Re: [Vo]:are smartlists working? vortex-L test

2019-08-16 Thread Rick Monteverde
Still works here. > > On Aug 15, 2019 at 8:32 PM, William Beatywrote: > > > test (( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))) William J. > Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur scienc

[Vo]:Elon Musk HyperLoop

2013-08-12 Thread Rick Monteverde
This thing might not be that important or ever be built etc., but I did like the thought process revealed by the design. He seeks niches or exclusions in otherwise "impossible" general characterizations of a problem, and unique solutions emerge. The not-fully-evacuated tube is probably the primary

RE: [Vo]:Meteoriods, Life and Death

2013-03-13 Thread Rick Monteverde
Further work addresses some of the legitimate challenges in the Bad Astronomy article. The fragments have since been mass spec'd and are in fact from a fresh meteor fall, and the fossil forms are both embedded and not indigenous to the fall area. Bottom line to this story is that this is probably o

RE: [Vo]:Meteorite with diatoms in Polonnaruwa , Sri Lanka

2013-01-17 Thread Rick Monteverde
e fabulous images, the evidence for diatoms looks pretty solid. The "red rain" sounds like a SciFi plot. that would cause some doubt - but not those images. Too bad ACC is not around to comment. From: Rick Monteverde You may have heard of this already, and it involves th

RE: [Vo]:Conjunction of Meaningfully Parallel Events

2012-07-30 Thread Rick Monteverde
Years ago one afternoon, I was at a stop sign and the Moody Blues were on the radio, singing the words "Timothy Leary's dead. Oh no, he's outside, looking in." At that moment, I looked over to the sidewalk to see a white haired gentleman looking back at us who looked kind of familiar. Yes, it reall

RE: [Vo]:Equivalence breaks down.

2010-06-15 Thread Rick Monteverde
The gravity from mass always has a component of divergence, but linear acceleration doesn't. Am I correct to think that is one of the reasons "equivalent" is used instead of "identical"? R. -Original Message- From: itsat...@gmail.com [mailto:itsat...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Hol

[Vo]:Vector vortex coronagraph breakthrough on exoplanet observations

2010-04-16 Thread Rick Monteverde
lanet/ - Rick Monteverde Honolulu, HI

RE: [Vo]:Magnetic alignment in grazing and resting cattle and deer

2010-04-16 Thread Rick Monteverde
Maybe they just don't like the sun in their face? -Original Message- From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:orionwo...@charter.net] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:23 AM To: Vortex Subject: [Vo]:Magnetic alignment in grazing and resting cattle and deer Apparently it's true!

RE: [Vo]:The BLOOM BOX

2010-02-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
The thing's huge! And add the fuel tank too. Not practical for a car. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:41 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:The BLOOM BOX On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Rick Monte

RE: [Vo]:The BLOOM BOX

2010-02-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
Don't forget the electric car in the garage. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:12 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:The BLOOM BOX http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/411/ "I think Bloom Energy is looking to in

RE: [Vo]:Pycno-pockets?

2010-01-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jones Beene: "... there are zillions of moons out there to colonize Of course there are a few right here in our own neighborhood that are decent candidates for deep bio activity. And aside from that one where we are to "attempt no landing...", we wouldn't have to fight off those annoying blue peop

RE: [Vo]:Pycno-pockets?

2010-01-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax "<...> maybe those bacteria are smarter than we think." Interesting statement, reflecting a notion that's starting to catch on from different disciplines and directions. "That would also explain the coincidence of natural gas (or oil, if that's the case) and helium." Nice

RE: [Vo]:Traffic accident deaths in Japan hit 57-year low

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
ry 04, 2010 10:54 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Traffic accident deaths in Japan hit 57-year low >From the article Rick Monteverde linked to: "MyRate is designed for safe drivers," comments Richard Hutchinson, Progressive's MyRate general manager. "It

RE: [Vo]:Traffic accident deaths in Japan hit 57-year low

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
The tech from the link below interests me. I'd like to see something like that tied to vehicle tax fees for pay as you drive efficiency. Eventually this could evolve into an aviation-style control system like a TCA for heavily used corridors during peak use for a more fair distribution of taxes and

RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
Horace - The object was low in the SSW about an hour after sunset. Still working on finding out the viewing angle and umbra position, but the max sight angle was around 22 degrees. Came up vertically from the horizon out of the SSW, turned towards the west and moved parallel to the horizon for

RE: [Vo]:The Norway Spiral

2009-12-30 Thread Rick Monteverde
More like torsion on a powerful weapon, but hey - at least he was right about that 19.5 degree latitude for planetary swirls, volcanoes, sunspots, etc. R. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:14 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.co

RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-30 Thread Rick Monteverde
We don't get many sightings out here, we're a distinct dull spot on the UFO observation map. This is the my first sighting spanning 40 years here of something having a real chance of being anomalous. By coincidence we have the chief of state vacationing here, and some of the more conventional rings

RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Rick Monteverde
Sunset at my location in Honolulu that day was 5:59 PM, sighting was at 6:58 PM. I'll look for a star chart to get the sighting angle for the object. - R.

RE: [Vo]:Personal:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-29 Thread Rick Monteverde
Horace - My sighting wasn't just after sunset, it was just after nightfall - total darkness. There was just a vague hint of fading light on the horizon, but the sky surrounding the object, which was relatively low in the southwest, was already black. I did find something on the after-suns

[Vo]:Little help with UFO sighting?

2009-12-28 Thread Rick Monteverde
Saw an orange fire colored UFO last night just after nightfall. The path was that of an object flying in a curved path at high altitude (a u-turn, basically), definitely not a satellite, and a bit brighter than a good space station sighting. Even through 8x binoculars it appeared as a point source.

RE: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Monteverde
I can't wait until the detection threshold comes down - like to the level of moons around these big planets. Bet that's where the action is as long as the system is in the liquid water zone. R.

RE: [Vo]:Crematorium to use burning bodies to generate electricity

2009-12-10 Thread Rick Monteverde
Terry - Back in the day I'd go large. Now I hide from them along with the other sane folks. - R. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:12 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Crematorium to use burning bodies to ge

RE: [Vo]:Crematorium to use burning bodies to generate electricity

2009-12-10 Thread Rick Monteverde
Terry: >>I sure you remember the ending to this one: >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog One of my favorites. I heard from the media back in around 1980 that J. Falwell was a really bad guy. No internet back then. He had a rally at the state capitol here and I lived nearby, so I we

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Nick Palmer uploads video on Climategate

2009-12-10 Thread Rick Monteverde
Michael - Thanks for the link. Hardly anything smells as bad to a greenie liberal these days as an oil company lobbyist, but the old saying: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I can appreciate anyone helping to reveal or hold forth against the AGW hoax and the accompanying fraud being perpetrated

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Nick Palmer uploads video on Climategate

2009-12-09 Thread Rick Monteverde
Nick Palmer wrote: I think you're going to have to dig up some evidence of that Rick. Perhaps you have been listening to too many Limbaugh'esque talk show propagandists without critical analysis. Done. Been listening to you. Clear references to your desire that voiced opposition to your dea

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Nick Palmer uploads video on Climategate

2009-12-09 Thread Rick Monteverde
I got 404 on that link. - R. -Original Message- From: Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:sa...@pobox.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:31 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Nick Palmer uploads video on Climategate On 12/09/2009 05:51 PM, Michel Jullian wrote: > Y

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Nick Palmer uploads video on Climategate

2009-12-09 Thread Rick Monteverde
Stephen wrote: <...> I can't help but think any assertion that expressing any particular belief "should be ILLEGAL [in the United States]" must be nothing more than a personal expression of frustration, or possibly a straw man set up to start an argument. <...> I think what NP was referring to wa

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Nick Palmer uploads video on Climategate

2009-12-09 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed Wrote: >I expect the researchers are guilty of suppressing opposing points of view >through the peer-review system, but the other accusations are silly. Yeah, a real minor thing, that. Nick Palmer has zero credibility on this particular issue as he has openly advocated on this fo

RE: [Vo]:Quote from Wrangham book

2009-12-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
Terry - >> (Gasp!) Jed does not like sushi?! LOL! Me too, reading that was a bit like the head rush I get from the usual overdose of fresh wasabi! - R.

