You and people like you caused me for several decades to define the word "Skeptic" as meaning: "pseudoscientist of the 'sneering scoffer' type, person with enormous emotional investment in seeing negative results of inquiry into 'Fortean' topics, person who claims to support reason support inquiry/science, but who is a huge hypocrit who fills their arguments with ad-hominem, with the applying of derogatory labels, with straw-man, and with passive-agressive sniping . You and people like you caused me to think to myself, "If you are an example of what Skeptics are, then I'd rather be a True Believer." The word "skeptic" is corrupt, it means "hypocrit pseudoscientist of the 'sneering scoffer' variety." I'm starting to recover though. It took decades. Today I label myself as "scientist" (amateur variety,) I'm not a "Skeptic," since "skeptic" implies profound dishonesty. Unlike many self-described "skeptics," I have some actual science training, and I actually attempt to educate people (via my large website,) rather than just hanging out on Usenet and playing the game of insult and oneupmanship. Persinger Brain Pulser (for more DIRECT modification!) http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/ TRAFFIC http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~daganzo/ http://www.umich.edu/news/?Releases/2004/Jul04/r071204 http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2876941 http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.69.066110 megalothymia TESLA hv caps
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Since marriage councilling, all the hurtful little "digs" and putdowns have started up again, but this time they're carefully crafted in order that any bystanders won't know for sure whether they're really personal slams or not. *I* know they are, and *Jill* knows they are... but if I dare to verbally object, she has then set the stage for dishonesty, saying innocently "why, whatever do you mean?" or things like "I didn't mean it that way, you're just oversensitive." Yet there's no question in my mind that she meant to convey little criticisms or try to cause small hurts. They're constant, consistent, and just subtle enough that I can't object to her behavior. Add they're easy to detect by making a comparison: good people don't DO that crap to their loved ones, and close friends never make those kinds of comments, only Jill does it. And what disgusts me most is the dishonesty that saturates the whole issue. It's 'People Of The Lie' techniques. I wish she'd either criticize me like a person of integrity, or just shut up entirely. Don't pull this dishonest, subtle, hurtful, stuff. After the above was going on for a couple of years, and getting worse and worse, she finally went over the line while others were listening: "Oh. Yeah. Right. That's how it's going to BE, HUH? I drive you around while you sit and work at your DESK!" I don't know what bystanders heard, but me, I heard barely-concealed venom. (She has weird issues where apparently I'm supposed to be a "big famous person" because of my website, while she gets to be my "maid." All in her head, since I consciously fight to prevent her from doing anything for me. Not just things that she could possibly interpret as "being a maid," ...but prevent her from doing anything for me whatsoever. When I called her on her statement above, she tried the "whatever do you mean" stunt and totally refused to back down. It carried through to councilling sessions with Pat Pogie, and later with the new therapist, all the while with Jill refusing to admit that the words contained sarcasm, and all the while invalidating my hurt over what she said. (It's the "you're not really hurt" ploy she used many times in the past.) In hindsight that was a major hinge point for our divorce. Well, the nasty little dig was no different than what she'd long been doing... it was the dishonesty and total insane refusal to back down and admit to the slightest personal imperfection that did it. She insisted that her words were just a light-hearted "joke", and never admitted that there was the least little bit of criticism or even sarcasm. She tried what she'd tried hundreds of times in the past; instantly saying "I'm sorry" without missing a beat. Just a ploy to shut me up, obviously without her actually being sorry, while at the same time she never backs down from insisting that it wasn't criticism, and still insists that I'm too sensitive and I shouldn't be complaining. Sorry? Let's respond in Jill's "lighthearted joking" words which "lack sarcasm." OH YEAH RIGHT. Super Ring Magnets -0.75 in, OD, 0.375 in ID, 0.25 in thick 40 for $24.00 Super Disc Magnets - 5mm dia 2mm thick - Now N38! and N45 N38 - Price - 10 for $1.00, 100 for $8.00, On Feb 26, 2004 you said: > So I'm not really a real woman to you, only an experiment. Uhhh... what? That threw me right into "list moderator mode." Emotions turn off, all incoming messages analyzed dispassionately. If you were a former girlfriend, this would be the first ploy in a big fight. "Unprovoked personal attack, class II, subgroup: 'you don't really love me.' :) Reverse it to test for denial/projection. Bill B. is not a real man to you, only an experiment? (Could be. 