Jed's comments are interesting as usual. Loosely, the man who invents the
paradigm-shifting energy source is not John Galt, but Randy Mills. The
function promised by Hyperion is also the target of BLP. Hyperion is using
'old' technology, BLP 'new' technology about to hatch out of the egg with
safe techology that does not have to be sealed and buried. Unlike Galt or
Rand, Randy-Atlas does not shrug, pout and go hide, but moves publicly to
propagate the power source.
Mike Carrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>; <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Give them an inch, they'll take a friggin' mile...
Jones Beene wrote:
Perceptive ... or were you kidding?
Its sounds almost like the kind of shrug where John Galt/Gordon Gekko is
thinking about dumping a past-life of laissez-faire, greed-is-good
capitalism in favor of the B-team?
This actually happened the other day. Alan Greenspan more or less admitted
he was wrong, in Congressional testimony. Partially wrong, anyway, which
is a huge change for him. He studied with Ayn Rand herself.
I don't care for Rand or her books, but I would like to note that her
hero, John Galt, invents a mysterious power station that outputs
electricity with no apparent source of fuel. It occurred to me many years
ago that Rand must have imagined this as some sort of nuclear reactor. It
is a standalone, no maintenance unit similar to the Hyperion gadget that
Ed doesn't trust. Now, I suppose it would be a cold fusion reactor. If
cold fusion comes about, let it be noted that the people who discovered it
and brought it to fruition, such as Fleischmann, are about as different
from John Galt as anyone can be.
So, to answer the famous question reiterated by Terry Blanton, "Who *is*
John Galt?" the answer is:
You're look at 'im, kiddo. We are him. We are the ones we have been
waiting for, as Obama puts it. [*] Not me, actually, but these old
greasers are:
http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/ICCF09.htm
A bunch of retired electrochemists. Most of them worked their entire lives
with government grants. What a disappointment they would be to people with
romantic notions about the heroic inventor!
Greenspan doesn't look much like we imagine Galt would look either. And he
did not actually invent anything, did he?
- Jed
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* FOOTNOTE. The Daily Show response to that comment is hilarious. "I don't
even know what that means, but Holy S**t I'm feeling it! . . . Every time
Barack Obama speaks, an Angel has an orgasm!")
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