[Vo]:OT:Meteorite Fragments Are Said to Rain Down on Siberia; 400 Injuries Reported

2013-02-15 Thread Harry Veeder
Meteorite Fragments Are Said to Rain Down on Siberia; 400 Injuries Reported http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/meteorite-fragments-are-said-to-rain-down-on-siberia.html Harry

Re: [Vo]:OT:Meteorite Fragments Are Said to Rain Down on Siberia; 400 Injuries Reported

2013-02-15 Thread Harry Veeder
some video http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/video-captures-flaming-object-believed-to-be-meteorite/ Harry On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Meteorite Fragments Are Said to Rain Down on Siberia; 400 Injuries Reported

[Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.html Reads like science fiction. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
This video captures the sound of the explosion and breaking glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dA2A_df0w This may wake people up and make them realize the need for Spaceguard. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Vorl Bek
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:23:22 -0500 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: This video captures the sound of the explosion and breaking glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dA2A_df0w This may wake people up and make them realize the need for Spaceguard. Why? The last time a big rock

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread ChemE Stewart
Almost certainly will never happen??? That's the same attitude the dinosaurs had. Stewart Darkmattersalot.com On Friday, February 15, 2013, Vorl Bek wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:23:22 -0500 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: This video captures the sound of the

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Jones Beene
Giovanni may be close to correct in his criticism with Dawkins than Sheldrake. With Sheldrake - it is more of a case of being on the cutting edge, and being read out of context. The bleeding edge, as the Brit's like to call it - is a place where many claims are by nature hard to substantiate

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: And when was the one before that? No one knows when the last one was. It might have hit the Pacific. The population was lower. But you are missing the point. Celestial mechanics are highly predictable. The first thing to determine is how many there are and

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Vorl Bek
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:04:27 -0500 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: And when was the one before that? No one knows when the last one was. It might have hit the Pacific. The population was lower. But you are missing the point. Celestial

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread ChemE Stewart
Comets are notoriously unpredictable and unstable so I disagree with your celestial mechanics On Friday, February 15, 2013, Vorl Bek wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:04:27 -0500 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com javascript:; wrote: And

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Bose Einstein Condensate formed at Room Temperature

2013-02-15 Thread Kevin O'Malley
The hydrogen (H) is packed to form a hydride before the heat is applied and it will penetrant only a short way into the bulk of the micro-particle. ***Then how do they achieve a high D/Pd ratio? How many Hydrogen atoms can fit into a Pd box? On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Axil Axil

[Vo]:Re: CMNS: explaining CF

2013-02-15 Thread Edmund Storms
A major issue keeps being ignored. The effect CAN NOT occur unless a basic change is made in the a material. You can apply all the laser energy or RF frequency you want, but nothing will happen until a critical change occurs, which I call the NAE. Ordinary materials are not active without

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Zell
Dawkins is an example of 'atheist theology' (oxymoron). He seems to desire a neat, ordered, understandable world without any Creator behind it. He extends traditional moral concerns to general society, as if they still had a Divine authority behind them. Why is objective truth important?

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Edmund Storms
I have always been interested in how people describe a Creator. Are you claiming that the universe resulted from some super intelligent life-form getting the idea that a new universe would be an interesting project and then set about creating it? Or is the idea of a creator an abstract

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
I will reply later in more details, but besides a lot of unfalsifiable claims Sheldrake says a lot of false stuff, like most of what he said about memory and the brain function. There is ton and ton of evidence to show that indeed mind is in the brain and nowhere else. Giovanni On Fri, Feb 15,

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
The laws of physics derive from a slight alteration of the perfect symmetry of nothing. Symmetry is the most fundamental principle of natural law. No much space for patchwork universe there. Giovanni On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: I have always been

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Edmund Storms
I agree, but as has been noted many times before, Nature always tests all possibilities until the one that works is found. Presumably, our universe is here because it worked. We humans are here because we survived the tests used by Nature to determine what works. Presumably, many

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Harry Veeder
In other words your God is an experimentalist., or what you call Nature. Harry On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I agree, but as has been noted many times before, Nature always tests all possibilities until the one that works is found. Presumably,

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Jones Beene
A middle ground - based on expanding Sheldrake's thinking is that group mind (collective consciousness, or even a collective intelligence combined with a directed unconsciousness evolved from morphic fields) fits the definition of divinity in a defensible, scientific way. Of course, this kind of

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Edmund Storms
Yes, but more exactly a trial-and-errorist. On Feb 15, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: In other words your God is an experimentalist., or what you call Nature. Harry On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I agree, but as has been noted many

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Edmund Storms
But whose mind? Which group? I believe minds do communicate in unconventional ways, but this is a natural aspect of how nature works. Minds of birds and fish clearly communicate directly. This behavior can be seen in other animals as well. Even certain humans have this ability to a

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: explaining CF

2013-02-15 Thread Axil Axil
A major issue keeps being ignored. The effect CAN NOT occur unless a basic change is made in the material. You can apply all the laser energy or RF frequency you want, but nothing will happen until a critical change occurs, which I call the NAE. It all depends on how you consider the material.

