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by MirariNefas
Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Grad school
Replies: 22
Views: 8218

I guess I often feel compelled to proseletyze as well. Not as much as in my youth though. I guess I'm being mean. You want me to talk about this politics of fear thing. Really, I just had some offhand curiosity about the physics research being done at an institution where I saw an impressive piece o...
by MirariNefas
Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: Grad school
Replies: 22
Views: 8218

Do you have a strong need for others to believe as you do?
by MirariNefas
Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:42 am
Forum: General
Topic: Grad school
Replies: 22
Views: 8218

I'm not really into the conspiracy theory thing.
by MirariNefas
Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: Grad school
Replies: 22
Views: 8218

I'm not really sure what you mean, but I'll interpret it as you prefering the conservative vibe of the Midwest. Not really something I'll agree with, but we can leave it at that. Edit* thinking about it some more, I guess I know what you mean. I just can't imagine that sort of attitude leaking out o...
by MirariNefas
Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:04 am
Forum: News
Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
Replies: 1893
Views: 665686

Now that I think about it, the dates tell us something else. Received a full year before published. That means it went back for revision a few times. It was either poorly written, or the experimental design was bad and needed to be supplemented in some way.
by MirariNefas
Sat Apr 17, 2010 3:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: Grad school
Replies: 22
Views: 8218

Fair enough. I don't know as much about those programs. How's UCLA? They used to have their own tok. I got to see it once. The guy manning the place was delighted that anyone was interested in fusion enough to recognize a tokamak.
by MirariNefas
Sat Apr 17, 2010 3:52 am
Forum: General
Topic: In Obama's America we don't Do hard
Replies: 100
Views: 26293

I just got through explaining, repeatedly, that it's needed to support full utilization of the ISS to 2020, Has anybody mentioned yet that the ISS isn't really getting us all that much anyway? And will continue to be relatively unproductive even if fully utilized? Now, I like space, I think space r...
by MirariNefas
Sat Apr 17, 2010 3:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: Grad school
Replies: 22
Views: 8218

UW Seattle is generally considered better for biology, but I guess every program is different.
by MirariNefas
Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
Replies: 1893
Views: 665686

Betruger wrote:Received 20 February 2002

Published 7 February 2003
Publishing journal is SEMICONDUCTOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. They're legitimate, indexed in ISI.

Looks like a regular article to me though, not a book.
by MirariNefas
Wed Apr 14, 2010 4:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: So, Orion is back in
Replies: 9
Views: 3818

So, Orion is back in

http://www.space.com/news/obama-space-plan-revives-orion-sn-100413.html What the hell are they doing over there? Hopefully they're still killing the Ares I. An Orion-based ship for the Delta IV seems like a good idea to me - the rocket exists and most of the work on the spacecraft is already done a...
by MirariNefas
Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: In Obama's America we don't Do hard
Replies: 100
Views: 26293

(And what's this about a "crappy payload"? The Shuttle can carry more than 230% of the total LEO payload of the Falcon 9, or more than 400% of Dragon's total cargo capacity to LEO. Space shuttle payload: 24.5 tonnes to LEO (crap). Falcon 9 Heavy payload: 32 tonnes to LEO (slightly less crap). See w...
by MirariNefas
Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:36 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Not Competative In Most Markets
Replies: 9
Views: 11539

I am afraid that this is just the first of such news. As the development progresses (and costs scale up), they might discover that a batch of hamsters in a treadmill will probably be more competitive in producing power..... The first of such news? Did you read the article? It was actually about how...
by MirariNefas
Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: In Obama's America we don't Do hard
Replies: 100
Views: 26293

But in Obama's america there will be nobody allowed to have the freedom and the drive to put people in space and no wealth to do it. Obama kills a bloated government program and promises funds to private industries seeking to put people in space. I'm not sure I understand you. Democrats only believ...
by MirariNefas
Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: In Obama's America we don't Do hard
Replies: 100
Views: 26293

But in Obama's america there will be nobody allowed to have the freedom and the drive to put people in space and no wealth to do it. Obama kills a bloated government program and promises funds to private industries seeking to put people in space. I'm not sure I understand you. He's killed more than...
by MirariNefas
Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: In Obama's America we don't Do hard
Replies: 100
Views: 26293

But in Obama's america there will be nobody allowed to have the freedom and the drive to put people in space and no wealth to do it.
Obama kills a bloated government program and promises funds to private industries seeking to put people in space. I'm not sure I understand you.