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

2009-12-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
So then Jed sez: "Ah, then you know the wrong history, or you misinterpret it, you poor dears." I'm well aware there was far less freedom in all categories in the past, not to mention elsewhere in the world today. My regret is that we are willingly giving up what we have now to return to a form of

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

2009-12-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed wrote: >> Many right-wing commentators believe the trends are opposite, >> and that freedom and self determination is decreasing. >> These people don't know much about history. What I wrote was a right-wing comment, precisely because I, as do "these people", know enough about history to kno

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

2009-12-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed Wrote: >> We are now living in the golden age of self determination, >> free market competition, and freedom from government interference. That's changing, and fast. R.

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

2009-12-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
Sure it's propagated from a clean tested starter batch, etc. The problem is that what you don't know can kill you, and there's so much that is unknown, and so much that can kill you. Do you know how much of the human genome is of recent (and ancient) viral and bacterial origin? Are you aware of ho

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

2009-12-03 Thread Rick Monteverde
day I check out. - R. -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 10:19 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:OT: Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory (Follow-up) Rick Monteverde wrote: >This

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

2009-12-01 Thread Rick Monteverde
This is rather scary. If they can do pig, could long pig be far behind? Soilent is... R.

RE: [Vo]:ALARM US?!?: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
Why not both? Best photograph I never took and forever kick myself for missing: at a state fair, in a stall for cattle, there was a First Place ribbon over "Boopsie" or whatever, and a sign thanking Safeway for purchasing etc. etc. And there was a ~12 year old girl who apparently raised it, with h

RE: [Vo]:Question about hot glass

2009-07-31 Thread Rick Monteverde
kimo.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Question about hot glass > > > > Rick Monteverde wrote: > > The hot (1800+ degF) and warm (1450+ degF) glass I've worked with > > always stays clear. Glass from a furnace is extremely > clear, you can > > look at the

RE: [Vo]:Question about hot glass

2009-07-26 Thread Rick Monteverde
The hot (1800+ degF) and warm (1450+ degF) glass I've worked with always stays clear. Glass from a furnace is extremely clear, you can look at the bottom of the pot and it looks like there's nothing in there. The really weird thing is when gold metal gets translucent. Noticed it for years but neve

RE: [Vo]:Black Silicon

2009-07-01 Thread Rick Monteverde
I'm not sure if it's an amateur level process to deposit an even, superthin layer of TiO2 on to the glass (silica) nanostructures, but even I've anodized plain Ti metal with a battery charger and Coke (regular, not diet) as the electrolyte. Diatom silica structures operate as photonic crystals, but

RE: [Vo]:Black Silicon

2009-06-29 Thread Rick Monteverde
Algae again - diatoms have been tried with some success. Stuck to the conductive substrate, they are coated with a layer of titanium dioxide. Photons ping around in the fancy geometric nanostructures for increased hits on the dye-sensitized stuff thereby knocking loose more electrons, or something

RE: [Vo]:Smoke Ring?

2009-06-17 Thread Rick Monteverde
Inadvertent condensation near the rim of a visually cloaked disc shaped field-effect craft? - Rick

RE: [Vo]:Do it backwards: added 1997-style, science-based Vortex

2009-06-17 Thread Rick Monteverde
I still have "Vortex-C" in my email folder list, but it's empty and I forget what it was for. Vortex Classic? - Rick

RE: [Vo]:New drill to make geothermal easier

2009-06-16 Thread Rick Monteverde
As you said, but also gas emissions from the geothermal wells have proven to be a far greater problem than waste heat. They had a big problem with hydrogen sulfide and other stuff in Puna, Hawaii. There can also be ground water changes and other issues when a near-surface source is tapped. Deeper w

RE: [Vo]:New drill to make geothermal easier

2009-06-16 Thread Rick Monteverde
Geothermal wells are in place today where the heat source is nearer to the surface, and have been for some time. Water goes down the pipe, picks up heat, comes up steam. Why do you think that wouldn't work? - Rick _ From: David Jonsson [mailto:davidjonssonswe...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesd

RE: [Vo]:Calcium - sodium serendipity?

