Re: [Vo]:Grabowski thinks the effect the NRL is seeing is chemical

2010-07-19 Thread Roarty, Francis X
From http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2010/ARL/Pres/10Grabowski-NRL-Efforts-Spanning-Tthe-Last-8-Years.pdfhttp://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2010/ARL/Pres/10Grabowski-NRL-Efforts-Spanning-Tthe-Last-8-Years.pdf Results: * Highly reproducible, over long periods of time. * Some

[Vo]:U.S. intelligence is an appalling mess

2010-07-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I have a low regard for U.S. intelligence, but it turns out the situation is worse than I imagined it might be. The whole system is out of control, ineffective, and it is costing fantastic sums of money. WaPost just published the results of a monumental two-year study:

RE: [Vo]:Grabowski thinks the effect the NRL is seeing is chemical

2010-07-19 Thread Jones Beene
From: Roarty, Francis X I think Grabowski might be suspecting ashless chemistry but is afraid to be lumped with Mills. I Still maintain that confined catalytic action (or change in Casimir force) can repeatedly disassociate gas molecules -pitting nature against itself until the action drives

Re: [Vo]:Grabowski thinks the effect the NRL is seeing is chemical

2010-07-19 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:27:04 -0700: Hi, [snip] Most CF experiments use pure D, so there is very little if any H to exchange. I also think 2.4 eV is ridiculous. The difference in ionization energy between H and D is just a few meV (small m). From: Roarty,

[Vo]:Molding the Gyre

2010-07-19 Thread Terry Blanton
If life gives you lemons: http://news.discovery.com/earth/a-giant-plastic-island-to-cure-the-garbage-patch.html A group of architects have a radical new idea for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: turn it all into a giant island of recycled plastic complete with farmland, beaches --

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:23 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: ...two modern myths. ;) Spiraling into control: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727694.100-quantum-entanglement-holds-together-lifes-blueprint.html http://snipurl.com/zlv2y snip When the researchers analysed the DNA

[Vo]:A Cold, Dark Heart

2010-07-19 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727693.800-heart-of-darkness-could-explain-sun-mysteries.html http://tinyurl.com/3784o3h IS DARK matter lurking at the centre of our bright sun? Yes, say two research groups who believe the elusive stuff is cooling the solar core. The insight doesn't

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 7/17/10, mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com wrote: At a distance of 1 light year, a dish with a radius of 100 m would pick up grand total of 3E-22 W from a 10 MW transmitter on Earth. I don't think there are any 10 MW transmitters, and even if there were, a signal that small

RE: [Vo]:Grabowski thinks the effect the NRL is seeing is chemical

2010-07-19 Thread francis
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:29 Jones Beene said The ultimate source of gainful chemical energy then becomes something more like phase-change; and if there is net gain due to some asymmetry, then it must be due to ZPE, no? from wiki : Hydrogen

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kyle Mcallister wrote: it is suggested a UHF carrier could be detected at a range of 0.3 ly. If that is true, a passing probe, eavesdropping on nearby solar-type stars could get an idea that there's something near the Sun. I read a paper some time ago, by Jill Tarter I think, that suggested

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 7/17/10, mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com wrote: To put this in perspective, in order to pick up 1 micro-Watt in total from our 10 MW transmitter, the dish would have to have a radius of 6 million km. BTW the *closest* star to Sol is 4 ly away, not one. 1uW is a lot of

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sun, 7/18/10, mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I seem to recall that measurements on some supernova indicated that the neutrino burst and the x-rays arrived at the same time. IOW neutrinos don't travel faster than light. (Only tachyons do that ;^) On the one hand... In my

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm . . . What about up-links to geosynchronous TV and telcom satellites. Or, if a civilization expands beyond one planet (but not interstellar), what about interplanetary communications? I don't have any data on hand about

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
V, From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part6/section-12.html I did some calculations (assumes I did the arithmetic right) for a dish with an aperture of 10,000 meters. Such a structure could be conceivably constructed in space, using either one massive construct, or arrays of smaller

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread mixent
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:53:30 -0400: Hi, From further down in the same article:- However, Aleksei Aksimentiev of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is sceptical that quantum effects are the sole reason for the helical structure. He points out that

Re: [Vo]:Somewhat OFF TOPIC Merchants of Doubt

2010-07-19 Thread mixent
In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:07:03 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] it is suggested a UHF carrier could be detected at a range of 0.3 ly. 0.3 ly is effectively next door. In order to be that close, it would have to have been deliberately sent to our solar system. If they