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Comment They must be morons (Score 1) 259

How many times are we going to see this same "business model"? The EM drive and nickel hydrogen fusion follow the same exact thing, You have some guy with the PhD that demonstrating something supposedly new and they don't even know how to do experiments. Either that or they do know how to do experiments and they know how to fool other people, either way, the result is the same.

They end up announcing a discovery with no replication from other scientists confirming the supposedly new physics in the device. In the end they either hide the experiments because they know they don't work and continue to make money or they don't believe results in somebody points out that this isn't a real physical effect and it suggest an experimental setup issue.

It's the same thing with guys that think you can create free energy, they end up getting all sorts of devices and ways to measure voltage and current and then somebody steps in and finds out that it's just a weird fluke with the way their measurements are set up.

When you're measuring a very small physical measurements and you're close to the noise level it's very easy to convince yourself that something is happening and if you don't have really good experiments set up and do ABBA testing and other forms of testing to verify that you're experiment is good you can convince yourself of many different things that are not real.

My name is the same thing here and with the EM drive they're measuring mili neutons, it's really hard just from an electrical standpoint just to make those measurements.

The biggest disappointment is this is our government funds at work we are paying people to come up with these experimental test setups that end up being a lot of hot air.

I guess there's a small chance that it could be real but physics and thousands of other experiments in the past would disagree.

Comment Every time they release a new version of android (Score 3, Insightful) 22

They make it harder to use software and outdated hardware. I've already seen a few programs myself say: Not compatible with newer android versions. I have a tablet that I can't use because it has a later android version. I know new stuff is cool, but I would like to be able to have some backwards compatibilty.

Comment Re:Easy fix (Score 1) 167

You can't, if you were to take fertilizer away millions maybe billions would starve. People forget where we came from, the world used to have massive wheat famines that would kill millions, we've finally figured out how to grow wheat, rice and other plants with crazy yields. If the yeild goes down then you either have people starve or have to farm millions of acres of farmland which is also not sustainable.

Comment Re:California wealth and exit tax. (Score 1) 91

Last time I checked taxes hurt the economy. I certianly won't move to california (I guess I would if my employer paid the tax). They even tried to tax people that left the state, that didn't work either. My state hands me my money back if they aren't using it.

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