Re: [scifinoir2] Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
I like that they don't use fancy computerization to change or enhance the sound, just basic acoustics and recording devices. John Mellencamp's new album was recorded the same way. He recorded in different locations while on tour, including an old black church in Savannah, GA. The raw and real acoustics of such sessions is infinitely more appealing to me than the edit-heavy stuff we often get nowadays. Another reason I've been jonesing for old school music is that it features more instruments. I'm really sad at how so few black artists play instruments nowadays. We're the people who created the ancestor of the banjo, the ones who made the guitar so special with blues, RB, and rock-and-roll. Our tearing up the keys and horns in ragtime and jazz set the standards for American music. Nowadays it's rare as heck to hear a black singer who plays guitar, who also gets radio airplay. Tracy Chapman is a goddess of the guitar and good song writing, but when's the last time you heard her on the radio? When's the last time you really heard a true band with guitars and pianos instead of drum machines and computerized music? When's the last time you heard a real orchestra a la Earth Wind and Fire get wide play on urban radio? You get a few here and there like Alicia Keyes (who I'm liking less and less as the years go by), but not as many as in the old days. Few of our most popular artists play instruments, and even when they though, I'm stunned at how out of favor the guitar seems to be in RB and hip hop nowadays. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 6:19:51 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings There's an article in EQ magazine on how they recorded the album a few months back. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I'm always searching for real music that's outside of the standard hip-hip/finger poppin'/dance heavy stuff played on commercial radio (how many times in one day can one stomach Beyonce Knowles, Lady Gaga, or Bieber???) A while back I heard an interview on Fresh Air with a group called Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. This group is amazing, with a sound that hails back to the days of good old soul and funk. Jones has that rich, raspy voice that lends itself to heartfelt, even painful renditions, and her band sounds like something straight out of Stax records. They use old-fashioned methods to record: real tapes, hand editing, actual acoustics caused by the recording room instead of computer manipulations. Very, very good stuff. Albums are on iTunes: I bought two straightaway after listening to the NPR interview. Go to their web site to be treated to a listen to some of their latest songs, which start playing automatically. The first song up is I Learned the Hard Way, which has a real old feel to it. Other recent songs you have to seek out are Humble Me and the awesome 100 Days, 100 Nights, which sounds as if it came straight off an actual record from the 60s. Two links below. The first is to their website, where you can hear some of their songs. The second is to a great NPR SXSW showcase in Austin where Jones' group was the headliner. There you can hear the entire gig they performed, which is close to an a hour long. Highly recommended!! http://www.sharonjonesandthedapkings.com/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124091931
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
So the dank whiskey drowned nightclub is a *good* thing, right? - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2010 1:26:40 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Amy Winehouse sounds like she came out of some dank whiskey drowned nightclub from the 50s. Unfortunately, she isn't consistent and has a major drug problem. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I've never listened to Amy Winehouse. What's so good about her? Another good singer who has an old school sound is Leela James - Original Message - From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 3:23:49 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings I like them in small doses but Sharon does the damn thing and their live shows are epic. I liked at first Amy Winehouse but that crap of crowning her the new face of soul music really galled me. She was just trend jumping like a lot of other singers do and she blew up. Good recommendations from your e-mail. I'd add Soulive, Jamie Lidell, Joss Stone(especially her work with Raphael Saadiq) and Cee-lo Green as folks you might want to seek out. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Enjoy! I got the following from a lady in response to the e-mail: FYI they have been around for quite a while...The Dap Kings moonlight as the band for Amy Winehouse as well. If you like them and that retro soul feel, also check out Raphael Saadiq, Rahsaan Patterson, and this young funky white kid Mayer Hawthorne... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 2:20:02 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Thanks, Keith! I'll have a look/listen as soon as I clear my table here and pay some bills. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: I'm always searching for real music that's outside of the standard hip-hip/finger poppin'/dance heavy stuff played on commercial radio (how many times in one day can one stomach Beyonce Knowles, Lady Gaga, or Bieber???) A while back I heard an interview on Fresh Air with a group called Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. This group is amazing, with a sound that hails back to the days of good old soul and funk. Jones has that rich, raspy voice that lends itself to heartfelt, even painful renditions, and her band sounds like something straight out of Stax records. They use old-fashioned methods to record: real tapes, hand editing, actual acoustics caused by the recording room instead of computer manipulations. Very, very good stuff. Albums are on iTunes: I bought two straightaway after listening to the NPR interview. Go to their web site to be treated to a listen to some of their latest songs, which start playing automatically. The first song up is I Learned the Hard Way, which has a real old feel to it. Other recent songs you have to seek out are Humble Me and the awesome 100 Days, 100 Nights, which sounds as if it came straight off an actual record from the 60s. Two links below. The first is to their website, where you can hear some of their songs. The second is to a great NPR SXSW showcase in Austin where Jones' group was the headliner. There you can hear the entire gig they performed, which is close to an a hour long. Highly recommended!! http://www.sharonjonesandthedapkings.com/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124091931 -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Nanocrystal conductors could lead to massive, robust 3-D storage and extend Moore's Law
damn that is *huge*!! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 4:49:33 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Nanocrystal conductors could lead to massive, robust 3-D storage and extend Moore's Law RESEARCH WATCH Nanocrystal conductors could lead to massive, robust 3-D storage and extend Moore's Law By Darren Quick 19:42 August 31, 2010 San Francisco Coupons - www.Groupon.com/San-Francisco 1 ridiculously huge coupon a day. It's like doing The Bay at 90% off! Silica Alumina - www.MPbio.com Quality Products for HPLC, TLC Column Chromatography and more. Exclusive SF Deals - www.FreshGuide.com Get Deals On Things To Do, See, Eat Buy In SF. Sign Up Online! BAE Systems Rad Hard ICs - www.baesystems.com/rad750 Learn more about the leading provider of Rad Hard Electronics Ads by Google Last year we reported on a breakthrough by researchers at Rice University that brought graphite’s potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could bring about a revolution in integrated circuit design and extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore’s Law. The researchers showed how electrical current could repeatedly break and reconnect 10-nanometer strips of graphite to create a robust reliable memory “bit”. At the time, they didn’t fully understand why it worked so well. Well, a year is a long time in science and now they do. By creating the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, one of the most common substances on the planet, a new collaboration by the Rice labs professors James Tour, Douglas Natelson and Lin Zhong proved the circuit doesn't need the carbon at all. Jun Yao, a graduate student in Tour's lab confirmed his breakthrough idea when he sandwiched a layer of silicon oxide, an insulator, between semiconducting sheets of polycrystalline silicon that served as the top and bottom electrodes. Applying a charge to the electrodes created a conductive pathway by stripping oxygen atoms from the silicon oxide and forming a chain of nano-sized silicon crystals. Once formed, the chain can be repeatedly broken and reconnected by applying a pulse of varying voltage. The nanocrystal wires are as small as 5 nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide, far smaller than circuitry in even the most advanced computers and electronic devices. The beauty of it is its simplicity, said Tour. That will be key to the technology's scalability, he said. Silicon oxide switches or memory locations require only two terminals, not three (as in flash memory), because the physical process doesn't require the device to hold a charge. It also means layers of silicon-oxide memory can be stacked in tiny but capacious three-dimensional arrays. I've been told by industry that if you're not in the 3-D memory business in four years, you're not going to be in the memory business. This is perfectly suited for that, Tour said. Silicon-oxide memories are compatible with conventional transistor manufacturing technology, said Tour, who recently attended a workshop by the National Science Foundation and IBM on breaking the barriers to Moore's Law, which states the number of devices on a circuit doubles every 18 to 24 months. Manufacturers feel they can get pathways down to 10 nanometers. Flash memory is going to hit a brick wall at about 20 nanometers. But how do we get beyond that? Well, our technique is perfectly suited for sub-10-nanometer circuits, he said. Austin tech design company PrivaTran is already bench testing a silicon-oxide chip with 1,000 memory elements built in collaboration with the Tour lab. Yao had a hard time convincing his colleagues that silicon oxide alone could make a circuit. Other group members didn't believe him, said Tour, who added that nobody recognized silicon oxide's potential, even though it's the most-studied material in human history. Most people, when they saw this effect, would say, 'Oh, we had silicon-oxide breakdown,' and they throw it out, he said. It was just sitting there waiting to be exploited. In other words, what used to be a bug turned out to be a feature. Yao persisted with his idea. He first substituted a variety of materials for graphite and found none of them changed the circuit's performance. Then he dropped the carbon and metal entirely and sandwiched silicon oxide between silicon terminals. It worked. It was a really difficult time for me, because people didn't believe it, Yao said. Finally, as a proof of concept, he cut a carbon nanotube to localize the switching site, sliced out a very thin piece of silicon oxide by focused ion beam and identified a nanoscale silicon pathway under a transmission electron microscope. This is research, Yao said. If you do something and everyone nods their heads, then it’s
Re: [scifinoir2] Four Frightening (and Real) Robots
Or they mass-produce themselves. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I won't get worried until they start mass producing him. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Folks, post that pic of Topio as wallpaper. It's good to know the face of your executioner, that you might have a headstart... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Four Frightening (and Real) Robotshttp://www.weirdworm.com/four-frightening-and-real-robots/ Editor: rale http://www.weirdworm.com/author/rale/ / April 15, 2010 / Category : Misc http://www.weirdworm.com/category/misc/Sciencehttp://www.weirdworm.com/category/science/ 78Sharehttp://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weirdworm.com%2Ffour-frightening-and-real-robots%2Ft=Four%20Frightening%20%28and%20Real%29%20Robots%20-%20Weird%20Wormsrc=sp Back in the olden days, peoplehttp://www.weirdworm.com/10-weird-things-that-people-find-attractive/ would sit around their living rooms, light up fancy cigars and talk about the future http://www.weirdworm.com/10-bizarre-animal-mating-rituals/. They’d also try to guess what color looked like, given that everything was black and white, but I’m getting sidetracked now. Back to the future, people.If you were to somehow travel back in time to tell these olde-timeys that the future would forgo flying cars in favor of men made of metalhttp://www.weirdworm.com/5-weird-video-games/, they would probably guffaw, call you a chowder head and adjust their suspenders before heading out to the talking picture show with their best dame Beatrice. But the future is now, and now is robots. Most of the robots we build serve an explicit purpose, like building cars and reemploying the people who used to build cars http://www.weirdworm.com/10-crappy-cars/. Others, however, manage to operate on a second level. That level, dear reader, is one of terror. 1. TOPIO Some robots are designed to kill human beings. Others are designed to kill other robots. But when there’s nothing left to kill, what do we do with our robots? We make them play sports. TOPIO began development in 2005 as a humanoid robot designed to play table tennis. Built by a Vietnamese robot firm, TOPIO confirms at least two things for us: mankind has run out of useful things to do as a whole and Vietnam has robot firms, apparently. TOPIO’s main features are the ability to recognize fast moving objects, to react to fast moving objects and to maintain balance. In other words, TOPIO does what any human would do if they took up the lost art of table tennis. Unlike your typical table tennis enthusiast, however, TOPIO looks like this: [image: topio] Is this part of the T-1000′s vacation slides? If the goal of TOPIO was to build a robot that would mindlessly play a tier-three sport and not cause those who see it to cry out in fear, then mission failed. The shades say “I’m going to kill you, fleshbag,” while the jacked physique says “No, really, I’m going to kill you. And no one’s going to stop me because the laws of men don’t apply to a machine. If you’d read Issac Asimov in high school you would have known that already.” 2. Roxxxy If the past is any indication, humankind as a whole will someday get bored with robots. We tend to latch onto new technology pretty quickly, find ways to make it more useful, then try to expand on it to make it more efficient. Rather than let the linear passage of time take its course, someone peered into the mists of the future, saw people having sex with robots and made it a terrifying yet slightly arousing reality. [image: roxxxy] Roxxxy True Companion sells itself as “the world’s first and highest quality sex robot doll.” To break that down a bit more, Roxxxy is a machine that you’re supposed to stick your penis in, but its okay because it looks sort of like an actual lady and not your mother’s vacuum cleaner hose. The folks at True Companion spent two and a half years making Roxxy as realistic as possible, from the feel of her skin to her ability to have orgasms. At least, the website claims she can simulate real orgasms. I can happily live out the rest of my days without confirming whether or not that’s true. Because spending precious years of your life developing a sexbot that looks like a crime scene victim might come off as a little weird, the development team also gave Roxxxy the ability to carry conversations, change personality and to fill the emotional void in your life as well as the physical one. But Roxxxy costs upwards of seven thousand dollars. Would you buy a sex robot for seven thousand dollars just to talk to it? Of course not. That’s like drinking a Tanqueray without first putting a diamond in it. Roxxxy was made specifically for the refined sexual deviant who wants to have sex with a highly sophisticated piece of machinery but doesn’t want to
Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Philips debuts the Airfryer – cri spy fries without the fat
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Yes, there is something painful and old school sounding in her voice. I would also say the same about Joss Stone too. Unfortunately, its only a facsimile of a particular style and not truly authentic. Before I learned a little about the UK's RB history I thought it was kind of cool, but they basically have been listening to 50s and 60s RB in some areas since the 50s and 60s without much growth. Much of the RB that they were listening to were unpopular records from here, Canada and UK clones. (Just to make sure I downloaded a few albums from there that were hits.) Basically early Motown, Stax sound alikes. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: So the dank whiskey drowned nightclub is a *good* thing, right? - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2010 1:26:40 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Amy Winehouse sounds like she came out of some dank whiskey drowned nightclub from the 50s. Unfortunately, she isn't consistent and has a major drug problem. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I've never listened to Amy Winehouse. What's so good about her? Another good singer who has an old school sound is Leela James - Original Message - From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 3:23:49 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings I like them in small doses but Sharon does the damn thing and their live shows are epic. I liked at first Amy Winehouse but that crap of crowning her the new face of soul music really galled me. She was just trend jumping like a lot of other singers do and she blew up. Good recommendations from your e-mail. I'd add Soulive, Jamie Lidell, Joss Stone(especially her work with Raphael Saadiq) and Cee-lo Green as folks you might want to seek out. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Enjoy! I got the following from a lady in response to the e-mail: FYI they have been around for quite a while...The Dap Kings moonlight as the band for Amy Winehouse as well. If you like them and that retro soul feel, also check out Raphael Saadiq, Rahsaan Patterson, and this young funky white kid Mayer Hawthorne... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 2:20:02 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Thanks, Keith! I'll have a look/listen as soon as I clear my table here and pay some bills. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: I'm always searching for real music that's outside of the standard hip-hip/finger poppin'/dance heavy stuff played on commercial radio (how many times in one day can one stomach Beyonce Knowles, Lady Gaga, or Bieber???) A while back I heard an interview on Fresh Air with a group called Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. This group is amazing, with a sound that hails back to the days of good old soul and funk. Jones has that rich, raspy voice that lends itself to heartfelt, even painful renditions, and her band sounds like something straight out of Stax records. They use old-fashioned methods to record: real tapes, hand editing, actual acoustics caused by the recording room instead of computer manipulations. Very, very good stuff. Albums are on iTunes: I bought two straightaway after listening to the NPR interview. Go to their web site to be treated to a listen to some of their latest songs, which start playing automatically. The first song up is I Learned the Hard Way, which has a real old feel to it. Other recent songs you have to seek out are Humble Me and the awesome 100 Days, 100 Nights, which sounds as if it came straight off an actual record from the 60s. Two links below. The first is to their website, where you can hear some of their songs. The second is to a great NPR SXSW showcase in Austin where Jones' group was the headliner. There you can hear the entire gig they performed, which is close to an a hour long. Highly recommended!! http://www.sharonjonesandthedapkings.com/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124091931 -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor
Here are details of the subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor designed by Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/08/uk-telegraph-supports-new-thorium.htmlThis reactor was given a supportive article by the UK Telegraph. It has been extensively studied for over 15 years and is expected to have half the cost of existing light water reactors and burn up almost all of the nuclear fuel. The Norwegian group Aker Solutions has bought Dr Rubbia’s patent for the thorium fuel-cycle, and is working on his design for a proton accelerator at its UK operation. They are raising 100 million pounds ($150 million USD) for the next stage of an estimated 2 billion pound ($3 billion USD) project to develop the first commercial unit. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/THyDzmlalII/I3U/xWKRAKNWsYI/s1600/rubbiaenergyamp.gif *If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddithttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.reddit.com, orStumbleUponhttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.stumbleupon.com. Thanks* *Supporting Advertising* *Business Success*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Business%20SuccessPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *How to Make Money* http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=How%20to%20Make%20MoneyPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Executive Jobs *http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Executive%20JobsPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Paid Surveys*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Paid%20SurveysPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Thank You* http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/0/da http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/1/da
Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor
Took them long enough. One of my college instructors had a similar thought back in the late 70s. A shame he's passed on. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Here are details of the subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor designed by Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/08/uk-telegraph-supports-new-thorium.htmlThis reactor was given a supportive article by the UK Telegraph. It has been extensively studied for over 15 years and is expected to have half the cost of existing light water reactors and burn up almost all of the nuclear fuel. The Norwegian group Aker Solutions has bought Dr Rubbia’s patent for the thorium fuel-cycle, and is working on his design for a proton accelerator at its UK operation. They are raising 100 million pounds ($150 million USD) for the next stage of an estimated 2 billion pound ($3 billion USD) project to develop the first commercial unit. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/THyDzmlalII/I3U/xWKRAKNWsYI/s1600/rubbiaenergyamp.gif *If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddithttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.reddit.com, orStumbleUponhttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.stumbleupon.com. Thanks* *Supporting Advertising* *Business Success*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Business%20SuccessPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *How to Make Money* http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=How%20to%20Make%20MoneyPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Executive Jobs *http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Executive%20JobsPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Paid Surveys*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Paid%20SurveysPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Thank You* http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Ea/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/0/da http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Ea/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/1/da -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Philips debuts the Airfryer – cri spy fries without the fat
