Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: Phillip SanMiguel <pmig...@purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:06:23 -0400
Local: Tues, Jul 4 2006 2:06 pm
Subject: Re: Imagining the Tenth Dimension
Mike Schilling wrote: Here is how to watch the whole flash presentation without getting bored > "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsm...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1151648273.274034.34440@d56g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... >> Mike Schilling wrote: >>> "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsm...@gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:1151647258.102606.201770@h44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >>>> This web site is basically broken; my browser sits there loading data >>>> endlessly, but never shows anything. >>> It works fine for me. I'm using Firefox. >> I'm using Firefox also, and have a pretty fast connection. >> So, what does the tenth dimension look like, and what happened to the > It's a big dot, which apparently subsumes the first nine. If I'd had the because of the slow download speed. I've got about 1.5 Mbps download rate--I can actually see that on internet speed download speed tests. It probably took 10-15 minutes for the entire presentation to completely download. I'm doubting that the presentation is 100 megabytes, so I presume there is some other bottleneck. Anyway, go to the site: It takes a little while for the first page to load, but if everything Unless you were a teenager before MTV launched, you will find the wait I've watched it twice. It seems pretty wacky to me. You'll see some To answer Gene's question: Basically you just go through the first 3 All in all, I find it a little haunting. Any physicists want to comment? Phillip You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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