Well, to re-iterate again a concept that I favor (and to clarify, this isn't my original idea... fans of science fiction will recognize where the concept comes from...)...
1 meter square concave mirrors (with a presumably ionic or other non-fuel sourced propulsive unit for manuevering purposes) in the thousands, millions, and eventually billions (once you can make 'em in space via
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Now on a different, similar subject, where you
> want to have solar generating power plants in
> orbit, I want to see mining on the moon. After all
> we're exhausting many of the resources here on
> earth time to move into outer space.
> >
Different topic, may want a n
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Technology is also a little more pragmatic then
> science which tends to get mired in theories.
Well, the technology industry sub-section (??) that I'm in is Software QA.
Unless you live and breath it, you don't realize just how many 'theories' there are.
Heck, ask any 5 techies wh
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Indeed I do recall the "duel" over windpower, and
> true to one of my prophecies (buried somewhere in
> all of that correspondence) is that the bottom
> line, or the limiting factor in the equation, were
> the magnets, you could have a ten mile tall
> windmill, but without the mag
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> sansahansan Wrote:
>
> see this as a very sharp contrast against
> > your 'Linus Pauling led the
> > charge/Everybody/Orthodoxy' concept of some
> > organized resistance to and ultimately
> crashing of
> > new ideas.
>
> I'm not saying there is an &quo
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marehart Wrote:
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> Tantalizing tidbits that can mean a number of
> things. Need more information....
Agreed. As I read this whole thread, kept muttering 'need more data, need more...'
Given any partial set of data, numerous explanations could exist.
I recall a fictional book once that described nomadic hunter t
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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However in this case Linus Pauling himself led the
> charge against quasi-crystals, and the researcher
> was forced from his job. Hardly healthy
> scepticism.
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> Exactly. FWICS none of his critics stirred from
> their orthodo
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> However in this case Linus Pauling himself led the
> charge against quasi-crystals, and the researcher
> was forced from his job. Hardly healthy
> scepticism.
Completely agree. Scientific doubt is one thing, ad hominem attacking of a new theory's proponents is a whole different kettle of fish.
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Well it looks like we're getting closer and closer
> to reliable Solar power.
heh - think it'll be the next 'RACE' ?
We've had the Berlin Race (WWII)
The Race to the Nuke (WWII)
The Race to Arms (Cold War)
Race to Economic Collapse (Did we win, or did the USSR?)
Now, the race t
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shrimperdude Wrote:
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> I should politely provide the link you need(please
> excuse the NOOB on his first post), but do not
> have it handy. An AltaVista search(which is case
> sensitive) will turn up a variety of commentary.
> Type in Terrence McKenna. I would like to see a
> new forum for discussions more closely rel
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It's coming...
And with the privatization of space (and the concept of 'modularization of the components for smaller payloads going up) it may be sooner than we think
Pipe dream of mine... I just hope I live to see it
(oh, and one of the links above disproves the orbital death ray concept!)
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Shrooms make you a better person... permanently. Oh, and your children!
Why? Why make a flying carpet??
And just because I'm only recently back from a 3000 mile journey across the heartland of the USA, *and then* found this:
Fascinating. Will have to see what happens when I plan a trip across grooms lake and ask for the helicopter view... Or perhaps through some of the Chin
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> I can't find any indication of exactly *how* these
> letters survived and where they were found or
> their current location, who authenticated them....
> or anything.
Neither can I. It would appear that his description of islands to the east inspired CC's journeys... I cannot help but w
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Not to dredge up an old science gone political topic... but I find the last section of this article fascinating. Can anyone verify that the Vatican has confirmed human-cause of global warming?
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> The links to the Wiki article successfully argue
> that suggestions Marco Polo didn't go to China are
> poorly grounded. Logically if his father and
> uncles' trip is granted why not Marco as well? But
> why would he leave his supposed American voyages
> out of his account, if he made
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Lulu marketplace, eh? What a very appropriate
> name!
