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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5185294" data-attributes="member: 54707">I didn't even know they existed till I heard that. But I saw a hairdoo just like that guy's one time in Aberdeen. It caught fire at a rodeo and catfish fry and they lost three good clowns in the conflagration. It was just like the Edmund Fitzgerald all over again.This isn't really something I've been working on, but it is something I've been following for some time. I thought some of you might be interested in the reopening of the Museo Leonardiano. Here's a press release and a link to the program: <a href="http://pressrelease.museoleonardiano.it/eng/" target="_blank">Museo Leonardiano</a>As for me, tonight I was watching a DVD copy of the second season of the Wild Wild West borrowed from the public library. The disc was scratched terribly (because so many people don't treat library CDs and DVDs very well) and the show hung in several places. While I was watching it I thought that although the disc was stopping in play progress, it actually looked as if the data or information on the disc were being stretched, or elongated. This gave me an idea for two possible inventions. First of all data and image discs which are coated with a covering (which will not interfere with the optical or otherwise reading of the data), that shields the disc itself from being scratched but the same covering allows the imprinting (by the disc) upon itself of a holographic impressive overprint on the covering. Or with a coating that allows the disc itself to act as a "holographic mirror." This would mean that even if the protective covering were damaged, or the disc itself scratched, there would be imprinted upon the disc an innate (or reflective) holographic image of the original data which the reader could then use to reconstruct (or simply re-read) any lost data or image points obscured due to mishandling and physical damage. If an acceptable holographic coating, or mirrored holographic coating, could be developed (and ideally it would be in spray form because then you could go back and treat already existing but uncoated discs) then it would likely possess the secondary benefit of allowing extra data and information space to be added to any disc so treated. If you could encode mirrored holographic information correctly so that only certain readers could detect it then this application would also have potential benefits as an espionage and intelligence tool. I've even thought of this app as a possible extension of "environmental encoding" through the development of sprayed on holographic or steganographic images that could be value-added to any existing CD or DVD, but only read by a particular and properly calibrated reader.The second idea I had involved data disc area and storage capacity. Suppose in the manufacturing process of creating the disc in the first place you intentionally scratched the readable surface area of the disc because you could write or implant in the walls of the scratches (obliquely) and in the trenches of the scratches either additional data and information, or duplicate versions of the intended imprinted data, images, and information. The scratches themselves would then act as "preservation trenches" for either the original data (like storing data in hidden recesses previously unused or empty, but now filled) or to enhance and augment the original data with additional data. The scratches then could serve tow distinct functions, or perhaps both function simultaneously depending upon how information is imprinted: Data preservation, or data enhancement, which would have the added effect of greatly increasing the storage capacity of the data disc itself.The trouble with the second idea is that one would have to develop both new types of imprinters (capable of successfully imprinting data in such scratches and intentionally designed trenches), and new types of readers which could detect and read such data at oblique angles of approach and decipherment. Both ideas interested me however because of the inherent potentials. Other than that I'm working on my staff officer work, studying for my final exam for CERT, and I have just finished my notebook of Fundamental Plans, and slightly revised my Plot Machine. I'm also reviewing my Investment Portfolio to see how it can be improved. But little time for anything else right now. I've written a few poems and started an essay on Thaumaturgy, but that's about it for me.I'd be happy to hear what others are up to lately.</blockquote>

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