Re: [Vo]:March 22, 23

2012-03-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed, ... Conferences are fine. They serve their purpose, which is to inform scientists. But the only way cold fusion will ever be pushed into the mainstream will be with commercial production of cold fusion devices. I hope that Defkalion or someone else brings that about. I infer from

Re: [Vo]:I Will Get Puppets, Snakes (and Clowns)

2012-03-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Recently from: Andrea Rossi March 27th, 2012 at 8:13 AM Dear Antonella: We know perfectly who some puppeteers are: our intelligence system is working together with the Law Firm we have engaged for this issue. We are collecting and analyzing every single phrase the Puppets, Snakes (and

Re: [Vo]:I Will Get Puppets, Snakes (and Clowns)

2012-03-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Andre: ... darn, I get confused. who are the puppets? and who could be the puppeteers? That's a question best answered by the master himself, Heinlein. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppet_Masters Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:I Will Get Puppets, Snakes (and Clowns)

2012-03-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Like many here, Rossi assumes (or knows) Krivit is actually controlled by some group or people / institution / organization, called his puppeteers. It must me them, then, that he wants to target eventually. This is just my take, but I seriously, SERIOUSLY, doubt Mr. Krivit is being controlled

Re: [Vo]:I Will Get Puppets, Snakes (and Clowns)

2012-03-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Abd: The man is insane. If it happens that he's rich (i.e., he's got that plant open and is selling to the public, which implies that the device is working and is reliable), he'll be a bit dangerous, but that's life. He will then be an attractive target for countersuits. He set up

[Vo]:Brillouin Energy making waves

2012-03-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Next Big Future: (This may have already been reported here.) http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/brillioun-energy-closing-to.html * * * * Brillouin Energy has been able to develop a control system that allows a reaction to start and stop, and run in a steady state mode. In April, they will

Re: [Vo]:Should there be a prediction market for LENR?

2012-03-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From pagnucco: ... People who buy low and sell high are rewarded for improving the market prediction, while those who buy high and sell low are punished for degrading the market prediction. Evidence so far suggests that prediction markets are at least as accurate as other institutions

Re: [Vo]:It's only chemistry

2012-04-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jones: The most interesting distinction in all of physics comes into focus with Ni-H, assuming that it is NOT a nuclear reaction (as normally understood). There is no proof that Ni-H is primarily nuclear, and many indications that it is not, and there are also indications that there is

Re: [Vo]:Toyota demos 60 km/l hybrid prototype

2012-04-13 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Terry: I don't know if everyone keeps up with the market; but, are you aware that there are four models of Prius available?  The latest I have seen is the Prius C, a smaller version of the Prius 3G with a 53 mpg city rating.  It's available in four trim levels starting at $18,900.

Re: [Vo]:Toyota demos 60 km/l hybrid prototype

2012-04-13 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed, ... The plug-in version is sold in the U.S. with very limited availability this year: http://www.toyota.com/prius-plug-in/?srchid=K21577_p417641580 I think it is more widely available in Japan. I think there will be a real problem with gas going stale. For urban use, I would

Re: [Vo]:North Korea tells its people about the failure, for the first time

2012-04-13 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed: See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-a-first-north-korea-tells-its-people-about-a-failure/2012/04/13/gIQA4g8WET_story.html QUOTE: [T]his time, unlike after previous failures, North Korea didn’t manufacture a tale about a technological triumph and a satellite

Re: [Vo]:International Conference The Atom Unexplored - May 4th, 2012

2012-04-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Akira, I forgot to add that all this information came from 22passi: http://22passi.blogspot.it/2012/04/latomo-inesplorato-torino-4-maggio-2012.html Jones sez: Fabulous cover-art image - reminiscent of a Serpinski fractal - Menger sponge. etc. Metaphorical to the Casimir-instigated

Re: [Vo]:International Conference The Atom Unexplored - May 4th, 2012

2012-04-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Akira, I forgot to add that all this information came from 22passi: http://22passi.blogspot.it/2012/04/latomo-inesplorato-torino-4-maggio-2012.html ... The link is blocked where I work. I screwed it up. It should be http://www.1proxy.de Both sites are blocked as well. Drat. Regards

Re: [Vo]:International Conference The Atom Unexplored - May 4th, 2012

2012-04-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Akira, ... Try this: http://i.imgur.com/zTn9A.jpg Cover Image came through. Thanx. Some of the imagery is in the style of the famous artist: M. C. Escher's work. Vaguely, that is. http://www.mcescher.com/ http://www.mcescher.net/ Escher was way ahead of his time. He created meticulous

Re: [Vo]:Can a Box Fly?