2009-06-15 Thread Rick Monteverde
Horace - Free association^2 ... Some theories hold that some of the tiny calcium particles in some water supplies are formed by nanobacteria. Water with "special properties" (healing, etc.), for instance Arkansas hot springs water, have a high concentration of these organisms(?). Don't know if t

RE: [Vo]:When two wrongs make a right

2009-06-13 Thread Rick Monteverde
Dunno, I forget. I seem to remember something about burning aluminum, even. I think there's quite a few things out there that aren't practical because they take too much energy to make. That's why they haven't been explored. -Rick > -Original Message- > From: itsat...@gmail.com [mailto:

RE: [Vo]:When two wrongs make a right

2009-06-12 Thread Rick Monteverde
Couldn't a broad build-out of nuke plants make electricity cheap enough, at least in dedicated operations, to use the resulting electric power in the cost-effective manufacture of synthetic transportation fuels? At the extreme end of the scale where your source energy cost goes very low, all sorts

RE: [Vo]:politics and religion

2009-06-12 Thread Rick Monteverde
Just go to PayPal and send to Bill's email address: bi...@eskimo.com and he'll get it. - Rick > -Original Message- > From: Steven Krivit [mailto:stev...@newenergytimes.com] > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 12:41 PM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]:politics and religion > > Ta

RE: [Vo]:Brain scanning headsets!Sigh.

2009-06-08 Thread Rick Monteverde
Mashing that with Natal and an interface to X10 might be kinda fun. Leaking pen wrote: > It actually picks up brain waves, from my understanding.

RE: [Vo]:anomalous DNA changes

2009-06-05 Thread Rick Monteverde
> -Original Message- > From: leaking pen [mailto:itsat...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:33 PM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]:anomalous DNA changes > But, the sodium vapor lamp bit is still a great party trick. Can you clear a cloud cigarrett smoke in a

RE: [Vo]:Shanahan goes off the deep end! -- The psychology of bigotry

2009-06-05 Thread Rick Monteverde
I don't think Randi would be interested in a female child, so you're off the hook there.

RE: [Vo]:anomalous DNA changes

2009-06-05 Thread Rick Monteverde
Me too - any references? Wikipedia says it's all crap and there are no scientific studies showing any of this stuff is true. However, doesn't *that* sound familiar! And remember the new-age nonsense claims that red LEDs could accelerate healing? I used to get a good laugh out of that too, until i

RE: [Vo]:The Science of Greenhouse Effect...Time for some balance?

2009-06-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
The message, despite the link, was clearly ad-hominem. > -Original Message- > From: Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:sa...@pobox.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:13 AM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Science of Greenhouse Effect...Time for > some balance? > > The pa

RE: [Vo]:first day in carbon capture

2009-06-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
[Vo]:first day in carbon capture > > Rick Monteverde wrote: > > >The assertion made by > > > Fink -- that high > > > CO2 levels do not affect human respiration therefore the global > > > warming hypothesis must be wrong -- is not supported by data or &

RE: [Vo]:first day in carbon capture

2009-06-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
> -Original Message- > From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:34 AM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: RE: [Vo]:first day in carbon capture > That may be incorrect, but it is not nonsense. It is > supported by some da

RE: [Vo]:The Science of Greenhouse Effect...Time for some balance?

2009-06-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
Nice shot on the messenger, well done! (got anything on his message? ) > -Original Message- > From: Nick Palmer [mailto:ni...@wynterwood.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:43 AM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Science of Greenhouse Effect...Time for > some balanc

RE: [Vo]:first day in carbon capture

2009-06-03 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed wrote: >> If you would like to argue that salt or CO2 in the wrong places in the wrong amounts are not pollutants, let's see some reasons. Wait a minute! - Anthropogenic contributions of CO2 to the atmosphere is warming earth's climate (and we're at the "tipping point" now, etc.) If you sa

RE: Great biological mystery force Re: [Vo]:GATC and ESP

2009-06-02 Thread Rick Monteverde
A mysterious powerful long range force that only seems to show up under certain circumstances. Hmm. Paging Dr. Akimov... > -Original Message- > From: thomas malloy [mailto:temall...@usfamily.net] > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:14 PM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: Great biolog

RE: [Vo]:Compression and LENR?

