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I read somewhere that the name Iran comes from 'land of the Aryans' and the name was changed from Persia because of Nazi influence in the '30s. Somewhere else I read that at least half the Jews now living in Israel are descended from Jews living in ME countries. They left in a 2 year period around '...

I just went to check out info on polar shift and realized it feeds into that 2012 claptrap. I picked up my info from old tv science shows over the last decade, apart from shifting aurora's, I don't expect anything major if it happened in our lifetime.

My understanding is the earth is due for a magnetic polar shift, one of those events that happen every 25,000 years. A couple of years back there was a report that the magnetic field is 20% weaker than 400 years ago, so maybe it's just starting. That would affect the cosmic rays/temperature if I'm n...

One of the reasons we have so much politics on talk-polywell is because of the precarious state of funding. There is a certain amount of competition for fusion research money worldwide, and public interest/political pressure was partially what got EMC2 revived. We may yet need that interest to preve...

There's a nice article on Thorium reactors in the Jan. 2010 Wired mag.

In my country Conservative and Liberal have slightly different connotations than the U.S. Basically, the Canadian Liberals ruled for decades on the principle of the 9 to 5 job, as in 9 men robbing 5 men. They had a very simple equation for staying in power under Trudeau and Cretien. Take tax money o...

I've heard of some studies that indicate when you remove the top 10% wage earners from the studies and compare the bottom 90% from country to country the U.S. doesn't do as well, plutonamy. One reason for the different murder rates; Americans are culturally conditioned never to back down from a chal...

You don't really need encryption/decryption to find out what the other guy is doing, all you need is your own insurance company or bank. Before the U.S. entered WWII, there was an intense effort in Canada to keep convoy traffic info out of German hands. Meanwhile, the German consul in New York could...

I remember reading an interview in the nineties with the head honco at skunkworks. He was saying they've had some stuff under wraps for over 40 years. I'll never forget one day in my car waiting at a red light with my window half down. All of a sudden the edge of the window started vibrating, then i...

This is probably dumb, but I was thinking about the vacuum problem again. After the Alpha's have exited the cusps and the energy extracted by collectors, wouldn't the discharged Alpha's simply drop to the floor of the containment vessel under gravity. If its spherical, it would concentrate making ex...

I left out one potential outcome if the WB8 DT experiments prove successful. I the economy is still in deep trouble in the April to July timeframe next year, the goverment may encourage and support a positive report to the press for the psychological boost to the markets.

My reading of the contract was end of April 2010 for WB8 and end of April 2012 for WB8.1. But?!?!?!, even if WB8 is a complete success running DT, and I also believe a DT reactor is perfectly useful, they would do well to keep the results under wraps until the end of the WB8.1 experiments. Why, well...

We've got a long wait in front of us for news WB8, so it's only natural to discuss other subjects, especially with everything else that happens in the world. If I might suggest, perhaps we could use a humour section just to balance things out a little.

I saw a tv show about the Horten 18 jet powered stealth flying wing that was supposed to go into production 1946, range New York and back, payload A-bomb. Very advanced I'd say.

Now, now, don't be unmutual!