A super sensitive detector. And the first thing that comes to mind is hunt for extraterrestrial life? Not smuggling people in shipping containers or improving earthquake monitoring or something?
You know what every general in 1900s was dreaming about? Mechanical horses, powered by steam.
Exactly the same regular horses, with a soldier with a gun on top, but powered by steam. Not for a
thousand years they imagined a self propelled tracked armoured vehicle capable of going off road
and span trenches.
Designer Barnes Wallis talked about how difficult it was for him to convince the General Staff to
review, just review, his water skipping/skimming bomb
that could attack a dam jumping over the anti-torpedo nets. He could succeed only because was already
a well known bomber designer (Wellington bomber, R100 blimps). The General Staff is very averse to
really unconventional weapons, and are preoccupied by what they already know. But it was easy for
some German gun maker to get funding for a humongous artillery weapon. It was so huge and the
logistics to support it was so enormous, it was commanded by a full Colonel. Imagine a Colonel commanding
one stupid gun. I think it was fired just once.
They could not believe aircraft could destroy ships before WW-II. French could not believe armour could
penetrate Ardennes forest. They were using tactics developed during Napoleanic wars where the rate
of fire of mustets was something like 1 or 2 shots per minute during 100-rounds-per-minute Civil war.
Never learnt from that carnage. Happily throwing cannon fodder in trench warfare in WW-I in 500 rounds
per minute machine guns.
Yes, the generals may be dreaming about hypersonic weapons, but their tails are going to be
chewed by something they never imagined.
Computing needs of most people can be easily met with a simple phone, or a tablet, or a net book/chromebook. Even a full fledge laptop is an overkill and desktop is relegated to office work at offices now. Touch screen was a big breakthrough in input devices. Separating content consumption vs content creation (tablet vs laptops) was a break through. Merging data streams (phone with mobile data and wifi), merging of TV with computer etc were the triggers that created the need for a new device and upgrades. Without such a fundamental break through, all the devices will saturate and grow at the mellow rate of S&P 500, not the blistering pace of Nasdaq100 or AAPL.
The only content created by vast majority of the users are short emails, tweets, photos, selfies and short videos. Sometimes they write a term paper or fire a letter to their insurance company. All these needs are easily met. Unless suddenly we have 400 million people interested in editing video I don't see how their computational needs are going to increase. Even if suddenly everyone switches to secure computing and encryption doubling or tripling their computational needs, it still aint enough.
What is means to us coders is: the glorious subsidies we were getting for authoring machines (code, dvd, website, databases...) from the people buy way more powerful computers than they really need is going to come to an end. The disks and memory and screens are commodities now, used by all devices, they will continue to remain cheap. But my regular workstation at my office (256 GB memory, 2 quarter terabyte SSD and 2 half a terrabyte SCSI disks, 32 processors, 2 full HD screens) will not get much cheaper than what it is now.
West Caribbean was flying an older plane, MD-80 I think. The pilot had turned on de-icers which bleed hot compressed air from the engine. That resulted in engine having less power/thrust. The plane was nearly at its service ceiling at that time. Turning on the de-icers reduced the service ceiling to FL310 and the plane was at FL330 or so. Plane was flying through severe storm, vertical gusts stalled the plane. The plane went into a stall, the co-pilot correctly diagnosed it and reported it to the captain. But captain tried to climb to FL350, way above the service ceiling with de-icers. Plane stalled and fell to the ground.
This Air Asia plane was asking permission to climb to FL380 from FL310 in a storm. But as others have noted, Air Bus has issues with pitot tubes icing over and the flight control computers getting confused.
A solid rocket is basically a tube of propellants (oxidizer and fuel). The only precision component in there is the rocket nozzle, even that is not very expensive for solid boosters. They need vectored thrust only for a the first few seconds before the rocket attains enough air speed to make the fins produce aerodynamic forces. That thrust vectoring is easily achieved by asymmetrical blocking of the jet flow or by bleeding the jet off the compressor to feed the vernier nozzles. The economics are such that it is never economical to make them reusable. As long as we use chemicals to produce the thrust, nothing is going to be cheaper than solid rocket boosters.
