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Our material has not been fully characterized yet, but it appears to have more than 200*K thermal bandwidth.

What material is that?

Now if we can get the M-E thrusters working properly and open up a truly golden age of human spaceflight, Polywell rockets would give at least 70% of that effect and it is a surer technology. I doubt that. Remember, we've had the science down for decades how to build fission rockets and that has no...

I agree that functional societies have pioneering values and that a frontier is necessary to realize such. Since the whole Earth is now settled, we need to open up the space frontier to make this happen. Frederick Jackson Turner and Robert Heinlein have written extensively about the need for a front...

Again I ask, how is our current society "decadent"? This is an excellent question and one to which I doubt there is a simple nor easy answer. When I think of decadence I'm reminded of ancient Rome, which had grown so wealthy and lax from the Pax Romana that they turned to things like the gladiatori...

Again I ask, how is our current society "decadent"? This is an excellent question and one to which I doubt there is a simple nor easy answer. When I think of decadence I'm reminded of ancient Rome, which had grown so wealthy and lax from the Pax Romana that they turned to things like the gladiatori...

Well-recognized metrics of social behavior - crime, teen pregnancy, and drug abuse - have significantly improved in the past 20 years. Work ethic seems to be a function of opportunity. Young people become slackers during economic downturns. They become entrepreneurs when the economy is good (the dot...

Moller got in trouble with the SEC some years ago for claiming to prospective investigators that his "air car" was further along in development and ready to manufacturing when, in fact, it was not. There was an article about him in the Malaysian Straights Times that he was about to build a manufactu...

According to "GIThruster" (and I see no reason to doubt this), Sonny White got a null result on both of his interferometry experiments, despite dialing up the sensitivity several orders of magnitude beyond what was called for in his original paper. That Sonny talks of a "non-null" result (rather tha...

Perhaps the key factor in these killings is the fact that the perps were of far-left political ideology and not so much that they smoked pot. Of course the skank-stream media tried to pin this on "far right" extremists. ALL of the recent political violence in the past 10 years has been caused by far...

So let me get this straight. Say I'm someone who has always minded my own business and has never caused anyone any harm. But to answer your question, it is a loaded question. All of classical theism--including Judaism, Christianity and Islam--all teach in all their authentic forms, that all people ...

Well I'm sure I don't want to get into a religious discussion, but to answer your question, in the original language "sin" is the measure by which an arrow misses the center of a bullseye. It is the distance between righteousness and whatever you got. All Christian theologies throughout all history...

I'm not sure what the definition of "sin" is. It does not seem to anything that reasonable people would classify as criminal or anti-social behavior. On a related matter, I have never understood the appeal of a world-view that does not allow people to live their own lives, minding their own business...

So, they don't want Muslims to live on Mars (once it becomes possible to do so) meaning that only non-Muslims can go to Mars. Sounds fine to me. What is the problem with this?

<I>I guess maybe if the navy closes it up, and EMC2 is not allowed to talk afterward that would be pretty darn weird.</I> If this happens, it means they have been successful and the Navy wants first mover advantage with regards to the Chinese, Russians, etc. Wait a few years and it will be in the pr...

Luddite bioethicists (people who want to limit or ban this 3-D printing technology for medical use) can be used as a source of organs for transplants. That is their only value to the rest of society at all. If their organs are no good, at least they can be ground up and used as fertilizer for organi...