Jed: You might want to let Ed know that he could have easily slam-dunked Pooley by simply bringing up the case of superconductors where the experimental side pre-dated the theoretical. It took decades and a lot of funding after the effect was shown to be repeatable, to develop a number of reasonable hypotheses.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint [mailto:zeropo...@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:55 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Storms on the "Space Show" I would concur with Steven on the show, especially his description of the segment with Pooley as the most 'entertaining'... I would call it comical. Pooley kept on saying, "If you can't explain it, it isn't fusion." Meaning, if you can't explain it according to known theory, then it doesn't exist... perfect example of how the human mind has substituted theory for religious belief, and any experimental evidence to the contrary is dismissed based on conflicting with that theory. Pooley has the scientific process backwards... I also agree with SVJ that Pooley might do a cursory look-see at lenr.org, but won't learn a single thing. Not much new really, so anyone looking for new details will be disappointed. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson [mailto:svj.orionwo...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:18 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Storms on the "Space Show" > See: > > http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=1685 Thank Jed, Just finished listening to "The Space Show" an interview with Dr. Storms. The segment with skeptic Charles Pooley was perhaps the most entertaining part of the show for me. The ensuing interaction between the host (Dr. David Livingston), Storms, and Pooley really drove home to me how fundamentally oriented a professed scientific-based belief can unfortunately become at times. I think Pooley would need the services of a professional deprogrammer to help get him get to that uncomfortable place in his psyche where he might be willing to consider thinking outside of the box. Storms did the best he could by urging Pooley to review the information at Lenr.org. (Lenr-canr.org). Based on what I heard being expressed our of Pooley mouth, a mouth which by the way was constantly interrupting Dr. Storms to the point that the host had to several times tell him to shut up and just listen to what Storms had to say, I suspect there will be nothing... nada... zilch... that could possible result in even the slightest dent in this skeptic's heavily fortified belief structure. On other matters, I'm curious what Jed might have to say about Storms assessment of how CF technology would likely be implemented within the United States. It is Dr. Storms' assessment that energy costs, at least for the common man, might actually go up, temporarily, as we make what might be a costly transition from traditional energy sources over to CF. According to Storms, he envisions the likelihood of a lengthy "transition" phase, a phase that traditional energy provides will do their best to stretch out for as long as possible before CF eventually overwhelms the industry. Part of the stretching out phase would deliberately be allowed by the government in order to give traditional energy providers enough time to make the transition. I gather Storms was assuming many of these industrial would attempt to adapt or retool in some viable manner. However, according to what I believe Jed has had to say on the subject, I gather Jed remains highly skeptical that most traditional energy providers would be capable of making the transition. Or am I wrong on that? Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
