Interglactic war
If you thought Iraq was expensive, just wait. Hellyer warned, The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us I can only conclude that the Aliens have vast stockpiles of petroleum. This is a nonsequetor. I also think that this entire scenario is nonsense. --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
RE: Radio Free GMR
At 12:00 am 26/11/2005 -0500, you wrote: Now Mr. WholeHam, if you're not nice I might do a search on the vortex list and see who else uses some of the unique features of your posts... I am legion, of course, or so it seems to the internet. Talking of searches, I was interested to find that a hohlraum is a piece of scientific equipment. Definition of hohlraum A laboratory device to produce blackbody radiation. Consists of a closed metal tube, blackened on the inside, with a narrow slit cut into one of the flat ends. On heating the tube the radiation escaping from the slit is virtually identical with that expected from a blackbody. One learns something new every day on Vortex 8-) Frank Grimer
FW: [BOBPARKS-WHATSNEW] What's New Friday November 25, 2005
[Original Message] From: What's New [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/26/2005 1:03:29 PM Subject: [BOBPARKS-WHATSNEW] What's New Friday November 25, 2005 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 25 Nov 05 Washington, DC 1. NASA: VISION FOR SPACE EXPLORATION IS ALREADY IN TROUBLE. It was less than a year ago, that President Bush announced his bold plan to send people to reexplore the Moon and then explore Mars http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN04/wn011604.html The plan is not going well. First, we're told, the International Space Station must be finished as the US promised, even if it is just a Disney World ride for too-rich tourists. That means 18 more shuttle flights, which aren't happening due to new cracks in the foam. If the ISS is ever finished, it can be dropped in the ocean. NASA will then get on with a crew exploration vehicle to go to the moon, where we were 36 years ago. But that leaves a four year gap between the shuttle and the crew exploration vehicle with no Americans in space. Would anyone notice? 2. DARWIN: AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OPENS NEW EXHIBIT. In 1987, Norman Newell, a paleontologist at the AMNH, shared the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award of the AAAS for his early and persistent campaign to alert scientists to the threat posed by creationism to scientific education. At that time, the Louisiana equal time law was before the U.S. Supreme Court http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN87/wn021987.html . This week, with the Dover School Board ID case before a Federal Court in Pennsylvania, the AMNH opened an exhibit on the life of Charles Darwin, featuring a live specimen of the storied Galapagos tortoise. Corporate sponsors for such educational exhibits are usually easy to find, but the Darwin exhibit reportedly had to rely on individual donors and private charities for the $3M the exhibit cost. Although the ID controversy frightened off corporate donors, a Creationist Museum near Cincinatti, apparently had little trouble raising $7M for an exhibit featuring Adam and Eve. 3. SHAMIFLU: THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE AND THE WAR AGAINST BIRD FLU. President Bush went to Congress early this month to ask for $7B to prepare the nation for a possible outbreak of Asian bird flu http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN05/wn110405.html . The federal government has since become the world's biggest customer for Tamiflu, produced by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Roche. That was good news for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, who doesn't have bird flu. He doesn't have stock in Roche either, but he does have millions of dollars worth of stock in a company named Gilead Sciences, having been Gilead's Chairman prior to joining the Bush administration. Low-profile Gilead Sciences owns the rights to Tamiflu, which it outsources to Roche. There is little evidence that the antiviral drug would help much in a flu pandemic. 4. JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE: LAUNCH HAS BEEN DELAYED TWO YEARS. To cope with its budget problems, NASA will delay the launch of the infrared telescope. State Department permission is sought to launch JWST on the European Space Agency Ariane 5 rocket. THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. Opinions are the author's and not necessarily shared by the University of Maryland, but they should be. --- Archives of What's New can be found at http://www.bobpark.org What's New is moving to a different listserver and our subscription process has changed. To change your subscription status please visit this link: http://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=bobparks-whatsnewA=1
Re: Radio Free GMR
That's me, hollow cavity with a hole in my head. -Original Message- From: Grimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talking of searches, I was interested to find that a hohlraum is a piece of scientific equipment. Definition of hohlraum A laboratory device to produce blackbody radiation. Consists of a closed metal tube, blackened on the inside, with a narrow slit cut into one of the flat ends. On heating the tube the radiation escaping from the slit is virtually identical with that expected from a blackbody. One learns something new every day on Vortex 8-) Frank Grimer ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
Moonidust Madness
Like some posters to vortex, NASA nowadays likes to spice-up (or 'sex-up' as the Brits like to say) its press-headlines for mass consumption... and why not? One assumes that the added touch of PR has a positive impact on funding levels from congress. Here is a recent one, but this story is actually both mesmerizing AND with alternative energy potential. Notice, however, that NASA never admits why it took them 33 years to get to this stage of RD ! Mesmerized by Moondust November 21, 2005 http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/21nov_abbas.htm Each morning, Mian Abbas enters his laboratory and sits down to examine--a single mote of dust. Zen-like, he studies the same speck suspended inside a basketball-sized vacuum chamber for as long as 10 to 12 days The microscopic object of his rapt attention is not just any old dust particle. It's moondust... Many researchers believe that moondust has a severe case of static cling: it's electrically charged. In the lunar daytime, intense ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun knocks electrons out of the powdery grit. Dust grains on the moon's daylit surface thus become positively charged. Eventually, the repulsive charges become so strong that grains are launched off the surface like cannonballs, says Abbas, arcing kilometers above