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  1. Actually no on Star In A Jar · · Score: 1
    The important difference is that laser light is phasic. It resonates with the atoms to blast them up to energies beyond our wildest imaginings.


    No cosmic ray is phasic - they are just very high speed particles. The difference is important.

  2. gambling not bad on Nevada Lawmakers Nearer To OK'ing Net Betting · · Score: 4

    I see no reason why gambling should not be universally accepted. Why shouldn't minors be allowed to gamble? Gambling fosters an intense devoition to math, which more of our students and young children need. It also teaches them an appreciation for money - they have to save some of their allowance to spend on other entertainments; they cannot gamble it all away. A game of cards is the best teacher for statistics. Some people believe gambling is a tool of the devil, or a satanic ritual, or even an addictive habit. Those of us who are enlightened and know the truths about Darwin, and social habits, and the Bible, are not stumped by these elaborate christian winged throwbacks. Why not even have a gambling class in school? I hope Nevada puts all its casinos on the web. The casinos I've been in are all wholesom family centers of enjoyment. Yes, there are sections of scantly clad women, but you just have to keep your children away from there. Gambling could be just the thing we need to get our children interested in school, science, and economics. I'm all for it!

  3. Could be used for FTL on Negative Index of Refraction Created · · Score: 2
    I am a Physics student working at the Keck Observatory in Hawai. For some time I have been studying lenses and how they could be used for FTL.

    Theoretically, a negative index of refraction could be used to bend space time, and create a region oof negative energy strong enough to keep a wormhole open and allow us to traverse great distances in space and time. I have written a paper on this which appeared in the Quantum Mechanical Review some months ago, and I am very excited about it.

    I am currently looking for funding to begin the first tentative steps of building a Faster Than Light warp drive. Of course, it will not be completed for some time, and will have some difficulties, but I have already, under laboratory conditions, excited a small lump of cheese to 60% light speed (I chose cheese because it is organic and therefore can show what would happen to the human body).

    Hopefully, all Mankind will benefit from this discovery, and we can approach our destiny in the stars.

    I want to touch the Godhead. As a physicist, I think it is possible with negative refractive indices.

  4. I already covered this the other day... on Measuring EM Waves for Home/Office Safety? · · Score: 1

    However, just for completeness, I think that this post I made covered that point, and several others. Fear not.

    Obviously, my point is that the "Microwave Interference" has nothing to do with home microwaves. These studies have already been done, and having some layman shout "woohoo, it works fine with *my* microwave, I don't know what *they're* talking about" does nothing but propogate myths and false information.

    Similarly, people will wonder if this will cause cancer, but they would have much greater risk from their cellphone (say, almost nil), and similarly, much greater risk from their microwave,(which is to say, not much) when both of which are far safer than The Sun! (which people don't even think about, blah, blah, sunscreen, blah blah blah...)

    My point is that a little research and correct information could have saved us all from this garbage, ad-hockery, and mockery of what used to be science. Apparently I was born in the wrong era, or came to the wrong place.

  5. My point... on The Joys of Microwaves And Wireless · · Score: 1

    Obviously, my point is that the "Microwave Interference" has nothing to do with home microwaves. These studies have already been done, and having some layman shout "woohoo, it works fine with *my* microwave, I don't know what *they're* talking about" does nothing but propogate myths and false information.

    Similarly, people will wonder if this will cause cancer, but they would have much greater risk from their cellphone (say, almost nil), and similarly, much greater risk from their microwave, (which is to say, not much) when both of which are far safer than The Sun! (which people don't even think about, blah, blah, sunscreen, blah blah blah...)

    My point is that a little research and correct information could have saved us all from this garbage, ad-hockery, and mockery of what used to be science. Apparently I was born in the wrong era, or came to the wrong place.

  6. Useless test. on The Joys of Microwaves And Wireless · · Score: 2

    If you read the literature, you'll notice that a conventional microwave has little or no effect on an 802.11b transfer.

    Only a commercial microwave, with more than one magnetron will make a significant impact. Please, do your research before linking to such unsubstantiated fluff, and please correct them as well.

    (does anyone even read technical literature anymore?)