I dont care what you say. You are just another closed minded idiot. I am in contact with several people who are working on antigravity and free energy. They cant be lying because thousands of people have come up with these ideas. It is real. it is you who are a liar. One day Searl will find the money to rebuild his invention. If not him there are enough other people out there like me to keep the dream of free energy antigravity time travel teleportation and other exotic technologies. They are all real. Just because you say it isnt possible dosent mean it is not.
Again, very amusing: I am also in contact with many such inventors. What better way is there to examine their delusions closely than to befriend them? They all suffer from a common failing. They all have intelligence and some knowledge, but lack the application to buckle down to proper scientific study - or compete with others - and instead invent their own little world where their theory is king. As for Searl getting money, don't you know that he used to have one of the richest men in England on the board of directors of one of his dud companies? Now, if he couldn't get any money out of a rich sucker who was already enthralled by him, what chance does he have now? BTW, the rich guy was a pension-fund manager; the sort of person who has plunged us into recession by investing unwisely. Am I the only one to see some sort of connection there?
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I dont care what you say. I find Searl and all the other inventors as very intelligent people who are being ignored by lamestream science. That is a pun see mainstream is lamestream. These guys have very good ideas. I am reading up on free energy antigravity time travel and teleportation.
You think that Searl is intelligent??? Have you read any of the nonsense 'books' that he has 'published' online? You say that these people have good ideas, but I bet that you cannot explain any of them except in the vaguest terms. Most of the ideas are not even new: magnet-based perpetual-motion machines were among the first to be described, hundreds of years ago. Why don't you explain for us how Searl's device is supposed to levitate? But don't say that it gets very cold and superconductive: that would work only if there was a huge magnet beneath it (the Earth's field is far too weak), and even then it would rise only a little. Can't you see that Searl simply read science magazines in the past (and now reads internet pages) looking for any little tidbit of real scientific information that he could bolt onto his scam and fool people like you?
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There are many scientists who suggest free energy and antigravity. They cant all be lying. I am open minded and not dogmatic like you. I trust Searl and the others. There is something here and i will support it all my life.
There are many who use the term 'free energy' because that is a recognised thermodynamic quantity. There are many who use the term 'antigravity' in the sense of 'opposed to gravity' (as in antigravity-muscles or antigravity casting). Have you been googling and become confused? There are even many scientists who are willing to envision exceptions to physical laws in the abstract sense. But when it comes to believing that energy-from-nowhere and antigravity are imminent, or have already been discovered and suppressed, only the members of Rentacrank remain: vastly out-numbered by the millions of evidence-driven scientists. Perhaps not all Rentacranks are lying: perhaps some are insane. What unites them is that they have not a shred of proof. You should 'read around the subject': one man murdered his family because his lost his money in a perpetual-motion scam.
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I dont care what you say. Believe what you want.But energy from the vacuum and antigravity and cold fusion are reality as far as I am concerned. So are several other things science wont accept due to the limiting nature of mainstream science.
Again, I sense a weakening of your resolve. It is true that, if the rules of mainstream science are thrown out, anything can appear possible. That is why the rules were developed in the first place!
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This is just a circular argument that these sites generate, so I'll add my three peneth. John Searl is a liberator. He liberates money from the pockets of those who are mug enough to believe his stories. In the past 50 years he has squandered millions on his fantasy and theirs. He has never demonstrated anything of AG, or power generation. His " mock up" is nothing more than silly toy, which demonstrates nothing. Only the gullibility of those prepared to buy one. How do I know this. I have over 35 years experience in research. If you have a theory you make device to test it, if does not work this dose not mean the the theory is wrong, just that the apparatus did not confirm it's validity. Now I have met some of his former colleagues. The reason not to many of them speak out is because, they are too ashamed to admit they have been conned intellectually, and in some cases financially. If talks fraudulently, behaves fraudulently, and produces piles of junk, year in , and year out with NO RESULTS. Guess what?
Thanks for the three pennyworth (sic) but you seem to have bought-into too much of the Searl spiel yourself. He has never had millions to squander (I long ago obtained all of the financial records of his companies) but, even if he got only £1 from this scam it would still be too much. Incidentally, his much-hated brother has made the biggest lump sum out of the scam. He conned £40000 out of a UK funding agency. When the time comes, I shall report the latter to the relevant UK financial 'watchdog' for wasting money.
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Laugh but the fact is free energy and antigravity time travel and teleportation is possible. In fact they are all connected. Devices capable of free energy can do all that. One day I will find the money to build one of Searls or one of the other devices.
