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by JoeP
Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:35 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SpaceX News
Replies: 2324
Views: 1154745

Re: SpaceX News

Looks like a bird traversing the camera's field in between the lens and the launchpad. The last frame with the object doesn't appear (to me) to be behind that last tower on the far left of the screen either. As for conspiracies: using a drone or some small fast aircraft would have likely shown up on...
by JoeP
Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:41 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602149

Re: EM Drive

I seriously doubt this is a real effect. It contradicts established theory. I still think this is great news though. The space-enthusiast / sci-fi geek kid in me is excited about the cubesat experiment. If it somehow turns out to be a useful propellentless thruster that beats the photon rocket by an...
by JoeP
Sun Aug 07, 2016 3:18 pm
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811223

Re: LENR Is Real

Sadly I do not see Rossi receiving a huge amount of punishment. Quite honestly the average juror has an extremely low analytical and scientific background. Let's face it may be one person in 10 actually knows the difference between hypothesis, theory, and theorem. So I could see him in a jury trial...
by JoeP
Fri Jul 15, 2016 10:40 pm
Forum: News
Topic: BLP news
Replies: 665
Views: 353003

Re: BLP news

Well, it does make silver compounds as vapor and smoke at least, along with the arc light show.
by JoeP
Sun Jul 10, 2016 3:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Horrible.
Replies: 20
Views: 14799

Re: Horrible.

Ah, I think I read the Niven tale as well. What a gruesome future. I recall another irony in those stories that there were thousands of very rich 20th and 21st century people that froze their bodies in an attempt to get to some point in the future where a cure for aging could be applied, and they co...
by JoeP
Sun Jul 10, 2016 1:43 am
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811223

Re: LENR Is Real

The general point remains though, there have been too many experiments and replications to doubt that anomalous heat can be generated by LENR and that P & F have been vindicated. I've heard this said by CF enthusiasts and was part of the OPs main point in opening the thread. I think would be good t...
by JoeP
Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Horrible.
Replies: 20
Views: 14799

Re: Horrible.

Maybe the practical solution is to have a black/white partner required for all cops in all departments. Expensive yes, but that way there is always a mixed race duo for each and every call. And if a black person is the person to be questioned, then the black officer is the point person to do so. And...
by JoeP
Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:53 pm
Forum: News
Topic: in the lifestyle section of the bangkok post ?
Replies: 10
Views: 11787

Re: in the lifestyle section of the bangkok post ?

I guess the geeks at Google didn't grok it enough when Bussard gave his talk there. Instead they help fund stuff like the bird-roaster Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Yeah, a vision guy that has the magic touch is needed. Wozniak had a Jobs for example.
by JoeP
Thu Jun 30, 2016 9:24 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602149

Re: EM Drive

... I'd also point out that Cannae now offers to test other entity's devices for thrust. I find this most comical. If you have a groundbreaking tech that you're researching, why hold everything to run tests for other people's work? From a break-through standpoint, this seems silly. From a business ...
by JoeP
Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:17 pm
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811223

Re: LENR Is Real

Just skimmed it; there is a copy that can be downloaded elsewhere. I might go over it more as well when I have some time. That said, it looks comprehensive and appears to deflect much of the three issues that IH had in the MTD and specifically cites examples and related cases in that effort. I'll be...
by JoeP
Fri Jun 10, 2016 6:43 pm
Forum: News
Topic: cheap, high performance, thermo electric material discoverd
Replies: 44
Views: 31677

Re: cheap, high performance, thermo electric material discoverd

Solar thermal/TEG, with sufficiently efficient TEGs, ought to use the entire spectrum.
Maybe such a device would push solar into a mainstream energy technology.
by JoeP
Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Will Europe wake up?
Replies: 69
Views: 36702

Re: Will Europe wake up?

So, what will Sweden be like in another decade? They keep importing refugees, but according to The Local, " Of almost 163,000 people who applied for asylum in Sweden last year, less than 500 landed a job, according to a report by a Swedish public broadcaster. " So how will they pay for all these you...
by JoeP
Sat Jun 04, 2016 9:19 pm
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811223

Re: LENR Is Real

In a Motion to Dismiss, they can only address the complaint. They can not go beyond substantiating that the items in the complaint (each and every one) are either false or incorrect. So, did not the complaint state that on successful completion of the 1MW customer test that the $89 million was due?...
by JoeP
Sat Jun 04, 2016 2:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811223

Re: LENR Is Real

My thought is that they did not attack the ECat or the supposed capabilities because they still fundamentally believe in it.
That is going to limit what IH does in defense. I could be wrong. Should be interesting.
by JoeP
Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:12 pm
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811223

Re: LENR Is Real

I'd read it carefully later. At first glance, it seems they are mainly going to defend against the missuse of IP claims, and a technicality of not having all parties sign the extended test agreement (missing one of Rossi's shell companies). And that the 1 yr test was the wrong version of the 1MW pla...