2012-04-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed asks: We see that a box can fly. But can a fly box? Well, my cat Zoey sez: Can I has a fly box? http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8node=3409411 I suspect a human is required to assist in the lift Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Last Day of April ... where are the Defkalion test reports?

2012-04-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed: Tests have been performed. The people doing them would prefer to keep everything quiet for a while longer, for good reasons. I suppose if I were in their shoes I'd want to keep a lid on a lot of of this stuff as well. Considering how much bad press combined with rampant speculation,

Re: [Vo]:Correspondence about the rejected paper

2012-05-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
That was a juicy read, Jed. FWIW, I know someone who's employed at the National Science Foundation. He's an old Science Fiction fan/friend we've known for decades. He reviews funding grant proposals for promising new science projects. It's a position that wields a lot of responsibility and power.

Re: [Vo]:Key to Extraterrestrial Messages

2012-05-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
My two-cents: Anthropologically speaking it is best to not contaminate the indigenous life forms one is trying to study such as by making too much of an overt presence. To announce one's presence would immediately cause the subjects one is observing to behave unnaturally. Data would immediately

Re: [Vo]:Key to Extraterrestrial Messages

2012-05-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: ”O freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me ... I hear Shakespear translated into Klingon is quite good. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Key to Extraterrestrial Messages

2012-05-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Beautiful Alien Verses (yes, that; also known as BAW). Freddled is Vogon for star, by the way. I've modestly attempted a translation, years ago, but it got lost somehow. I specially like when the Improbability Drive turns everything as made of wool (which is Vogon for 'wool', by the way)

Re: [Vo]:Progress Photographs pdf from Defkalion Green Technologies

2012-05-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Oooo! On page 32... I want that printer! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Mistaken notions about human populations and longevity

2012-05-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed: ... You cannot draw conclusions about today's diet from today's longevity. To find out if our diet is healthy and promotes a longer life, you will have to wait 30 to 50 years. Chances are, it does not. Today's diets have caused unprecedented high levels of obesity. Obesity usually

Re: [Vo]:Another web site about Rossi

2012-05-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed, See: http://rossifocardifusion.com/ These guys definitely have a lot of time on their hands! Lots of snazzy graphics! I hope it isn't all just smoke and mirrors. So, Jed. What do you think? Did these guys use WordPress, Drupal, or some other concoction? Inquiring minds want to

Re: [Vo]:Another web site about Rossi

2012-05-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed: As for me, my current plans are to completely overhaul my orionworks web site using XARA Web Designer Premium. See: http://www.xara.com/us/products/webdesigner/ That costs $99. Probably worth it. It looks similar to WordPress. They use the same jargon for components such as

Re: [Vo]:re the alternative history of LENR

2012-05-31 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sed: I have a similar set of quote for the canals that governments were building all over Europe and the Erie canal in 1817, and the railroads they soon subsidized, and the Transcontinental Railroad built with Uncle Sam's loans in the 1860s, and later the transatlantic cable (mainly a

Re: [Vo]:Transcension Hypothesis

2012-06-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Perhaps we, or more specifically, our gene pool, is considered something akin to a game preserve by many species out yonder. Future selves (containers?) occasionally coming back to sample the indigenous DNA of their ancient ancestors. Such a hypothesis would certainly make more sense as compared

Re: [Vo]:Transcension Hypothesis

2012-06-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From David, ... Further, they might conclude that finding this form of communications is the simplest test of intelligence which would warrant further contact Careful what you wish for. Speciously Packaged Alien Messages, aka: SPAM Especially during the election season. Who represents us?

Re: [Vo]:Is OPEC afraid of synfuels?