2009-06-01 Thread Rick Monteverde
I love garage floor 'experiments'. The effects you describe are from recombination though, right? - Rick > -Original Message- > From: Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. [mailto:hoyt.stea...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:55 PM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: RE: [Vo]:Compression and

RE: [Vo]:Zitter and ZPE

2009-05-25 Thread Rick Monteverde
For a fresh scientific angle on the numerous inconsistencies in Darwinism: http://www.panspermia.com

RE: [Vo]:send Bill B some money for putting up with a lot

2009-05-21 Thread Rick Monteverde
ect: Re: [Vo]:send Bill B some money for putting up with a lot > > Does anyone remember the Paypal or Amazon links to donate? > > Terry > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Rick Monteverde > wrote: > > Good call, Frank. > > > > - Rick > > > &

RE: [Vo]:send Bill B some money for putting up with a lot

2009-05-21 Thread Rick Monteverde
Good call, Frank. - Rick _ From: fznidar...@aol.com [mailto:fznidar...@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 2:11 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:send Bill B some money for putting up with a lot I did. _ Huge

RE: [Vo]:China vs US -- BILL BEATY & ALL FORUM MEMBERS PLEASE READ

2009-05-20 Thread Rick Monteverde
Rhong - Thanks for posting that. I have blocked the troll directly via email filter and yet I constantly wade through the debris left behind when otherwise responsible forum members attempt to "answer" or "correct" the troll's nonsense posts. Please note that this forum is archived online, and thi

RE: [Vo]:OT: Why Ice is Slippery

2009-05-18 Thread Rick Monteverde
This is interesting, and it sounds like oriented water. The resilience may be in the vertical range, but there may be variablilty of friction in the horizontal domain, one that might be influenced with a broom (or electric charge?). > -Original Message- > From: Harry Veeder [mailto:hvee.

RE: [Vo]:Mylow motor -- the final cut

2009-05-18 Thread Rick Monteverde
Yes, unless during the process the elements in motion somehow tap an energy source. Fraudulently done with coils or a directed stream of air from stage left. More interestingly achieved with temperature differences, or other less obvious sources - variations in electric charge from the air and near

RE: [Vo]:Biberian describes explosion

2009-05-15 Thread Rick Monteverde
If CF is energy well beyond chemical, and the conclusion regarding the "two regimes" at the end of the piece is correct, then it seems possible if not likely that the means will be eventually discovered to reproduce powerful reactions at will in either regime. The implications of success in the fir

RE: [Vo]:check this out..someone is doing a lot of work collecting this info

2009-05-15 Thread Rick Monteverde
Ha ha - showing your age - still harboring notions of "privacy", I see. > -Original Message- > From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:09 AM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]:check this out..someone is doing a lot of > work collecting

RE: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread Rick Monteverde
> > plaster of paris plaster, or concrete plaster? > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Rick Monteverde > wrote: > > Fellow time traveller: > > > > Went to the hardware chain store here the other day to get > a bag of plaster. > > They didn't ha

RE: [Vo]:[OT] Cyanoacrylate activator: Where did it go?

2009-05-13 Thread Rick Monteverde
Fellow time traveller: Went to the hardware chain store here the other day to get a bag of plaster. They didn't have any, and the clerk wasn't even really sure what it was and got suspicious - asked what I wanted it for. I should have told her I was a terrorist and I was going to jump on a subway

RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Rick Monteverde
There are several videos. In one he says that people have complained that the lamp beside the disc has a coil or something in it and he picks it, turns it over, peels off the back to show inside it. The lamp has dangling glass or plastic decorative parts that swing and move easily. My impression i

RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Rick Monteverde
Horace - That's what I was thinking too, but wouldn't those dangly things on his table lamp serve to indicate air flow? They look rather heavy, but also look like they hang loose enough to indicate a fairly small breeze. R. --- > > By use of air flow directed by a large orifice

[Vo]:Do spinning cryo rings twist space?

2009-05-06 Thread Rick Monteverde
Remember the claims about sprouting plants tending to lean to center when grown above a spinning mass? If you ever suspected that spinning certain things (bismuth, brass, superconducting rings or discs, etc.) might cause some anomalous gravity-like effects, the experiment below might look pretty go

RE: [Vo]:Tribute~2-Hawking~*~Newton left hitch-hiking~;-) ConceptCraft Prospectus: Quantum-Gravionic Point-Lead Focused Hyper-GravThrust

2009-04-26 Thread Rick Monteverde
Are are you the guy who writes copy for the labels on Dr. Bronner's castille soap? - R _ From: Harbach Jak [mailto:ja.harc...@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:32 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Tribute~2-Hawking~*~Newton left hitch-hiking~;-) ConceptCraft Prospe

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Rick Monteverde
Stephen: >> <...> Rick, you're of the opinion that things have gotten hotter <...> Please insert "may" (have gotten hotter), since it seems to be a trend, although trends in complex dynamical systems are notoriously untrustworthy. Jed: The planet's weather is less complex than a bacterium?

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Rick Monteverde
Two seemingly similar but completely different situations. In LENR there is good evidence of heat and nuclear processes evolving from singular experiments where the parameters are well known and easily contained. On the other hand, there is no evidence whatsoever that humans have the ability in e

RE: [Vo]:Author believes energy breakthroughs have been suppressed

2009-03-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
n to cause turmoil. -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:25 PM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Cc: bi...@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Author believes energy breakthroughs have been suppressed Rick Monteverde wrote: >Usel

RE: [Vo]:Author believes energy breakthroughs have been suppressed

2009-03-04 Thread Rick Monteverde
Grok > killfile Useless troll, no contribution whatsoever - typical megalomaniac problems. Request removal by list owner. -Original Message- From: grok [mailto:g...@resist.ca] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:58 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Author believes energy breakt

RE: [Vo]:Replications of zero current electrolysis

2009-03-03 Thread Rick Monteverde
Thomas - >>What planet are you living on Jed? Did you hear the news? >>Pakistan (100 nukes) is being over run by Al Queda, Iran >>has enough material to build one, and they just launched a satellite. Well, at least Obama's not really a socialist, it's just opportunistic political opponents tell

RE: [Vo]:Happy Easter (island), and keep your volcanoes clean

2009-02-26 Thread Rick Monteverde
ve never been closer to TEOTWAWKI than that the Cuban crisis. This is nothing to mess around with. - Rick -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:40 PM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Happy Easter (island),

RE: [Vo]:The key to self-sufficient Energy

2009-02-26 Thread Rick Monteverde
me emphasize again that I am talking here only about volcano monitoring. Rick Monteverde and Jindal may be correct about the overall recovery plan. I have not looked at it. For all I know, it could be 90% "pork" and wasted money on unnecessary functions of government. Naturally I understa

RE: [Vo]:Chinese discussion group links to LENR-CANR.org

2009-02-26 Thread Rick Monteverde
Random thought: Americans are largely Sino phobic. Maybe that's useful: a cold fusion gap with the Chicoms. We must catch up! Not being entirely facetious here. I know "the media" dumps on LENR, but they really have ZER0 loyalty to any position they seem to be taking. It's whatever works for them a

RE: [Vo]:The key to self-sufficient Energy

2009-02-26 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed - >> <...> you are not familiar with modern volcano monitoring. Not that you would know anything about me or the ideas and interests I've discussed here all these years, but do you even consider where I live, who I have worked with here, and what I live ON? (Hint: I'll spot you a 'v', an 'o'

[Vo]:Happy Easter (island), and keep your volcanoes clean

2009-02-26 Thread Rick Monteverde
Rapa Nui, a few generations ago: "Keep carving that basalt, citizens. Your intellectually superior rulers know that the only way to get out of this crisis is to spend the last of our strength and dimensionally significant forest resources in carving out and dragging these giant Tikis to the other

RE: [Vo]:The key to self-sufficient Energy

2009-02-26 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed - >>Jindal's comments are an example of the lingering anti-technology, >>anti-science attitude of the Bush administration and the Republican >>Party. Unfortunately, there is a lot of this attitude in the rest of A demagogue takes things out of context and twists them, weaving truthful cont

[Vo]:Experimenter effects in fringe science

2009-02-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
Experiment on Beneviste claim RE altering the properties of pure water through EM excitation: http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/23 While failing to confirm any effects by "informing" water through the application of EM signals, the problem of experimenter effects did make an appearance

RE: [Vo]:Who is John Galt?

