On Jul 9, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
One comment on The Letter to the Editor from John Sutherland -
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
It raises a point that should be clarified. He may be unaware that
we can tolerate mention of Randell Mills or Blacklight Power here.
Actually,
Thanks, Nikola, to you and your anagrams:
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Terry
http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=61849page=1#Item_0
Here is an excerpt from a message in the above thread. It's actually
heresay (not directly from a juror); but, it rings true:
I wasn't on the jury and first got to hear of it last year through
some university people. They
Horace,
* This makes no sense to me Jones. Mass Spectrometers work on ionized
species. There would thus have to exist a reduced energy orbital for a D2+
dideuterino species. Further, even if such a species exists, to the degree
no He is present, no mass 4 He++ species will show up in
From Reuters.
Americans value science, but not all of it: survey
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56901O20090710
http://tinyurl.com/lfgq3g
Excerpt:
The survey found nearly 9 in 10 scientists accept
the idea of evolution by natural selection, but just
a third of the public
Chris Zell quoted someone:
However, the fact is that as cars get older, Sha'ken [car
inspection] becomes more and more expensive.
It doesn't seem to be a problem with anyone I know.
Eventually, if the car stops running well or reaches a certain age
(even though it's still a good car), you
In case you haven't noticed it already, check out the Happy Birthday Nikola
Tesla Google logo today. Nice artwork. Nice thought.
thanks for the heads up:) it was very cute
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Michael Fostermf...@yahoo.com wrote:
In case you haven't noticed it already, check out the Happy Birthday Nikola
Tesla Google logo today. Nice artwork. Nice thought.
From Terry:
http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=61849page=1#Item_0
The steorn saga has been a real education for me.
Whether it is naivety on my part or not, I was willing to give the
benefit of the doubt to Steorn's engineers in assuming that they had
accurately detected an
Thanks
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Michael Fostermf...@yahoo.com wrote:
In case you haven't noticed it already, check out the Happy Birthday Nikola
Tesla Google logo today. Nice artwork. Nice thought.
OrionWorks wrote:
From Terry:
http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=61849page=1#Item_0
The steorn saga has been a real education for me.
Whether it is naivety on my part or not, I was willing to give the
benefit of the doubt to Steorn's engineers in assuming that they
See:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/2100_2107_01.htm
II.WHOLLY INOPERATIVE INVENTIONS; INCREDIBLE UTILITY
Situations where an invention is found to be inoperative and
therefore lacking in utility are rare, and rejections maintained
solely on this ground by a Federal
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
The Steorn engineers are not self-deluded.
They're dishonest.
Fraudulent.
I have not been following the story. Is there evidence that they
benefited financially? It isn't a fraud unless someone is defrauded.
People have claimed the Mills is a fraud, but I see
Jed Rothwell wrote:
See:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/2100_2107_01.htm
*II.WHOLLY INOPERATIVE INVENTIONS; INCREDIBLE UTILITY*
... , a cold fusion process for
producing energy (/In re Swartz/, 232 F.3d 862, 56 USPQ2d 1703, (Fed.
Cir. 2000)),
But
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
But also see note at end:
These
examples are fact specific and should _not_ be applied as a /per se/
rule.
Ah, but in fact they do apply this.
I don't see any other way to interpret '... should not be applied as a
per se rule ...'.
I would interpret that as
Jed Rothwell wrote:
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
But also see note at end:
These
examples are fact specific and should _not_ be applied as a /per se/
rule.
Ah, but in fact they do apply this.
I don't see any other way to interpret '... should not be applied as a
per se rule
Jed Rothwell wrote:
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
The Steorn engineers are not self-deluded.
They're dishonest.
Fraudulent.
I have not been following the story. Is there evidence that they
benefited financially? It isn't a fraud unless someone is defrauded.
They had investors. I think
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
I have not been following the story. Is there evidence that they
benefited financially? It isn't a fraud unless someone is defrauded.
They had investors. I think that says it all.
Not necessarily. As I said, it depends on how they spent the money.
(I have no
Occam's razor suggests to me that the most likely explanation of what
happened is that the engineers and researchers at Steorn simply
deluded themselves. It's easy to do, I know from personal experience –
even with the best intentions, especially if you believe you are
interpreting and/or applying
It reminds me of Greg Watson. We never could figure out what his motive was.
He claimed to have found an anomaly in magnetic fields that he could
exploit. He claimed to have built a magnetic track which would move a ball
around the track indefinitely. But it could never be looked at
independently.
Fraud: 2. (Law) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose
of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
Valuable a.
1. Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are
useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable
horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
OrionWorks wrote:
Perhaps it's time to move on.
D'accord.
I'm too much of a cynic anyway. I shall stop venting here.
The only problem is they are not fueled by cold fusion.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/eatr_beta/
Robot land-steamers to consume all life on Earth as fuel
Autonom-nom-nom-nomous technology
By Lewis Page
Posted in Science, 9th July 2009 12:06 GMT
News has emerged of a milestone
From Mr. Lawrence:
...
I don't know why he didn't run.
...
Shoot! I'm still alive! I thought I'd surely die in my bed of silken
sheets before everything unraveled.
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Terry sez:
The only problem is they are not fueled by cold fusion.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/eatr_beta/
Robot land-steamers to consume all life on Earth as fuel
Autonom-nom-nom-nomous technology
By Lewis Page
Posted in Science, 9th July 2009 12:06 GMT
News has emerged
I wrote: So, in the absence of a continuous catalytic process of
some kind, one which provides energy from some source other than
dropping to the fractional state (e.g. from ZPE expansion of the
orbital), the two processes should be readily sorted out by energy
production alone, without
On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
Horace,
Ø This makes no sense to me Jones. Mass Spectrometers work on
ionized species. There would thus have to exist a reduced energy
orbital for a D2+ dideuterino species. Further, even if such a
species exists, to the degree no
I'm sitting here watching Discovery Channel's Cash Cab, a trivia
game show which occurs in a NYC taxi, when they ask the following
question:
A fusion reaction which occurs at room temperature and pressure is
called what?
Sadly, they missed it, even with their shout out, by responding fission.
Takahashi's theory of the formation of a Tetrahedral Symmetric
Condensate by, as I understand it, two deuterium molecules, i.e.,
four deuterons and the four electrons, which if they arrange with
each deuteron at a vertex of a tetrahedron, which is what would be
optimal packing into the cubic
I can understand why biological transmutation makes some people edgy.
When I first came across this, I was edgy too. Ah, well, I thought,
cold fusion being so widely rejected, the conferences have to be open
to new ideas.
Then I read the actual papers. Storms reports it pretty well. I
happen
I looked up the cost and frequency of Japanese mandatory car inspections
(shaken in Japanese). Here is a QA page in Japanese from the Min. of
Land, Infrastructure and Transport:
http://www.mlit.go.jp/jidosha/kensatoroku/question/index.htm
The first question is: Is is true that in America they
Google maps are astounding. This link puts Ukashima in the middle of the
page and opens a photo of the village:
-Original Message-
From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
So why does Takahashi not mention the words Bose-Einstein
condensate, which is what the TSC seems to be?
... not cold enough ?
And why does Kim not mention Takahashi, his prior experimental work, and
his theory?
... professional
On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
Takahashi's theory ... it seems to me that it predicts most known
CF phenomena:
1. No direct neutrons.
2. Surface reaction, since deuterium dissociates on entering the
lattice.
3. Takahashi predicts from quantum theory that if the
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