New scientific advancements have fascinated me since I was a kid, and I still have an abiding layman's interest in the area. I mean, what thinking person can resist the allure of "going where no man has gone before"?
Unfortunately, there's such a strident, knee-jerk reaction to emerging technologies on the part of some Freepers, that I finally quit posting such articles. Who needs the aggravation?
Unfortunately, there’s such a strident, knee-jerk reaction to emerging technologies on the part of some Freepers, that I finally quit posting such articles. Who needs the aggravation?
***This particular emerging technology has the potential to change the world. That’s when I am willing to put up with the aggravation. Of course, I had higher expectations of Freepers and mods, but that’s the way things are.
We discovered those guys in early 2008 ~ their purpose was to go to various chat boards, get admitted, then when a political issue came up present the Obama party line, or argue with those who disagreed.
Bunch of them came to Free Republic, and got HOOKED! They still did the argue bit ~ after all, when you're getting paid a few bucks to do that, you do that. At the same time they are rather stick in the muds who would rather talk about a static political environment ~ and that carries over into their attitude toward emergent science and engineering. They view it as a competitor of things like paving roads, paying welfare, ObamaKKKare and various other Democrat and leftwingtard nostrums and notions.
Nancy Pelosi, growing up in a mobster's home ~ her dad, although mayor of baltimore was also a siciliano protectore ~ has it in spades. She simply does not agree with the idea that the future can and will be different. For her there's a pie of a certain size, and it never grows, and it never gets better.
Once I discovered the Italian government was beginning to prosecute the mobsters who'd foisted the windmill scam off on half the world, it became pretty obvious pretty quickly that WE didn't have to put up with that crowd, nor their friends, even the Obama truth squad that still show up on FR!
So, I push back.
Kevmo seems to be on the right side of the LENR quest/question! So are others. The critics here appear to have nebulous motives. Maybe they imagine the gasoline engine popped full blown from the mind of a single genius, carburetor and all ~ so any application that doesn't do that too just can't ever work. (clue, the gasoline engine took a very long time to fully develop and that work continues ~ I used to work in an engine factory myself).
Having started out as a math major I've always kept my eye on what the big boys are doing in that field in regards to providing some order to our understanding of the universe ~ their latest multi generational task is to figure out how many dimensions there are ~ beyond the 4 we knew of for so long ~ and where they are. LENR looks to be one of those 'concepts' backed up by thousands of experiments by tens of thousands of smart guys working at the atomic level where just maybe some of them have found some shadows in a 5th dimension ~ or, given some of the more anomalous results, something more than 'shadows' in a 6th even.
The critics unable to think beyond 4 dimensions are always going to dispute discoveries over on that side, or the other one, or maybe all the way out to 11 dimensions ~ George Gamow wrote a book explaining where this was going most of a century ago BTW. He, alas, lived in a time when we didn't have the mathematical tools to wrap some meat around the extra dimension concepts ~ so his musings and speculation weren't as well grounded as was his hard science, but he thought in terms of atomic particles and as the big boys are finding, some of those dimensions may be 'wrapped up' and available for use only in those small sizes where Gamow had his mind.
People who look into Gamow's theory on tunneling find out there's a lot more to this business than atom bombs and stars!