I suppose that you are pinning your hopes on ZPE. But how do you know about it? Did some crackpot invent it? No, you know about it only because real scientists posited it and found that it explained various phenomena. So it is an accepted feature of real science and is constantly studied by real scientists. Perhaps you would care to explain why none of them (pace the late Robert Forward) is trying to 'get energy from the vacuum'. Here is a clue. One can extract work only when energy flows down a gradient. But if the ZPE is everywhere, where is it going to flow to? Here is another idea for you: go build a hydroelectric plant on the Dead Sea.
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I believe in zero point energy. Write what you want. You are losing. Cold fusion is a reality and soon zero point energy will be a reality. It will lead to antigravity faster than light travel and teleportation along with time travel. I want to build one of these devices. I will keep on believing it whatever you think.
Can't you read? Mainstream science believes in ZPE; that is the only reason why you know about it at all! What you should be asking yourself is why the very people who do all of the real scientific research into ZPE do not see it as a viable energy source. But of course you will keep on believing. I always say that Searl missed a trick: he should have started a religion, as Hubbard did. There are so many suckers in the world, and not enough tinpot gurus to pander to their needs (and wallets).
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Gravity is there too, but it is a conservative field and therefore also cannot be tapped. Of course, that has never stopped crackpots from trying. Some people never learn.
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Counter-Gravity solution is known since the mid 18th century.
Baron Münchhausen of Austria managed to save himself from drowning in a swamp, by pulling up his own hair with his own hands, while grabbing the horse he sat on with his own legs. Brilliant Newtonian-bypass. However, no other such attempt was documented or published in contemporary literature since:
That dosent change the fact that zero point energy and antigravity is possible. Arthur C Clarke said it was possible. he said cold fusion was possible. Now Rossi has proved it is. He also said space energy or zero point energy was possible. Someone will build a zero point device like Searls. I am behind Searl and the rest all the way.
Clarke was a lying paedophile. He stole the communication satellite concept from a dead German. In his youth, he made fun of the electrogravitics delusion of the 1950s but then found that there was much more 'mileage', and money, to be had in putting his dubious 'seal of approval' on every possible crackpot idea. "Technology will look like magic to primitive people"? He even stole that (from Agatha Christie). Rossi has proved nothing until his results are replicated by independent, and non-Rentacrank, experimenters.
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"...I want to build one of these devices. I will keep on believing it whatever you think..."
- A typical New-Age motto. "I believe in it - so it must be possible, and heck with the laws of nature". "Determine the laws of nature with your faith".
It's the other side of "The known laws of nature were set in motion by the number of people who believed in them" and "The known reality is created by active imagination"
- Much more elegant that 18th century Voodoo isn't it ?
(dedicated to those who preferred getting high in their formative years, while skipping physics in high-school)
And Kuhn encouraged and systematised the latter sort of waffle. Isn't it strange that a book which is supposedly about science is actually detested by scientists but loved by sociologists and the like? I have also noticed that philosophers often use precisely the same supposed 'counter-evidence', to accepted theories, that is used by crackpots.
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We probably witness a new "golden-age" of ignorance and retreat from rational and empirical thought. This is a universal, cultural trend, probably triggered by an explosion in the volume of available knowledge displayed on the web, while mixed to a blurry-nonsense with any other type of information - presented as if the whole mix is equal in verification or importance - for the viewer's consideration.
Sadly, this illusive trend is "supported" by many Popular-Science programs on TV and Cable, which present wild and unsupported speculations as soon-to-be-realised plans or projects.
"Aliens on earth" on the History Channel and Discovery, with the latter presenting nonsense like "Time Travel", "Interstellar Teleportation", "Human migration to neighboring star-systems and galaxies" and other such crap as if these are actual schemes and plans, detailing their intricacies by actual physicist who know this is far-fetched guesswork, but allowing themselves to be presented to an ignorant audience as part of the plannig-crew...
This is partly allowed by the thundering whisper which followed the public exposure of Cold-Fusion as the greatest hoax of all times. No one erected to protest, or to challenge the moronic funding of such monster fallacies, billions of dollars a year, for nearly twenty years. Today we know it was possible, partly because real top-scientist, gave hand to dubious speculation of legitimate theories, in order to participate in this loose funding, by phrasing vague or ambiguous catch-slogans in support of that salary-festival posed as viable and legitimate research.
