Phi for All

Sorry, but gack! We hate the term, "Just a theory" here. This is a science site, and in science a theory is the best it ever gets, representing thousands of people working sometimes their whole lives to form the best explanation for a specific phenomena. We'll forgive you, just this once... Light energies? Simple biology works just fine. Sorry to jump on your first post with both feet. I hope you stick around. It's not personal, around here we attack the idea, not the person who has it.

! Moderator Note Arnaud Antoine ANDRIEU, you've been warned three times now to stop hijacking threads with your own speculative ideas. Please take the next week to reconsider this behavior and familiarize yourself with our rules.

Arnaud Antoine Andrieu has been suspended for one week for repeated thread hijacking (diverting discussion to his own speculative ideas).

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Every news outlet that relies on advertisers has certain unethical practices or tricks that are not aimed at informing so much as aimed at intriguing the viewer to keep them from going elsewhere. FOX News viewers are probably the ones that set the tone of those practices and tricks, and I've noticed a disturbing trend towards appealing to isolationism and distrust of science that most other outlets don't share. They're very subtle, and I mentioned one in another thread that bears repeating. The link read something like, "The REAL reason this German manufacturer won't sell to the US". When I clicked the link, the story was about an appliance manufacturer that was discontinuing a certain model worldwide. This German manufacturer wasn't going to be selling that model to ANYONE ANYWHERE ANYMORE, but the link played on the typical FOX News viewer's belief that other countries don't really like the US so it's us vs them. I'm still unsure whether or not FOX News is trying to foster this kind of thinking in it's viewers as a wing of the US Republican party or if that's just a sentiment already espoused by their viewers that they're just trying to play upon. Either way, I think this view is strengthened by the use of this tactic, and FOX News seems to use it more often and much more insidiously than any other outlet.

With A you're not pulling any rope, you're climbing it. It's weight isn't added to the work you're doing. With B you're pulling the weight of at least half the whole rope because it's tied to your waist.

Can you explain which particular process of evolution you're referring to?

Any particular kind of frog? Also, define "ether" and "essence", so we're all on the same page with you.

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First we have to invent a train that can travel at Mach 3. When you say "withstand", what exactly are you talking about? If you had a train that could travel at Mach 3, an ordinary piece of paper could withstand impact with the front of it and come out whole if a bit crumpled. Are you talking about a material that could be stretched across the tracks and would remain there as the train accordioned against it car by car until there was just a block of mashed steel up against the barrier? Does this material have to be impervious to anything? There are materials that could more easily withstand impact than they could being dipped in acid.

Blame the TV news. Over-unity devices have always grabbed the attention of people who get hyped up on conspiracies and misunderstood science. TV news keeps doing stories on these scam artists, knowing you won't change channels if you think this time, with this combination of never-before-in-the-history-of-the-world techniques, this guy may have just cracked "the secret" of overcoming a basic physical principle. After all, everyone knows we're overlooking something really simple, something that just anyone off the street could stumble upon and give the world free energy, right?

I thought radium was the element of choice for glowing watches through at least the 60s. AFAIK, any phosphorescent material (calcium sulfide, strontium sulfide) can be used in conjunction with the radium or tritium, since that's what provides the energy for the phosphorescence to continue. Iirc, radium has an outrageous "glow-life" (like over a thousand years) but isn't bad as long as you don't ingest it in any way (one of our members thought some might have been spilled on the floor of the home he rents). The amount of radiation from a watch would be harmless, but not undetectable. Wasn't it a Rolex that James Bond used to test his Geiger counter in Dr. No?

If you go strictly by the Intro thread, and forget the last two pages since those people have been here less than a month, you see an awful lot of "Posts: 1". It just seems odd to me that a person would take the time to join, go to the trouble of following instructions to introduce themselves, and then never post again. Some of those intros are pretty enthusiastic and I just want to make sure something we don't know about or are taking for granted isn't chasing these good folks away. Those are easily explained I think, people who have a question and get it answered. Perhaps by the time they have another question they've forgotten their password or something else mundane we're not considering. It just happens more often than chance seems to account for, imo. I can understand the ones who join and never post at all, they're like the people who come into a shop, get greeted by the owner, browse around a while and then leave without a word. But the ones who introduce themselves are like people who go into the shop, tell the owner what a nice place he's got and how much they like it, and THEN leave and never come back. It's not as easily explainable, especially when there's so many of them. It's in writing now, and we're going to hold you to it! It's a big no-no to edit something you're quoting, but many people will use that feature to bold a certain part they want to address while leaving the rest of the quote for context. It's really not there to "edit" anyone's speech, though some have tried and they usually get caught. It's treated about like someone who plagiarizes the work of another, but I think it's even more intellectually dishonest myself. It's rare though, since it's easily checkable since you can't edit someone's original post. And thanks for the kudos, it's always appreciated.

Ah, good call. My fridge is right next to my coffee maker, and the coffee cups in the cupboard just above the maker. I can do the entire operation standing in one place. My late mother-in-law, a normally sensible woman, kept her coffee pot on one end of the counter, the cups in a cupboard on the other end, the coffee was in crock on a counter on the other side of the kitchen and she kept the goddamned coffee filters in an upper cupboard in between. It used to drive me crazy when I made coffee at her house.

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Ever since I started taking milk in my coffee, I figured out that it was much more efficient to take advantage of the energy involved in pouring the coffee into the milk to mix it in, rather than pouring the coffee first and then stirring the milk in with a spoon. Not only do I skip the effort of stirring, I also don't have to spend more energy washing the spoon, and the cold spoon doesn't reduce the temperature of my coffee. It's not a lazy thing, it just appeals to my sense of efficiency. A couple of weeks ago, I got a traffic ticket for not stopping completely at a stop sign. I started monitoring myself and realized I did it a lot! It's not impatience so much as taking advantage of that little bit of momentum left over before a complete stop to make it easier to let the clutch out and accelerate (I drive a manual transmission). Do you have any real life physics processes that take advantage of existing energy or momentum you could share? Preferably something that won't get me ticketed by the police, please.

Accident, divine will, hard to tell.

I'd be happy to change it if you have a better title.

I thought these surveys were purposely anonymous! Then again, deities must be incredibly concerned about identity theft....

I think I understand what you're talking about, and it's not about just any recent posters. We always have a fair amount of people who join, and even post something in the Introduce Yourself thread in the Lounge, and then are never heard from again. I've always wondered about them as well. I try to go in that thread every once in a while and say welcome to all, but maybe it's just not a friendly enough concept. We get a few folks who post a separate intro thread and then the Mods merge those with that big Introduce Yourself thread, and maybe that's too impersonal. As in business, it's always the clients who don't tell you why they're leaving you that are the most frustrating. They just disappear and you don't get the feedback that might help you correct a bad situation. Sorry about that, but that's using someone else's thread to advertise your own, and it gets reported so often that we added it to the rules a while back.

And after he builds it you can challenge him to a duel, his gun against your Vera.

We've had a rash of next-gen spammers lately. We need some tweaking done on our filters, and the Admins are on top of it. It's a busy time of year for everyone though, so thanks for your patience.

I took it. Good luck on your thesis!