Re: Sarfati Crosspost

2005-08-09 Thread temalloy
>I found this quite amusing and thought Vorts might enjoy: > Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:01:49 -0700 > From: Jack Sarfatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Are UFOs real? Yes! Are they a national and planetary military WMD >threat? Yes! Do we care what CISCOPS et-al think? No! Do they determine

Re: Bladeless Turbine Thermal Efficiency Limit

2005-08-09 Thread temalloy
>thomas malloy wrote: > >> The company promoting the design asserted >> "Rockets, widely recognized as the most efficient engines, are >> typically propelled by steam. Based on >> >> Is that BS I smell? This is the first time I've heard that assertion, >> I would think that it would be quite th

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s message of Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:19:52 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Hydrinos and Ionic Bonds, on the other hand... Isn't it theorized that a free >electron can assume the normal ground state orbital shell belonging to a >hydrino and as such cause the atom to have a negative

Re: Support for Hy from on-high

2005-08-09 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "Mike Carrell" Mike, I am not going to belabor this issue much longer except to state very clearly that my "spin," as you call it, was directed at EDS, one of the most disreputable companies in America. And the fact that BLP, knowing the shoddy reputation of

Re: OT: vestigiality of the human appendix

2005-08-09 Thread Wesley Bruce
The talk origins paper is good but it does not look at the infant appendix which is proportionally larger than the adult appendix. It stops growing at about age 3 while everything else keeps growing. Talk origins may choose to mention that fact some day. Here's what the creationist have to say

Re: OT: Homage a Darwin

2005-08-09 Thread RC Macaulay
R.O Cornwall wrote.. V,I've got a bit of an accidental affinity for Darwin Websitehttp://luna.bton.ac.uk/~roc1 Remi, There are many vorts that have more than an accidental affinity to Darwin .. and ... err .. some don't . Thanks for the reference to your website. Richard

Re: Support for Hy from on-high

2005-08-09 Thread Mike Carrell
From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Support for Hy from on-high > There is a paper by Christianto which has some interesting > relevance to the Hydrino. I posted this on the HSG forum but it > hasn't shown up yet. Seems like they think that I am too critical > of the "golden boy" ove

Re: ID and scientist fear

2005-08-09 Thread John Coviello
I have had some experiences with psychics that were very odd indeed. One picked up on a serious illness I had as a child that required months of hospitalization. She even honed in on the exact amount of months my hospital stay lasted. It was completely out of the blue. She was describing a

Sarfati Crosspost

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
I found this quite amusing and thought Vorts might enjoy: "Message: 3 Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:01:49 -0700 From: Jack Sarfatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Correcting UFO disinformation Please transmit to that list that Antigray never checked with me directly about the "alien"

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > Speaking of kill files: > http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg06834.html > > Touché? Oui, you score. Quoting: "Certainly one of the prime elements produced in the uranium and thorium decay is helium, and some of it does come to the surface in natural ga

Re: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread orionworks
Zell sez: ... > I understand that African cheetahs are anomalous, being nearly natural > clones of each other, genetically. Makes you wonder how > stuff really got here. Regarding cheetahs, I've heard scientific speculation that the reason their genetic pool is so unusually narrow (clone-like

Re: OFF TOPIC: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Mike Carrell
From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC: Intelligent design > Mike Carrell wrote: > > >The implication of this is that the manifest universe with all its > >complexity can be a process originating from a discrete logical seed whose > >recursive operation is completely det

Support for Hy from on-high

2005-08-09 Thread Jones Beene
There is a paper by Christianto which has some interesting relevance to the Hydrino. I posted this on the HSG forum but it hasn't shown up yet. Seems like they think that I am too critical of the "golden boy" over there. On vortex, I get the impression that most observers, except for Mike and

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread Jones Beene
Ok, Subcommander Orgazmo-Please : funny you should ask about the core since it was in the news lately: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725103.700 Speaking of kill files: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg06834.html Touché?