2012-06-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Thanks for the post Jones. http://www.synfuels.com/Plant.html It seems to me that most corporate business models follow methodologies that closely resemble the theory of evolution. Businesses fight for survival out in the Serengeti Plains populated by fickle consumers - prey. They survive by

Re: [Vo]:test

2012-06-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Terry. Post it in docs.google.com I finally posted my scribblings under the subject thread: Groking CoAM, Kepler and Rossi as a txt file. Nothing appears to have gotten terribly garbled. BTW, I noticed that Google is upgrading docs.google.com to drive.google.com Under new management.

Re: [Vo]:Baltic mystery update

2012-06-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Sverre: I am not so sure. It's flat and circular with a hole in the center like a coin. Strange meteorite... Lost change. https://www.google.com/search?q=stone+moneyhl=enprmd=imvnstbm=ischtbo=usource=univsa=Xei=mwzrT635JtPyqAGL8vTGBQsqi=2ved=0CGAQsAQbiw=1317bih=1064

Re: [Vo]:Baltic mystery update

2012-06-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones sez: Wo …. Mystery continues to shroud over the UFO-shaped object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, as divers claim that their equipment stops working when they approach within 200 meters of the circular object. Stefan Hogerborn said their cameras and satellite phone refuse to work

Re: [Vo]:Baltic mystery update

2012-06-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumlin We got lots of'em in Wisconsin. No holes in any of'em however. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:First Interview Defkalion about Business

2012-06-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Thank you Peter, Enjoyed reading it. You give me the impression that you feel reasonably confident in DGTG's claims. What do you base your sense of confidence on? Just curious. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:First Interview Defkalion about Business

2012-06-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Yes indeed! I see several anonymous postings. That was fast. You're an old war horse. I'm sure you know how to kick back. You mentioned you got some data from DGTG. I gather you were not given permission to post that data. So, DGTG suggests they might have something to show in another two or

Re: RE: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-05 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Hi Jeff, I have never experienced sleep paralysis, but my wife did once, and it was not nearly so benign as yours. It was the summer of 1970 in Virginia after an early morning thunder storm. I left early for some errands: my wife slept in. When she woke up, she could move nothing but her

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

2009-08-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Mr. Zell: First, I think Congress should convert all of Hawaii over to electric vehicles.  Maybe Puerto Rico, too.  Who needs a 300 mile range? Unfortunately,  this looks like a commuter car for rich folks like Ed Begley. Other than that, they gotta get the price down for California,

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

2009-08-12 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Michel There might be a way for purely electric vehicles to deal with long trips, without the need for a network of charging stations, nor even a network of gas stations: an Internet based peer to peer (EV to EV) kWh trading scheme, where home- or office- charged cars with energy to

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

2009-08-12 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... If we start to run out of oil and the cost of oil skyrockets, the cost of electricity will go up, but not as much. You will still be talking about ~$20 per day income, adjusted for inflation. Little or no electricity is generated with oil, although it does take oil to mine coal

Re: [Vo]:Toyota announces hybrid compact car

2009-08-12 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed: Terry Blanton wrote: I wonder if this is the rumored serial-hybrid from Toyota? There are no technical details in the Japanese newspapers. Just short announcements. I do not even see a model name mentioned, such as Prius or Yaris (or Sonata, Apostrophe or Ellipsis -- they do give

Re: [Vo]:Toyota announces hybrid compact car

2009-08-12 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
But how long will it take for these expensive high tech batteries to come down to a more reasonable 2k - 3k price tag? I gather most of these batteries do not incorporate expensive elements or other resources, so it would seem to be primarily an issue acquiring economical technology combined with

Re: [Vo]:Blacklight Power revamps their web site

2009-08-13 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From the recent BLP press release at: http://www.blacklightpower.com/Press%20Releases/BlackLightPowerPhysicsGrandSlamFINAL081209.htm http://tinyurl.com/q2dxos -- Excerpt: “The advanced version of the solid fuel is very efficient at liberating energy from forming

Re: [Vo]:An Unnoticed Governance Experiment?

