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Successful Cold Fusion Experiment?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-cold-it's-hot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The italian economic journal 'Il sole 24 ore' published an article about a successful cold fusion experiment performed by Yoshiaki Arata in Japan. They seems to have pumped high pressure deutherium gas in a nanometric matrix of palladium and zyrcon oxide. The experiments generates a considerable amount of energy and they found the presence of Helium-4 in the matrix (as sign of the fusion). I was not able to find other articles about this but the journal is very authoritative in Italy. Google translations are also available."

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  1. Re:Neutrons anyone? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shouldn't they been using neutron detector to prove that nuclear fusion tuck place? It tuck place? Did they use a very strong warp field?
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  2. Re:Elium-4? by JSG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the time of the later Roman Republic and early Empire (when most of the famous Latin literature comes from) whether "h" was pronounced was a class thing; dropping "h"s was supposed to be a mark of ignorance or low status.

    People insecure about their status would put in "h"s where they didn't belong (the poet Catullus has a whole poem mocking somebody who does this). We quite often see the same thing in England (at least) in modern day usage. Many a book, film or TV program has poked fun at this. In "Keeping up appearances" for example, Hyacinth Bucket ("Bouquet"!) manages to get many an aitch in where they don't belong, along with many other abuses of pronunciation perceived to be better or posher.

    Now how OT can we get, following this thread 8)?
  3. Re:Elium-4? by h4rm0ny · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    So how did the h's get back into the language again in English? Homo remains pronounced with the h in the UK. If the 'h' was dropped early on, it must have re-appeared in England, then?

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  4. Re:Elium-4? (OT) by TerranFury · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't mind dating a girl that has been with everybody, as long as she had a good shower afterwards.

    Are you sure? You might want to look at the data*.

    In particular: "lifetime number of sexual partners was the best predictor of HSV-2 infection (Bassett et al., 1993)."

    * (Warning: They did a Western blot test here, which I understand tends to have false negatives, in which case all of the numbers given in Table 2 are actually underestimates of the real prevalence.)

    With this in mind, may I suggest the following revision: " I don't mind dating a girl that has been with everybody, as long as she had a good shower afterwards, and a full STD screening." There are still some things the screening can easily miss (e.g., warts -- they're often not visible to the naked eye), so screening doesn't completely "undo" the statistical significance of lots of partners, but it goes a long way.

    (Don't buy the modern feminist bullshit. "Slut" is an insult for a reason: It's shorthand for "statistically more likely to unwittingly cause harm to subsequent sexual partners by spreading disease." Me, I don't call incurable infections "empowering." Feminists shouldn't trivialize themselves with this shit when they could be working to address substantive political and economic issues affecting women. But what do I know; I'm just using science.)