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That's fine. The public funding should stop, though, since it's clearly a private project. Fundamental question for you. Do you believe the military should be doing R&D? If you see no legitimacy in military R&D, then perhaps your statement above holds merit. But if you think the military should be ...

I don't see what is so difficult to understand here. If EMC2 wants to develop a private energy system then all is well, they just shouldn't be asking the US government to finance that research... I don't see what is so difficult to understand here. If the Navy wants to have a private company develo...

For the gov, the public are the shareholders. Not even close. Bizarre actually. Being a citizen isn't *anything* like being a shareholder in a company. It's also a disturbing implication that if you purchase a share of common stock in a company, you then have the right to rifle their files for trad...

If the work required is so secret, or is so important that it cannot be allowed to fail, then it should be clearly and distinctly owned by the Government. To do anything else is 'un-captialistic', and we know where un-captialism takes us.... Let me get this straight: you don't like that USG pays to...

If the evidence is incomplete, why is money being spent on it? There are other pressing things to research that do not suffer from this problem. At the end of the day, you have to think of this as if it were your money (since it really is), and question whether you would spend that much money with ...

I will word the question more like "Do you object to the military funding research on proprietary technologies for its own purposes that will allow the company owning the technology and doing the research to market the results to the public and thereby make a profit on?" But EMC2 no longer own any ...

The requirement of disclosure that accompanies government research funds serves to make government funds less desirable than internal funds. The requirements of project control that usually accompanies venture research funds serves to make venture funds less desirable than internal funds. But, if a...

I love Tang. I don't make a penny from it, but I do love it, especially on backpacking trips. So what's wrong that USG paid to develop it and someone gains exclusive financial benefit from it? I get to drink it and that's enough reason for USG to have paid to develop it. Ha! Someone gets it. What a...

The requirement of disclosure that accompanies government research funds serves to make government funds less desirable than internal funds. The requirements of project control that usually accompanies venture research funds serves to make venture funds less desirable than internal funds. But, if a...

You need to rephrase the last option to specify immediate information release. Or some morally perverse researchers will dare to keep things quiet till there's something to show that can withstand public scrutiny. Should the public have a right to know? Period. That is at any stage. Sure, the resea...

Is it morally right to obstruct, based on incomplete evidence, research that enables major improvements worldwide, to satisfy an ethical technicality that could just as well be satisfied later? You need to rephrase the last option to specify immediate information release. Or some morally perverse r...

B) This sounds like you, therefore, know that the reasons you state are the reasons they are quiet. There I was thinking that you were only speculating. How ignorant of me. Please, do illuminate us. When did Nebel get in touch with you to explain these were the reasons for his silence? I do know, b...

The Secchi disk transparency measurement is perhaps one of the oldest and simplest of all measurements. But there is grave danger of errors in such measurements where a water telescope is not utilized, as well as in the presence of water color and inorganic turbidity (source: Vollenweider and Kerek...

Polywell applications?

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I'd like to complain that the initial poster of this thread was using a perjorative term to describe scientific skeptics. Hate speech. I love speech. Even hateful speech. Once a person puts the debate in religious terms you can tell (s)he is not interested in science. Always a good thing to know. I...