This morning, I ran across a truly classy cold fusion joke appearing in Charles Beaudette's book "Excess Heat" in that book's appendix: "The Internet Noise Level" written as a letter to "Dr. I. M. Noteworthy". I was delighted to see Beaudette's association of the word "noise" with "internet" regarding cold fusion, as I had just recently been able to silence a particular "noise box" here to achieve a remarkable rise in the S/N ratio.
Its too bad there aren't more "I refuse to look through your telescope, Mr. Galileo" jokes. It does not bode well for the future of classy jokes such as Beaudette's. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Andrea Selva <[email protected] > wrote: > Sorry Jed. I apologize for the quite rude joke. Couldn't resist. > By the way I missed this McKubre test in US. Can you tell me more and > provide some pointers ? > Thanks > Andrea > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > Date: 2011/12/5 > Subject: Re: [Vo]: ECAT Triggered by Cosmic Rays? > To: [email protected] > > > Andrea Selva <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could this theory explain why e-cat works only at exactly 44.50N, 11.40E ( >> Via dell'Elettricista, >> 6<http://maps.google.it/maps/place?ftid=0x477e2c9d8f052653:0xbb01c2caaede9d3b&q=44.503798,11.402594&ved=0CA4Q-gswAA&sa=X&ei=XyHdTs3zLubRmAWdv_DoBw&sig2=MSCvhxqFZtuv5lrCZrt8zw>40138 >> Bologna Italy) and A.R. refuses to run tests in different location ? >> > > I realize this is a joke, but to give a serious answer, the Ampenergo test > shown by McKubre was in the U.S., and there have been > various successful tests elsewhere, as well as failed tests in Bologna, > such as the NASA one. > > Jokes like this are a little tiresome. > > Several people have looked for co-incidence between cosmic rays and cold > fusion cell performance. Dave Nagel gave a paper about that, using data > from Mizuno and others. There does seem to be some slight correlation. > > - Jed > > >
