On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Mary Yugo's message of Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:59 -0800: > Hi, > [snip] > >On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> In reply to Mary Yugo's message of Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:11:08 -0800: > >> Hi, > >> [snip] > >> >If NASA's theory is wrong, how are they any form of competition? This > >> >"doesn't compute". > >> > >> It does if they use the same method and get similar results, even with > the > >> wrong > >> theory. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Robin van Spaandonk > >> > > > > > >I suppose so but how would they get to the right method with the wrong > >theory? They have no way to know what Rossi's supposed secret sauce is, > do > >they? > > Strictly speaking no, but Rossi has given away a few clues and there are a > number of published papers (Piantelli etc.) that are close, so NASA may > have to > redo some of the experimental work that Rossi has done in order to get > similar > results. Of course if they succeed they will claim that the theory is > correct. > > OTOH they may tailor the method to suit the theory, and never get > anywhere, or > I could be wrong, and they will succeed brilliantly based upon the theory > they > are using. :) > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >
What Rossi says is an good example for the definition from http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-seed.html The idea to KILL the competition is an even better one. Compettion is necessary, reveals and generates the best in products and the worst in people. Bing is the most valuable coopetitor of Google Search, one example of hundreds. Peter Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
