[Vo]:Neutrinos, FTL, and scientific textus receptus

2011-09-23 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Fri, 9/23/11, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: This measurement conflicts with early arrival time data for neutrinos from supernova. The New Scientist article quotes Marc Sher of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, It's not reasonable. ... If

Re: [Vo]:Neutrinos, FTL, and scientific textus receptus

2011-09-24 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 9/24/11, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: In the CERN OPERA results, neutrinos arrived about 2.48x10^-5 the travel time sooner than expected. For a 168,000 ly trip the expected photon arrival delay time Dt should be    Dt = (2.48x10^-5)*(168,000 yr) = 1521 days =

Re: [Vo]:Neutrinos, FTL, and scientific textus receptus

2011-09-24 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 9/24/11, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com I believe I alluded to something like this earlier. In reading back over previous emails, yes, you're right. In a universe which adheres in general to the SR model, you can, none the

Re: [Vo]:Neutrinos, FTL, and scientific textus receptus

2011-09-25 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 9/24/11, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: Jouni, I am not certain I follow quite what you're suggesting. Are you suggesting that, possibly, the absolute frame of reference may have differing velocities based on the velocity of the local object? I.E, some planet,

Re: [Vo]:Neutrinos, FTL, and scientific textus receptus

2011-09-25 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 9/24/11, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Yeah.  Bien sur.  The whole issue isn't that some religious law might be broken; it's that you can get contradictions if we allow stuff like this to go on without careful controls on it, and short cuts, improbability physics,

[Vo]:TEST

2010-02-20 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Test...

Re: [Vo]:Census Community Survay..what is the remedy if I fail to produce?

2010-02-20 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Census Community Survay..what is the remedy if I fail to produce? To: vortex-l@eskimo.com First, I'm pretty sure that it's a misdemeanor at worst, and there isn't

Re: [Vo]:TEST

2010-02-21 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sun, 2/21/10, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:TEST To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 10:34 AM Another test. I have not been able to post messages. - Jed Came through OK here, Jed. I've

[Vo]:Just for fun...

2010-05-18 Thread Kyle Mcallister
V, With some spare time over the weekend, and little to do (a rarity), I decided to make a crystal-less crystal radio. Inspired by Nyle Steiner's work (google him, he is a god among amateur scientists), I conducted a couple hour's worth of experimenting with using flames as a detection method

Re: [Vo]:I recovered

2010-05-18 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Frank, I'm late in replying, as I usually am, what with how my life generally is... Don't give up. I may not say much these days, but I read your messages. Keep at your work. --Kyle

RE: [Vo]:Just for fun...

2010-05-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Wed, 5/19/10, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: All good points, Kyle. The only individual I can think of that is trying to reverse this trend is Dean Kamen, inventor of Segway. Segway is also not practical but it's still an impressive product that has

Re: [Vo]:Just for fun...

2010-05-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Wed, 5/19/10, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMQEiRWoiJw Is it practical? No. Was it fun? Oh yes. Better page: http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/flame-amp/flameamp.htm I know Nyle's pages are better than mine, that's why I linked to

RE: [Vo]:Just for fun...

2010-05-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Wed, 5/19/10, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Subject: RE: [Vo]:Just for fun... To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 10:22 AM In the (non-ecclesiastical) category of 'nothing new under the sun' Here is an article that

Re: [Vo]:More about Mallove murder

2010-05-30 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Unspeakable . . . I can't bring myself to read this. See: Witness: Mallove asked for help before he died I read it, unfortunately. This is awful. I cannot imagine the mindset of a person who would not do as he asked.

Re: [Vo]:Just for fun...

2010-05-30 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Fri, 5/21/10, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Sorry for the long delay in replying, it was a... rough week. I used that same substance, different mixture. More sugar, I think, and I used it for smoke bombs, it burned slowly with copious white smoke, basically harmless.

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

2010-07-17 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Fri, 7/16/10, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jed, and all: Another I'd add to the list is, we assume they would use radio waves or optical (laser) communication (ala COSETI). Some other medium may exist, which we either cannot use effectively at the moment (neutrinos) or

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]: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

2010-07-20 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: If it was an interstellar communication and it happened to impinge on earth, it would have stayed pointed in our direction for a long time. Ditto for a deliberate signal to attract our attention and announce the existence of

RE: [Vo]:Richard C Macaulay

2011-01-18 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ... a true character ... but I'm not so sure the Dime Box was fictitious ? The romantic in me likes to think it was real. Maybe not in this plane of reality, whatever it is, but *somewhere*. I liked R.C. We talked quite a bit

Re: [Vo]:The Big Picture

2011-01-29 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 1/29/11, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Big Picture To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011, 4:57 PM This is an unknown nuclear reaction for crying out loud! A NUCLEAR REACTION. It is not a

Re: [Vo]:Let Rossi Be Rossi?

