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As the smoke cleared, Kyle Mcallister <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > Same with volcanoes as it is with asteroids: we can > save lives if we know ahead of time. If the thing > blows (or enters atmosphere) without warning, people > die. Only difference is, with our technological level, > we CAN stop asteroids. Unless something happens a la > Jack McDevitt's Moonfall. While no one can (yet) stop a pyroclastic flow-in-progress, there _is_ new tek out there to stop lava dead in its trax, apparently. And I would assume that the intelligent placement and detonation of hi-explosives could likely do much to redirect the forces which are about to explode onto whatever communities lie at the base of a volcano. Of course, the real problem is why people are forced to live so close to volcanos. You can always do agriculture on the slopes -- but live quite comfortably far away, for instance. > Assuming cold fusion ever amounts to anything. Look > guys, it is time we stopped messing with making the > most sensitive calorimeter in the world, and try to > make the stuff simply work. Make a coffee pot with the > thing, using whatever materials work, and brew up some > Maxwell House. Then Park et al can choke on their > java. > > This applies to all claims of overunity (whatever it > is), antigravity (whatever it is), and so on. Doing la > de da de da is for later. Just make a coffee maker > with the thing, using raw heat, and that'll get people > interested. Why can't we do this? If it is so well > proven, as you assert, why can't anyone seem to > reproduce it? Why are we doing experiment after > experiment, changing things? Find one that works, > stick with it, and heat some water. How come no one ever answers this oft-made reasonable request with a working device..? The lack of any known response is what is giving all the skeptix a field-day. - -- grok. - -- *** FULL-SPECTRUM DOMINANCE! *************************************** * Boycott the Bourgeois Economy: BUY PROGRESSIVE * ****** Critical endorsement only ***** Gift-giving Year-round ****** * http://www.counterpunch.org/books.html CounterPunch Books * * Consumer-Powered Conservation Products: * * http://www.wildlifeworks.com Wildlife Works * * http://www.palestineonlinestore.com Palestine Online Store * * http://www.greenpeace.ca/tissue Greenpeace Shopper's Guide * * http://www.leftbooks.com leftbooks.com * * http://www.mehring.com Mehring Books * * http://www.ufwstore.com United Farm Workers Store * ****** Where the barricades end -- real democracy begins ********* GPG fingerprint = 2E7F 2D69 4B0B C8D5 07E3 09C3 5E8D C4B4 461B B771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm1ojgACgkQXo3EtEYbt3G0KwCdETbCtvixHN2U2TBpfw4sUZst H9sAn2pYNazs/NMpNymuS2PLADgIeZkG =ynPz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
