Approaching kilopi - Any advice?

[Jeff Root]

Well, I passed the kilopi mark, and I don't know how fast I was going when
I did it. I'm certain that I was accelerating, though, and I think that's a
good thing.

One question: I don't need to put this Crisco on my hair, do I? I hope not.
I don't think I'd have enough in that case.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

[hhEb09'1]

Hmmm, good question. How about, just cut off the hair, that'll do.

[mike alexander]

If you're driving, just keep your hands on the wheel and sit in the Crisco.

Glad you made it. Isn't it amazing? The colors, all the gold just lying around, the unlimited American Express card they hand you.

We try to explain it to others, but it comes off either as bragging or lying.

[Swift]

One question: I don't need to put this Crisco on my hair, do I? I hope not.
I don't think I'd have enough in that case.

Enough hair or enough Crisco?

[Maksutov]

Well, here we go! Wish me luck!


waves at chrissy

[Maksutov]

Made it to myria-phi with the last post. Now I'm on the "other side" thanks to the help provided by ToSeek. Wow, what a ritual! We don need no steenking crisco!

Man, sure is different over here. ToSeek has no goatee, for example. And the captain appears a lot friendlier. I asked the crew about the "device" where some folks would just disappear and they looked puzzled.

The inner workings of the BAUT are a marvel, beyond description. They put the Krell machine to shame. Hats off to Fraser and Phil!

Now to perform a few experiments to determine exactly how many dimensions are in play over here. I've evidence for eleven so far.

Signing off from the other side, and

Take care,

Mak.

waves at chrissy

[chrissy]

hey stop waving your causing a 4 dimentional gale force wind back here!

have you managed to get back out of there or is it better than here?


*waves back* what the heck the wind will dry the clothes better

[ToSeek]

Now to perform a few experiments to determine exactly how many dimensions are in play over here. I've evidence for eleven so far.

You'll find that it correlates with the phases of the Moon and the number of days since the BA had a blog entry that made it to the front page of Digg, along with a few other factors I haven't been able to confirm yet. Basically, don't be surprised if your experiments don't yield consistent results.




I miss my goatee.

[Maksutov]

hey stop waving your causing a 4 dimentional gale force wind back here!

OK, waving stopped. Had no idea what kind of interdimensional meteorological "warfare" that would cause!

have you managed to get back out of there or is it better than here?

In some ways it's better, in others, well, I miss certain aspects of the old plane of existence. I can get out, but seems for the short I have to split into one of my components.

*waves back* what the heck the wind will dry the clothes better

OK, just a little wave then, to help with the laundry.

[Maksutov]

You'll find that it correlates with the phases of the Moon and the number of days since the BA had a blog entry that made it to the front page of Digg, along with a few other factors I haven't been able to confirm yet. Basically, don't be surprised if your experiments don't yield consistent results.

Thanks for the information, ToSeek!. Moon phase shouldn't be a problem, and I can dig the other one as being somewhat aleatory. Please let me know when you confirm those other factors. Will keep experimenting though. Sure was weird getting 2.71828 one time and 6.67300 another, though.

Meanwhile what a fascinating realm! So much to learn about. Perspective (from additional dimensions) is an amazing thing.

I miss my goatee.

Understood. But at least you still have your mustache, which seems to indicate you have achieved balance and oneness with the force.

[ToSeek]

Thanks for the information, ToSeek!. Moon phase shouldn't be a problem, and I can dig the other one as being somewhat aleatory. Please let me know when you confirm those other factors. Will keep experimenting though. Sure was weird getting 2.71828 one time and 6.67300 another, though.

I wouldn't swear to it, but I think there's also a connection to the rate of postings in the "Word Association Game II" thread - some days (if you can call them days) I think I can tell chrissy is in the "Fun and Games" forum just by the increased degree of dimensional warping at the event horizons. Also, when anyone with more than kilopi posts changes their avatar, things can get very strange for a while - probably should have mentioned that before; just be prepared. You'll get used to it after the first few times, though.

And I'm going to start growing the goatee back. I don't care what the captain says.

[mike alexander]

Speaking of interdimensional transfers...

[Kaptain K]

I miss my goatee.

It's not a goatee, it's a Van Dyke!

[Maksutov]

It's not a goatee, it's a Van Dyke!

Tuning in...turning on...dropping in....there we are!

He only lost his goatee. He still has a mustache. You need both for a Van Dyke.

But it's OK. He's growing it back.

Amazing things these 4-dimensional folks get concerned about!

Tuning out...turning off...dropping out...we now return control of your 4-dimensional world to you, until our next visit.