Using rocket boosted ramjets and scramjets might save you the need to carry oxidizer in the lower atmosphere. That is where drag is highest. Air resistance goes as the square of the air speed. So "lazy" launch speed works only in that region of the atmosphere. These ram and scramjets are also very very simple. Reusability requirements would raise the cost of materials and engineering. If you want to save money, they should concentrate on cost and probably sacrifice reusability.
Aren't bitcoins supposed to be anonymous? So anonymous no government jack booted thugs can find you? So great you could pay off goons in bitcoins to knock off spouses with inconvenient pre-nuptial agreements?
If random hackers find you and shake you down, your imagined immunity from FBI is just imaginary, isn't it? Shows without a legal government backing it up and providing for a non-violent conflict resolution options and contract enforcement options, all these "digital anonymous currencies" are just jokes, created by folks unconnected with reality creating castles in the air.
Yes, it is obnoxious and selfish. But the airlines are not saint either, they know far more about which flights are in demand, both from historical perspective and from actual booking data. They "optimize" and "maximize" by overbooking flights. They offer inducements for people to drop out, but if none do, they reserve the right to drop anyone. The airlines gouge money from less savvy passengers and passengers who try to be nice. They give deals to the most demanding obnoxious passengers. This arms race has gone so far deep, I am made to feel like a fool for playing by the rules. I keep looking at my "boarding zone 6" in my boarding pass, and people flout the queue flout the rules and do not get called by the airlines. Only when the airlines actually treat nice guys nice, they will get any sympathy from me. I am by nature too docile and will always be nice and follow the rules. But I will not join your class action law suit. The nasty passengers are exactly what the airlines deserve, it is their creation. We all suffer because of this fight between nasty passengers and nastier airlines.
Way back in 1994, the airlines had the practice of charging less for round trip tickets with a saturday night stay over. They also charged less for less popular destinations connecting through hubs. I got an interview call from a company that sent me two round trip tickets, Dallas-Fort Worth to Youngstown PA via Pittsburgh PA and another from Pittsburgh PA to Tulsa Oklahoma via Dallas-Fort Worth. The manager told me over phone, not to check in any baggage, and discard one leg of onward journey and the entire return journey for each of the tickets. They both had Saturday night stay over for the portion that was never intended to be used. One ticket in USAir and another in American.
It has always existed, and people and companies have always used it. All the airlines want to do is to make it more difficult to find it. If they really want to stop the practice, they could charge full fare for the popular segments and refund the money if the less popular options are actually exercised. They are not doing it that way. It is clear they want to accept it with a wink-and-a-nod to the savvy passengers and make the hurried and less informed passengers to pay a little more.
I quickly went through two pages of your postings. Two things stuck out:
1. You have not jumped into the unfairly stereotyped large groups other than Whites (something about native americans) or Catholics (belief in evolution). You have never made statements like "not all blacks are crime prone" or "not all Hispanics are undocumented" or "Not all the government dole recipients are minorities". My guess is you are a White Republican, possibly Catholic, probably fancying yourself as moderate, by comparing yourself to the more radical parts of that party.
2. You believe water remains frozen and only carbon dioxide freezes and thaws around the poles. Really?
I assume you are a Republican, jumping into the defense of the Republicans being unfairly broadbrushed. You remind me of those muslims who jump in and rail against muslims being broad brushed. "Not all of us are terrorists. Only a few cowards do these heinous things. They are not real muslims. Please do not stereotype us". And the Republicans smugly reply, "Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims". Now you probably understand how it feels like to be on the receiving end of stereotyping.
So obviously their definition of efficiency seems to be a little different from common definitions. Then they say it is effective but complicated. Looks they are shooting for a well diversified portfolio of adjectives,
Look, it is all well and good. But it is not a car that I could buy. Well, I could, but I don't want to spend that much on a car. Want a decent car for 40K. All these improvements, will it speed up the release of the alleged 40K model?
Instability in Arab lands and Russia will affect us as much as the instability in Sierra Leon, Sudan or Rwanda. We try to stabilize Arab lands because they have the oil that is necessary for the world economy. We could not afford let their internecine quarrel crash the world economy. So we are forced to step in. If we don't need their oil, we can simply stand aside and watch them destroy each other, their infrastructure, their oil fields everything. We would not care We would not have to intervene. Let them stew in their own juices.
The day we don't need Arab oil, we can down size our military even more. Almost all the defense factory workers are basically on welfare. Their companies and factories have not produced anything efficiently to compete in real free market.
