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by hanelyp
Sat Jan 13, 2018 3:18 am
Forum: General
Topic: Skynet is coming.
Replies: 802
Views: 387033

Re: Skynet is coming.

If that's one of the "drones", whoever did it probably bought the high tech parts online.
by hanelyp
Sun Jan 07, 2018 4:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mach effect tuning fork experiment
Replies: 5
Views: 15190

Re: Mach effect tuning fork experiment

A tuning fork has a resonant frequency dependent on mechanical stiffness (which may be impacted measurably by temperature), and mass. In the experiment I'm thinking of that mass would include the "transient mass" device under test. The tuning fork itself would be driven by a well known tuning fork o...
by hanelyp
Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Mach effect tuning fork experiment
Replies: 5
Views: 15190

Re: Mach effect tuning fork experiment

I'm thinking it'll be much easier to adjust the electric signal to the capacitor than deal with moving the capacitor. Self resonance of the capacitor plus feed line would be a much higher frequency than the tuning fork anyway. Running the capacitor off mechanical resonant frequency to measure any ef...
by hanelyp
Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mach effect tuning fork experiment
Replies: 5
Views: 15190

Re: Mach effect tuning fork experiment

I'm thinking a tuning fork would be an effective way to observe small shifts in mass. Power the "active mass" in phase lock with the tuning fork. If the Woodward effect is real there should be a shift in frequency as the "active mass" is turned on and off, or shifted in phase relative to the tuning ...
by hanelyp
Wed Jan 03, 2018 6:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Skynet is coming.
Replies: 802
Views: 387033

Re: Skynet is coming.

Chess has finite and well defined rules. A computer outdoing the grand masters was inevitable. When computers can outperform humans on not so well defined tasks it may be time to worry.
by hanelyp
Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SpaceX News
Replies: 2324
Views: 1155237

Re: SpaceX News

Some of us living here think a lot of humans are nuts.
by hanelyp
Sat Dec 23, 2017 5:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Unusual Looking Space Rock
Replies: 10
Views: 12633

Re: Unusual Looking Space Rock

krenshala wrote:If it was hot enough to be considered plastic, it should have reached hydrostatic equilibrium -- pulled itself into a (rough) sphere.
A sphere would be equilibrium under gravity or surface tension. Add rotation and other shapes may be favored.
by hanelyp
Sun Dec 10, 2017 6:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: To the stars...wait...
Replies: 4
Views: 14077

Re: To the stars...wait...

"advanced electrogravitic propulsion"
A topic straight from the same field as EM and Woodward drives. Be skeptical, very skeptical.
by hanelyp
Wed Dec 06, 2017 12:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292910

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

Climate changes. But how is it changing, and what drives it? I consider the people who claim CO2 from fossil fuels is going to warm the planet disastrously to be fools, or worse.
by hanelyp
Wed Nov 29, 2017 10:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
Replies: 880
Views: 527411

Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter

A lot of SEC rules are ostensibly to protect small investors who may not know what they're doing. But the result is restricting some potentially very profitable (and undeniably very risky) investments to large investors.
by hanelyp
Thu Nov 23, 2017 4:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Crime and Punishment: Oklahoma (& Texas) style!
Replies: 983
Views: 397071

Re: Crime and Punishment: Oklahoma (& Texas) style!

In other words, yet another mass shooting that doesn't fit the gun grabber's Narrative that we'd be better off with more laws that would end up disarming good citizens.
by hanelyp
Mon Nov 20, 2017 2:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Skynet is coming.
Replies: 802
Views: 387033

Re: Skynet is coming.

Speaking of robot overlord masters ... Inside chilling religion creating ‘God robot’ a billion times smarter than humans A FORMER Uber worker has formed an odd cult to build a “godhead” robot, “a billion times” smarter than any human. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/660937/anthony-levan...
by hanelyp
Sat Nov 18, 2017 5:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292910

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

The big problem I see is voters who never learned the lessons of history keep sending fools with the same bad ideas back to elected office term after term.
by hanelyp
Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: Stuff in Space
Replies: 44
Views: 61593

Re: Stuff in Space

paperburn1 wrote:The milk carton-sized satellite makes up the entirety of territory of the self-proclaimed "Space Kingdom" of Asgardia.
And what, beyond good manners, prevents someone from shooting down the self proclaimed sovereign nation?
by hanelyp
Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: Skynet is coming.
Replies: 802
Views: 387033

Re: Skynet is coming.

A lot of flying wing designs have stability problems. Easily solved if you put a modern flight computer in the control loop. Some of those old designs would be interesting with active stability control.