Posted on 02/04/2008 10:39:55 PM PST by BlueSky194
http://www.spinspace.com/biophysics/haarp.htm
there’s lots of stuff like this on the net...I don’t know what to make of it, but it’s interesting.
Link to above ping
Childhood hero of mine.
BTTT
I keep forgetting that others can see our cryptic, often inexplicable little ‘inside joke’ pings....LOL!
[and somehow, explaining it made it sound *way* worse than it really is]....:-O
I really enjoyed the Prestige, a surprising sci-fi flick. Didn’t realize it was a sci-fi flick until he went to see Tesla for the teleporter gadget.
Tesla once lived in the city I reside in. It is my understanding that the house he lived in receives visits from people who want a bit of soil, a glimpse of the inside of the house, or to meditate on the lawn - anything to connect them to Tesla.
Very odd.
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The man knew about the rise of Her Ankleship!
“tesla” is hungarian for “tin foil,” I think.
"Kurzweil" and "credibility" don't necessarily go together. At least, some people think so.
Kurzweil is a genius, but credible? He is predicting humans will be able to 'upload' their consciousness into computers by 2030 or 2040, right? Hopefully I live long enough to see that! But, I'm thinking he's waaayyyy out there on his predictions, just like Tesla (despite the convincing graphs & stuff)
In a way you’re right....Kurzweil’s credibility certainly went up when Bob Moog went to work for him in 1984, 20 years after he introduced the first ‘affordable’ synthesizer! And I may have (in the back of my mind) combined the expertise of Kurzweil AND Moog in my off the cuff analysis! But I’m betting most all are impressed with both geniuses...and just as with Westinghouse + Tesla, the combination was unbeatable! along with the mutual admiration that such genius engenders:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/posts.html?pg=7
Thanks FN for the links. :’)
bump for later
My stepfather used to work fro Dave Van Kouvering, an associate of Bob Moog’s. They had a music store in St. Petersburg FL, where the first synthesizers were sold. Fun stories.
He was shut down because money was to be made in oil, metals, and other industry. He was a genius but he was ganged up upon. Now we are kind of set with what Edison wanted and the auto industry wanted. The water engine was shut down.
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. Cosmic ray investigation is a subject that is very close to me. I was the first to discover these rays and I naturally feel toward them as I would toward my own flesh and blood. I have advanced a theory of the cosmic rays and at every step of my investigations I have found it completely justified. The attractive features of the cosmic rays is their constancy. They shower down on us throughout the whole 24 hours, and if a plant is developed to use their power it will not require devices for storing energy as would be necessary with devices using wind, tide or sunlight. All of my investigations seem to point to the conclusion that they are small particles, each carrying so small a charge that we are justified in calling them neutrons. They move with great velocity, exceeding that of light. More than 25 years ago I began my efforts to harness the cosmic rays and I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of them. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charged ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor. I have hopes of building my motor on a large scale, but circumstances have not been favorable to carrying out my plan.Thanks again Fred Nerks for the links. Tesla was a genius inventor, but he, uh, wasn't always right. ;') My favorite Tesla quote, "wheelwork of nature," from 1892:
"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic -- and this we know it is, for certain -- then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
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