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- Mon Aug 20, 2012 2:45 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hollywood caves in to China
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7023
Well, frankly the original Red Dawn was pretty silly as well. At no point was the Soviet Union capable of air dropping an entire army into the American midwest, nor was the U.S. capable of air dropping an entire army into Siberia or the Moscow area. Invasions across the Bering Strait, into Alaska or...
UFOs
Please discuss UFOs, aliens, bigfoot and Elvis Presley sightings here, don't drag Talk Polywell's last remaining on-topic active thread off-topic (the M-E thread over in News). I'm sure that somehow the war on drugs, gay marriage and climate change will turn out to be connected to UFOs and bigfoot t...
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 8:33 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466233
I think it's his extrapolation that "such a device, tethered to a rotating wheel, can at some tangential velocity produce mechanical power in excess of the energy fed to it" which concerns him. At that point, the device could basically suck energy/increase entropy in the rest of the universe in orde...
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 8:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466233
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:28 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Can proton share its charge with neutron?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9121
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:24 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466233
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:19 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466233
By the universe not allowing the transistor to stay "on," I mean something analogous Hawking's chronological protection conjecture: although it's mathematically possible to make the device function like a source of free energy locally, just as it's possible to mathematically create closed timelike c...
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466233
Tom, in terms of the entropy argument Jurek Dędor on the other forum said that: It does not create energy. It imports it. Pretty much like a heat pump that "makes" more heat than electricity going in it would account for. Although the act of importing it does reduce entropy locally, it is probably c...
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:39 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466233
Overall, I would say that what is described in the paper is a refreshingly interesting and rigorous continuation of study of the Mach effect which may well lead to experimental confirmation of ideas about inertia and further our understanding of physics. I'm glad to see this proceeding nicely as gen...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:48 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Fusion: The quest to recreate the Sun’s power on Earth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2751
Yes, after all, we never used observation balloons before, did we? And I guess that the Brits didn't build plywood tanks to fool the Germans in the desert in 1942, and that the Allies didn't create a fake army under Patton in the spring of 1944 to make the Germans think that the Normandy landing was...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 3:08 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX's Dragon capsule captured by ISS
- Replies: 249
- Views: 79303
At least I know that accuission of ground targets is quite difficult tasks. If that would be easy, US would destroy all moving targets before they will not touch US ground forces with the help of Air Forces and artillery. For what you have tanks, anti-tank missiles. etc. I have not any intend to go...
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX's Dragon capsule captured by ISS
- Replies: 249
- Views: 79303
Testing new materials and gaining data about the airframe's flight characteristics is a very useful thing for X37 to be doing right now. Also, I think the Air Force is reasonably proud of it - it's not just that they can't hide Atlas launches - since they can't hide them, they go ahead and issue pre...
- Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:05 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX's Dragon capsule captured by ISS
- Replies: 249
- Views: 79303
Next-gen shuttle already exists. It's called X-37. The airframe design scales. The first test articles were the X-40. Reportedly the X-37 is 120% the size of the X-40. Supposedly the X-37C will be around 160 to 180% the size of the original, and mount atop an Atlas V. It could conceivably go bigger....
- Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:28 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8943
We finally know why Diogenes is fine with liquor but against other recreational drugs - booze makes people conservative!!!! :twisted: Actually, I tend to agree with Diogenes... in my purely subjective experience, many people these days seem actually too scared of being shunned to express strongly ri...