2011-11-13 Thread Kyle Mcallister
On 11/13/2011 1:15 PM, Vorl Bek wrote: I have had it with Mary Yugo. I think Mary Yugo is a good addition to this list. Mary Yugo's skepticism is better than excusing Rossi's odd behaviour on the grounds that he must be an eccentric genius. I have no idea if Rossi is a scammer or if he

Re: [Vo]:MIT light diode on Si allows photonic computers -- many streams of wavelengths at once -- female scientist: Michael: Rich 2011.11.23

2011-11-23 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Wed, 11/23/11, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: Most interesting!  Garnet is desirable because it inherently transmits light differently in one direction than in another: It has a different index of refraction — the bending of light as it enters the material — depending on

Re: [Vo]:Lenard tube... Rossi style

2011-12-01 Thread Kyle Mcallister
V, Whatever side of the aisle you fall on with regards to Rossi, you got to admit, given his slap-it-together plumbing style, a Lenard ray tube built from a booze bottle, kitchen foil, and hardware store crap is right up their alley. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYVBsGCUVg Gotta admit,

Re: [Vo]:The Garbage Collection of a Fool's Imagination

2012-01-23 Thread Kyle Mcallister
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Re: [Vo]:A huge Rossi (bad) thing to be revealed soon. (Daniele Passerini)

2012-01-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 1/28/12, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: By the way, I'm disappointed by all the Mary Yugo bashing. I did not find MY's skepticism to be severe or particularly extreme, compared to plenty I've seen. Well, as a semi-interested outsider who'd love a cheap

RE: [Vo]:A huge Rossi (bad) thing to be revealed soon. (Daniele Passerini)

2012-01-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Sat, 1/28/12, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: As the one who 'rode her ass' a number of times, I have said that her (his) technical criticisms were WELCOME... but to lay off the focus on the personalities. Good idea. Discussing the science and analysis of the

Re: OFF TOPIC Iraqi aluminum tube story finis

2004-10-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
1. well, since theres been testifiying in front of congress and leaks and unaltered originals sent to media, yeah, actually, we do know for sure. I'm just saying there is a lot more to this whole situation than meets the eye, on both sides. 2. the us is a signatory to the un. the us

Re: OFF TOPIC Iraqi aluminum tube story finis

2004-10-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Dear Vortexians, I am quite sorry I ever got into this thing, and if I have wasted bandwidth, I do apologize. This will likely be my last message on this subject. snip Iraq did not attack us, etc. period. The addition of the word 'period' makes it that much clearer then? No, Iraq did not

Re: EPR and causality

2004-10-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Robin van Spaandonk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP In short, causality isn't really violated, it only appears that way to an observer relying on EM signal transmission for his/her information. [snip] This could be argued from a certain point of view in the one way FTL sense. But if we

Re: Superluminal cavity resonances was RE: Fast-food for thought

2004-12-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Physicists in Switzerland have confirmed that information cannot be transmitted faster than the speed of light. Hmmmthe writers of the quoted article have made an error in the above statement. It would be more correct to say that it is confirmed that within the experimental proceedures

Re: Corrections! was Re: Superluminal...

2004-12-11 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Harry Veeder wrote: Synchronisation is done beforehand. e.g. Synchronise two clocks at the sender's location. Then move one of the clocks to the receiver's location. Problems arise here, due to relativistic effects. If you move one of the clocks, its time will be different than that of the

Re: Corrections! was Re: Superluminal...

