Some comfort for those who support Obama: Intrade.com has his odds of reelection increasing as the night progresses. He now stands at 70% odds.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > I've decided to vote for Mitt Romney and enthusiastically recommend that > others, including die-hard Obama and Ron Paul supporters, vote for him. I > do with with a vague feeling of nausea because I know I'll be > misunderstood. Please let me explain. I'm not kidding. I'm serious as a > heart attack about this endorsement: The government's scientific > establishment has been suppressing a technology that would disintermediate > virtually all centralized structures of civilization: cold fusion. The > general elite attitude has been that something that can save the world dare > not come out of a podunk university -- let alone one in Utah. There's also > the vague unconscious sense that disintermediation on that scale would > upset just about every establishment apple-cart, but that's not the > proximate reason for the suppression. It's really just religious piety > showing obescience to the Ivy League that's the bottom line on why we > don't, today, have a completely clean, decentralized and virtually > limitless energy source you can by at Home Depot for a few hundred dollars. > This is so entrenched in the scientific establishment -- so much of the > "church of physics" claim to piety depends on maintaining this falsehood > that it really would take Presidential attention to counteract it enough > that just private capital, let alone public funding, would be allocated > appropriate to the potential. > > So what has this to do with Mitt Romney? > > Mitt Romney has made a comment, about as ignorant is you can get, about > cold fusion that is, despite its ignorance, a positive comment. Understand > that to the government's physics establishment this is tantamount to a > candidate for Pope proclaiming Beelzebub a candidate for Sainthood. > Moreover, being a Mormon, he is far from biased against a major discovery > coming out of Utah. Although in this particular case the Mormon university, > BYU's scientist, Steven Jones, played a significant role in helping the > scientific establishment suppress cold fusion, that bit of history is > obscure enough that it falls well beyond the abject level of knowledge that > Mitt Romney has displayed about cold fusion.