2009-08-13 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Mr. Zell Is China an experiment in governance that no one has noticed? ... Imagine a President who knows Calculus. wow! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have helped them integrate Tibet. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of Volt versus Prius, interview with Lutz

2009-08-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... Let's not sell GM short. They are in huge trouble, but they are, after all, a gigantic industrial company with a large share of the best engineering and manufacturing talent in the world. It would not take much to turn them around. Lutz compared their situation to the space

[Vo]:Interesting comments from Kiplinger Letter, Aug 14, 2009

2009-08-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
This brief excerpt from the Kiplinger Letter, Aug, 14, 2009 -- DEFENSE: Plenty of business opportunities as the military's needs change. Much of the new defense technology will have commercial applications as well. Data mining. Ever more sophisticated software to collect, analize and

[Vo]:cnn.com: Green goo' biofuel gets a boost

2009-08-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
See: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/21/eco.algaebiofuel/index.html http://tinyurl.com/mufpf8 Excerpt: But after years of careful research ExxonMobil concluded that algae, among all the alternatives, has the most potential in terms of scalability and fitting into the vast infrastructure

Re: [Vo]:Blacklight Power, the annoying RED DOT!, Someone messing around

2009-08-31 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
I've gotten the same bogus Blacklight Power emails from three separate independent Email accounts. All the same bogus URLs. Apparently, others have gotten the same bogus email alerts as well. Most of the analysis expressed so far seems to describe various symptoms. What is causing the symptoms?

Re: [Vo]:Come And Get It

2009-09-02 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Stephen sez: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: Statistically, in terms of how we understood evolution to work, to have encountered such a large amount of genetic uniformity made no sense to us. We assumed evolution would have naturally engineered more diversity.  . . . ... The

[Vo]:CNN.COM: A cordless future?

2009-09-02 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Apparently, we are making headway on wireless power schemes. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/02/wireless.electricity/index.html http://tinyurl.com/n4jdma After weighing all the pros and cons I'm wondering if the Vort Collective still thinks this is a good idea. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson

[Vo]:cnn.com video reports on Wikipedia: Wikipedia's credibility search

2009-09-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
There is an amusing cnn.com VIDEO entry listing several notable (and quite erroneous) Wikipedia entries, along with the organization's attempt to rectify the problem. Wikipedia plans to implement more stringent record keeping methodologies. Wiki hopes to better track authors making entries, making

[Vo]:Wikipedia's cold fusion entry, what's the status?

2009-09-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Following up on the recent cnn.com video clip concerning erroneous entries I decided to revisit the COLD FUSION entry. I was surprised to discover that at present there doesn't appear to be any disputing going on. But appearances can be deceiving. Have most CF proponents given up trying to make it

Re: [Vo]:More Abductions

2009-09-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Terry: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-have-been-abducted-by-aliens-says-japans-first-lady-1780888.html Yukido Hatoyama sez: While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus, she explains in the tome she published last year. It

Re: [Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe not!)

2009-09-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Anybody want to see a video of this sorry-assed thing? --Kyle Yes! I second that. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Wikipedia's cold fusion entry, what's the status?

2009-09-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Terry, Thanks for expounding on that, Abd.  I'm curious, are you typing or using a voxrec s/w like Dragonspeak? :-) I would like to add my complements to the chef as well. I found Abd's analysis to be both informative and educational. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com

Re: [Vo]:More Abductions

2009-09-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry Sez: Ms. Hatoyama is not the first to visit a hospitable Venus. One of the first was George Adamski as his Wiki explains: However, the Ageless Wisdom teaching, which was first introduced to the West in the works of Theosophical Society co-founder H.P. Blavatsky, posits the idea that

Re: [Vo]:More Abductions

2009-09-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Mr. Lawrence, What disgusted me about the Hatoyama tale is the lack of indication that she saw anything surprising about it. Speaking on behalf of all the rational scientist types of the world, your aversion to Hatoyama's tale is certainly understandable, even from me who likes these

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Francis: Steven, Isn't it going to be difficult to identify whether the change is introduced by mechanical motion due to the variation in field strength or the effect on the photon from the same variation? In my original comments I was concerned about certain questions you bring up. I

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Something else worth trying, an experiment that shouldn't be too expensive to assemble would be to spin the apparatus while it is set in it's horizontal position. IOW, turn the apparatus into a spinning centrifuge. Make sure it's carefully counter balanced, then spin up the RPMs to something

Re: [Vo]:OT: Abducted!

