SmallIsPower

There certainly is motive to steal an election, a multi-trillion dollar federal budget, a hit man will kill for much, much less. Senator Chuck Hagel also has the means an opportunity, he was CEO and part owner of a company that counted his election results. and recieved 84% of the vote!

I've cut down on my driving, gone to my city and county officials with info, including about the coming slipstream windmills I read about here, and make suggestions to homeowners. I haven't conserved as much as I'd like to, I haven't even cut down on beef consumption.

Actually, she was in the Congress, she couldn't use gerrymandering to get in the Senate. Her former district is so close in the official results, it's the only one I left out, so maybe she alienated people there. I'm surprised no one number crunched my 16-8-1 numbers for statistical significance here. If it had been a coin flip, one standard deviation = sqrt(24*.5*.5) 2.5 congressional districts, so this is 1.6 SD from a 12-12 tie, not statistically significant for 16-8-1, but almost (1.8 SD) significant for 17-8 as the 13th is leaning Republican, for a 1 tail test. Not conclusive eigther way. Someone who takes a good look at all 435 races should be able to ascertain if there is more than a slight bias.

Maybe this is much ado about nothing, In the above, I only saw 2 disticts missing, there are 6, and it's because 6 Democrats ran unopposed, so it was 16-8-1, still quite skewed, though. The CNN exit polls tend to corroborate this.

The numbers are funny. This is a hypothesis, only, but it was worth emailing my congressman about. How conservative can it be? Given that (assuming no election fraud in 2000), the governor's brother won there by a few hundred votes. The hurricane season of 2005 certainly did not swing voters to the Republicans. I've thought about gerrymandering, and I'd expect that if the Republicans gerrymandered it they'd use the following algorythm: A majority of strongly Republican seats A few less EXTREMELY Democratic seats That way the Republicans can eke out a few extra seats by concentrating the Democratic voters. The system works fine for Republicans until there's a big shift.

Here are the official results. Of 25 districts, with #2,#3 unreported and #13 too close to call its: 18 Republicans 4 Democrats 3 Unknown Does this strike anyone else as funny in a state that was a swing state in 2000 and 2004, with the rest of the country going Democratic?

Genecks, you don't need a plane to fly in the thermite when your brother is head of security. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm Rocket Man, the neocons are huge liars, I'll be able to cover the science in the following weeks.

Why did NASA use it on Deep Space One, they said the ion drive was ultimately powered by solar arrays. Why not directly by solar sails?

Pangloss, I didn't think I needed to document the baby boom, but here it is! http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/erp/1997/chart3-1.gif If you want a link on how women's lib increased the number of 2 family incomes, I'll be glad to find that, too. One the first day of my first statistics class my professor quoted Mark Twain: One of them is the Cost Of Living Increase, which is what the poverty level is based on. http://www.bls.gov/cpi/ Go down the pape hit "inflation Calculatorhttp://commonsblog.org/archives/gasoline1.jpg Here's a graph of gas prices, from 1998 to 2006 , it's gone from $1 to $3. A barrel of oil was $25 in 2002, http://www.ab3energy.com/CrudeOilPrice.jpg now it's about over $70. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5612507/ Everything incurs transportation costs, not just driving cars and plane flight. Between 2000 and 2004 the dollar fell 50% relative to the Euro. http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1122/p01s01-usec.html this automatically escalates the cost of imports. Such a dramatic change is likely as much an indicator of the dollar's weekness as the euro's strength, especially since the major events that impacted the currencies happened in America: 9/11, and the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and therefore it reflects the dollars' weakness relative to the world, more than the euros' strength. Let's look at the nifty inflation calculator when all this was going on: $100 in 2000 is worth $109.70 in 2004; $117.83 in 2006. Someone is cooking the books. Even with these cooked statistics the poverty rate has gone up since 1973: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States , especially since Bush took office. To say that the only people who deserve money are the investor class is to forget who is really esential for technological innovation : Engineers and educators. I guess you think the NYFD undeserving because they mearly had 300 dead on 9/11 resucing your "wealth producers". Back in the 1950's the school food program was started so the poor could be fit soldiers, this had been a problem in WWII, and with today's "volunteer [poor] army", it also is a national security issue. Finally, there was at least one time when corporations became so powerful the nation's leader called his form of government "Corporatism". The leader's name was Mussolini. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

Excuse me, but doesn't the pulse coming out the other end constitute at least one bit of information? If nothing else, it says that the pulse is about to be sent. Doesn't that mean that dozens or millions of bits of information can be sent? If the leading edge can be sent far enough in time, could it be used to warn us about an impending tsunami? Certainly that would qualify as information.

