John Cuthber

"Right now, the free-electron laser produces a 14-kilowatt beam." It still wouldn't work in fog, mist rain or spray. And , outside of a clean-room, the optics would die very quickly. It's not using all the power from a large nuclear reactor. It's not cutting a hole through a thousand feet of steel. And, if the Russians are familiar with colloquial English they are probably laughing even more at the name of the USS Ponce. It's a nice toy. Now, if they can just crank the power up a thousand times they will only be about a hundred fold short of the original claim. Meanwhile on WIKI "The CO2 laser can be constructed to have CW powers between milliwatts (mW) and hundreds of kilowatts (kW)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_laser Since 8KW is "off the peg" http://www.rofin.com/en/products/cosub2sub_lasers/ the 14KW figure doesn't look so good.

Just for a start, that's not a FEL. It still wouldn't work in fog, mist rain or spray. And , outside of a clean-room, the optics would die very quickly. It's not using all the power from a large nuclear reactor. It's not cutting a hole through a thousand feet of steel. And, if the Russians are familiar with colloquial English they are probably laughing even more at the name of the USS Ponce. .

Please explain how the widespread use of, for example, hypochlorite bleach, will increase the incidence of immunity to penicillin.

Hence the popular bumper sticker which says "homoeopaths bang it repeatedly against a lump of rubber and it still doesn't work"

The world's messiness doesn't enter into it. You can't meaningfully prepare for a fight unless you have some ideas of the enemy's strengths and weaknesses. Since Zombies don't exist, you can't say what those are so you can't prepare.

Whoever originally made the 1000 foot claim, you reported it and you have yet to cite the original author/ publication. You said it was a magazine, but the on-line version doesn't mention it. Mirrors can, in principle, be made thinner and lighter than prisms or lenses so you have just told us they made the targeting problem more difficult. But they still have surfaces so they have not made the dust problem any easier. So, in effect you have said they made things worse, not better. The reasonable response to solving the heating problem is that they have not solved it. Though this does not matter, since they don't actually have a laser that powerful. And, if they did, they wouldn't have a power supply that could drive it. In the history of military invention past experience shows one thing quite often: they lie. What will it take for you to accept that you have been suckered?

You need to understand the difference between antimicrobials and antibiotics. Nobody is using penicillin (for example) to make dish washing soap. Overuse of antibiotics is a major concern, but this is a different problem.

Can you offer any evidence of zombies? If not, you might as well be talking about dragons. (And you seem to have failed to address the point about not being able to do science on them since they can't be observed).

"Actually, Homeopathy is unsuccessful to prove its reality for the problem of its medicine-selection procedure." No it is unable to prove it is real because it simply doesn't work. Come back to us when you have a double blind trial.

I'm well aware of the placebo effect and that pile of gibberish in the OP isn't talking about that.

Pending even the arrival of even the most feeble evidence, yes. In much the same way that I don't expect a party of dwarfs to turn up at my door with a wizard and ask me to join them in a dragon hunt. It would be preposterous of me to, for example, buy in the food for them. It would be equally preposterous for me to ask how I might expect to kill zombies- not least because, until they exist (if they ever do, which is very doubtful) there is no way that anyone could have any idea how they react. Given the utterly speculative notion of their existence and behaviour, it might turn out that the best defence is a crappy old carving knife, rather than a platinum one. They might, like witches of old, be unusually susceptible to iron. or maybe they die if you recite "Mary had a little lamb" backwards. It's impossible to predict so, as I said, there is no science of zombies. And, if you can afford enough Pt Ir to make anything better than a doll's house dinner set, then you can pay for metallurgical advice.

On the other hand, there are ways to prove the efficacy of real medicine. That's why homoeopathy is written off as nonsense. If it worked, it would be easy to show that it worked. Since it doesn't work, it doesn't need explaining.

As an observable fact, you don't get sick from a so-called overdose of homoeopathy pills. Another, equally observable fact is that they don't work. So when you say "I have practiced Homeopathy for a long time to know the truth. I have realized that it is not any trick or fraud or faith cure. It has an excellent ability of recovery." what you have to face is the painful truth that you have been fooling yourself. Incidentally, the other end of the stupidity of homoeopathy is the joke about the homoeopath who forgot to take his remedy and died of an overdose. It follows from the absurd notion that the more you dilute a material, the more potent it becomes. However, that's enough about homoeopathy. Please show us the results of a randomised double-blind trial of mahapathy. (or accept that it isn't scientific)

If a theory is unknown, how can it be German?

