[Vo]:Mystery Behind Galaxy Shapes Solved
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/galaxy-shape-hubble-100111.html Excerpt: Researchers created a new supercomputer model, based on observational data and the Lambda Cold Dark Matter theory of the universe. This theory suggests that about 72 percent of the cosmos is made of up a mysterious force called dark energy, while another 23 percent is composed of an invisible type of matter called dark matter. That leaves only 4 percent of the universe made of normal, visible matter, including all the stars and planets that we see. - So, Dark Matter is at fault by 23%, or maybe it's cuz of those pesky hydrinos. ;-) Still hanging out in the 4% category... Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig
On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 01/12/2010 06:29 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: [And by the way I'd still love to see a sketch of the field of the toroidal magnetic cores, if anyone happens to have a link to one (don't spend a lot of your time searching the Steorn site for a diagram, tho, please, just to save me the time to do that, wouldn't be fair).] This is from one of Fred Sparber's (GRHS) favorite sites (mine, too since it's from Ga): http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/magnetic/toroid.html Thanks, Terry... but unfortunately, that page is not what I'm looking for. That's the field of the coil, and it's entirely contained within the toroid. I'm looking for a sketch of the field of the toroidal *core* when the current is switched off. For the magnetism of the core to mean anything, that field must not be entirely contained in the toroid, and consequently must not be a purely circular field running parallel to the torus ring. The field of a permanent magnet must be either anchored in the magnet's material, or knotted around part of the magnet, as in the attached sketches. But those aren't the only possibilities for a toroidal magnet, and I don't know what the fields of the Steorn toroidal magnets look like. (bad in the image file names refers to the quality of the sketches, which are, well, bad...) bad-toroidal-field-2.jpgbad-toroidal-mag-field-1.jpg I can say that, experimentally speaking, it was surprising to me the degree to which the field of a toroidal coil is entirely contained within the torus surface, even if that surface is highly distorted. Here is an experiment I did along those lines: http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/OddTransNotes.pdf I tried to make a transformer that could tap the fringe field energy of a highly distorted toroid surface. There was very very little there to tap! Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
[Vo]:Google's problem in China
I hope that Google and the Chinese government reach some sort of deal, and Google does not leave, because that would hurt many Chinese people, especially People We Like, such as scientists. Many of them access the U.S. copy of LENR-CANR.org via Google.cn. A much smaller number use the Chinese government's search tool baidu.com. Dealing with dictatorships is tricky. You want to help the people in the country and also respect their laws without too many compromises with the government. I think engagement is good. Our trade, contacts and exchanges with Russia during the cold war helped both sides, in my opinion. I wish we were more open with Cuba. I just tested baidu.com with the word cold fusion in Chinese, and a variety of other search terms such as LENR. It finds the U.S. version of LENR-CANR.org, New Energy Times and so on, but not the mirror copy of LENR-CANR at Tsinghua U. (I can read Chinese to some extent, especially words such as fusion, neutron, heat and so on. They are more or less the same as in Japanese. I can also make out computer related terms, so I can tell what kind of article the search came up with, and whether it is the programming language ColdFusion or my kind.) Baidu.com also has an on-line encyclopedia. Here is their article about cold fusion, translated by Google: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://baike.baidu.com/view/1391655.htm%3Ffr%3Dala0_1sl=zh-CNtl=enhl=ie=UTF-8http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://baike.baidu.com/view/1391655.htm%3Ffr%3Dala0_1sl=zh-CNtl=enhl=ie=UTF-8 It is interesting. Pam Boss somehow came out Pameilamo Hibbs. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Google's problem in China
I just checked the records. We get about 10,000 visits a year from China. Google.cn visits. Approximately 800 of them come via Google.cn, I think. It is hard to correlate them. Anyway, it would be a shame if they lost contact with Google.cn. I expect the Chinese government blocks access to the regular U.S. version of Google, and the Japanese and other uncensored versions. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig
From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 1:15:34 PM On 01/12/2010 12:34 PM, Esa Ruoho wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79138...@n00/4268789755/ First slide: However certain components (such as the magnets used) store energy, to prove over unity we must prove that the energy of these components does not degrade during the interaction. As far as I know this is totally a red herring -- a straw man. I don't think a motor which consumes the energy stored in permanent magnets, which eventually are demagnetized, has ever been demonstrated, and I'm not at all sure it's possible. Sure, you can ruin magnets in a motor, but that's not at all the same as *making* *use* of the magnetic field of the magnets as it degrades -- i.e., loss of magnetization is always just an artifact, never something vital to the motor's operation. If the magnetic field of the permanent magnets is being used up, then replacing them with *better* magnets which didn't degrade would destroy the motor's operation. I haven't been following the steorn demo. Did he actually replace the magnets as part of his demo? Presumably the honest thing to do would be to measure the strength of the magnet's field to show it hasn't decreased. harry __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/
