Re: [Vo]:NOVA show on Absolute Zero watch it on the web
The same way electrons do. through spin coupling. **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489
Re: [Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom
Then there was San Diego on New Years: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MAox0pcZZxo Terry On Jan 17, 2008 8:46 AM, leaking pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, wait, the one seen in phoenix by several THOUSANDS of people, with video that showed it was not a plane or planes, that our SENATOR John McCain said he saw , and knew it was not a plane...its small town boredom. yeah. On Jan 17, 2008 6:36 AM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, Foxnews.com shows it's intellectual prowess for entertainment with the following commentary regarding the recent UFO flap that happened in Texas. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323135,00.html http://tinyurl.com/2bvszp TITLE: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom By Greg Gutfield. So in Stephenville, Texas, a dozen or so people reported seeing a large object with bright lights flying low and fast in their neighborhood. They called it a UFO, although I might call it a plane. See, I've always felt that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who see UFOS and the rest of us. The fact of the matter is no one ever sees alien spacecraft in big cities or places where there's a decent Wal-Mart. Sightings of strange flying objects only occur in small towns, where there is little else to do but hope and pray for an anal probing. This is not an insult. Small towns are great because it's quiet and the beer is cheap — two factors that allow for wishful thinking. See, to me UFOs are the small city version of big city recycling. I mean, I'm sure recycling exists, but I've never seen it. Seems like it all goes into one bin. It's not that I don't believe in UFOs, it's just that I don't need the unknown to complicate matters. I see things outside my apartment that are all too real and disgusting — and sometimes they fly. They aren't UFOs. They're pigeons. And they can't even work a probe — sadly. And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler. Greg Gutfeld hosts Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld weekdays at 2 a.m. ET. Send your comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks -- That which yields isn't always weak.
[Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom
Once again, Foxnews.com shows it's intellectual prowess for entertainment with the following commentary regarding the recent UFO flap that happened in Texas. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323135,00.html http://tinyurl.com/2bvszp TITLE: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom By Greg Gutfield. So in Stephenville, Texas, a dozen or so people reported seeing a large object with bright lights flying low and fast in their neighborhood. They called it a UFO, although I might call it a plane. See, I've always felt that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who see UFOS and the rest of us. The fact of the matter is no one ever sees alien spacecraft in big cities or places where there's a decent Wal-Mart. Sightings of strange flying objects only occur in small towns, where there is little else to do but hope and pray for an anal probing. This is not an insult. Small towns are great because it's quiet and the beer is cheap — two factors that allow for wishful thinking. See, to me UFOs are the small city version of big city recycling. I mean, I'm sure recycling exists, but I've never seen it. Seems like it all goes into one bin. It's not that I don't believe in UFOs, it's just that I don't need the unknown to complicate matters. I see things outside my apartment that are all too real and disgusting — and sometimes they fly. They aren't UFOs. They're pigeons. And they can't even work a probe — sadly. And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler. Greg Gutfeld hosts Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld weekdays at 2 a.m. ET. Send your comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom
So, wait, the one seen in phoenix by several THOUSANDS of people, with video that showed it was not a plane or planes, that our SENATOR John McCain said he saw , and knew it was not a plane...its small town boredom. yeah. On Jan 17, 2008 6:36 AM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, Foxnews.com shows it's intellectual prowess for entertainment with the following commentary regarding the recent UFO flap that happened in Texas. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323135,00.html http://tinyurl.com/2bvszp TITLE: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom By Greg Gutfield. So in Stephenville, Texas, a dozen or so people reported seeing a large object with bright lights flying low and fast in their neighborhood. They called it a UFO, although I might call it a plane. See, I've always felt that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who see UFOS and the rest of us. The fact of the matter is no one ever sees alien spacecraft in big cities or places where there's a decent Wal-Mart. Sightings of strange flying objects only occur in small towns, where there is little else to do but hope and pray for an anal probing. This is not an insult. Small towns are great because it's quiet and the beer is cheap — two factors that allow for wishful thinking. See, to me UFOs are the small city version of big city recycling. I mean, I'm sure recycling exists, but I've never seen it. Seems like it all goes into one bin. It's not that I don't believe in UFOs, it's just that I don't need the unknown to complicate matters. I see things outside my apartment that are all too real and disgusting — and sometimes they fly. They aren't UFOs. They're pigeons. And they can't even work a probe — sadly. And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler. Greg Gutfeld hosts Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld weekdays at 2 a.m. ET. Send your comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks -- That which yields isn't always weak.