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Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
What was the name of it? I'll pass that on as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
I think that's true for some folks but overall the scene is pretty varied. There has been a big retro movement but the UK RB scene has been healthy for years. They wear their influences on their sleeves but folks like Omar, Mica Paris, Floetry and others have been doing great stuff for a while. Jody Watley's best work in years was the album she did with UK production teams. BTW did you hear Amy Winehouse's music before her big breakout? It was very polished and modern with some pretty raw lyrics to separate her from similar artists. She was like a a UK Jaguar Wright(without Jaguar's raw power or range). That's why I called Back To Black trend jumping in some ways. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Yes, there is something painful and old school sounding in her voice. I would also say the same about Joss Stone too. Unfortunately, its only a facsimile of a particular style and not truly authentic. Before I learned a little about the UK's RB history I thought it was kind of cool, but they basically have been listening to 50s and 60s RB in some areas since the 50s and 60s without much growth. Much of the RB that they were listening to were unpopular records from here, Canada and UK clones. (Just to make sure I downloaded a few albums from there that were hits.) Basically early Motown, Stax sound alikes. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: So the dank whiskey drowned nightclub is a *good* thing, right? - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2010 1:26:40 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Amy Winehouse sounds like she came out of some dank whiskey drowned nightclub from the 50s. Unfortunately, she isn't consistent and has a major drug problem. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: I've never listened to Amy Winehouse. What's so good about her? Another good singer who has an old school sound is Leela James - Original Message - From: B Smith daikaij...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 3:23:49 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings I like them in small doses but Sharon does the damn thing and their live shows are epic. I liked at first Amy Winehouse but that crap of crowning her the new face of soul music really galled me. She was just trend jumping like a lot of other singers do and she blew up. Good recommendations from your e-mail. I'd add Soulive, Jamie Lidell, Joss Stone(especially her work with Raphael Saadiq) and Cee-lo Green as folks you might want to seek out. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: Enjoy! I got the following from a lady in response to the e-mail: FYI they have been around for quite a while...The Dap Kings moonlight as the band for Amy Winehouse as well. If you like them and that retro soul feel, also check out Raphael Saadiq, Rahsaan Patterson, and this young funky white kid Mayer Hawthorne... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxter7@ To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 2:20:02 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Waayyy OT: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Thanks, Keith! I'll have a look/listen as soon as I clear my table here and pay some bills. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: I'm always searching for real music that's outside of the standard hip-hip/finger poppin'/dance heavy stuff played on commercial radio (how many times in one day can one stomach Beyonce Knowles, Lady Gaga, or Bieber???) A while back I heard an interview on Fresh Air with a group called Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. This group is amazing, with a sound that hails back to the days of good old soul and funk. Jones has that rich, raspy voice that lends itself to heartfelt, even painful renditions, and her band sounds like something straight out of Stax records. They use old-fashioned methods to record: real tapes, hand editing, actual acoustics caused by the recording room instead of computer manipulations. Very, very good stuff. Albums are on iTunes: I bought two straightaway after listening to the NPR interview. Go to their web site to be treated to a listen to some of their latest songs, which start playing automatically. The first song up is I Learned the Hard Way, which has a real old feel to it. Other recent songs you have to seek out are Humble Me and the awesome 100 Days, 100 Nights, which sounds as if it came straight off an actual record from the 60s. Two links below. The first
Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
I'd like to see the Marussia http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.html http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.htmland the E-Go Revolt http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htmAlso: [image: Russo-Baltique Impression]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/russo-baltique-impression-ar7514.html Russian automaker Russo-Balt and German firm GERG teamed up to created the Russo-Baltique Impression. The concept vehicle is said to be based on the Mercedes CL 65 AMG. The Russo-Baltique Impression luxury coupé takes up the tradition of the Russo-Baltique brand that disappeared soon after the Russian Revolution. In doing so, the brand - which once supplied cars to the Court of Russian Tsar - returns to the luxury carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html# segment ahead of its 100th anniversary. The model has a carbon-fibre body (...) [image: Antas V8]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/2006-antas-v8-ar7336.html ANTAS V8 GT is the first “Berlinetta” (touring carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html#) created in the F M workshop. It is completely inspired by the philosophy and material used in the “special series” of the past: the body, for example, is made of aluminium and completely built by hand. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: What was the name of it? I'll pass that on as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor
The truly futuristic stuff is starting to appear. Once people completely move away from the big government thinking on energy I think the flood gates will open with new ideas. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Took them long enough. One of my college instructors had a similar thought back in the late 70s. A shame he's passed on. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Here are details of the subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor designed by Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/08/uk-telegraph-supports-new-thorium.htmlThis reactor was given a supportive article by the UK Telegraph. It has been extensively studied for over 15 years and is expected to have half the cost of existing light water reactors and burn up almost all of the nuclear fuel. The Norwegian group Aker Solutions has bought Dr Rubbia’s patent for the thorium fuel-cycle, and is working on his design for a proton accelerator at its UK operation. They are raising 100 million pounds ($150 million USD) for the next stage of an estimated 2 billion pound ($3 billion USD) project to develop the first commercial unit. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/THyDzmlalII/I3U/xWKRAKNWsYI/s1600/rubbiaenergyamp.gif *If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddithttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.reddit.com, orStumbleUponhttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.stumbleupon.com. Thanks* *Supporting Advertising* *Business Success*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Business%20SuccessPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *How to Make Money* http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=How%20to%20Make%20MoneyPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Executive Jobs *http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Executive%20JobsPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Paid Surveys*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Paid%20SurveysPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Thank You* http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Ea/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/0/da http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Ea/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/1/da -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor
