[Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Mattia Rizzi
What will happen after Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer will be proved as a hoax? We will ever seen the “rossi-belivers”? We will see lenr-canr website closed, after this stomach punch? We will see cold fusion researchers stop doing sloppy calorimetry and focusing more on STRONG nuclear radiations before

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Peter Gluck
I have answered this question yesterday on my blog. and have announced it here. Not the end of the world, not the end of LENR Peter On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Mattia Rizzi mattia.ri...@gmail.comwrote: What will happen after Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer will be proved as a hoax? We will

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Daniel Rocha
Pretty much the total destruction of all confidence I have in LENR. If so many competent people in the field were cheated that easily by Rossi, I can expect much worse from everyone, even in the sense of self deception.

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread fznidarsic
Robert Parks will be, once again, smug as a bug. Frank Z -Original Message- From: Mattia Rizzi mattia.ri...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 7:26 am Subject: [Vo]:The day after Rossi What will happen after Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty much the total destruction of all confidence I have in LENR. If so many competent people in the field were cheated that easily by Rossi, I can expect much worse from everyone, even in the sense of self deception. Some questions: How many

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Jouni Valkonen
«LENR is another avenue. It's not just about Rossi. If the Rossi thing doesn't happen, then maybe something else will. Rossi has brought a lot of attention to the field. Any researchers who have a legitimate claim are going to benefit from this.» –Michael A. Nelson, Nasa On Aug 25, 2011 8:57 PM,

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jouni Valkonen wrote: «LENR is another avenue. It's not just about Rossi. If the Rossi thing doesn't happen, then maybe something else will. Rossi has brought a lot of attention to the field. Any researchers who have a legitimate claim are going to benefit from this.» –Michael A. Nelson,

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-08-25 01:56 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: If Rossi turns out to be a fraud, or hugely mistaken for some reason, the skeptics here will deserve no credit for predicting this. Getting a little defensive, are we, Jed?

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Horace Heffner
On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Brief public demos have been repeated 4 times in 8 months, I think. That is a small number. Anyone would invest in this based on those demos would be insane, in my opinion. I am glad we agree on at least some aspect of this. On Aug 25,

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: If Rossi turns out to be a fraud, or hugely mistaken for some reason, the skeptics here will deserve no credit for predicting this. Getting a little defensive, are we, Jed? No, but I am sick of people who play it safe by predicting failure where failure is

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner wrote: It is not primarily the people competent in this field that stand to be cheated if Rossi's device is a fraud or self deception. There are plenty of people with a lot of money who are scientifically clueless. These are the kind of people that can be suckered in by

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Susan Gipp
Jed, how many words wasted ! Just recall how Rossi reacted, time ago, when you proposed to make a test in Bologna using your own tools and what he said when you asked him to visit his Florida plant ! Didn't any alarm bell ring ? I'm sure you are, in his opinion, one of the very very very whatever

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Susan Gipp wrote: Jed, how many words wasted ! Just recall how Rossi reacted, time ago, when you proposed to make a test in Bologna using your own tools and what he said when you asked him to visit his Florida plant ! Didn't any alarm bell ring ? Yes, as I have said again and again, if we

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Horace Heffner
On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: «LENR is another avenue. It's not just about Rossi. If the Rossi thing doesn't happen, then maybe something else will. Rossi has brought a lot of attention to the field. Any researchers who have a legitimate claim are going to benefit

Re: [Vo]:The day after Rossi

2011-08-25 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Look at Kim Kardashian who has made $35 million just by being famous, with no apparent assets other than her ass. Jed, Might I suggest that you look a bit higher? T