Re: [Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom
Let us consider the pearl at the source of all this 'wisdom' the 'good' Mr Gutfield. He seems to know where all the cheap beer is; and waxes longingly on being anal probed. Latent homosexuality is not a good personality detail to be possessed of in a small town, and Gutfield has never seen more than one recycling bin at any one time in his life. My small town has over six in a row at a cheap cigarette stand just outside it and over the Indiana line (so to avoid high Michigan tobacco taxes), and it only has 6000 souls and 4000 illegal immigrants (they are the only ones with jobs and money). So Mr Gutfield must be in a REALLY small town. Some of the UFO reports feature truly large craft far beyond what our structural people can even construct as buildings that sit on the ground... and these FLY and compress space in an odd reversal of Einstein's little pet favorite mistake constant which is in all likelyhood not a constant. So we will leave Gutfield, as his assumed name 'de plume' implies, to his fecal ruminations, please. Standing Bear ...walkin away from this pigeon freak. On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:46, leaking pen wrote: So, wait, the one seen in phoenix by several THOUSANDS of people, with video that showed it was not a plane or planes, that our SENATOR John McCain said he saw , and knew it was not a plane...its small town boredom. yeah. On Jan 17, 2008 6:36 AM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, Foxnews.com shows it's intellectual prowess for entertainment with the following commentary regarding the recent UFO flap that happened in Texas. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323135,00.html http://tinyurl.com/2bvszp TITLE: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom By Greg Gutfield. So in Stephenville, Texas, a dozen or so people reported seeing a large object with bright lights flying low and fast in their neighborhood. They called it a UFO, although I might call it a plane. See, I've always felt that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who see UFOS and the rest of us. The fact of the matter is no one ever sees alien spacecraft in big cities or places where there's a decent Wal-Mart. Sightings of strange flying objects only occur in small towns, where there is little else to do but hope and pray for an anal probing. This is not an insult. Small towns are great because it's quiet and the beer is cheap — two factors that allow for wishful thinking. See, to me UFOs are the small city version of big city recycling. I mean, I'm sure recycling exists, but I've never seen it. Seems like it all goes into one bin. It's not that I don't believe in UFOs, it's just that I don't need the unknown to complicate matters. I see things outside my apartment that are all too real and disgusting — and sometimes they fly. They aren't UFOs. They're pigeons. And they can't even work a probe — sadly. And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler. Greg Gutfeld hosts Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld weekdays at 2 a.m. ET. Send your comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks -- That which yields isn't always weak.
[Vo]:STEORN: When do measurement errors cease to be measurement errors
Regarding recent STEORN forum PMM discussions: http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=60132page=1 http://tinyurl.com/29n2xf The recent spate of alleged independent PMM replications by garage inventors got me to wondering why we haven't heard didley squat from any of the independent laboratories who signed on to test STEORN's claims. I would have thought that by now that we would have at least heard something from one of these labs. But we haven't, and perhaps that's a good thing. The following is complete unsupported speculation on my part, but I have found myself thinking that it might be possible that most of the independent labs have by now recorded a phenomenon that seems to suggest OverUnity. However, being the conservative laboratory testers that they are (Remember, their professional reputations are at stake here), the predominant thoughts that have most likely passed through their justifiably skeptical minds is that their measurements can't be correct. Better test the contraption again, and again. ...Try to figure out where they messed up. Will they succeed in uncovering the mistake? I bet they are ALL hoping they can. In the meantime, would YOU want to be the first to announce shocking findings of this caliber to the world? If you know other independent laboratories are also working on the same project, where all it would take is just ONE of them announcing to the world the teeny-tiny mistake in measurement that every other independent laboratory was too dumb to notice, well, it's probably perceived under the circumstances to see who else is brave enough to stick their neck out first. No, please! YOU FIRST! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom
Here's the real story: http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Dozens_in_Texas_town_report_seeing__01142008.html http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Witnesses_recall_UFO_sightings_in_Texas_0115.html Terry On Jan 17, 2008 12:28 PM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy Richard, I'm sure I was a witness as well. I look forward to making my own unique contributions to the Dime Box Saloon Science Phenomena Society. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom
