[Vo]: OT: An emerging food-fuel battle?

2006-08-17 Thread Harry Veeder
This speculation is by Hans Dieter. It comes from a different list. Harry Subject: [4DWorldx] The emerging food-fuel battle Ethanol as additive to gasoline from crude oil has, as other alternative fuels, for ex. biodiesel, gained popularity in some parts of Europe. It is not only the

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-17 Thread Nick Palmer
Kyle wrote:- If it gets so far gone that we have had Islamic radicals detonate nuclear weapons on our (American) soil, hopefully someone will have the guts to retaliate massively. Or, to clarify, nuke the whole bloody place It's not a place so you can't target it, Kyle. It's an idea. There are

[Vo]: Re: Air Independent Closed Cycle Diesel

2006-08-17 Thread Frederick Sparber
Argon (gamma 1.67)-H2O2 closed cycle diesel engines give appreciable efficiency increase over Air (gamma 1.4). O2-H2O separator will be required. If the monsoons persist, the local Wal-Mart will be selling these. :-) http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~brown/VTShipDesign/2005SSLW3_FinalReport.pdf

[Vo]: [OT] The Evolution of War

2006-08-17 Thread Terry Blanton
Gnorts, Vorts! Since I seem to have started this discussion with the comment on the Segway Products and it has gone to well over 100 messages, I felt obligated to seek a conclusion. I find it in this article: http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/07/1866019 What I have discovered is that my

[Vo]: OT: Lightness

2006-08-17 Thread Jones Beene
Word-play-of-the-day ... [woke-up light-headed, musing about an old movie] Lightness is where science morphs into philosophy; where logos exhales life; where levity becomes a weighty issue, and where being becomes nothingness. Huh? ... to complete the picture, one needs a serious scowl and

[Vo]: Josephson comments on Nature and Taleyarkhan

2006-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/propaganda/taleyarkhan.html

Re: [Vo]: [OT] The Evolution of War

2006-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
After 9/11, Bush told his aides, this is the first war of the 21st century. When I heard that I thought to myself, I was hoping there were not going to be any more wars in the 21st century. Bush, apparently, was expecting one. For me that is like saying: this is the first lynching of the 21st

[Vo]: OFF TOPIC Mathematics news? Or parody?

2006-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9775-russian-mathematics-genius-shuns-the-spotlight.html This is from a real article but it reads like a parody. Here are some selected quotes that make it sound like something orchestrated for the Marx Brothers by S. J. Pearlman (not the subject, G.

[Vo]: Magnetron application to water vortex

2006-08-17 Thread RC Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, We have made several modifications to our test setup andcan producea very stable eyewall in the water vortex. Suggestions made regarding applying a pair of magnetronsaimed at the vortex have been intriguing. I have some pdf pics of the test setup including a pic of trhe actual

Re: [Vo]: Re: Air Independent Closed Cycle Diesel

2006-08-17 Thread Terry Blanton
Geeze, Fred, It's hard enough to enforce illegal immigration as it is! Terry On 8/17/06, Frederick Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argon (gamma 1.67)-H2O2 closed cycle diesel engines give appreciable efficiency increase over Air (gamma 1.4). O2-H2O separator will be required. If the

Re: [Vo]: Re: Air Independent Closed Cycle Diesel

2006-08-17 Thread Frederick Sparber
Terry wrote. Geeze, Fred, It's hard enough to enforce illegal immigration as it is! The way the Rio Grande is presently flowing, it's a last resort, not to mention the level of the great lakes. CQ is interested in the idea too, if taxes in Toronto get much higher. :-) Actually I'm thinking

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-17 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
Original Message - From: John Berry To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:23 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products I am sort of against the war at this point Bright chap eh? ;) I prefer the dark myself. Your 'sort of' against the war at this point? I

[Vo]: [OT] Strong UN (was Re: New Segway Products)

2006-08-17 Thread Michel Jullian
(Robin your reply was private, but considering the contents I assume it's ok to answer on-list) Good point, but even so don't you think it would be a better solution than letting the fighting parties, who are necessarily biased, decide who are the bad guys and what should be done to them?

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-17 Thread John Berry
War, killing, fighting isn't Americas solution to everything no matter how much you and much of the US seems to think that it is.The US spends more on defense than all other countries combined even though the next biggest are allies of the US. The US has military bases in oh so mant other

Re: [Vo]: Plant Polluters

2006-08-17 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:15:54 -0500: Hi, [snip] Robin van Spaandonk wrote: Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means. A problem provides the motivation. Competition and/or cooperation provide the means. No, competition doesn't

[VO]:Re: New Segway Products

2006-08-17 Thread RC Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, Can'y find too much false in what John Berry wrote about the good ole USA which may be the reason the Confederacy in the south is still fighting the Civil War of 1861-1865. I know my grandmother sure hated the Yankees cuz her granddaddy was killed in that war by the damn

[Vo]: Re: [SPAM] Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-17 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
- Original Message - From: Nick Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:25 AM Subject: [SPAM] Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products I'm snipping most of this as it is not really worth the effort Currently, America and Israel are the greatest threats

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-17 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
- Original Message - From: "Nick Palmer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: vortex-l@eskimo.comSent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:25 AMSubject: [SPAM] Re: [Vo]: New Segway ProductsI'm snipping most of this as it is not really worth the effort Currently, America and Israel are the greatest threats

Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products

2006-08-17 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Kyle R. Mcallister's message of Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:14:28 -0400: Hi, [snip] Oh and it seems it will cost 1-2 trillion dollars. A pity. This could have been used to both: 1. Solve our addiction to foreign oil 2. Fund a much less expensive but far more aggressive war against Islamic

[Vo]: pseudoscience website

2006-08-17 Thread thomas malloy
Vortexians; A friend sent me this URL, www.tinaja.com/scweb01.html . On reading it I sent the author the following: Dear Mr. Lancaster; A friend forwarded your article on pseudoscience to me. I'm on Bill Beaty's discussion group, Vortex-L. There are some very interesting evidence