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Hmmm. Are you saying you're a real defeatist? I'm saying it's best to deal with reality and don't bury your head in the sand. Fact: The USA is bankrupt. Fact: The USA empire is heading for disaster. These are good things -- particularly the second one. The world is finished with empires. And corrup...

Once upon a time I wanted a perfect world. Now I'm willing to settle for a slightly better one. Hmmm. Except that for the past 20 years, each year brings us lower real incomes, higher prices for everything, declining standard of living, reduced freedom, more government intervention, more US involve...

Examples of corruption and bad allocation of funds: 1) LIGO -- why keep funding this thing? It proved general relativity is wrong -- no gravity waves were ever detected. Instead, they want another $200M+ to make it more sensitive. By gosh, we'll find those gravity waves yet! Pass me another filet mi...

dashxdr, Of course there is corruption everywhere. It is no secret. Neither is the corruption. It is all done in the open. The idea that there is a secret cabal secretly conniving for secret ends is an idea that I find less than credible. So....you're ok with all that then? Sure, there's corruption...

I'm surprised at how much people resist the concept that corruption is everywhere. Can anyone who knows anything about polywell fusion and Dr. Bussard really deny the massive pork barrel politics behind existing DOE fusion research? Bussard called them "Superconducting cathedrals." Think of the mass...

This whole conspiracy business, technology suppression, corruption of pork barrel research -- it all fits in with my recently acquired philosophy/view of reality. So yeah I like to believe this stuff is realistic. The essay spoke right to my own beliefs. The world sucks. Governments are corrupt. Sci...

It's important to note that just because these prevailing theories have some nice features, that doesn't prove they're true. I mean, in order for String Theory to be accepted at all, it would have to have some compelling aspects. I've engaged in debates on other forums with people who are religiousl...

I dunno. Anything that starts with overturning 80 years of cosmology is somewhat suspect to me. It smacks of Eric Lerner, with the caveat that Mayer seems to have learned how to play well with others. I would add that it would be interesting to see his actual CV along with a list of refereed papers...

Yes that's a good point about how the heat generated by the fusion would eliminate the whole environment allowing for fusion in the furst place. I wonder if something like this might work: You have a sample cooled to very low temperature. You bombard it with ions of just the right energy level such ...

One other note, what if you just accelerated hydrogen ions (with a fusor?) using electric charge, but you accelerate them at a target cooled to very low temperatures. That way the target's thermal energy is eliminated. By changing the fusor's voltage, you can control the energy level of the hydrogen...

As a followup, the assertion is that only a certain narrow window of velocity will allow for fusion. The polywell device is a means to allow random collisions to go on long enough to allow particles to just magically undergo fusion. AF Mayer's theory might give us the exact energy particles must hav...

This looks interesting: http://www.jaypritzker.org/pages/StrongForce.html The foregoing discussion is not simply academic. It suggests the possibility of a new approach to the technological problem of producing usable energy by the process of nuclear fusion. It would appear that a very particular im...

Why would gravity be affected? I suppose thermal expansion would tend to lower the density of the earth and push the surface out a bit. This would reduce gravity a little.

Regarding the moon keeping the earth's core molten, back in the 80's when voyager was passing jupiter, and pictures were taken of the moon Io, and it was discovered it had volcanoes. The core was molten due to tidal forces from jupiter. My theory is the earth's moon is keeping the core molten. The s...

While we're on the subject, here are some of my own prejudices: 1) I don't believe black holes can form. I think as matter falls into them, time must slow down until it effectively stops. Once you get a dense enough mass where the escape velocity is 'c', it can't contract anymore. No singularity. No...