Re: [Vo]:Whitley Strieber interview

2008-03-11 Thread thomas malloy
OrionWorks wrote: Thomas sez: ... Whitley's views on the Space Brothers are charitable compared to mine. (I'm probably taking Mr. Malloy's comments out of context here.) I just wanted to offer the suggestion that a surefire way of determining whether you're dealing with a good alien or a

[Vo]:Energy Conversation Seminar live on-line

2008-03-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
The Energy Conversation Seminar Endurance, Resilience the Defense Science Board Report with Amory Lovins Live Webcast http://mlist.orchidsuites.net/lists/lt.php?id=KkoFBABaXQFTTVUMCRlcBgMCAA%3D%3Dwww.energyconversation.org will host live video stream of the March 11 Energy Conversation

Re: [Vo]:Re: NET Issue #27

2008-03-11 Thread Steven Krivit
Hi Jones, Glad you liked Pierre Carbonnelle's spoof. And thanks for your interesting history on mediums... Steve At 03:58 PM 3/10/2008, you wrote: Steve - Gotta Luv the spoof (item # 16) on Pierre Curie- i.e. being denied funding by a Gov'm't agency on account of the experiment being

Re: [Vo]:Toroidal inductors

2008-03-11 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 8, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:15:02 -0900: Hi Horace, [snip] Since you are talking about single layer tori, they both have major axis hoop currents, and thus the confined fields of both tori are shared

Re: [Vo]:Moon bases

2008-03-11 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Lawrence de Bivort's message of Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:37:46 -0400: Hi, [snip] Bah! Free-floating space stations and asteroid mining will free us from the tyranny of gravity and the competition for territory Lawrence The competition for territory is not about where to put ones bed,

RE: [Vo]:Moon bases

2008-03-11 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
Robin, you are talking about planet-based society, right? I was thinking about space, and how to go there. Free floating space colonies should be able to grow their own food. All they have to do is park close enough to a star for photosynthesis and energy, and mine low-gravity asteroids for

Re: [Vo]:Moon bases

2008-03-11 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Lawrence de Bivort's message of Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:16:05 -0400: Hi, [snip] Robin, you are talking about planet-based society, right? I was thinking about space, and how to go there. Free floating space colonies should be able to grow their own food. All they have to do is park close

Re: [Vo]:Toroidal inductors

2008-03-11 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:43:54 -0800: Hi Horace, [snip] It sounds like you are assuming the two tori major axis planes are parallel as well, both normal to the axis. Correct. If the radii are small in comparison to the distance between the tori, and the