Howdy Vorts, We have the Dime Box Saloon science phenomena society checking into the UFO sightings up north Texas way. So far the final report has been held up pending another delivery of Lone Star beer. It is near impossible to gather evidence without first placing the witnesses in an atmosphere of comfort. Richard
[Vo]:Edmund Storms lecture video at YouTube
See: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ltZhii3g2HY This is pretty good. Ignoring the content, here are some comments about the video itself: This is only 8 minutes of a 50-minute lecture. I guess the other parts will be uploaded later. Is there a file size limit at YouTube? The sound quality, lighting, focus and other video attributes are much better than most cold-fusion related videos. This is almost as good as a professionally made video. I am especially pleased there is no background noise. The video quality could be improved by inserting the computer screen images (viewgraphs and figures) directly into the video. I think this can be done fairly easily. I will ask a video expert, such as my daughter. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:STEORN: When do measurement errors cease to be measurement errors
Pardon my mangling of your name, Jed. I still remember the flack I got here when I accidentally misspelled Puthoff's name as Putoff. Everyone, and I mean *everyone* thought I was being intentionally derisive towards Puthoff. Dyslexia strikes again. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:STEORN: When do measurement errors cease to be measurement errors
Jet sez: ... It is puzzling that they have not come out with negative reports yet. As Martin Fleischmann remarked, the easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself you are wrong. Any scientist worth his salt can come up with a non-existent error to dismiss a result. See, for example, Reviewer #7's handwaving here: http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/DoeReview.htm#StormsRothwellCritique - Jed IMO, being open minded does not necessarily translate into possessing sufficient confidence in one's findings, especially if the evidence suggests centuries of how magnetism was thought to work is in danger of being flipped upside down. Better let someone else stick their neck out first. I believe this was the complaint STEORN brought up when they had their findings initially tested in an independent laboratory. The lab declined to publish their findings. At least that's what STEORN claims happened - which subsequently precipitated their audacious announcement in The Guardian in an attempt to force the issue to the fore front. The fact that, as you say, none of these independent labs have yet to come out with a negative report causes me to speculate that they may be repeating the experiment over and over in an attempt to discover where they screwed up! Don't come back until you get it right!!! Alas, speculation of this sort is a dangerous sport. Guilty as charged. Screwing up royally last Summer at Kinetica Museum destroyed a considerable amount confidence and good will in STEORN's claims. I have to ask myself: Right at this moment... The Evidence as presented so far in the public domain - what are the odds... Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:STEORN: When do measurement errors cease to be measurement errors
OrionWorks wrote: . . . it might be possible that most of the independent labs have by now recorded a phenomenon that seems to suggest OverUnity. However, being the conservative laboratory testers that they are (Remember, their professional reputations are at stake here), the predominant thoughts that have most likely passed through their justifiably skeptical minds is that their measurements can't be correct. That's plausible, but on the other hand they would not have taken the assignment in the first place if they were not somewhat open minded. A pathological skeptic will refuse to look. He will not even read a paper. It is puzzling that they have not come out with negative reports yet. As Martin Fleischmann remarked, the easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself you are wrong. Any scientist worth his salt can come up with a non-existent error to dismiss a result. See, for example, Reviewer #7's handwaving here: http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/DoeReview.htm#StormsRothwellCritique - Jed
Re: [Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom
Howdy Richard, I'm sure I was a witness as well. I look forward to making my own unique contributions to the Dime Box Saloon Science Phenomena Society. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:CNN.COM: Bush pushes Saudis for help with rising oil prices
Edmund Storms wrote: Besides the price will naturally drop soon as the American economy slides into depression. Why take a hit sooner than is necessary? Besides, Bush is no longer useful in getting American aid. In this game of poker, Bush has now lost every hand and has no idea how to play the game. The oil producers are terrified that we will come up with an alternative fuel, or dramatically increase the efficiency with which it is burned and the price will crash, just like what happened in the '80's. Which is exactly what I'd like to do. --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
