would embrace it as a virtue. Illogic is a virtue only if it is the truth, which illogic rarely is. It is "faith" not science, that is the true hubris- people imagining that they are guided to correct beliefs because of their own superior virtue, being proud that they can maintain their beliefs in spite of all rational evidence to the contrary. Even without getting into a discussion of neural connections, there is a philosophical "Problem of Evil": did "God" create evil, or is there a creative force in the universe that is independent of "God"? Is there evil "ex nihilo", created out of nothingness, independent of God's bringing the rest of creation from nothingness? If we had "free choice", they why would anyone choose "evil", only to bring destruction upon themselves, as well as everyone else? If choice is motivated by "character", then it is still controlled by something and not really "free". To say that we are free to choose a better character for ourselves would only create a circularity. We don't choose a better character, because we are already of too poor a character. We didn't choose that original character, though- we are thrust into this world, having not the slightest idea what is going on, never asking for the privilege. We cannot create a pebble, much less a planet. We did not create our own bones, or eyes, or brain tissue, or choose our parents. If some of us are only so much human garbage to be burned in an incinerator, then God must have created garbage, which does not speak well of his competence. This is not a profound question, it is a ridiculous one. It is puzzling only if you try to cling to a perspective of religious clap-trap. Even religiously oriented individuals sometimes will admit that they do not have answers for these questions. Other times, they will do a shoe-shuffle and tap-dance faster than a Republican in a men's room toilet stall, but they only dance around the questions and never do find a convincing answer. I would not mind people seeking comfort in religious superstition, if it did not become a mask and a crutch for their irrational, petty hatreds. I write about Frankenstein partly because I feel in that role, to be waving poetical, nuclear holocaust under your nose, as the envisioned monster-threat that you make for yourselves by your own attitudes. If you treat an entire segment of society like they are some kind of monsters, threats to civil order, gross-out jokes, dangers to children, a blight that should not exist - then you should not complain if some of them start to menace you like Frankenstein. There is an ironic parity among monster charges. Frankstein thinks that you are the real monster. A genocide advocate can give a "friend of the court" brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the media doesn't even report it. A leader of the one of most prominent "family" groups talks like crackpot, callings gays "forces of Satan", and yet he gets courted like perfectly respectable leader. Little things, big things, monstrous things, over and over, most of it happening off the radar screen of an indifferent public. You would not have a legitimate complaint about all the monsters that might come to kill you. Sometimes, they are only the monsters that you willfully made. Frankstein does have one note of almost-forgiveness for the human race, even though he can and will destroy it, if it refuses to acknowledge that it needs to change. He doesn't really blame you. You did not create yourselves, either. You are the kinds of hopeless bastards that you are, because you are the products of a dog-eat-dog evolution in an uncaring and random world. Many of you are too primitive even to accept your own evolution, because then you might have to confront a world-view that has an uncaring universe at the heart of it. Pity the poor human race, it has nothing if it does not have its delusions to sustain it. The fault is not in yourselves. It really is in the stars- the swirling, coalescing gases that form into planets and bump into each other haphazardly, wiping out entire species for nothing more than an exercise in the laws of gravity. Frankenstein sort of forgives you. He might have to kill you, if you don't get the message, but he almost forgives you, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thomas Keske Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Poet's Postscript: Philosophical Frankenstein Halloween would be a perfect time to be campy and silly, but somehow I got the bug to attempt to express something half-way serious. I suppose that I must get my silliness-versus-seriousness cycles in sync. I think that Frankenstein was more than just a monster story. It attempted to deal with a few philosophical issues. One of the messages that seemed to be implied - There are certain areas in which science and man are not "meant" to delve, because they are infringing on "God's" territory. I want to make clear that is most certainly not my belief. There was an excellent scene in one of the "Planet of the Apes" series, where the human showed a paper airplane to an ape-priest of the future. The ape-priest took the plane, wrinkled his nose, crumpled it up, and pitched it away, with a gesture of disgust, saying how preposterous it was to think that apes or men could ever fly. Reminds me very much of a businessman on the streets of Cleveland, when I was a college kid, trying to hand out a gay-rights political flyer. Crumpled it, threw it - same attitude, same sense of self-certainty: "What utter NONSENSE!". It is easy to imagine an alternative history, where the Wright Brothers would have been burned at the stake for daring to infringe on the territory of the harp-playing angels in the clouds. If the early aircraft had all failed in fiery crashes, the religious leaders could have laughed and mocked this "inevitable" outcome as divine punishment of man's hubris. It could have set aviation back by many centuries. The imagery that I put together, among other things, is more expressing just that restraint and good sense are needed, and currently are sadly lacking. I can picture how capitalism could kill itself, where the money-obsessed Carl Icahns, the Jack Abramoff sleazeballs, the power-hungry, wheeler-dealer politicians, the profit-motivated pharmaceuticals, all intersect with the gobblety-gook technical worlds of the Robert Gallos and Beatrice