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by Skipjack
Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:48 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Simulation and animation in 3-d. Recommendations?
Replies: 12
Views: 9655

We are using LightWave3d here. Doing anything from viz to custom tools with it. It is a very capable application and easy to afford. Autodesk applications (pretty much anything else now, other than Cinema4d, Lightwave, Houdini and Blender) are not easy to afford. I also do not like Autodesks licensi...
by Skipjack
Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Election results
Replies: 106
Views: 43160

First nuclear != nuclear. Nuclear Fusion and nuclear fission are two very different things in about every aspect. Someone who is somewhat well saddled in even the most basic phyiscs should easily be able to unerstand he differences and make decisions accordingly and that even if the person has never...
by Skipjack
Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Election results
Replies: 106
Views: 43160

True, but there are different kinds of defence spendings. I can spend money on weapons and defense systems research or I can spend money on building a (civil-) defense- infrastructure in a country that is mostly not thanking it to you anway. Personally I think that is not money well spent. However I...
by Skipjack
Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Election results
Replies: 106
Views: 43160

Add: "You can not afford to fight a war like a publicity stunt" to the list. You might look good to the public that way and some might even feel good about the war because of it, but you will never win the war.
by Skipjack
Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Election results
Replies: 106
Views: 43160

I have heard the opposite. He said that he sees nuclear power as a critical and important part in energy independence. Anyway once this war is over, there will be tons more money for anything else, including Nuclear Fusion, I am sure. Oh and dont even get me started on the Iraq war. This war is a fa...
by Skipjack
Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Greenpeace Is Sceptical (and ignorant)
Replies: 20
Views: 26949

Dont even get me started on this "organisation". Greenpeace is nowadays a rich company. Their ideals of the past are long gone (personally I do not think they ever had any)... Besides I dont think anyone there has ever really understood much of anything. They are against anything that is man-made. T...
by Skipjack
Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:11 pm
Forum: News
Topic: X-Ray Tape
Replies: 5
Views: 4451

Yeah, I saw that... I am sceptical to day the least. It sure sounds kinda silly and they even say there that it wont make for a practical power source. Still funny what weird stuff people stumble upon by accident.
by Skipjack
Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:43 pm
Forum: News
Topic: There Could Be Problems
Replies: 10
Views: 6815

Greenpeace is nothing but a big money making organization. Their so called "goals" are only a facade for lots of money that is shifted arround behind the scenes.

Even Tokamaks wont produce THAT much nuclear waste.
by Skipjack
Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: and some more eestor news
Replies: 65
Views: 30740

To underline my original point: http://www.gizmag.com/all-electric-mini-los-angeles-auto-show/10229/ So if you want to have a mini that makes just 150 Miles, you have to give up the already very small backseats... That does not sound like a very efficient way to store energy to me. The reduced syste...
by Skipjack
Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:37 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Any news on competing approaches?
Replies: 14
Views: 8418

Oh just saw the other threads on this forum, sorry, guess thats what I get for reading the news first and then the rest, hehehehe. I guess I now understand the spam comment better and also got some more information...
by Skipjack
Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Any news on competing approaches?
Replies: 14
Views: 8418

Lol, yeah I have heard about Blacklight before as well. What I heard about them and their claims made me very sceptical, even though I am not a phycisist. It just seems tooo far fetched. However, it is interesting that a 3rd party comfirmed their claims (at least it seems so, without me reading abou...
by Skipjack
Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Thermodynamics of Economics
Replies: 19
Views: 9926

Sorry, I just can not agree with the idea of having to spend money in order to make money. That just does not make sense. That way you will never have economic growth. However you do have that for the factors of technology(invention) and I think also population growth. I do also think that mining an...
by Skipjack
Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Thermodynamics of Economics
Replies: 19
Views: 9926

Hmm, I do not quite see how you would "fuel" money into the economy, other than by printing more money and increasing inflation, which does not generate wealth at all. Also, I do think that an ideal economy does not operate at losses but gains. The proof of this is the generally higher living standa...
by Skipjack
Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Thermodynamics of Economics
Replies: 19
Views: 9926

I think the real issue is having energy move from hot spots to cold spots and back again, to stick with this analogy. I think that the ideal situation is not having an equilibrium, but having a constant flow of energy in either direction. Thinking about it, it might be why the two general schools of...
by Skipjack
Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Thermodynamics of Economics
Replies: 19
Views: 9926

The term "trickle down" is intended to be a derogatory reference I apollogize, I was not aware that trickle down was a derogatory term (I thought it was the term most commonly used in the US for this kind of economic ideology). I agree that equilibrium can not work. This would be comunism, where ev...