Just gonna take a LOT of pushing at times, Mr Worf. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The truly futuristic stuff is starting to appear. Once people completely move away from the big government thinking on energy I think the flood gates will open with new ideas. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Took them long enough. One of my college instructors had a similar thought back in the late 70s. A shame he's passed on. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Here are details of the subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor designed by Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/08/uk-telegraph-supports-new-thorium.htmlThis reactor was given a supportive article by the UK Telegraph. It has been extensively studied for over 15 years and is expected to have half the cost of existing light water reactors and burn up almost all of the nuclear fuel. The Norwegian group Aker Solutions has bought Dr Rubbia’s patent for the thorium fuel-cycle, and is working on his design for a proton accelerator at its UK operation. They are raising 100 million pounds ($150 million USD) for the next stage of an estimated 2 billion pound ($3 billion USD) project to develop the first commercial unit. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/THyDzmlalII/I3U/xWKRAKNWsYI/s1600/rubbiaenergyamp.gif *If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddithttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.reddit.com, orStumbleUponhttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.stumbleupon.com. Thanks* *Supporting Advertising* *Business Success*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Business%20SuccessPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *How to Make Money* http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=How%20to%20Make%20MoneyPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Executive Jobs *http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Executive%20JobsPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Paid Surveys*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Paid%20SurveysPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Thank You* http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Ea/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/0/da http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Ea/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/1/da -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
I'd love to see them run both around the track as well, but I'll hold off on submitting these. They're notoriously UN-green, and really turn their noses up at cars that don't have the roar of a petrol engine. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to see the Marussia http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.html http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.htmland the E-Go Revolt http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htmAlso: [image: Russo-Baltique Impression]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/russo-baltique-impression-ar7514.html Russian automaker Russo-Balt and German firm GERG teamed up to created the Russo-Baltique Impression. The concept vehicle is said to be based on the Mercedes CL 65 AMG. The Russo-Baltique Impression luxury coupé takes up the tradition of the Russo-Baltique brand that disappeared soon after the Russian Revolution. In doing so, the brand - which once supplied cars to the Court of Russian Tsar - returns to the luxury carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html# segment ahead of its 100th anniversary. The model has a carbon-fibre body (...) [image: Antas V8]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/2006-antas-v8-ar7336.html ANTAS V8 GT is the first “Berlinetta” (touring carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html#) created in the F M workshop. It is completely inspired by the philosophy and material used in the “special series” of the past: the body, for example, is made of aluminium and completely built by hand. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: What was the name of it? I'll pass that on as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
I think they appreciate it a little more because they live in the UK. The UK isn't as noisy as the freeways here. I have always lived about 2-4 miles from the freeway but I can always hear it in the background. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love to see them run both around the track as well, but I'll hold off on submitting these. They're notoriously UN-green, and really turn their noses up at cars that don't have the roar of a petrol engine. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to see the Marussia http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.html http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.htmland the E-Go Revolt http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htmAlso: [image: Russo-Baltique Impression]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/russo-baltique-impression-ar7514.html Russian automaker Russo-Balt and German firm GERG teamed up to created the Russo-Baltique Impression. The concept vehicle is said to be based on the Mercedes CL 65 AMG. The Russo-Baltique Impression luxury coupé takes up the tradition of the Russo-Baltique brand that disappeared soon after the Russian Revolution. In doing so, the brand - which once supplied cars to the Court of Russian Tsar - returns to the luxury carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html# segment ahead of its 100th anniversary. The model has a carbon-fibre body (...) [image: Antas V8]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/2006-antas-v8-ar7336.html ANTAS V8 GT is the first “Berlinetta” (touring carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html#) created in the F M workshop. It is completely inspired by the philosophy and material used in the “special series” of the past: the body, for example, is made of aluminium and completely built by hand. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: What was the name of it? I'll pass that on as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
I have to admit to a love for the sound as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I think they appreciate it a little more because they live in the UK. The UK isn't as noisy as the freeways here. I have always lived about 2-4 miles from the freeway but I can always hear it in the background. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love to see them run both around the track as well, but I'll hold off on submitting these. They're notoriously UN-green, and really turn their noses up at cars that don't have the roar of a petrol engine. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to see the Marussia http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.html http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.htmland the E-Go Revolt http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm Also: [image: Russo-Baltique Impression]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/russo-baltique-impression-ar7514.html Russian automaker Russo-Balt and German firm GERG teamed up to created the Russo-Baltique Impression. The concept vehicle is said to be based on the Mercedes CL 65 AMG. The Russo-Baltique Impression luxury coupé takes up the tradition of the Russo-Baltique brand that disappeared soon after the Russian Revolution. In doing so, the brand - which once supplied cars to the Court of Russian Tsar - returns to the luxury carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html# segment ahead of its 100th anniversary. The model has a carbon-fibre body (...) [image: Antas V8]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/2006-antas-v8-ar7336.html ANTAS V8 GT is the first “Berlinetta” (touring carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html#) created in the F M workshop. It is completely inspired by the philosophy and material used in the “special series” of the past: the body, for example, is made of aluminium and completely built by hand. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: What was the name of it? I'll pass that on as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