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Yes, but more exactly a trial-and-errorist. Which is hardly god-like ... it seems to me that the Catholic god (omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent) is what a true god should be ... the alpha and omega ... all other

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Jones Beene
That's the point. To make the concept of Divinity acceptable to science, it must have the aspect of appearing as nothing special in the sense that it is natural, evolved, cumulative, all-encompassing, voluntary and timeless. That does not mean that to any one individual, the concept cannot be

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Comets are notoriously unpredictable and unstable so I disagree with your celestial mechanics I was kidding partly. However, comets change more than meteors because they vent gas. They are active. If things were so predictable we could just measure

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Zell
First, I used to be an ardent Creationist but realized that nature does not allow for such a notion. There's far too much that exists that's just horrible - and ( seemingly) Really Well Designed - such as Guinea worms, Crocodiles, Tyrannosaurus Rex and more. A personal Creator would have to be

[Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread pagnucco
Friday Nuclear Matinee: Low Energy Nuclear Reactions The ANS Nuclear Cafe today brings faithful viewers a short interview with Dr. Joseph M. Zawodny, senior research scientist at NASA Langley Research Center. Zawodny discusses research on “Low Energy Nuclear Reactions” at NASA Langley, and the

[Vo]:Tesla adds new meaning to Supercharging

2013-02-15 Thread Jones Beene
http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/15/autos/tesla-model-s/ There are only a half-dozen of these charging stations in the country, and the closest one for me is almost two hours away... but damn ... these vehicles are lust-worthy. Even if LENR becomes commercial, or should I say By the time LENR

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: However, that still allows for a transcendent impersonal God who operates as a system - and might even answer prayers. A true god would not answer prayers as he would have created the conditions that required your

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread James Bowery
Obvious question: Was the vector correlated with that of the earth approaching asteroid? On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: See: http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.html Reads like science fiction. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Edmund Storms
Here you and I agree. I just is!! But what is it? The universe is not designed for us. We are temporary inhabants just like the dinosaurs and millions of other life-forms. What is the universe designed to do? I believe it is designed to acquire awareness. The awareness starts in the

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Zell
Ah, see just is in previous section. Einstein was obsessed with determinism. Didn't like that Heisenberg Principle. I used to feel the same way but realized that you just run out of causes for stuff. Things become emergent in our macro world because it's difficult to neatly explain all the

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is the latest. Apparently, a chunk of the meteor fell into a lake. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/russian_meteorite_fragment_may_have_fallen_in_frozen_lake.html - Jed

Re: [Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread Axil Axil
If you look at that chip that Zawodny held up for our examination, you will see 48 different nano-photonic configurations of the test material, probably carbon nanotubes. Nasa is on the right track. They need to switch the nanotubes to nickel nanowire completely covering uniform micro-particles.

RE: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Zell
Yes ! I'm also tempted by the thought in The Physics of Immortality in which God appears in the future and works backward thru time to fix things. This would make a person an atheist ( but only for now) until universal awareness (God) emerges. He quoted the revelation to Moses as ( ehyeh

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: There is ton and ton of evidence to show that indeed mind is in the brain and nowhere else. How does the fully partitioned mind collapse the wave function outside?

Re: [Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread Edmund Storms
I added the following comment: The experimental approach and the intention for applying LENR in space should be be admired. The problem is with the theory being explored. This theory is flawed in so many ways, all of which have been well explained in published papers, that I’m amazed that

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a video showing the explosion, windows breaking and the broken windows later on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6uOzFo2MQg The effect of the explosion in an office (no sound): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6uOzFo2MQg MAJOR damage to a building shown in photos on this page:

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:22 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Obvious question: Was the vector correlated with that of the earth approaching asteroid? No, they were almost perpendicular. Pure and delightful coincidence.

Re: [Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread David Roberson
I consider it wonderful that these guys are doing this research. How are they able to be so public and out of reach of the major detractors? Can we expect the repercussions to come up soon? Dave -Original Message- From: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com

Re: [Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread David Roberson
I am not sure anyone has a good answer to your question Ed. I do not care what theory they are operating upon at the moment as long as they keep plugging away. One day we might be able to set them straight, but that will not happen if they give up too soon. Encourage them in any way that you

Re: [Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread Edmund Storms
The problem Dave is that the theory determines the results. The design of the apparatus and the expected behavior are all determined by the theory. If NASA fails, this will be a black mark. Failure is not treated the same way in LENR as it is in normal science. Beside, anyone who has

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Alan Fletcher
At 12:14 PM 2/15/2013, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:22 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Obvious question: Was the vector correlated with that of the earth approaching asteroid? No, they were almost perpendicular. Pure and delightful coincidence. That was my first thought.