the moon until gravity makes them fall back again to the ground. The moon may have a virtual atmosphere of this flying dust, sticking to astronauts from above and below. Grains of lunar dust become positively charged by ultraviolet light... The ultraviolet light charges moondust 10 times more than theory predicts... Bigger grains (1 to 2 micrometers across) charge up more than smaller grains (0.5 micrometer), just the opposite of what theory predicts. END. OK given these findings - is there anything useful to vortexians and other alternative energy researchers here? A following post may include a more detailed moon-beam type of 'take' on some of the alternative-energy potentials of this kind of easily charged dust... but for now, two possible uses jump out like... well... like NASA's moon grains launched off the surface 'like cannonballs': 1) Capturing the UV component of solar energy, which most solar cells do poorly 2) Converting the energy of a nuclear reactor to electricity using fuel composed of circulating dust grains. As you might have surmised, I was onto this second idea for some time before this new NASA item of news came across the science-wire, but it does provide a nice segue... More to come... Jones Side note - and a related biographical good-read: Is there something to the myth which associates the Moon with Madness? as in ... The men who fell to Earth Nine astronauts who walked on the Moon are still alive, but their clouds of glory have gone dark. Andrew Smith tracks them down in his book Moondust Only 27 men have ever left Earth orbit to see the moon from the perspective of Deep Space - all American between the Christmas of 1968 and 1972. They did not become the celebrities that one would have expected, nor did they live normal lives for the most part. From the Guardian (Robin KcKie) In those four wonderful Apollo years, it seemed that the post-war sci-fi visions of Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov would be realized overnight. Then came the Vietnam war's final throes and Watergate. America's mood darkened, its public got bored with the Moon and the final missions were cancelled. 'The best of times for America was also the worst of times,' as NASA flight director Chris Kraft noted. Worse still, of the 12 men who actually landed, three are dead and many of them suffered psychological problems, despite having chosen as the crème-de-la-crème of American males (i.e. the right stuff) ... Buzz Aldrin plunged into alcoholism - Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) became a drunken, rage-filled bully who persecuted his children wife, before eventually getting saved. etc. etc. Which leads us to another Apollo theme: the epiphanies. While Ed Mitchell returned in his Apollo 14 capsule, he glimpsed 'an intelligence in the Universe and felt connected to it'. He then set up the Institute of Noetic Sciences ... which only goes to show that the 'left coast' is really a state of mind... Anyway this an interesting biographical tale ...
Re: Radio Free GMR
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Nick Reiter wrote: Is anyone aware of a source of white noise in electronic circuits that is related to either magnetic domain or electron spin polarization? (Or de-polarization?) Barkhausen noise. Caused by the walls of magnetic domains suddenly becoming un-pinned and jumping to new shapes. It also appears on a transformer secondary when you apply slowly-varying DC to the primary. Also, some of the early radio detectors (from the pre-tube era) were based on this, where a motorized loop of thin iron wire was passed between pole pieces and the RF influenced the hiss and made a sort of pulsewidth modulated audio. It was also claimed to be a source of FE by these guys years ago: http://amasci.com/freenrg/bark.html http://jlnlabs.imars.com/spgen/barkhausen.htm Here's another which, if real, must be from Barkhausen effect: http://my.voyager.net/~jrrandall/CookCoil.htm I've been playing with non- or micro-inductive coils made from ferromagnetic materials (nickel wire mainly) and I've found a neat effect that manifests as a burst of strong hissy white noise whooshing when a large magnet is moved by hand toward the coil. Try using pieces of steel shim foil, or of transformer lamination. The noise seems to depend on how many pieces you stack up (with thin sheets giving fewer but louder clicks.) I've heard that metglas gives weird results but haven't tried it. And years ago there was a company selling single-domain iron fibers which would give huge pulses when the field hit a certain threshold and caused the entire fiber to switch. Still, I've been thinking along the lines of spin-spin communication, If a domain wall is getting stressed by a rising field and is about to flip, perhaps non-magnetic signals can determine when the click happens. If so, then Barkhausen radio detectors might also pick up non-EM signals. (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. BeatySCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
Re: challenging papers
In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:25:14 +1100: Hi, [snip] Thanks Ed the Students guide is my main resource and I've read it. I was just being thorough and careful before diving in to a room full of politicians, scientists and others. Better me than you hey. I have this vision of John Huizinga or someone stubbornly driving to the mall in the worlds last internal combustion powered car and facing a car park filled with fusion cars. [snip] ...or pushing his car (now with empty gas tank) along the freeway, looking for the last gas station. ;) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
Re: challenging papers
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:25:14 +1100: Hi, [snip] Thanks Ed the Students guide is my main resource and I've read it. I was just being thorough and careful before diving in to a room full of politicians, scientists and others. Better me than you hey. I have this vision of John Huizinga or someone stubbornly driving to the mall in the worlds last internal combustion powered car and facing a car park filled with fusion cars. [snip] ...or pushing his car (now with empty gas tank) along the freeway, looking for the last gas station. ;) No My dad has a bullnose Morris vintage car so when I'm rich and famous I'll have to put together a mail order petrol service for his vintage car club. If I don't dad will kill me. :-D Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
Fwd: Radio Free GMR
-Original Message- From: hohlrauml6d To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:36:43 -0500 Subject: Re: Radio Free GMR :-) At least my posts are usually on topic. Hey mate, care to share your fusion generator design? -Original Message- From: Robin van Spaandonk Would that explain your many posts of late? (Empty vessels make the most sound). :^) ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
