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Bush was loathed, but we waited for him to actually start suspending habeus corpus and freedom of speech before we called him a facist, these people are just doing it cause they're unhappy that the rich are getting taxed.

You actually think the semi-insane tea baggers are something that frightens politicians? dressing up obama in a hitler costume and calling for book burning is not going to get more than 20% of americans interested, and that 20% already hated the people in power because they will always hate the peop...

I believe you have misstated that very important adage MSimon. Paranoia does not behoove you.

It works in any fluid, gas or liquid. The force is a product of Current times distance traveled, divided by how "movable" the medium is. you would just need to space the conducting parts far enough apart that they don't arc. that would be bad.

All small scale ionocraft are completely noiseless, I haven't seen video of any bigger than prox 10 cm across though. I'm thinking of building one with my EE friends.

If you could improve the performances on ionocraft some advantages would probably be maintenance since there are no moving parts, noise pollution, maneuverability perhaps. I'm not saying they're wonderful, just something nifty that would require power supplies like a polywell to run on the large sca...

How do we appear to outsiders? I know i have a hard time not sounding crazy to other in my physics department. People are very skeptical of fusion that doesn't seem like it's magic/monolithic in scale. stupid gutting of science education funding for the last forever :grumble grumble:

Because it's never been done before? Weren't the original heavier than air flyers wildly less practical than ship or hot air balloons? It's just something that could be interesting to check out.

What is the difference between a colony that lasts 20 million years and one that lasts 10 million? It is a question that can be put off for a while. Maybe we will have invented hydrogen fusion by then and won't have to depend on deuterium. Oh no, I think he stipulated H-H fusion, which I don't thin...

But the kind of skeletal support structure for it may make it a good chunk heavier. But even moderate improvements on performance could make it for an interesting purely electrical air craft. Edit: Upon further reading, the Biefeld–Brown effect which ionocraft exploit depends on High voltage DC whic...

I actually read a book called islands in the sky, it was a very thorough discussion on space exploration and commercialization, from a current scientiffic to the highly theoretical stand point. What it had to say about the oort cloud was yes, you could use fusion, but it would dictate the life span ...

SO! I was reading about reactionless thrusters filling time the other day when i stumbled upon something that didn't make physics cry, Lifters. Also comonly known as Ionocraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft The general gist is Ions are formed from the air and accelerated down at high veloci...

Just throw half the budget at the NSF and keep the grants coming and everything will more or less work out for the better, an excess of scientists is better for a society than an excess of bankers and investors.

I hate debating with you, it's like we start off with different first principles, as if two physics were arguing over some inductive effect and used a different value for the charge of an electron, all the logic is fine on both sides but they can't come to anything resembling an agreement, and one o...

Yeah, but republicans are ill informed enough to know that fruit flies are one of the primary means of studying genetics you could easily convince them that WB fusors are equally "wasteful".

Yes, 20 million would be better than 2 million, but 2 million will go a pretty good way.