Sincerely @ G.W. Johnson

[TDPerk]

"GW obviously has a lifetime of experience that should he deem to share it, we'd all be blessed to hear what he has to say. "

As long as he solely talks about the behavior of actual hot air--or Navy Standard Day--fine.

"Personally, as one whose twin brother is completely politically opposed to, I have to think there are times politics need to go to the wayside, in order to treat honestly with other issues. "

Except I know it is not possible for a leftist to be honest. The checksums of their gray matter don't match. History disproves them at every turn, whenever they speak of the political they are lying to someone and usually also themselves.

The very least to bring this man's judgment into suspicion is his prattling about throwing the bastards out when still crying for more of the same, and for debate and compromise, when what are at stake are first principles. If he can't see a 180 is called for, he is someone's useful idiot.

That someone is on the left.

[GIThruster]

it is not possible for a leftist to be honest.

TD, I assure you, it is completely possible for someone to be a liberal and a leftist and be honest. I think my twin is wrong, but he is not dishonest in his politics.

It's because we demonize those we disagree with that we have the polarized political situation we have. I'm a staunch conservative--a Reagan conservative; but I don't castigate those I disagree with as morons, or disfunctional, or dishonest. They're just wrong.

Once you demonize those you disagree with, you lose the ability to understand them, and Sun Tzu was correct--"to beat the enemy, you must first understand them".

[GW Johnson]

I posted no politics here on polywell. That stuff is on my personal blog site.

So also is a lot of calculated ramjet engine performance data and some studies of launch vehivles using blends of ramjet and rocket power.

In a technical arena, I used 20 year's experience with propulsion like that in the missile business, to investigate how that propulsion might be adapted to launch. I have no computer codes, so this is stone knives and bearskins work, the old way. Have patience, it takes time.

I still have vertical launch left to look at, but have satisfied myself that small payloads can be launched from a rocket/ramjet hypersonic airplane, that is truly reusable. It really is an airplane, not something fragile and expensive.

I put all kinds of stuff up over at "exrocketman". It saddens me to see some of it misinterpreted. But, it's also nice to know I put stuff up there that might be useful, or at least provoke some thought.

[Diogenes]

GW, I also appreciate your knowledge and experience in ram work. I disagree with all your politics. IMHO, you're best served to share your technical experience here at T-P and leave the politics at home.

Fact is, there are just too many people here who want to argue over poly-sci. Why sacrifice your credibility over such a thing, when we all have so much to glean from your technical expertise?

Having looked at some of his posts concerning his knowledge and credentials, the question that comes to my mind is "How can this guy be a liberal?"

I suppose i'll have to take a look at his thinking on his website.

[GW Johnson]

I am neither neither liberal nor conservative. I am independent, and I do not believe in ideologies. It took years to shed that filter, too. I just believe in being free.

Actually, I think the free market is the most powerful engine of creation ever devised by man. It is so powerful because (1) it is the aggregate of all of us, outnumbering all other groups, and (2) it is driven by that very powerful basic human emotion of greed.

Yet, every cleric in every religion around the planet will tell you that greed unfettered by rules invariably turns to selfish evil. Most Christian churches would phrase that as "love of money is the root of all evil", which is pretty close to what they said when I was a child long ago.

If you shed the ideology filters and just look at what really "is", then you understand that a "free market" is absolutely not the same thing as a "market free of rules". Colloquially, if you don't build fences, the cows will always eat the seed corn. Every farmer knows that.

It's very tricky getting the right rules. Too many, or the wrong ones, hurt you, typically a failing of the more "liberal" of the Democrats. So also does no-rules-at-all hurt you, typical of the more "right-wing" Republicans. Getting the right rules in place is Congress's job, and IMHO they haven't been doing their job very well at all now, for way over 30 years.

No more politics on polywell. I am not what some accuse me of. Lets go back to spaceflight.