Mitt Romney tried to paint this as a dismal state of affairs and was smacked down hard by Obama in the debate.
Aug 14 1945 was the V-J day. US Navy had just finished battling other nations that had navies that were comparable, and sometimes even bigger than US Navy. Now the highly shrunken US Navy dwarfs all other navies of all other countries by an order of magnitude, I am sure tonnage of the next five navies would not match US Navy's today.
All we need to do was to keep the oil price below 60$ a barrel for the next three years. All the terrorist sponsors including Saudi Arabia will go bankrupt. Russia will further disintegrate. Crimea will be to rejoin Ukraine. We can cut the navy down by another factor of two then.
There was a time USA did not have EPA, NLRB and OSHA.
Rivers caught fires then. . The value of real estate with clean river front property dwarfs by orders of magnitude any industrial production that came of those fatories run by dimwitted idiots who could not make anything without crapping all over the country.
You can see what happens without OSHA in India where the workers are still making asbestos sheets or in china where they are melting used electronic plastic or in Bangladesh where the break down ships with bare hands and a welding torch. The value provide by these agencies are subtle, hidden and never fully appreciated or articulated. But those crappy executives who think they can't make this quarters number because they have to provide masks for workers shoveling coal ash, they aggressively paint the picture that all the woes of America are due to these agencies.
Added property value due to clean waterfront is never accounted for. Increased real estate value on properties adjacent to tax funded highways is never recognized when people blindly "government never creates value". All the agricultural output from deserts watered by the big dams built by the government is never recognized. Government by its mere existence creates value. Our founding fathers realized it and gave the Government the power to tax anything without providing any justification whatsoever. If the government decides to tax bandwidth of internet connections or financial transactions, it can, it is constitutional. You might question the wisdom of it, or the political expediency, but it would be constitutional.
Remember the day you make the government weaker than the strongest person, that person will drown it in the bath tub and that person will rule you as a tyrant. Courts have ruled corporations are persons, endowed with religious beliefs and all the rights of citizens. Be afraid, my friend, be very afraid. Not of the government, but the corporation that is going to rule you as a tyrant.
The Middle 'East oil cost of production is quite low, and they turn a profit at very low prices, as low as 5$ a barrel for some Saudi fields. But their economy can not survive at these low prices. The government is subsidizing so much, and they are committed to spending so much, merely turning a profit is not enough. I read in Wall St Journal (curiously in a Qatar Aiways flight) the oil price needed to sustain the Arab economies. Saudi need it at 105$. Iran, Iraq above 120$. Only Qatar and another minor player would survive at 60$.
Saudi Arabia planned for this low oil price for two years, accumulated enough reserves and has indicated that it could survive for two years at 60$. Other Arab nations are not prepared. Russia certainly is not prepared and it can not survive for two years if the oil stays below 60 for two years.
If my trade group picks a venue where they stop me from using my hotspots and charge inordinate amounts for an internet connection, I would strongly protest. I would demand my trade association to pick only those venues that do not block local wifi. Already I am being charged arm and a leg because almost all the convention venues use some kind of unionized labor where I can't move my own computer without calling a carpenter, or plug the computer into the wall without calling in the electrician... Now this?
I got a RSA dongle from E-Trade. Schwab too has an RSA dongle 2 factor system, but they insist on me using a new schwab dongle. They would not work with E-Trade to register that dongle with their system. Each bank/brokerage wants to send out a dongle and expect the customers to jingle a dozen dongles like Mr McBeevee. Google with millions of customers allows you to get the second factor through cell phones and one-time pads. For free. Banks/credit cards in India send you an SMS every time there is a transaction. US financial institutions are worst in the world when it comes to implementing security for themselves, or helping the customers stay secure. Damn, they won't even let me freeze my credit reports. They let any Tom Dick or Harry pretend to be me, if they know my social security number.
Why can't they introduce two level log-ins for customers? First level log-in should be read-only, without any ability to modify anything. If you really want do a transaction, create a second level password. E*Trade used to have the system of "trade passcode" to be entered for doing actual trade, and the regular log in will only let you browse positions, balances, and set up alerts/watch lists. They took it away!
It figures, if they are that careless with their own servers, they don't give a rats tail about the customers security concerns.