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread orionworks
>Jones sez: > > Terry sez: > > Wait, I thought there were many hydrino compounds? Can a > > hydrino form a covalent bond or not? > > I suspect that one answer is that ionic bonds are definitely > favored, and that true covalent bonding many be as difficult as > with the noble gases, except ap

RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Zell, Chris
Given your name, perhaps you like Vine DeLoria's book attacking both Creationism and Evolution ( I think he's Native American) I understand that African cheetahs are anomalous, being nearly natural clones of each other, genetically. Makes you wonder how stuff really got here. -Original Mess

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > - Original Message - > From: Terry Blanton ( ... never got that other post! maybe BillB > has you on good-behavior) Great minds, similar paths, yada, yada, yada: http://escribe.com/science/vortex/m37977.html

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread Standing Bear
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 16:11, Jones Beene wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Terry Blanton ( ... never got that other post! maybe BillB > has you on good-behavior) > > >> From: Robin van Spaandonk > >> > >> It doesn't exist because the energy required to oxidize even a > >> first leve

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > So anwer me this, Subcommander Supremo. What are the implications > of a hydrino core? (Subcommander Orgazmo, please.) Geeze you can ask some heavy questions, dude. Have you discovered the true content of the neutron star? But funny you should ask about the core sinc

Re: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Standing Bear
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:52, Terry Blanton wrote: > > From: "Zell, Chris" > > > > It's starting to look more and more like we were patched together by > > some ET's over a period of time. > > Here's a few dozen historical references which could support your position: > > http://www.mystae.com/r

OT: vestigiality of the human appendix

2005-08-09 Thread orionworks
>Terry sez: > > Jones sez: > > Amazing how much "face" 5 minutes of googling can save. > > Or taking me out of your kill file. (Re: my post on the > caecum :-Þ) At the tender age of seven I had my appendix removed. There was nothing wrong with the organ. They just happened to have been in the

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: Terry Blanton ( ... never got that other post! maybe BillB has you on good-behavior) From: Robin van Spaandonk It doesn't exist because the energy required to oxidize even a first level hydrino is at least 10 times larger than any normal chemical bond ener

OT: vestigiality of the human appendix

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > Amazing how much "face" 5 minutes of googling can save. Or taking me out of your kill file. (Re: my post on the caecum :-Þ)

OT: vestigiality of the human appendix

2005-08-09 Thread Jones Beene
Amazing how much "face" 5 minutes of googling can save. Several reasonable arguments exist for the assertion that the appendix has a function in the human immune system. . Yes, Virginia..."vestigiality" is a real word... http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/vestiges/appendix.html Given our current

Re: DiHydrino Oxide

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Robin van Spaandonk > It doesn't exist because the energy required to oxidize even a > first level hydrino is at least 10 times larger than any normal > chemical bond energy. Wait, I thought there were many hydrino compounds? Can a hydrino form a covalent bond or not?

RE: ID and scientist fear

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
I had that one. My dear old teacher Farooq Abdullah said I had a jinx on machines as I'd make a machine crash just by being near it. He was into PEARL and I was into pooh-poohing in those days. Anyway OT BS. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: ID and scientist fear

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
Sense of humour? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of leaking pen Sent: 09 August 2005 17:10 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: ID and scientist fear if theres no want, and no system of transfer of goods and valuation of labor (money) then so

OT RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Jed Rothwell > And no biologist claims that we > understand all organs and functions. And this is certainly the case with what's left of our caecum: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/vestiges/appendix.html Now, if we become vegans, will our caecum re-evolve?

