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Sometimes You Just Have to Lift the State of Siege

Poser Science/Medical posted on May 24, 2008
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Back about 25 years ago I made some long distance calls to Europe and Japan just to make a persoanl routing for any dialling I had left over from a stint in field service. There was another fibre optic link to Japan but my Japanese was ridiculous though I did get routed to Tokyo from Hiroshima where I was trying to locate the Soroban Bridge. I had to speak Chinese very clearly and the Mandarin took me. I had bought a soroban which is like an abacus in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1953. Then I took up the cause of the binary star and Freiderich Bessel's belief that only a man in complete poverty could separate a binary star. Imagine how amazed he would be with Hubble photos now. I knew from the Encyclopedia Britannica that his house was in Koenigsberg. But now Koenigsberg was Kalliningrad and there were two of them. One by the Polish bordeer and one next to Moscow. This is an easy separation on a map but not so easy speaking Russian in a phone. There was a new satellite postioned to give phone service to the area around the Baltic. The connection was good...right into someone's private home in the middle of the night. I tried to ask for InTourist but realized I was making no sense. That was my last use of the phone for exploration. A few calls to a friend each month until 1988 and I did not need a phone any more. Oh, I did have a phone line from 1999 until 2004 for dialup Internet but no instrument for talking. I spoke once or twice on ICQ to an acquaintance in Australia.

Comments (15)


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Richardphotos

6:02AM | Sat, 24 May 2008

seems to be an occurrence of us posting nearly the same time.Simon or James can noy wait to take a spine

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timtripp

6:05AM | Sat, 24 May 2008

that you are not in touch doesn't imply that you've lost your touch!

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Hendesse

6:13AM | Sat, 24 May 2008

Great work, the background looks superb too!

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RodolfoCiminelli

6:46AM | Sat, 24 May 2008

Very orignal environment and splendid work....!!!

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NekhbetSun

6:47AM | Sat, 24 May 2008

Who needs a phone anyway :o) ....cool image here !

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phil013

10:05AM | Sat, 24 May 2008

Très original, Dale, Je suppose que c'est un de tes dessins en arrière plan ? bravo

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evielouise

10:15AM | Sat, 24 May 2008

the background made me dizzy lol great modeling

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moochagoo Online Now!

12:19PM | Sat, 24 May 2008

Amazing story, as usual. Love the atmosphere !

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jocko500

3:54PM | Sat, 24 May 2008

not much to talk about anyway. just the same words come out of people mouths that is mix diff so the statements be diff. They put words together too with feeling . love how the car not whole and the background is surreal. That how most people talk anyway so you got it

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Mad-Mike

5:44PM | Sat, 24 May 2008

how in heck did you obtain a random residents # in the baltic area? ahhh yeah the country code and wild guest work perhaps haha Cool modeling with that fender in place Dale.

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goodoleboy

6:58PM | Sat, 24 May 2008

Like, thank you for the Grand Tour, my friend! You anecdotedly covered the planet in a matter of a few minutes. Anyway, superb POV, vivid colors and tortuous dynamics in this concept, T!

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2Loose2Trek

9:52PM | Sat, 24 May 2008

Original and amazing ... very cool modeling and background.

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ragouc

2:50AM | Sun, 25 May 2008

Cool work.

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sessan53

5:12AM | Sun, 25 May 2008

Very great work. I like it. :-)hugs sessan

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Osper

9:22PM | Mon, 26 May 2008

Half a loaf is better than none, unless you forgot where you put it.


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