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Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra. "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig." "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink." "We've had enough of the same old thing." Wow. This is not a man meant t...

Wow, I read this entirely differently. On results - "It's kind of a mix" On going forward - "We don't know whether that's going to happen or not." On the science - "Regardless of what happens to it, we're going to get this thing well written up..." On Bussard's legacy - "(he) was a truly innovative ...

Bussard's track record, at least, is suspect; he's made sweeping claims and been wrong at least once before. Bussard: ... If for some reason:, unknown to all, a new physics problem appears, we will learn it sooner than anyone else at modest cost. We may even find out that Tokamaks don't work... The...

That sends us back to cusp losses. If I take all my models and calculations seriously (Which I do only reluctantly. They are intended more to point out potential trouble spots that need serious attention.), I land at a reactor that is unwieldy, but not obviously impossible. In that spirit, and in f...

Someday, somewhere, someone is going to figure out a unified theory. That unified theory will probably find some unusual physical properties that we don't know about. When this happens, lots of people will be very skeptical. It has happened time and time before. It will happen again. I just don't th...

Your point? "Preach on, my brother." Ad hominem, insult and a contemptuous attitude are not overly difficult to grasp. You said temperatures were going down since 1998. I said that starting a trend in 1998 is silly. You are using their tactics. You said, well, temperatures are flat since 2002. And,...

That is all I was saying. Your example is equally as troubling as theirs. I was pretty clear. Doing a visa versa smack down on me doesn't really change what I said. We are in agreement apparently. No. I'll hunt up data and reply later in detail, however. Don't bother. I recognize that your two exam...

'98 was a significant high point, yes. The '98 - '08 trend is an obvious negative. Start in '02 however and the '02 - '08 trend is flat line. No increase whatsoever. Slightly negative actually, factoring in the delta-t of the last six months. Both contradict warmingist hysteria. OMG. Seriously. 200...

Worse than that. The 1998-2008 trend line is NEGATIVE. Temperature isn't just stable, its been declining. Duane Seriously. This pisses me off. Must both sides of this debate be equally misleading with their propoganda. Jeez! I guess when you are being beaten down with a hockey stick you just grab o...

rnebel wrote:Do we at EMC2 believe this is reliable? No... Am I concerned about this? No. You'll just have to stay tuned.

If there is no beef, kill yourself a cow! Sounds like there are some freshly ground burgers in the freezer and hopefully a big picnic planned for the end of the summer.

You can start with a sphere of electrons confining a sphere of ions, but when you add the cusps, electrons leak out along them, so your electron sphere now has spikes like a blowfish. Since the ions are only confined electrostaticly by the electrons, they can only be where electrons are, but they c...

100 million pounds is far too much to invest in an unproven concept unless its well diagnosed and tested so that the scaling laws are verified to a reasonable degree of certainty. BTW, I have always felt that Bussard's suggestion to jump to a full scale machine was most likely a product of his pers...

Perhabs the major lesson to be learned from the WB-7 will be that allocation of research funds should be done by schooled professionals. Wow. You talk like no "schooled professionals" have ever looked at this concept. You talk like the Navy just throws money at any silly idea that comes their way w...

Roger Fox, for one, is convinced that EMC2 has fusion results already. Accounting for time to organize and bring in reviewers of their findings, I certainly hope they have results already. Otherwise, two months isn't enough time. They basically have to be getting people lined up with definite dates...

So what would cause line cusps to close slower then point cusps as beta increases? Because point cusps close in two dimensions and line cusps close in only one. Assuming a retangular approximation of the cusps, the point cusps shrink in both length and width. The line cusps shrink in only width but...