This is why it's such a tragedy: real and sometimes brilliant graduates see a declining culture and say to themselves "Why bother and become a dedicated scientist, when I can participate in a very lucrative but totally bogus research program? - All I have to do is carefully phrase my verbal expression to a point where I sound supportive, as if legitimate theories approve the basis of this research"
And now I'm afraid, LHC is the next-generation, taking Cold-Fusion's place to even greater heights of outrageous public funding of such wild and unsupported speculation. I tend to think LHC is the "new" Cold-Fusion.
Just a few points: New Scientist once published an article with the title, "Why be a scientist when you can be his boss?", which just about sums up the rag's relentlessly anti-science viewpoint. Just about every article in NS is like that: explicitly or implicitly suggesting that some well-known scientific theory is about to be overthrown. That is because the rag is run by tabloid-style journalists and the 'scientific advisors' are often crackpots in their own right (e.g. John 'Jupiter Effect' Gribbin and Jad 'AIDS is not caused by a virus' Adams).
I have no problem with the LHC: it is, after all, just a tool. But I am not convinced that the Higgs Boson concept is valid and I wish that they would stop making it the main 'selling-point' of the LHC.
I don't believe that the woman would be able to see the reading.
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I am sure that you have listened to the recent podcast, Sailing Beyond Knowledge #42 ('Sailing beyond Sanity' would be more apt). The host, Carlita, repeatedly refers to him as SIR John Searl. Fine, she is an airhead and probably thinks that 'professor' is an insufficiently impressive lie. So how do you explain the fact that neither Searl nor his new poodle, Lockerman, do nothing to correct her? Is that the behaviour of an honest person?
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There is nothing wrong with calling John sir. He is a very honest person. You on the other hand are just another idiot who respects nobody. You dont deserve any respect. Searl does.
Now you are just twisting desperately in the wind. You know very well that calling someone 'Sir John' means that one believes that he holds a knighthood. Please stop embarrassing yourself by defending this lost cause; it is pitiful to observe.
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I dont care what you say. I believe Searl and all the other free energy antigravity time travel teleportation people. Just because most people in the world are indoctrinated does not mean I have to be a sheep following the pack. I will follow Searl and other maverick inventors. the above things are possible. In fact Searls and the other inventors devices can do the above. I am following the scene. There are many of them now. I am downloading patents especially the Searl replication the Russians did and one by a guy called Mark Tomion. I will find the money to build one of these patents or several others. I totally believe Searl and the others. This is not a lost cause. It is just beginning.
You do realise, I hope, that a patent is not proof of anything. It is a convenient fallacy that 'examiners have to see a working model' before granting a patent. Add to this the fact that some patent examiners and patent lawyers are themselves crackpot inventors, and the whole system becomes a joke. One head of the USPO was a devil-worshipper. I wonder if it still rots from the head down? Download a few thousand more patents and you might begin to catch up with me. The latest 'reactionless propulsion' patent (this month) is so demented that one wonders whether the USPO is simply exploiting the mentally ill for profit.
I note that you have still not answered my question: why did Searl or Lockerman not comment on the airhead's thinking that he had been knighted?
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I dont care what you say. Free energy and antigravity time travel and teleportation is possible . I will keep on looking for money to build a starship capable of travel to the stars. There are several others who I am in touch with who are capable of doing the above.
I still don't see any explanation from you as to why Searl did not correct the mistaken belief that he has a knighthood (I think that the airhead also said that he has a Nobel prize, but I may have misheard). Don't you think that this 'passive lying' of his might just be indicative of a generally dishonest personality? Sir John Searl, haha. The Queen may have been stupid enough to put another perpetual-motion/antigravity believer on the Civil List (thus giving him the same rare accolade that was given to Faraday and Herschel) but even she is not that stupid.
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You think that that is a minor thing? Sure, an interviewer making the mistake once would be minor, but someone not correcting it on any of the many possible opportunities when it was repeated during the interview: that smacks of utter dishonesty. But we know that already from his long record of forgery, desertion of a military post, theft, malicious damage and misrepresentation.
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It is not a lost cause. Even Paul Murad has joined the club.That tells me that Searl is for real. you have lost. Either Searl will get funding and build it or Paul Murad who has funding will build the device. There is a company called Archer Energy. They are well funded. I have the book written by Mark Tomion. It is also a derivative of Searls device. How will you stop all of them? You cant.
