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Something missed in all of this is the leaker. Even though the shooting looks justified to me, whenever this stuff is leaked it incites the bad guys and gets more Americans killed. If they catch the leaker, I think a useful punishment would be to bust him to private, put him in the scariest FOB we h...

Didn't sound like bloodthirsty to me. At about 3:26 he sees the camera strap and given the context thinks it is a weapon. A couple guys next to the camera man were swinging AK-47s (Look at the right hands of the guys on the left of the group of 4 at the top of the screen at 3:38). At 4:10 somebody s...

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Really two: turbulent pinching and ICF advances.

Not too exciting, but semi-on topic.

The new high efficiency electric furnaces are actually cheaper to run because natural gas prices are so high already, no need for CO2 emissions as a dominant reason as economics are already taking care of that one. NG prices were spiky for a while, but it looks like the new fracturing techniques lo...

I am just curious if anyone else has an objection to MSimons constant right wing politics being spouted all over the general forum here. ...Hijacking threads to promote your political agenda belongs on the myspace news and politics forum Just hijack it back, then! At least he's got something to spo...

It's been a couple of decades since I last took E&M, so I have a couple of dumb questions for somebody who has taken it more recently: 1) What is the formula for the charge distribution for a charged conducting spherical solid? 2) What is the potential for the charged conducting sphere in spherical ...

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evaitl wrote: We live in a universe full of stars that happily burn B11.

That's news to me. I can't see it lasting very long in a stellar environment.

My point. It would burn out quickly.

I'm not exactly a fan of neutrons, but the problems they cause have technical solutions These solutions may not satisfy you, but for p-B11 no solutions are in sight, so why obsess about it? Different folks have different reasons. For me, the main reason is because radioactivity can't be discussed r...

Lining up the spin in a BFR would be statistics, wouldn't it? You'd do some studies to see how the spin survives as it runs through, and you'd tweak your injector to give the spins most likely to get the most particles lined up properly. I could be way off on this, but my understanding for setting ...

Some of you ex-Navy, can-do guys may feel up to the task. :shock: I agree. It easier to tap a Russian undersea phone cable than to get p-B11 working. We were fortunate that until somebody actually sold us out, the Russians thought that tapping their phone cables just wasn't possible. What I want to...

It seems like most of the professionals take Rider's thesis as pretty much bullet proof. Although, there are rumors to the contrary, like this Tom Ligon quote: http://www.fusor.net/board/view.php?bn=fusor_future&key=1181348968 I was witness, in fact, in 1995-96, to Dr. Bussard thinking Rider had act...

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much-maligned tokamak The what now? :lol: Certainly a fair statement around here, isn't it? http://www.askmar.com/ConferenceNotes/Should%20Google%20Go%20Nuclear.pdf Some people speculate that the Russians “gave” us tokamaks, to make sure that we never achieved practical fusion! ... One of the top f...

I rather think it is largely irrelevant. It applies to p 11B and even if you could globally hold 11B 'in prime attitude', the next question is how do you get the protons to go in the same direction in relation to that polarisation. A Polywell is clearly not the technology to do such a thing with, y...

In low-beta confinement schemes, like the much-maligned tokamak, spins can be aligned either parallel to the magnetic field or perpendicular to it, and they tend to stay that way. I'm not sure you can maintain spin alignment in a device like the polywell that hardly has any magnetic field in the in...