2009-02-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
This is a troll, right? Glorious examples of Socialism's successes please? Thought so. -Original Message- From: grok [mailto:g...@resist.ca] Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 6:05 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Who is John Galt? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: S

RE: [Vo]:Gasoline Tax Replacement

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed - I think we've got to have this - when it's ready for prime time. It has to be fair such as taking into account fuel efficiency as you mentioned, and also be able to maintain privacy. That last one I think is the killer for extensions of systems like this for now, but it should be surmountabl

RE: [VO]: Las Vegas water

2009-02-13 Thread Rick Monteverde
I ever tell you the one about recovering lumber from the wonderful old growth sunken logs down in an Amazon basin region flooded by a dam project lake? "South America" should have been a clue. Good thing it was only pennies. -Original Message- From: OrionWorks [mailto:svj.orionwo...@gmail.

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

2009-01-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed wrote: "I suggest that Mr. Rose and Mr. Brokaw have not done their homework." Exactly! And neither did so many of their colleagues in the "drive by media". If I added it all up, I bet I have a much bigger problem with the media than with BO. I know who Obama is. He's one of those little sho

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

2009-01-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed - "You may not agree with him, but you cannot accuse him of hiding his agenda or views." Synchronicity in action: At the very moment I read those words of yours above I was listening to the recording of Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw discussing how nobody knows where he really is philosophically

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

2009-01-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
Steven - Not so much striking out and hating is heard on that show (if any) - specific political opposition to liberalism is. But you wouldn't know that unless you listened. Far worse than completely miscasting RL's statements is your attempting to create equivalence between regular Limbaugh lis

RE: [Vo]:New Era of Openness

2009-01-22 Thread Rick Monteverde
My first thought when hearing about the "From 43 to 44" envelope he found in his desk. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:31 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:New Era of Openness "I wonder if BO will give us the

[Vo]:Getting the alignment right

2009-01-20 Thread Rick Monteverde
Have I got this right? - The 2012 alignment with the plane of the galaxy is NOT and alignment of our solar system crossing the plane as it swings above and below. That crossing happened thousands of years ago and we're now 'above' it heading further away from the plane. The alignment is actually on

RE: [Vo]:Important: NASA hacker Gary McKinnon

2009-01-19 Thread Rick Monteverde
Probably just lizzies offloading beer and barbeque sauce for the big Equinox party in 2012. Hope we're not on the menu! >>Specifically, documents revealing a list of "Non-terrestrial officers" >>and off-world cargo operations somewhere out in space, hinting at the >>real possibility of military

RE: [Vo]:OT: Camelot revisited

2008-11-24 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jones - It appears from your message that you are saying that you think Cheney might want to attempt to do harm to our new president through contacts in the Secret Service. Ok, I guess *anything* is technically possible. Actually I think I saw the essential parts of that plot on a really bad movi

RE: [Vo]:Conscious and self-aware animals

2008-11-20 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed - So the books are over your head, huh? I'm still just trying to catch up with the concept of chimps wanting to critique their own digital images. Perhaps they'd like to edit them too? Might be interesting to see which monkey-parts they would decide to enhance. - Rick -Original Message

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC News of the bailout

2008-09-30 Thread Rick Monteverde
_ From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC News of the bailout Jed - >> They should magically impose their will on the party if they honestly believe it is "good

RE: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC News of the bailout

2008-09-29 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed wrote >> Republicans thought it stank. The vote was: >> Democrats 140 Yea, 95 Nay >> Republicans 65 Yea, 133 Nay >> More to the point Even more to the point, voters are liking it about 10:1 against. So who's doing the representin' here? And Jeff is right, twice. Dems have the majority, n

RE: [Vo]:GM Chevy Volt at CalCars

2008-09-19 Thread Rick Monteverde
Even Nick Palmer wrote: >>.. Actually it was environmentalists Thanks, that was my point. Why they do it is another subject. - Rick

RE: [Vo]:GM Chevy Volt at CalCars

2008-09-19 Thread Rick Monteverde
Jed - >> You seem to believe some widespread propaganda regarding oil and energy. >> I suggest you read some books about the subject written by experts who >> have no political agenda, such as Deffeyes. Also, I suggest you spend some >> time reviewing the data at the Energy Information Adminis

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