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EDIT: nevermind. I should know better than to post about political issues.

A star that's closer than thought is on "the verge" of going supernova: T Pyxidis 3,260 light years - is that really close enough to sterilize? By "on the verge" they meant "within several million years". No one seems to be considering that stars move relative to each other. Where will this star be...

There's something really wrong with both parties, in my opinion.

Isn't it true though that a lot of the produce of plant agriculture goes to feed animals (i.e. in factory farms)?

If we ate less meat, more arable land could be used to feed us instead of animals.

So, there's no news (and a patent has been allowed to lapse) because: 1. There is no news. Things haven't gone well. or 2. Things look promising enough that the Navy has decided to shroud everything in secrecy. Who knows when, if ever, the public will hear about it. Political forces may kill it even...

In every developed country (save for the United States), birthrate has fallen below replacement rate.

Raise the standard of living in the undeveloped countries and populations might well decline everywhere in the world.

Roger Shawyer's EMdrive is back in the news.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10 ... -missiles/

No conclusive demonstration model or anything to make it more plausible, however, just big plans.

If we were descendents of some advanced alien species, we would not share genes with even the most primitive of lifeforms on earth as we are. Why do you say this? Surely if an alien species turned up and needed quick adaptation for their future offspring, then engineering-in native genetic adaptati...

Sorry, no. Genome sequencing has demonstrated that we are most definitely linked to the other primates. Not sure that counters what I am saying. I am not aware the evidence shows us to be 'decendants' of apes, only that we share common ancestors. (So I agree we can be shown to be 'cousins', but not...

Just some thoughts I had today, the like of which seem to be enjoyed on this forum: I was debating in my thoughts just now why it might be that the original hebrew Genesis begins by naming god as 'elohim', which I understand to be a female plural and a word with strong associations with 'coming fro...

I wonder whether a group like the Planetary Society would be interested in sponsoring (i.e. putting up some funding) for experimental work of this sort.

To add fuel to the debate, here is an article concerning some (non-EEStor) supercapacitor progress.

http://www.gizmag.com/nanoscale-supercapacitor/11297/

"New Nanoscale supercapacitor can store 100 times more energy"

MSimon wrote:And yet Polywell is getting funds and FF is begging.

It's worth pointing out that Polywell was begging for a long time too. And this despite the fact that they had promising data from their final experiments to present.

Maybe Lerner has answers for FF's problems. I doubt it, though, since he was kicked off Wikipedia for repeatedly deleting the issues Art raised there rather than addressing them. Not that I'm offering an opinion on the prospects for FF's success, but being kicked off of Wikipedia doesn't indicate m...