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by deane
Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:40 am
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 601871

GIThruster wrote:This offer is to Carter only. Please don't others write me.
That being the case, why didn't you PM him rather than post the offer in a public forum?
by deane
Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: Mach Effect progress
Replies: 2707
Views: 1465886

I think it was that the perma-ice came so far south they could cross ... or? No, as Skipjack noted "Beringia" was exposed due to so much water being tied up in the glaciers. Eastern SIberia and Beringia themselves were largely glacier-free though, due to their arid climate. Cold, dry grasslands. No...
by deane
Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:12 am
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334769

Wow. The air here is thick with black helicopters. My job requires me to fill out a status report every week. It's a tedious, annoying task which takes time away from getting "real" work done. Needless to say, I'll jump at any excuse to skip a report. I imagine that the Recovery.gov status reports r...
by deane
Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:39 am
Forum: News
Topic: Tax-payer funded basic research.
Replies: 125
Views: 31880

I love Tang. I don't make a penny from it, but I do love it, especially on backpacking trips. So what's wrong that USG paid to develop it and someone gains exclusive financial benefit from it? I get to drink it and that's enough reason for USG to have paid to develop it. The US Government didn't pa...
by deane
Fri May 07, 2010 10:55 am
Forum: News
Topic: emc2's website
Replies: 232
Views: 151140

I see some of the motives about the restrictions on communication as being: 1) Promising results, that are being held close for company proprietary reasons. 2) Promising or interesting results being held close for Naval embargo reasons. 3) Disappointing or questionable results being held to avoid u...
by deane
Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:57 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Tri-Alpha Rumor
Replies: 119
Views: 60742

Doesn't that make you wonder the least little bit about what is wrong with America that it should produce such widespread psychotic behaviour among its people? Most of the violence is between ethnic street gangs. Sweden generally doesn't have those. If you compare Sweden to, say, North Dakota... Sw...
by deane
Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:44 am
Forum: News
Topic: Tri-Alpha Rumor
Replies: 119
Views: 60742

Of course if you pick the right demographic I'm sure you could find some doing better. But take blacks as a whole (as I did in my statement) and I think you will find some validity to my statement. Sure, but I thought that your point was that even the most disadvantaged in America were better off t...
by deane
Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:37 am
Forum: News
Topic: Tri-Alpha Rumor
Replies: 119
Views: 60742

Yes. Blacks like to kill each other. White Swedish males live more than three years longer than white American males. Following your logic that must be because American males like to kill each other. Doesn't that make you wonder the least little bit about what is wrong with America that it should p...
by deane
Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:32 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Tri-Alpha Rumor
Replies: 119
Views: 60742

MSimon wrote:A rising tide lifts all boats.
Only if there's enough slack in the lines to allow it to do so. Otherwise the boat is engulfed and destroyed. :-)
by deane
Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:17 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Tri-Alpha Rumor
Replies: 119
Views: 60742

I believe the lowest performing group in the American economy - blacks - now have an average income equal to the average Swede. On a purchasing power parity basis. The lowest economic performers in the US are either young black males or Latino women. I don't have the figures for the former handy bu...
by deane
Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:49 am
Forum: News
Topic: Record high superconductivity near 254 Kelvin, -19C, -2F
Replies: 14
Views: 12434

Released to the public domain- either the researchers are generous, or they realize that there is no real possibility of a pratical application. I had an email exchange with Joe a while back, discussing why no other experimenters were picking up on his work, given how much further he is up the Tc c...
by deane
Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:21 pm
Forum: News
Topic: General Fusion update and video
Replies: 0
Views: 1838

General Fusion update and video

Next Big Future has an update on General Fusion including a video of GF's Dr. Michel Laberge describing the concept and showing off some of their hardware.
by deane
Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:42 pm
Forum: News
Topic: WB-8 Testing Pre-solitication
Replies: 64
Views: 70102

Re: MG insulated?

MSimon wrote:
deane wrote:The statement of work talks about the wiffleball being "MG insulated". What does that mean?
Magnetic Grid
But what is it insulating, or being insulated from?
by deane
Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:40 am
Forum: News
Topic: WB-8 Testing Pre-solitication
Replies: 64
Views: 70102

MG insulated?

The statement of work talks about the wiffleball being "MG insulated". What does that mean?