What do you mean, even Murad? I have a list of about 200 'Rentacranks' who are willing to distort scientific facts in order to impress gullible inventors and journalists, and he has long been on it. Unfortunately, that list does not look good when compared with the millions of rational and honest scientists. I don't have to stop them: reality will do that. But what a pity that money will be wasted that could have backed real scientific projects. OTOH, I suppose that one should really start by castigating NASA for squandering millions of dollars on obvious pseudoscience (oh, yes, Podkletnov was also already on my list). And we shall never know how much the CIA was conned into spending on 'psychic warfare'; just on the say-so of that other perpetual-motion/antigravity crackpot, Harold Puthoff.
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Psychic warfare or remote viewing is real. It is an actual psychic power that all people have but some have a high talent for. it is mentioned in ancient texts. Also Hal Puthoff and Murad are real scientists. You are not.
You really are beyond hope aren't you? Do you have psychic ability? You must do, if you declare that I am not a scientist and yet I have not given my name. Or could it simply be that the only real scientists, in your opinion, are those who support Searl and other conmen? Well, of course, that fits in perfectly with my 'Searl-touchstone' and 'Rentacrank' arguments.
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God exists and psychic powers exist. Just because you dont believe in anything dosent mean it does not exist. Science still has no answer to the paranormal. Because it is not complete.
As I suspected, pure religious mania! Science does not need an answer to the paranormal because science deals only in what can be observed, and there is no evidence for the paranormal.
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That is why science is not complete and not right . A true science must explain everything in nature or it is not correct. The so called laws of nature are wrong. Warp drive free energy and antigravity are possible. Miracles happen. it is a fact that people can change the world by thinking about it and can see the future. Call it what you will. Religion is needed for mankind.
Of course science is not complete, that is why it is still changing (unlike the suppressive self-satisfied dogma of religions and alternative health practitioners). The point is that it is more correct than other ways of investigating evidence because its rules are specifically chosen to eliminate self-delusion. And of course science is helpless when there is no evidence worthy of it, as in the case of perpetual motion, antigravity, flying saucers, mind-reading, spoon-bending, homoeopathy, etc. etc.
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Its all real. Even if you say it is not so I will keep on researching these topics and one day make them work. Scientists accept that 10 percent of UFOs are unidentified. These are real flying saucers. There is no doubt about it. Aliens are out there. NASA accepts that there are habitable earth like planets around other stars. That means most stars have one earth lie planet. There is a chance that technological civilisations have come up on some of these planets. It is pure statistics.
Yes, so how do you get around the Fermi-Hart paradox? It seems to me that you are not someone given to deep thought. What is this 'research' of which you write? Are you performing careful experiments, or are you simply looking for internet sites that reinforce your delusions?
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Keep on laughing. Paranormal claims should be investigated. There is such a thing as UFOs and aliens. NASA has proved there are habitable planets beyond the earth. Ergo there are aliens. Aliens have been visiting us form ancient times in vehicles like Searl and others. Soon NASA will have to accept that antigravity is possible.
If you say I'm laughing, then you probably understand what was so comically funny to make me laugh. If you understand what made you say that I'm laughing, you probably do not really agree with what you (probably) force yourself to believe, or at least repeatedly say that you do, because this was exactly why I made that post which made you say I'm laughing.
Since I already suspected you don't really agree with all that nonsense which you say made me laugh, then I have to come to the inevitable conclusion that you don't really believe in those repetitive chants you make here.
So, why bit around the bush? just be honest for a moment and admit to what you agree with, and separate it from what you say you believe in, because we both already know that you don't. Not really.
Paranormal claims have been investigated: when they are tested by crackpots in other fields, the results are positive (e.g. Puthoff's testing of Geller). When they are tested by skeptics, the results are the same as 'chance' (e.g. Randi's testing of dowsers). You employ very dubious logic with regard to aliens. How, for instance, do you get around the Fermi-Hart paradox? NASA was willing to accept antigravity: that is how it came to waste millions on trying to reproduce an 'effect' which every sensible scientist had already written off as being an experimental artefact. Once bitten, twice shy. I hope!
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I dont care what you think. Antigravity is real. Psychic powers exist. Miracles happen. I believe in it. I will one day make money and spend it on building faster than light starships to the stars. Even if science says it is not possible then science is wrong thats all.
We all follow something; that is sort of how knowledge (both personal and societal) advances. But some of us follow the trail of evidence and some of us just follow Judas-goats. Go on, google the term and learn something.
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Maybe we are conversing with a Creationist, who is trying to "open our mind" - this is some kind of a fanatical mission with a lot of passion but very little reason behind it
Can this possibly be the same Kumaran who sent me the following message at the beginning of last year?
