Mark The Festo company certainly does some interesting work. http://www.festo.com/inetdomino/coorp_sites/en/df10fdeeb58db201c12571b9002ba9c4.htm The flying Air-Ray http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxPzodKQays The flying Jelly-fish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_citFkSNtk&feature=related I can se...

Mikado After you put the lime in the coconut you shake it all about and then you throw it, really hard, only by throwing it can you create sufficient directional momentum to call it a wave, then grab another coconut and repeat. <g> It appears to me to be a misuse or misdirection of terminology, but ...

Linda That’s the problem I don’t know if it can be melted and poured, I’m surmising on this one, I looked up Kevin’s comments on Browns Gas and how it burns at very high temperatures and burns extremely cleanly, high enough that the television industry use it to melt and seal the vacuum tubes of TV'...

Linda I see you also have a retentive mind, the original question from back on page 2 or 3 ?. What happens when lightening..? I can say from experience that a big hole develops. (A steel post retaining a fence was bored into a qurtz bearing rock structure. the fence/post was hit in a storm.) But you...

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skyfish
I just read the sciam article, that is indeed interesting

Muse; If we can see a remote star through a telescope and we have an accurate light-year measurement of its distance from us, and the star is seen to explode, how long till we "feel" the gravity wave hit us. Is it at the same time as the observable explosion or is the effect "felt&quo...

nothing in, nothing out
the missing years

1955

Establishment and construction of a rather large runway and some other buildings, at a rather dry and dusty place.

Mr Twigsnapper I have one of those keys sitting on my desk, old, battered, given to me by one who used it when he was younger. The sender: I wonder if setting up three listening posts with reasonable geographical separation and one additional "la-luna" would be able to triangulate source(s...

Mikado; Little red lights on panels somewhere. My first question is "who's panel?". The gravitor that was built by Beau Kitselman was probably crude in some respects but more advanced than what Dr. Brown first built for his patent. However, the question arises as to "how" a grav...

Langley I follow your thought train, similar to the concept of the "lifter" devices where the leading edge has a high voltage on it to ionise the air and break down the friction, lasers may achieve the same thing creating a charged tunnel ahead of the device combined with leading edge char...

Kevin, Langley I agree with your thought process, multiple levels of cover, I once read something that went sort of like this; If its not five layers deep then its not good enough, and all those layers are still fiction. Kevin your concept of the device moving the environment around itself, as well ...

Hawaii, sand, sun, surf, sea. open sea, deep sea, lots of sea...
I guess somethings just take to the water so well, so smoothly, so quietly, hardly a ripple

musings of the arc

Andrew One bad solder joint, makes you wonder if one bad solder joint may also be lurking in the emergency shutdown circuit. I have high hopes for the LHC and I am sure we both (and a few others here) will be watching its progress. This snippet from Skyfish's post on the old ring, (one ring to bind ...