Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-20 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:07 PM, John Mikes wrote: > Telmo wrote: > > I agree. But sometimes we're lazy. > My worry is always the same: the energy budget necessary to drill the > holes and maintain the infrastructure compared to the yield. I'm not > saying this isn't a good idea, just that this a

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-19 Thread John Mikes
Telmo wrote: *I agree. But sometimes we're lazy.My worry is always the same: the energy budget necessary to drill theholes and maintain the infrastructure compared to the yield. I'm notsaying this isn't a good idea, just that this analysis in necessary tomake it convincing. I would be glad t

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-18 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:41 PM, John Mikes wrote: > Dear Telmo, oil wells went down deeper than previously estimated as > feasible. Techniques are evolving. > If 2, 0r 5 pipes are inadequate in transport capacity, use more. Ask the > engineers - I also claim ignorance. > the geological temperatu

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-17 Thread LizR
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RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-17 Thread Chris de Morsella
[mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Mikes Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:15 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Chris: you said it. I did not refer to "hydraulic fracturing' or "injecting (anything) INTO THE ROCK"

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-17 Thread John Mikes
nto > the spinning turbine. If you used the steam from the well head you would be > replacing turbines every year or two. > > Chris > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *John Mikes > *Sent:* Satu

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-17 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:43 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/16/2013 12:51 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Dry rock geothermal

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-17 Thread meekerdb
On 11/16/2013 12:51 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Dry rock geothermal certainly does have a big upside potential -- there is a whole lot of heat just a few miles below the ground, but it is not as easy or simple as you seem to think it is. For example in a lot of dry areas water supply becomes a

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Mikes Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:49 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Chris: if you utter "reservoir" - you are on the wrong track. Nothing must "COME OUT" from the depth. Not even what YOU pumped

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
rote: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *John Mikes > *Sent:* Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:33 PM > > *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World > >

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Dear Telmo, oil wells went down deeper than previously estimated as feasible. Techniques are evolving. If 2, 0r 5 pipes are inadequate in transport capacity, use more. Ask the engineers - I also claim ignorance. the geological temperature vertical map is varying according to a lot of factors. Ignor

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:20 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World If you need to push this TW challenge back at me, I would

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread spudboy100
my fear is that neither can, and rather then perish from AGW, we perish from energy starvation because the old tech is so dirty. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella To: everything-list Sent: Sat, Nov 16, 2013 1:47 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World From: everything

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Mikes Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:33 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Telmo: unfortunately I reflected to the NZ solution on another

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi John, On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:33 PM, John Mikes wrote: > Telmo: > unfortunately I reflected to the NZ solution on another list... - it is a > convoluted - I could say: > inadeqyate - technology, just as the Au version of the surface utilization. > SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD??? let us say: the s

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Brent: that is a convoluted solution! I appreciate that you love sunshine, but keep it for the beach. Have you ever calculated how much surface of the present day efficiency is required to collect - say - 1000 times the energy we use today on the Globe? Think of energy required for the missing rain

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread John Mikes
Telmo: unfortunately I reflected to the NZ solution on another list... - it is a convoluted - I could say: inadeqyate - technology, just as the Au version of the surface utilization. SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD??? let us say: the surface? Solar woulrd cover immense surfaces just for supplying the energ

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:25 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Ok, but I am not hostile at all to geothermal, especially

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-16 Thread spudboy100
must work, or its virtually, useless. If people insist on new, clean, energy, then they must produce the solutions. Hence, I say, faster, please. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella To: everything-list Sent: Fri, Nov 15, 2013 9:21 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 10:02 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/15/2013 12:15 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: So the energy would

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:20 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World >>Please understand, that unless your geothermal is

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 07:01, meekerdb wrote: > The main problem is just size. I considered designing an energy storage > system to be used with home, rooftop PVs. I looked around for something > heavy that could be lifted up to store energy. My car. It weighs about > 2600lb. Suppose I lifted i

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 12:15 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: So the energy would be stored in the potential energy of the heavy piston and the water would just be a working medium? Why not put the weight on a cable and use a purely mechanical system? I'd think that could be more efficient that a water t

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread spudboy100
costly, this is, how environmental, how technically doable-I don't know. -Original Message- From: meekerdb To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 7:29 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/14/2013 3:39 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 November 20

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:39 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/14/2013 6:28 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread meekerdb
On 11/14/2013 6:28 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:29 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/14/2013 3

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:29 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/14/2013 3:39 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 November 2013 11:39, John

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread LizR
On 15 November 2013 13:29, meekerdb wrote: > On 11/14/2013 3:39 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 15 November 2013 11:39, John Mikes wrote: > >> Telmo and other 'experts': >> why does nobody even mention the geothermic energy app - available in >> huge Q-s and so far tapped only in (literalily) 'superfici

