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...if we have a reason.

Just like Alaska!

I wish there more fab labs around, and we could work on finding the minimum equipment set.

@D Tibbets
Just a note about toroidal/spherical confinement. A sphere cannot confine plasma without leaks.

Simon, are you serious? What one person cares about is not necessarily what another will care about. And besides, all politicians lie about campaign issues. Why pay attention to the lies? Jccarlton, you're asking why we should use your money to build something that doesn't help you, yes? Same logic ...

He's got a Life of Brian quote, so I'd say tongue in cheek.

You're right, your response is just a No true Scottsman. How -you- define a conservative really doesn't matter. Unless you don't mind me saying, "hey, all those stupid things liberals do? That just means they're not liberal." Great. Argument ended. I guess we can go home now? Hmm, but I guess there'...

Conservatives believe in Free Markets. Conservatives want to make money so that they can take care of themselves and their family and so they can aspire to have good things in their life. Conservatives undertake this task by using the free market system (capitalism) to create and grow businesses. A...

Disagree with you on a lot of points there. Conservatives don't enter the government in self defense, they enter it for power and to 'stop the decay of society.' There are liberal libertarians as much as there are conservative libertarians. Liberal libertarians say big government bad, but keep the s...

Ah, politics. I really hate politics, you know? And the labels confuse me. Are conservatives people who want religion, guns and big government? Or are they small government, pro science gun owners. Are liberals big government, social science hippies? or are they freedom for all, pro personal rights ...

I'd be more interested in nerve taps along the spine - there's evidence to support a lot of processing related to motion and reflex is done outside of the brain. I guess I'd also need taps on the optic nerve and such... But attaching directly to my grey matter is probably out. I agree with kunk, it'...

Maybe the mercury is what makes you constantly double post, Simon. It's generally considered bad form to reply to yourself. While I have no fact-based opinion on mercury fillings, I've seen plenty of products that were considered 'safe' for a long period turn out to be terrible for you. Pewter comes...

Maybe I'm just confused, but isn't it reasonable to think that global warming could be responsible? I thought you guys were only disputing the cause of that warming.

And where did the solar minimum stuff come from? It certainly wasn't in the article.

Love the title of this thread, and the content. Because, you know, as of yet I have seen a hundred threads Obama bashing, and very few in support. I've never seen an 'obot' attacking anybody over anything. Maybe I just hang around the wrong parts of the internet? As of yet, I haven't seen him do any...

Simon, my solution was just a proof of concept. I'm 99% sure that there's a hundred better ways to implement it. I have seen a semiconductor fail explosively; In a class of 100 electrical engineers, you always end up with someone crosswiring things, usually to the highest power rail available. I jus...

No paper, but I'm not sure I see the problem. Just design a package with redundant diodes, and a circuit that cuts the whole package out of the bridge if a diode fails. The chances of two or more diodes failing simultaneously is pretty small. Even if somehow all of them do go, and all of them fail s...

If that's the biggest problem, I'd say we're pretty much golden. It would be almost trivial to design a mass production diode that is guaranteed to fail open. And not insanely difficult to produce locating beacons on failed rectennas. There's some company trying to build 'smart dust' sensors for bor...