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Article #84Re: Plants as network medium?
From: Bob Nienhuis
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 00:00
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mnc@diana.law.yale.edu (Miguel Cruz) wrote: >Oren Ben-Kiki <oren@capella.co.il> wrote: >>> Would it be possible to use plants as the transmission medium for >>> networks? >> >> Nah, too slow. Why not try for faster then light? It is a well known fact >> that Kingship is transferred instantaniously (once the old king dies, the >> heir _immediatly_ becomes king). >That gives me another idea. It is also a well-known fact that failure to >pick up an umbrella in the morning can cause major atmospheric stress, >sometimes hundreds of miles away, leading to precipitation which would >otherwise not have occurred. >miguel I think you're really on to something here, Miguel. If we can learn to artificially generate the signals emitted by umbrellas and washed cars, we might be able to achieve something long hoped for by science. Controlling the weather! Bob nienhuis@wgn.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5392,d64bb549f3b9438d X-Google-Attributes: gidf5392,public X-Google-Thread: 102b32,d64bb549f3b9438d X-Google-Attributes: gid102b32,public X-Google-Thread: 10669a,d64bb549f3b9438d X-Google-Attributes: gid10669a,public X-Google-Thread: 115fe3,d64bb549f3b9438d X-Google-Attributes: gid115fe3,public From: nienhuis@wgn.net (Bob Nienhuis) Subject: Re: Plants as network medium? Date: 1998/09/07 Message-ID: <35f4471b.0@news.wgn.net> X-Deja-AN: 388805581 References: <35E704A9.5EFFDA9C@technocage.com> <35eb9fc1.0@news.barak.net.il> <6shksr$7nv$1@news.ycc.yale.edu> X-Trace: 7 Sep 1998 13:50:35 -0800, 207.213.6.197 Organization: Totally Disorganized Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,bionet.plants