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by choff
Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:52 am
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

Anyone else ever hear of Sir Author 'Bomber' Harris, or his activities in Iraq in the 20's, as well as the French with their ME territories. Seems Saddam learned from the west about using gas. They already know just how ruthless we already are, our modern morality is self-delusion. The word 'unfair'...
by choff
Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

If you destroy Mecca with a cobalt bomb, anyone who goes on a pilgramage to ground zero will die painfully from radiation sickness within weeks, and the site contamination could last for centuries. Given the obligation to go at least once in a lifetime, this creates a real problem for the devout. Th...
by choff
Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: Novels you have re-read several times
Replies: 43
Views: 17277

Franz Kafka (The Trial, The Castle, I'm trying to find a copy of Amerika), Herman Hesse (Steppenwolf), Walter Tevis (The Man Who Fell to Earth), Everything by Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, Arthor C. Clarke (Glidepath), Ray Bradbury (Farhenheit 451), Auldous Huxley (Brave New World). Movies- TH...
by choff
Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:32 am
Forum: General
Topic: So how much things are "improving" in the muslim w
Replies: 218
Views: 69907

Polygamy in the ME doesn't help. For every 75 year old geezer with more than one wife another young muslim male is stuck being a bachelor. I've often though why don't we take one nuclear bomb laced with Cobalt, put it on a rocket aimed straight at Mecca, and just tell the Muslim world,'next time the...
by choff
Sat Jan 23, 2010 10:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New Nasa Spaceflight On pB11
Replies: 35
Views: 12975

With advances in suspended animation tech, the human crew could hibernate the whole trip, no need for a large habitat to take up weight, the AI advance crew could build that for you on the other end. The interstellar ships I've seen in science mags involve light sails, ramscoops or immense tanks of ...
by choff
Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:19 am
Forum: News
Topic: New Nasa Spaceflight On pB11
Replies: 35
Views: 12975

I still like my idea if only for a manned mission to the nearest star within the next 100 years. If Von Neumann intellegent computers/robots become available, you only have to send a small ship with one or two robots to the next star with enough fuel to decelerate rapidly on arrival. The robots use ...
by choff
Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:18 am
Forum: News
Topic: New Nasa Spaceflight On pB11
Replies: 35
Views: 12975

I still like my idea if only for a manned mission to the nearest star within the next 100 years. If Von Neumann intellegent computers/robots become available, you only have to send a small ship with one or two robots to the next star with enough fuel to decelerate rapidly on arrival. The robots use ...
by choff
Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:19 am
Forum: News
Topic: Want a Fusion Job?
Replies: 2
Views: 3704

Doesn't that describe what Helion energy already has, but they need money to develop it and General Fusion has money? I think they're geographically close as well.
by choff
Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:15 am
Forum: News
Topic: New Nasa Spaceflight On pB11
Replies: 35
Views: 12975

The downside to the ramscoop is its huge. If you want to travel to the stars, why not have unmanned ships run by intellegent computers make the long term trip and drop off tanks of fuel along the path. Then send the humans in a ship thats just fusion engine with small fuel collectors and habitat. Th...
by choff
Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Engineers are intrinsically 'right-wing'.
Replies: 39
Views: 15681

I remember at one time that genetics researchers claimed that schizophrenics were immune to certain types of cancer.
by choff
Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Engineers are intrinsically 'right-wing'.
Replies: 39
Views: 15681

In 'The Dilbert Principal' engineers are said to see the world as a 'sub optimized system,' something I think all navy nukes would probably agree with.(pun intended)
by choff
Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: Welfare in action.
Replies: 60
Views: 17998

This is a joke right, early April Fools day?
by choff
Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: The End Logic of the global warming bureaucracy
Replies: 5
Views: 2242

In Canada, if we had taken every last internal combustion engine driven vehicle off the road we still wouldn't have met the Kyoto targets. In my province alone, trees killed by pine beetles and budworms will give off 5 times more greenhouse gasses than all human activity in the country. Now, some pe...
by choff
Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:54 am
Forum: News
Topic: Solar Magnetosphere
Replies: 2
Views: 1547

Solar Magnetosphere

Don't remember if this was picked up on before, thought I'd mention it.

http://www-dcfightsback-org.dailykos.co ... /212413/58

Nice to see the Voyageur spacecraft still chugging along, spitting out data.
by choff
Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: AGW Supporters always ignore this question
Replies: 183
Views: 38833

I think it was U.N. stats. They said the real estate left behind in the ME was equal in area to 4 times the size of Israel and the economic value equal to $300 billion in todays value. Since the Arab policies towards Israel and Jews are having the opposite than desired effect, perhaps they should tr...