I'm amazed at the lack of skeptism here. You believe a phenomena that is not obvious, as a certain explanation. One thing beaurocrats are good at is bsing people, blaming others for their failures (they get lots of practice). It's not like the US hasn't lied us into war before. Three words: "Remember the Maine". Four words: "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution", and Daddy Bush told Saddam it was OK to invade Kuwait? Grandpa Bush may never have been President, but he was selling arms to Hitler until Oct '42, when Congress seized those assets. It's going to take me a few weeks to go through this malarky, and I hope I have the technical proficency to debunk it, so don't expect an immediate responce, but I will as I get through it. One doubt arises from bascule's quote, and there may be something testable here: Question: Why haven't we ever seen a these "illusory secondary explosions" as well as real ones in controlled demolitions? Testable hypothesis: as the structure fell, there was more energy and more dust for each "illusory secondary explosion", they would have appeared larger more violent as the collapse progressed. This is just a very preliminary reply.

Moving closer or get a more economical or electrical vehicle, or mass transit. That will leave some out in the cold, unfortunately, but it's pay now or pay later. Peak Oil and the greenhouse effect is here. There's no way to get through this painlessly.

Global warming is going to do more damage to the birds than windmills, as will the left over plutonium, unless your idea of biodiversity is having twoheaded yellow whatsits. Even ifthose containers are build to last 100,000 years, what's to keep a terrorist out of them?

Bending is used here metaphorically. In today's universe, a black hole can only grow at The Eddington limit because the black hole would heat up the surrounding matter, helping it escape. In other words, in those days, the galactic cores, adjacent to the black holes were dense enough for X-rays to bounce around enough so that less mass escaped.

Oh, so you think the investor class sitting by the pool should reap the rewards? Many of these people got their money by winning the womb lottery, popping out of a woman who happened to had money, or married into it.

In my immediate area, there are 2 city council members in their early 20's. There are no complaints about their compenence, and I haven't heard any comments about them being corrupt, which is somewhat unusual here.

Is a mass driver a practical way for a plane to take off?

Tomas Eagar, in the NOVA piece, Isn't a structural engineer. Assuming he is right, he does not mention why the building fell with no drag. Even worse dust plumes were expelled several floors below the collapsing top of the building. This dust would have to have fallen faster than gravity. I look foward, bascule, on your theory of MOND that will explain this. As for FEMA, who appoints it's head? Oh that would be the people were investigating! I'm sure if Al Capone wrote a report on Chicago, it would show that he had no responiciblity for the problems there. Remember Katrina? WalMart, the Mexican army, and even Canadian college students got there before FEMA, in fact once they got there, they were accused of using extreme measures to cover up what was really going on. You wouldn't be the first one to get furious at me, the last time, Feb 2003, lots of people were flipping me off, because I was holding a sign that said esentially, invading Iraq would be a very costly affair.

There is an interesting phenomena going on here, technology is producing more and more, yet wagearners are getting less and less. While there was teporaaliy more being spent, as Pangloss stated, there is less over the long-term. This is the opposite of what happened to create hyperinflation in places like the Weimar Republic, where productivity was fairly stable, but the money supply was increasing quickly. The amount that median Americans have to spend is shinking disasterously: In 1955 (The baby boom) A husband would earn enough for himself, his wife and 4 kids. 6:1 In 1975 (Before women's lib became big) A husband would earn enough for a wife and 2 kids. 4:1 Now A couple can barely earn enough to raise 2 kids. 4:2 Where has all this extra production gone? Following the flow of dollars, Pangloss, does not tell the whole story.

There may have been aluminium burning at the top of the Towers, that does not explain why they fell without any resistance(at the speed of gravity) Even if the steel all heated up at once, there would have been a lower heat flow through the rest of the components. I googled video of wtc7' date=' and it sure looks symetric to me. http://www.wtc7.net/videos.html . The first CBS video shows shaking before the collapse , but not during or after. I doubt that the networks by then didn't need to rely on ameteurs, whose cameras might wobble. Firemen were coming in from as far as California. Water: Couldn't it be airlifted? Or was Bush too busy thinking of giving his next reading lesson to schoolkids? You think I like looking at these videos, you think I like remembering 9/11? It's not only a horrible atrocity, it's extremely graphic, too. Like it or not there are people who do have technical backgrounds who do see reasons to think not everything is as it appears, and your attempt at character assasinatination as well as the earlier: Is the furthest thing from scientific discourse, it's intimidation, and it reminds me of this quote:

Is the unit (cage & power supply) going to be propibably heavy. If it does use lots of power, (ie the plasma escapes in large amounts), could plasma be shed in a direction that propels the rocket in the proper direction? Maybe we should pospone this idea until there's a Space Elevator, or just go to Mars the old fashioned way (by probe).

I guess it was just a matter of time... Dr. Science explains string theory.

Uh, Oh! Is there a chemist in the house? Is 1000C hot enough to ignite aluminium? Does the 767-200 (United flight 175) have enough alumium to ignite? Oh, Rocketman, I hope you haven't ruined my fanatasy of indicting Bush/Cheney on war crimes charges.

The maximum flame temperature increase for burning hydrocarbons (jet fuel) in air is, thus, about 1,000°C—hardly sufficient to melt steel at 1,500°C.(Halfway down the page.)Themite burns at 2500C. Thermate with sulfur burns hotter.