The sound is nice from beautiful cars, but when you mix it with the chaff and 400 semi trucks plus the sound of tires on the road and it is a cacophony. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I have to admit to a love for the sound as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I think they appreciate it a little more because they live in the UK. The UK isn't as noisy as the freeways here. I have always lived about 2-4 miles from the freeway but I can always hear it in the background. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love to see them run both around the track as well, but I'll hold off on submitting these. They're notoriously UN-green, and really turn their noses up at cars that don't have the roar of a petrol engine. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to see the Marussia http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.html http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.htmland the E-Go Revolt http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm Also: [image: Russo-Baltique Impression]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/russo-baltique-impression-ar7514.html Russian automaker Russo-Balt and German firm GERG teamed up to created the Russo-Baltique Impression. The concept vehicle is said to be based on the Mercedes CL 65 AMG. The Russo-Baltique Impression luxury coupé takes up the tradition of the Russo-Baltique brand that disappeared soon after the Russian Revolution. In doing so, the brand - which once supplied cars to the Court of Russian Tsar - returns to the luxury carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html# segment ahead of its 100th anniversary. The model has a carbon-fibre body (...) [image: Antas V8]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/2006-antas-v8-ar7336.html ANTAS V8 GT is the first “Berlinetta” (touring carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html#) created in the F M workshop. It is completely inspired by the philosophy and material used in the “special series” of the past: the body, for example, is made of aluminium and completely built by hand. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: What was the name of it? I'll pass that on as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant
Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
Yeah... old memories of living in Noo Yawk City filtering back at that. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The sound is nice from beautiful cars, but when you mix it with the chaff and 400 semi trucks plus the sound of tires on the road and it is a cacophony. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I have to admit to a love for the sound as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I think they appreciate it a little more because they live in the UK. The UK isn't as noisy as the freeways here. I have always lived about 2-4 miles from the freeway but I can always hear it in the background. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love to see them run both around the track as well, but I'll hold off on submitting these. They're notoriously UN-green, and really turn their noses up at cars that don't have the roar of a petrol engine. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to see the Marussia http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.html http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.htmland the E-Go Revolt http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm Also: [image: Russo-Baltique Impression]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/russo-baltique-impression-ar7514.html Russian automaker Russo-Balt and German firm GERG teamed up to created the Russo-Baltique Impression. The concept vehicle is said to be based on the Mercedes CL 65 AMG. The Russo-Baltique Impression luxury coupé takes up the tradition of the Russo-Baltique brand that disappeared soon after the Russian Revolution. In doing so, the brand - which once supplied cars to the Court of Russian Tsar - returns to the luxury carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html# segment ahead of its 100th anniversary. The model has a carbon-fibre body (...) [image: Antas V8]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/2006-antas-v8-ar7336.html ANTAS V8 GT is the first “Berlinetta” (touring carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html#) created in the F M workshop. It is completely inspired by the philosophy and material used in the “special series” of the past: the body, for example, is made of aluminium and completely built by hand. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: What was the name of it? I'll pass that on as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant
Re: [scifinoir2] Super “Dagger GT”
Can you imagine how different things would be if they were all electric? Just half of that would be nice. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah... old memories of living in Noo Yawk City filtering back at that. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The sound is nice from beautiful cars, but when you mix it with the chaff and 400 semi trucks plus the sound of tires on the road and it is a cacophony. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I have to admit to a love for the sound as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I think they appreciate it a little more because they live in the UK. The UK isn't as noisy as the freeways here. I have always lived about 2-4 miles from the freeway but I can always hear it in the background. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love to see them run both around the track as well, but I'll hold off on submitting these. They're notoriously UN-green, and really turn their noses up at cars that don't have the roar of a petrol engine. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to see the Marussia http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.html http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/marussia-sports-carrussia-s-first-sports-car-ar68319.htmland the E-Go Revolt http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/e-go-revolt.htm Also: [image: Russo-Baltique Impression]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/russo-baltique-impression-ar7514.html Russian automaker Russo-Balt and German firm GERG teamed up to created the Russo-Baltique Impression. The concept vehicle is said to be based on the Mercedes CL 65 AMG. The Russo-Baltique Impression luxury coupé takes up the tradition of the Russo-Baltique brand that disappeared soon after the Russian Revolution. In doing so, the brand - which once supplied cars to the Court of Russian Tsar - returns to the luxury carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html# segment ahead of its 100th anniversary. The model has a carbon-fibre body (...) [image: Antas V8]http://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/2006-antas-v8-ar7336.html ANTAS V8 GT is the first “Berlinetta” (touring carhttp://www.topspeed.com/cars/prototypes/index325.html#) created in the F M workshop. It is completely inspired by the philosophy and material used in the “special series” of the past: the body, for example, is made of aluminium and completely built by hand. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: What was the name of it? I'll pass that on as well. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to see that and the Russian made car. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: I passed this on to Top Gear, asking them to test it in their next series. Made certain to make fun of Clarkson, to draw attention to it. Here's hoping. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: We forgive you... On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon me... (reaching for bib) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Super “Dagger GT”http://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ Written by super on 27 August 2010 * **Transtar race Automotive experts begin soon to manufacture “Dagger GT”,* *to be the supercar with performancehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of 2000 hp. The companyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ says it wants* * * *this carhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ through the registration of every major record available in practicehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ ,* *and this includes the titlehttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ of fastest car in the world, and the fastest car in* *the starting point of consistency, and even the fastest car in the Nurburgring* *track in Germanyhttp://www.onlysuper.com/index.php/2010/08/27/super-dagger-gt/ .* ** ** * * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E
Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor
Somewhere in my old house in Fort Worth is a schematic of an ion drive I did in second grade, after watching an ep of Star Trek (had to be Spock's Brain), and reading about electrolytes in my encyclopedia set. I'd read about how cesium, when immersed in water, would produce ions in solution, and I'd read about theories for Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the idea of using fusion power to drive plasma as a source of motion. Then there was that Trek ep where they said the aliens who took Spock's brain used ion power, which Kirk said was even beyond Federation tech. So, sure that I'd stumbled on a major secret, I took pen to paper. I drew a cutaway of the Jupiter Two from Lost in Space. Inside was a giant water tank. Sitting next to the tank, like a coal scuttle on a stem locomotive, was a big pile of cesium bricks--just sitting there. Next to them were some crazy robot arms with gloved hands (think of all the robot extremities as depicted in old cartoons). The robot hands--two of them--would take turns dumping cesium bricks into the water tank. Attached to the tank was a big A battery and wiring so that the ions in solution could be driven to one side of the tank by the negative pole of the battery. I then had what was for all the world a tailpipe sticking out the side of the ship, through which the electrons would shoot into space. Of course, my eight year old self was certain I'd just solved the problem of both ion drive and FTL travel. To this day I remember how excited I was at what I thought I'd created! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2010 4:02:26 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor The truly futuristic stuff is starting to appear. Once people completely move away from the big government thinking on energy I think the flood gates will open with new ideas. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Took them long enough. One of my college instructors had a similar thought back in the late 70s. A shame he's passed on. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Here are details of the subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor designed by Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia. This reactor was given a supportive article by the UK Telegraph. It has been extensively studied for over 15 years and is expected to have half the cost of existing light water reactors and burn up almost all of the nuclear fuel. The Norwegian group Aker Solutions has bought Dr Rubbia’s patent for the thorium fuel-cycle, and is working on his design for a proton accelerator at its UK operation. They are raising 100 million pounds ($150 million USD) for the next stage of an estimated 2 billion pound ($3 billion USD) project to develop the first commercial unit. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddit , or StumbleUpon . Thanks Supporting Advertising Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Thank You -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor
I was watching a show about mining the moon last night. They said that the cost of returning to the moon would be about $100 Billion now. I don't understand how it could cost so much money to do a manned mission. I wonder how much of the cost would change if they were to use a different propulsion system? One question I do have is why can't they make H3 here? They are saying that one ton of H3 would be worth several billion. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Somewhere in my old house in Fort Worth is a schematic of an ion drive I did in second grade, after watching an ep of Star Trek (had to be Spock's Brain), and reading about electrolytes in my encyclopedia set. I'd read about how cesium, when immersed in water, would produce ions in solution, and I'd read about theories for Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the idea of using fusion power to drive plasma as a source of motion. Then there was that Trek ep where they said the aliens who took Spock's brain used ion power, which Kirk said was even beyond Federation tech. So, sure that I'd stumbled on a major secret, I took pen to paper. I drew a cutaway of the Jupiter Two from Lost in Space. Inside was a giant water tank. Sitting next to the tank, like a coal scuttle on a stem locomotive, was a big pile of cesium bricks--just sitting there. Next to them were some crazy robot arms with gloved hands (think of all the robot extremities as depicted in old cartoons). The robot hands--two of them--would take turns dumping cesium bricks into the water tank. Attached to the tank was a big A battery and wiring so that the ions in solution could be driven to one side of the tank by the negative pole of the battery. I then had what was for all the world a tailpipe sticking out the side of the ship, through which the electrons would shoot into space. Of course, my eight year old self was certain I'd just solved the problem of both ion drive and FTL travel. To this day I remember how excited I was at what I thought I'd created! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2010 4:02:26 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor The truly futuristic stuff is starting to appear. Once people completely move away from the big government thinking on energy I think the flood gates will open with new ideas. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Took them long enough. One of my college instructors had a similar thought back in the late 70s. A shame he's passed on. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Here are details of the subcritical accelerator driven thorium nuclear reactor designed by Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/08/uk-telegraph-supports-new-thorium.htmlThis reactor was given a supportive article by the UK Telegraph. It has been extensively studied for over 15 years and is expected to have half the cost of existing light water reactors and burn up almost all of the nuclear fuel. The Norwegian group Aker Solutions has bought Dr Rubbia’s patent for the thorium fuel-cycle, and is working on his design for a proton accelerator at its UK operation. They are raising 100 million pounds ($150 million USD) for the next stage of an estimated 2 billion pound ($3 billion USD) project to develop the first commercial unit. http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/THyDzmlalII/I3U/xWKRAKNWsYI/s1600/rubbiaenergyamp.gif *If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on Reddithttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.reddit.com, orStumbleUponhttp://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.stumbleupon.com. Thanks* *Supporting Advertising* *Business Success*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Business%20SuccessPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *How to Make Money* http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=How%20to%20Make%20MoneyPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Executive Jobs *http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Executive%20JobsPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Paid Surveys*http://www.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/64651/17726256/0/http://www.nextbigfuture.com/p/searchresults.html?PLUCKsearchTerm=Paid%20SurveysPLUCKwhichPage=relatedAdLinks *Thank You* http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Ea/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/0/da http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Ea/Wmn2-tT9a-FsnfprokBSWUY2yCk/1/da -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
