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My antivirus flagged a trojan horse on that website.

From the Google contest FAQ: Q: What criteria will be used to select the winning ideas? The following five criteria will be considered by the advisory panel in evaluating and selecting the winning ideas: Reach: How many people would this idea affect? Depth: How deeply are people impacted? How urgent...

I used to own a bulldog once. Chewed up all my wife's shoes.

or for that matter just delete this thread...

Sorry I didn't notice the other thread. Merge away.

Saw this on Instapundit.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... los-alamos

It seems so far beyond what I thought the state of the art in fission was that I'm not sure I believe it is real. No cooling towers? no turbines? Is this possible?

It could also be that the funders want to thoroughly explore, document and prove that negative results really are show stoppers, to prevent rumors of a government coverup.

Or that could be the cover story for a real government coverup.

Or... oh, nevermind.

The disappointment I will feel if the news is not good increases as the square of the time I have to wait. I hope the news comes out before I turn suicidal.

Come on Dr. Nebel, just drop an sideways coded inference for us to speculate on!!!

MSimon, You need to write a book. Your intellect and good sense and writing ability are sorely needed. Have you ever thought about it?

Of course! Who could forget it? No, not really. I've always been a software guy, not hardware. Well hardware only to the point of getting a machine to do software on. I do remember Kilobaud Microcomputing though. And Byte. I kept every issue of Byte for years. In fact I rediscovered Jerry Pournelles...

Although their original response was rather nasty, we are trying not to have an adversarial relationship with them. Dr. Nebel, I'm nobody and you don't know me, but this kind of makes my blood boil. The way I read that is that there are people who are so interested in their own turf dominance that ...

Isn't it both fusion and fision? That leads me to a question that you smart guys will think is elementary but I've been wondering about. What exactly imparts the high energy levels to the three helium atoms? Carbon12 breaks down into a berylium and a helium and the berylium breaks down into two heli...

The US is part of the West. The better comparison IMO is the US as Rome and the EU as Greece. The younger & culturally slightly cruder ruling region and the older & more cultured supporting region. The difference is the influence of basic Judeo/Christian values, lived authentically. The Khmer Rouge...

Fusion Porn

Maintaining a middle class society has costs. The alternative is the Latin Big man/peon model, and noble/serf from there. djolds1 - what costs are you referring to re: maintaining the middle class? Also, I was speaking of investment in all of its forms, not option trading or any specifically risky ...