2004-12-11 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Standing Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Listers I would like to say that IMHO any photons actually measured at greater that 'c' would be enough to shake the foundations of the Einstein religion to its very foundations. And I do mean .ANY photons! My thoughts on this

Superluminal and relativity

2004-12-11 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Hello all, The recent discussions of FTL signalling and its repercussions is interesting to me, and is something which has troubled my mind for many years. After studying special relativity, particularly the implications of relativity of simultaneity and the rejection of absolute separation of

Re: Toroid experiments

2004-12-22 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if real, how do you explain the laser beam being bent? According to what I read, that is inconclusive at this point. Further, a gravitational field ale to bend a light beam is approaching the surface gravity on a neutron star, thus you won't need

RE: Toroid experiments, New Tests

2004-12-22 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Keith Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you say, I wouldn't expect the permeability of the rod to matter much, given the geometry, but a permeable rod would tend to be drawn in and stay in the center counter to what is seen. Also notice upon observing the photos on Jean-Louis'

Re: Vehicles need to be insulated

2005-01-22 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Hi all, Interesting discussion, particularly where it comes to deal with engine sizes, etc. My occupation is that of an auto mechanic. It is only by night that I become the mad scientist. ;) I work primarily on european manufactured cars. They are fuel efficient, have all the high technology

Re: BioDiesel:was vehicles

2005-01-25 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- RC Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He predicted the coming generations would be so accustomed to change that change would become a habit. I can see some good coming from this, and also quite a bit of bad. There is enough crap being floated around by my generation today. Of course a lot

Vanity of vanities....

2005-03-26 Thread Kyle Mcallister
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity” Truer words were never spoken, it seems to me as of late. Indeed it seems to me that we live in a world of nothing but hatred and negativity, where no one believes in anything greater than “what has gone before” and that we are on a continuing Archimedian

Re: OT: If I were Pope.

2005-04-05 Thread Kyle Mcallister
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. Leave

Re: Prius hybrids selling at a premium

2005-04-13 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabulous! I've been saying for years (mostly to my long-suffering family) that the biggest thing wrong with the way our petroleum policy is run in this country is that there should be a federal gasoline tax which keeps the price per

Re: Prius hybrids selling at a premium

2005-04-14 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip glamourous description of Europe Then move there. My employers are German. They came here because it is increasingly hard to make a decent living there. I see them 5 days a week and they tell me all about it, whether I want to hear it or

Re: Gas Tax

2005-04-14 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Stephen R. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe higher transport costs will change all this, but at the moment I don't quite see the mechanism. From: Stephen R. Lawrence, 8 Supanee Court, French's Road, Cambridge, England, CB4 3LB. Tel/Fax +44 1223 564373 Ah, so you already live

Re: Prius hybrids selling at a premium

2005-04-15 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $27k to $32k depending on location and political preference. :-) http://tinyurl.com/63t3m Bleah. I don't make enough to even begin to afford that. Most people out there drive used cars because they cannot afford a new one. Much less something like

[Vo]:Earth Hour...yeah....

2008-03-29 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Howdy, Unfortunately, as my good friend John Schnurer is no longer of this world, he can't do this with me, so I'll have to do his share of it. He loved mischeif, even towards the end when his Parkinson's made it almost impossible for him to type (and sometimes communicate at all) effectively, so

Re: [Vo]:Earth Hour...yeah....

2008-03-29 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm impressed! Knock yourself out tonight! Heh, thanks Steven. I /probably/ was being mostly sarcastic in my evil plan statement of action, as I'll probably be making Hartley oscillators all night, as well as chasing down the rumors I hear from a

[Vo]:Gasoline prices...

2008-05-12 Thread Kyle Mcallister
...or Petrol, depending on from where you come. $3.87/U.S. Gallon here in western NY. Crazy, considering that when I moved here six years ago it was about $1.50. Yay-big increase. Now, as I was in a somewhat contemplative mood earlier, I decided to sit back and see how this really affected me.

Re: [Vo]:Casimir Generator

2008-07-04 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Horace, I don't know if this would have any bearing on, or be any help with this thought experiment you are working on, but there is a paper describing the theorized energy density within various cavities, authored by the late Dr. Robert Forward. I have it in PDF format if it would be helpful

Re: [Vo]:Casimir Generator

2008-07-04 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Fri, 7/4/08, Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'd appreciate a copy. Alrighty. I'll put it online in a bit and send you the URL. Probably be better that way, as it is a bit large, at 1.2 megs. I don't want to be rude and direct email something that big. Say, that was

Re: [Vo]:Casimir Generator

2008-07-04 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Horace, File uploaded. http://www.fdscience.org/1/aiaa983140.pdf --Kyle

Re: [Vo]:Chinese building space drive unit

2008-09-27 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Vortex, This discussion over whether or not Shawyer's theory is correct or not is pointless and the wrong subject. You can prove or disprove anything if you have enough mathematical and speculative handwaving to say what you want to say. The two points that SHOULD be very carefully considered

[Vo]:Re: They'll take a friggin' mile... And your little people, too!