Re: OT RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread orionworks
> Jed sez: > > >Wesley sez: > > >Answer: As a one month old baby you would die without it. Its not a > >vestigial organ its lift over firm babyhood. Its just as > >essential to milk digestion for a baby as any other organ. We only > > just discovered what its for because some idiot darwinist do

Re: ID and scientist fear

2005-08-09 Thread Harry Veeder
Someday people will be working for needs instead of for wants. Does this mean the society will stagnate because needs are are finite? No, because beyond on simple material needs people will always need to love and be loved. Harry leaking pen wrote: > if theres no want, and no system of transf

Re: OT RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Wesley Bruce wrote: Answer: As a one month old baby you would die without it. Its not a vestigial organ its lift over firm babyhood. Its just as essential to milk digestion for a baby as any other organ. We only just discovered what its for because some idiot darwinist doctor removed them from

OT RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread orionworks
>Wesley Sez: > > >orionworks Sez: > > > >Question: Why do I have an appendix? > > > > Answer: As a one month old baby you would die without it. Its not a > vestigial organ its lift over firm babyhood. Its just as essential to > milk digestion for a baby as any other organ. We only just discover

RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Zell, Chris" > It's starting to look more and more like we were patched together by > some ET's over a period of time. Here's a few dozen historical references which could support your position: http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/watchers.html Not to mention recent scient

Re: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Taylor J. Smith" > The evidence for Malevolent Design is compelling; > and it may support the concept of ID if an > evil intelligence rules the universe. Jack, you're beginning to sound like a gnostic. You're describing Yaltabaoth, the Demiurge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaltabao

Re: OT RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Wesley Bruce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Why do I have an appendix? Answer: As a one month old baby you would die without it. Its not a vestigial organ its lift over firm babyhood. Its just as essential to milk digestion for a baby as any other organ. We only just discovered what its for becaus

Re: ID and scientist fear

2005-08-09 Thread leaking pen
if theres no want, and no system of transfer of goods and valuation of labor (money) then society will stagnate. thas NOT a utopia you describe. btw, on the scientific credibility of esp like things, proven, some people are just computer jinxs http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=f6ebf0

RE: ID and scientist fear

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
Type A personalities or Suppressive Personalities rule this planet. We've moved a little on from Feudalism. The future will be one of peace, no want, contentment and no money system. We will realise our place amongst a whole universe of life-forms. Right now we're not evolved enough for it. I *d

Fw: OFF TOPIC: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread revtec
- Original Message - From: "revtec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:45 AM Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC: Intelligent design > > The hypothesis that an object is "nonphysical and timeless" -- invisible in > short -- can never be prove

ID and scientist fear

2005-08-09 Thread Zell, Chris
A previous post mentions raises the issue of scientists being 'afraid' of some things. This is a little off topic but I recently attended a small seminar led by Russell Targ - of CIA/Psychic Remote Viewer fame. After witnessing several surprizing demonstrations, you leave with the feeling that,

Re: OFF TOPIC: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mike Carrell wrote: The implication of this is that the manifest universe with all its complexity can be a process originating from a discrete logical seed whose recursive operation is completely deterministic, yet whose product is infinitely complex, like the Mandelbrot set. That seems manife

Re: OFF TOPIC: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Mike Carrell
From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC: Intelligent design > There is no such thing. If there were it could not be detected with any instrument, and therefore it, in turn, could not influence events in the real world. Anything which can affect matter can be detected wit

OT: Homage a Darwin

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
V, I've got a bit of an accidental affinity for Darwin. Where I grew up as a child in Laindon, Essex we used to go for a break with the family a few miles to Burnham on Crouch. Apparently the Beagle is scuppered near there as Prof. Colin Pillinger found out for his pleasure after naming his Mars pr

OT RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread orionworks
R. Sez: ... > I was saying to my Dad that the 'Creator' must have a > bloody great sense of black humour, drought in Niger and > floods in India. > > It's a bit like a pathetic fallacy. You are trying to > ascribe human self-importance to the rationale of things. > BOTH OF YOU - Creationists and

Yet another atomic-powered perpetual motion machine?