[Vo]:awesome evidence (Google Earth images, stereo pairs, some videos) from Mexico to Canada for 500 km comet rubble pile air impacts 12950 BP --Dennis Cox: Rich Murray 2010.01.13
awesome evidence (Google Earth images, stereo pairs, some videos) from Mexico to Canada for 500 km comet rubble pile air impacts 12950 BP --Dennis Cox: Rich Murray 2010.01.13 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.htm Wednesday, January 13, 2010 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/35 _ December 16, 2009 at 2:32 pm http://anthropology.net/2009/12/16/more-clovis-comet-debate-and-a-response-from-dr-richard-firestone-2/#comment-15812 craterhunter added a new comment to the post More Clovis Comet Debate and a Response from Dr.Richard Firestone. craterhunter said on More Clovis Comet Debate and a Response from Dr.Richard Firestone January 10, 2010 at 2:27 pm If it is ok to take a firm stand on one side of the debate, or the other, I'll cast my lot with Dr. Firestone, and friends. I was trained to do battle damage assessment in the military. And it has been an interest ever since. A long time ago, when the first LandSat images became available to the general public, I noticed some explosive blast effects in the southwest US, and central Mexico that couldn't be believably explained by standard theory in the light of the new hi-res satellite images. At the time I knew nothing of any work on the Younger Dryas cooling. And it was long before anyone had proposed fragmented comet impacts. But it was a wonderful conundrum. I knew I was looking at the ground effects of an unimaginably violent event that flew in the face everything I had ever learned. And I knew of no natural energy release to account for them. For that matter I knew of no kind of natural energy release at all that could do what I was seeing. The ground effects, and blast effected materials, I had noticed all seemed to point to something that happened around the end of the last Ice age. And, when I learned of work on the Younger Dryas Boundary layer, and the nano-diamonds R.B. Firestone et al, and others had found there, I realized they confirmed some of what I had found. It confirmed, if nothing else, that an event of the level of destruction I was looking at did indeed happen. And recently enough too. From what I can see R.B. Firestone et al are spot on. There is no end to the theories related to to the so called Younger Dryas impact event. Some are good, and some not so good. And I've no doubt, you have heard them all by now. But here's a fresh viewpoint that looks at the actual ground effects of such an event from a fluid mechanics / blast analysis point of view: http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/ Dennis Cox -- awesome site with hundreds of quality Google Earth photos, some stereo images, and a few short videos http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/the-planetary-scaring-of-the-younger-dryas-impact-event/the-benivides-impact-structure/ A CATASTROPHE OF COMETS THE GEOPHYSICAL WORLD ACORDING TO ME, AND A FEW FOLKS I HAPPEN TO AGREE WITH The Benavides Impact Structure The explosive process that did this has never been studied before. The semi circular ring of The Benavides Impact Structure is 17 miles wide. Just accros the border from Terlingua, Texas, and Big Bend National Park, USA. The perfect semi-circle was the first anomalous land form I noticed in the satelite images. It was obvious that it is the result of a violent explosive event that standard theory can't properly describe. And my obsessive curiosity wouldn't let me leave it alone. The maps show this area to be volcanic due to the melt formations. But there is no volcanic vent here so the violence did not come from below. The 17 mile ring, as well as the smaller, overlapping, 8 mile wide impressions are all perfect circles incised into the surface from above. The mega-breccias and ignimbrites outside the structure were blown there by a great force of heat and pressure which scoured everything from inside the circles and cut into the surface like a giant cookie cutter. And the heat inside the circles was enough to re-weld the fractures in the rock. Here we begin to see some of the clear evidence of the predominant southeast to morthwest direction of the impact firestorm in the directional nature of the breccias, and other blast effected materials of this structure. Outside of the southeast edge of the structure, the pressure driven, blast effected, materials were thrown into the super-sonic impact wind so they piled up outside the compression wave of the explosion in a standing wave of mega breccias The breccias are heaped 800 to 1000 ft high. On the opposite side, outside of the northwest edge of the structure are repeated blankets of ejecta, and ignimgrites thrown down wind 10 miles, or more. The melted material did not come out of the ground. There is no vent here. Whatever the heat source may have been it was not volcanic. The melt blankets of ejecta, consist of the original surface terrain, flash melted from above, and quickly blown off, and away, from its points of origin. The
Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: I haven't been following the steorn demo. Did he actually replace the magnets as part of his demo? Not yet. He has 2 more demos to go. Here is 1 of 5 youtube vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/SteornOfficial#p/u/0/bzcZDr1AcEU Terry
[Vo]:OT: Happy new year?