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Specialty metals is great for speed and variety, and they only have a $20 minimum. =============================================================================== Online Metals, across the water from Ballard http://www.onlinemetals.com/ Wire Harbor island Hardware Specialty Co. http://home.att.net/~hardspec/serv01.htm Maggot art http://www.maggotart.com/pages/3/index.htm definition of electricity IEC technical standards committee: electronics dictionary http://domino.iec.ch/iev Franklin's bells http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/bells.html roads to moscow http://music.walmart.com/m/000/78/22/18/43/32/0007822184332.01.01.004.mp3 Don Stauffer wrote in message news:... > In a stationary vortex, the average velocity may be near zero, but not > necessarily for a moving one. You can certainly make air move. > > And yes, when you make air move there is a third law thrust in other > direction. So anything that produces a 'jet' of air is a form of jet > propulsion. Obviously we can accelerate *one* fluid parcel. But if a fluid parcel is made to suddenly move forwards, don't other parcels have to get out of its way by simultaneously moving backwards? If so, then all flows would involved closed-loop streamlines, and it would be impossible to accelerate a *net* amount of fluid. If a jet engine accelerates fluid outward, elsewhere there would be some fluid accelerating inward, and since the net momentum change injected into the fluid would be zero, the engine could not move. OK, as a simplified model, maybe the WHAM-O gun is still not clear enough. I'll try again. I have no problem imagining how a machine gun hovering in a vaccum environment can act as a reaction engine. The stream of bullets are the "rocket exhaust," and the forward momentum in those bullets must be equal and opposite to the backward momentum which accumulates in the machine gun. However! :) Suppose we put the gun underwater, use bullets made of ice, and perhaps even make the gun itself out of ice so that the density of all materials is equal. Now I don't understand how the machine gun can behave as an engine. Why? Because we've added a third item: the water surrounding the bullets. Each time the gun fires an ice bullet forwards, the water in front of the bullet must somehow move to the rear of the bullet. This moving water contains negative momentum, and that negative momentum didn't just appear out of nowhere. The negative momentum was created as the ice bullet was launched, so I assume that it was created by the machine gun. A cubic centimeter of ice-bullet moves forwards, and a net cubic centimeter of water moves backwards. The momentum of each ice- bullet is equal and opposite to the water momentum. The machine gun seems to send out *zero* net momentum, and if this is true, the machine gun should experience zero reaction force. Ack. This "proves" that jet engines (and propellors) don't produce any thrust!! Obviously the underwater machine gun *must* emit some net forwards momentum, while the body of the gun accumulates equal rearwards momentum and flys backwards. But I'm unable to figure out the location and the movement of the *net* forward momentum coming out of the gun. It's not stored in the bullets. The bullets' momentum is cancelled out by the water which moves backwards. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. 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If so, THEN THE PLASMA SHEET AND THE PULSES MIGHT APPEAR SPONTANEOUSLY WHENEVER A STRONG, LOW-FREQ E-FIELD IS CREATED IN A TUNED CAVITY. The volume in the cavity might "catch fire" with plasma amplification and flying pulses which keep the plasma alight. Low frequency Tesla coil as a drive, yet pulses of microwave output! (Similar to the sharp "walls" which form in a Kundt's tube demonstration?) 34577 CROUZET MOTOR $19.50 / EACH This very nice Crouzet #8-319-510 motor is rated at 24 VDC, 400 mA/370 RPM, but works as low as 6 VDC, 300 mA/43 RPM. Motor is 4-1/2” x 2-7/16” dia, including an H-P optical encoder. Removable 2-1/2” sq x 1-3/8” thick gearbox on the other end has a 1-11/16” x 5/16” dia shaft with a bearing output. The removable 1-1/2” long dual gear is plastic, 11/16” dia and 15/16” dia. No-load torque is 2 in/lbs. Surplus Shed: electronics section http://www.surplusshed.com/pages/category/radioelectronics_1.html Surplus shed, surplus optics http://www.surplusshed.com/ http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/article-mason2.html Pauling recalled in 1991 that his interest in electronic theories of chemical bonding dated from the time he served as assistant instructor 1919-1920. One of the two chemistry seminars that year at the Oregon Agricultural College was given by an agricultural chemist on the frozen fish industry, while Pauling spoke on the shared electron-pair chemical bond. This basic idea had been proposed by G. N. Lewis in 1916 and developed in a series of papers from 1919 by Irving Langmuir (1881-1957), who coined the terms 'covalance' and 'electrovalence' for the homopolar and the heteropolar sharing. The Coulombic attraction of opposite charges provided a physical basis for the electrovalent (ionic) bond, but the homopolar shared-pair covalent bond had no immediate physical foundation, other than the significant correlation with the electron- pair of the lightest noble gas, helium, and the four duplets of the eight electrons in the outer shell of the heavier noble gases, modelling the electron configuration of the central atom in polyatomic systems, such the carbon atom in CH4. In Munich and Zürich 1926-1927 Pauling found what he believed to be the physical basis of the homopolar covalent bond in the quantum-mechanical 'exchange energy', arising from the interchange of spin-paired electrons between the two 'valence structures' in the VB treatment of the hydrogen molecule by Heitler and London. Pauling regarded the electron-pair exchange in a chemical bond as the quantum-mechanical analogue of the classical resonance effect observed in coupled oscillators, terming the bond energy from electron interchange the 'resonance energy'. He referred the analogy back to the 1926 treatment by Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) of the separate para- and ortho-states of the helium atom (spin singlets and triplets, respectively), which resembled a classical case of the resonance splitting between the in-phase and out-of-phase modes of coupled oscillators. Pauling introduced his resonance theory in a 1928 Chemical Review and developed his ideas in a series of seven papers 1931-1933 on The Nature of the Chemical Bond, culminating in his George Fisher Baker Lectures at Cornell University, 1937-1938. The lectures were published, The Nature of the Chemical Bond in 1939, with a second edition in 1940 and a third in 1960. All were dedicated to G. N. 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