[Vo]:terrifying online videos

2009-12-03 Thread William Beaty
Danyk666 and his microwave oven (Czech language) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_DKblzdbJI Yeesh! Like pouring a bucket of live spiders down your pants. And if you thought THAT was bad... danyk and his unshielded x-ray source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzMXKxadnVw danyk

[Vo]:Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Examiner.com recently posted an article that obviously is not Al Gore friendly, titled “Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?” See: http://www.examiner.com/x-31244-Louisville-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d3-Just-how-stupid-is-Al-Gore-anyway http://tinyurl.com/yddzj6m What piqued my curiosity

Re: [Vo]:Climate-gate widely compared to cold fusion

2009-12-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:10 PM 12/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Many mass media articles and blogs have claimed that the climate-gate scandal resembles cold fusion. Unfortunately, all the ones I have checked have the resemblance backwards. They think cold fusion was wrong and never replicated, and that the cold

RE: [Vo]:terrifying online videos

2009-12-03 Thread Mark Iverson
This is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi7Srd-LSeE -Mark -Original Message- From: William Beaty [mailto:bi...@eskimo.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:14 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:terrifying online videos Danyk666 and his microwave oven (Czech

Re: [Vo]:Climate-gate widely compared to cold fusion

2009-12-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:25 PM 12/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is a good example of an article about climate-gate that includes mythology about cold fusion, from some guy named Poe who is allergic to doing his homework:

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

2009-12-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:45 PM 12/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Simon is interested in the process of closure. And what he comes to with Undead Science is that there can be an apparent closure where an apparent scientific consensus arises, but there is life after death, hence, undead

Re: [Vo]:Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread Mike Carrell
- Original Message - From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:07 AM Subject: [Vo]:Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway? First of all, Gore was way off base in his description of the temperature of

Re: [Vo]:Climate-gate widely compared to cold fusion

2009-12-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/03/2009 10:53 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: One of the most cogent of criticisms of CF research is probably the claim of publication bias. CF was such an attractive field, in terms of potential significance, that many workers attempted to find something. Much of the work was never

Re: [Vo]:terrifying online videos

2009-12-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Thanks, Bill! On 12/03/2009 08:14 AM, William Beaty wrote: Danyk666 and his microwave oven (Czech language) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_DKblzdbJI Yeesh! Like pouring a bucket of live spiders down your pants. Well he SAYS it's at reduced power (in one of the comments).

Re: [Vo]:Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread mixent
In reply to OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson's message of Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:07:45 -0600: Hi, [snip] Regarding the second comment, what are reliable figures on tapping into geothermal energy on an economical scale? Why I bring it up is that we are now technologically capable of drilling miles deep

[Vo]:What Britz says now

2009-12-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: What does Britz think, by the way, about excess heat? Has he betrayed his current position? The last I heard from him was when I wrote the Tally of Cold Fusion Papers:

Re: [Vo]:terrifying online videos

2009-12-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
The Jacob's ladder is spectacular, of course, and so are Tesla coils in general, but, with reasonable precautions, like don't touch!, are pretty safe. However, an unshielded x-ray with enough output to nicely light up a flourescent screen? For perspective, though, as a kid I looked through a

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

2009-12-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: There *was* an apparent scientific consensus. That isn't to be denied. But was there a *real* scientific consensus. It's obvious that there was not. That would be a consensus rigorously based on scientific principles, and such a consensus would be far more widely

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

2009-12-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/03/2009 04:57 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Theories are a dime a dozen in this business. As far as I know none of them makes useful predictions -- or even testable predictions! So they are useless. Heck, they aren't even theories, just speculation. A theory is not viable unless it can be

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

2009-12-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Theories are a dime a dozen in this business. As far as I know none of them makes useful predictions -- or even testable predictions! . . . If I recall correctly, Hagelstein's theory based on phonon coupling to the lattice made testable predictions. However, that

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

2009-12-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:42 PM 12/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: I meant to say: Simon is interested in the process of closure. And what he comes to with Undead Science is that there can be an apparent closure where an apparent scientific consensus arises, but there is life after death, hence, undead science.