[scifinoir2] OT: For a Different Sound: The Carolina Chocolate Drops
Okay, as they said on Monty Python, And now for something completely different. The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a banjo and jug band from North Carolina, which ain't that unusual until you realize they're all young black musicians. They play some deep ol' Southern country mountain music that hails from waaay back in the day! Give a listen and you'll swear you're back in the holler listening to some old boys pickin' on a fiddle and banjo, or perhaps stumbled across an old ep of Hee Haw. Unknown to many, much of the roots for what's now called country music comes from blacks: the banjo and guitar were mainstays of black musicians until well into the 20th Century. Now this may not be many folks' cup of tea. Me, I love all music when it's done well, and I'm a sucker for any well played stringed instrument, be it guitar, banjo or fiddle. And I guess I'm enough of a Texas boy that I love me some good old down home music! My poor wife often shakes her head when I tune into the local radio station's programs dedicated to cowboy, banjo, or zydeco tunes! I can tap my feet, slap my knee, and dance a jig--what the Beverly Hillbillies called fancy foot steppin'-- with the best of 'em! Check out some video clips of the Drops, who just released a new album, Genuine Negro Jig, which I will be downloading from iTunes--much to my wife's chagrin. She tells me all the time that for all my sophistication and love of IT, modern music, and whatnot, I'm still just a country boy from Cowtown! I don't get it: doesn't everyone listen to cowboy music now and then? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xOxHyTP91cfeature=fvw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdLRCSOZ7wo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbcqGjeNz7wfeature=related http://www.carolinachocolatedrops.com/ Band Biography “Tradition is a guide, not a jailer. We play in an older tradition but we are modern musicians.” —Justin Robinson In the summer and fall of 2005, three young black musicians, Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson, made the commitment to travel to Mebane, N.C., every Thursday night to sit in the home of old-time fiddler Joe Thompson for a musical jam session. Joe was in his 80’s, a black fiddler with a short bowing style that he inherited from generations of family musicians. He had learned to play a wide ranging set of tunes sitting on the back porch with other players after a day of field work. Now he was passing those same lessons on to a new generation. When the three students decided to form a band, they didn’t have big plans. It was mostly a tribute to Joe, a chance to bring his music back out of the house again and into dance halls and public places. They called themselves The Chocolate Drops as a tip of the hat to the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, three black brothers Howard, Martin and Bogan Armstrong, who lit up the music scene in the 1930’s. Honing and experimenting with Joe’s repertoire, the band often coaxed their teacher out of the house to join them on stage. Joe’s charisma and charm regularly stole the show. Being young and living in the 21st century, the Chocolate Drops first hooked up through a yahoo group, Black Banjo: Then and Now (BBTN) hosted by Tom Thomas and Sule Greg Wilson. Dom was still living in Arizona, but in April 2005, when the web-chat spawned the Black Banjo Gathering in Asheville, N.C., he flew east and ended moving to the Piedmont where he could get at the music first hand. Joe Thompson’s house was the proof in the pudding. The Chocolate Drops started playing around, rolling out the tunes wherever anyone would listen. From town squares to farmer’s markets, they perfected their playing and began to win an avid following of foot-tapping, sing-along, audiences. In 2006, they picked up a spot at the locally-based Shakori Hills Festival where they lit such a fire on the dance tent floor that Tim and Denise Duffy of the Music Maker Relief Foundation came over to see what was going on. Rhiannon remembers being skeptical when this local Hillsborough, N.C., guy with a goofy smile and a roster of old blues musicians offered to take them on and promote their music. The band was still figuring out who they were and Duffy was offering to house them with people like Algie Mae Hinton, musicians who were not pretenders to a tradition, but the real thing. The connection turned out to be a great match. While the young “Drops” were upstarts in a stable of deep tradition, they were also the link between past and future. They began to expand their repertoire, taking advantage of what Dom calls “the novelty factor” to get folks in the door and then teaching and thrilling them with traditional music that was evolving as they performed. They teased audiences with history on tunes like “Dixie”, the apparent Southern anthem that musicologists suggest was stolen by the black-face minstrel Dan Emmert from the Snowden family,
[scifinoir2] Finally Saw Inception
Lots of cool visual effects and technical complexities. It turns out the tech complexities are mostly irrelevant. In fact the entire dreaming and reality part of the story is pretty much pointless. It's a basically a sci fi twist on some really old themes. The sci fi part is really fun but those old themes have been conquered by better men with better skills both in director's chair and in front of the camera. I would hazard a guess that beyond some simple nostalgia in a few years no one will remember this one or care about it. It won't hold up. You can boil the entire movie down to father issues and regret issues and both have been done better and more intelligently. I know I'm late to the party and I'm clearly old because I don't find the hype accurate but I figured I would weigh in anyway Bosco
Re: [scifinoir2] Finally Saw Inception
I plan to see it later today, having been late to the party as well. I'm looking forward to it, based on your take, to compare against the hype. - Original Message - From: Bosco Bosco ironpi...@yahoo.com To: Sci Fi Noir scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2010 11:44:59 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Finally Saw Inception Lots of cool visual effects and technical complexities. It turns out the tech complexities are mostly irrelevant. In fact the entire dreaming and reality part of the story is pretty much pointless. It's a basically a sci fi twist on some really old themes. The sci fi part is really fun but those old themes have been conquered by better men with better skills both in director's chair and in front of the camera. I would hazard a guess that beyond some simple nostalgia in a few years no one will remember this one or care about it. It won't hold up. You can boil the entire movie down to father issues and regret issues and both have been done better and more intelligently. I know I'm late to the party and I'm clearly old because I don't find the hype accurate but I figured I would weigh in anyway Bosco
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