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread meekerdb
On 11/14/2013 3:39 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 November 2013 11:39, John Mikes mailto:jami...@gmail.com>> wrote: Telmo and other 'experts': why does nobody even mention the geothermic energy app - available in huge Q-s and so far tapped only in (literalily) 'superficial' usage. The high p

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread LizR
On 15 November 2013 11:39, John Mikes wrote: > Telmo and other 'experts': > why does nobody even mention the geothermic energy app - available in huge > Q-s and so far tapped only in (literalily) 'superficial' usage. The high > pressure ultra-clean steam from a deepened modification of the exhaus

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread John Mikes
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 1:07 AM > > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > > Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World > > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:49 AM, LizR wrote: > >> On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: > >>> > >>> if you

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Nov 2013, at 23:43, meekerdb wrote: On 11/13/2013 12:38 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What is legal? Guns, oil, car, tobacco, alcohol, those things kill a lot, and none are/were really necessary. Killing people with guns (or otherwise) is generally illegal. I think it is a good idea, exc

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Nov 2013, at 23:27, meekerdb wrote: On 11/13/2013 11:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The catholic and the chihite, This one: http://lordblumiere.deviantart.com/art/Chihite-Angelorum-61177983 Sorry, I was using the french terming. I was referring to those following Shi'a Islam, or Shi'

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Nov 2013, at 17:43, meekerdb wrote: On 11/13/2013 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Nov 2013, at 22:10, Alberto G. Corona wrote: As human beings they were reluctant to provide hard earned data to those who had proved to mere critics - like you - with no interest but to spre

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 12:38 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What is legal? Guns, oil, car, tobacco, alcohol, those things kill a lot, and none are/were really necessary. Killing people with guns (or otherwise) is generally illegal. Very few things are necessary to live - but many things are desirable. Wha

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 11:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The catholic and the chihite, This one: http://lordblumiere.deviantart.com/art/Chihite-Angelorum-61177983 Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group an

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
egroups.com > Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:49 AM, LizR wrote: >> On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: >>> >>> if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then please provide >>> a clean, affordable, abundant su

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
A few moments ago I though: For sure meekerdeb will attack with one of their standard two-line mini-rant snippets that cut and paste everywhere And here it is. Chris at least spend a bit more effort before his final attack with his black helicopters 2013/11/13 meekerdb > On 11/13/2013 2

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Nov 2013, at 12:54, Alberto G. Corona wrote: I would be easy to make a joke of your comments about cannabis, but it would not have been fair. No problem. But If I take it seriously, I can not figh both conspiranoic theories in the same thread. Thanks for not using the "conspi

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread spudboy100
-Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes To: everything-list Sent: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 4:06 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:49 AM, LizR wrote: > On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: >> >> if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 2:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Also, I am against prohibition of any products, including oil, but "prohibition of hemp" has lead to making oil quasi obligatory. So the problem is not oil (and fossil fuel), the problem is the unfair competition brought by people having private inter

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 2:13 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: That is not bad in principle, is what is it and is human nature. But in anomial societies like the modern West, where the small comunities were lost time ago, and the christian faith that created a big sense of comunity for all the West also has

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 1:06 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Regarding solar power -- this could be the solution but it's sci-fi at the moment. I don't know what you mean by this? Are you implying that it is like teleportation or interstellar space flight? Those are things that we don't know how to do. But

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
ng-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Alberto G. Corona > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:17 AM > *To:* everything-list > > *Subject:* Re: Our Demon-Haunted World > > > > Of course comrade. > > Why don´t y

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 1:07 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:49 AM, LizR

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Chris de Morsella
Demon-Haunted World Of course comrade. Why don´t you translate to Europe? Here our party is not only in the University, but in the media too. Here the truth is said: Every disaster is a product of greedy American capitalism, or barbarious zionism. But better though, We need you there in the

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread meekerdb
On 11/13/2013 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Nov 2013, at 22:10, Alberto G. Corona wrote: As human beings they were reluctant to provide hard earned data to those who had proved to mere critics - like you - with no interest but to spread doubt. Can ever have been a more cle

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
. Exactly. > Mitch > > -Original Message- > From: LizR > To: everything-list > Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 6:49 pm > Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World > > On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: >> >> if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then plea

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread spudboy100
13 6:49 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then please provide a clean, affordable, abundant substitute. Faster, please. The Sun, of course. Produces millions of times more power than we need. Trou

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I would be easy to make a joke of your comments about cannabis, but it would not have been fair. But If I take it seriously, I can not figh both conspiranoic theories in the same thread. The deniers of global warming hell and the deniers of cannabis heaven. It´s too much for me. 2013/11/13 Br

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Nov 2013, at 10:32, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Bruno. Thanks for your measured style and your gentle responses, as always. But the prevention principle, that has been incorporated to the French Constitution a few years ago, has disastrous consequences. We have only one planet. But we h