2008-11-11 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Mark, and all, You're worried about something minor compared to producing what, in worst case, could be American Brownshirts. See: http://www.reason.com/blog/show/129949.html Before I go further, no I have not reviewed other content on that site, so I don't endorse anything besides what the

Re: [Vo]:Re: They'll take a friggin' mile... And your little people, too!

2008-11-12 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: They'll take a friggin' mile... And your little people, too! To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 11:19 PM I suggest I-Thank-You's (money created

Re: [Vo]:Re: They'll take a friggin' mile... And your little people, too!

2008-11-12 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking for myself, I don't respond to things like that because it is embarrassing. I mean, I pity you. You need to take a deep breath and come to your senses. I don't need your pity, or anyone else's. I don't do the whole handout

Re: [Vo]:Re: They'll take a friggin' mile... And your little people, too!

2008-11-12 Thread Kyle Mcallister
To Jed, and all Vortexians who are still here: Most likely, this will turn out to be nothing. I said that. So I think I covered my ass previously. If the above sentence is too difficult to understand, I'll try to explain it better. R.C. Macaulay could probably say it better, and more

Re: [Vo]:electrogravitics

2008-11-16 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Thomas, and all, As far as 'electrogravitics' goes, I can speak to this a bit, as I've experimented with it for quite a number of years. The first thing I'll say is, Townsend Brown obviously meant something different by electrokinetics and electrogravitics. This is glossed over in modern times.

[Vo]:For the resident nuclear experts...semi-OT?

2008-12-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
All, Here's a question regarding a bit of fiction I am writing as a side project. What would the radiation effects be of a hypothetical pure-fusion nuclear weapon? That is, a nuclear bomb containing no fissile material whatsoever, triggered by some other means. The following scenarios are used

Re: [Vo]:For the resident nuclear experts...semi-OT?

2008-12-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Google neutron bomb. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Already know about them, read Cohen's articles and all. What is described by 'neutron bomb' still contains fissile material...albeit not alot. Still some fallout, but the amount of fusion fuel is very limited, so there's a

Re: [Vo]:For the resident nuclear experts...semi-OT?

2008-12-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- leaking pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pure fusion would be a so called neutron bomb high emp, lots of radiation, little blast. if they worked, you could basically drop a few dozen, instantly kill most of the population, wait a year, go in and use all the land and buildings and such,

Re: [Vo]:For the resident nuclear experts...semi-OT?

2008-12-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- leaking pen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fast neutrons can cause physical damage, de magnetize things, and cause other issues, but i was under the impression that it would only cause actual nuclear reactions with certain ALREADY radioactive species. and i cant find anything online to the

Re: [Vo]:For the resident nuclear experts...semi-OT?

2008-12-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While true, all those energetic neutrons have to go somewhere. They will do two things:- 1) While still energetic they will damage other nuclei, producing radioactive species. 2) When absorbed by other nuclei, they will also create radioactive species. In

Re: [Vo]:Predictions for 2009

2009-01-03 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Hmmm. Considering that for the time period between Christmas and New Years, that the following took place at my home: 1. Freak high-velocity winds took the shingles off my carport. 2. I got the flu. 3. Someone stole my garbage can (not the wind, the winds were dead calm that day.) 4. I

Re: [Vo]:Predictions for 2009

2009-01-07 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I do not think so. In ~4.5 billion years the sun will be a Red Giant, and I think the wavelength and power of the light will change considerably before that. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Lectures/vistas97.html As far as I can

Re: [Vo]:A Modest Proposal

2009-01-14 Thread Kyle Mcallister
. . . . . . This isn't aimed at any one person, but to all who are of the likeminded mentality which I am finding myself anathema to. Which one of you built the Georgia Guidestones? Or maybe some drunk from the Dime Box Saloon built them. If so, they're excusable as a funny prank. I don't have

Re: [Vo]:Detecting the Holographic Blurriness of Space-Time

2009-01-16 Thread Kyle Mcallister
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. snip... Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were

Re: [Vo]:Homegrown wind generators

2009-01-18 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: My wife could not live without chocolate. Mine either. She'll kill for it. P.S.: IQ of 200 does not mean a person is not stupid. ...Only that one's stupidity is more ingenious. I get a sudden mental image of Wile E. Coyote, assembling