RE: [Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom
Aw c'mon, it's just RedEye. Funny stuff meant to annoy and entertain. This line's actually pretty good: It's not that I don't believe in UFOs, it's just that I don't need the unknown to complicate matters. That might seem to cyncial, but let's say everyone did take UFO reports very, very seriously. Exactly what would that actually provide us in terms of benefits to either society or to individuals? A few people finding they aren't ridiculed anymore when they report a sighting? Nice, but if a person these days says who they're backing for president, or even which team they like in the playoffs, someone's right there to call them worse than Hitler again anyway. - Rick -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:11 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom Then there was San Diego on New Years: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MAox0pcZZxo Terry On Jan 17, 2008 8:46 AM, leaking pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, wait, the one seen in phoenix by several THOUSANDS of people, with video that showed it was not a plane or planes, that our SENATOR John McCain said he saw , and knew it was not a plane...its small town boredom. yeah. On Jan 17, 2008 6:36 AM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, Foxnews.com shows it's intellectual prowess for entertainment with the following commentary regarding the recent UFO flap that happened in Texas. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323135,00.html http://tinyurl.com/2bvszp TITLE: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Boredom By Greg Gutfield. So in Stephenville, Texas, a dozen or so people reported seeing a large object with bright lights flying low and fast in their neighborhood. They called it a UFO, although I might call it a plane. See, I've always felt that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who see UFOS and the rest of us. The fact of the matter is no one ever sees alien spacecraft in big cities or places where there's a decent Wal-Mart. Sightings of strange flying objects only occur in small towns, where there is little else to do but hope and pray for an anal probing. This is not an insult. Small towns are great because it's quiet and the beer is cheap - two factors that allow for wishful thinking. See, to me UFOs are the small city version of big city recycling. I mean, I'm sure recycling exists, but I've never seen it. Seems like it all goes into one bin. It's not that I don't believe in UFOs, it's just that I don't need the unknown to complicate matters. I see things outside my apartment that are all too real and disgusting - and sometimes they fly. They aren't UFOs. They're pigeons. And they can't even work a probe - sadly. And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Hitler. Greg Gutfeld hosts Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld weekdays at 2 a.m. ET. Send your comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks -- That which yields isn't always weak.
Re: [Vo]:Edmund Storms lecture video at YouTube
There's a 10 min. time limit on UT. There's also a u/l file size limit; but, it's pretty big since they take .mov files. They compress all files into a .flv format (flash video). Upload to google video. They take any and all, AFAIK. Terry On Jan 17, 2008 2:26 PM, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ltZhii3g2HY This is pretty good. Ignoring the content, here are some comments about the video itself: This is only 8 minutes of a 50-minute lecture. I guess the other parts will be uploaded later. Is there a file size limit at YouTube? The sound quality, lighting, focus and other video attributes are much better than most cold-fusion related videos. This is almost as good as a professionally made video. I am especially pleased there is no background noise. The video quality could be improved by inserting the computer screen images (viewgraphs and figures) directly into the video. I think this can be done fairly easily. I will ask a video expert, such as my daughter. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:STEORN: When do measurement errors cease to be measurement errors
Could be worse. You could also be an agnostic isomniac and stay up all night wordering if there really is a Dog. Terry On Jan 17, 2008 2:17 PM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon my mangling of your name, Jed. I still remember the flack I got here when I accidentally misspelled Puthoff's name as Putoff. Everyone, and I mean *everyone* thought I was being intentionally derisive towards Puthoff. Dyslexia strikes again. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
[Vo]:Even Newer Solar Panel
If you make your clothes of this: http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-developing-solar-technology-that-works-at-night/8574/ you can charge your cell phone . . . even at night! Terry
Re: [Vo]:Even Newer Solar Panel
