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by kurt9
Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:36 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Too early for Polywell?
Replies: 12
Views: 34256

Re: Too early for Polywell?

If global warming is real, we need breakthroughs such as polywell even more urgently than if it is not. In any case, the sooner we get it, the better off we are. Piddle power (solar, wind, etc.) simply cannot generate the terawatts of power that modern civilization requires. Nuclear, in whatever for...
by kurt9
Sun Sep 04, 2016 3:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Comets can’t explain weird ‘alien megastructure’ star after all
Replies: 29
Views: 52710

Re: Comets can’t explain weird ‘alien megastructure’ star after all

What about a planetary collision that has mostly destroyed both planets? This would produce a cloud that would blot out the sunlight in the periodic fashion as seen. This cloud would disperse over a period of time (centuries? millennia?) that could account for the dimming effect that has been observ...
by kurt9
Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Turkey and ISIS
Replies: 16
Views: 10852

Re: Turkey and ISIS

If the request is not honored, we need to send in a squad to specifically locate these nukes and then fly them out. If we 'gave" them to Turkey, we can certainly take them back with the same military squad. It is silly to pussy-foot about in this matter.
by kurt9
Thu Jul 21, 2016 3:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Turkey and ISIS
Replies: 16
Views: 10852

Re: Turkey and ISIS

I would assume that we have already removed those nukes to a safe location (outside Turkey). If not, I would assume gross incompetence on the part of our government and/or military.
by kurt9
Tue May 24, 2016 8:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292705

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

No, we don't need other people to be politically on-board with our individual choices on this. If anyone attempts to make it illegal for individuals to change their own genetic makeup, we'll use the courts instead. We'll just sue their asses on the basis that any such ban is a blatant violation of o...
by kurt9
Tue May 24, 2016 3:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292705

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

Something else you need to know. Bioviva is essentially a "garage-level" effort, sort of like the two Steves in 1977. All of Bioviva's gene therapies were developed for a measly $250K and her home is listed as the business address. I and my contacts in Asia could come up with $250K if our lives depe...
by kurt9
Tue May 24, 2016 2:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292705

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

I told my wife about this last night. I have my doubts about telomere shortening being the cause of aging (I think its mostly mitochondrial DNA damage and a few other things - essentially the SENS hypothesis). However, I read Dr. Fossel's book, which argues rather persuasively that telomere shorteni...
by kurt9
Sun May 15, 2016 9:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292705

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

There really isn't any legitimate argument against life extension.
by kurt9
Sun Apr 17, 2016 3:32 am
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602111

Re: EM Drive

This will likely land me in hot water, but I think I will say it anyways. These EM drive experiments have produced positive results under certain conditions. The experiments done at the Eagleworks involved the use of a plastic disk in the microwave chamber. Apparently plastic is weakly dielectric. I...
by kurt9
Sun Mar 27, 2016 11:26 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Graphene battery announced
Replies: 33
Views: 34053

Re: Graphene battery announced

If graphene does half the things it is supposed to do, we may look back and call this the "carbon age". \ We discussed a theoretical thermoelectric material based on graphene last year. If it ever actually works (they only seem to have a firm grasp on 1/2 of the thermocouple), efficiency for produc...
by kurt9
Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:11 pm
Forum: News
Topic: China plans to build hybrid nuclear reactor by 2030
Replies: 11
Views: 9633

Re: China plans to build hybrid nuclear reactor by 2030

The hybrid concept makes sense to me. Use those neutrons generated by the D-T fusion to fission U238. Not only do you get a lot more power. You eliminate the need for isotopic separation and you make use of those pesky neutrons.
by kurt9
Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Propellantless propulsion from plain-old Special Relativity
Replies: 52
Views: 43271

Re: Propellantless propulsion from plain-old Special Relativ

If we can open up a wormhole 10 light years away and measure the waves coming in then step back an know the future movements of objects in our neighborhood, then this creates a paradox, as what would stop us if we wanted o influence that movement? I see couple of options to resolve it 1. We can't b...
by kurt9
Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292705

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

The Beijing Genomic Institute decided to sequence the genomes of a lot of smart people as well as regular people. Their recent findings also show a lack of correlation of smarts with known genes. Its as if this stuff had little to do with genetics. I would be extremely careful about those results, ...
by kurt9
Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292705

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

Haven't read it yet and don't have time right now but here it is: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/03/09/gene-therapy-direct-evolution/#.VQdrUSjZkkw What's amusing to me about using germline gene therapy to design kids to be free from various diseases and the like is that we are finding ...
by kurt9
Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
Replies: 378
Views: 292705

Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?

Would someone like to tell me why the few social conservatives who have commented on radical life extension are so hostile towards it? This is probably the number one reason why social conservatives irritate me. People who oppose the development of effective anti-aging therapies irritate me regardle...