2009-09-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: You sure it wasn't an attempted ACORN enlistment? Terry Can't say for sure. ;-) Back in my 20s a moonie once valiantly tried to recruit me. It was quite the experience. He was very persistent! I didn't even know what a moonie was. Ignorant of the ways of the world I may have

[Vo]:Quantum computer slips into chips

2009-09-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8236943.stm Exerpt: To get a useful computer it needs to be probably a million times more complex, so a full-scale useful factoring machine is still at least two decades away, he said. But this is one important step in that direction. -

Re: [Vo]:ORBO Spring Eternal

2009-09-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Stephen sez: I'd bet any amount that it fizzles. They've shown their true colors already; why believe anything they say about their alleged miraculous new technology? OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:

[Vo]:Free Energy Times Interviews Sean McCarthy of STEORN:

2009-09-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
FWIW, Free Energy Times Interviews Sean McCarthy, of STEORN: http://www.freeenergytimes.com/?p=46 Excerpts: Here is a transcript of the email exchange which took place; Sean McCarthy’s responses were sent to me on September 22, 2009. ... FET: In a statement made earlier this year you stated

Re: [Vo]:clever electric bike design

2009-09-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jones: ... Compared to Europe, where there is a significantly larger participation in eco-transportation – the situation here in the USA is terrible. I see my neighbor driving her 3-ton Land Rover SUV down the hill simply to get the mail. Then later she drives over to the health club to

Re: [Vo]:The source of the disagreement over cold fusion

2009-09-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
As best as I can tell the on-going dispute between Mr. Rothwell and Dr. Swartz appears to revolve around Dr. Swartz desire to prove that Jed censors experimental data from CF researchers, himself included. Meanwhile, from Jed's perspective, it would appear that Dr. Swartz refuses to follow a few

Re: [Vo]:Swartz is running a extortion racket

2009-09-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
For the record, and as best as I can tell, Dr. Swartz has never had anything bad to say about anyone's mother. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Swartz is running a extortion racket

2009-10-02 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Robin and Abd: Actually none of this is necessary. If it is posted on his own website, then all you need on LENR-CANR.org is a URL pointing to it iso to your own web site. It wouldn't matter in the slightest to the rest of the world where the actual document resides. Robin has a point.

Re: [Vo]:An extreme skeptic

2009-10-02 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
If you have not dealt with a skeptic lately, here is a reminder of what they are like: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=1940 Scroll down to the bottom and you will see that this person absolutely rejects any paper not published in a U.S. peer-reviewed journal. He will not even glance

Re: [Vo]:Our Jobless Startrek Future

2009-10-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Chris sez: Just imagine what would happen to our economy if we had a device like the Replicator on Startrek. Anyone could have anything from clothing to gold bars to Earl Grey Tea instantly. The overall effect would be profoundly deflationary and the only jobs that remained would be menial

Re: [Vo]:Dyson bladeless fan

2009-10-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Pete sez: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I have the vacuums; but, $300 seems a bit much for a 10 inch fan. $29.95 at Home Depot once the Chinese slave labor camps start churning them out Time for another political purge. Hey! It's just business. Nothing personal. Regards Steven

[Vo]:Follow-up Kiplinger Forecast link on China's Control Over Rare Minerals

2009-10-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/chinas-control-over-rare-minerals-troubles.html http://tinyurl.com/yl7tfxv -- Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Monopoles detected

2009-10-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Harry sez: Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, have for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real material.

Re: [Vo]:paper out in IE..I hear nothing

2009-10-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Frank sez: I don't know.  My niece found in at Barns and Nobile in Tampa. I found it in Books a Million in Charlotte.  It is very good work. Its everywhere, however, its as if it were a non event. Frank Z Patience, you must have. Fame and fortune are the values a scientist must worship

Re: [Vo]:Vu1 ESL lighting technology

2009-10-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Hoyt sez: However, since Steorn and BlackPower are coming out with free energy technologies soon it's kind of irrelevent about efficiency, isn't it? Even a hypothetical free energy BLP generator in my basement would end up costing me something, though presumably a lot less than what I'm

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:The Strange World of “Cold Fusion”