The Nazis condemned some physics - notably mots of modern physics but not because it disagreed with their physics, but because it disagreed with their political ideology. That was part of their problem. Reality didn't care about their beliefs and carried on as usual. They departed from that and got lost in the wilderness. The USSR did the same thing with evolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_theory_and_the_political_left

You are talking about something which does not exist and which would be practically impossible . That's not "keeping an open mind" that's "making up stories". So, like I said, there is no science of zombies. There is some science of things vaguely related to zombies but that's just playing with words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin#Poisoning

"MahaPathy (briefly– MPathy) is a super excellent system of Alternative Medicine" There are two sorts of treatement for illness, Medicine- which is pretty much defined as things that make the patient better or "Alternative Medicine" which are the treatments which don't work "like Homeopathy"

Anagrams of "salt confinement": "self containment" is one.

That's not a bad summary. I'd just add that I read as far as this "To know the hidden truth of Homeopathic Medicine" and thought "But homoeopathy isn't medicine: it doesn't work." So this is a pseudo-scientific explanation of how something that doesn't work, would work. At best, it should be in speculations. Perhaps this explains it as well as anything http://xkcd.com/765/

But it is not possible to fill those energy requirements, As I explained earlier, even the biggest reactor in the world couldn't produce the power to make a significant sized hole that long because of radiative heat losses. Discover magazine does talk about these and perhaps the printed copy does say something about 1000 feet of steel http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/zen-photo/l/laser-weapon#.UWB01ZP_nTo However the targeting is an essentially impossible task. The laser is far too big and heavy to pick it up and point it at a target. So you have to use mirrors to steer the beam. That's not a problem, and nor is moving the mirrors to keep the beam pointed at the target. The problem is that the mirrors or a window has to let the beam through and it has to be exposed to the air. At those levels a spot of dust or a drop of sea spray would absorb a lot of power, it would get hot enough to ionise the air round it (and also it would heat the surface of the mirror or window). Ionised air isn't transparent so it would absorb even more energy and get hotter and hotter. The first scrap of dust would result in the mirror exploding. It would be suicidal to fire it in mist, fog or rain. Even clean optics have limited power handling capacity. Here's a fairly typical spec for a high grade mirror. http://www.edmundoptics.com/optics/optical-mirrors/flat-mirrors/high-energy-argon-ion-laser-mirrors/2723 They handle about 1 KW /cm^2 You were talking about a 5GW beam power So that's about 5 million cm^2 as the minimum area for this mirror. A mirror about 8 feet across or something like that. Now, there are telescope mirrors that big and so it's not an absurd size, but remember you have to slew it round to make up for the motion of the ship and the target. Unfortunately that means it would bend out of shape. So, this laser that you can't power would need a mirror that would be too big and heavy to steer fast enough to focus on a target that would have to be in a dust free, clean room. I rather doubt that the Russians are all that frightened.

There is no real science of zombies.

I deny that it has any practical result. So this "what if its practical resultant is undeniable?" is invalid.

The statement about the 1000 feet is just silly on two sets of grounds. There isn't a thousand foot thick target to aim at and it would be outside of the capability of the largest nuclear reactor in the world to supply power for it. "The carrier FEL along with a sat system should be able to easily destroy ground based and ship based radar and other electronic systems specific to tracking and targeting as well as capable as an ani-personal weapon." So, a bit like a gun then? "A short while ago I was absolutely FLOORED as I watched the U.S. Navy target a small rocking boat at sea with a low poer FEL. It was able to target the craft as well as keep a beam lock upon a specific point on this rocking boat." How could you tell? Oh, yes, probably because you were able to (instinctively) keep your eyes pointed at the boat. Impressive when it was new- but I think that was many millions of years ago.

Very few plants can use nitrogen gas as a nitrogen source for growth.

I think that, in the UK at least, that would be technically illegal under the control of pesticides regs.