2005-08-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=vahab.IN.&OS=IN/vahab&RS=IN/vahab MAGNETO-HYDRODYNAMIC POWER CELL USING ATOMIC CONVERSION OF ENERGY, PLASMA AND FIELD IONIZATION Abstract A method

Re: OT: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "Taylor J. Smith" Normally I refrain from contributing to this type of thread; but I am compelled to ask where is there any evidence for Intelligent Design, in some benign sense? In the scientific sense, it is all about probability and time scalemore sp

OT: Chris Zell's thoughts

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
V. and Chris, The penny drops. It's a bit like the first day at school when you realise that Mum and Dad don't know everything. I'm prepared to *believe* (can't prove at present) that we have had ET visitations many times in our past. Through collective memories and religions this *could* be so.

RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Zell, Chris
I am increasingly impressed by intelligent design - but not by an All knowing Creator. It's starting to look more and more like we were patched together by some ET's over a period of time. This would account for how screwed up the human race is and how ad hoc and disorganized our religious and mo

OT RE: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
V, Ironies or ironies. This is a bit like Geo-centralism of the middle ages! We are so wonderful that nothing could have created us but blind chance! I'm not saying we're created but admit the possibility that part of our evolution *might* have had *an element* of design in it. Prove to me it h

Re: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Taylor J. Smith
Hi All, Normally I refrain from contributing to this type of thread; but I am compelled to ask where is there any evidence for Intelligent Design, in some benign sense? We, the Lords of Creation, have backs that are often unsuited for bipedalism, immune systems that kill or cripple us with their

OT: Nth order Darwinism, What is life?

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
V, One other thought. In our complacency we think we know what life is, it's soft, hairy, smelly, meatware that sh.gs to propagate. No! Some life propagates by asexual processes. Some things are right on the boarder-line of what we call life, viruses and prions. It seems the thing that qualifies a

OT: nth order Darwinism

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
V, I know what you are going to say next... The organisms are the environment too!! Darwinism as taught ascribes selection pressures to 'simple' things like resource potential (food, water, climate) and genetic fitness (heh, are you a stud or not heh, heh). A 2nd order effect (?) would be the env

OT RE: Intelligent design, DARWIN=ENVIRONMENT DETERMINES FITNESS *ONLY*

2005-08-09 Thread R . O . Cornwall
Below originally written yesterday before the thread. I'm progressively reading the entries. On Jed's topic, yes, life would have to have started somewhere but it doesn't mean that every bit of life had to start ab-initio. Where's the logic in that?! What I'm trying to say (below) is that Darwini

Re; What if Hero Had Gas?

2005-08-09 Thread Frederick Sparber
Posted earlier. > > The volume about 1.0 CFM @ 3 PSIG for 2 kilowatt hours requires a Solar Box with a least 1800 > cubic feet of air at 200 F  @ 3.0 PSIG  per /KW-HR.>  > The Solar Box can be an enclosed pit loaded with coarse gravel with a ballasted-sealed floating> "solar lid" so that a quas

Sir Arthur in the News

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Huffman
Moin Vorts! This just in on an RSS feed from the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4746075.stm Knuke

Re: [OT] The myths of Hiroshima

2005-08-09 Thread Wesley Bruce
I knew someone and Aussy POW in Japan when the bomb dropped. He was a bit of a historian. He said that there were conflicts between pro-emporer and pro- Tojo diplomats and security officers. The generals knew they faced the noose with any kind of surrender. Those sending peace messages on the e

Re: Bladeless Turbine Thermal Efficiency Limit

2005-08-09 Thread Wesley Bruce
thomas malloy wrote: The company promoting the design asserted "Rockets, widely recognized as the most efficient engines, are typically propelled by steam. Based on Is that BS I smell? This is the first time I've heard that assertion, I would think that it would be quite the opposite. If

Re: Intelligent design

2005-08-09 Thread Wesley Bruce
Your getting into some very good debates. I think Jeds perfectly right; ID as its currently described is badly flawed. Most young earth creationists argue that you can't compromise in that way. Either an all powerfully God exists or every thing evolved. The catch is that creationists don't l