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by Skipjack
Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: White House Decides to Outsource NASA Work
Replies: 90
Views: 21473

Hnh! An Obama initiative that might actually be good. Actually pay free market companies for actual services. What a concept! Agreed, this is really good news! I am excited! Less government and more privatization is always good. I think that once the competition heats up, we will see more progress ...
by Skipjack
Sat Jan 23, 2010 8:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cutting off the lights
Replies: 30
Views: 9182

Since the public apparently insists on having White light street lights and other lighting applications, people have to accept the loss of efficiency that occurs as a result of using them. Actually I think that this bluish white light is really bad. I think the same about car headlights as well. IM...
by Skipjack
Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:36 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Yet another shot at Dense Plasma Focus......
Replies: 21
Views: 9190

40,000 people die in car accidents in the US allone every year. That is a Hiroshima death- toll in just 3 years. Any technology can do harm. The question that we should ask ourselves though is: How many more people would die without this technology? After all trucks bring us food, farm machines help...
by Skipjack
Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: To Treat the Dead - a paradigm change
Replies: 29
Views: 17031

My ref about Becker induces 33 degreeC Mild Hypothemia for the purpose of preventing the self-destruction of cells after oxygen is reintroduced. Its specifically for heart attacks and I speculate also drowning, and not suitale for hemorrhaging patients. It was 32 degress C in my case. What can I sa...
by Skipjack
Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: To Treat the Dead - a paradigm change
Replies: 29
Views: 17031

Hmm, so here in Austria, patients are already put into neuroprotective cooling in some cases. It happened to me when I had my heart attack.
But yes, cooling people down until they can be taken care of in a hospital, might indeed be a good idea. Have every ambulance cary a load full of dry ice?
by Skipjack
Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:52 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Monkhorst and Rostoker In The News
Replies: 11
Views: 5302

So, if I may say so, this article does not say anything new. It could have been written 10 years ago. No hard facts, no real anything.
by Skipjack
Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Media "Control" of the Elections?
Replies: 328
Views: 135307

Same here, but that does not mean the masses do so and I am just saying it again: I am not the one who started this thread.
by Skipjack
Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: Media "Control" of the Elections?
Replies: 328
Views: 135307

I presume you are asking about this in the context of Mike Huckabees show on Fox ? Nope, I was referring to Sarah Palin's future show on Fox, actually. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jan/17/for-fox-the-palin-factor/?partner=yahoo_feeds The former Republican vice presidential candidate will do po...
by Skipjack
Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Sleep
Replies: 18
Views: 3963

If I have to wake up in the morning I usually feel like complete crap. If I have to be somewhere early, I often just don't go to sleep - I feel fine in the morning if I just go through to it without sleeping during the night. Then when I get home late afternoon (4 or 5pm) I just fall asleep then. D...
by Skipjack
Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: NASA cuts space shuttle price
Replies: 12
Views: 2671

until there's a customer besides NASA who wants such things What things are that? Cheap access to LEO for cargo? For crew? You think it is only NASA that wants and needs that? I think that NASA is actually the smaller market for that. They should have to adapt their strategies to what is available ...
by Skipjack
Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Media "Control" of the Elections?
Replies: 328
Views: 135307

I would prefer that the News people announce their political preferences so people can understand they are on one side or the other. I like that thought! One more thing and that is an honest question (because I dont know): Do Kerry, or Al Gore have a show on ABC, Cnn, etc? Is there a former Dem can...
by Skipjack
Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Sleep
Replies: 18
Views: 3963

I admit that I sleep a lot. I like sleeping, or sometimes only snoothing. But my waking times are also longer than those of "ordinary" people. I just can not sleep if I am not totally beat down tired. Then I lie in bed keep pondering over problems or some technical question. I often find solution to...
by Skipjack
Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Engineers are intrinsically 'right-wing'.
Replies: 39
Views: 15915

On the engineers versus scientists thingy: I dont know how it works in the US, but in Austria, if you study at the technical university you dont get a PHD. You get the title "Diplom Ingenieur". I am pretty sure that this is simillar in most Germany speaking countries. So german technical physicists ...
by Skipjack
Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Countdown to Polywell data and/or US collapse
Replies: 6
Views: 2465

Tech transfer is not a necessity. China and other nations probably have Polywell research programs underway at this very moment that we just don't know about, yet I was brievely involved with an attempt by an Austrian company trying to get a foothold in china. They gave up on it. If you want to fil...
by Skipjack
Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: NASA cuts space shuttle price
Replies: 12
Views: 2671

One issue I've heard is man-rating. Manrating is a very stretchable and ultimately meaningless term. It originally came to life when ICBMs were used as the main means to get people into space. They were then "manrated" depending on various criteria. Space X has built its hardware from the beginning...