[Vo]:Ball bearing motor and Welsh Onion.

Ball bearing motor and Welsh Onion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmTmG2buMg [Cute music. Text in Korean(?)] Harry __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

At 05:42 PM 12/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: I meant to say: Simon is interested in the process of "closure." And what he comes to with Undead Science is that there can be an apparent closure where an apparent scientific consensus arises, but there is "life after death," hence, undead science.

RE: [Vo]:OT: Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory (Follow-up)

Well, let's start with KJ ("mad cow") and go on from there. There's something wrong with eating your own stuff. There's genes in there. Code for proteins that don't fold properly. Other stuff. Yuck. In fact eating pork (chimpanzee, etc.) might have similar drawbacks due to the genetic similarities.

Re: [Vo]:"Climate-gate" widely compared to cold fusion

At 01:20 PM 12/3/2009, you wrote: On 12/03/2009 10:53 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: One of the most cogent of criticisms of CF research is probably the claim of publication bias. CF was such an attractive field, in terms of potential significance, that many workers attempted to find somet

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Theories are a dime a dozen in this business. As far as I know none of them makes useful predictions -- or even testable predictions! . . . If I recall correctly, Hagelstein's theory based on phonon coupling to the lattice made testable predictions. However, that w

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

On 12/03/2009 04:57 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Theories are a dime a dozen in this business. As far as I know none of them makes useful predictions -- or even testable predictions! So they are useless. Heck, they aren't even theories, just speculation. A theory is not viable unless it can be tes

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: There *was* an apparent scientific consensus. That isn't to be denied. But was there a *real* scientific consensus. It's obvious that there was not. That would be a consensus rigorously based on scientific principles, and such a consensus would be far more widely acc

Re: [Vo]:terrifying online videos

The Jacob's ladder is spectacular, of course, and so are Tesla coils in general, but, with reasonable precautions, like don't touch!, are pretty safe. However, an unshielded x-ray with enough output to nicely light up a flourescent screen? For perspective, though, as a kid I looked through a f

[Vo]:What Britz says now

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: What does Britz think, by the way, about excess heat? Has he betrayed his current position? The last I heard from him was when I wrote the Tally of Cold Fusion Papers: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyo

Re: [Vo]:Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?

In reply to OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson's message of Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:07:45 -0600: Hi, [snip] >Regarding the second comment, what are reliable figures on tapping >into geothermal energy on an economical scale? Why I bring it up is >that we are now technologically capable of drilling miles deep

Re: [Vo]:terrifying online videos

Thanks, Bill! On 12/03/2009 08:14 AM, William Beaty wrote: Danyk666 and his microwave oven (Czech language) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_DKblzdbJI Yeesh! Like pouring a bucket of live spiders down your pants. Well he SAYS it's at "reduced power" (in one of the comments). D

Re: [Vo]:"Climate-gate" widely compared to cold fusion

On 12/03/2009 10:53 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: One of the most cogent of criticisms of CF research is probably the claim of publication bias. CF was such an attractive field, in terms of potential significance, that many workers attempted to find something. Much of the work was never pu

Re: [Vo]:Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?

- Original Message - From: "OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson" To: "vortex-l" Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:07 AM Subject: [Vo]:Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway? First of all, Gore was way off base in his description of the temperature of the Earth’s mantle. You have to drill do

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

At 02:45 PM 12/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Simon is interested in the process of "closure." And what he comes to with Undead Science is that there can be an apparent closure where an apparent scientific consensus arises, but there is "life after death," hence, undea

Re: [Vo]:"Climate-gate" widely compared to cold fusion

At 04:25 PM 12/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is a good example of an article about "climate-gate" that includes mythology about cold fusion, from some guy named Poe who is allergic to doing his homework: http

RE: [Vo]:terrifying online videos

This is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi7Srd-LSeE -Mark -Original Message- From: William Beaty [mailto:bi...@eskimo.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:14 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:terrifying online videos Danyk666 and his microwave oven (Czech l

Re: [Vo]:"Climate-gate" widely compared to cold fusion

At 02:10 PM 12/2/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Many mass media articles and blogs have claimed that the "climate-gate" scandal resembles cold fusion. Unfortunately, all the ones I have checked have the resemblance backwards. They think cold fusion was wrong and never replicated, and that the cold f

[Vo]:Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?

Examiner.com recently posted an article that obviously is not Al Gore friendly, titled “Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?” See: http://www.examiner.com/x-31244-Louisville-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d3-Just-how-stupid-is-Al-Gore-anyway http://tinyurl.com/yddzj6m What piqued my curiosity wa

[Vo]:terrifying online videos

Danyk666 and his microwave oven (Czech language) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_DKblzdbJI Yeesh! Like pouring a bucket of live spiders down your pants. And if you thought THAT was bad... danyk and his unshielded x-ray source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzMXKxadnVw danyk mak