Cude wrote:
> You should keep an open mind to the possibility that cold fusion is not >> the Wright brothers' airplane. Maybe it's Blondlott’s N-rays. It’s >> Fedyakin’s polywater. >> > These things were never replicated. Only one lab briefly claimed to replicate polywater, and it soon retracted. These things were never observed at high signal to noise ratios. Cold fusion has been observed at 20 to 100 W with no input power, albeit on rare occasions. This is palpable heat. There is not the slightest chance it is a mistake, or a chemical effect, because in these high power runs it far exceeded the limits of chemistry. Cude's discussion is factually incorrect in every important detail. You cannot make you your own facts in science. > And by the way, it was not only geezers who were skeptical of aviation. >> Wilbur Wright said in 1901, "If man ever flies, it will not be within our >> lifetime, not within a thousand years." >> >> >> Meanwhile, Langley, a pioneer of aviation, started investigating >> aerodynamics as his second career. He was near 70 (and a strong advocate) >> when the Wrights first flew. >> > Wilbur said that while returning home discouraging flight tests at Kitty Hawk. At that time the Wrights were already far ahead of all of their rivals, including Langley. Langley was not a supporter of the Wrights when they first flew. His machine had crashed twice that autumn, and he was in deep trouble with the press, the public and Congress, and defensive. His designs were lousy, and his "law" was nonsense. He should have made an effort to learn from the Wrights and Octave Chanute. I guess he deserves to have an air base named after him, mainly for putting up with 19th century versions of naysayers such as Cude. Chanute was also an older man, b. 1832. - Jed
