Re: Intergalactic War - Oh, so OT!

2005-12-04 Thread Standing Bear
Sexual 'immorality'! What a catch all term misused by hypocrites! How about the wife of Lot. She was in the Old Testament which is really the Torah. She was killed merely for looking back on Sodom. For LOOKING fer cats sake. Now comes ole Lot himself. He boffs his own daughters so they can

Re: Intergalactic War..verrry OT

2005-12-04 Thread Standing Bear
Please below my reply find all contortions. Need a program to follow 'em. Thats p-r-o-g-r-a-m, not p-o-g-r-o-m! Seems as this thread has ludicrousely contorted into a religious one with a bent not accustomed to, a Judaic one. Rarely have I heard any evangelization for Judaism in my life, but

Re: OT: Secrets of bee flight revealed

2005-12-04 Thread Harry Veeder
William Beaty wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Harry Veeder wrote: > >> If you really look at it closely it sounds like a mathematical trick which >> makes the mathematical predictions consistent with experiment. > > No, it's based on the fact that if you trace the flows of a moving vortex > ring,

Vortex motion

2005-12-04 Thread Harry Veeder
For those people who observe vortices, I am curious about how vortices travel in flowing water. If a vortex is created in a stream of water which is flowing with uniform velocity, will the centre of the vortex move in the same direction as the stream or will the centre veer right or left depending

Re: OT: Secrets of bee flight revealed

2005-12-04 Thread RC Macaulay
The flight of the butterfly is every bit as interesting as the bee. They appear to " flutter" from flower to flower. Watching closely, they appear to be directionless in flight, yet wind up where they are going. As they flutter in an seeming aimless way, they can change their speed and direct

Re: Intergalactic War - Oh, so OT!

2005-12-04 Thread OrionWorks
> From: thomas malloy ... > And Steven Johnson responded > > >John Luc, in a huff, storms away shouting over his shoulder that he > >refuses to >believe in the possibility that the Universe is run that > >badly. > > > >You are in good company, Thomas. As you can see, even great star > >ship

Re: Intergalactic War

2005-12-04 Thread Felix King
Hey now, that sounds exciting! When I was in sunday school, they taught us all this liberal stuff about loving your enemy and helping the poor, etc etc... Didn't make a lick of sense to me. What you're saying sounds a lot better.   So what's the deal, how do we keep from getting exterminated? I

Re: Secrets of bee flight revealed

2005-12-04 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Harry Veeder wrote: > Consider this question and comment I added to the wiki page on added-mass. > > How does one determine how much of the surrounding mass to add? It sounds > like added-mass is an egineering fudge factor rather than good science. Play with these java simul

Re: OT: Secrets of bee flight revealed

2005-12-04 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Harry Veeder wrote: > If you really look at it closely it sounds like a mathematical trick which > makes the mathematical predictions consistent with experiment. No, it's based on the fact that if you trace the flows of a moving vortex ring, you'll find that the ring carries

Re: OT: Secrets of bee flight revealed

2005-12-04 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Grimer wrote: > At 01:40 pm 30/11/2005 -0500, Harry wrote: > > > BTW, the article mentions "added-mass force". Does anyone > > know what that means? > > "Added mass is the weight added to a system due > to the fact that an accelerating or decelerating > body must move so

Re: OT: Secrets of bee flight revealed

2005-12-04 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Harry Veeder wrote: > Secrets of bee flight revealed > http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8382 > > Combining robotic modelling with slow-motion videos of airborne honeybees > may have helped researchers explain the curious aerodynamics of bee flight. Perhaps one impo

T & CF, Part 1

2005-12-04 Thread Jones Beene
Tritium is seldom mentioned in LENR circles these days, and for good reason. Following 9/11 no one wants the G-men "enforcers" of the so-called "Patriots" Act looking over their shoulder and jeopardizing innocent experiments. I actually considered using a "code word" for this nearly unspeakab

Re: Intergalactic War

2005-12-04 Thread thomas malloy
Title: Re: Intergalactic War I posted; And Felix King responded Wow! that sounds intriguing. How will humanity be cleansed? thomas malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have to realize that if that scenario is correct, A: my paradigm of the coming cleansing of humanity is wrong. The planet w