>
> I didn't know Marco Polo had a family much less
> letters to them had survived. And given that some
> question whether he even went as far as Cathay....
> Color me dubious.
Agree on the dubious (even specious) claims exce
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"He has set up a home page for the project. As the online headquarters of the work, it will post all project updates and generate suggestions and results. Hawks and Rachelle Keeling, the Project coordinator, will be requesting participation and input from anyone with expertise and ideas.
Says Hawks, "we're going to ask people to participate in the project, perform research, and
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > I was more thinking of the hundreds of
> square
> > miles of empty desert in the heart of the
> > sahara...
> >
> > Or you could irrigate that sucker and feed
> double
> > the world pop, but that's a different dream
> lol
> >
> Things still fly ov
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Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> There was a very interesting experiment preformed
> on one of the shuttle missions. A spool of wire
> was uncoiled which cut through the earth's
> magnetic field and lo and behold electric power
> was generated. Unfortunately the wire broke and
> TTBOMK the experiment has never been rep
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > There's engineering... then there's dreaming.
> I
> > can't find mention of that think tank, but I
> > followed up on the wikipedia references.
>
> They are very, very quiet. My Physicist works
> there, too. The place looks like a campus with
> blast doors, ma
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I think it's a great idea, just the wrong part of
> space. Instead it should be put on the moon
> creating an industrial base there. Instead of
> mirrors just bring up the needed technology to
> make mirrors. There's an endless supply of silicon
> on the moon. This could be bootstrapped
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> With the technology currently available, there is
> a constant which cannot be ignored.
>
> To wit: It takes 63.4 pounds of fuel to put 1
> pound of payload into orbit. In monetary terms
> it's $10,000/pound.
>
As I indicated earlier:
The only one *not* dependent upon these 2 key
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In a different thread regarding global warming (long story) on another site and a 'cosmically' coincidental thread here, the same topic came up... using solar power from space here on Earth.
link to prior Ma'at thread:
link to SBSP:
and
(yes, foxnews, I know, and I can't find the followup either!)
All of that aside, I think the wikipedia article makes a good s
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I'm probably the number one space cadet in the
> world, but the "mirrors in space" frankly scares
> me. I mean petawatt microwave beams? They could
> incinerate whole cities in a few seconds and there
> would be no defense against them since they have
> the high ground. Even if th
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>
> 70s tech. The guys who were investigating it would
> have given it a go if it had any practical
> application. They didn't get the reputation they
> had (and have) if they'd made a habit of
> 'adjusting' the results.
Apologies, Khazar, for my ignorance...
Who are 'they'? Besides including your father, who was presumably an engin
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > Which? Pumping gas up to the upper atmosphere
> or
> > the space based solar collector transmitter?
> >
> > The latter is eminently practical - numbers
> quoted
> > above aside - and has been proposed many
> times by
> > many governments.
> >
> > Th
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> So the damn thing was cancelled? Good thank God
> somebody has some brains. This was the dumbest
> thing I've heard since someone suggested pumping
> all the excess CO2 to the bottom of the ocean.
Which? Pumping gas up to the upper atmosphere or the space based solar collector transmitter?
Th
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Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> Hi Jammer,
>
> Jammer wrote: (What was) the cut rate demonstrated
> by the cores produced by ancients methods?
> Practically, this question is unanswerable.
>
> Unless you are a machinist and know what to look
> for! The correct answer is 1/10 inch in 60
> revolutions!
>
> J
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Strange if we pumped this garbage into the
> atmosphere at sea level it would be considered
> air-pollution; pump it into the stratosphere and
> it's called saving the planet.
>
>
>
> Edited 2 times. Last edit at 09/03/11 10:56AM by
> Rick Baudé.
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I had all but left this thread but the logical contradictions below bugged me enough I had to take one last comment here...
cladking Wrote:
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> This is the root of the problem. Everything
> according to current thought was either about
> taking it with you or how to get there.
Then they would certainly have wanted to take a
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