At 4:52 PM 4/6/5, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
>Perhaps needless to say, we missed out on that free lunch again!
>:)
Nuts! I had no other plans.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:46:12
-0800:
Hi,
[snip]
>>Thanks. I have now derived the formula for myself, so I understand
>>where it comes from, and what the various constants mean. I have
>>also applied the same derivation principle to an active vortex
>>that it cons
--- Kyle Mcallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vortexians,
> 5. Are you guys actually reading this? I don't get
> many replies
GOD comes from the inside out; not the outside in.
Exoteric politics resides with the misidentification
of the spirit with the body. We are not the body.
If yo
Kyle Mcallister writes:
> 1. Margaret Sanger was responsible for some good, yes.
> She was also crazy. Not the kind of person I would
> want to spend much time with.
That's true. She was strange and difficult, but geniuses who are driven to do
things against the will of society are often like th
Kyle Mcallister wrote:
Vortexians,
OK, this is getting a little "crazy-go-nuts."
1. Margaret Sanger was responsible for some good, yes.
She was also crazy. Not the kind of person I would
want to spend much time with. Very pro-eugenics. If
you support that, then congratulations, go build
yourself a
Frank, Thanks for the post article by Mark Steyn
The word " consensus" describes the world view
Mark's comment ... "Thoughtful atheist ought to recognize"
... Thoughtful ???
As the new century unfolds , the believer will be under an ever increasing
attack.
My old Chem prof was a belie
Vortexians,
OK, this is getting a little "crazy-go-nuts."
1. Margaret Sanger was responsible for some good, yes.
She was also crazy. Not the kind of person I would
want to spend much time with. Very pro-eugenics. If
you support that, then congratulations, go build
yourself a private Gattaca. Leav
At 4:28 PM 4/5/5, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
>In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:33:55
>-0900:
>Hi Horace,
>
>Thanks. I have now derived the formula for myself, so I understand
>where it comes from, and what the various constants mean. I have
>also applied the same derivat
Slight typo, due to cutting and pasting instead of retyping, corrected near
bottom as noted.
There is always a displacement current, even between vacuum plates. The
displacement current is eactly equal to the current to the capacitor,
regardless of the presence of a (non-vacuum) dielectric or not
Edmund Storms wrote:
How many more people must suck
the resources out of the earth before the Church changes its policy? I
suggest that even science can not mediate the damage if population grows
at a sufficiently rapid rate.
Some of the ecological damage from overpopulation is permanent. However
Grimer wrote:
But the most effective weapon
against the disease has not been the Aids lobby's 20-year promotion of
condom culture in Africa, but Uganda's campaign to change behaviour and
to emphasise abstinence and fidelity - i.e., the Pope's
position.
I know nothing about religion, but I know pl
At 7:22 PM 4/5/5, John Berry wrote:
>Great analysis.
>It should work IMO even if the forces are as Ampere states unless there
>is no displacement current,
[snip]
There is always a displacement current, even between vacuum plates. The
displacement current is eactly equal to the current to the capa
thank you john. its a tough concept for so many, but there are no
absolute morals. all morals are subjective to your society. simply
put, remember, in a society of cannibals, it is immoral to NOT eat
human flesh.
On Apr 5, 2005 1:14 PM, John Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been a
> From: Jed Rothwell
> See:
>
> http://store.yahoo.com/dotcoms/ilwiflet.html
>
> The price has fallen from $40 to $20. These are not
> very bright. A slightly larger version would be ideal
> for Third World house.
>
> I believe this is the ultimate development of the
> household flashlight. It
> From: Horace Heffner
...
> Yep, by golly. For a few years in the 70's I travelled
> cost to cost installing systems software in big computer
> systems. Some systems consumed more than the area of a
> football field in raised floor. In those olden
> days I recall having to work out the total
I have been a lurker for years now and have enjoyed the discussions
very much. I am an innumerate linguist, unprepared to comment on much
of the technical details of these discussions. I would, however, like
to emerge from my years of lurking to comment (of topic) on Jed's
statement:
snip
"Thr
At 2:02 PM 4/5/5, Jed Rothwell wrote:
>There is not enough wind for electricity because of the problems you
>enumerated about the grid, and distances.
