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A lot of serial killers were sexually abused as children. That is because their parents probably had the same gene defect. The other reason is because this is often falsly claimed by defenders. Noone can test it and it makes the defendent look less guilty. Psychopathic traits are geneticaly inherit...

Everything by Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft

I read a couple of poes stories twice.
Oh, I forgot to mention Arthur Conan Doyles stories (Sherlock Holmes and more). I read those a couple of times too. I have always had a weak spot for the victorian age.

From the beloved NextBigFuture blog comes this little gem. If that is true, I would have to give the Obama administration two cudos within a single week (the other one being for axing Ares and bringing in the private companies). That is better than most politicians, I know. Anyway, here is the link:...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucgg/20100129/cm_ucgg/burqacontroversyissignofthingstocome And the islamic world is facing increased radicalization instead of liberalization and more freedom, like some here are claiming (repeatedly). In Egypt, the veil was dying out when I first went there in the 1960s and ...

Some books in the Perry Rhodan novel series. One of the authors was a physicist and the first books were- for the early sixties- quite solid science fiction. E.g. Perry Rhodan's (an american and the first human to land on the moon) moon rocket had a NERVA style engine. They actually envisioned every...

I agree with all the critics that it will never lead directly to a useful energy device, but it is the best device ever built to provide vast amounts of data on thermalized plasmas. I really think it is going to be a nice ride! I guess, my post had room for missinterpretation, because that is prett...

Musta been an accident.

Ahh ok, thats what I thought

Interesting for the sake of science and experiments that can be conducted with it, but of no use to anything related to practical fusion.

Yep.

Wait, wait, I gotta take note of that: Msimon and me agree on something political. Awesome!

think that without Polywell (or equivalent) we are stuck on Earth or near abouts.

That is why NASA should be funding more research in this area.
Fund everythjng, FRC, Polywell, ME, etc, all of these potentially enabling technologies. If only one thing pays off...

I am all for human space exploration actually. In fact I am for space colonization as a very long term goal. However, the currently available technology does not allow for any of this in a serious manner (read "not stunt"). It does allow to do some really serious research in LEO though. NASAs job sh...

Stunt missions dont make sense. Apollo was ultimately a failure. It was a great demonstration of engineering and the US capability to dominate anything they wanted to, but it did not bring uns any further in the long term. Now, more than 40 years later, we still have not been back. Why? Because ther...

If we had a working polywell, then I would say we would just build an LV that uses it (as proposed by the late Bussard), right? That would probably be the best way to get a working polywell into space, no? I think the decision to axe NASAs cost plus launcher programmes was a good idea. Ares IX was a...

I think the point is to rather by services from the commercials like the ULA and SpaceX. This is truly free market for space and IMHO a good thing.
I hope that this will get launch costs finally down.
Once they are low enough, we can go back to the moon or anywhere else.

One of the ways to make access to space cheaper is flight frequency. The more flights, the lower the price per flight and the safer the whole thing gets too. So having to fly more often might actually be benficial to having very few HLV flights. What I like about the approach by SpaceX is that every...