At 04:27 PM 7/9/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
A dangerous game, even if he has a solid device, reliable, working
safely. Stuff happens. Doubly dangerous if he "still has a few
details to work out."
I do not see anything dangerous about it. It is just a business
strategy. Not particularly original or well-thought-out. I think he
is overdoing it, to the point where it hurts his interests. In
particular I think he was a fool for chasing away the NASA people.
- Jed
If you don't see anything dangerous about it, you are assuming an
environment where the most benign "danger" is silly skepticism, or
ordinary business failure.
I wish. I hope.
People who set out to transform society often end up dead. The best
of them. In the work I'm doing, it is suggested that we notice that
most of us are not doing anything that would make us worthy of being
shot. And that is so.
But someone doing something like what Rossi is claiming to do?
If the people who would do or order the shooting believe he's a total
con, they may not bother. But I'd also expect them, such of them that
exist, and I don't know the extent of it, to not just fall for an
act. If his reactor actually threatens their interests, they would
want to know, and they would have, I presume, the resources to find out.
They would probably not actually shoot him. I'd think an accident
would be safer for them. Or they would want to make it look like suicide.
I'd assume that Rossi would have taken precautions, so that his
secrets would not be lost. If the theory that he has powerful enemies
is true, though, his precautions might be inadequate.
If he's a con artist, they have no motive to harm him. It would be stupid.
My point is that secrecy could be dangerous to him. If he'd been
open, little would be gained by harming him.