[ToSeek]

Some further notes: Keep in mind that what we have in this reality is a geometric manifold of the BAUT forum in phase space in all of its manifestations and then some (i.e., all phenomena in BAUT space have their counterparts in this one, though there are aspects of this space that don't seem to match anything in BAUT space, though it may just be that I haven't discovered the correlations). If you haven't realized it already, those bright purplish specks are posts, with magnitude roughly correlated with degree of erudition. (You can see some of JayUtah's from over a light year away!) If you adjust your viewpoint to parallel somewhere along the 6/7/8th dimension (depending on the factors previously discussed), you'll see the posts line up as threads. The long but very dim series are from "Fun and Games", with an occasional brighter one when someone comes up with something that's actually clever. The alternating bright-and-dim ones are usually ATM discussions. Really bright and dim alternations are almost always Jay putting the smackdown on an Apollo hoax believer.

Meanwhile, if you can figure out what those wispy chartreuse things are, let me know.

[The Supreme Canuck]

Meanwhile, if you can figure out what those wispy chartreuse things are, let me know.

Those are probably the posters who get stuck at Kilopi, where time dilation is infinite. They just... stop. That's why you need to either go over the limit, or stay under it.

[hhEb09'1]

Meanwhile, if you can figure out what those wispy chartreuse things are, let me know.

Whoa, I thought you'd know. I figured they were the (almost) invisible moderator posts, barely detectable by normal beings.

Those are probably the posters who get stuck at Kilopi, where time dilation is infinite. They just... stop. That's why you need to either go over the limit, or stay under it.

The limit is actually a transendental real number. I've verified that by stopping both above and below, and, paradoxically, you don't slow down and almost stop--you travel in time. It's kinda cool, but sometimes I wish I didn't know what happens to Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton and Paula Abdul.

[The Supreme Canuck]

The limit is actually a transendental real number. I've verified that by stopping both above and below, and, paradoxically, you don't slow down and almost stop--you travel in time. It's kinda cool, but sometimes I wish I didn't know what happens to Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton and Paula Abdul.

Huh. Well, you'd know - I just moved on quickly to avoid the mess. The warnings were dire. Is that how Colt joined in 1969?

[chrissy]

I wouldn't swear to it, but I think there's also a connection to the rate of postings in the "Word Association Game II" thread - some days (if you can call them days) I think I can tell chrissy is in the "Fun and Games" forum just by the increased degree of dimensional warping at the event horizons.

Oh! blame me then! just keeping the games going since being crowned the guru I have to be there to keep them towing the line.
I must check out the time, space continuum on that event horizon see where it may take me...............whoa.................wow.......in teresting.......I saw faces......they...they....looook.......

[hhEb09'1]

Oh! blame me then! just keeping the games going since being crowned the guru I have to be there to keep them towing the line.

I didn't know BAUT had a tug of war, can I join in?

[chrissy]

I didn't know BAUT had a tug of war, can I join in?

now that depends on how good you are, the team only want the best!

Meanwhile, if you can figure out what those wispy chartreuse things are, let me know.

I think I might have solved that one while I was studying the event horizon, they are the lurker shadows !

[Kaptain K]

I think hhEb09'1 was referring to the fact that the phrase is "toeing the line"!

[hhEb09'1]

now that depends on how good you are, the team only want the best!

My nickname is "gravity"

I think hhEb09'1 was referring to the fact that the phrase is "toeing the line"!

Hey, you didn't know about it either? C'mon, it'll be fun.

[Kaptain K]

Dang! It ain't easy being straight man around here! Everybody's a commodian!

[ToSeek]

Whoa, I thought you'd know. I figured they were the (almost) invisible moderator posts, barely detectable by normal beings.

No, the moderator posts are the ones that glow so brightly with erudition that they're only visible in the ultraviolet. I think Chrissy's hypothesis is worth considering.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Do sock puppets appear as small dense objects clustered around each other in small groups.

[mike alexander]

Kaptain K observed:
Everybody's a commodian!

What, they worship toilets or something?


On second thought, I knew a couple of guys in college who spent weekends doing just that.

[Jeff Root]

Even if everyone is a commodore, there still has to be a head commodore.

.

[mike alexander]

The head commadore is referred to as the apostrophadore, since he's above everyone else. Unless it's a she, in which case she is naturally high, so it doesn't matter.

[chrissy]

I think hhEb09'1 was referring to the fact that the phrase is "toeing the line"!

nope I meant pulling the threads together!
hhEb09'1 you can be the anchor man then!