"Searl is still at it. i am surprised no one saw through his scam for so long. How do these guys get hold of all their supporters and investors. Dont people realise it is a scam. By the way when will your book on antigravity fraud like Keshe and Searl be out. I would love to buy it."
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I was wrong. I have realised since then that you are nothing but a loser who doesnt have a job who is harassing genuine scientists. I have decided to give both Searl and Keshe a chance. There is something going on. I believe by 2012 all these guys technologies will be fully developed.
If I were not so busy working with 'genuine scientists', I would have crushed Searl by now. Do you fall for all conmen, or only the ones who use a pseudoscientific gimmick? Do you perhaps respond to those e-mails asking for help in releasing funds? Do you log into your Ebay/PayPal/bank account because an e-mail tells you that their security has been breached? Is that '2012' in our universe, or in one of those alternative ones that you are always prattling about? I expect that you will decide that when you need an excuse in 2013.
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I believe Searl and the other guys. That is all that matters to me. The fact that you havent written your book since last year proves you are just all talk. How do I know you are a scientist. Paul Murad is a scientist and he has confirmed Searl. I accept his replication as valid.
So, go ahead and believe them: but don't proselytise for them until they offer some sort of proof. It is not sufficient for one loony to back another one. Why don't you contact the NPL or the NBS and ask them to look into the matter?
I have been researching my 'anti-antigravity' book for some 20 years, so a few more years won't matter. Do you have any idea how many antigravity crackpots there are; how many lunatic 'reactionless propulsion' patents there are to catalogue and laugh at? Anyway, that book is in a queue. I may mention Searl in an earlier book (but only in order to embarrass Murad). I am currently working on a book which has nothing to do with science but could well be a runaway best-seller. Oh, and a previous book of mine has just appeared in a Chinese edition and will shortly appear in a Russian edition. You will be able to see what sort of scientist I am when the anti-antigravity book is finished. You can eat your words then.
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You have not written a single book and never have. You are just a fraud. Paul Murad is a true scientist. I believe him over you anyday. I will continue promoting him and Searl and keshe et al over the net.
As I have pointed out before, that is a singularly stupid thing to write since you do not know who I am. You will have plenty of such words to eat by the time that you do know. Meanwhile, Murad is a member of that sad class of scientifically qualified people who publish ludicrously over-imaginative theories (because that wins the adoration of the ufologists and other crackpots), based upon the most mischievous misinterpretations of accepted theory and the dubious 'evidence' of frauds like Searl. It is funny how those who proudly proclaim their 'free-thinking nature' are always the ones who end up marching with the Brownshirts, being audited by the scientologists or shilling for the likes of Searl and Keshe.
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He probably thinks that everybody 'writes' books in the same way that Searl does: that is, scan somebody else's work (such as Feynman's Six Easy Pieces) and then add fatuous remarks, pornographic pictures ... and scatological references to me.
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"...I believe by 2012 all these guys technologies will be fully developed..." - This is going to be an easy one because 2012 is just around the corner - better prepare to have a loss of faith
I will never lose faith. I believe in free energy and antigravity. Whatever the stbacks now I will never lose faith. If it is not developed by 2012 I can always find money to help the researchers myself.
It dosent change anything. i still believe in free energy and antigravity as being possible. Ed Mitchell says that is possible along with UFOs so I believe him. He is an inside man while you are a nobody.
How sad to have visited the Moon and yet be doomed to be forever remembered as a crackpot instead of an astronaut. Come to think of it, how does he handle the nutters who say that nobody went to the Moon? Does he suddenly become rational on that particular point?
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I dont care what you say. Zero point energy and antigravity are real and i will continue to do research into it. I will learn electrical engineering and use the knowledge to understand patents. I will also figure our a way to make money to do research. I just hope somebody does it soon. i am behind those who are doing research into the field.
That figures: I have noticed (and I am not the only one) that electrical engineers are more likely to be pseudoscientists than are any other technically trained professionals. Here is a thought: why don't you simply buy a doctorate (like Bearden and Valone). After all, if you are going to do worthless 'research', what better preparation is there than a worthless degree?
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I am going to do the research. I am an accountant.I will find a way to make money to do such research. I am looking into the stock market as a way to fund research. I dont care what you say.For me zero point energy and antigravity are a reality and I intend to do research on such topics.