Cost of long range power transmission is an important issue, and one which
vortex should examine more carefully. At this time I have only time fo
Like in science, the conclusion one reaches depends on the assumptions
made at the beginning. The beliefs of each religion and the rules
supposed to be God-given suffer from this same limitation.
In this article the author makes the argument that the rules of the
Catholic Church, i.e. no aborti
At 2:44 PM 4/5/5, Jed Rothwell wrote:
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
>Horace Heffner wrote:
>
>>Also interesting. Before posting I checked the electronic version of the
>>American Heritage Dictionary, copyright 1992, for "innumerate" and it did
>>not have it.
>
>I h
See:
http://store.yahoo.com/dotcoms/ilwiflet.html
The price has fallen from $40 to $20. These are not very bright. A slightly
larger version would be ideal for Third World house.
I believe this is the ultimate development of the household flashlight. It
will never be fundamentally improved in th
I thought this was a rather intelligent article which some
Vorts might appreciate, i.e. those that believe that objective
truth is not merely confined to science.;-)
Why progressive Westerners never understood John Paul II
By Mark Steyn
(Filed: 05/04/2005)
If I were Pope - and no, don't worr
Horace Heffner wrote:
Also interesting. Before
posting I checked the electronic version of the
American Heritage Dictionary, copyright 1992, for "innumerate"
and it did
not have it.
I have heard the term all my life, because my mother was a statistician.
That is also why I spent hours immersed i
At 6:04 AM 4/6/5, John Berry wrote:
>Actually at this moment, I'm not quite sure why two hoop coils in
>attraction at an angle to each other shouldn't create a unidirectional
>force if the forces are at right angles, or indeed why two permanent
>magnets in attraction also at an angle wouldn't crea
At 1:43 PM 4/5/5, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
>Jed didn't coin it.
>
>Thus says the American Heritage Dictionary:
>
>innumerate
>SYLLABICATION: in-nu-mer-ate
>ADJECTIVE: Unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.
>NOUN: A person who is unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods.
>OTH
Jones Beene wrote:
Excellent. Again... everyone
*should* be for using wind
energy in every site where it is feasible. Every consumer
and every utility should be in favor of that. But even so,
that will not be nearly enough, as a practical matter.
There is not enough wind for electricity because
Replying to myself ;)
John Berry wrote:
I do have a concern with your diagram though, if you go from wire or
coax to plates the current branch out to fill the plates.
The problem is that the currents branching out should create a force
in the opposite direction this becomes more clear if you sub
Horace Heffner wrote:
At 11:58 AM 4/5/5, Jed Rothwell wrote:
[snip]
Bush may be honestly confused, because he appears to be
innumerate.)
[snip]
What an interesting and useful word you have coined there:
Jed didn't coin it.
Thus says the American Heritage Dictionary:
innumerate
SYLLABICA
At 11:58 AM 4/5/5, Jed Rothwell wrote:
[snip]
>Bush may be honestly confused, because he appears to be
>innumerate.)
[snip]
What an interesting and useful word you have coined there:
innumerate, adj,
1. free of numbers,
2. numerically challenged,
3. unable to quantify or compute,
4.
At 11:13 AM 4/5/5, Jed Rothwell wrote:
[snip]
>You can use electricity from windmills or silicon to
>refine the materials needed to make more windmills (or solar cells).
Say, wasn't there an innovative solar cell manufacturer in Australia that
was going to convert their factory to all solar power
Jones,
Yes, it is the case that reactors should be designed
with more concern for safety. I understand that. I also
agree that the soviet reactor design was poor, just as you say. Yet the fact
remains that it took human hands to turn off the existing fail safe
equipment, and destructively test the
- Original Message -
From: "Jed Rothwell"
> the energy payback time for a wind turbine is the lowest
of any conventional energy source. It takes about 3 months
for a wind tower to produce enough energy to manufacture
another tower.
Excellent. Again... everyone *should* be for using wind
Richard,
"How many years can a Nuke plant operate before it becomes
unsafe? The best guess is about 50 years maximum."
++ That is true for the PWR design because of metal fatigue,
as you say, but not necessaruly true of an improved next-gen
reactor design where the structural material is graphite
I wrote:
The mid-east oil fields are not
at peak capacity, with no reserve, and they will soon begin a rapid
decline . .