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: It looks to me like the chance of earth being hit by a rock that does real damage is minuscule. As I mentioned, that idea has been brought into question because the number of serious asteroid strikes on earth is now thought to be much higher than people

Re: [Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread Axil Axil
Nasa like so many others suffers from theory fixation. They fail to look at other systems for behavior that closely resembles what happens in LENR to gain insight into the physical mechanisms that underpin both systems. It is actually these universal mechanisms that are important and not the

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Consider a small object (in this case the meteor) orbiting a large object (asteroid), as seen from above the orbit. NASA is now saying that their trajectories were closer to 180 degrees apart. But, we could calculate the

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 12:14 PM 2/15/2013, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:22 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Obvious question: Was the vector correlated with that of the earth approaching asteroid? No, they were almost

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Alexander Hollins
The Moon makes about 13 revolutions in the course of a year. revolutions around what? On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 12:14 PM 2/15/2013, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Alexander Hollins
ignore me, i just realized the error in my mental model. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com wrote: The Moon makes about 13 revolutions in the course of a year. revolutions around what? On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Harry Veeder

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Vorl Bek
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:52:41 -0500 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: They determined that the most recent catastrophic strike was in the year 536 AD, in the ocean north of Australia. This caused global-wide disruption. See this 2008 article:

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Harry Veeder
also it was 28 years ago. Harry On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com wrote: ignore me, i just realized the error in my mental model. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com wrote: The Moon makes about 13

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: So 1500 years ago a rock falling into the ocean caused a couple of cold years, about the equivalent of the Tambora explosion of 1815. European civilization survived that with nary a hiccup. If it had hit land (30 percent chance) it would have caused

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Alan Fletcher
At 03:06 PM 2/15/2013, Jed Rothwell wrote: If the 1908 Tunguska meteor had struck a city, it would have completely destroyed it. Even the largest city such as London, Paris or New York would have been completely leveled. Nature comment (we know they're an unbiased source!)

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Nature comment (we know they're an unbiased source!) On a subject like this I consider them unbiased. They are only biased against a limited number of things such as cold fusion. A person's bias or prejudice is often highly selective to one subject area, and

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Daniel Rocha
As spherical object with that size and made of water would weight ~1800 tons. If that's an iron asteroid, that would give over 10 thousand tons. In terms of explosive power, it should be equivalent between 0.2 and 1 Megaton 2013/2/15 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com They say the object

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Vorl Bek
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:06:15 -0500 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: So 1500 years ago a rock falling into the ocean caused a couple of cold years, about the equivalent of the Tambora explosion of 1815. European civilization survived that

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Alan Fletcher
A comment in line with my sine vs cycloid thinking : http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/02/15/1747226/asteroid-2012-da14-approaches?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanonutm_medium=feed Re:are we sure it has nothing to do with DA14? (Score:4, Informative) by Clueless Moron (548336) on Friday February

Re: [Vo]:Tesla adds new meaning to Supercharging

2013-02-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
It is good to remember that when electric vehicles goes into mainstream — around early 2020's, there will be (wireless) solar/wind charging option in every parking lot. Charging option will be free only when there is oversupply of solar and wind power. —Jouni On 15 February 2013 21:13, Jones

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Alan Fletcher
A comment in line with my sine vs cycloid thinking : Indeed, it gives an orbital period of 153 millenia -- so they're pretty much travelling in the same direction. No cycloid motion. 153372146.1years Oops : not 153 MILLennia .. but 153 MEGennia

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread David Roberson
I would like to see a plot of the orbit of the rock that hit Russia. It may be possible that it was associated with the asteroid a very long time ago and became deflected on a fly by that happened when no one was looking. I suspect that the time frame for near misses of the pair would vary,

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: ** However, that still allows for a transcendent impersonal God who operates as a system - and might even answer prayers. This sounds a lot like deism. Many of the philosophers, scientists and public intellectuals of

Re: [Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:21 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I am not sure anyone has a good answer to your question Ed. I do not care what theory they are operating upon at the moment as long as they keep plugging away. That's right -- it should be like Newton's method for

Re: [Vo]:ANS Nuclear Cafe: Short interview with Zawodny

2013-02-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: If NASA fails, this will be a black mark. Failure is not treated the same way in LENR as it is in normal science. Beside, anyone who has studied the theory must wonder about the competence at NASA. Honestly, if LENR

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

2013-02-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:08 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The fact that both of these events happened so close together just does not seem likely since both are infrequent. Talk of a miracle in cold fusion; this seems like one in astronomy. I suspect these events only seem