Oh, so you are the same Kumaran who was being so skeptical 18 months ago. I know a great way to make a small fortune on the stock market (the secret is shown below). But I wouldn't spread the word that you are accountant; they are generally seen as being bigger crooks than pseudoscientific grifters!
Start off with a large one.
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Whatever you say. But free energy and antigravity are real and I totally support research into topics like that and also human conciousness and the ability of the mind to alter the laws of the universe. I am following Ed Mitchells quantrex now. It is quite great. I believe aliens are here also. I hope to travel to the stars soon.
It sounds as if you do not have any immune system at all. One little word of warning: these things are like drug addiction. If you spend all of your time and money on them, you will eventually be able to survive income-wise only by yourself becoming a scam-artist; just as drug addicts have to become dealers as well. So I hope that you are starting out with a large streak of dishonesty (being an accountant is a good start) and can afford a radical moralectomy*.
* Surgical removal of any sense of morality.
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I dont care. I want to spend the rest of my life promoting and pursuing free energy and antigravity and psychic powers and all the rest. It is a worthy pursuit in life. Anyway i am not the only one. By 2012 these technologies will become a reality. Already cold fusion is a reality. Hopefully the technologies wont come too late to repair the damage being done due to the greedy people like you.
You think that unquestioning obedience and consequent lying are worthy pursuits?
But haven't you heard, 2012 is the end of the world. Of course, that claim is made by the same sort of people who prattle about psychic powers, aliens and perpetual motion. But you will have to believe them, won't you, because you are incapable of weighing evidence rationally.
"an open mind is like a private dumpster (skip); you own it, but everybody else tries to put their rubbish in it".
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I believe that you can choose your future. I am trying to make the future better. The world will end for those who believe it will end. They will go on that timeline. I will make myself chose the universe where earth becomes a paradise in 2012. Already I see on the news more and more people coming up with zero point energy devices. Peswiki is a good source for the latest.
Recessions are always a breeding ground for scams: plenty of desperate people looking for get-rich-quick schemes, and plenty of unscrupulous crooks ready to offer them.
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This is mainly because electrical engineering on a true level of comprehension requires some deep knowledge of quantum mechanics, and most under-graduates are not up to it at all. Their rational is that they could have studied physics if they wanted to pursue QM
I think that it is the fact that they use the same terminology (waves, electrons, ...) as physicists, but do not have the same fundamental understanding of the terms. It is interesting to compare the electrical engineer's and the physicist's view of a simple electrical circuit: to the former, everything of interest is happening within the wires (i.e. little better than the child's 'plumbing' analogy) while, to the latter, everything of interest is happening in the surrounding space.
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I never thought of it that way. You might have something there.
I recall an interesting conversation with both an electronics engineer and a physicist back in 1989 about the incidental creation of parasitic oscillations on an RF circuit, due to the geometry and layout of copper-tracks on a PCB.
Quite. When Kron - ostensibly an electrical engineer (but with a physicist's mindset) - started to warn electrical engineers about the possible direct interactions (that did not involve the wiring) between components, he was treated as some sort of mystical guru. Even nowadays he is still thought of, by crackpots, as having discovered something novel.
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Well, leaving aside the possibility that they might be stooges or dupes (a favourite trick of 'big-top' American healers is to leave 'courtesy wheelchairs' at the entrance, for people who are unsteady on their feet, then have them wheeled up later and be 'cured' of their 'paralysis'), what you are saying is this: someone is given up as being incurable by conventional doctors but later cured by a miracle. Hmm, so which is the more likely scenario; that a miracle has occurred or that a series of doctors (notorious for not wanting to disagree with their colleagues) all made the wrong diagnosis?
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Miracles are real. There are people who have the ability to tap into some sort of psychic field or god or higher conciousness in order to do things that seem impossible. Its a fact. Just because you are a godless man dosent mean you should discourage others from believing in god.
No, you choose to believe, without evidence, that they are real. You choose to believe, without testing them, that certain people have 'special powers'. You have abdicated from the world of intelligent discussion.
At least that crook, Sai Baba, is dead. "Another one bites the dust".
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Sai Baba is not a crook. I still believe in him. He did a lot more good things than you did. He built schools and hospitals. What have you done? We dont know who you are. You care not a scientist thats for sure. You are just a fraud. You just keep yapping and purring down people who do great things.
Well, he is not a crook now: he is dead. And while giving the odd sop to the suckers to keep them sweet, who knows how much he creamed off for himself. Gee, no wonder that people like Madoff can run their scams for so long if all accountants are as gullible as you. Hmm, gullible or complicit?
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