The finding suggests that unconventional research that falls outside the established lines of thought may be more prone to rejection from top journals
That is the way it should be. It is not a bug, it is a feature. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. The signal to noise ratio is very poor when it comes to unconventional research and findings. For every deserving paper made to jump through the hoops, there are 100 papers sent to the dust heap of history very deservedly.
Think about it, Einstein was a patent office clerk. Srinivasan Ramanujam was a clerk on Madras Port Trust. Eddington destroyed the Chandrashekar on the first international presentation Chandrashekar made [*]. That paper the defined what later came to be called "Chandrashekar Limit" for black holes got Nobel Prize. But on the conference in 1935. It took 15 years before that paper was noticed and gained prominence. Science found them and made heroes out of them. If the unconventional research has any merit, it will jump through the hoops, become the accepted research and it will be highly cited too.
[*] Apparently Chandrashekar had referred to a paper by Eddington's arch rival, without being aware of the rivalry between them. That irritated Eddington enough to have a grudge against Chandrashekar. Not realizing these undercurrents, Chandrashekar, young and quite naive, freely shared all his research work with Eddington for weeks prior to the conference. All the while Eddington was gathering information silently to destroy Chandrashekar's presentation publicly in the upcoming conference. Eddington at that time has Himalayan reputation as an astrophysicist. He had confirmed the predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity by direct observation during a solar eclipse. In retrospect, today, Eddington is seen more as a competent astronomer, like Tycho Brahe. But when it comes to astrophysics the prize goes to Chandrashekar (and Kepler, not Brahe). Proving, if you have the merit, science will find it.
That would teach him how much of his life depends on the poor people doing their part. If pirates attack is Galt's Gulch island or the mercenary soldiers he had hired to protect the island, imprison him and take over all his wealth, would he just shrug and accept his fate?
By the way whats wrong with John Galt? Supposedly brilliant chap, and just because one stupid railroad executive refused to build a railroad track to his pet project he just gives up? For all that brilliance could he not build a railroad? John Galt was an idiot, so are the people who mistake that fiction to be their guiding philosophy.
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Your criticism is valid, and I deserve the rebuke. I misread and posted in hurry. sorry.
A super sensitive detector. And the first thing that comes to mind is hunt for extraterrestrial life? Not smuggling people in shipping containers or improving earthquake monitoring or something?
Designer Barnes Wallis talked about how difficult it was for him to convince the General Staff to review, just review, his water skipping/skimming bomb that could attack a dam jumping over the anti-torpedo nets. He could succeed only because was already a well known bomber designer (Wellington bomber, R100 blimps). The General Staff is very averse to really unconventional weapons, and are preoccupied by what they already know. But it was easy for some German gun maker to get funding for a humongous artillery weapon. It was so huge and the logistics to support it was so enormous, it was commanded by a full Colonel. Imagine a Colonel commanding one stupid gun. I think it was fired just once.
They could not believe aircraft could destroy ships before WW-II. French could not believe armour could penetrate Ardennes forest. They were using tactics developed during Napoleanic wars where the rate of fire of mustets was something like 1 or 2 shots per minute during 100-rounds-per-minute Civil war. Never learnt from that carnage. Happily throwing cannon fodder in trench warfare in WW-I in 500 rounds per minute machine guns.
Yes, the generals may be dreaming about hypersonic weapons, but their tails are going to be chewed by something they never imagined.
Does it have butterfly mode? Emacs does!
Here is one for you:
Lord Emmetscarbunckle: Cor! I can not stand here and my character besmirched, Sir. I challenge you to a duel!
Duke of Wittinghamshire: But, Sir James, in what way have I offended you, pray tell.
Lord E: You said I have no sense of humour!
Duke W: No, Sir James, you misheard. I said you have no sense of Honour!
Lord E: Oh, Toot! That is alright then Sir, my sincere apologies, let us let it pass. Pip-pip O!
The only content created by vast majority of the users are short emails, tweets, photos, selfies and short videos. Sometimes they write a term paper or fire a letter to their insurance company. All these needs are easily met. Unless suddenly we have 400 million people interested in editing video I don't see how their computational needs are going to increase. Even if suddenly everyone switches to secure computing and encryption doubling or tripling their computational needs, it still aint enough.
