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by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 66629

Yup, but no inherent right to shoot you dead and take your property, as is the case with government. The government of Austria has not done that in 65 years. I also dont see anywhere in the US constitution that they have the right to do that. I do very much see though that noone might have taken hi...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 66629

"A private corporation owned by the residents"? Sounds like another name for "government" to me. Whatever rings your bell. LOL, I thought the same thing. Let me guess: and everyone in the community gets to vote on important matter, ROFL... Diogenes, but health care costs are lower here in Austria, ...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:16 am
Forum: News
Topic: First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype
Replies: 28
Views: 12510

Bah - I want a nice gravity modification drive to create an antigrav field for my flying car...
Me too!

I would settle for an ME thruster too though, for now anyway ;)
by Skipjack
Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Greatest thing about this East coast storm.
Replies: 12
Views: 3441

Events like these are fairly common, always have been. Nowadays it is just the media making more fuss about it. I guess they have nothing else to bitch about at the moment.
by Skipjack
Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: Since we had this discussion about UAVs and F22s etc...
Replies: 132
Views: 64613

As I said, this mistake was not limited to UAVs. It affects all US military aircraft. So the UAVs do not really have a disadvantage out of it.
by Skipjack
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:55 pm
Forum: News
Topic: First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype
Replies: 28
Views: 12510

Gee, I would already be happy with a normal 66 KW car engine, you know for the every day comuting and all that.
Same thing again for the electricity in my house ;)
by Skipjack
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Since we had this discussion about UAVs and F22s etc...
Replies: 132
Views: 64613

And we all know that encryption can never, never, ever be defeated. Muwahhahahhahhahhhhahhhahahhh! Sure it can be. Any encryption can be. But by the time the enemy has decrypted it, it will be outdated data that noone cares for anymore, if the enemy is still alive at that point. If it was such a BI...
by Skipjack
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 66629

Well, as you all know... there are people that can not get health insurance. This can be because they are inbetween two jobs, because they are suffering from a preexisting condition, or because they are simply poor. People without health insurance wont get treatments unless they are very rich. Peopl...
by Skipjack
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Since we had this discussion about UAVs and F22s etc...
Replies: 132
Views: 64613

Another reason to keep the targeting loop within the confines of the airframe This has been blown out of proportion and your conclusions are wrong for multiple reasons. First of all all they did was intercept images sent to the ground by the drones to the handheld field systems deployed with the gr...
by Skipjack
Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:26 pm
Forum: News
Topic: First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype
Replies: 28
Views: 12510

awe, isnt it a cute little polyweeeell!
So small and already in a nuclear lab all by itself...
by Skipjack
Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:50 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1339798

So what does it mean?
Anything new that we can read out of this?
by Skipjack
Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:34 am
Forum: News
Topic: Magneto-Inertial Fusion
Replies: 41
Views: 21122

(Huh? Did somebody mention my name? Sorry. I was napping.)
Sorry, if I woke you up ;)
Thanks for the input Art!
by Skipjack
Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Post-Scarcity Economics
Replies: 142
Views: 35066

Space colonisation has to wait before automated in-situ manufacturing is possible. That should be the focus for now. Actually what should be the focus is cheap and relyable transportation from earth to orbit. That should be the focus. And with cheap, I mean much cheaper than it is now. It has to be...
by Skipjack
Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:23 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Magneto-Inertial Fusion
Replies: 41
Views: 21122

Hmm, that is an interesting idea Chris. I like it. I wonder what the always critical Art Carlson has to say about it. He is very good at crunching the numbers. I would like to see what his opinion is on this. I only get the essences of everything, but dont have the time and understanding to get the ...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: More Helion Energy news....
Replies: 359
Views: 284568

I think that the helion reactor would have to produce at least some electricity in order to keep itself going. Otherwise, what is the point of Q>1 anyway?