Re: [Vo]: Local Cosmic Matter

2007-09-27 Thread thomas malloy
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to thomas malloy's message of Thu, 27 Jones Beene wrote: Robin, Suppose that the Sun orbits about a black hole once every 27000 years approximately. Although that cannot be ruled out, there seems to be no good evidence AFAIK that a black hole has b

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Taubes is at it again

2007-09-27 Thread thomas malloy
Harry Veeder wrote: On 27/9/2007 2:43 AM, thomas malloy wrote: I wrote AFAIK, diabetes is what happens when a poor diet runs into a genetic weakenss. It's clear to me, that in a hunter gather society putting on a few extra pounds in the fall would be a good idea. Harry Veeder wrote: What

Re: [Vo]: Local Cosmic Matter

2007-09-27 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to thomas malloy's message of Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:45:08 -0500 (CDT): Hi, [snip] >Jones Beene wrote: > >> Robin, >> >>> Suppose that the Sun orbits about a black hole once every 27000 years >>> approximately. >> >> >> Although that cannot be ruled out, there seems to be no good evidence

Re: [Vo]: Local Cosmic Matter

2007-09-27 Thread thomas malloy
Jones Beene wrote: Robin, Suppose that the Sun orbits about a black hole once every 27000 years approximately. Although that cannot be ruled out, there seems to be no good evidence AFAIK that a black hole has been documented nearby (and perhaps cannot be situated anywhere other than a ga

Re: [Vo]:Interesting views about the future of energy

2007-09-27 Thread Harry Veeder
On 27/9/2007 1:55 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > > Harry Veeder wrote: >> someone should make shoes so that you could recharge your cell phone when >> you walk. > > http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2006/09/013492.htm > I wonder why nike hasn't done this. Harry

Re: [Vo]:Interesting views about the future of energy

2007-09-27 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: someone should make shoes so that you could recharge your cell phone when you walk. http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2006/09/013492.htm Harry On 27/9/2007 1:11 PM, OrionWorks wrote: Interesting views about the future of energy. Well... sort of. (Must be a

Re: [Vo]:Interesting views about the future of energy

2007-09-27 Thread Harry Veeder
someone should make shoes so that you could recharge your cell phone when you walk. Harry On 27/9/2007 1:11 PM, OrionWorks wrote: > Interesting views about the future of energy. > > Well... sort of. (Must be a slow day in the office.) > > CNN.com has posted some interesting comments from blogg

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Taubes is at it again

2007-09-27 Thread Harry Veeder
On 27/9/2007 2:43 AM, thomas malloy wrote: > Harry Veeder wrote: >> > AFAIK, diabetes is what happens when a poor diet runs into a genetic > weakenss. It's clear to me, that in a hunter gather society putting on a > few extra pounds in the fall would be a good idea. What is a genetic "weakness

[Vo]:Interesting views about the future of energy

2007-09-27 Thread OrionWorks
Interesting views about the future of energy. Well... sort of. (Must be a slow day in the office.) CNN.com has posted some interesting comments from bloggers concerning our planet's future energy resources. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/23/energy.forum/index.html http://tinyurl.com/25

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion in "Outer Limits" program

2007-09-27 Thread Harry Veeder
On 26/9/2007 3:14 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Harry Veeder wrote: > >>> "If knowledge is power and power corrupts... how will humankind >> ever survive?" >>> >>> Good question! >>> >>> - Jed >>> >> >> >> IF knowledge is power. >> >> The problem lies with a power driven philosophy of knowledge

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Taubes is at it again

2007-09-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Berry wrote: Very true. But normal exersize as comes from manual labor is not effective, or do builders etc... look different in the US? ;) As I mentioned yesterday, many modern laborers do not get much exercise. They often sit on machinery most of the day, getting about as much exerci

[Vo]:ICCF13 papers from Dash et al.

2007-09-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kojima, H., W.-S. Zhang, and J. Dash. Precision Measurement Of Excess Energy In Electrolytic System Pd/D/H2SO4 And Inverse-Power Distribution Of Energy Pulses Vs. Excess Energy. in The 13th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2007. Sochi, Russia.

Re: [Vo]:Srinivasan article in The Hindu

2007-09-27 Thread OrionWorks
Jones sez: > worth quoting (if not circling a date on next year's calendar): > > "Dr. Igor Goryachev of the prestigious Kurchatov Institute announced ... > that he expects to have a 100 KW "alchemical reactor" ready for > demonstration at ICCF-14 to be held during August 2008!" > > Wow! Sound like

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Taubes is at it again

2007-09-27 Thread John Berry
> > Mild exercise may or may not do much, but occasional _vigorous_ > exercise, done intensely enough to get you out of breath, is certainly > worthwhile. (Your body seems to react to getting out of breath the way > it would to being chased by something large and hungry -- it tries to > "adjust" t

Re: [Vo]: Local Cosmic Matter

2007-09-27 Thread R.C.Macaulay
Jones wrote.. It is theorized from actual DNA evidence that two different (in time), but similar (in severity) "population-bottlenecks" occurred just prior to both of these DNA progenitors being alive; but alive at differing times (45,000 years apart) and that all humans alive today derive from t

[Vo]:magnetite and cattle mutilations

2007-09-27 Thread thomas malloy
Vortexians; Linda Moulton Howe of www.earthfiles.com , is a regular guest on C to C AM. Just now she's going on about one of my favorite topics, cattle mutilations, and crop circles. Somebody took a magnet and went over a crop circle and then collected the magnetite the adhered to the magnet.

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Taubes is at it again

2007-09-27 Thread thomas malloy
Harry Veeder wrote: On 26/9/2007 12:57 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: From an evolutionary perspective, if obesity is so bad for us, why has it not been eliminated by natural selection? AFAIK, diabetes is what happens when a poor diet runs into a genetic weakenss. It's clear to me, that in a hu