What is means to us coders is: the glorious subsidies we were getting for authoring machines (code, dvd, website, databases...) from the people buy way more powerful computers than they really need is going to come to an end. The disks and memory and screens are commodities now, used by all devices, they will continue to remain cheap. But my regular workstation at my office (256 GB memory, 2 quarter terabyte SSD and 2 half a terrabyte SCSI disks, 32 processors, 2 full HD screens) will not get much cheaper than what it is now.
This Air Asia plane was asking permission to climb to FL380 from FL310 in a storm. But as others have noted, Air Bus has issues with pitot tubes icing over and the flight control computers getting confused.
Using rocket boosted ramjets and scramjets might save you the need to carry oxidizer in the lower atmosphere. That is where drag is highest. Air resistance goes as the square of the air speed. So "lazy" launch speed works only in that region of the atmosphere. These ram and scramjets are also very very simple. Reusability requirements would raise the cost of materials and engineering. If you want to save money, they should concentrate on cost and probably sacrifice reusability.
If random hackers find you and shake you down, your imagined immunity from FBI is just imaginary, isn't it? Shows without a legal government backing it up and providing for a non-violent conflict resolution options and contract enforcement options, all these "digital anonymous currencies" are just jokes, created by folks unconnected with reality creating castles in the air.
Yes, it is obnoxious and selfish. But the airlines are not saint either, they know far more about which flights are in demand, both from historical perspective and from actual booking data. They "optimize" and "maximize" by overbooking flights. They offer inducements for people to drop out, but if none do, they reserve the right to drop anyone. The airlines gouge money from less savvy passengers and passengers who try to be nice. They give deals to the most demanding obnoxious passengers. This arms race has gone so far deep, I am made to feel like a fool for playing by the rules. I keep looking at my "boarding zone 6" in my boarding pass, and people flout the queue flout the rules and do not get called by the airlines. Only when the airlines actually treat nice guys nice, they will get any sympathy from me. I am by nature too docile and will always be nice and follow the rules. But I will not join your class action law suit. The nasty passengers are exactly what the airlines deserve, it is their creation. We all suffer because of this fight between nasty passengers and nastier airlines.
It has always existed, and people and companies have always used it. All the airlines want to do is to make it more difficult to find it. If they really want to stop the practice, they could charge full fare for the popular segments and refund the money if the less popular options are actually exercised. They are not doing it that way. It is clear they want to accept it with a wink-and-a-nod to the savvy passengers and make the hurried and less informed passengers to pay a little more.
1. You have not jumped into the unfairly stereotyped large groups other than Whites (something about native americans) or Catholics (belief in evolution). You have never made statements like "not all blacks are crime prone" or "not all Hispanics are undocumented" or "Not all the government dole recipients are minorities". My guess is you are a White Republican, possibly Catholic, probably fancying yourself as moderate, by comparing yourself to the more radical parts of that party.
2. You believe water remains frozen and only carbon dioxide freezes and thaws around the poles. Really?
I assume you are a Republican, jumping into the defense of the Republicans being unfairly broadbrushed. You remind me of those muslims who jump in and rail against muslims being broad brushed. "Not all of us are terrorists. Only a few cowards do these heinous things. They are not real muslims. Please do not stereotype us". And the Republicans smugly reply, "Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims". Now you probably understand how it feels like to be on the receiving end of stereotyping.
So obviously their definition of efficiency seems to be a little different from common definitions. Then they say it is effective but complicated. Looks they are shooting for a well diversified portfolio of adjectives,
Are you talking about USA or the Fox News Nation?
Why would we call you? We don't give a rat's tail about what you want.
Look, it is all well and good. But it is not a car that I could buy. Well, I could, but I don't want to spend that much on a car. Want a decent car for 40K. All these improvements, will it speed up the release of the alleged 40K model?
The day we don't need Arab oil, we can down size our military even more. Almost all the defense factory workers are basically on welfare. Their companies and factories have not produced anything efficiently to compete in real free market.
Aug 14 1945 was the V-J day. US Navy had just finished battling other nations that had navies that were comparable, and sometimes even bigger than US Navy. Now the highly shrunken US Navy dwarfs all other navies of all other countries by an order of magnitude, I am sure tonnage of the next five navies would not match US Navy's today.
All we need to do was to keep the oil price below 60$ a barrel for the next three years. All the terrorist sponsors including Saudi Arabia will go bankrupt. Russia will further disintegrate. Crimea will be to rejoin Ukraine. We can cut the navy down by another factor of two then.
