SmallIsPower

Being a Jew in Nazi Germany was illegal, too.

Absolutely ---- there are so many ethics issues that come with advanced science. I just wish we'd overcome some of our agressive and greedy impulses before we reached this point.

I don't understand why people think that there is no possibility that under certain conditions the Second Law can't possibly become irrevevant. Newton's laws were around for 200 years before Einstein. While Newton's laws hold in everyday situations, it can scarcely be said to hold at 99.999% of light speed.

Hmmm, anyone care to hack into voting machines? http://www.blackboxvoting.org

I know how bad things can get when you're on LSD and haven't slept. Years ago, when I was young and stupid, I took a decent sized dose at 11PM, and was having so much fun, I took 2 more at 1AM. By 5:00, it seemed like a million years had passed, I was so miserable, I started waking up neighbors, so I could get drunk enough to pass out. It worked, I believe within an hour.

Uh oH! Does that mean if we have no pirates the temperature will become infinite. I've got the answer! Maybe Rumsfeld and Cheney can train a few thousand.

1)Where did I say LSD was connected to the entire left? The right has done plenty to restrict us, in many areas, not just this. 2) Of course, we wouldn't be having this conversation if the government completely controlled our minds, and if media didn't have some effect on our ideas, no one would bother with it. 3) In talking about Hitler, I wanted to show a case that everyone agrees was evil minipulation, currently 33% of America still likes Bush, so my case is weaker. I will agree that Hitler killed approximately 50 million through both concentration camps and the war, while the "excess dead" in Iraq are "only" a few hundred thousand, so far, at least Hitler was far more destructive.

Is gravitomagnetism similiar to electrogravitics, and the Tampere Experiment, where spinning superconductors appeared to cause a reduction of mass in nonmagnetic materials?

That seems to make more sense. I just kept on hearing more and more hydrogen hype, and I was starting to wonder if it was true.

Oops! I've spent months saying the second law made it obvious that hydrogen cars would be less efficient. My mom warned me that "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." I thought I'd had enough knowlegde. Thanks ecoli.

Of course, same with huge solar and wind farms, but are hydrogen engines more efficient than gasoline?

I'm quite aware of the Second Law of Theromdynamics and have considered "The Hydrogen Economy" a joke, because to get the hydrogen one would either have to break up water (obviously inefficient) to reconsitute it, or break up fossil fuels to create the hydrogen, also degrading the energy. Recently I've been reading that hydrogen engines are potentially so much more efficient than gasoline engines, that the loss in covering gasoline to hydrogen is more than made up by the efficiency of hydrogen engines. This still looks like hype from people who want to push hydrogen, but I don't have all the facts, is there something I'm missing?

GW Bush has convinced me of the folly of political dynasties.

Snail, my purpose was not to tell you I saw lots of pretty colors on LSD. And I agree, there should be more research done on LSD, there's been little for 40 years. I'm advancing a hypothesis, based on the fact that LSD does allow for more neurotransmitters in the nervous system, and I've found it's helped my ability to draw associations from cross-disaplines, and increased my intition (let's not forget how intuitive Einstein was). I wish I could be as specific as you seem to want me to be, but I think passing on some data was better than passing on none. Certainly the premise of my first post, that some governments want their people to be dumb holds in a nation where the neocons invaded Iraq for oil and tried to convince us there were WMDs.

Are you aware of the gas and pollution driving your car at 100mph causes

I supose if she was bright enough, her skin might start glowing blue.

Although I'm doubtful that "Indigo Children" exist, they're an extremely usful myth. Often someone who differs from the norm is easily classified as mentally ill. Einstein was believed to be retarded because he was so methadical. There's a bright radio host who had the symtoms of ADHD, now he uses it to his advantage, jumping from one field to another, he uses it to find connections in different fields. Parents who call their kids indigos are more likely to find the advantages in a child's different way of thinking.

FTL travel through warp drive has already been proposed, and is theorectically possible, however, not currently technically feasable.

I've done LSD. Sometimes in small doses doing worldly things, even getting into conversations on theoretical science. I'm glad to see someone can actually do something practical on it.

Keeping LSD illegal is only one way the government controls our minds. "How fortunate for leaders the people don't think" - Hitler The government uses anxiety, too. Orange alerts happen when the government wanted us to be anixous enough not to question the invasion of Iraq, and on Christmas. When you're worried, the adrenal glands get stimulated, creating a fight or flight responce. Blood flows to your arms and legs, less goes to your heart, digestive system and the brain. Over time seeing murders on the news, listening to the latest Al Queda is supposedly going to do, your brain will slowly shut down so you don't realise thes creeps are robing us blind. Basically, we are the guinea pigs in a wierd biology experiment.

If the cost of aerogels or carbon nanotubes dropped, we wouldn't need hybrid cars. Cars would be so light, they'd hardly use any fuel.

Wouldn't buildings in downtown Manhattan be designed so they'd survive the fall of nearby buildings if there were no significant debris strikes? Of course, the designers couldn't anticipate 9/11, but an incident, maybe a hurricane, tsunami etc that would require one of the twin towers to be taken down in a controlled demolition. Wouldn't the designers want WTC7 to stay stucturally sound in that case?

Actually, so NASA scientists are experimenting with gravity shielding and some other wild ideas, in the hope of someday reaching the stars, but we're quite far off. But then when the idea of a Space Elevator first came up in 1890, who would have thought carbon fiber would make that a possibility?

WTC7 is the smoking gun! It could not be hit by falling debris, there was at least one building between it and WTC 1&2. As the most distant tower in the complex, the vibration of the fall would be the least. The weights of each tower were 1 billion pounds each, the towers almost 1400 feet high, so the average distance debris fell is 700 feet. The total force of a falling building is 700 billion foot-pounds. Using an online converter, I find that equals .0002 megatons. 1 Megaton = a 6.0 earthquake. A drop of a thousand = 2 points on the Richter scale so the total force is equal to a 3.5 earthquake, except most of that cancels out: the buildings, in a free fall would collapse in 10 seconds, the force distibuted over that time, with any dust taking longer to fall. A piece of the tower will depress the ground, then as the ground bounces back another piece hits the ground canceling out the rebound. The readings of 2.1 and 2.3 corrospond to about 1% of the force not cancelling out, or about the impact of a floor. Sounds logical to me, but I don't have enough physics to say for sure. Let's pretend that the maginitude 2.1 & 2.3 were just numbers a conspiracy theorist made up, that the actual energy that wasn't cancelled out was 10% of the energy of the fall wasn't cancelled out. This would be equivalent to a Magnitude 2.8 earthquake.How could two Magnitude 2.8 quakes cause WTC7 to fall?