2009-10-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... It may be that a few people who spend a lot of effort disputing the Mills theory. I have heard there are some on the Mills discussion group. But that is an unusual case. That theory attracts a lot of interest. ... You speculate it may be ??? It certainly has generated plenty

[Vo]:OT: Found: first 'skylight' on the moon

2009-10-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
An interesting Moon article: Title: Found: first 'skylight' on the moon http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18030-found-first-skylight-on-the-moon.html http://tinyurl.com/ykgfsrd Excerpt: Finding such an opening could be a boon for possible human exploration of the moon (see What NASA's

Re: [Vo]:OT: Found: first 'skylight' on the moon

2009-10-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: Ackshully, rampant speculation preceded this announcement due to the LCROSS debacle: http://www.enterprisemission.com/SmokingGun.htm http://www.enterprisemission.com/SmokingGun2.htm Enjoy! Let the games begin! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com

Re: [Vo]:Heat is the principal signature of the reaction

2009-10-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Xcuse me as another non-scientist butts in, From Lawry: Jed, a point of information, from this non-scientist: I understand that you are saying that heat, above all else, is the required product, and that any other products are of secondary importance when it comes to asserting that the

Re: [Vo]:Heat is the principal signature of the reaction

2009-10-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Mike sez: This discussion ignores the elephant in the room. a) Heat is *fundamental* and scalar, particles and radiation are not. Because it is fundamental, many factors affect heat and careful experimental technique is essential. b) Commercial value [i.e. money] is for utility for motive

Re: [Vo]:Reactionless drive claim: Emdrive

2009-10-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Horace: http://www.emdrive.com/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/impossible-drive-designers-dream-flying-cars-stealth-missiles/ We’ve seen the photograph of this contraption in the past. I’m sure this topic has been discussed within the Vort Collective, if one were to go through

Re: [Vo]:Heat is the principal signature of the reaction

2009-10-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Abd sez: The idea that excess heat is easier to detect reliably than radiation is downright weird. It might seem weird to you. But it's a probably whole lot safer looking for anomalous heat as compared to anomalous neutrons and other sub-atomic particles. I have a story to recount. Many

Re: [Vo]:Reactionless drive claim: Emdrive

2009-11-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: They will write impassioned ballads of unfortunate ships flung out of the solar system. I think it is more likely they will dispatch a ship to repair or tow the derelict ship back to the nearest port. You are, of course, correct. Alas, taking the romance out of exploiting another

Re: [Vo]:Reactionless drive claim: Emdrive

2009-11-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
They will write impassioned ballads of unfortunate ships flung out of the solar system. David Bowe, who wrote the haunting ballad Ground Control to Major Tom is probably prophetic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Tom http://tinyurl.com/yhp8ts8 Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com

Re: [Vo]:Reactionless drive claim: Emdrive

2009-11-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Robin, In reply to  Jed Rothwell's message of Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:33:34 -0400: Hi, [snip] Robin van Spaandonk wrote: (BTW minimum travel time to Mars at 1 g is 2 days.) I did not know it was that close. Any idea what the max is? The simplest calculation yields 4.5 days, but that's a

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Swine flu

2009-11-05 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Mr. Lawrence Some of you may have been debating whether to get the vaccine or not. Here are a couple of personal observations...  -- They say it's not very deadly.  Well, I guess it's not, we're all still alive here.  -- They say it's not usually very serious.  Well, I guess it's

Re: [Vo]:Park, memory ..some debunkers are pseudoscientists

2009-11-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Abd sez: ... I'm not ready yet, but, looking ahead, do you think I could get Robert Park to denounce my Kitchen Fusion kits? Just drop him a line when you get up to speed. I bet he would oblige. No problemo! ;-) (Too bad it's not fission, Kitchen Fission would be a great name. I suppose

Re: [Vo]:Re: New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Mark Jed sez: ... Again, its a perception battle, and the goal is not to convince the diehard (pathological) skeptics like Park; its to persuade the average Science or Nature reader, the average researcher . . . That's true, and it is important. There is no point in trying to convince the

[Vo]:OT: Drilling of a different kind in Antarctica

2009-11-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
...sipping on Shackleton’s preferred hooch. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/11/17/in-antarctica-drilling-for-100-year-old-whiskey/ http://tinyurl.com/yzce9vn Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Hilarious response to DIA paper in Wikipedia

