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Today, 05:58 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

Are you kidding? The sooner someone like Rossi turns out to be _successful_ the better. But as many people have pointed out, wanting to believe in...

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Yesterday, 10:20 PM

billvon replied to a thread Enoch has perfectly described a black hole in The Book of Enoch in Alternative Theories

I think Mick Jagger came even closer: "I see a red door and I want to paint it black" - a reference to a red giant (door) opening into (becoming)...

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Yesterday, 10:14 PM

billvon replied to a thread Apocalypse Soon? in General Science & Technology

I must say this has been a fun thread. Watching you and Billy T argue "My unprecedented humanity-destroying cataclysm is inevitable, but yours is...

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Yesterday, 10:11 PM

billvon replied to a thread What Say the Temple Priests? in Site Feedback

Just as a word of advice, the "I'm near lots of gay people" doesn't really say anything about tolerance. That's like arguing that someone who lives...

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Yesterday, 04:13 PM

billvon replied to a thread Apocalypse Soon? in General Science & Technology

We use 13 terawatts of power more or less constantly; a total of about 120,000 terawatt-hours a year. That's ALL sources - oil, hydro, coal, nuclear...

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Yesterday, 03:55 PM

billvon replied to a thread Apocalypse Soon? in General Science & Technology

Billy T: "In a complex process: CO2 heating destabilizes the methane hydrates, which now safely store at least as much carbon as all the earth´s...

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Yesterday, 03:50 PM

billvon replied to a thread Apocalypse Soon? in General Science & Technology

Yes, they have been. Per maritime lore that's been happening for the past 150 years or so. Using NOAA numbers for "perfectly clear ocean...

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05-23-13, 06:29 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

Not really. I could, for example, show you two identical thermal camera pictures with one dissipating ten times the power. By varying emissivity...

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05-23-13, 05:39 PM

billvon replied to a thread Speed Traps vs Residents on speed trap frequented streets. in Ethics, Morality, & Justice

Yes. "Drive faster when it is snowing" is stupid no matter what your motivations. It is as smart as driving faster when you are drunk, so as to be...

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05-23-13, 05:17 PM

billvon replied to a thread Thou Shalt Not Kill in Religion

Numbers 31: "Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who had come from the...

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05-23-13, 04:48 PM

billvon replied to a thread Speed Traps vs Residents on speed trap frequented streets. in Ethics, Morality, & Justice

Ah, then the situations you are comparing are not comparable. Driving faster in bad weather DOES increase your risk. If operating your boat faster...

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05-23-13, 04:47 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

Well, not if the terms of the contract were "I don't know if these are going to work; could you try them out?" As an engineer I cannot imagine any...

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05-23-13, 03:16 PM

billvon replied to a thread Apocalypse Soon? in General Science & Technology

You said that if you got even a watt of sunlight to the clathrates at 300 meters this might happen. I assert that you will not get a watt. If you...

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05-23-13, 01:11 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

Well, he said deception OR incompetence. Either one is a valid explanation. Let me add a third potential explanation - magical thinking. Magical...

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05-23-13, 01:06 PM

billvon replied to a thread Speed Traps vs Residents on speed trap frequented streets. in Ethics, Morality, & Justice

Well, I mean, it's OK that the police catch people who kill other people's spouses. But when you kill your OWN spouse it's unfair for the cops to...

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05-23-13, 11:32 AM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

We do that as well. Our head of R+D has said that if one in ten wild ideas leads to a real product, he will consider it money well spent. (Applying...

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05-23-13, 11:14 AM

billvon replied to a thread Speed Traps vs Residents on speed trap frequented streets. in Ethics, Morality, & Justice

I grew up in New York and Boston, and lived there until I was 30. If you push your boat so hard that you place it at risk because you were...

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05-22-13, 10:28 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

Ah, so you don't understand the difference between heat and temperature. Would explain a lot of your confusion over this test.

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05-22-13, 07:08 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

Exactly. There have been some interesting results in LENR research that merit further investigation. It might be measurement error, it might be an...

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05-22-13, 05:26 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

High resolution thermal cameras do not measure heat. They measure TEMPERATURE. The two are not the same. We use thermal cameras all the time -...

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05-22-13, 04:28 PM

billvon replied to a thread Massive tornado hits Moore Oklahoma in World Events

From what you said, no one will drown in a storm cellar. Then you gave a case where they might drown. So which is it? No, that's one job...

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05-22-13, 04:23 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

Well said. I hope we do find a solution to our energy problems in the form of something like cold fusion - but reason, rather than emotion and...

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05-22-13, 02:57 PM

billvon replied to a thread Massive tornado hits Moore Oklahoma in World Events

Sorta contradicting yourself there. But, yes, in some cases people are going to drown. No, adults make their own decisions about storm...

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05-22-13, 02:51 PM

billvon replied to a thread Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (cold fusion) in General Science & Technology

Careful. That's his religion you're messing with.

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05-22-13, 11:36 AM

billvon replied to a thread Apocalypse Soon? in General Science & Technology

Right. So how much energy will you get? If you can't get a watt your theory doesn't work. All that 0C water floating on top of the ocean...

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05-22-13, 10:43 AM

billvon replied to a thread Massive tornado hits Moore Oklahoma in World Events

Unfortunately not true, as demonstrated by that story. Perhaps - and an adult would weigh how many people would be killed in the small...

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05-22-13, 10:26 AM

billvon replied to a thread Nuclear Propulsion systems in General Science & Technology

Yes. Exhaust velocities can be an order of magnitude higher.

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05-22-13, 09:59 AM

billvon replied to a thread Apocalypse Soon? in General Science & Technology

1) How much sunlight penetrates 300 meters of perfectly clear water? If insolation is 1000 watts/sq m at the surface, how many watts do you get at...

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05-21-13, 10:37 PM

billvon replied to a thread Why if the photon is a particle crosses the glass? in Pseudoscience

Actually it is always both. Neither.

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05-21-13, 10:33 PM

billvon replied to a thread Apocalypse Soon? in General Science & Technology

So you think that an 8C rise in 10 years - on an island surrounded by ocean - is possible without a corresponding change in ocean temperatures? ...

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