Rivers caught fires then. . The value of real estate with clean river front property dwarfs by orders of magnitude any industrial production that came of those fatories run by dimwitted idiots who could not make anything without crapping all over the country.
You can see what happens without OSHA in India where the workers are still making asbestos sheets or in china where they are melting used electronic plastic or in Bangladesh where the break down ships with bare hands and a welding torch. The value provide by these agencies are subtle, hidden and never fully appreciated or articulated. But those crappy executives who think they can't make this quarters number because they have to provide masks for workers shoveling coal ash, they aggressively paint the picture that all the woes of America are due to these agencies.
Added property value due to clean waterfront is never accounted for. Increased real estate value on properties adjacent to tax funded highways is never recognized when people blindly "government never creates value". All the agricultural output from deserts watered by the big dams built by the government is never recognized. Government by its mere existence creates value. Our founding fathers realized it and gave the Government the power to tax anything without providing any justification whatsoever. If the government decides to tax bandwidth of internet connections or financial transactions, it can, it is constitutional. You might question the wisdom of it, or the political expediency, but it would be constitutional.
Remember the day you make the government weaker than the strongest person, that person will drown it in the bath tub and that person will rule you as a tyrant. Courts have ruled corporations are persons, endowed with religious beliefs and all the rights of citizens. Be afraid, my friend, be very afraid. Not of the government, but the corporation that is going to rule you as a tyrant.
Saudi Arabia planned for this low oil price for two years, accumulated enough reserves and has indicated that it could survive for two years at 60$. Other Arab nations are not prepared. Russia certainly is not prepared and it can not survive for two years if the oil stays below 60 for two years.
If my trade group picks a venue where they stop me from using my hotspots and charge inordinate amounts for an internet connection, I would strongly protest. I would demand my trade association to pick only those venues that do not block local wifi. Already I am being charged arm and a leg because almost all the convention venues use some kind of unionized labor where I can't move my own computer without calling a carpenter, or plug the computer into the wall without calling in the electrician... Now this?
Why can't they introduce two level log-ins for customers? First level log-in should be read-only, without any ability to modify anything. If you really want do a transaction, create a second level password. E*Trade used to have the system of "trade passcode" to be entered for doing actual trade, and the regular log in will only let you browse positions, balances, and set up alerts/watch lists. They took it away!
It figures, if they are that careless with their own servers, they don't give a rats tail about the customers security concerns.
The finding suggests that unconventional research that falls outside the established lines of thought may be more prone to rejection from top journals
That is the way it should be. It is not a bug, it is a feature. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. The signal to noise ratio is very poor when it comes to unconventional research and findings. For every deserving paper made to jump through the hoops, there are 100 papers sent to the dust heap of history very deservedly.
Think about it, Einstein was a patent office clerk. Srinivasan Ramanujam was a clerk on Madras Port Trust. Eddington destroyed the Chandrashekar on the first international presentation Chandrashekar made [*]. That paper the defined what later came to be called "Chandrashekar Limit" for black holes got Nobel Prize. But on the conference in 1935. It took 15 years before that paper was noticed and gained prominence. Science found them and made heroes out of them. If the unconventional research has any merit, it will jump through the hoops, become the accepted research and it will be highly cited too.
[*] Apparently Chandrashekar had referred to a paper by Eddington's arch rival, without being aware of the rivalry between them. That irritated Eddington enough to have a grudge against Chandrashekar. Not realizing these undercurrents, Chandrashekar, young and quite naive, freely shared all his research work with Eddington for weeks prior to the conference. All the while Eddington was gathering information silently to destroy Chandrashekar's presentation publicly in the upcoming conference. Eddington at that time has Himalayan reputation as an astrophysicist. He had confirmed the predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity by direct observation during a solar eclipse. In retrospect, today, Eddington is seen more as a competent astronomer, like Tycho Brahe. But when it comes to astrophysics the prize goes to Chandrashekar (and Kepler, not Brahe). Proving, if you have the merit, science will find it.
By the way whats wrong with John Galt? Supposedly brilliant chap, and just because one stupid railroad executive refused to build a railroad track to his pet project he just gives up? For all that brilliance could he not build a railroad? John Galt was an idiot, so are the people who mistake that fiction to be their guiding philosophy.