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The policies of union destruction: http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/03/union-threats-harassment-backfire-in-wisconsin/ This not the nineteen thirties and this is not Germany. It's time to stand up to these bullies. Maybe it's time these bullies learned what it's like to lose their jobs. W...

Kitty, I love the idea here in this thread, but don't you think that before we see real investment on orbit, we need to see a new transport system that is safe, quick, convenient and economical? Once we have that, what goes to orbit seems almost trivial by comparison. SpaceX's Falcon rockets have a...

From my reading about carbon nanotube, one type of nanotube lattice structure is metallic and exhibits conductivity 1000 better than copper, at room temperatures, no less! How would nanotube wire coils for a polywell reduce the scale required for good power output?

I'd settle for 0.1g to 0.1 c: That gives us the solar system !! D'uh, I'd settle for an EM thruster fitted to ISS for orbit maintenance as proof of concept.... Like a solar sail, a microgravity boost's effects accumulate... 0.1g to 0.1 c gives us interstellar trips in one lifetime. Then we just nee...

Yes. It is indeed impossible. I've mentioned this chap before here. He has a piece of kit pluged into the wall. Same issue I have raised with "Mach effect" thrusters applies - the reaction force causing the motion is likely being borne by the electrons pushing back on the generator generating the e...

icarus wrote:You can speculate to your hearts content, this project has turned black, like everything else touched by the deathly hand of a totalitarian state.

Coffee smells good this morning, what's Charlie Sheen been up to I wonder?

Winning, of course.

Exactly. Everything turns around that point. If it does not scale as Bussard imagined a whole lot of other issues will have to be considered, even if the plasma containment and fusion is proven. The big thing that WB8 will debunk are the absurd thermalization claims of Ryder, which unfortunately di...

Syngas, aka Producer Gas, has a very long history preceding the oil era. The technology was used to convert coal into a hydrogen/carbon monoxide mix by heating coal in an anoxic environment and treating it with steam, then piping the producer gas out to customers. If you've visited Seattle, you can ...

Uh, if they can get controlled fusion working, building even a modest power station --Or replacing / supplementing the fossil-fuel stages-- would pay for their space project... Getting just one 2 GW fusion power station operating would earn so much profit at todays electic prices that you could fun...

KitemanSA, I actually brought it up earlier. So there are constitutional (in the US anyway) ways that government can do things that would end up hurting businesses? 1. If it is in the interest of national defense 2. Anything else? Just making small talk. I remember reading about the controversy wit...

It is however true that those who wish to control you ( many lawyers among that group ) work assiduously to confuse the two. After all, if you don't have clear language, you can't think clearly. And if you can't think clearly, you are easy to own. Absolutely wrong. Blackstone defined the law as def...

What sense does that make? I don't see any necessary connection between a PR goof like that and the threat posed by the J-20. Is the author of the article suggesting the J-20 is actually a 'shopped F-22 or something? No, just that the gun camera footage the chinese posted to brag about the aircraft...

I read something the other day that said the Air in front of the plane would still produce a detectable Doppler shift radar signature. If this is true, it would seemingly be true for our stuff as well. I know the Serbs figured out a way to shoot one of ours down. I know that lidar (LIght Distancing...

People have a right to be immoral, unethical bastards, you can not legislate morality. Nonsense. ALL Laws are legislated Morality. This ought to be self evident, but judging by how many people keep repeating the "You can't legislate Morality" mantra, perhaps if I make it more noticeable maybe it wi...

Anarchy is the transitional period between one form of government and a Dictatorship. Libertarian ideas devolve into anarchy. That is exactly what happened in China. Libertarian --->> Anarchy --->> Dictatorship. (Legal Drugs) (Social collapse) (Mao Tse Tung) Absolutely false. Its laughably absurd t...