[Vo]:US Nuclear Weapons Lab Discovers How To Suppress the Casimir Force

2013-10-11 Thread James Bowery
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/10/11/1733224/us-nuclear-weapons-lab-discovers-how-to-suppress-the-casimir-force "One of the frustrating problems with microelectromechanical (MEM) devices is that the machinery can sometimes stick fast, causing them to stop working. One of the culprits is the

Re: [Vo]:Why is the oil pink?

2013-10-11 Thread fznidarsic
Why do you ask XX00? Is the car Pink? -Original Message- From: ChemE Stewart To: vortex-l Sent: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 7:11 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Why is the oil pink? Is the car Pink? On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:47 PM, wrote: > I

Re: [Vo]:Why is the oil pink?

2013-10-11 Thread ChemE Stewart
Is the car Pink? On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:47 PM, wrote: > > I bought my new mini this spring. I checked the oil it was pink. > > It's to benefit the Susan G. Komen fund. > > http://ww5.komen.org/ > >

Re: [Vo]:Small scale table-top aneutronic fusion

2013-10-11 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
It's not justification or rationalization... I wish that these people were that practical... rather these people have identified themselves by their beliefs. Anything that is a threat to these little ideas that they have is a threat to them and their power. The problem that they don't realize is

Re: [Vo]:Small scale table-top aneutronic fusion

2013-10-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Blaze Spinnaker's message of Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:11:22 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Now I think you're the one being the cold fusion police. You're >prejudging what 'cold fusion' must be. > >Scientists sometimes make me think of Sunni vesus Shiite muslims. Or hell, >muslims versus jews versus

Re: [Vo]:Why is the oil pink?

2013-10-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:47 PM, wrote: > I bought my new mini this spring. I checked the oil it was pink. It's to benefit the Susan G. Komen fund. http://ww5.komen.org/

Re: [Vo]:We're Watching You

2013-10-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > This is why I do not fear the government. Same reason I never feared the Russians . . . incompetency.

[Vo]:Why is the oil pink?

2013-10-11 Thread fznidarsic
I bought my new mini this spring. I checked the oil it was pink. I asked the sales woman Beth; Why is the oil pink? She did not know but got the chief mechanic. He looked at said, "They probably color the original factory oil pink. That way they can tell if you changed it!" I showed my brot

Re: [Vo]:We're Watching You

2013-10-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: > The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the NSA's new data > center in Bluffdale, Utah, has been experiencing a series of > electrical failures—10 in the last 13 months—that are blowing circuits > and melting the metal machinery. > This is why I do not fear the go

Re: [Vo]:Spy drone ... available now

2013-10-11 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
To be fair, anyone could have simply studied wind patterns and launch weather balloons with payloads decades ago. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > http://www.stratus-productions.com/multirotors.htm > > range is 5 miles today but next year it will be 7.5 and so on... > I'm c

Re: [Vo]:Small scale table-top aneutronic fusion

2013-10-11 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
Now I think you're the one being the cold fusion police. You're prejudging what 'cold fusion' must be. Scientists sometimes make me think of Sunni vesus Shiite muslims. Or hell, muslims versus jews versus christians.They all believe in generally the same thing, but wow do they get petty abo

Re: [Vo]:Small scale table-top aneutronic fusion

2013-10-11 Thread pagnucco
Blaze, You are being too kind to Nature. Pyroelectric fusion is still hot fusion, albeit in a larger cool environment. -- Lou Pagnucco Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > Nature isn't too hard on Cold Fusion. They did publish this important > paper on Pyroelectric fusion: > > http://www.nature.com/nature

Re: [Vo]:Bayes theorem and LENR

2013-10-11 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
The analysis is sound, but he completely missed the may report to update his priors. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/josling20131008 > > In probability theory and statistics, Bayes theorem (rule) is a useful > model > of "conditional prob

RE: [Vo]:Small scale table-top aneutronic fusion

2013-10-11 Thread pagnucco
Jones, I did not intend to throw a spark into a tinder box. Of course, politics trumps scientific merit when money is doled out. Here is another new (Chinese) patent proposing an (almost) aneutronic fusion scheme producing direct-to-electrical power, avoiding heat issues: Controlled fusion in a

Re: [Vo]:Small scale table-top aneutronic fusion

2013-10-11 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
Nature isn't too hard on Cold Fusion. They did publish this important paper on Pyroelectric fusion: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7037/full/nature03575.html On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alan Fletcher wrote: > At 09:02 PM 10/9/2013, you wrote: > >> Tabletop fusion reactor mi

Re: [Vo]:We're Watching You

2013-10-11 Thread Terry Blanton
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-nsa-fast-tracked-its-gigantic-new-data-center-and-now-its-melting The NSA Fast-Tracked Its Gigantic New Data Center and Now It's Melting You know that massive datacenter the NSA's been building out in Utah? The one for which superlatives abound? The biggest ev

Re: [Vo]:[OT] What's Up at Minot?

2013-10-11 Thread Terry Blanton
More turmoil in the nuke command: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/11/air-force-general-in-charge-nuclear-missiles-to-be-fired-officials-say/ The two-star general in charge of all Air Force nuclear missiles was fired Friday following a probe into alleged personal misbehavior -- just days a

Re: [Vo]:Best Peer-reviewed article for those who ask for it

2013-10-11 Thread Edmund Storms
You should know that efforts to provide a review article using more up to date information have failed when submitted to major journals. The mainstream journals still do not accept review papers about LENR. Increasingly, rejection is based on ignorance, not on logic or scientific evaluation

[Vo]:Best Peer-reviewed article for those who ask for it

2013-10-11 Thread Alain Sepeda
Hi all, I imagine it is a FAQ, and it will launch discussion, but if you had to give reference to scientists asking for peer-reviewed articles On internet, or just the bibliography data, letting them buy the paper. I first put Ed Storms review 2010 in naturWissenschaften http://link.springer.com/

Re: [Vo]:In defense of cracks...

2013-10-11 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Axil, I like that you focus on the geometry formed by the nanowires instead of the more popular "cracks" perspective taken in the case of skeletal catalysts.. but another property more often associated with Casimir papers is " rigidity" and I think this plays an important part i