2009-11-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... It was published by the Agency. Just not on the Internet. It was released on Friday the 13th. Do you think I would upload unpublished material?!? Do you think I want to get in trouble with a Federal agency? I presume not! ;-) ...but that does not answer the principal question:

Re: [Vo]:Hilarious response to DIA paper in Wikipedia

2009-11-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: Steven V Johnson wrote: ...but that does not answer the principal question: How does one verify its pedigree? For those of us (particularly me!) who may not be as quick witted as you appear to be can you clarify how you went about verifying the presumed legitimacy of this report?

Re: [Vo]:Hilarious response to DIA paper in Wikipedia

2009-11-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: (By the way, they said they can't provide it in Acrobat text format. A shame.) Another fine example of our tax dollars working for our benefit! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.orionworks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Hilarious response to DIA paper in Wikipedia

2009-11-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sed: I guess you could ask the Agency but I expect your request would be lost in the shuffle. and... I am sure of the pedigree because the authors sent me the document. For which I sed: That's a good point. Thanks for revealing that little tidbit. For which Jed sed: I said that a

Re: [Vo]:Not sure the DIA document will have a big impact

2009-11-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... I can understand why mass media outlets such as CBS 60 Minutes would have a large impact on public opinion. It is because many people watch television, and because the mass media -- especially broadcast media -- has a certain cachet or glamour that makes people believe whatever

Re: [Vo]:How to confirm that a document at LENR-CANR.org is real

2009-11-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Mauro sez: This is a good summary. Maybe you could publish a version of it somewhere at lenr-canr.org. It surely will not hurt, and could help first comers with doubts about the validity of the sources and the information presented. ... I agree! Write it up, Jed! That is, during one of

Re: [Vo]:How to confirm that a document at LENR-CANR.org is real

2009-11-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: Steven V Johnson wrote: Mauro sez: This is a good summary. Maybe you could publish a version of it somewhere at lenr-canr.org. It surely will not hurt, and could help first comers with doubts about the validity of the sources and the information presented. ... I agree!

Re: [Vo]:Is Galileo's DNA still viable?

2009-11-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones sez: ... Of course, there is *zero assurance* that the “clone of a genius” will follow in the footsteps of the progenitor... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_from_Brazil_(film) Speaking of cloning, don't forget Sir Lawrence of Olivier Regards Steven Vincent Johnson

Re: [Vo]:How to confirm that a document at LENR-CANR.org is real

2009-11-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: But IMHO, it seems to me that occasionally you DO care what others think. I care what some people think. Especially intelligence analysts. My point is that it would be politically inept to bring up these issueson LENR-CANR.org. Imagine a contractor shows up at your door to do an

Re: [Vo]:Long interview with Taubes

2009-11-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Beaty sez: What a creep! See: http://www.thedailybell.com/BellPage.asp?nid=604 His article fails the basic pseudoscience test ...and he even MENTIONS this test for detecting pseudoscience! It might seem quite bizarre at first. Don't people typically use the Golden Rule, and apply their

Re: [Vo]:Global Warming

2009-11-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jeff Fink: THE GLOBAL WARMING SCAM There is interesting news as a result of leaked e-mails. It shows that the scientists who have been pushing the man made global warming agenda have been suppressing and altering data. ... Speaking of agendas, read: THE FAMILY, The Secret

Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): 2000-2009: the 21 Century decade of Extraordinary claims?

2009-11-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
In regards to STEORN, I sez: ... I myself have yet to reconcile within myself how STEORN's engineers could have gotten as far as they claim to have gotten with their alleged ORBO technology, but then not have pre-tested the prototype within the same harsh environment where it would go on

[Vo]:OT: Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory

2009-12-01 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed, You might enjoy the following article from Times OnLine: Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6936352.ece http://tinyurl.com/ycq7w86 Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

[Vo]:OT: Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory (Follow-up)

2009-12-01 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Steven Vincent Johnson sez: Jed, You might enjoy the following article from Times OnLine: Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6936352.ece http://tinyurl.com/ycq7w86 Oh dear! I just HAVE to share one of the comments made by a

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