“Alas!” said Hiya, “the sentiments which this person expressed with irreproachable honourableness when the sun was high in the heavens and the probability of secretly leaving an undoubtedly well-appointed home was engagingly remote, seem to have an entirely different significance when recalled by night in a damp orchard, and on the eve of their fulfilment.”
March 31, 2008
For my Mac-using friends
Everybody knows you can't predict an earthquake. The only way would be to get inside a time machine, go into the future, and send back a message.
So seismologist Elizabeth Cochran of the University of California at Riverside will use thousands of computers to do just that.
Well, it's not exactly a time machine. Cochran and Stanford seismologist Jesse Lawrence have made use of the sensors built into many new laptops that sense when the computer is being dropped, and turned them into earthquake monitors. They hope to sign up thousands of users to act like a grid of detectors that can sense an earthquake before it does too much damage.
Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection
Posted by ronlusk at March 31, 2008 09:00 PM