I like your humor Eric. Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 9:44 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Hot fusion OU milestone reported On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:52 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: As a skeptic I demand that another independent group of scientists replicate the results. How do we know that the input power required to run the lasers is accurately measured? The list of possible errors is a mile long for an experiment this complicated. The important point that I think we've missed is that the scientists carrying out this research are *qualified* scientists. For this kind of scientist, independent replication is not necessary, because they have sufficient skill to carry out an experiment whose results one can trust. About the recent milestone, if I may be allowed to move the goalposts a little: now the challenge is to get continuous OU operation, producing enough energy to recuperate the investment in hardware and people operating the system. Eric