Hahns, and manage to kill millions, without even needing any terrorist plots. Just one really bad vaccine, drug, food product, etc, would do the job, with the best of intentions. Or maybe, with good intentions to make big profits on hot stocks. The problem isn't science, though. It the corruption of science by the corporate and political systems. There isn't anything that we are "meant" to do or not do. The Universe doesn't really mean anything by our being here at all. We are quite free. We just have to be prudent about the possible consequences. The Frankstein story seemed to be conveying an anti-science, religious notion of this type, yet it also seemed to be conveying another heretical idea that challenged religious dogma. The story seemed to imply that the monster had a valid defense, to be able to say, "I did not create myself." There are would-be philosophers who claim, "Oh, but we do create ourselves. We define who and what we are, by our 'free will' choices" I think that the monster is correct. The would-be philosophers manage to think that they are making sense only because they think in terms of fuzzy-logic and are not defining their own terminology clearly. They think in magical terms, where the decision-making process consists of a little angel on one shoulder, and a little devil on the other. Which one you decide to listen to depends on whether you decide have more of the little angel or little devil in you. If you have the little angel, you will be rewarded with lovely harps in the clouds, otherwise the world has earned the right to chant "Bad! Bad!" and pitch you into burning sulfur for all eternity. Not exactly thinking like a neurologist, a brain scientist, in terms of neural connections, receptors, molecular interactions, organic chemistry. You could ask the philosophers, "At what point in the firing of neurons, does the magic come in, and the angels are able to violate the laws of physics?" Their view is essentially supernaturalistic. Some of them would deny it; some of them would embrace it as a virtue. Illogic is a virtue only if it is the truth, which illogic rarely is. It is "faith" not science, that is the true hubris- people imagining that they are guided to correct beliefs because of their own superior virtue, being proud that they can maintain their beliefs in spite of all rational evidence to the contrary. Even without getting into a discussion of neural connections, there is a philosophical "Problem of Evil": did "God" create evil, or is there a creative force in the universe that is independent of "God"? Is there evil "ex nihilo", created out of nothingness, independent of God's bringing the rest of creation from nothingness? If we had "free choice", they why would anyone choose "evil", only to bring destruction upon themselves, as well as everyone else? If choice is motivated by "character", then it is still controlled by something and not really "free". To say that we are free to choose a better character for ourselves would only create a circularity. We don't choose a better character, because we are already of too poor a character. We didn't choose that original character, though- we are thrust into this world, having not the slightest idea what is going on, never asking for the privilege. We cannot create a pebble, much less a planet. We did not create our own bones, or eyes, or brain tissue, or choose our parents. If some of us are only so much human garbage to be burned in an incinerator, then God must have created garbage, which does not speak well of his competence. This is not a profound question, it is a ridiculous one. It is puzzling only if you try to cling to a perspective of religious clap-trap. Even religiously oriented individuals sometimes will admit that they do not have answers for these questions. Other times, they will do a shoe-shuffle and tap-dance faster than a Republican in a men's room toilet stall, but they only dance around the questions and never do find a convincing answer. I would not mind people seeking comfort in religious superstition, if it did not become a mask and a crutch for their irrational, petty hatreds. I write about Frankenstein partly because I feel in that role, to be waving poetical, nuclear holocaust under your nose, as the envisioned monster-threat that you make for yourselves by your own attitudes. If you treat an entire segment of society like they are some kind of monsters, threats to civil order, gross-out jokes, dangers to children, a blight that should not exist - then you should not complain if some of them start to menace you like Frankenstein. There is an ironic parity among monster charges. Frankstein thinks that you are the real monster. A genocide advocate can give a "friend of the court" brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the media doesn't even report it. A leader of the one of most prominent "family" groups talks like crackpot, callings gays "forces of Satan", and yet he gets courted like perfectly respectable leader. Little things, big things, monstrous things, over and over, most of it happening off the radar screen of an indifferent public. You would not have a legitimate complaint about all the monsters that might come to kill you. Sometimes, they are only the monsters that you willfully made. Frankstein does have one note of almost-forgiveness for the human race, even though he can and will destroy it, if it refuses to acknowledge that it needs to change. He doesn't really blame you. You did not create yourselves, either. You are the kinds of hopeless bastards that you are, because you are the products of a dog-eat-dog evolution in an uncaring and random world. Many of you are too primitive even to accept your own evolution, because then you might have to confront a world-view that has an uncaring universe at the heart of it. Pity the poor human race, it has nothing if it does not have its delusions to sustain it. The fault is not in yourselves. It really is in the stars- the swirling, coalescing gases that form into planets and bump into each other haphazardly, wiping out entire species for nothing more than an exercise in the laws of gravity. Frankenstein sort of forgives you. He might have to kill you, if you don't get the message, but he almost forgives you, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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