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by bennmann
Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Vortex rocket engine: lighter, more efficient, more reusable
Replies: 24
Views: 26919

Choff did you mean to ruin the article like that? Spoilers!
by bennmann
Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:17 am
Forum: News
Topic: the problem of pumping electrons into the Polywell
Replies: 72
Views: 30397

The Sydney experiment and your opinion? So many people forget that one. Link? I confess I don't know that one. I believe he means this: http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2009/12/25/new-copper-coil-polywell-on-the-scene/ http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2011/08/02/sydney-experiment-we-have-...
by bennmann
Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:55 pm
Forum: News
Topic: the problem of pumping electrons into the Polywell
Replies: 72
Views: 30397

Dear Charles, The Sydney experiment and your opinion? So many people forget that one. Electron losses DO get smaller with size. See quotes from WB7 and 8 in Alan Boyle's articles on MSN Cosmic log, also see quarterly reports previous on recovery.gov. It's all there in plain English, but no specific ...
by bennmann
Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:16 am
Forum: News
Topic: 14th US-Japan Workshop on IECF
Replies: 40
Views: 14945

Duly noted. Carry on with your misery concerning wiffle ball evidence :)
by bennmann
Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:51 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 14th US-Japan Workshop on IECF
Replies: 40
Views: 14945

Well now you've gone and made me look up the actual papers, which incidentally were not behind a paywall for me - let me know if they are for you. University of Sydney paper: http://pop.aip.org/resource/1/phpaen/v18/i11/p112501_s1?view=fulltext&bypassSSO=1 (this one mentions wiffle ball terminology ...
by bennmann
Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:05 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 14th US-Japan Workshop on IECF
Replies: 40
Views: 14945

Rob, please remind exactly what the Sydney experiment found again? I'm too lazy to look it up but I thought it was very close to wiffleball?
by bennmann
Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:44 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 14th US-Japan Workshop on IECF
Replies: 40
Views: 14945

How exciting is this news to everybody else? More exciting than current WB8 funding limited information or less?

More exciting IMO, unless wb8 gets public.
by bennmann
Mon Oct 08, 2012 5:40 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334788

Nebel solves the multi-billion $ Tokamak problem while Polywell languishes for lack of a few million $.
I definitely come here for the humor.
by bennmann
Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334788

Tom, I am very curious, what are your thoughts on the Tokamak dominated scene for fusion in relation to current/recent polywell funding? Does that complicate the issue enough to warrant such small, incremental funding as of today? I agree with everything you've said, there is one more piece to the p...
by bennmann
Sat Sep 29, 2012 5:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334788

I don't think he was trying to troll.

Bussard might even agree with him, if 8.0 was promising enough for 8.1 why not skip it and WB-100 and go straight to production? Anything else would be "bad news".
by bennmann
Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: GATTACA is coming.
Replies: 54
Views: 11406

I believe there are science fiction stories about races using genetic engineering so much that eventually they find a long term side effect hidden within themselves that was significantly bad. Everything in moderation. And it's not like at this point we couldn't have an FDA of genetics so to speak, ...
by bennmann
Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:45 am
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334788

"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." Soon there will be at least one person on the planet whom has fused pB11 with the push of a few buttons. I am confident but wait for the data, which may not come to me personally for many decades. Hopefully much sooner thoug...
by bennmann
Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: The only modern "true" free market experiment
Replies: 15
Views: 5743

The bitcoins are in a file on your device--if someone hacks you and steals the file, they've stolen your bitcoins. There are ways to make this harder, but it is a vulnerability. You can even eliminate this problem: http://bitcoinmagazine.net/brain-wallets-the-what-and-the-how/ But most people still...
by bennmann
Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:17 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Mach Effect progress
Replies: 2707
Views: 1465917

I would just be happy with a wormhole data connection to my computer. Traversible opening 1um wide for a stream of light? Def not Jupiter size mass.... No latency when I play video games with people in Korea. Sounds fun. Also Mars pictures with basically no latency from NASA rovers. Also monetary sy...
by bennmann
Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The only modern "true" free market experiment
Replies: 15
Views: 5743

The only modern "true" free market experiment

Anyone here follow bitcoin?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Currency with no backing just like the dollar but with no inflation possible and nothing physical a person can steal from you.

A truely free market with no regulation - should be an interesting experiment to watch.