I meant they are NOW at peak capacity.
Incidentally, I read that the recent estimates of oil in the Gulf of
Mexico have been drastically downgraded. Someone drilling a test we
Keith,
> Here the author implies that the Chernobyl accident was
due to some major fault in the reactor design and
implementation, carefully ignoring the fact that the real
accident, as it occurred in the real world that you and I
live in, was due to technicians shutting off all of the
fail-safe
I wrote:
"The average from black people is low because many of them die as
infants and teenagers. At birth, White: 77.1, Black 71.1. If black people
survive until age 65, their remaining life is almost as long as white
people's. White: 17.8 years, Black 16.1 years." Oops. That is about
the same,
I wrote:
If enough people begin smoking
again the Social Security fund will not run short in 2040 or anytime this
century, because people will die off more quickly.
There is a great deal of confusion about demography and health, so let me
add that cigarettes are ideal for knocking off old people
The overriding question of the use of nuclear power is..
How many years can a Nuke plant operate before it becomes unsafe?
The best guess is about 50 years maximum.
Why? Because the heat fatigues the metal and not even a robot
can be used inside a reactor to repair piping once the metal
and they were still jews after that. it wasnt until about 100 years
later that christians were anything more than a subsect of judaism.
personally, i still look at most of the christian religions as nothing
more than a subsect of judaism. explains their use of the old
testament.
On Apr 5, 2005
At 7:22 PM 4/5/5, John Berry wrote:
>Great analysis.
>It should work IMO even if the forces are as Ampere states unless there
>is no displacement current,
[snip]
There is always a displacement current, even between vacuum plates. The
displacement current is eactly equal to the current to the capa
Keith Nagel wrote:
Jed writes:
>Mark Mills is a consummate idiot.
Be fair; he's not an idiot, just a shill for the nuclear industry.
Is he? A few years ago he was shilling for the coal industry at the
Greening Earth Society. That organization, paid for by the coal industry,
is *in favor of* globa
Was not Peter and Paul both Jews first then Christ converts.
Ges-
Jones Beene wrote:
The refining of the structural
materials for windmills, or
the silicon for solar cells, are both "dirty" processes
which demand lots of coal (unless nuclear is substituted as
the source of energy for refining.
That's not true. You can use electricity from windmills or silicon t
Jed writes:
>Mark Mills is a consummate idiot.
Be fair; he's not an idiot, just a shill for the nuclear industry.
He says what they want to hear, and no doubt if you looked into
the funding of his think-tank you'll find GE and all the usual
suspects. I could find no list of donors on the institute
- Original Message -
From: "Jed Rothwell"
> I have not looked at this article closely, but I see the
authors avoided the issue of uranium mining and dismissed
the disposal problem. Uranium is so spread out in the
environment that mining it is almost as destructive as
mining coal. It is
WAY off topic. A comment in today's Atlanta Journal:
"Why do the Cardinals get to pick the new pope? They lost the World Series!"
- Jed
Jones Beene wrote:
Very authoritative article
in:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_nuclear_power.html
"Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power"
Peter W. Huber, Mark P. Mills
Mark Mills is a consummate idiot. I doubt that anything he says is
authoritative, although even a stopped (analog) cl
On the " extreme " hybrid thread I posted a comment describing a spherical
shaped flywheel. To take the thought to another level, the flywheel could be in
a 3 piece segmental air bearing configuration for counterbalancing and to
produce infinite variable speed and torgue proportioning. The sp
The interesting series of posts regarding this subject is fascinating.
Anyone sitting in the middle of a tornado or hurricane can testify that the
forces generated are awesome and certainly didn't come from the effect of
gravity of falling water. A water vortex performs an interesting " rever
Title: Re: [OT] The Next Pope
Terry Blanton posted;
http://www.hackwriters.com/Lustiger.htm
This Buddhist Priest says
a former Jew, and Archbishop of Paris, will occupy the Throne of
Peter.
Thanks for posting that, it was an interesting read
I'll see your Jewish pope, and raise you a Nazi an
Great analysis.
It should work IMO even if the forces are as Ampere states unless there
is no displacement current, in which case the closed end would be
balanced within it's self, and the open end would have no force.
Your analysis makes it tempting to try and build it, except that in air
ther
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