Robert Park is 82 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Park In my cabinet I have a bottle to celebrate his no longer finding a use for oxygen. Also..I will debunk his death...as will others.
Ron Kita On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:06 PM, William Beaty <bi...@eskimo.com> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> They only reacted this way to cold fusion. I will never >> understand why. >> > > Well, CF is an example of traditional alchemy: transmutation of elements > via basic chemistry. If CF is real, then not only does this demonstrate > that modern chemistry has a huge hole in it, and the hole has been > carefully maintained by hundreds of experts over centuries ...but sitting > in that hole are woo-woos: crowds of Crackpot CF True Believers who've been > right all along. It means that the Knigts of Scientific Purity and > Rightness are shown to be bullies who were beating up innocent victims, and > worse, shown to be doing it because they never bothered to read a single > thing about the topic that wasn't their own propaganda. > > If CF is real, then you just know that all the major magazines and news > outlets will focus on how the disbelief caught fire; on a certain physics > meeting where the outbreak of sneering first started, and on the ones who > led it. The CF-supporters will be promoted, perhaps to department heads > and controllers of funding. The powerful suddenly have bosses with old > grudges to satisfy. CF-deniers are suddenly seen as the symbol of > everything that's wrong with the modern world. Crowds of screaming > undergrads dance around bonfires made of old paper journals and magazines, > each copy found to contain a column by Park. Maybe even Physics itself > will fall, losing any hope of major funding for decades as everyone piles > onto the CF bandwagon, and all the young students will want to emulate > famous chemists (or famous crazy gold-makers.) > > > > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci > >
