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I understand that these are major polluters.. I've seen pictures in a Britannica "Science and the future" book of bulk transport ships using large servo driven metal sails. I wonder to what extent this technology has been explored. When doing a google search, I found this http://www.cnet.com/news/cargo... ..But it doesn't look like it was actually built.

I've heard anecdotal evidence that a transport ship is equivalent to 50,000 cars.. And this site http://www.viewzone.com/sixtee... claims that it's much higher. I'd be interested in in a reliable source for this. I understand that they use different fuel depending on how close they are to a human settlement, and the cheap stuff is a really big polluter. It's a solid a room temperature and has to be heated up to flow into the engine. At the very least, I'd like to see electrostatic percipitators on the smoke-stacks.

We once had world trade based on sail. Much/ most of that cargo does not need to get to it's destination quickly..

Because right now it seems that gay people are in greater mental risk than normal people. pubmed.

Given that homosexuality is related to prenatal stress (pbmed and see this for more links and information), it is not astonishing at all.

This is same discrimination as applied by insurance companies.

And what if crude oil is found not to be that of a decaying biomass from long ago? Could crude oil be classified as a renewable energy source? http://www.viewzone.com/abioticoilx.html

http://www.viewzone.com/monalisa.html

I want to believe it's real - but if this really is on the moon then I think we'd have been visiting the moon more frequently to study its construction and the technology it would hold - but we haven't so for that reason I don't believe.

Thank you for your reasoned reply.

In case you don't remember, there was significant public protest over Cassini:

1 2 3 4 5, etc

I'm not sure that they couldn't have used an MMRTG on the rovers, at least from a mass standpoint (I couldn't find dimensions for the MMRTG). According to the wikipedia article, it masses in at 48 kg and produces 125W electrical at the start of the mission (2.5 kWh/day). The Mars Explorer Rover article states that the solar panels produce 140W peak for only 4 hours/day (0.6 kWh/day). The batteries that supplement the solar cells mass 14.3kg, and the panels themselves along with the associated hinges/etc to unfurl them together likely weigh about the same as an RTG. The benefit of having constantly-available power to drive where you want, when you want, 24x7, and to be able to run any experiment any time far outweighs the risks of using marginally-sufficient solar panels.

The RTG used in Cassini-Huygens, New Horizons, Galileo probe, and the Ulysses probe were twice as efficient (5.26 We/kg vs 2.8 We/kg) as the current model.

Peak oil is a myth and there is very strong evidence of abiotic oil. See http://www.viewzone.com/abioticoilx.html for example.

You took geology, but aren't a geologist? I am a geologist and abiotic oil is laughably wrong...

When I took geology in college (~1987) they were predicting that oil was going to run out by early 2000. I guess fifteen years in the future is farther ahead than they expect most people will remember.

Peak oil is a myth and there is very strong evidence of abiotic oil. See http://www.viewzone.com/abioticoilx.html for example.

We'd probably have more of that cool stuff if people could learn to get along a little better. But as it stands, they failed to mention that people today still lock their doors, have automatic car alarms, and that nine tenths of the world's population not only don't have flying cars, but live in mud huts while working for some cruddy manufacturing company for pennies a day. --With unexploded cluster bomb ordinance scattered outdoors.

Neal Stephenson, were he born in the Forties, could have put a more realistic spin on this article. Too bad.

I predict that by 2015 or thereabouts, and probably a bit sooner, the earth will be a meteor pock-marked hell dealing with super-fast glacial rebound where there really is no more paper money, and the only domed cities will have George W. Bush and/or Vladimir Putin living inside them.

-FL

There is evidence that our planet has been hit by gamma ray bursts before - the radiation leaves microscopic trails in chert.

Paleo-indian Catastrophe

America got nuked in 12,500BC

Oh, you want to talk about real security measures? How about:

4. Autonomous landing. Many planes (including the 767) can do it now. The rest could be equipped to do so. Add a black box with appropriate PK auth and a radio receiver that allows the ground towers to take over the plane and force it to land at a known airport. (For obvious security reasons, it should not be possible to inject coordinates of a new "airport" remotely.) Thus, with minimal extra hardware, 9/11 could have been prevented by taking flight control away from whoever was piloting it.

Some would speculate that this has already happened, though I'm not convinced....

Our solar system isn't native to the milky way.

http://www.viewzone.com/milkyway.html

I don't understand feng-shui by any means but, as a psychologist, there are scientific reasons behind colour meanings as used for instance in the Luscher colour test.

http://www.viewzone.com/luscher.html

http://www.colour-experience.org/matching/matcol_p sych_tests/matcol_psych_test1.htm

I've no idea how this would apply to a website but I do accept that colours induce physiological responses and it may be possile to use these in design.

Another theory I remember reading about is that the Oort comet cloud becomes disturbed by the sun shifting up and down in an oscillation. Apparently the sun wobbles up and down as it rotates around the center of the Milky Way.

http://www.viewzone.com/nemesis.html
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDet ail/assetid/24618

3 - Ray Gun. Never heard that one before from any guests; though more than one caller to the show has suggested it. Also, I just started listening 3 years ago, so there's plenty of past material I've missed.

[tinfoil hat]
Some links to theories of HAARP as a weapon.

http://www.viewzone.com/haarp00.html

http://www.haarp.net/
Both sites are jam packed with general kookery, and stuff that makes for funny reading on alt.conspiracy.blackhelicopters. But there you have it.

The first article is a bit on the light side as far as details go, and it IS from a site known for it's kookery, scary thing is, if the HAARP's energy is directable, it's plausible, if not probable. It would be just as easy to punch a hole in the ionosphere as it would be to create a lens effect. (see article)
On a side note, if it is a weather manipulation platform, interesting that they decided to upgrade it so heavily after the year of killer hurricanes and tornados. [/tinfoil hat]

The day the government forces me to take a mercury containing thymerisol vaccine is the end of freedom in this country. Not to mention that the sv40 cancer strain keeps popping up in those vaccines! Pesky thing!

http://www.viewzone.com/sv40.html

What a perfect pretext for extermination that elites want.

Have a black ops group drop a chemical weapon on a city then claim the "bird flu is here!" and then start forcibly vaccinating people with deadly chemicals. And of course, just to keep you safe they'll need to have gun confiscation like in New Orleans!

Doesn't anyone else see what's going on here?

The closest thing I can find to it is this. For an exact reference to what one of my professors uses in her Experimental Psychology course, I am going to have to wait until she returns to campus in July.

Worked out real great for them last time. Why bother?

Not sure where you are getting your facts from but...

Before we were officially the glorious US of A, the person in charge of military forces for British-controlled America, Jeffrey Amherst, did indeed use smallpox-infested blankets to decimate Native American tribal populations in what is now the Northeastern U.S.

In addition to biochemical warfare, we have been pretty effective at plain old murderous genocide when it came to the folks who inhabited these lands before us.

A quote from the article:

"Ships will never be completely invisible. A lot of modern submarines are extremely hard to detect, but that is always going to be difficult for a surface ship to match." Commodore Stephen Saunders of Jane's Fighting Ships

Well, I guess that guy never heard of The Philadelphia Experiment ;)

Anyways, as far as a surface ship matching the "undetectability" of a submarine: once they sink they get pretty hard to find, eh?

The disintegration of the fuel would actuall accelerate exposure, atomizing the molecules finely. The real question is there any real risk. BTW, we've already lost one plutoniom powered vehicle in flight.

Check out HAARP. It is based on the same idea of using microwaves as a weapon only on a much larger scale.

http://www.viewzone.com/haarp00.html