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Considerations in passing the General Mining Act of 1872 are quoted. This same consideration holds for asteroid mining today, IMO. Western representatives successfully argued that western miners and prospectors were performing valuable services by promoting commerce and settling new territory. In 18...

Cosmic Log reports. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11339522-billionaire-backed-asteroid-mining-venture-starts-with-space-telescopes?lite The venture known as Planetary Resources eventually plans to go asteroid mining — but the first step in the billionaire-backed business plan is to...

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Interesting news. Marc has a paid Intern now, or will sometime in May.

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/

Good luck Domenick!

I thought the idea behind him building a fusor first was to get a better handle on power supply and vacuum chamber operation before he started working on the polywell itself. From an incremental development standpoint it made sense to me. That's what I thought as well. Regarding 3-D printing, so wh...

This is pretty special. Are these batteries going to be expensive?

From a macro viewpoint, I speculate that they would like to have more high power shots in order to analyze more data. They wrote in an earlier update that they had taken over 500 high power shots in the quarter. Rounding out the numbers, that is about one shot per hour assuming a standard 40 hour wo...

What do you think would be some good experiments to run with Eureqa? Develop a formula for the masses of elementary particles. The Heim mass formula (Google it) gives very good values for the masses of many particles but it is a very complex formula and not a predictive formula. That is, it gives a...

During the course of the contracted study several anomalies related to how electrons were fed into the device were discovered. These anomalies must be characterized and solutions created if the device is to be made functional. To solve these anomalies, the additional effort will require the incumbe...

The guys found this and posted it on the Recovery.Gov Project Tracker thread. (Bottom of the page) http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1681&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1050 I'm posting this here so that hopefully someone will speculate on what it means theoretically regarding the mach...

I'll defer to Tom when he posts, but in the mean time, if I may walk out on a limb, let me say this. It looks to me like the time required to form a Wiffleball is greater than the desired time between pulses and cool-down time is less than Wiffleball formation time. So they want to pulse the machine...

Continued research is critical, as the long term goal is to achieve a clean nuclear energy source for the Navy and DoD

Now ain't that say'n somethin'! They are not giving up!

Looks like they still don't know what is going on. The OPERA collaboration has informed its funding agencies and host laboratories that it has identified two possible effects that could have an influence on its neutrino timing measurement. http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR...

The FAA would be a strong candidate for regulating space launch if the field were mature. But until the field has a chance to mature it needs vastly different regulation than the airliner style rules I'd expect the FAA to apply. You win. The Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST). Its been...

In the linked press release, CERN announced that the LHC will run with a beam energy of 4 TeV this year. http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR01.12E.html They are increasing the power by 0.5 TeV in order to collect enough data to conclude the search for the Higgs boson this ye...