Re: [Vo]:OT: Limbaugh: I hope [BO] fails

2009-01-22 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Years ago, I watched a number of late evening RL TV shows that aired. Almost invariably they all started out with unimpressive cartoon skits depicting Bubba doing something stupid, insofar as conservatives were concerned. Ok... I stand

RE: [Vo]:OT: Limbaugh: I hope [BO] fails

2009-01-22 Thread Kyle Mcallister
actually told the American public we need to grow up! Talk about audacity! Telling a bunch of overgrown children to stop acting like spoiled ninnies . . . Jed, Talk is cheap. First point, I hope Obama DOES make things actually better for us. It's crazy to hope that he fails so badly that

Re: [Vo]:OT: Limbaugh: I hope [BO] fails

2009-01-22 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kyle Mcallister wrote: Alright, two can play at this game. You fellas want to further pollute Vortex with this shit . . . Speaking for myself, my remarks on this subject are carefully considered, well researched and calm. I do

Re: [Vo]:Obama puts Schwarzenegger in charge of energy policy

2009-01-26 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Okay, here's my input from a mechanic's standpoint. Guys like me keep you driving. Jed, this includes you, and I have worked on Prius' (Prius's? Priuses? What DOES that name mean?!?) before. 1. Applying emissions restrictions to new vehicles is not that big of a deal, as far as I am concerned,

Re: [Vo]:Obama puts Schwarzenegger in charge of energy policy

2009-01-27 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kyle Mcallister wrote: I have never heard of retrofitting older vehicles with emission controls. In any case, the main concern is for CO2 and this cannot be reduced in an older car by any means. No, they just want to boot them off the road

Re: [Vo]:Pickens wrong about trucks

2009-02-01 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- thomas malloy temall...@usfamily.net wrote: If I were appointed the car czar, I would require the vehicle's design to be reviewed by a panel of mechanics. That's a bloody good idea, speaking from a mechanic's point of view. The trash being sold for $20k+ these days is absolutely

Re: [Vo]:more power - arrh, arrh!

2009-02-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Late model gas furnaces are better than 85% efficient, but of course they do not generate electricity! Oil burners are up to 85% these days, some even better. I think some SlantFin furnaces are a bit higher. Nevertheless, I loathe oil heat. For

[Vo]:Thoughts on this and that

2009-02-26 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Vortexians, left, right, center, up, down, backwards, sideways, snakebit, and/or whatever political/religious/etc. leanings you may have: A few points, directed in seemingly random directions at no one party (all seem equally guilty here), but maybe not so random? 1. Someone should go read the

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-08 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: Asteroid 2009 DD45 had a 48,000 mile close call March 2, 2009. What has not explicitly been said AFAIK is whether or not that was within a window that can establish a resonant return, i.e. a direct hit on a return fly by. Perhaps it

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-08 Thread Kyle Mcallister
[snip] I thought it *was* detected by someone paid to do exactly that? Not paid very much it seems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siding_Spring_Survey And someone else tracked it after the discovery by way of funding provided by The Planetary Society. This is not the scale of skywatch

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-08 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- John Berry aethe...@gmail.com wrote: The only way we can realistically do anything is if we have technologies or friends that we don't generally admit to, I hold out no hope for a mission as in the movie Armageddon or lasers or... We can do it with nuclear weapons, either a direct

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: As I wrote repeatedly, we can LOTS about volcanoes. We can't stop them, of course, but we can prevent them from killing people or damaging equipment unnecessarily. We can mitigate the danger and financial loss. Horace Heffner also

Re: [Vo]:Asteroid 2009 DD45

2009-03-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: A couple hemispherical metal salad bowls might work and are not too pricey at Wal-Mart. Good idea. I will get a couple of them, split some vinyl tubing down the side, and wrap the lip to prevent corona. Noticed Bill Beatty did some

[Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
Hi, Okay, as per Horace's suggestion, made a crude spherical (er...kind of spherical) terminal out of two mixing bowls. Didn't go to WalMart, as that place frightens me, so I got them from Kmart. Duct taped them together at the seams, so as to make a crude corona seal. It works very well,

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-10 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:58:55 -0700 (PDT): [snip] I thought that in Podkletnov's experiment the device was a superconductor, and that the electron pairs in the superconductor were mandatory to getting an effect? The SC

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-10 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: I'm curious -- why is common grounded? Seems like a hand placed too near it would reward you with holes blown through the soles of your shoes as a result, no? Wouldn't it be safer to let the hot parts of the rig float? A few reasons why