From Terry, If you make your clothes of this: http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-developing-solar-technology-that-works-at-night/8574/ you can charge your cell phone . . . even at night! Terry From the article: As exciting as the potential of the technology is, not all the hurdles have been passed yet. While the nanoantennas are easily manufactured, the problem of creating a way to store or transmit the electricity is yet to be solved. Although infrared rays create an alternating current in the nanoantenna, the frequency of the current switches back and forth ten thousand billion times a second - much too fast for electrical appliances, which operate on currents that oscillate only 60 times a second. The team is exploring ways to slow that cycling down and has a patent pending on a variety of potential energy conversion methods. They anticipate they are only a few years away from creating the next generation of solar energy collectors. Pretty cool stuff. If I calculated correctly the frequency range of ten thousand billion times a second is in the Infrared range. Makes sense. I wonder how those tiny vibrating nanoantennas get around the heat entropy issue. Aren't you supposed to have a heat differential to allow for energy extraction? Wouldn't the technology stop working if it was bathed in ambient heat from every direction? Another thought: If energy in the form of electricity IS carried away, shouldn't the nanoantenna matrix collectively experience a temperature drop? I wonder if they could use a modified version of Dr. Stiffler's LED configuration where the lights are designed to be sensitive to infrared EM as a way to ameliorate the stepping down process. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Even Newer Solar Panel
i was thinking the same, in terms of heat exchange, and cooling. Hell, from the sounds of it, make your clothes of it and you could charge your cell phone by jogging. at 80 percent efficiency on sunlight... how efficient would this be for making electricity from just heat? this could replace every form of turbine generation from heat sources, nuclear, burning things, ect. On 1/17/08, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Terry, If you make your clothes of this: http://www.gizmag.com/researchers-developing-solar-technology-that-works-at-night/8574/ you can charge your cell phone . . . even at night! Terry From the article: As exciting as the potential of the technology is, not all the hurdles have been passed yet. While the nanoantennas are easily manufactured, the problem of creating a way to store or transmit the electricity is yet to be solved. Although infrared rays create an alternating current in the nanoantenna, the frequency of the current switches back and forth ten thousand billion times a second - much too fast for electrical appliances, which operate on currents that oscillate only 60 times a second. The team is exploring ways to slow that cycling down and has a patent pending on a variety of potential energy conversion methods. They anticipate they are only a few years away from creating the next generation of solar energy collectors. Pretty cool stuff. If I calculated correctly the frequency range of ten thousand billion times a second is in the Infrared range. Makes sense. I wonder how those tiny vibrating nanoantennas get around the heat entropy issue. Aren't you supposed to have a heat differential to allow for energy extraction? Wouldn't the technology stop working if it was bathed in ambient heat from every direction? Another thought: If energy in the form of electricity IS carried away, shouldn't the nanoantenna matrix collectively experience a temperature drop? I wonder if they could use a modified version of Dr. Stiffler's LED configuration where the lights are designed to be sensitive to infrared EM as a way to ameliorate the stepping down process. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks -- That which yields isn't always weak.
Re: [Vo]:STEORN: When do measurement errors cease to be measurement errors
Could be worse. You could also be an agnostic isomniac and stay up all night wordering if there really is a Dog. Terry It's probably advisable that you don't express such concerns to the cat of the house. We're in enuf trubel already. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Edmund Storms lecture video at YouTube
Per Terry's suggestion, Brian is has moved the video to Google. Not sure where. He will delete the YouTube version. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Edmund Storms lecture video at YouTube
I can get the whole 50min piece up on Google. Give me a day or two. At 11:26 AM 1/17/2008, you wrote: See: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ltZhii3g2HY This is pretty good. Ignoring the content, here are some comments about the video itself: This is only 8 minutes of a 50-minute lecture. I guess the other parts will be uploaded later. Is there a file size limit at YouTube? The sound quality, lighting, focus and other video attributes are much better than most cold-fusion related videos. This is almost as good as a professionally made video. I am especially pleased there is no background noise. The video quality could be improved by inserting the computer screen images (viewgraphs and figures) directly into the video. I think this can be done fairly easily. I will ask a video expert, such as my daughter. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Edmund Storms lecture video at YouTube