V, It is more a sad one, I think, so far. Up here where I live, a lesbian woman was assaulted two girls and a group of four men, apparently simply because the woman was a lesbian. Among other things, she was stabbed in the eye, and will most likely (if she has not already) lose that eye. I cannot think of much worse to lose than eyes or hands. They are irreplaceable and unmatchable. I do not know the woman, nor her family. I know next to no one who is gay/lesbian. It does not change the fact that I am very angry that this happened to a fellow human being. What was done to this woman was wrong. I hope whoever did this is caught, and fast. To add to this, this morning I learn of what happened yesterday afternoon in Haiti. Over 100,000 suspected dead. We are only thirteen days into this new year. This has already happened. What is next? My wife and I have very little expendable cash at the moment. But if possible, we will try to give at least something to help, limited and useless as it most likely is. It is times like this that I wish I had a great amount of money. It would be nice to be able to help even more. Why does it seem that those who have the most, rarely part with it when someone needs a hand? Why is it that those who wish to help, scarcely have enough to do so? If there is someone truly watching over this world, I have many hard questions to ask. I apologize for the depressing tone of this. But I am depressed. --Kyle
[Vo]:OT: Man Uses Math to Explain Girlfriend Woes
Man Uses Math to Explain Girlfriend Woes Updated: Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010, 10:22 AM MST Published : Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010, 10:19 AM MST By FRANK CARNEVALE (MYFOX NATIONAL) - A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus , a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK , used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK... http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpps/news/dpgo-Peter-Backus-uses-math-to-explain-girlfriend-woes-fc-20100112_5537488 paper: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/phd_students/backus/why_i_dont_have_a_girlfriend.pdf __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
[Vo]:OT: Man Uses Math to Explain Girlfriend Woes
Harry Sez: Man Uses Math to Explain Girlfriend Woes Updated: Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010, 10:22 AM MST Published : Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010, 10:19 AM MST By FRANK CARNEVALE (MYFOX NATIONAL) - A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus , a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK , used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK... http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpps/news/dpgo-Peter-Backus-uses-math-to- explain-girlfriend-woes-fc-20100112_5537488 paper: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/phd_students/backus/wh y_i_dont_have_a_girlfriend.pdf Thanks Harry, I sent this off to a science fiction group I hang out in. This will fit right in. We all love The Big Bang Theory sitcom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Big_Bang_Theory_episodes Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig
At 05:45 PM 1/13/2010, Terry Blanton wrote: Here is 1 of 5 youtube vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/SteornOfficial#p/u/0/bzcZDr1AcEU The set of videos is too long for me to watch now. But my immediate impression. The demonstrations are technically far more complex, they *look* much better. But it still seems like a snow job. Actual description of the details of the motor seem to be missing, and there are lots of statements that miss and don't address the fact that it would only take a relatively small amount of energy transfer during a transient, and there are lots of transients, to cause the rotor to accelerate. It amounts to hand-waving. The man keeps saying absolutely no back-EMF. He claims that the energy output is greater than the input, but he says that again and again without showing a measurement of this. Next week, he says. Steorn is bypassing the normal process of revelation of a new discovery. Why? I've already speculated why. He's not selling energy, he's selling technology or access to information. If he reveals the real scoop, he's got nothing to sell if he doesn't have patents. And he doesn't. If he has a working model that is over unity, he could get a patent, he'd have to submit the model, I believe. And it would have to work. That's not building motors or generators, that's demonstrating the effect. Basically, it's blatant: he's blowing smoke, a *prediction* that the effect can be used to generate power. He hasn't done calorimetry, they are working with a German company. And they will be doing this or that test. Okay, I kept watching. Questioner asked why they weren't using capacitors instead of a battery, for all the reasons we discussed. And the answer was essentially to first give a bullshit answer, that a capacitor couldn't supply the instantaneous current needed. Put enough capacitance in there and and you could vaporize the conductors if you shorted it. And then, when the questioner asked a little more, he asked him to dream the dream a bit and talked about how important this could be. In other words, please stop asking this inconvenient question