Re: [Vo]:Morton experiment

2009-03-10 Thread Kyle Mcallister
All, Another update. Didn't get as much done today as I'd like, as I did end up getting pretty sick. Nevertheless, here's what I did and what I found. I took the original 'target' plate, connected to ground, and shielded it with a 7.75 square sheet of .125 plexiglass. A 1/2 hole was drilled in

Re: [Vo]:Tesla coil music

2009-03-18 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Nick Palmer ni...@wynterwood.co.uk wrote: If you're going to waste energy, you might as well have fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqoRaphiEk Nick Palmer On the side of the Planet - and the people - because they're worth it Argh...resending to the list. Apologies in advance

[Vo]:Fear and Loathing in Las Vortex

2009-03-23 Thread Kyle Mcallister
. . . . Alright, I don't really know how to start this, so I won't. I'll just start hacking away into it. What's the deal? Now maybe I'm reading this wrong, but there's a bias it seems against any results, theoretical or experimental, that have a superluminal result. What's so %^$%# bad about

Re: [Vo]:Inertial Propulsion

2009-03-24 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know what become of Robert L Cook? His web site has been closed circa Dec 2007 but is available on archive.org (see forceborne.com)? Don't know much about Cook, myself. Also, I noticed in the Laithwaite patents (approved

Re: [Vo]:Inertial Propulsion

2009-03-24 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Since a = f/m, and m is constant, if there is a force in one direction only, then that force should accelerate the mass while it operates. That acceleration should increase the speed, which should then remain constant until the next acceleration pulse. IOW

Re: [Vo]:Fear and Loathing in Las Vortex

2009-03-24 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: I suspect not. CF (or LENR) is finicky, and no one is yet certain of the precise requirements (though there are now a few claims of complete replicability). Those who can achieve it have been trying for quite a while to get it right. Even

Re: [Vo]:Fear and Loathing in Las Vortex

2009-03-24 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- grok g...@resist.ca wrote: But the Mylow HoJoRotor is _exactly_ the kind of thing you can do in your garage -- or on the kitchen table, even. However, people are flat-out stating that the magnets are giving up their magnetic energy as they de-magnetize. If this be the case -- then

Re: [Vo]:Inertial Propulsion

2009-03-24 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: 1. Mass M is moved say 10 units to the right by precession, thus (supposedly) forcelessly. F=0 at this point. This is a neat trick. He he he. Let me add this: neat trick... /if it works/ If you can do this you've already shattered

[Vo]:Crazy?

2009-03-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
V, Since there's apparently little to no interest in learning what I found re: the Morton effect, or what I've done/am doing with Laithwaite's inertial propulsion work, or discussing faster than light travel, implications thereof (resistance to in sci-community/effects and/or testability of

Re: [Vo]:Crazy?

2009-03-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- leaking pen itsat...@gmail.com wrote: Being a young American citizen is a crime now, I suppose. Where have you been? Being a kid has involved a significant lack of the normal human rights you normally get the moment you turn 18 for a LONG while now. Well, I was mostly referring

Re: [Vo]:Crazy?

2009-03-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Rhong Dhong rongdon...@yahoo.com wrote: I don't know why people are getting worked up about O's national service proposal: plenty of countries have or have had that. The US had a draft from 1940 to around 1972 and it didn't destroy liberty. 1. We are not other countries. If we can't

Re: [Vo]:Fascism in the Near Future -was: Crazy?

2009-03-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Mark S Bilk m...@cosmicpenguin.com wrote: Kyle, I haven't read all of your posts, but if you achieve positive results in any alternative physics areas, by all means tell us (and post the complete details of the apparatus to hundreds of lists, in order to preserve your life).

Re: [Vo]:Crazy?

2009-03-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Kyle, you do cool stuff. Your posts about stuff you've done are always interesting, sometimes fascinating, often extremely entertaining. Don't think nobody's interested, just because there are not a lot of comments! (Politics is easier to

[Vo]:Morton effect, take two

2009-03-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
V, Alright. I will try this again, and we'll see...what we can see. WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Charles Morton reported an effect (a series of effects, actually, but we will only concentrate on this one) wherein a beam of force of an unusual nature is generated by a high voltage discharge coming from

Re: [Vo]:crazy

2009-03-28 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Rhong Dhong rongdon...@yahoo.com wrote: I assume you are talking about the HitlerJugend. Boy scouts from what I hear. Got the kids into clean country air, got them to clear brush, live in tents, take responsibility. Just what O wants to do. Stop being part of the problem and start

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