Thanks Steve, but Brian has already done this. Ed Steven Krivit wrote: I can get the whole 50min piece up on Google. Give me a day or two. At 11:26 AM 1/17/2008, you wrote: See: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ltZhii3g2HY This is pretty good. Ignoring the content, here are some comments about the video itself: This is only 8 minutes of a 50-minute lecture. I guess the other parts will be uploaded later. Is there a file size limit at YouTube? The sound quality, lighting, focus and other video attributes are much better than most cold-fusion related videos. This is almost as good as a professionally made video. I am especially pleased there is no background noise. The video quality could be improved by inserting the computer screen images (viewgraphs and figures) directly into the video. I think this can be done fairly easily. I will ask a video expert, such as my daughter. - Jed
[Vo]:Cosmic Matter and LENR
Here is a bit more info for the hypothesis that the lack of consistency in LENR experiments could possibly be related to the presence or absence of cosmic matter in palladium (and other metals). Especially palladium contaminated with the presence of undetectable mirror matter in small amounts, and especially from minerals mined at Sudbury, Ont. Canada -- or any mine which contains similar minerals from a large asteroid impact, which happened after Earth solidified. It is logical to suspect that if mirror matter is real, then asteroids with an elongated orbit, and which may go out to the extreme limits of the solar system, are more likely to contain more of it ... and then, following impact, this material is more likely to have remained near the surface, compared with primordial mirror matter, which may have been sequestered in Earth's core early-on -- by its gravity (but lack of other strong interactions with regular matter on a molten planet). Believe it or not, this hypothesis now comes with an actual close-up image of the process which could be involved ! Here is the BBC site and story with the image of Eros, which is a meteor of larger size than the one containing all that nickel and precious metal, which has been mined at Sudbury for over 100 years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2463143.stm Dr Robert Foot states that close-up observations of Eros by the Near-Shoemaker probe indicate it could have been splattered by mirror matter. Since most of regular matter is hydrogen, we can assume that mirror-hydrogen is the most likely contaminant for earthly minerals. There are a few convincing arguments that the mirror neutron would be unstable, even if bound in nuclei (Berezhiani, Dolgov et al Phys. Lett. B 1996).. As a consequence, mirror hydrogen would then be the only stable mirror element of interest. It is also possible that palladium would capture this species in its matrix just as it does regular hydorgen. Mirror matter is not anti-matter, but is somehow a reflection of normal matter, a sort of parallel series of particles required to restore the right hand balance to what we see as a left-handed Universe. Horace has more detail on his site, and might want to correct the details of this post. How mirror matter could catalyze LENR - if indeed (big 'if') it is present in Pd is not clear. Even if there was some mirror palladium out there, much more common would be mirror hydrogen. In that case it is unclear if it would be a reactant or catalyst. But since conservation of spin would be required for D+D fusion, the modality which mirror matter might facilitate could involve spin-alignment in the matrix, which otherwise might not happen with Pd alone. BTW - this (conservation of spin) is the rationale for some of the advanced techniques of Dr. Dennis Cravens- and his use of an applied magnetic field (Letts-Cravens effect). Mirror matter interacts with our matter primarily via gravity, but if some small amount of it is contaminating precious metals... which seem pure, there is almost no way to tell that at the present time. It is possible that in addition to gravity, there could be near-field effects of mirror hydrogen. This would be the possible route for LENR. Dr Foot believes that mirror matter would have been made in abundance in the Big Bang, and that it is all around us as dark matter, even in the Milky Way, but we can't see it. Some of it, especially mirror hydrogen, may be closer than he thinks. Jones
Re: [Vo]:CNN.COM: Bush pushes Saudis for help with rising oil prices
Jed Rothwell wrote: Edmund Storms wrote: Because the oil companies are so rich and powerfull all over the world and because an effective alternate energy source would be so financially disruptive to every industry at first, a great effort will be made to resist any rapid change. In the past, established industries often made tremendous efforts to stop rapid change, but they failed. The people who made and sailed sailing ships tried to keep the U.S. and British governments from subsidizing steam ships. Railroads I've been thinking about the same thing. There are various technological changes which could be made to the vehicle fleet which would cut their gas usage in half. But would President Bush support the enabling legislation? --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