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM, LizR wrote: > On 13 November 2013 22:06, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:49 AM, LizR wrote: >> > On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: >> >> >> >> if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then please provide a >> >> clean, affordable,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
t; invalid reason, ... > > Bruno > > > > > > Mitch > -Original Message----- > From: Alberto G. Corona > To: everything-list > Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 3:12 pm > Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World > > Thus said, because there are eternal laws, t

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread LizR
Wikipedia on the price of solar panels. The last sentence shows the "Moore's law" type trend which I hope will continue. Average pricing information divides in three pricing categories: those buying small quantities (modules of all sizes in the kilowatt range annually), mid-range buyers (typically

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread LizR
On 13 November 2013 22:06, Telmo Menezes wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:49 AM, LizR wrote: > > On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: > >> > >> if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then please provide a > >> clean, affordable, abundant substitute. Faster, please. > > > > > > The Sun

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Corona To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 3:12 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Thus said, because there are eternal laws, there are eternal truths. For the materialists, Konrad Lorenz said something extraordinarily profound that connect two universes of knowledge: The Kantian

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:49 AM, LizR wrote: > On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: >> >> if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then please provide a >> clean, affordable, abundant substitute. Faster, please. > > > The Sun, of course. Produces millions of times more power than we need. >

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Nov 2013, at 22:10, Alberto G. Corona wrote: As human beings they were reluctant to provide hard earned data to those who had proved to mere critics - like you - with no interest but to spread doubt. Can ever have been a more clear confession of sectarianism ? Doubt about what

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Of course comrade. Why don´t you translate to Europe? Here our party is not only in the University, but in the media too. Here the truth is said: Every disaster is a product of greedy American capitalism, or barbarious zionism. But better though, We need you there in the Capitalist land. Salam ale

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Richard Ruquist
As I see it, the problem is connecting atmospheric disaster events to global warming. I have been looking for such a connection in the scientific literature and even in AGW blogs w/o success. Before going into physics I was an undergraduate student of mechanical engineering. In our fluid dynamic c

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 22:56, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> This is laughable. Not a SINGLE article against human warming was > publised in the main scientific magazines and you said that the process was > perverted by the "deniers"? I have no option but to think that you believe > en evil deamons

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/11/13 LizR > On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: > >> if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then please provide a >> clean, affordable, abundant substitute. Faster, please. >> > > The Sun, of course. Produces millions of times more power than we need. > > Trouble is the fossil fue

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread meekerdb
On 11/12/2013 3:49 PM, LizR wrote: On 13 November 2013 10:55, mailto:spudboy...@aol.com>> wrote: if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then please provide a clean, affordable, abundant substitute. Faster, please. The Sun, of course. Produces millions of times more power th

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread LizR
On 13 November 2013 10:55, wrote: > if you want us to give up the bad, dirty, power, then please provide a > clean, affordable, abundant substitute. Faster, please. > The Sun, of course. Produces millions of times more power than we need. Trouble is the fossil fuel industry doesn't want us to u

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread spudboy100
al Message- From: meekerdb To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 4:42 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/12/2013 1:36 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, trycruising Wikipedia. I don't know of any biologist or physician,that di

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread spudboy100
Indeed. I look at things a bit different, perhaps. then yourself. I see it, us, as being set against obliteration versus existence. Mitch -Original Message- From: Alberto G. Corona To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 3:12 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Thus said

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread meekerdb
On 11/12/2013 1:36 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, try cruising Wikipedia. I don't know of any biologist or physician, that didn't approve of this nonsense. I am not aware of anyone speaking out authoritatively, as a scientist that opposed eugenics. Maybe you can, but I don't recall anyone

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread spudboy100
s was pro-birth control medical advocates, or public health administrators, I think nobody uttered a peep, anywhere until maybe the 1950's? -Original Message- From: meekerdb To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 3:15 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
> As human beings they were reluctant to provide hard earned data to those > who had proved to mere critics - like you - with no interest but to spread > doubt. > > Can ever have been a more clear confession of sectarianism ? Doubt about what? about what yours affirm that is truth and must be taken

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread LizR
On 13 November 2013 06:40, meekerdb wrote: > I knew you didn't live on this planet or care for it's future. > > Quite clearly - "I have my own dirt to attend to" ignores the existence of the commons we all share in. If Alberto wants to move to Mars then fine, he is no longer invested in the Earth

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread LizR
On 13 November 2013 05:19, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > And the fact is that there are plenty of energy and materials everywhere. > The only lacking resource is the inteligence and ingenuity of more people > to learn to use them. > That at least you have got right. -- You received this messag

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread meekerdb
On 11/12/2013 12:30 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: So you say that because the data was finally available against their will, they are good scientists that welcome the challenges and the scientific method? They were not compelled, they agreed to provide the data after discussing whether there wa

