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These last two posts--positive evidence that this is a free forum--not requiring intelligence in the least. I can't imagine dopier responses than the two above. is there something wrong with free forums did anyone ever claim this site was not one? and about that second sentence yes you're absolutel...
I'm sure this has been covered to death and nothing in this entire thread is changing anyone's mind but I like to wast my time as much as the next man so here goes... I fell for a BLP line of BS in high school, got excited and then learned better this resulted in a lasting resentment, so I'm not the...
- Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:14 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Bose-Einstein photonic condensate
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8405
hey this The technical simplicity of the experiment, at room temp. and thermal equilibrium means this is absolutely pregnant with technical applications anywhere economical shortwave coherent beams are usefu sounds like fun could someone please dumb it down for a dirty mechanical engineer? (i mean l...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 4:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: NewSpace 2010: Polywell and Vasimr
- Replies: 149
- Views: 89879
Sorry, I was using my avaition definition of 1 to 1 thrust to weight, which is thrust equal to the entire weight of the aircraft (or spacecraft), as in able to accelerate in the vertical, not a very common capability in aircraft. So, yes, the entire weight of the spacecraft needs to be lifted out o...
- Sun Aug 08, 2010 3:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: NewSpace 2010: Polywell and Vasimr
- Replies: 149
- Views: 89879
MLT and UFG, thrust efficiency scales with the cube of frequency. So for the case of the UFG, the maximum ionic response of the materials used You are casting pearls to swine. I'm ignorant of just about everything having to do with M-E thrusters. So the acronyms and tech talk are lost on me. All I ...
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: NewSpace 2010: Polywell and Vasimr
- Replies: 149
- Views: 89879
As to ET's that's another topic and doesn't belong here. As to Space elevators well the tensile strength, construction and funding problems may or may not be solved but the one problem that proponents never talk about is orbital debris. So we build the tower. It has a ground speed of 0 mph. What hap...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Che Guevara: Idiot liberal hero.
- Replies: 73
- Views: 18941
ok theory's great but lets look at alcohol regulation already on the books in the US. it is illegal to sell it to minors at party's. then lets look at what happens. no one cares because all you have to do to stay out of trouble is refuse the police entry and they can't come in to check your house. s...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:07 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: North Korean Fusion
- Replies: 106
- Views: 65500
so lets get this strait a country know to be run by one of the most oppressive military regimes on the planet that has been pumping nothing but propaganda through it's media pretty much since it's establishment not only solves the net energy problem of the fusion community but the death problems of ...
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Nebel comment
- Replies: 95
- Views: 140464
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Nebel comment
- Replies: 95
- Views: 140464
I'd ride with Don Quixote any day. I am merely probing If the prob-er were to get all worried about folks feeling put out of place when probed You're the prob-er... what? See chrismb quoting people out of context is not so representative of those people’s views. It makes you sound trollish It is re...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:21 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FOIA
- Replies: 475
- Views: 219114
ladajo wrote: Second Update of the day. In response to my asking; The listed reports make up a total of about 235 pages. The first 100 pages are free. The additional pages are $0.15 each. That makes for about $20.25 Let's see, Red Lobster, or feed the voracious wolves here at talk-polywell. Hmmm. If...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:10 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Water on the moon
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11782
Water on the moon
i saw this on the daily show last night looks good for a fuel source if we had a polywell for electrolosis.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini- ... osits.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini- ... osits.html
- Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Building an Open Source Bussard Reactor
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20028
is this about making a phisical reactor or making a vertual reactor if this project is about the latter could the problem of to many calculations be solved by someone writing a distributed computing cliant like seti online or folding at home that could be downloaded to idle computers if this is not ...
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:31 am
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: Change.gov
- Replies: 4
- Views: 36776
Change.gov
I recently visited change.gov and found that no one had sugested that the Obama could fund polywell research I think someone more eloquent then I should write a nice story about the potential benefits of polywell fusion.