Talk-Polywell.org

You're all welcome — I'm sorry it took so long, but hopefully with all the upgrades we're not only back, but better than ever!

OK. I think we are finally back in action. I'm too tired to type up a complete report of what went wrong, so let me sum up. Dreamhost upgraded their systems, broke the board, denied it for a while, flailed around trying to help for a while, and finally became nonresponsive. It became clear that the ...

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it!

Hi guys, I know I haven't been terribly active here lately, but I do check in now and then, keep the site running, activate new users' accounts, and so on. I hope I've done a good service to the world by providing this place to exchange news and ideas about polywell fusion, and I will continue to do...

This has been an interesting, and possibly useful, thread polluted by off-topic vitriol. At the request of users whom I greatly respect, I'm going to try to go through and delete the off-topic posts and leave us with a nice neat thread that (apart from this message) will be on-topic. Remember, don't...

Tom, thank you very much for sharing the project! We're halfway through the campaign and oh-so-close to halfway funded. I'm sure there are still plenty of space enthusiasts (or city-simulation gamers) out there who haven't heard about it yet, so the more we can spread the word, the better. I agree t...

Thank you for the suggestion. I posted to the SSI mailing list, but I haven't tried contacting Gary directly.

Thanks for forwarding the link, and I'll see if I can follow up with him myself!

Best,
- Joe

Sorry, no Linux support at this time. That would make a sensible stretch goal if we surpass the base goal, though.

As for the economic model, it will be simple, but I think it will capture the most important elements needed for the game.

I've been working all summer on a new video game where you design, build, and manage space settlements. It's called High Frontier . https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/002/789/939/8d8bfc98a9a7fed7a23deb7110e2e96f_large.jpg?1414083648 The game is based on realistic physics, and has already led to sev...

My apologies for the site being down this week. My ISP upgraded all their machines to PHP 5.4, and this apparently is incompatible with the phpBB software we're using here. I've set this site back to PHP 5.3 for now, but at some point I will need to drag it, kicking and screaming if necessary, into ...

Because talking about this is tantamount to sawing through a major load bearing structure for civilization. Humans turn into evil bastards when deprived of their religious beliefs. This seems to be a fairly common belief among theists. I've seen no evidence for it, however. I know quite a few athei...

They're both sure to build hundreds of coal-fired electric plants. There's not a darn thing anyone can do to stop them. Well, cheap and effective Polywell fusion plants might do it. (And as soon as anybody shows it can be done, you can bet that China will figure out how to do it cheaply, patents or...

I doubt this is a hybrid, though that's certainly one possibility. It's more likely that, as you say, what was previously thought to be several different hominid species will turn out to be all one species. Of course there are other scientists who think too much is being read into the new find. But,...

No, this board is on a shared machine (not even a virtual private server), and of course I don't have root privs. That obviously limits what I can do, and even what I can discover about it, somewhat. However there are a lot of things I probably can do, that I haven't tried yet. This is because I've ...

I need everyone to please try harder to keep it civil.

(Yes, Schneibster, I see that you did exactly that in your last post above — thank you.)

Thanks,
- Joe