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
So you say that because the data was finally available against their will, they are good scientists that welcome the challenges and the scientific method? : Their practices tell absolutely the contrary. And the fact that their data leaked out is not in their merit, in the contrary. All what you men

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
ith your elegy. > > Mitch > -Original Message- > From: Alberto G. Corona > To: everything-list > Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 6:42 am > Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World > > To spudboy: > > Reason alone does`n move to anything, not even to knowledge. If yo

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread meekerdb
On 11/12/2013 11:53 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: You said it: the calentological comunity, acting as a single entity, denied their data. to scientists with different points of view. But they didn't. They only discussed it and noted that some of the data didn't belong to them but had been shar

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
You said it: the calentological comunity, acting as a single entity, denied their data. to scientists with different points of view. That is not science. that is a sectarian organization that, because are working with public funding are breaking not only the law and the decency, but the last bit of

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread meekerdb
On 11/12/2013 4:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Nov 2013, at 11:54, Alberto G. Corona wrote: "So what would you suggest as a replacement? The scientific method is, to paraphrase Winston Churchill on democracy, the worst system we have apart from all the others we've tried." Following yo

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread meekerdb
On 11/12/2013 2:54 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: When the science and their media is dominated by a single coalition united in the mutual interest to increase their budget and they have the communication means of internet to coordinate in this effort, then there is no science. Albert doesn't

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
a totalitarian > new world order and force everyone into the chains of communism > > Watch out for those black helicopters they are out to get you. > > > > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread meekerdb
On 11/12/2013 1:56 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2013/11/12 meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> On 11/11/2013 5:04 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Ant

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Chris de Morsella
to G. Corona Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:56 AM To: everything-list Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World 2013/11/12 meekerdb On 11/11/2013 5:04 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread spudboy100
I agree and understand, Alberto, with your elegy. Mitch -Original Message- From: Alberto G. Corona To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 6:42 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World To spudboy: Reason alone does`n move to anything, not even to knowledge. If you think that

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/11/12 Bruno Marchal > > On 12 Nov 2013, at 11:54, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > > "So what would you suggest as a replacement? The scientific method is, to > paraphrase Winston Churchill on democracy, the worst system we have apart > from all the others we've tried." > > Following your analog

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Nov 2013, at 11:54, Alberto G. Corona wrote: "So what would you suggest as a replacement? The scientific method is, to paraphrase Winston Churchill on democracy, the worst system we have apart from all the others we've tried." Following your analogy. when the the media, and the pol

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
> dining at a restaurant, a good one, the High Reasoner, meets with an old > friend to discuss the new FIFA rules issued for the World Cup. The friend > slides over a closed sports magazine. "Have a look at this article in the > middle, here." Inside the magazine is a rather th

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Nov 2013, at 06:23, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:43 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11 Nov 2013

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
"So what would you suggest as a replacement? The scientific method is, to paraphrase Winston Churchill on democracy, the worst system we have apart from all the others we've tried." Following your analogy. when the the media, and the politicians of majority parties form a coalition to defend their

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, LizR wrote: > Hi Telmo > > There maye have been a hint of sarcasm in my comment, to be honest. I suspected as much, but wanted to babble anyway :) > I don't > think we will better the scientific method, although we may be able to > improve how we "implement" it,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/11/12 LizR > On 12 November 2013 14:04, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk >> of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term >> Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not real

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/11/12 meekerdb > On 11/11/2013 5:04 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk >> of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term >> Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not reali

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread LizR
Hi Telmo There maye have been a hint of sarcasm in my comment, to be honest. I don't think we will better the scientific method, although we may be able to improve how we "implement" it, as it were - the human part of the equation. But I'm glad I stimulated your interesting comments, anyway! --

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-12 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:30 AM, LizR wrote: > On 12 November 2013 14:04, Alberto G. Corona wrote: >> >> Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk >> of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term >> Meteorology to everything in the middl

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 17:47, Chris de Morsella wrote: > Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. > You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and > believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in > Wonderland and I sho

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:43 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11 Nov 2013, at 18:49, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: A

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:47 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World >> it's like when there actually are rising temperatures and

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Nov 2013, at 19:34, meekerdb wrote: On 11/11/2013 12:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: 3. What do you recommend if the US refuses to comply? ?? You mean the U.S. government refuses to act in the best interests of it's citizens: Vote them out.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
it's like when there actually are rising temperatures and rising sea levels and rising O2 and increasingly wild weather and ice melting all over the world, you stop and say, oh hang on, maybe Fourier had a point after all when he worked out the Greenhouse effect in 1824. Rather than just putting y

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
he middle, here." Inside the magazine is a rather thick envelope. -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 3:06 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11 Nov 2013, at 01:27, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Ok, but this is a techn

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 14:04, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk > of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term > Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not realize that > is poor fool

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 5:04 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not realize that is poor fool who does no

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