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by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:24 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Lunar Bombing, Far Left Insanity, and Polywell
Replies: 52
Views: 32187

... And I will have to disagree with your description. Libertarians are not 'radical right' or 'far right' or any kind of left or right, they are forward. Explanation here: Libertarianism: Left or Right? That is nice, but we ain't 19th century French or anything like it. With today's meanings of th...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:31 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Advanced Deuterium Fusion Rocket
Replies: 25
Views: 11970

Here's another propulsion scheme. Next Big Future mentions the Polywell device being modified to produce thrust... http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/10/combining-mach-effect-propulsion-and.html Wouldn't Bussard have been delighted if this came to pass? At one time I was constantly trying to start a dis...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:16 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Lunar Bombing, Far Left Insanity, and Polywell
Replies: 52
Views: 32187

The political spectrum doesn't have just one dimension. There are plenty of political spectrum charts. I personally like the Pournelle Axes, tho it fails to capture how opinions evolve and relate over time. The Inglehart Values Map has good points too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectru...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:55 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Lunar Bombing, Far Left Insanity, and Polywell
Replies: 52
Views: 32187

According to that quiz, this is me PERSONAL issues Score is 90%. ECONOMIC issues Score is 50%. LIBERALS usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support significant government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net" to help the disad...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: A particle so evil that it's very existence threatens manki
Replies: 30
Views: 12818

A particle so evil that it's very existence threatens manki

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/12/science/13lhc-600.jpg ':twisted:' "A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backwar...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:06 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lunar Bombing, Far Left Insanity, and Polywell
Replies: 52
Views: 32187

The political spectrum doesn't have just one dimension. Perhaps this is better maybe? http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2593/4010537570_0f9ae527be_o.png The red dot represents where I fell on the political spectrum after taking their test. The test can be found here. http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:12 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lunar Bombing, Far Left Insanity, and Polywell
Replies: 52
Views: 32187

UGH, MSIMON has to inject his FAR right politics into this site again. Let's just stick to the polywell science talk and leave the bible thumping right wing mumbo jumbo out ok? Thanks. I have to take issue with your political descriptions. Libertarians are described as 'radical right'. The 'far rig...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:06 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lunar Bombing, Far Left Insanity, and Polywell
Replies: 52
Views: 32187

UGH, MSIMON has to inject his FAR right politics into this site again. Let's just stick to the polywell science talk and leave the bible thumping right wing mumbo jumbo out ok? Thanks. You are showing your ignorance. MSimon is NOT a bible thumper. If anything, he seems to be pretty antagonistic tow...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:59 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lunar Bombing, Far Left Insanity, and Polywell
Replies: 52
Views: 32187

Re: Lunar Bombing, Far Left Insanity, and Polywell

* http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/10/09/rocket-into-the-moon-this-was-wrong-on-so-many-levels/ * See comment 59. Side note - how they managed to get a link in to a wing nut like me is a study in cognitive dissonance. I am most amused. There is an idiot at the other end of that link! Why give the...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: How very smart people can believe very weird things.
Replies: 52
Views: 17480

Re: Oh, you clever sillies!

Clever Sillies - Why the high IQ lack common sense The results of cognitive stratification and IQ-advertising are therefore bad enough to have destroyed the value of whole domains of the arts and academia, and in the domain of public policy the results have been simply disastrous. Over the past fou...
by Diogenes
Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Magnetic Monopoles?
Replies: 3
Views: 3444

Dumb question. Why would a monopole scatter neutrons?
Neutrons are neutral aren't they ?
by Diogenes
Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Replies: 35
Views: 9959

MSimon wrote:Diogenes,

I told that one to my mate and she nodded sagely. Thanks for that!
You're welcome! Master and Commander was a great movie, and that was my favorite line from the movie. Have you seen it?
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:25 am
Forum: News
Topic: Around the Mars in 80 days.
Replies: 5
Views: 3451

Around the Mars in 80 days.

Actually, 39 days to get to mars, presumably 39 days to get back, two days to goof off... Well, I thought it was funny. http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/adastravasimr.jpg (PhysOrg.com) -- Last Wednesday, the Ad Astra Rocket Company tested what is currently the most powerful plasma rocket in th...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:15 am
Forum: News
Topic: Magnetic Monopoles?
Replies: 3
Views: 3444

Magnetic Monopoles?

http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/largescaleco.jpg Magnetic monopoles are created (top) when the spin of an ion in one corner of a spin ice crystal is knocked askew, creating a monopole (red sphere) and adjacent antimonopole (blue sphere). Neutron scattering at the NCNR allowed the team ...
by Diogenes
Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Replies: 35
Views: 9959

Why are you so easily provoked? It is my nature. Are you sure it isn't your nuture? :) MSimon sometimes reminds me of Captain Jack Aubrey in "Master and Commander, The far side of the World" when he responds to the Doctor on how to thank him for stopping in the Galapagos Islands. " Name a shrub aft...