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You can't run a fusion project in the "Black". Non-Proliferation Treaty forbids it. Some secrecy is of course allowed in the manner of slow reporting, but it cannot be black or have trade secrets. Its not just a good idea, its the law.

icarus wrote:Anybody got a reference to an experimentally observed speed of gravity, c?

Not a great deal of accuracy, but http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2003/gravity/

BenTC wrote:Theres only 10 kinds of people in the world.

People who understand binary and those who don't?

Anyone for a googolplex of gigabytes? And just how big is that anyway? How many bytes? 2^30*10^10^10 ~1.07x10^109 bytes. And another question, "How long would it take for the fastest processor to write googolplex to high speed memory?" That is, without using scientific notation. Assuming you could ...

Who said they were any good? The University of Chicago is different. At least according to the recent graduate I spoke to. I doubt it very much. I have not yet seen any worthwhile physics coming from this institution. I am not qualified to judge other disciplines, but according to physics it would ...

Regarding a space elevator going in on Mars before Earth, a couple of years back I ran the numbers on Saturn's moon Phoebe, and concluded you could make a nice space elevator for that body using rope from a hardware store, and climb it hand over hand. Long climb, but the forces are quite modest. I ...

". . .with tens of thousands of miles sticking straight out the opportunity to discover new modes of disaster are intriguing." Heh! This is why I can't even remember the numbers and to be fair, not all designs use an asteroid. There's more than one, but none of them make any sense. Actually, most o...

Johan, here is a link to an article where a simple technique was used to identify very small high-Tc particles: http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v37/i1/p559_1 I can't read the article, but was this the one where they progrssively chilled the charged powder and put a magnetic field at the bottom, sti...

What have you used to test the substrates in the past? Are they inexpensive enough to fabricate that you can send them around easily, or are they expensive and fragile? If I can find someone willing to test them, is anything necessary past putting them in the mail? I did could not do much more than...

I'm not too happy with the standard model. Sure it can predict. But epicycles were good at prediction too. i.e. you can have "engineering" models that do not conform to reality. Accuracy of prediction is not proof of validity. It may just mean we have not gone deep enough and await further data/too...

This may sound stupid, but may I suggest you contact Joe Eck? He seems to be able to do quite a few things in his garage and may be able to help. His website is www.superconductors.org I will follow this up, but as GIThruster correctly points out, my next step requires far more than a garage labora...

This may sound stupid, but may I suggest you contact Joe Eck? He seems to be able to do quite a few things in his garage and may be able to help. His website is www.superconductors.org

Lets remember that patents exist to protect intellectual property. There are good reasons that patents are granted for things we don't have reason to suspect will work. People are entitled to protect their IP regardless whether it will work, especially when at the time they need protection for it, ...

There are some very funky stable geostationary polar orbits possible (the satelite is in a solar orbit with a solar sail) but they are all well above 900 miles. How does that work? Geostationary - Of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to t...

Building a fussion bomb really is not that tricky. The hard part is making one that you can deliver to target that will explode reliably. That is very much harder. I am inclined to beleive that NK cannot do this at this point. They would need to have tested a design to be able to deploy it. They hav...