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Comment What equations? (Score 1) 89

Creating this kind of curved spacetime in the lab won't reveal any new physics but it will allow researchers to study the behavior of existing laws under these conditions for the first time. That's not been possible even in theory because the equations that describe these behaviors are so complex that they can only be solved in the simplest circumstances.

Are they talking about general relativity equations?

Comment Re:You want an idea? How about we fund NASA? (Score 0) 352

I'm sorry but NASA is a bloated bureaucracy. Just throwing money at it and letting it do whatever it wants would be a horrible idea.

However NASA did pretty good recently with the fixed-price contracts to private companies (SpaceX) for specific targets. We need more of these. Kill the cost plus defense industry contracts, kill the SLS and everyone connected with that clusterfuck, completely neuter Congress so that indivdual congresscritters looking for pork barrel have no influence on any project whatsoever.

Comment Re:Begin planning use of Lockheed's fusion power (Score 1) 352

We don't have to wait 10 years for Lockheed to make the fusion reactor work. Fission rockets are plenty powerful, enough to rule the solar system.

Plus there's always the chance that Lockheed fusion turns out to be a dead end and we're left with nothing.

Behold, the gaseous core nuclear thermal rocket, Liberty ship

3,060 ISP
1,000 ton payload to LEO

But since it's eeevil nuclear power (and fission at that), it will never get built in the US. But hopefully in the future China or some other country not under the thumb of enviro-liberals will step up and build it.

Comment Re:It only takes one ... (Score 1) 381

Yes it would be.

It's just a lame attempt by a leftist nutter to shift blame onto the evil Republicans. A crazy doomsday prepper holed up in a mountain cabin is just about the last person on earth you need to worry about in an Ebola outbreak.

Also note how he tries to deflect Ebola responsibility to the Texas governor. As if Rick Perry had any power over CDC or US customs and immigration.

Sorry dude, you can try to make it Rickbola all you want, but Obola is what's gonna stick because the responsibility lies with him.

Comment What industry? (Score 1) 224

and what job position are you interviewing for?

If it's a regular job and not research, I'd say don't bring it up. Even if your patent has nothing to do with this company's business, they might think you'll bail out of the job as soon as you make $$$ from your patent.

Or if your patent is still pending, they might think you'll spend more time trying to get your patent awarded. Basically another distraction. Kind of like how employers disfavor workers with young children.

Comment Re:Yikes, (Score 1) 571

Nah, aliens don't use fusion. Too primitive. The Area 51 stuff was all antimatter annihilation.

They reverse engineered antimatter generators back in the 60s, but it wasn't very useful without the element 115 fuel so they never bothered to build one. What use is a car if gasoline is not available on your planet, right?

If Lockheed makes fusion work then kudos to them. It's all human ingenuity. All earth tech!

Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 571

By "we" I assume you mean the human race?

I really don't understand why even presumably scientifically literate people buy into this doomsday idea. Assuming technology does not advance and this Lockheed fusion reactor comes to nothing, you're proposing that the human race will not survive to the year 2100?

How exactly will this come about? Global warming kills all humans on the planet? Fighting over dwindling oil results in nuclear war?

Stone-age humans survived disasters worse than these. Now please explain to me how 7 billion modern humans spread out into every corner of the globe all die with no survivors. And don't say Greenpeace told me so.

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